Ricki Yasha TarrI truly wish there was a way people could learn their lesson without the rest of us having to go to school.
Pistolenkind@RickiTarr Maybe they should just build the wall he wanted anyway, but with the Trump voters on one side and the others on the other. A kind of utopia/dystopia.
Patch You Up@Pistolenkind @RickiTarr Put all the non-voters and protest voters on the side with the Trump voters and I'm in.
RRB@Jumpmed @Pistolenkind @RickiTarr Arab voters in Michigan also voted for trump because they hate gays, too.
@rrb @Jumpmed @RickiTarr Some Arab voters, not Arab voters. And not because they are Arabs, but because they are religious fanatics. That is exactly what we should emphasize, not their origins. Fanatical Christians have the same hate fantasies. Let's not make it racist. Thank you.
@Pistolenkind @Jumpmed @RickiTarr Just kind of gets to me, because of the complaints about Democrat's position on Gaza, where the other side's position is "finish the job."
@Pistolenkind @Jumpmed @RickiTarr And, yes, the surest way to detect racism is somebody denying it. Myself included.
Andreas K@rrb @Pistolenkind @Jumpmed @RickiTarr
I don't know how often I pointed it out to idiots (or were they actually agents provocateurs?), it's either Trump (“the Israeli should do it properly this time”) or Harris (Trying to calm down the situation) in the US electoral system.
Sorry, for the Palestinians both options are bad, but one is clearly supporting their genocide, and it's not the Harris.
Carlos Augusto@Pistolenkind @rrb @Jumpmed @RickiTarr
On that note add SOME Latinos. I'll go ahead and say it CUBANS overwhelmingly helped to elect Trump. Data showed citizens with Mexican, PR, or Central American ties voted Harris.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188203/latino-vote-trump-harris-2024-election-data-breakdown
Mike@Pistolenkind @rrb @Jumpmed @RickiTarr That's 100% true, but it is also true about all of the generalized categories we put people in including white men and white women.
When 75% of a category acts in a particular way, it seems hard for people to recognize the other 25% (which when the category contains millions, is still a large number of people).
What it means is that if you encounter a random someone in that category, there's a 75% chance they're one of the people acting in that particular way. But you should still treat them as an individual and find out which they are.
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@Pistolenkind @rrb @Jumpmed @RickiTarr
We lump too many people together and give them a single motivation 😞
Statistically that may work, and it may help political messaging, but I hope we can do better in conversations here.
Getting off my soapbox now.
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econads@mlippert
You're not wrong my dude. It bothers me as well, and it seems something increasingly used also by progressives and the left, whereas in former times it was a mostly right wing thing. Or maybe I was living in a bubble.
Morgan ⚧️@rrb @Jumpmed @Pistolenkind @RickiTarr it seems much more likely to me, as a non-Arab queer person who did well in stats classes, that the left-leaning Arab voters didn't want to vote for someone who has promised to continue the genocide against other Arab people, and this skewed the results so the Trump voters were overrepresented in the voting population. But sure let's just assume it's that Arabs are all homophobic /s
Pomax@Jumpmed @Pistolenkind @RickiTarr if I may suggest a sea wall, with the Trumpist side of the wall being the ocean.