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  1. Comment on Matt Gaetz withdraws as US attorney general nominee in ~society

  2. Comment on If our worst fears about Donald Trump play out, how will we know when it's time to leave? in ~society

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    I’m not saying we are the best out there or that our rights are unique to us, just that I like the ones we have and that I’m willing to ensure we keep them that said we are better than most places...

    I’m not saying we are the best out there or that our rights are unique to us, just that I like the ones we have and that I’m willing to ensure we keep them

    that said we are better than most places (maybe all) when it comes to freedom of expression.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on If our worst fears about Donald Trump play out, how will we know when it's time to leave? in ~society

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    The only thing keeping the world from global war is US hegemony, so I doubt there are many place you would be able to go to. For me I like this country and the rights we have. we have a republic...

    The only thing keeping the world from global war is US hegemony, so I doubt there are many place you would be able to go to.

    For me I like this country and the rights we have. we have a republic if we can keep it.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Thoughts on a Democratic postmortem in ~society

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    I think fundamentally religion in general leads to people being more susceptible propaganda, and we haven't done enough to ensure the separation on church and state. I'm not trying to single out...

    I think fundamentally religion in general leads to people being more susceptible propaganda, and we haven't done enough to ensure the separation on church and state. I'm not trying to single out any particular group.

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  5. Comment on Thoughts on a Democratic postmortem in ~society

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    I actually agree with your comment a lot, and yes as mention on my other comments I don't think the arab American vote had any significant impact but I still put forwards that there is a religious...

    I actually agree with your comment a lot, and yes as mention on my other comments I don't think the arab American vote had any significant impact but I still put forwards that there is a religious factor.

    When you have a Muslim leader saying they believe god saved trump at a rally, you don't think that's weird ? at the very least it's the same rhetoric of white Christians preachers and If I'm criticizing that I will also do it to this.

    https://youtu.be/tyORqhoGvAY?feature=shared&t=211

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  6. Comment on Thoughts on a Democratic postmortem in ~society

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    You read 1 sentence of my comment and think I'm laying the blame on religious minorities? I literately started the comment being critical of pastors. also being part religious minority doesn't...

    You read 1 sentence of my comment and think I'm laying the blame on religious minorities? I literately started the comment being critical of pastors.

    also being part religious minority doesn't give you a immunity from criticizing, and yes they are facing vary over racism and bigotry but a lot of them voted for guy that's being endorse by the KKK and literal Neo Nazis. You don't think that's worthy of even acknowledging ?

    And for the data while yes we still need to wait for the hard data it's not hard to infer. Dearborn, Michigan 2020 census had it at just over 50% Arab American majority. this is the current unofficial numbers.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/dearborn-michigan-trump-arab-voters.html

    Unofficial results released by the city of Dearborn show that Mr. Trump won 42 percent of the vote in Dearborn, compared with 36 percent for Ms. Harris and 18 percent for the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Thoughts on a Democratic postmortem in ~society

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    Not sure why you think I’m laying it at feet of Jewish leaders but I only included them because prominent Jewish people were speaking at the trump MSG rally, the same rally that had open...

    Not sure why you think I’m laying it at feet of Jewish leaders but I only included them because prominent Jewish people were speaking at the trump MSG rally, the same rally that had open antisemites speakers.

    it probably didn’t do anything in the grand scheme of things but current exit polls in NY has Jewish vote 50/50, with Hasidic neighborhoods voting overwhelmingly for trump in NYC.

    As for the muslim vote all current exit polls show muslim vote went trump or third party. We won’t know all numbers until months later but its looking like the more religious the voter were the more likely they voted for trump. Which correlates with the rise in Gen Z man higher rates of religion, and their more conservative beliefs.

    And yes I agree that the biggest problems are Christians and Catholics since they make up the majority of the country.

    My point is that people are going to churches temples etc and their religious leaders are telling who to vote for. And I’m being nice, go look up those televangelist calling Kamala the devil and trump the “chosen one” . It’s disgusting and clear violation of the separation between church and state.

    So yeah I’m blaming religion all of them.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Thoughts on a Democratic postmortem in ~society

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    Honestly but I think a big issue is religion, pastor are straight up preaching for republican candidates. And this time it transcended race or ethnicity, with Muslim leaders and Jewish ones both...

    Honestly but I think a big issue is religion, pastor are straight up preaching for republican candidates. And this time it transcended race or ethnicity, with Muslim leaders and Jewish ones both supporting trump and not to mention all the Catholics and Christians who are super socially conservative.

