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Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling (www.politico.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/news@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55106076

Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.

Ahead of the court’s Oct. 15 rehearing of Louisiana v. Callais — a case that has major implications for the VRA — two voting rights groups are sounding the alarm, warning that eliminating Section 2, a provision that prohibits racial gerrymandering when it dilutes minority voting power, would let Republicans redraw up to 19 House seats to favor the party and crush minority representation in Congress.

Bye bye free and fair elections by the midterms! And people called me crazy for predicting this.

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz -1 points 4 weeks ago

They could just as easily make the stupid happy.

How are you defining greedy?

There does need to be some immediate consequence to the willing act of wanting to make others suffer

That's not greed to me. People would be guilty of this every time they are forced to work a double shift lol. The greedy don't necessarily want to cause suffering, they just don't care if they do. Their only strategy is to maximize their own utility. Which is also why I don't think your point about them "making the stupid happy" works.

That's not to say the two are mutually exclusive. When an economy has healthy competition everyone is acting as greedy as they are able, on the supply side, companies can only raise their prices as high as the quality of their product allows compared to other companies, and on the demand side, consumers will generally take the best deal they can find. Win/win, good times.

In the 50s, people had just come out of massive wealth inequality. They understood the value of prioritizing high corporate tax rates, strong unions, and effective anti-trust legislation. At all times, everyone, corporations to consumers, are acting as greedily as they know how. But it is exclusively the consequence of consumers losing sight of the value of this regulatory balance that corporations are allowed the opportunity to "innovate" on their ability to lobby the govt, delete regulation, and buy up competition. And as a result, we get hard times.

Evil doesn't necessarily have to be religious, BTW

This is a semantic argument, which is why I didn't let it stop the point you were making. I felt you were defining "evil" as actively malicious, but as you have pointed out, it's ambiguous and could be interpreted to include stupidity.

I prefer the term "unethical".

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