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Fetterman hit with brutal 108-point polling swing: ‘He is below the lowest of the low’

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Fetterman hit with brutal 108-point polling swing: ‘He is below the lowest of the low’ - Divisions by zero

> The polling showed that Fetterman was at +68 with Democrats in Pennsylvania back in 2023. > > “He was a Democrat liberal darling,” Enten said. > > That is no longer the case. > > “Look at how low he has fallen, down to negative 40 points,” Enten said showing the new data. “He’s down there with the Titanic among Democrats in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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fakero 22h ago

Congressmen (and women) should have a 2 year term limit max. Six years of doing whatever the hell he wants with no regard for his constituents is insane.

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givesomefucks 21h ago

Congressmen (and women)

Pedantic and off topic, but it would have been a shit ton easier if we just ate a masculine prefix and leave “man” as a gender neutral one.

Something extra douchey like “heman/hemen”, so that all the douches would eagerly use it.

And everyone can just go back to using “man” as a gender neutral option like most languages were built around.

So we could say “Congressmen” to describe humans in Congress.

Like, what are you even suggesting?

Congresswomen? “Congress women”? “Women who are in Congress”?

Do you understand why none of those make sense?

It’s because “congressmen” is already gender neutral.

“Mankind” literally includes everyone. Women, men, nonbinary, furries, saxophone players, your mother-in-law, literally every human

Why are you so hung up on genitals, that you insist they be brought up at every moment? How do you care enough to put that effort in, but never actually got pedantic enough to see what was correct?

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PoastRotato

Even more pedantic and off-topic, but this is actually how the English language used to work. In Old English, “man” just referred to a person, whether they were male or female, adult or child. If you wanted to refer to an adult male specifically, you would say “were”, and an adult woman was a “wif”. Eventually, male defaultism shifted the language such that “man” referred to an adult male, and adult females were called “wifmen” to avoid confusion, which eventually evolved into “women”.

Incidentally, we still see “were” used in modern English as part of the construction of the world “werewolf”, literally meaning “man-wolf”.

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givesomefucks 21h ago

but this is actually how the English language used to work. In Old English, “man” just referred to a person, whether they were male or female, adult or child.

It still does, and it makes no logical sense for ignorant people to keep trying to force a binary divide for a non-binary population.

Just use “man” for anyone, if someone’s demographic is ever relevant, that’s why we have adjectives in the first place.

It’s just weird when people have to shout:

And also people with vaginas!

Literally right after saying “everyone”. And it’s annoying because like most people who are the problem, they legitimately think they’re the ethical ones.