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    5 months ago

    When we were finally able to buy our first home, it was a real shock for me the first Halloween. People didn’t tend to go door to door in our apartment complex, they went to the surrounding neighborhoods so the only people that came to the door were those few that had very young children and were neighbors we saw regularly.
    After the first few groups of trick or treaters I told my wife I felt like I was committing a felony every time I open the door. Thankfully, over the last few years a lot of the mothers of the younger children started dressing up with their kids. Now I can just be a perv staring at the mothers in there sexy Halloween outfits rather than trying to avoid looking at the jailbait.



  • Originally the idea was intended to provide and more equal representation.
    In a dense urban setting, the different minority groups tend to cluster together but those clusters rarely follow any kind of orderly district lines. In a randomly divided district, the minority groups are often in contention, so usually won’t vote for each other. This means that the the winner tends to be the white guy. If instead, you shape the district to follow the different clusters, then each minority group is much more likely to be able to vote one of their own into office. Unfortunately, the rules that were created to make things better for minorities were also able to be weaponized against them and eventually against the majority itself.


  • The law says that you have to have X number of machines per person in each district. It also says that noone should have to drive more than a specific distance to get to a polling place.
    So the GOP drew the maps so that districts dip into very dense parts of the city, but then explode outwards for hundreds of miles. Now that district may have a thousand machines, but they are spread across thousands of square miles so that random farmers out in the middle of BFE have not just one, but multiple polling machines just to themselves, and all the inner city people have a choice of either standing in line for 2 hours to vote, or driving for 2 hours to get to one of those BFE polling stations and then driving 2 hours home.








  • I find sometimes that repeating something they said and then asking a pointed question will derail the repetitive brain loop they are stuck in. I think a lot of people have gotten so used to being ignored, dismissed,or have just failed at communicating something they want to say so often that they have fallen into a “rinse and repeat” pattern for everything in their lives. They need their own words sent back to them to indicate that you have heard their words. And then asking a relevant question indicates that you are actually thinking about what they have said.