From the rest of the thread it's clear that this person is using transphobic language because they are transphobic
I guess I should have one of these bios. Ohioan, dad to two good pups. Trans rights are human rights.
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From the rest of the thread it's clear that this person is using transphobic language because they are transphobic
Would've happened once if Tyler Bass hadn't missed two XPs
he's definitely not *fine* fine but I'd say more likely than not he makes it through the end of 2028
Yeah, it was a terrible slogan. It's also something no one has said since 2020 except to criticize it
*jerking off motion*
Blueksy?
This is Loudon County TN not VA
Border Patrol could've caught them at the Straits of Mackinac
Like: "My ancestors were immigrants. Some of them, from places like Italy and Ireland, faced discrimination when they got here. We now appreciate that those immigrants helped build our country into the nation it is today. Prejudice against immigrants is just as wrong now as it was back then."
Similarly depressing that the non-fascist political party can't or won't make a positive case for immigration
kind of off topic but it's bullshit that Chicago is on here. like, in no way is it within 100 miles of the border
Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism
One statement isn't going to do the trick on its own but I think it's worthwhile to build up a narrative of "Trump is firing all the black people he can because they're black". Most people aren't down with open racism and the ones who are are already solid Rs
unfortunate for JD Vance
It's really funny that he's said he prefers X to Bluesky because he gets called a Republican on here, which I guess to him is much worse than the racial slurs he gets over there
I think he's a Carville-brained Democrat. He wants Dems to win and thinks "move to the right" is the magic bullet to make that happen. Now, why does he prefer Dems? At what point should they *stop* moving right? I'm sure he has thoughts - they may not be all that coherent.
can't put my finger on why but I immediately clocked this as AI
John Roberts, the Illusive Man of the US government
stiff competition from Naomi Wolf
guy who somehow thinks Niemoller was Chinese
I wonder how things are going in the timeline where Perot won
yes, the actual communication problem democrats have is that they are afraid of conflict and voters, correctly, think they are weenies because of it
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
The real question is: why do Democrats get blamed when their voters use this kind of language, but Republicans don't get blamed when their voters say things like "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"?
And it's just the fucking logo! They can still eat the mediocre food!
The entire POINT of fighting Nazis is to prevent them from attacking marginalized people. So forgive me if I'm not particularly convinced by folks who argue that we need to sacrifice marginalized people in order to fight Nazis.
The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
(By official source I mean something like the website of a state's Secretary of State or a county's Board of Elections)
NBC News may be a professional news organization but their access to election data is limited. You can see right on their page that there is missing data from 4 states (MO, KY, MS, AL) plus DC. If there really are discrepancies in early voting numbers I'd want to see it from an official source
I'm not trolling. MAGA made a lot of similar claims in 2020 - including the one you linked to earlier - because they didn't understand the data they were looking at. I just don't want to make the same mistake
Yes, you're right, that would leave about 22 million ballots requested but not returned. That seems high - but most of those are probably from states like California that mail a ballot to every registered voter. Some people didn't vote, others didn't return their ballot because they voted in person
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
Make America Singapore (Again?)
I don't understand what you're trying to say here
That's the number on the national NBC News page. But that page says it's mail-in *and* early in-person ballots requested. So either the national page is wrong or the state pages are
WolframAlpha is just a calculator. I took the number of mail-in ballots requested from the NBC News state election results pages (like the Florida one I linked earlier) and added them all together. It came out to exactly 65,700,497
How did you ask them? What exactly did they say?
Now, did you actually ask NBC News to verify that the 65m number includes requests for early in-person votes? Because I don't see the point in continuing this if you're not gonna be serious
Here's Florida, it's the 3529020 number in the screenshot
I just pasted the numbers from each NBC state page (for mail-in ballot requests, not early in-person) into WolframAlpha
You asked NBC News? Would you mind sharing their response?
Basically, the math was correct *if* the original data was accurate, but that data was highly suspect and came from a Trump campaign official
This article 1) is about the 2020 election, 2) debunks the claim made in the screenshot, and 3) states that the professor retracted his claims after his colleagues pointed out errors in his analysis
So I added up the numbers from each state page on the NBC site - where it only says "mail-in ballots requested", not early in-person - and it comes out to exactly the 65,700,497 number on the national page. It's a typo - the 65m number doesn't include early in-person votes.
Does it? I only see mail-in and early in-person votes combined. Where are you seeing just the early in-person numbers?
But early in-person voting is like election day voting, you show up, they look you up on the voter rolls and hand you a ballot. So there wouldn't be a record of a "request", unless they automatically count early in-person votes as requests (2/2)
What I mean is, how do you know this NBC News page includes early in-person "requests" in the 65m total? Because it's not the same kind of request - for mail-in ballots you have to request them in advance. (1/2)
How did you check? Looks to me like it's a typo - if you go to the state pages it says "mail-in ballots requested" instead of "mail-in and early in-person votes requested"
In most (maybe all?) states you don't have to request an early in-person ballot, you just show up at the early voting site. So early in-person voters are included in the 88m total but not the 65m one
Not sure, I only played the original Shovel Knight but that wouldn't surprise me at all
Fetterman too. Just because a candidate can troll Republicans on social media doesn't mean they'll oppose fascism once they're in office
That's more or less what Silksong was supposed to be before it evolved into its own game
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
This exactly. It would be one thing if he had a principled history of transphobia (that would be bad too!) but he clearly did this in response to Trump's win last year. He has no consistent principles other than a desire for power.
