At least if people wear those handmaid hats to the protests that should help skirt the facial recognition systems.

The majority of White women voted for him 53% to 45% (not sure what percent of those are in the evangelical christian demographic).

Women overall voted against him 53% to 45%. Funny how those numbers were the exact opposite. Anyway it was a smaller margin than Dems were hoping/expecting from women.

source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls

Same, late Tuesday night.

Ah yes, the gamers. Thanks. :)

Tell me that what isn’t the case? And what’s the meaning of CoD? I can’t tell if you’re agreeing or disagreeing.

And also, never, EVER tell me again that racists and misogynists are only old people.

In order of who got what they wanted:

Men

White christian nationalist men and women

Latino men

Young men

Basically, men and brainwashed women who believe they should be subservient to them.

Can these people just have their rapture already and leave us to get on with our lives?

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/

I like Theravada because it is closest to simply the Buddha’s teachings without a lot of other side stuff that is found in some of the sects. The thing that has helped me the most is learning to allow emotions to happen but not react to them by going off on a long chain of destructive thoughts, which trigger more bad emotions in an ongoing cycle.

Meditation helps you learn how your own mind works. The idea is just notice that the thought or feeling happened and go back to concentrating or observing (depending on the type of meditation you are doing). Eventually you notice them when they happen during normal activity and can just let go of them without reacting.

Ok, but why not this but directed at hereditary wealth?

Because they (Trump and propagandists both foreign and domestic) used the migrants and immigrants as scapegoats, which is the same as we will be seeing as more and more European countries also fall to fascism. It’s human nature that their followers blame the scapegoats as the cause of all their problems, and adore the wealthy as their betters who should be in charge.

Dems held no primary, Biden strong armed his way into the de-facto nomination for a second term, and was replaced by his VP when he imploded on the campaign trail.

Wrong., Dems held their primaries as usual, and Biden won them as the incumbent (almost) always does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Of course he shouldn’t have run again, but he did. Maybe some other Dems should have challenged him in the primaries, but they didn’t, and they would have failed anyway. By the time he dropped out there was no time to hold another primary and still get a campaign going for a new nominee. So pretty much all they could do was rally around the VP as the successor.

The ones who voted against him understand well how it happened. The ones who voted for him never questioned how, because it never entered their minds to care.

I suspect the main purpose of those laws was to handle the increasing problem of elder abuse.

There’s no reason to assume the troopers in the meme are supposed represent the Democratic Party? Could be a magat or maybe his owner Putin petting him in that meme.

Personally I’m glad to see that so many states make a distinction (hopefully with harsher consequences) for battery against older people, because of all the stories I’ve seen this week about magats punching old people. I haven’t seen any stories about them punching the ones who would be able to put up a fight, funny how that works.

How can a felon be a presidential candidate but another felon can not vote for him?

Easy. Laws do not apply to the rich and powerful.

Why do people make comments only on the headline without reading the article and commenting on that? The article *specifically refers to *“American democracy”. It then goes on to reference other specific democracies for comparison.

Headlines shorten things and usually aren’t written by the person who wrote the article anyway; they sometimes don’t even reflect the article contents accurately. If you don’t want to read the article, fine, but please don’t make comments based only on the headline.

I suggest watching the entire video from GA State Rep. Ruwa Romman that is embedded in the article. Not so much for her reasoning about why she is voting for Harris, but for her comments of how to accomplish things politically in this country, how it works, how to actually move the country forward bit by bit. It’s hard and takes work and time but it can definitely be done, and her thoughts about the Green party, how it doesn’t do those things and thus never accomplishes anything.

Apparently no one in the comments has been paying attention. She’s been saying these same lines about Gaza since the convention speech.

Bullshit, she’s been saying basically that same sequence of lines, starting with the convention speech (maybe even before but I don’t remember), at rallies and in some interviews. I think her saying it with protesters shouting at the rally made the media hype it up a bit more, but what she said yesterday is pretty much the same lines she’s used on the topic the whole campaign.

The only variation has been the first few words. She started out with “Now is the time to …blah blah blah” to “I will work hard to … blah blah” to now “I will do everything in my power to …blah blah”. After that intro phrase, the rest of the lines have been the same every time.