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Past performance isn’t a guarantee of future results. Trump changed things in meaningful ways among those electorates. More Importantly, Hilary lost all three of those states in 2016. Also, I meant Michigan not Ohio

Democrats have raised $30M already online today in the few short (6-ish) hours since Biden’s announcement. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/us/politics/bidens-exit-democratic-donations.html

Not the US, per se, but in the critical 3 electoral votes of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania it would be a problem for sure. I am anxious for the same reasons in those same states for Kamala’s chances. Female AND nonwhite = Trump sweet spot for opposition. I liked Pete when I met him in the primaries, though. He has a good future ahead and may be a good counter to JD Vance even if not selected this round.

California has the most delegates and they’re being pressured to come out strongly and immediately in support of Harris (esp since it’s her home state) They want momentum today to avoid the chaos of a brokered convention ahead.

Believe you meant btw a MAGA place and Kid Rock

I think you’ll find AI deepfakes of him will continue motivating the worst parts of us for many more years to come well after his passing IRL

WTaF?

Getting?

These don’t generally come with snide shitty remarks toward kind folks like you genuinely trying to help, but it’s your time to waste not mine so thanks for responding and informing

Quite likely on purpose, much like trolls do

AFAIK, nobody on staff here has anything close to code level access and the forum like nearly all others runs on a platform allowing only basic on/off style configuration settings in the Admin panel. Summarized: Even with a desire to improve the experience, we're probably left to simply deal with it and move on with our day. Obviously, would welcome being proven wrong by those closer to this particular boards features/functionality as my own experience on other boards surely isn't universal.

It’s difficult using reason and logic to change the mind of someone who arrived on their position using neither. Be wary arguing with those who feel god saved one man from a shooter but keeps ignoring classrooms full of innocent children facing that same foe. Also, this is the humor thread and this shit isn’t funny

An exception to presenting your key points here? What a ridiculous request

It’s surprised me how common and easy it is for folks to blame people not part of their ingroup. How easily they believe the too easy childish faux answers even when they lack any connection to accuracy. It’s also surprised me how existing powers and entrenched interests have managed to maintain their power and prevent the sorts of change we need to address the things which are scaring us all. There are many such examples, but for me mainly that’s climate change. It’s existential, yet here we are 30-50 years later still arguing with idiots about whether it even exists and with no coherent strategies to address it as a species at the scale we need. Migration will increase as droughts and floods keep intensifying, and the anti migrant sentiment that comes with those changes worries me. Hate is too easy and people seem to like easy, a situation made worse given how easy we are to control when we’re angry.

Maybe, but no.

Attendees at the RNC convention have begun wearing bandages over their ears. They seem to be using Idiocracy as a user guide instead of a mockumentary.

War-wise, the stalemate ends if US politics turns against and ceases support. See also: Why Ukraine was falling behind so much in first half of this year due to US Congressional Republicans blocking funding and arms transfers to help them. I hold the contrary view here. I think it was his best pick. In context of the US electoral college, the outcome of this race in 47 of our 50 states is already predetermined for whether Trump or Biden will win. Everything in this election cycle will fall entirely to Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as the fulcrum for this decision, and all three of them are well within the margin of error as currently being a tie between the two men. Vance appeals to all 3 of those states in very big ways given his background being extremely poor and understanding how meth and fentanyl and outsourcing of manufacturing jobs have crippled those regions. He speaks eloquently, lies calmly, debates strongly, he is well connected and has his finger on what's happening with rich powerful tech-bros, and regularly manages to put a pretty red bow around the bloody red meat Trump so often sells to amp up supporters of the worst parts of our humanity. Vance's appeal in these three critical electoral college states is only further amplified given that he's currently the sitting Senator for one of them, a Senator who's repeatedly won elections there. And even if they lose, he's now positioned as the heir apparent for MAGA for the next 4 decades. US presidential elections aren't about who's most popular or unpopular across the country. They're about who wins an extra coupla hundred votes in 6 or 7 counties in industrial mid-west states.

Whatever. You have some odd idiosyncrasies, appear to be engaging badly in various forms of subterfuge with likely less than pure motivations, and my attempt to help despite all that was clearly a waste of time. Peace out

Get a proper password manager. Use different IDs across every service. Make your ID a long string of gibberish characters. It’s lazy to do otherwise and barely inconvenient given the added protection. You know. Or don’t. Let yourself be an easier target and THEN learn the true definition of inconvenience while you work to fix and cleanup future breaches and identity thefts.

Don’t be

“I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other,” Senator Vance has said.

He'll get the full Lazarus treatment this week at the GOP convention, and the religious undertones will be significant (bc how ELSE other than a cloud surfing deity could he have possibly have been missed by a kid who used to be called a "laughably bad shot" when he was in school?)

Biden addressed the nation and the world from the Oval tonight, another thing we’d never see his opponent do were the roles reversed

Same