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Hmmmmm, I wonder why this group organized in the first place? No matter, clearly the cops are always the good guys right?

Attacking agents of a democratically elected government makes you the bad guy.

If you want to change things then vote to change it, don't attack the people doing the work that just makes things worse. These "protests" are on the same level as the people threatening and blocking abortion centers, don't do that it just makes you a menace even if you believe it is a good cause.

Yep, gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, polling station disabling, polling station hours changing, polling station location changing, advertising lies about where and when to vote, disenfranchising mail in voting, attempting to invalidate entire elections.

But yeah just vote man. Just vote!

Are you implying that only the right does this?

Imply? There's evidence for literally everything the parent mentioned. In order:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Texas_redistricting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/01/tarrant-county-remov...

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/10/15/republican-house-can...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/13/trump-voting...

And then, ya know, the whole January 6th fiasco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

So the left never does this? This isn’t Reddit - go back there if you want to be a hypocrite.

Strange response. Bertrand Russel comes to mind here, though - that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Wanna convince me? Substantiate your implied claim.

Republicans are merely trying to get back the vote they’ve lost to decades of gerrymandering:

MA: 36% Republican, 0 seats CT: 42% Republican, 0 seats ME: 46% Republican, 0 seats NM: 46% Republican, 0 seats NH: 48% Republican, 0 seats RI: 42% Republican, 0 seats VT: 32% Republican, 0 seats HI: 38% Republican, 0 seats DE: 42% Republican, 0 seats

A state with 48% Republican has no republican representation in the house? Can’t wait to hear your leftist nonsense circumlocution around this one lolol

For New Hampshire, they did have two Republicans representing only about ten years ago. See for yourself here -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire%27s_congressiona...

Now, considering their redistricting happened in 2010 and 2022, perhaps their voters simply felt it appropriate to change. But what could’ve occurred in 2016 to convince people that Republicans suck? Maybe electing a guy that wants to figuratively fuck working class Americans and literally fuck his own daughter left a bad taste in their mouth.

Wow you sound like an angry child when you get proven wrong. When presented with evidence, you gave the typical leftist cult “NAZI! FACIST! PEDO!” answer, just as I thought.

I wish we could put Trump in for a third term, just to watch more leftist rage.

You haven’t provided “evidence” or proven anyone wrong, and you’re the only one here name-calling.

It’s after 5pm on a Friday. Chill out and enjoy your weekend.

They're right. Of the listed grievances, only gerrymandering is a bipartisan issue, and even then only Conservatives have fought to preserve and expand its use.

So what happened here? Please tell me you aren’t this naive

Most of those are states with low seat counts. But to quote me from a sentence above, "gerrymandering is bipartisan".

Rucho v Common Cause, a case brought against both Dems and GOP that would have rightfully declared partisan gerrymandering an unconstitutional deprivation of voting rights, was shot down by a Conservative court. Democrats campaign on ending gerrymandering, Republicans do not. Trump demanded the recent escalation in gerrymandering by explicitly calling for political re-drawings to give Republicans more seats, and Republican governors complied. The calls to de-escalate and ban the practice federally have (almost) entirely come from Democrats.

No, just that the impact of the left vs the right doing this is not the same, the left has never tried a coup, the left doesn't say they wont honor the results of elections, the left didn't destroy the supreme court's credibility. The list goes on, but sure, let's do some whataboutism.

curious is fuck ICE a "violent rhetoric" or threat? Or how else can you disagree with people who abuse their power? "Please stop doing that"?

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