Supreme Court limits Voting Rights Act

More like, you're only racist if WE say you're racist (i.e., the Supreme Court)

"you can't call us Nazis because we don't call ourselves Nazis, even though we say a bunch of Nazi things"

You might be joking, but I had a conservative friend who thinks that the only way to know if someone is a Nazi/white supremacist is if they explicitly tell you that they are one. That really put how conservatives think into perspective. They can’t comprehend that someone might be lying to their face. In that light, it makes total sense how they could support the president, after all, he’s never said that he’s a fascist, or that he hates poor people, so he must not.

Correct. It fully legalized partisan gerrymandering and as long as you just say you are doing it to cheat along partisan lines, the cheating isn't cheating 😒

This is just like when reconstruction ended, you won't see black people in congress from the south soon

The SCOTUS legalize racially profiling?

Literally just say “oops we didn’t think about that, hehe” and the map is perfectly fine

At this point blue states should follow Virginia and gerrymander the shit out their maps. It really sucks, but now that the SC has basically eliminated the legal recourse to gerrymandering, it's the only way to fight back.

[removed]

It’s not that Americans don’t care about democracy it’s that there isn’t much democracy in the U.S. and that fact enables apathy. Take for example house elections. The vast majority of seats are [not competitive elections](https://www.npr.org/2026/02/22/nx-s1-5707254/power-trump-congress-house-representatives-voters-control) in any meaningful sense. In the [senate](https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/campaigns/chpt/campaigns-us-senators#_) the number of competitive elections is typically less than half When this happens most elections are decided during relatively low turnout primary elections, which can often be decided with expensive advertising campaigns and targets mobilization of a portion of the given party who controls the district. This creates a phenomenon where relatively few people are seriously engaged as legitimate stakeholders. Most laws don’t require people in the legislative branch to meaningfully engage with the public and actually gather and solicit public support, typically law writing is outsourced to think tanks. So if people’s main way of engaging with “democracy” is to show up to a non competitive election once every 4-6 years where the outcome is effectively pre determined in primaries, the vast majority of which the public doesn’t engage in; why would we assume that the public is incentivized to be laser focused on a process that they’ve effectively been shut out of for years? Edit; posted too soon

I blame the distractions Between short term social media and games plus Trump's "flood the zone" of the media, we are collectively distracted and exhausted. People aren't reading like they used to. Education is going down. Attention spans are nonexistent. The GOP whipped up a hurricane of damage and most people assume the only thing they could do is use their hands... so why bother? How many federal agencies have been irreparably damaged by DOGE? How can we afford to protest when Trump's new war is jacking up costs? How much does his ballroom cost again? By the time we restore abortion rights, there's 10x more damage to face with AI killing the environment and jobs and whatever threat Trump is making this week.

Also, WWII has almost faded from living memory.

A decade ago, we used to say, it’s like people think history is over and this is just humanity from here on out. Now we’re left with a lot of people detached from humanity and what it took to get us to the modern world.

So we are at the "Good times make weak men" part of the old saying, with MAGA as the weaklings?

This truly seems to be why historically humans just keep repeating the same behaviours and mistakes over and over. It's like if it's not within living memory it is forgotten, only to be learned again firsthand.

I mean only 65% of people elligble to vote actually voted in 2024, and that number is worse during non presidential election years. So nearly half of people don't care, at least not enough to vote.  And it's not necessarily their fault. We've made it so that people don't really feel represented. We work people so hard they barely have time to think about their needs, let alone the issues facing their community.  We need to make election day a national holiday, and we need better conditions for the working class. It's actually insane we expect a democracy to function while not providing means for the *demos* (people) to participate.  We also need some reforms so people actually see their voice matter. We need more representatives in the house so that a person can actually meet their representative, and we need our representatives and senators to actually respond and participate with us. I've personally sent at least 20 letters/emails/phone calls to my own since this year started, and I've yet to receive any response. 

In 2016 my fox news obsessed grandfather, who had actually met Trump at some dinner, asked why I didn't support him.  I said I didn't like the way he spoke about women.  Never once has this man let me have the last word on something until then.  He had 0 rebuttal.  He knew it was true and valid, so he just changed the subject.  

I lost hope and faith in the United States with the results of that election. Nothing that has happened since has given me cause to get it back.

