Post B5yVTDqkErHkCgefpY by eletious@eattherich.club
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(DIR) Post #B5yAOt5BPVD9bFV4Bk by specter@eattherich.club
2026-05-05T00:07:03Z
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Why'd they call it "gerrymandering" and not "antidemocratic bullshit that should have been eradicated decades ago"? Lmfao 😂😂
(DIR) Post #B5yAOtsSSIcu44YPzc by genmaicha@stereophonic.space
2026-05-05T00:12:43.919896Z
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@specter one sounds a lot funnier / cooler
(DIR) Post #B5yVTBFntEY09XM8yO by fool@brontosin.space
2026-05-05T00:14:06Z
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@specter because that's what they called it in the caption of a political cartoon from 1812
(DIR) Post #B5yVTCgQZjREaOov6u by specter@eattherich.club
2026-05-05T00:25:34Z
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@fool The cartoonist (Gilbert Stuart) thought it looked like a salamander and the Massachusetts governor at the time was Elbridge Gerry, hence gerry-mander!
(DIR) Post #B5yVTDqkErHkCgefpY by eletious@eattherich.club
2026-05-05T00:47:01Z
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@specter @fool the absolute buffoon, salamanders look nothing like that!
(DIR) Post #B5yVTF9ZOLwCFMTDoO by joey@stereophonic.space
2026-05-05T04:08:44.569546Z
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@eletious @specter @fool Maybe be not, but a type of scorpion called a jerrymander resembles that shape.
(DIR) Post #B5yZ4RXSbdLTEi4hFI by eletious@eattherich.club
2026-05-05T04:31:39Z
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@joey @fool @specter wow, this is my new least favorite animal!
(DIR) Post #B5yZ4SFPyCVVR2dnlI by joey@stereophonic.space
2026-05-05T04:49:10.612423Z
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@eletious @fool @specter Yeah it's sci-fi level nasty looking.I was under the understanding this was the actual animal gerrymandering was coined from because the map of the voting boundry resembled a salamander.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander#/media/File:SpottedSalamander.jpg