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@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

  • Trump’s Pennsylvania event ends after audience fainted.

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  • I keep seeing people say this – do venues typically charge separately for air con? I’ve booked venues for large events and have never been charged separately for utilities.

  • Trump’s Pennsylvania event ends after audience fainted.

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  • I love how this headline seems to imply the entire audience fainted. I’m picturing them going down like dominoes as he does his weird, robotic, old man jive for 30 minutes.

    Also, I watched the video – was he trying to conduct that first operatic song? That whole mood was weird, especially how the songs careened from slow downers to upbeat and back again. Very odd playlist, that.

  • Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein

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  • I don’t know about you, but I’m saving this post for future citations.

  • Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein

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  • Hahahaha. Of course he did.

    Can we all finally agree that supportingJill Stein is being the 11th person at the table?

  • Harris to sit for interview with Fox News this week

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  • 1: She’s an ex-prosecutor. She can handle whatever they throw at her.

    2: It makes her look stronger than trump, who is refusing appearances that might even slightly challenge him.

    3: Though Fox is a fascist propaganda network, it’s still the main network watched by older ‘moderates’ and is passively consumed by the non-political and apathetic, by nature of it being constantly on in pubs, hotel lobbies, hospitals, and scores of other public places. This will be seen by people not actively trying to watch it.

    This is a smart move.

  • Trump does not deny speaking with Putin in 2021.

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  • I posted this just after the debate last month:

    Calling it now:

    Since there’s not enough time left for him to recover from this brutal ego bruise, I predict he’ll only do rallies from now on, or appearances on far-right media, because he’ll retreat to his snowglobe for reassurance for a while. He’ll avoid addressing Kamala directly, but he’ll ramp up his own network and rile up his mob. His team will struggle to rein him in, and some appearances might be cancelled.

    I’m not a prophet – he’s just that predictable.

  • Trump Abruptly Cancels Another Mainstream TV Interview

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  • I did, yes. I was just commenting on the crowd’s reaction of singing a national hymn at them, and how that reminded me of revival meetings. Yes, he’s famously cheap.

  • Trump Abruptly Cancels Another Mainstream TV Interview

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  • Did they actually, medically faint, or did they do that Evangelical Revival ‘faint’, like the ‘spirit’ overwhelmed them? If 2 people medically fainted, it seems like something was wrong with the venue (too many bodies, not enough air con), but based on the crowd’s response (eta: singing God Bless America at them), it kinda feels like the latter.

  • Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says

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  • Quest 2.

  • Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server

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  • You may feel you have addressed my questions, but you haven’t, and your assertions haven’t held up well thus far.

    I really recommend you step back and look at your views with a critical eye – forget anything I or anyone else has said, and really look at who you are without preconceptions or bias. That’s not very easy to do, but you seem the type who could do it.

    I’m done for now. I’d be interested to talk with you after you’ve done this, cheers.

  • Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says

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  • It’s actually an infrared light because I keep my room dark and my VR headset doesn’t like that. It works pretty well. :)

  • Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server

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  • Look, it’s become obvious your sources are biased and you won’t consider anything I say, so this is a pointless conversation. I’m done wasting my time and energy sourcing my comments with real data and being met with unsourced right-wing propaganda or TikToks.

    If you want to actually have your views matter in future elections I’d still strongly recommend you look into FairVote Action rather than getting angry at people online.

  • Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server

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  • You need to provide better sources. Your first source is highly suspect, and the only source I can find that remotely support your numbers is the Heritage Foundation , who have a long track record of outright lying to scare conservatives (and it’s still far lower than 10% of the Cuban population, which would be nearly 2 million, but the total number of applicants – not all of whom were accepted – since 2020 is roughly 500,000).

    Your final link is a TikTok? Holy shit.

  • Can ire over abortion ban finally put a Democrat on the Texas Supreme Court?

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  • I had a couple of posts open and replied this to the wrong one. Sorry, my comment is completely irrelevant here.

  • Damning video shows Roger Stone is plotting a coup for November

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  • This piece of shit, plus the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and a handful of others. He’s basically their mercenary.

  • Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server

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  • Kamala Harris is unpopular.

    You keep saying this, what’s your source?

    The border is not open. Again, source? The border has never been open. The closest the US has come to an ‘open’ border was during Ellis Island and when it erected a huge statue that said:

    Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

    Do you disagree with those words, engraved at the feet of the Statue of Liberty?

    The borders are not open. Most of the people you hear about that come through the southern border (and there are far fewer than right-wing media scaremongers about) are refugees, which are immediately directed to official offices that the US is required by mutual UN treaties to accept and process. Again, you should look into this more before getting angry about it.

    Biden’s student loan relief is being repeatedly fucked by Republicans in Congress. That should take you two seconds to see. Haven’t you noticed it being on and off just within the past week? They’re intentionally making it a campaign issue to fuck with people exactly like you.

    I completely agree with you about Israel. I hate this stupid holy war. But the Republicans want it to be far worse.

    Biden has not made inflation worse, that’s just ridiculous. The economy is as nimble as the Titanic, and we’re still feeling the ramifications of trump’s inane economic policies. The US is experiencing far lower inflation than the rest of the world right now, in large part due to the course correction over the last 3 years. Take a course on US and global economies and get back to me.

    The rest of your comment shows me you haven’t listened to a word I’ve said, and shows you to be a dishonest interlocutor. I’ve spent a lot of time here engaging with you, with honesty and diligence, and it’s becoming clear you don’t have the respect or maturity to reply in kind. If you don’t have anything productive to say in response, I think we’re done.

  • Can ire over abortion ban finally put a Democrat on the Texas Supreme Court?

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  • Biden brought it up briefly and I think it made the news cycle for one day before trump said something insane to throw red meat at the rabid press, but it’s fully possible t o expand the SC.

    That’s what needs to happen. It’s been expanded before. The SC originally had 6 seats: one for each of 6 federal court circuits. In 1807 it was expanded to 7 as another district was added. In 1837, two more seats were added, again to correspond with 2 more districts.

    There are now 13 federal court districts, so by precedent there should be 13 SC seats. Expansion of the SC is long overdue (no surprise, because conservatives have been opposing expansion since 1937 when Roosevelt proposed another expansion).

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  • Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server

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  • How am I moving the discussion? I’m directly addressing your comments, which so far have had nothing to do with the candidates’s policies, but about Harris’s ‘popularity’ and ‘nepotism’.

    If you want to talk about real issues, I’m all ears. I gave you the elevator pitch you asked for. Now let’s hear yours.