If that had actually happened you'd have a good point
beat me to it
More seriously: You cannot reckon with the current attacks on science without reckoning with the recent history of attacks on gender-affirming medicine. Conservatives were validated by the New York Times in a vibes-based overthrow of good science, emboldening them to move on to all areas of science.
Ross: "liberals only say Trump is worse than Bush because they don't care about raw death" Liberals: "Actually Trump was responsible for more raw death than Bush" Ross: "well I don't care about that because [something something imperialism]"
It's already here in Ohio. We have normal E-Day polling places but for early voting and drop boxes it's one per county
Ms. Rachel for President
You're Wrong About did an episode on this case. The issue wasn't the lid, it was that McDonald's used to serve their coffee at near-boiling temperature
schumer is just murderously, genocidally racist against arabs. as much or more so than any republican. he should not hold a political office in any democracy and it is a disgrace to our country that he is minority leader.
(it was a good riff)
Even beyond that, most people - including those who oppose assisted suicide for humans - would view *withholding* euthanization for pets as cruel and inhumane
#QuackAttack (Jelle is Dutch btw)
come on. "both parties are bad in this particular way" is not remotely identical to "both parties are the same"
But this makes me wonder: have other countries figured this shit out, like guns and the metric system? Or is this really an intractable problem? (Yes, Americans get Suspected Spam pop ups, reliability varies by phone and network. But I think they're a public nuisance and should be illegal.)
Sharon is Canadian
I guess he's never heard the Nazi bar story
I feel this so much
I think the idea is that invading Iraq was the method, the goal was a more stable Middle East
Conservatives don't have beliefs, they have people they dislike, and they will do or say whatever they think will allow them to cause said people the most harm
conservatives/republicans going full on fascist with occupying cities with the military is yet another reminder to NEVER TAKE CONSERVATISM SERIOUSLY. THEIR CRITICISMS AREN'T REAL. YOU CAN'T MEET THEM HALF WAY. THEY AREN'T A SERIOUS IDEOLOGY. THEY CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED, NOT DEBATED. thank you.
If by qualified you mean "could not honestly take an oath to defend the Constitution" then ok sure
gotcha. somehow I missed the AIPAC part. would depend on the district though (in non-statewide races)
twenty pilots
why Michigan specifically?
not so fast, it says a whole year so if it's a leap year you have to do the full 366 days
or like any movie where a killer stalks a group of people in an isolated location. but everyone else in the world is just living their lives like normal
alien. but not the new alien earth show. and im just chilling on earth with the xenomorphs far away from me
this really isn't comforting!
The whole "got what they voted for" mentality when it applies to minority groups including children, who last I checked, can't vote, being further oppressed and disadvantaged by an election is really a symptom of lacking empathy and I hate seeing it
why does she have crosses on her boobs? is she a Christian? they look like they're about to rock out together
ok this actually rules
Can't wait for The Game. Feel like both teams have an unusually wide range of outcomes for this season
Petitioning the NCAA to move up week zero, we need football now
The Romney stuff is just baffling considering 1) they whine about how badly he was treated but never give specific because they'd have to admit there's nothing there, and 2) Trump was much nastier to Romney than Obama or Dems ever were!
what I want out of the next president is someone who thinks general sherman didn't go far enough
you stand strong for trans people and against every bit of terf bullshit out there so you can say Absolutely not. We don't compromise. That's a fucking 18 year old in there and she's not going to show you her fucking tits at a Buffalo Wild Wings to use the bathroom.
If you just meant that he used to be a senator then that's not what "sitting" means, it has to reference a particular time (for example Obama was a sitting senator when he was elected president in 2008)
The person you replied to said Biden was sold as the most experienced foreign policy president (when he was elected in 2020). You replied that he was a sitting senator, but he wasn't in 2020. If you weren't talking about 2020 then when did you mean? (and it's "impugned")
lol at first I thought you meant literal shit and I was trying to figure out what that would even mean
I really didn't. Is this a bit? In case you're really that thick: no, Biden was not a sitting Senator when he was elected President in 2020 because he'd been out of the Senate for twelve years
...no he wasn't? Biden hadn't been in the Senate since he was elected VP in 2008
This, plus it's reasonable and good to use different strategies for different seats. In blue and purplish seats it would be great to get some younger and/or better Dems in, but in a red seat like OH-Sen the priority has to be just winning
Ironically Florida is on a similar trajectory (they also voted for Obama twice!)
Who?