    How can the left compete with that ? If you truly believe in a god, why would you put the benefits of the country and other Americans over what your supposed creator mouth piece tells you?

    I’m an atheist so maybe I’m just pissed seeing people say this trump win was gods plan and other religious bullshit.

    Also let’s see who actually runs the country the next for years because I don’t see all those billionaires expending all that money to have the erratic trump throwing it all out of the window on a whim.

    26 votes

  9. Comment on 2024 United States election megathread in ~society

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    yeah I just saw that on NYT, was giving my fellow Americans too much credit I guess. How is Epstein bff winning the popular vote in the USA, I just don't know.

    yeah I just saw that on NYT, was giving my fellow Americans too much credit I guess. How is Epstein bff winning the popular vote in the USA, I just don't know.

    16 votes

  10. Comment on 2024 United States election megathread in ~society

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    Can't believe this is even this close. I hate living in historic times, like fuck it's been one shit after another since 9/11.

    Can't believe this is even this close. I hate living in historic times, like fuck it's been one shit after another since 9/11.

    27 votes

  11. Comment on NYPD officer lands $175K settlement over ‘courtesy cards’ that help drivers get out of traffic stops in ~news

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    Not sure why I expected real change.

    The deal brings an end to a lawsuit brought last year by Officer Mathew Bianchi that claimed he’d been punished by his superiors for failing to honor the cards, though the settlement itself makes no substantive changes to how the cards are used by NYPD officers.

    Not sure why I expected real change.

    38 votes

  13. Comment on US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals further narrows Voting Rights Act’s scope in ~society

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    I agree but they don't have to be the same size because hexagon tile to bigger or smaller hexagon. but really it's more that we need a template or math formula or something that regulates the...

    I agree but they don't have to be the same size because hexagon tile to bigger or smaller hexagon.

    but really it's more that we need a template or math formula or something that regulates the shapes politicians can use for their districts

    But yeah My Hexagon USA is most likely a bad idea :)

    6 votes

  14. Comment on US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals further narrows Voting Rights Act’s scope in ~society

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    Simple we can make the states hexagon shape too! but really the idea is more that districts need to be a regular shapes that you can get area using a simple math formula rather something like...

    Simple we can make the states hexagon shape too!

    but really the idea is more that districts need to be a regular shapes that you can get area using a simple math formula rather something like this.

    For ten years this was Ohio's 4th congressional district because that's how long it took for the courts to find it unconstitutional

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio's_4th_congressional_district#/media/File:Ohio_US_Congressional_District_4_(since_2013).tif

    8 votes

  15. Comment on US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals further narrows Voting Rights Act’s scope in ~society

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    Maybe I'm wrong and I'm certainly high, but gerrymandering wouldn't work is we just divided the whole country by a hexagons, basically all districts would be hexagon. The hexagonal sections can be...

    Maybe I'm wrong and I'm certainly high, but gerrymandering wouldn't work is we just divided the whole country by a hexagons, basically all districts would be hexagon. The hexagonal sections can be combine or subdivided as long as the district is a mathematically correct six sided regular hexagon, no one would be able to gerrymander it by redrawing the map to weird shapes.

    10 votes

  17. Comment on Epic's new game strategy for mobile stores in ~games

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    That's surprising, I expected that they would have made their games exclusive their own store.

    In exciting news, we are announcing that our mobile games will come to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and we expect to announce support for at least two other third-party stores soon.

    That's surprising, I expected that they would have made their games exclusive their own store.

    10 votes

  18. Comment on So what do political parties spend all that fundraised money on? in ~talk

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    Here in the US we have fec.gov, they keep track of that. You can search and see for your self but it's stuff like 800 bucks for lapel stickers/buttons and random shit like that.

    Here in the US we have fec.gov, they keep track of that. You can search and see for your self but it's stuff like 800 bucks for lapel stickers/buttons and random shit like that.

    11 votes

  19. Comment on US President Joe Biden announces that he will not run for re-election in ~news

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    Thanks for the work Joe but I had hope you had made this inevitable decision a year ago.

    Thanks for the work Joe but I had hope you had made this inevitable decision a year ago.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    That's good advise but I should have been more clear that I was referring on how surreal it is with people like Musk, taking their mask off and endorsing the orange, and how he is clearly boosting...

    That's good advise but I should have been more clear that I was referring on how surreal it is with people like Musk, taking their mask off and endorsing the orange, and how he is clearly boosting a lot of right wing comments and people to the top.

    8 votes