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Because republicans across the country have been gerrymandering while blue states like California have unilaterally disarmed themselves. Good for Illinois. Keep going. Maybe Republicans will finally agree with Illinois Democratic senators and end gerrymandering. Until then, I’m not interested in both sides bull****. Illinois has been playing by the same rules as republicans.

If you believe in the Better Angels societal evolutionary and/or the Arc of the Moral Universe theories, it should happen eventually, because as long as there is an active, collective effort to do so, we will get there. The only way that can be reversed is to exterminate the intelligentsia and their educated acolytes, outlaw free education altogether, and remake society into a replication of the serfdom era.

I want as many purple and competitive districts as possible. Safe seats beget corruption, extremism, and lack of accountability. As long as states have odd shapes and unequal population density distribution, maps are going to be weird and gerrymandered in some way. Extreme partisan gerrymandering is no good, but gerrymandering itself is a necessity.

illinois received an F grade for its congressional map from the princeton gerrymander project. this site has it as the 4th worst in the country. https://ivn.us/posts/10-worst-gerrymandered-states-country-2025-08-18 there are lots of bad gerrymanders out there and illinois is one of the worst. and it wasnt prompted by republicans, it was prompted by illinois democrats and their attempts to exercise power.

I've just about come around to accept the idea of multi member congressional districts, Or some sort of proportional voting and representation. cut the number of districts in half or thirds, then vote for multi members. Or something close to that. The current system is wrecked,

Sam Vecenie released a mock draft after the lottery yesterday. 4 of his top 10 players are guards that are 6'4" or smaller.

So? That doesn’t make Illinois the most gerrymandered. That 47% isn’t just in one part of the state. Shouldn’t all of the districts be 47% Republican? 47% is not typical. There shouldn’t be a single Republican district in Illinois.

i hope so. its killing democracy.

not sure why youre arguing with me. republicans received 47% of the vote in the House of representative races in 2024.

I think one day it will be, but a lot of terrible ****, and then defeat and truth and reconciliation, is going to have to happen first, because we are nowhere near the level of peak fascism the country has to experience to finally wake the **** up. You and I won't live to see that entire cycle, probably, but if I were a bettor, I would bet that sometime in the next 25 to 75 years, the outlawing of gerrymandering will happen.

i'm agreeing with you and youre arguing with me for some reason. illinois is an exception, it was done before all this BS once the democrats got a supermajority in the state.

Cry me a ****ing river. Look across the border into Wisconsin. Republicans have a super majority in the legislature in a state Democrats won statewide. The last republican to get 45% in Illinois was Bruce Rauner in 2014 and that was because of the whole corruption thing with Blagojevich. Don’t overstate republican support in Illinois.

Either the name Orban is the Hungarian equivalent of Smith, or that woman is related to Viktor, and then I wonder what the family dynamics at Christmas dinner must be like.

Being unhinged and knowing what he's doing are not mutually exclusive states for him.

No, it’s not. Democrats in good faith established redistricting commissions in states like California. No red state. Sorry, not going to both sides this one.

Change the ball to deaden it so as make contact less damaging than it is now?

I feel differently about the Tigers giving him #99: I don't think it's a lack of organizational confidence thing as much as it is a style thing, because uniform number 99 has a unique history in sports, much in the way the number 00 does. Gage might have even asked for it. But I think if the Tigers truly wanted communicate the ephemeral nature of his tenure with us with a spring training numbers, I think it would be more like #74 or #87 than #99. I have a feeling someone like McCoskey or Beck is going to write a feature piece contemplating Gage's uniform number 99. Who knows, they might be working on it this very minute.

max contract.

I think it's a perfectly reasonable assumption that all the tech that allows pitchers to learn to maximize velo and spin is also teaching them how to put maximum stress on their physiology. Seems almost an inescapable conclusion, but how does any team or even the game as a whole get out of the "arms" race they are in?

republicans did not force the democrats' hand in illinois, the democrats did it because they wanted to and they could. a state where republicans get 45-47% of the statewide vote and only get 2 reps out of 17.

illinois is gerrymandered more than any state in the country. republicans have forced the democrats' hand on gerrymanders with their ridiculousness. its a shame, because its a terrible process and always has been.

The Kroger on Ecorse is so much better than our options. That's become my place if I need to go to one. But usually we do Dearborn Farm Market or Westborn.

The Tigers' training staff compound:

Nothing speaks to an org's confidence in a player's future than handing out a uniform #99... of course maybe that's what he wanted. But also of course, #99 is Wayne Gretzky and it's famously unique to him so.... not sure I like that either.

Jalen Duren has attempted 26 shots in this series so far. 2 of them have been >= 8 feet in distance. He made one missed one. Everything else has been less than 8 feet from the rim. He is shooting 42% from the field. 92% of his shots have been less than 8 feet, and he is only shooting 42%.