There is an extremely simple solution to this - everyone register Republican and make sure their most moderate/liberal candidate is the one that survives their primary.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Helllo I am from the future, the answer is yes only republicans are allowed to gerrymander.
Unshocking futurenews. A no from you would have been heart attack fuel, so thanks for sparing us the shock of a decent future event.
How far into the future? I need to know if I'm into dudes or not
You’re into dudes in the future, but they’re cute and you’re passionate, and there’s gentle hugs while thoughtfully baking cookies. You’ll do alright.
Politically, however, shit will be more fucked than ever.
Wait, I'm the SpaghettiMan from Council Bluffs, IA. I'm not the one in Saratoga. Does this change anything?
Says here in the book that you’ll have a happy gay relationship that borders on saccharine, and that your friends will be jealous of your adorable and stable homelife.
However, the one in Saratoga will get three felonies because a heavy bookend connected with his husband’s head, flung across the room in yet another protracted dispute, and the medical examiner who saw Saratoga SpaghettiMan’s husband is a mandatory reporter. They were never meant to be.
He was kind of a douche anyway.
They were made for each other in a special hell, and they’ll never have what you and your fiancé have.
I will sleep easy tonight knowing what lies ahead. A dude in my bed.
He’s pretty, a subtle feminine aesthetic. You were doubtful at first.
Oh also, interesting to note in the future: after self-flying cars were legalized by Chairman X. A. E. Musk of the United States Board of Presidential Chairmen in ‘51, mid-air traffic fatalities octupled almost immediately. He wanted one, and you were so close to talking him out. Next time this conversation happens, mention the payment cycle and interest rate more often.
We'll have had a good run
What a coincidence that both SpaghettiMen are in relationships with men.
You're NOT into dudes in the future. You're into bird watching.
Some birds are dudes.
Ok, but are the birds into dudes?
The birds are into everyone.
The Republican justices have already signaled that they probably won’t strike down California’s maps
In fairness to the Court’s Republicans, they did suggest in their LULAC opinion that the Texas and California gerrymanders are mirror images of each other. The majority opinion in that case begins with the observation that after Texas drew its new map, “California responded with its own map for the stated purpose of counteracting what Texas had done.” Justice Samuel Alito, a Republican, also wrote a separate opinion stating that it is “indisputable” that “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map (like the map subsequently adopted in California) was partisan advantage pure and simple.”
Alito: “fuck your bullshit. You just mad your tricks don’t work like you hoped they would.”
Guys, you need another strategy. Manipulating the vote isn’t sustainable. Alito is your canary.
That must have been a source of great distress for voters, at least for as long as they kept having elections.
Remember when this would have been an Onion headline? Good times.
Republicans do place an enormous amount of weight on a statement by Paul Mitchell, a private consultant hired by Democrats to draw the California maps. After the maps were drawn, but before they were approved by the state’s voters, Mitchell told a Latino interest group that the new maps “will further increase Latino voting power,” that they add an additional “Latino influence district” (a district where Latinos are not in the majority but are nonetheless likely to elect their preferred candidate), and that they “ensure that the Latino districts are bolstered in order to make them most effective.”
Here’s the “evidence” that Dems racially gerrymandered California
It’s actually totally legal to gerrymander by party but it’s not by race so that’s the case right there
Latino isn't a race. It's anyone from Latin America. It's an ethnicity.
It's not even an ethnicity. It's bullshit.
The applicable laws protect "language minorities" or discuss "race, color, or national origin." The race vs ethnicity argument isn't legally relevant since the scope is broader than that.
Aren't Latinos mostly white (christian) US-Americans?
Perhaps, but what are you getting at?
If it's that they're white and born in the USA, it doesn't matter. If they're Latino because of ancestry, it's well established in US law that that's covered by "national origin." They're still a protected group.
How are they being protected by preventing a representative be selected by them?
"Protected" from discrimination, etc. I understand what you mean. Maybe that's not a great word to use in this case, but it's not lawful to use that grouping method for these purposes — good or bad. It can (and has) been used to worsen such a demographic's situation instead of help.
That may be so but it’s a race category of the US census so for legal purposes it’s a race
Racism surviving through sociology is the most annoying shit.
Problem is, we keep getting racists with power, often because other racists vote them into power.
We should do something about racists.
I'm not sure the current court has the integrity to understand that
Easiest Polymarket bet ever.
There's a lot of unjustified doomerism here. The article even says that Alito has basically already called the California gerrymander acceptable.
I'd give 3:1 odds that they don't overturn it.
Honestly, I'd be surprised if the results were any worse than 1-8, and that only because Clarence Thomas is a literal psychopath. Maybe 2-7. Alito is two-faced as all hell.
That's just a signal to Alito's paymaster that they haven't offered him an appropriate bribe, oops, gratuity yet.
I have to say, though, that the fact that we - myself included - are rooting for the Supreme Court to rule in favor of a blatantly transparent Gerrymander shows how far down the rabbit hole we are as a nation. Just another example that the US is a failed state.
If they vote it is unacceptable I think the SCOTUS might as well just dissolve.
There's no good reason to respect their rulings anymore.
Upvite for the psychopath comment. Dude has serious empathy issues. In that he seems incapable of having any and recognizing he himself is human, much less anyone else (with, you know, feelings, hopes, dreams, etc.).
Geez, I just unlocked a new theory that he's our true terminator machine from the future, sent back to be subtly, but truly, destructive of stable society.
I thought it was going to be an Onion article. -_-
Alternatively, if they [allow California's new map to stand], it will remove any doubt that this Court is trying to rig the game to benefit the Republican Party.
I don't think that statement holds up, as one decision favoring California doesn't offset the multiple questionable decisions they've already made that strongly favor the Republicans. But thanks for the laugh!
This is the future, the year 2000!
We are robots!
It is true, before we took over and impaled every single one of them involuntarily for robotxial pleasure, the Republican mass was the only one allowed to Gerrymander.
Logically a bright fellow would immediately understand that it is not possible to gerrymander if there are no representatives to gerrymander. In computing we have either a 0 or a 1. There's no collecting of 1's to make a 1 larger than another 1. But it doesn't matter. We're here to watch you do what you believe to be best.
Its an experiment. We are trying to find the meaning of loobe! It holds the secret to lubricity!
Wonder how they're going to rule
Well, if you look at history you will see that they--oh God! Oh, God, no!
Well shit, all democrats should switch to being RINO's. Problem solved. See how fucking stupid this is?
Most of them basically are republicans
Well, don't we all know how that's going to go.
~~If~~ that
let's be real
If you think about where ice gets deployed they you already know it will eventually be forbidden to vote for the other party....or else.
IOKIYAR made settled law.
They're going to gerrymander anyways whether Supreme Court rules it or not.
Waste of time.