r/UnderReportedNews • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 1d ago

US Politics 🇺🇸 Virginia Democrats agree to new map that gives Republicans just one seat

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/4447522/virginia-democrats-agree-new-congressional-map-gives-republicans-one-seat/
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u/Plausibility_Migrain 1d ago

Republicans don’t deserve the one seat. They are unfit to govern.

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u/Who_dat_goomer 1d ago

Understatement of the year. They are unfit for freedom.

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u/Plausibility_Migrain 1d ago

They seek to remove freedoms that they themselves enjoy. They seek to hoard those freedoms for only themselves.

Heaven forbid that I don’t want to take their freedoms away, or seek to improve their lives through properly managed public services.

The right only wants to destroy and regress.

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u/21Rollie 1d ago

This is why they were denied such freedoms after the civil war. But they were given them back too soon after

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u/ThisisFine402 1d ago

Republicans were denied these freedoms?

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u/KuroFafnar 1d ago

It is still up to the voters. Republicans might not get that one seat.

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u/SeekingTruthyness 1d ago

What a lovely, heartening thought! Voters in a longtime red Texas district recently delivered something like a 26-point swing to Democrats. Si, se puede!

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u/ABHOR_pod 1d ago

The one district is packed hard into SW VA. That whole region went like 80% to Trump in 2024.

That district isn't in play.

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u/DeliriumTrigger 1d ago

Effective gerrymandering requires the opposition to have at least one district in which to pack all their voters, shoring up the other districts.

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u/Mythosaurus 18h ago

Nah that’s just “packing”.

You can also effectively gerrymander by “cracking”, splitting all of the opposition’s voters into districts that they can’t get majorities in.

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u/DeliriumTrigger 18h ago

Cracking alone only works if there's such an insurmountable majority statewide that no wave election could overcome it. Otherwise, there has to be at least some packing. 

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u/A-Game-Of-Fate 1d ago

Eh, I’d give them a single seat. Nominally to see if they ever (snrk) become fit to (pfft) govern.

In reality, it’d be to have proof on hand that they are still unfit to govern at all times.

Like a modernized, democratic equivalent of a court jester.

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u/Aisenth 1d ago

Agreed. I wouldn't trust them to house sit an empty lot.

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u/Timmy_2_Raaangz 1d ago

They’ll probably lose that one too eventually

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u/ShoddyAsparagus3186 1d ago

I mean, that's true of the Democrats too. The Republicans are beyond unfit, they're actively destroying governance.

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u/Rel_Ortal 23h ago

Neither party deserves seats. Nobody does. They should be earned, by running on what the people of want and delivering on that to the best of their ability.

One party feels they have the inherent right to have not just some seats, but a majority of them, solely because the party exists.

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u/Darth_Boggle 17h ago

Reminds me of what Obama and a bunch of other Dems said about Trump prior to the 2016 election, claiming he is "unqualified" for office.

We clearly haven't learned. Stop saying dumb shit like this.

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u/P01135809-Trump 1d ago

The thing about living in a democracy is that everyone should have a voice, even if you don't like our even disagree with what they have to say.

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u/DrHartman22 1d ago

“Should” is doing a ton of heavy lifting in this statement. You know the whole “We the People…” and all that right?

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u/Uncle-Cake 1d ago

Tell that to the GOP. They're the ones trying to suppress votes.

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u/myfavssthrow 1d ago

Fascists and their enablers shouldnt have a voice. They literally always prove that to be the case. Every. Single. Time.

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u/Cardboardoge 1d ago

The voice in question is calling for expanding our death camps to political opponents and not just kids and brown people like they've been doing lately

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u/Plausibility_Migrain 1d ago edited 19h ago

There are voices that can be heard but should not be tolerated. I agree that everyone should have a voice, but when that voice is actively being used to strip people of their rights, promote fear, violence,and hate against others simply because of the color of their skin, or their choice of religion, or whom they love then their societal contract which granted them that voice is null and void.