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I'm ESL and I feel like every time I write in English I get stressed because it seems like the users are illiterate. If you make any grammatical mistake, a bunch of idiots come to correct you as if you were doing them a favor. If you're being sarcastic but don't put the damn /s at the end of the sentence, nobody understands that it's sarcasm and thinks you agree with what you said.

And every time I write in English, they always assume I'm American or speaking in an American context, and that irritates me deeply because the world is more than that country. I know that most of the site's users are American, but that doesn't imply that everyone is.

My desire is to drop everything and not interact with any fandom, to write for no one beyond my maternal line. I prefer to be isolated than to get irritated every time I seek contact.

I don't see how this is going to get any better.

PS: Yes, I know I'm writing this in English because I want to complain in this subreddit and there isn't a subreddit like this in my native language.

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Losing isnt an option, it's a make or break scenario that will define the next decade.

Win and Texas becomes a Purple State with a Senator who is young, actually reads the bible and likes slushies. Ann Richards will return in spirit to throw Abbott into a Cliff to die.

Lose and Texas will be ruby red where any republican can win even if they shot a kid in the face (and the kid is white). Texan Latinos will forever be right wingers just like Cubans. Even if blue cities and suburbs grow the new residents thinks like if they're in Idaho.

"You can't be mad that Republicans draw squares in X states, democrats just have bad geography" is a common take given to explain why gerrymandering is easier for GOP than DEM:

- The rurals are deep red, more dispersed than deep blue cities

- Suburbs are purple-ish to red, making a good barrier against democrat candidates

So when you draw, you can slice cities and pack them with red rurals and suburbs without looking "ugly", while a dem gerrymander usually needs to make "ugly" shapes to dilute red voters with blue pockets. Political wisdom say that if Dems doesnt want that they need to move from rural counties or change their plataform to win enough red voters.

But is there any IMPORTANT state where it's the opposite? I stress the important because while Massachusetts is an example of bad GOP geography the state itself doesnt matter at all in national politics and even the local gop doesnt do anything to win elections anymore.

The only state I can see this becoming a example is Georgia: not only the Atlanta suburbs are trending left the rural counties are not bleeding red unlike the rest of the south. In the future you might see dem gerrymanders with nice shapes that doesnt run the entire map like Illinois.

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