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    Not_mikey
    23h ago 80%

    And 7 times the margin of victory left the presidential spot on the ballot blank in Michigan, if stein wasn't on the ballot they would've just gone there. People did not like Hillary, blame her for that not stein.

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    Not_mikey
    23h ago 43%

    What do you mean by disappear? Did Joe Biden disappear after Trump was elected only to show up and run for President? No it's just that he didn't have a job in politics so the media didn't cover anything he was doing and he "disappeared". If it wasn't for the medias obsession with trump he probably would've disappeared in these last few years too. What do you expect a candidate whose not currently in office to do between runs that wouldn't make them disappear?

    She should work on building her party

    She does, but this isn't England there's no mass party system where there is much off election work to do. If your party doesn't have any representation then it's job is to get representation, and the only time you can do that is during election periods, especially big ones like the presidential season. Even party's that have representation do most of there work during the campaign season. The Democrats ramp up there work and engagement multiple times over leading into the election.

    Tear impressionable young left-leaning voters from a party that could win

    Kamala's Gaza policy did that, stein is just picking up people who wouldn't have voted any way or would've left President blank. The people voting for her aren't stupid, they know she isn't going to win, they're voting for her because they don't like Kamala and are trying to send her a message.

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  • It's unstoppable
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    Not_mikey
    3d ago 100%

    I'm doing my part to fight back, moved to California from Michigan and my girlfriend used to say pop ironically but she's said it so much now she uses it too.

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    I'm Greganent?
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    Not_mikey
    4d ago 100%

    I fail to see how this crime fighting measure involves more cops, guns and racism so I don't think you'll be able to convince the "tough on crime" "pro life" GOP supreme court on this.

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  • File clerks at elevator desks in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937
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    Not_mikey
    4d ago 100%

    He's just saying it'll be great when there's some management changes and you'll get promoted to chief Jewish inspector ... That is if you know German and aren't Jewish yourself.

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  • What podcast do you enjoy so much you binge old episodes of?
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    Not_mikey
    5d ago 100%

    Revolutions by Mike Duncan. It's a history podcast with each season about a revolution, American, French, South American etc. with a huge backlog

    Already listened through once but now I put it on to go to sleep, cause it's fine if I miss something now.

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  • Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein
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    Not_mikey
    6d ago 66%

    It's an enemy-of-my-enemy situation

    Thats the same situation that stein is in, and the wider pro-palestinian movement are in with white supremacists like David Duke. Yes they support your movement but have completely different worldview and in most cases opposing values and motives. The right thing to do in that case is what stein, and most of the pro-palestinian movement have done and call these people out for the trash they ,denounce them, and remove them from the gathering spaces. Granted Cheney is a different case then David Duke and it's up to each group to decide where to draw the line. I personally would draw it away from a plutocratic war criminal like Cheney.

    If not for moral principle then for strategic reasons, having those people around discredits you. Yeah the pro-palestinian group could gain a couple white supremacists but they lose far more support among the great majority of people who despise white supremacists. Yeah the dems could gain some of those Romney Republicans , but they're also alienating the people who hate Cheney and everything he represents. That ratio is obviously less one sided then the Nazi, anti-Nazi ratio, hopefully, but it's still a chance your taking on Cheney. I wouldn't take that since Cheneys popularity and legacy have tanked in value in the last decade.

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  • Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein
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    Not_mikey
    6d ago 79%

    If you think this reflects badly on stein ask yourself 2 questions, did he endorse her because she's also a white supremacist? Did she accept the endorsement?

    The answer to the first is probably no since stein is a Jewish women so I don't think she'd get along well with all the other white supremacists who think she's sub-human. The reason he endorsed her was because she's the only one who would end the war in Gaza and fight the "Jewish lobby". If your a Zionist and believe that any action against Israel is anti-Semitic then yeah stein and Duke are the same. If you live outside that delusional world then you'd recognize dukes dislike for Israel and steins, (and most of the worlds) dislike for Israel come from two completely different values systems and world views.

    The answer to the second is easier, No, her campaign rejected it and called him trash as soon as they heard about it.

    So does this actually reflect badly on stein, or is this just the ravings of an insane person who's trying to elect a Jewish woman to take out his imagined grand Jewish conspiracy? Critique stein if you want but this is nothing.

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  • Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein
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    Not_mikey
    6d ago 33%

    That explains why they support her, it doesn't explain why Harris is bragging about that endorsement and campaigning with him. Especially when her main message is saving democracy and he's the guy that actually stole an election.

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  • Harris Steps Up a Major Push for Black Voters
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    Not_mikey
    7d ago 77%

    This is just a small gift to the black bourgeois who make up a small portion of the black population and need help the least.

    What black people need is broad programs that help all people. Investment in inner City schools, free school lunch programs, affordable and public housing, Medicare for all etc. Black capitalism and neo liberal programs like this aren't going to help your average black person

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  • 'Totally illegal': Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism
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    Not_mikey
    1w ago 93%

    First off fuck trump and his authoritarian attacks on free speech. Even if the media is being misleading we need to protect it. He needs to be kept as far away from any position of power as possible, preferably behind bars.

