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He shot a woman for no good reason. That’s enough. People care more when bad things happen to women.
It’s why black folks being a larger share of people shot by police than their share of population is definitely racist but no one bats an eye at more than 95% of folks shot by police being men.
Biden is just as likely to win/lose as Kamala is, as is Bernie, and so on.
Thanks to ballot access deadlines in several key states, this just isn’t the case. It’s Biden or Trump unless one of them dies in the meantime. If you tried to field Kamala as a replacement against a living Biden, you’d end up with a number of electors under faithless elector laws required to vote for Biden despite him having stepped down to make way for Kamala, possibly enough to trigger a one vote per state decision.
I’m still of the opinion that Trump has gone way too far and there will be so many people coming out to vote against him, that he’s essentially running against himself.
You aren’t wrong about him essentially running against himself. It’s entirely about whether or not people who would vote against Trump actually go out and vote for Biden (or his replacement should he die) in sufficient numbers.
But it’s nearly always the GOP running against themselves, turnout is basically what decides US presidential elections. It’s just writ lager with Trump.
It’s also the most common rifle in the US, which is why it keeps showing up in various shootings that get media attention. They’re not super great rifles for any application, but they’re good for just about anything and designed to be modular so you can swap parts around if you need to.
That probably cost him a few votes, since he is now openly one of those gun grabbers who hates the 2nd amendment that the GOP claims all Dems are as a scare tactic.
and the other makes any criticism whatsoever of Israel legally antisemitic hate speech which again is largely going to affect leftist orgs but will also allow the board of education to strip funding and accreditation from colleges that allow pro-Palestinian protests.
Reading this bil…
This is the definition of antisemitism the bill adopts: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
Since the bill applies this definition to title VI, it would apply to any organization receiving federal funds subject to title VI.
Doesn’t count all criticism of Israel, you just can’t question it’s right to self determination, the validity or potential racism of a Jewish ethnostate, or levy any criticism that wouldn’t be leveled at literally any other nation in the same scenario. You also probably couldn’t speak Ill of AIPAC since that could be deemed demonizing Jews as collective.
Can’t strip college accreditation, could strip federal funding - basically they’d be stuck operating under the same kind of restraints a college that doesn’t want to follow title IX does.
I find it deeply amusing though that most of the people upset about this one would have been strongly in support of it prior to 10/7/23 as a move to fight white supremacy and neo-Nazis. If it was passed back then and been turned on students now it would have been a real “be careful what you wish for” moment.
Every election is going to be a “last chance” election until there’s another GOP win. Then either they were right, the Dems will learn and pivot to another tactic or they’ll lose several more times because losing the last chance and still having another “last chance” right on schedule makes you look especially dishonest.
Biden’s position on Israel/Gaza isn’t good, but it’s entirely expected. Israel is the only real US ally in the Middle East, which means the US is going to side with Israel pretty much regardless of what Israel does for strategic reasons if nothing else. The odds we’d do anything more severe than asking nicely if they’d maybe tone it down a bit while still giving them everything they want is functionally zero.
And that’s not really going to change regardless of who is president.