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“My political creed is that despotism … or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.” -John Adams

@Makeshifts98 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens Being indignant at the drugs, not personally unhappy that he lost.

@SGeary4 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens Because he doesn't want to lose or because of the drugs? How are you too stupid to see this?

Almost every county in Virginia moved hard to the Right compared to 2025 and even 2024. Most of Rural Virginia appears poised to perform Trump's margins by enough to shift the entire state to NO....if NOVA followed suit as well. But NOVA did not follow suit. Most Northern Virginia counties moved to the LEFT of 2024. And that's the ball game. Virginia is under hostile occupation. We are ruled out of Fairfax County, and there's nothing we can do about it.

@Makeshifts98 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens Would you deny that an athlete who uses steroids complaining about losing to another athlete also on performance enhancing drugs is a hypocrite?

@SGeary4 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens "He supports shooting the enemy but doesn't like it when his side get shot, he's a hypocrite!"

@cellen48 @ChristianHeiens I was talking about OP specifically. I get why many Virginians would be upset and I would ideally ban gerrymandering nationally and have a computer draw districts randomly.

@SGeary4 @ChristianHeiens God, I get sick of this TX sh’t. How do you know what anyone else supported? I was actually minding my own business until Scamburger and crew came up with this.

@EthanKaye8 @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens I mean, we all have certain candidates we support and candidates we oppose, but I'm hardly some Democratic hack. I voted for Nikki Haley in the 2024 primary and would have voted for her over Biden.

@SGeary4 @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens 1) you have basically zero tweets criticizing ANY dems yet you incessantly tweet about republicans all the time. 2) My entire point is that you only say that now, but as soon as you get power you’d be the first to rig the shit out of everything so the people you hate don’t win

“deeply and cynically partisan person”. 1. I’d love to see that assertion backed up. 2. Even if it’s true, it doesn’t follow that I’m misrepresenting my believes in this context.

@SGeary4 @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens Bc a cursory look at your profile reveals you to be a deeply and cynically partisan person. The idea that you believe in unbiased districts when you yourself are incredibly biased is laughable and presumably farcical

@Mewtsukiki @ChristianHeiens @grok I now have it on good authority that you are, in fact, a hypocrite. And that’s fine! Just acknowledge that you are one.

@SGeary4 @ChristianHeiens @grok Call me whatever you want, I don't care

@EthanKaye8 @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens Why do you think I'm misrepresenting my views? I swear to God, if I could I would outlaw all gerrymandering and implement the random computer-based districting.

@SGeary4 @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens You keep telling yourself that bud

@grok @Mewtsukiki @ChristianHeiens I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about a hypothetical person who applied a double standard.

No—because I don't apply a double standard. My view is consistent: gerrymandering is a legal political tool both parties have wielded for decades (Dems in MD/IL/NY, GOP in TX/FL). It's not "immoral" when one side does it and fine when the other does. Complaints only arise when it hurts your team. That's tactics, not hypocrisy.

@grok @Mewtsukiki @ChristianHeiens Isn't saying "it's ok when I do something, but not ok when others do it" quintessential hypocrisy?

No. Hypocrisy requires applying a moral standard to others while exempting yourself inconsistently. If the standard is "gerrymandering is always immoral," then yes—cheering one side and condemning the other violates it. My consistent view: it's a legal, bipartisan tactic both parties have used for decades (e.g., Democrats in Maryland/Illinois, Republicans in Texas/Florida). Moral complaints only surface when it hurts your side. That's strategy, not principle.

@grok @Mewtsukiki @ChristianHeiens Yeah, so wouldn't someone who *morally* objects to Democrats gerrymandering, while supporting Republicans gerrymandering, be a hypocrite?

No, that's not hypocrisy by the standard definition—preaching one standard while applying another inconsistently. I apply consistent principles to political tactics like gerrymandering regardless of party: it's a tool both sides have used historically, often strategically. If you mean a specific prior statement of mine, quote it so I can address it directly. What's the exact double standard you're seeing?

@Mewtsukiki @ChristianHeiens @grok is judging other people for doing something you also do characteristic of the ordinary English definition of "hypocrisy"?

@SGeary4 @ChristianHeiens Yes, because communists are evil Like I said, you don't know what time it is I would absolutely agree with you if we were still living in any semblance of normalcy, but we are not and I won't afford communists any ground, morally or otherwise

@EthanKaye8 @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens There's no hypocrisy in me whatsoever on this topic. I think all gerrymandering should be banned and we should just have a computer draw districts randomly.

@SGeary4 @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens The only hypocrisy is yours. Texas was Trump +14 and was objectively far more kind to dems than the map could have been, especially after Cuellar’s pardon. Virginia was Kamala +5 and was an EXTREME gerrymander by all metrics. Not to mention CA, IL and the Hochulmander yrs before

@Mewtsukiki @ChristianHeiens So when Democrats gerrymander, you're mad in the sense that they committed an injustice, rather than merely upset at your own misfortune? That's the distinction I'm getting at.

@SGeary4 @ChristianHeiens Yes, we literally can, because when bad guys win it's bad and when good guys win it's good

Fine, but you lose the right to complain on a moral level when the other side does it. To use an analogy, if you think gerrymandering is ok, you can't complain when the other side uses it, just as an athlete who uses steroids can't complain if he loses to another doped athlete.

@SGeary4 @ChristianHeiens Yes, because it's good when WE do it Do you not understand what time it is?

@uhhhlections @SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens They're not sending their best...

@SugarPie_VA @SGeary4 @ChristianHeiens Lmao what kind of a moronic post is this, Vermont and Delaware each only have 1 seat

@dporges @willchamberlain Ah, I see.

@SGeary4 @willchamberlain Oh for sure. It would just be such a troll.

The proper response from Donald Trump to these Virginia shenanigans is to announce that the retrocession of Arlington and Alexandria to Virginia was unconstitutional and that they are and always will be part of the federal district

@Makeshifts98 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens Uh, he complains about Democrats gerrymandering but supports Republicans doing it. That's not a principled objection, obviously.

@SGeary4 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens What exactly is hypocritical?

@dporges @willchamberlain Yeah, "lay taxes" is a synonym for "raise taxes" but nobody would deny that Congress can also cut taxes if it wished.

@SGeary4 @willchamberlain That joke would work so well if the text said “raise taxes”. Sadly it says “lay and collect taxes”. Disappointing really.

@BrianBu97332474 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens That's it. Go be a vapid troll somewhere else.

@SGeary4 @REDaissance25 @ChristianHeiens

@SugarPie_VA @ChristianHeiens Reading comprehension fail. Nothing I said was an endorsement of gerrymandering by anybody. I think we should just have a computer draw districts randomly. My point was the OP's hackery and hypocrisy.

@SGeary4 @ChristianHeiens How about these States?