Matt Jacobsen
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Matt Jacobsen
@WasatchWhig
Wasatch back native living in Salt Lake City Co-Director @UTReaganCaucus
Salt Lake City, UT انضم Ocak 2024
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RT @JustinWStapley: Was that money properly appropriated by Congress and were the renovations cleared through the proper channels?
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@ChaserSword6449 @thinbluesublime @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu The real stupidity is believing we should replace one bad option with another
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@WasatchWhig @thinbluesublime @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu “They prioritized keeping the one city where everyone lives together instead of splitting it up like a pizza!”
You people are so goddamned stupid it hurts
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@politicalmath @Pro_Nuke Most “Republican” “banned” books are books with sexual themes.
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@DiehardOsfan55 @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu That’s total BS, there’s plenty of ways to split SLC once and not have this clear gerrymander.
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@WasatchWhig @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu And the Utah map was redrawn because the Fair Districts Amendment stated that you couldn’t split any county more than once so SLC had to have its own district.
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@thinbluesublime @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu Putting West Valley with Foothill & the Avenues makes less sense than putting West Valley with Kerns, & South Jordan.
People pretending SLC is a strong cohesive city is very disconnected from the reality here.
There’s a reason no homeless shelters are by SLC ‘s major hospitals.
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@WasatchWhig @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu No you don’t, because arguing that SLC is a Dem pack is arguing that it’s a *Republican* gerrymander by saying that the Dems should have *more* districts because the GOP “packed” them all into one district. And SLC isn’t one district, it’s 1 district + part of another district.
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@DiehardOsfan55 @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu SLC shouldn’t be 1 or 4 districts. Both are terrible gerrymanders.
I totally understand packing & cracking. I understand what gerrymandering is whether I like the outcome or not, unlike you.
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@WasatchWhig @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu Yeah they packed SLC into a single district because it makes no fucking sense to have it split among 4 districts. The previous map was a very obvious gerrymander, the one that replaced it is not. You’re the idiot who doesn’t understand the concept of packing and cracking.
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RT @NWSFairbanks: ☀️ Today in Utqiagvik (the northernmost city in the United States), the sun rose above the horizon at 2:57 AM and won’t s…
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RT @MarinasHammer: Weber county detective LIED to a family of a child s3xual abuse victim and said prosecutors would not be filing charges…
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A big data point that's going to get discussed a lot once we're beyond the immediate political tensions of the moment is how the Trump era was the era where various aspects of leftwing radicalism was able to repackage itself to fit a moment of right-wing populist hysteria. The list goes on and on (RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump himself, etc.) of former Democrats whose fundamental stances didn't change but who found the Republican Party suddenly more fertile ground for their radicalism than had been the Democratic Party.
And now that the populist moment in the Republican Party is starting to fade and the Democratic Party is beginning to have their own, no surprise at all that these erstwhile Republicans are returning to the radical leftist pits that spawned them.
Batya Ungar-Sargon@bungarsargon
Nick Fuentes came out as a Democrat this week, and he's not alone. Many erstwhile Right-wing podcasters are now finding they have more in common with the Left these days, thanks to a meeting of minds on a singular issue: One's level of comfort blaming Jews for the world’s ills.
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@DiehardOsfan55 @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu Gerrymandering is changing district lines to get a desired outcome. In this case, they packed a district to get a safe Democrat district.
You partisan hacks do mental gymnastics to justify corrupt politics. We’re seeing the tit for tat nationwide give us worse candidates.
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@WasatchWhig @KilleyAlex @JeffMindel @rich_byu The concept of “packing” when it comes to gerrymandering is sticking all of one party in as few districts as possible so the rest are safe for the other party. That’s the whole point behind it. So you’re misusing the term.
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@KilleyAlex @Buhlerzzz @rich_byu Proportional? Interesting since that metric means it’s focused on voter affiliation: exactly what prop 4 said is not supposed to be done making maps. This is a clear gerrymander done to get a desired political outcome.
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@WasatchWhig @Buhlerzzz @rich_byu No, it definitely is not. It's far more proportional now, and that matters a lot. It's the most commonly cited statistic to determine if a map is fair.
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@DiehardOsfan55 @shanesmith336 @JeffMindel @rich_byu Packing & cracking are both common gerrymandering techniques. They are independent of each other.
Picking voters to get a desired party, is gerrymandering. Districts should combine common interests but not by focused on giving any particular party priority.
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@shanesmith336 @WasatchWhig @JeffMindel @rich_byu I should say it not necessarily gerrymandering. In some cases it is, but only if it accompanied by cracking.
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