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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • You pack and you crack.

    You either try and pack as many opposition voters into as few districts is possible, or you crack opposition districts and spread their voters to districts you think have enough favorable demographics for you to still win.

    But they did all this math based on voter data from the last presidential election, and those demographics have now swung wildly in the other direction, at least according to more recent elections.

    So they created a whole bunch of GOP districts that only had a few points of advantage, but that advantage was based off Trump 2024 results.

    Is this copium? Maybe, maybe not.

    They really did make these decisions based off that voter data, and subsequent election results raise the possibility that they’re really fucking up here, but only time will tell if those trends hold.












  • I hope people aren’t under the impression that Lemmy is about privacy.

    Arguably it’s even less private than Reddit, as at least Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data i.e. whoever pays.

    But on Lemmy, that’s free with federation. Maybe not the same granular tracking data, but enough of users personal data is available as to not consider Lemmy to be a privacy centric service.