I hear ya, it’s insane. I am hoping this was painful enough for people to do something differently, instead of doing the exact same thing and expecting different results. Over and over and over.

I told all my friends about the Epstein stuff in 2016. They told me I was a conspiracy theorist. It's absolutely wild to see Americans suddenly caring about it now when the evidence has been around for *so long.* But at least I don't look crazy anymore.

"But he's ownin' the libs!"

"Don't threaten me with the Supreme Court ," they said.

I don't think a majority of Americans really understood SCOTUS at the time. Like a weird idea of 'it's been working so far why would people put there go crazy?' with the weirder mentality of 'they're in a position for life so no motivation to be corrupt' when that was the last thought that entered my mind. If they're there for life they can be corrupt all they want

And they wouldn't vote for Kamala because of "Genocide Joe" and the Democratic party's "Zionist" policies only to overtly enable Trump the win, which has allowed Netanyahu to dictate US foreign policy further reducing Gaza to rubble while Lebanon is systematically leveled village by village. Take a bow all of you who stayed home. The whole world thanks you for your morally simplistic stand!! Its not like voting within a system controlled by the interests of billionaires coerced you to choose the lesser of the two evils. At least you can lay your head on the pillow at night convincing yourself you did the right thing!!

The people that voted red certainly have cooked this goose, but the 50% of voting-age population that didn't vote at all put it on a platter and served it up to the Republican party. Apparently Hillary's emails, Bernie's age, and Biden's son were all disqualifying factors to these voters... Despite Trump and his team misusing public tech for government work, Trump himself being less than 5 years younger than Bernie, and Trump's entire family being appointed various high-ranking government positions. But both sides are wrong.

We vote for our congresspeople too.  They matter just as much, if not more than the president. 

as much as I hate that turtle faced b****, he knew how to be a f****** minority leader.

It's her entire legacy. Undid anything praiseworthy about her.

Given the opportunity people will hold onto power til their dying breath. Often this sentiment trumps anything you've ever belived in preserving.

She had the perfect window of opportunity to retire in either 2009 or 2010 when Democrats had a nearly 60 seat majority in the Senate. At the time she was 76/77 years old and had gone through a few cancer treatments, so it's not like she had a lot of time left to be on the bench.

RBG completely destroyed her legacy by not retiring during Obama. Everything she worked for her entire life is getting undone by the one selfish decision. She really believed Hillary was going to sweep.

Honestly, it all goes back to Thomas's appointment and the lack of accountability there. RBG was just the nail in the coffin.

It was a campaign issue in 2016, 2020 and 2024. People dont care and in fact a good amount of us want this because we are still a racist country at heart. A good amount of people in US hate people that dont look like them. Sorry but this is the reality we have to accept.

Thomas nodding vigorously as Harlan Crowe puppets him

That's my R. Kelly, always racially gerrymandering shit.

but even if the person says it out loud, can you really know what's in their mind? Better just play it safe and effectively legalize the whole thing just in case, like they did with bribery where even the most egregious cases can no longer be prosecuted.

It really is. This is the equivalent of a corporation taking illegal action but taking pains to have plausible deniability, and it sounds like they can't even cite the results as part of the evidence unlike in other cases. I've worked in good and bad HR departments and the #1 question I would be asked in my brief time in the bad ones was from execs and it was essentially "how do I accomplish this illegal thing I want to do with as little liability as possible"? This is absolutely what will happen here with this issue.

Don't forget the anti-abortion crowd. Enter that one guy who made the speech saying it'd be a long and arduous process but no matter the cost they would eventually overturn Roe v. Wade. And then 50 years later lo and behold.

What’s crazy is republicans are fascist authoritarian lovers and the democrats are actively implementing gun control in many states. It doesn’t make sense.

A Republican will vote for a steaming hot pile of shit if it had an (R) next to it.

We need to plan for what happens when the GOP opens fire on civilians. They are.

The Roberts court already has one of the worst reputations in American History. If there is a conscience guiding him to not do it, it's about a decade late.

At least this scotus ruling doesn’t address the presidential elections. Hoping for the best in 4 years. I need to volunteer for this shit 

Bold of you to assume they won't just try redistricting, anyway. See Florida, currently violating its own state constitution to redistrict.