• testfactor@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    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.

    • OldFartPhil@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      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.

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      21 hours ago

      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.

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      21 hours ago

      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.