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  • 'Damning' New Poll Shows Price Kamala Harris Paid for Backing Israeli Genocide in Gaza

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  • I don't see how an error in a news article reporting on a poll done by a separate organization invalidates the results of that poll

  • 'Damning' New Poll Shows Price Kamala Harris Paid for Backing Israeli Genocide in Gaza

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  • 'Damning' New Poll Shows Price Kamala Harris Paid for Backing Israeli Genocide in Gaza

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  • The poll doesn't say 19 million anywhere

    It also addresses issues raised in your edit (e.g. "Across the six battleground states that flipped from Biden to Trump, 20% of these voters said “ending Israel’s violence in Gaza” was their top issue in deciding not to vote for Harris, the second-most cited reason behind only the economy (33%)." - to your point about how they didn't discuss the economy).

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  • "Not enough of you ungrateful assholes voted for genocide, the end of stimulus checks, corporate subsidies, more police funding, etc., so now you all can rot in hell while we go on speaking tours of fancy universities where everyone will tell us how brave we are."

  • Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?

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  • I don't think we're the only land of hypocrisy out there (like, listen to Russia talk about how they're the real protectors of human rights, or China say other countries are threatening their national security, or Mexico complain about cartel violence while letting their police do whatever they want, or Israel do so much shit I don't know where to start), but, yeah, a lot of us are brainwashed as hell, and our government is completely full of shit whenever it's scolding anyone else about human rights, international law, the climate, etc.

    i find it beyond funny that we support israel because 'they were there first', but if you mention that maybe the american indians should rise up and take their country back you get very different responses.

    Yep, and also the fact that there's such a vocal anti-migrant movement here after almost all of our ancestors in immigrated here is completely absurd

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  • Yeah, actually that's a really important point, plus between the insane amounts of essentially anonymous propaganda that's been unleashed on us through Citizens United and all the state government voter suppression laws that were allowed by Shelby County we've really only been a quasi-democratic society at best for most of this. Americans aren't uniquely terrible people compared to the citizens of any other country, we've just got some incredibly shitty rich people who ran the table on political power.

    e; forgot to rest of my thought

  • Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?

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  • Hard disagree, Republicans wouldn't do so much voter suppression bullshit if it didn't have any effect. People who don't vote are almost always being oppressed in a variety of different ways.

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  • And this isn't even the first clown shitshow of a government we've voted in this century

  • Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

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  • Charge them for their criminal conduct (e.g. taking bribes), arrest and jail them, impeach them, convict them, and finally imprison them. After that, we should think about reforming the way we select our federal judges and adding seats to different benches.

  • Biden is withdrawing his broader student-loan-forgiveness plans that were set to cancel debt for over 38 million borrowers

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  • Yeah, what's really frustrating is that I'm sure a lot of Biden supporters honestly understand how much of a complete and total failure his administration was (because like how could you not), but they will gaslight insult and alienate everyone and let the whole fucking country burn to the ground before they ever once admit it

  • Biden is withdrawing his broader student-loan-forgiveness plans that were set to cancel debt for over 38 million borrowers

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  • Biden drug his feet as long as possible on doing anything then only made on single token the gesture because he knew the court would instantly undo it and then he could pretend he tried (a court he never supported reforming in any meaningful way, not coincidentally).

    If he actually gave a shit he could have ordered the debt discharged before courts had any opportunity to involve themselves, or could have at least tried multiple different orders (like how Trump was willing to do with his travel bans), but the fact is Biden never actually wanted to deal with student debt because he worked most of his career to build this system and thinks it's a good way to keep young people from getting too uppity.

  • Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

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  • They didn't matter with Garland in charge and that's at least as big of a problem. Whoever manages to remove Trump from office needs to finally hold the whole criminal apparatus that has propped up the Republican party for decades accountable.

  • Biden is withdrawing his broader student-loan-forgiveness plans that were set to cancel debt for over 38 million borrowers

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  • Yeah, Biden's team never wanted to do any of this and never put any real effort into making it happen so now we're hear. In any sane world this implosion (along with the FAFSA disaster and a million other things) would be the end of the conversation about why younger voters haven't been supporting Dems at the rate we need, but I'm sure some jackass on MSNBC will say something fucking idiotic and insulting about misinformation on tiktok or something anyway.

  • What is your favorite radio show?

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  • Pretty sure you can listen to most radio stations online from anywhere

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    What music do you know that is malaise-y (characterized by malaise)

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  • 100%, I found Silver Jews American Water years ago and listened to it a million times but then kind forgot about them, and only found out about this project after seeing a news article along the lines of "former lead singer of Silver Jews kills himself, he'd recently released a solo album that in hindsight looks like an incredibly obvious cry for help, he was friends with the guys in Pavement and other more famous and well adjusted people, etc."

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  • Incredibly so, sometimes I almost feel weird for sharing it because it is such a black pill of an album, but it's just such a perfect encapsulation of long term depression and beautiful and fucking funny, I can't help but adore it

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  • AOC's colleagues already floating a future leadership bid

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  • There are a few words in this article I hope are entirely hollow

    [AOC] was pressed, for instance, on her support for primary challengers to fellow House Democrats during a Steering and Policy Committee meeting on Monday and promised to discontinue the practice.

    This is the exact wrong thing to be doing and not something she can compromise on

  • A Good Foundation

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  • Nah, the whole album is excellent, but track 3 was what put me on a path beyond my parents' classic rock collection and towards getting into things like Cut Chemist and J Dilla

    The Great Gig is gorgeous, but On the Run changed my understanding of what music could be