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[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not going to educate you on how gerrymandering has direct downstream consequences on presidential election results.

It is so, so easy to find the information on that. Like, one Google search. Including data. I'm not going do your work for you. And I'm not going to play into the "if you don't give me literally everything then your whole argument is null" fallacy.

How could you possibly dispute that state legislatures historically disenfranchise large populations of voters by targeting specific demographics? That this has reprecussions for presidential elections? And that gerrymandering is a major component of capturing state legislatures and governorships?

Stop trolling.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok, so no data then. Just your feeling.

Stop spreading shitty information.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My unwillingness to spoon feed you data is not proof of its absence. You are free to disregard arguments because you're too lazy to look it up, but it just makes you look like a petulant child 🤷‍♀️

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fact that you seem to believe that gerrymandering affects presidential elections without proof makes you seem like a poor judge of character.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your myopic view of the impact of gerrymandering (looking only at whether presidential elections involve districts or not) is simple-minded and ignorant.

I have seen the proof. I'm just not willing to do research for a random internet troll who's too lazy to do a simple search on their own. I have more important things to do with my time.

You're literally the only one here making decisions without data. 🤷‍♀️

Muting you now. You're too childish for me to engage with anymore 👋

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, so YOU have seen the proof. You just dont have it.