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    5. Pew Research Center's political typology series

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      1999 edition 2005 edition 2011 edition 2014 edition 2017 edition (Interactive version) It's really interesting and pretty useful to know how the 2 US parties are split and which voting blocks have...

      1999 edition

      2005 edition

      2011 edition

      2014 edition

      2017 edition (Interactive version)

      It's really interesting and pretty useful to know how the 2 US parties are split and which voting blocks have dissappeared and emerged over time and some blocks don't really fit all too well in the 2 parties (most notably the religious left). This also serves as a kind of model for what a multiparty US might look like.

      6 votes

    15. New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China

      ~tech Text 78 words
      Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China Also: 'Cyber attacks' point to China's spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback,...

      Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China

      Also: 'Cyber attacks' point to China's spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback, say former Australian officials

      This is a follow-up to these articles posted yesterday:

      8 votes

    38. Do you think there will be a 'silver lining' or any long-term results from these protests?

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      I think the biggest effect of this will be that a lot of white suburban Klobuchar-ites will be more apprehensive of keeping the police as it is and a lot of progressives (like me, I always thought...

      I think the biggest effect of this will be that a lot of white suburban Klobuchar-ites will be more apprehensive of keeping the police as it is and a lot of progressives (like me, I always thought it was a class matter disguised as a race one) will take identity politics and racism more seriously and see themselves as privileged white people because it's become pretty hard not to. There will also be a lot of people in poor countries who will relate to the experience of being brutalized by the police and see the US as increasingly like them. I'm Brazilian and I honestly can't really see how is the US any better than my country anymore and in my state I scarcely see the police with more than batons and only in Rio de Janeiro (where drug gangs hide in the mountains and the state government is run by the party led by a former military officer) is the police really comparable.

      Organizers might see that strength in numbers does little against FOX News and other media outlets so serious organization (proper mottos for example) might be taken more seriously.

      Black people might be energized enough by this to turnout at an equal rate to white people despite the institutional barriers, which hasn't happened since Obama.

      17 votes