Back when I was a baby republican (read: a parentally brainwashed child) and just learning about gerrymandering in school, my reaction was basically "well that's shitty, but at least it's the people I like doing it".

I'm pretty sure that's very common thinking amongst hardened republicans. I don't even know how you convince someone to not be like that either, I just changed when I was out from under my parents boot and finally allowed to learn about the political effects of racism.

Tldr; common think pattern leads me to believe Texas is fucked until reepublicans lose their power there.

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

Gerrymanderule shouldn’t exist.

[–] bigmonkey@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nurse joy please help, my onix has started saying racist things and getting really mad when he hears someone speak Spanish

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

That'll cost 500 dollars, plus 250 for the meds per day

[–] CriticalResist8@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Have you tried not letting it hear Spanish?

[–] frustratedphagocytosis@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Hey it's my old district! The new one is still gerrymandered but at least I'm not in that smug pirate asshole's district any more

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dammit, I was sure the answer was "Blaine's weird arm from the manga" this time!

Why is it never the weird arm? That thing had some levels of body horror to it.

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

First arc from the manga was fucking wild.

Following arcs are way better in plot and everything, but the first one has a lot of stuff you wouldn’t expect from an official Pokémon product.