    Also fuck CBS though, this wasn't him getting mad about them publishing a damaging story on him. It was about 60 minutes editing there interview where the actual clip shows Harris giving a completely incoherent non answer when questioned about netanyahu not listening and escalating the war, and replaced it with a slightly more coherent non answer about it. The media is supposed to speak truth to power and press candidates when they give bullshit like this on serious matters, not help them cover it up. If not for ethics then just to maintain there credibility. They don't deserve to be shut down or have there license revoked but they should be shamed and held to a higher standard.

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  • Mexico’s President Condemns Aggression on Gaza, Calls for Recognition of Palestine
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    Not_mikey
    1w ago 100%

    Yeah, and Vietnam should've worked on rebuilding there country after the war instead of taking out polpot.

    Genocidal regimes are a threat to all humanity and need to be fought against, especially when it's just a denouncement which costs nothing. It's not like they're sending billions to the area while the poor in their country go without food, like the u.s.

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  • Elon’s double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trust us, bro.
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    1w ago 100%

    I liked in his presentation how he mentioned how bad LA traffic was and how it takes hours to cross the city, then didn't mention how all these robo taxis, if they ever become a thing, would just exacerbate the problem.

    "Oh but while you wait in the deadlock traffic you can be on your phone instead of paying attention and stressing out" yeah, but I can also already do that on a bus / train and those actually help to alleviate traffic.

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  • Mexican mayor murdered days after starting job
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    Not_mikey
    2w ago 100%

    They might be only able to do those other things since they are able to pay an army to terrorize, intimidate and bribe local and state government's into allowing them to exist and set up these protection racquets. It takes a lot of money to be able to be more powerful then a government, I don't think selling avocados or logging could generate that much

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  • Nasrallah, Netanyahu agreed to a truce before Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader: Report
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    Not_mikey
    2w ago 91%

    Ismail Haniyeh , the Hamas leader who was assassinated in Iran a couple months back, was also pushing hard for a cease fire and was much more open to negotiating then the guy who replaced him who is pretty hard line.

    Netanyahu doesn't want peace and will kill anyone he can to keep this war going and keep him in power and out of jail.

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  • Comparative anatomy
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    Not_mikey
    2w ago 100%

    Kangaroos hop because they can store a lot of energy in there Achilles tendon and use that to propel them forward without using much energy. It's good for covering long distances over flat terrain while using as little energy as possible , which is good for the Australian outback as they hop between small patches of vegitation separated by miles of desert. It's not that good for ambushing or quickly chasing prey in a rainforest like the t rex is probably doing.

    There's also the issue of scale, a t rex's Achilles tendon would have to be stronger then steel cable and as stretchy as rubber to store and re use that much kinetic force from its weight.

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  • Kim Jong Un threatens South Korea with nuclear weapons
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    Not_mikey
    2w ago 83%

    What, does NK have some bizarre projection paranoia that SK will pour over the border like NK did

    I mean they did once the Americans started backing them up, hell if Truman didn't hold macarthur back he probably wouldve marched into china. The Korean war is a lot like the situation in Gaza where yes the north / Hamas did hit "first" ( although in both situations there was a background of low level war and skirmishes initiated by both sides) but the reaction to it was disproportionate and borderline genocidal, carpet bombing of the north killed far more people than the North's invasion of the south. You don't need nukes when you can destroy 85% of a countries buildings with conventional bombs. The North's fear of the south isn't just projection.

    Before someone calls me a tankie, yes NK is one of, if not the most oppressive regimes on this planet right now and shouldn't have nukes and Kim should be shot for crimes against humanity. I'm just tired of the framing that SK and the US were the good guys in that war. Syngman Rhee was just as authoritarian as Kim il sung, there were no good guys.

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  • First of all this isn't an anti-weed post, I use weed regularly and enjoy it. What I'm arguing against is occasional use, once a month or less, at that level your tolerance usually resets between uses. The thing they don't tell you in health class is tolerance goes both ways, you become tolerant to both the positives and negatives of use. For weed the negative im referring to is anxiety, though short term memory loss also goes down with more regular use. Whenever I take a break and then start doing weed again I get way too in my head and anxious which usually goes away after a couple sessions. This has also become worse with modern legal strains that have become way too concentrated. Dispensary edibles are a bit better since you can dose them easier but even then the longer the time in between uses the more likely you'll forget what's a good dosage. I see this a lot with friends who don't regularly do weed and they smoke with me, get way too high, have a bad time and then won't do it again for a while and repeat the cycle. So for those type of people I'd recommend not doing weed at all or doing it more regularly so you can keep your tolerance up. No shame in picking either but the middle ground kinda sucks. EDIT: a lot of people are saying get lower percentage strains or higher CBD ones, to that I'd say I wish I could. I always try and get the lowest percentage stuff I can find at the dispensary and that stuffs still usually in the high teens percent THC with less then a percent CBD here in SF. So I guess part of this is just a rant on how stupidly concentrated modern weed is and how it leaves little margin for error.

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    Political Memes Not_mikey 4mo ago 46%
    Russian trolls are everywhere these days
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