The GOP is still morally corrupt, even if Discourse breaks

[Menzo]

By the way, when they say “pornography,” what they really mean is LGBTQ+ subjects. It’s not actual porn.

[ShivaX]

That and anything that has anything remotely explicit.

I’m reading The Wisdom of Crowds, by Abercrombie and they would likely consider it pornographic because it describes sex stuff. See also: Every Stephen King book, 50 Shades of Grey, really every adult novel probably, etc, etc.

[ReptileHouse]

God help us if they ever find Chaucer or DH Lawrence.

[ShivaX]

@ReptileHouse

God help us if they ever find Chaucer or DH Lawrence.

Or the Bible.

[ReptileHouse]

Fair point. Song of Solomon gets spicy!

[RichVR]

@ShivaX

50 Shades of Grey

Meh.

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[ShivaX]

I mean I never said it was worth reading, but it would be on the list.
Heck, it would probably be the TOP of said list.

Pretty sure we don’t want it banned or burned for it’s content though.
Now if you want to burn it for it’s quality, more power to you as long as you aren’t the government.

[RichVR]

@ShivaX

as long as you aren’t the government.

I am not… yet.

[Calelari]

@ShivaX

it would probably be the TOP

I see what you did.

[ShivaX]

Adam Steinbaugh

Mike Hixenbaugh

[Menzo]

I think we all learned one important lesson from playing peek-a-boo as children: it doesn’t exist if you don’t see it.

[ShivaX]

Greg Bluestein

Greg Bluestein

[Alstein]

This is a common North Carolina tactic as well- they did this to Greensboro a few years back, though it backfired (led to an entirely Dem city council- though one is a Sinema-type)

[ShivaX]

Beau of The Fifth Column

Banning V for Vendetta feels a little on the nose.

[Tortilla]

@Alstein

This is a common North Carolina tactic as well- they did this to Greensboro a few years back, though it backfired (led to an entirely Dem city council- though one is a Sinema-type)

That’s why I don’t get too wound up over these things. Trying to rig a district or area or county in order to favor one party over the other in free elections tends to be of minimum effectiveness. It wears off in a few years as demographics keep shifting. I only get concerned about the blatantly undemocratic stuff like voter suppression.

[Alstein]

Oh, the speaker of the NC House got fucked over by Cawthorn (NSDP- NC), who is carpetbagging to run in the district Moore drew for himself. (They tried to make Cawthrown’s district competitive enough to get rid of him, but still red enough that the Dem would be a 1-termer)

[KevinC]

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs off on controversial congressional map that...

In 2018, Utah voters passed a ballot initiative to have an independent redistricting commission. The Utah legislature with a veto-proof majority threw that out and installed their own map, slicing and dicing up SLC.

Cox’s signature on HB2004 finalizes the map that splits Salt Lake County, the state’s most populous, into four congressional districts — a map that Republican lawmakers drafted while largely ignoring a different set of maps drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission.

The map slices Utah’s capital, the Democratic stronghold of Salt Lake City, and dissects areas like Sugar House, Millcreek, Murray and Holladay into four congressional districts. Other burgeoning Democratic areas like Sandy and Draper were lumped into the same district as conservative Utah County’s Provo, as well as Vernal, in the far eastern corner of the state, and Moab, in the far southeast corner.

“The ‘cracking’ of Salt Lake City eliminates political competition and divides a major community,” the Princeton Gerrymandering Project said in an open memo.

Utah has four districts with one of them being very competitive, electing a Democrat in 2018 and a Republican in a very close election in 2020. They’ve sliced up the most liberal parts of the city/county into four separate districts to make sure it stays safely in GOP hands.

Utah may be a red state but 1/3 of the population votes Democrat with Salt Lake City itself being quite liberal. It’s fucked that we get no representation, especially with Utahns both Democrat and Republican voting for an independent map in 2018.

Politicians should not be able to choose their voters. Bad for democracy indeed.

[Alstein]

How soon is until a state tries a stealth operative to manipulate the votes in another state, secretly paying voters to move in and tip districts?

[CraigM]

Given the scale needed there is no way to stealth do it.

[Alstein]

Do it openly then, California if it could move 100,000 votes, they could probably swnig a house district or Senate Seats just by paying folks to temporarily move to Wyoming.

Maybe even a 200k colony there?