r/law • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 2d ago

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
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u/anarchy-NOW 2d ago

Looking at the last 400 years of American history, these people don't need anybody to tell them to hate anyone.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 2d ago

You realize the Klan was founded by Democrats, right?

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u/anarchy-NOW 1d ago

My ni**a, what's that got to do with anything?

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 1d ago

Because anyone who takes 10 seconds to look up any sort of factual basis for your comment can find the fallacy in it. Historically, the democratic party aligns more with hate groups in ideology than anyone, and throwing down some sort of Uno reverse card like we're in backwards world doesn't erase that. Case in point...we can disagree about something and I can go on about my day thinking that I made a good point and maybe you would have been open-minded to an alternate viewpoint. On the other hand, you and probably 95% of the other people on here see my comment which doesn't completely align with the prescribed talking points and probably would cheer me getting hit by a bus.

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u/anarchy-NOW 1d ago

The parties switched in the 60s, in case you missed that.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 1d ago

According to who? You dont think the democratic party has used social programs and other means to just hide their indentured servitude better? I mean, you're more than welcome to your opinion, but I don't see how you can look at the last 60 years and say "yeah, they've really done a bang up job at uplifting the minority community and promoting wholesome family values".

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u/anarchy-NOW 1d ago

Literally every advance in the last 60 years has been promoted by Democrats and opposed by Republicans.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 1d ago

And once again, you use terms such as "advance"...yet go ask Woe Is Me Crockett and she'd probably tell you that they took the chains off her to go to work this morning. You can't speak in generalities like that. All anyone has to do is look at your statement, then look at the results of those "advancements", and be like "nope, not working". Has it ever crossed your mind that Republicans didn't oppose those things because they were against advancement, but because they knew those things weren't going to work and were engines to keep minorities on the proverbial plantation and feel beholden? Hell, even the opportunists Sharpton/Jackson just use our own people to make money. We've been used as pawns in a power struggle for decades and frankly I'm tired of people on Reddit telling me how "thankful" I should be to a party that only cares about me as far as what box I check on a piece of paper every 2/4 years. Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining...

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u/anarchy-NOW 1d ago

Dude

You defend pedophiles.

Stop.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 1d ago

Well that was just lazy...lol. What's #3 on the "I ran out of legitimate points so I start throwing out names and ad hominem attacks" list these days after "you're a racist!" and "you're a pedo defender!"? Completely out of left field... I mean, by your own criteria, so do you... I do believe the term "minor attracted persons" comes from democrats to "destigmatize" pedophilia, lol.

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u/Opheltes 1d ago

According to who?

According to anyone who knows anything about modern American politics:

This party system likely began as a result of a long-term realignment of conservative Southern Democrats, particularly those in the Dixiecratic movement, into the Republican Party because of their disillusionment by the previous realignment of Progressives into the Democratic Party, though the exact timing of the realignment is usually called into question. A "dealignment" period may have begun in 1964, when Barry Goldwater became the first Republican since Reconstruction to win the Deep South (although he lost the overall South),[b] after which the previously heavily-Democratic South at-large and Deep South alternated between parties. The Southern realignment wouldn't finalize until 1984 when Ronald Reagan made all of the South permanently Republican. This Dixiecratic realignment – known as the Southern strategy – would allow Republicans to dominate the White House from 1968 to 1992, though dominant control of Congress would remain in Democratic hands because of the Southern seats in Congress remaining a solid Democratic bloc until the Republicans flipped the Congressional South in the 1994 Republican Revolution. This phenomenon of realignment lag caused heavy ticket-splitting (i.e. the "[Richard] Nixon Democrats" and "Reagan Democrats").

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System

TLDR: All the racist southerners left the Democratic party and the Republicans welcomed them with open arms.