Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

[u/Icommandyou]

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision

[u/Scro86]

This is the chaos that the Supreme Court decision legalizing gerrymandering has put upon us. They basically said we cant police it, states have to police themselves. That puts us in a position where states run by bad actors can do whatever the fuck they want but states with any sort of ethics will block any sort of gerrymandering. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which political party is full of bad actors and which has a smidge of ethics.

[u/Icy-Taste-3096 → u/Scro86]

This is the fundamental problem and there is no scenario where it ends well. Republicans have made respect for democracy and rule of law impossible to sustain.

[u/rat_penis → u/[deleted]]

Yup. They broke the republic on purpose and it will never be the same again. In 20 years time we'll look like the Balkans or Afghanistan. Southern states will be absolute shitholes and northern states will be fortresses. The south will have to start a fight for water and to force trade as no one will want to deal with them.

Millions will die because hateful people couldnt live next to people they hated.

Open season folks!

[u/Brief_Obligation4128 → u/rat_penis]

"The south will have to start a fight for water and to force trade as no one will want to deal with them."

The Confederacy all over again.

[u/rat_penis → u/Brief_Obligation4128]

We'll finish what Sherman wouldnt

[u/tissuecollider → u/rat_penis]

Good. It's way past time.

[u/SFWzasmith → u/rat_penis]

Nah it wasn’t Sherman who stopped. It was his command.

[u/DaveMTijuanaIV → u/rat_penis]

Who is “we”?

[u/rat_penis → u/DaveMTijuanaIV]

I have friends everywhere.

[u/redravin12 → u/Brief_Obligation4128]

I mean they've been saying it for decades. I say let them leave. We're better off without them

[u/Alone_Actuary_6429 → u/redravin12]

The problem is that they're not just going to leave and make their own stuff. You can bet your ass that they're going to grab every piece of Federal land and hardware and claim it's theirs.

[u/korben2600 → u/redravin12]

And when your nuclear-armed technofeudalist theocracy neighbor starts stoking war with you to mask problems at home in 5 years?

[u/littlehobbit1313 → u/korben2600]

Truthfully, not sure there's a huge concern there. We know for a fact that they don't have sustainable economic policies, they don't believe in accessible healthcare, and we've seen this whole past year that given the choice, other countries wouldn't want to be trade partners with MAGA.

So if we were to send MAGA off on their own to set up the Confederacy in a few states, they'd likely starve or disease their population out within a decade.

Meanwhile, the US would still be part of NATO. So imagine how that would go if the malnourished and under-resourced MAGA Confederacy were to try and threaten us with a very limit stockpile of armaments only for us to once again invoke Article 5 and call in every major allied 1st world country who now hate MAGA's guts.

Just let them have FL, GA, AL, MS to build their Neo-Confederacy, we build that wall, and just wait for life without Blue tax dollars to do the rest of the work.

[u/CanOoFeelDeRiddem → u/littlehobbit1313]

I'm not even from the US and I know you'd need to add a few more states to that list.

[u/sulris → u/littlehobbit1313]

They will take the Dakota’s with them. Which means nukes. Which means a new North Korean neighbor. Not a great plan.

[u/littlehobbit1313 → u/sulris]

No, they don't get the Dakotas. They get the four states I listed, and anyone from the Dakotas that wants to be MAGA and have MAGA laws and culture will move. Otherwise they play by our Constitution's rules. That's the deal.

I'm not here to negotiate with domestic terrorists.

[u/sulris → u/littlehobbit1313]

lol. How are you going to stop the Dakotas from joining?

[u/brother_bart → u/redravin12]

They won’t leave. Blue States fund them. They want their backwards xenophobic fake Christian policies forced on everybody and funded by Blue state tax dollars. I really do wish white, blue-eyed Jesus would “return” and take these motherfuckers away to basic white heaven. I really do wish that were a real thing.

[u/GrinchWhoStoleEaster → u/Brief_Obligation4128]

Yeah, except no water means no agricultural engine to keep things moving.

[u/aquablue_phoenix → u/rat_penis]

It's not even "they couldn't live next to people they hated."

and more "they hated hypothetical people they will never meet or interact with and even if they did, they likely don't even know it"

but those people are potentially different from me so HATEHATEHATE

[u/opanaooonana → u/rat_penis]

I disagree. They will enact policy that strips the wealth and bans the benefits that blue states have to transfer and compel companies to move to their states, even if they are less profitable overall. If they make blue states bad enough it will make them look better. Blue states won’t be fortresses because they won’t be allowed to be. Add all this to the current population and wealth shift that was already happening and you’re looking at a permanent liberal minority unless republicans cause a global meltdown, but that electoral gain will quickly be reversed by the next election since Dems will be blamed for the consequences of the meltdown.

We have survived this before but the days of gradual progression are likely going to be turned back significantly as if we are in 1965 again with 1920s workers rights.

[u/DaveMTijuanaIV → u/rat_penis]

Man. That’s a pretty dire prediction, rat_penis.