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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a white millennial woman the day after the election.
There's a sort of point there - you can be black and want representation but also obviously want it to be good representation in a way that Clarence Thompson, Ben Carson, etc. aren't.
But, like, Hillary Clinton is in no way a comparable example to that for white women. Or she shouldn't be, and that she is seen that way is due to some pretty deep-rooted problems.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 8th 2018 at 1:09:05 PM
Here's some unexpected welcome news: A federal judge has blocked further construction of the Keystone pipeline.
Edited by Parable on Nov 8th 2018 at 11:12:36 AM
I didn't really pay attention to US politics during the primaries, but Sanders annoyed the sh... out of me during the race and his supporters even more. I saw the danger that the left fighting with each other could get Trump elected. And since then I have realized that a lot of the Sanders support has been artificially created by Russian trolls.
I just HATE the "if they had picked Sanders Trump wouldn't have won" narrative, because as far as I can tell, it's not true. They would have just flipped the narrative and convinced the voters that Hillary was betrayed in favour of some old white man with some pretty sh... views on minority issues.
Anyway, I stumbled over the "the democrats are always finding additional ballots" narrative yesterday. Which makes me wonder about the Florida race. Maybe they should compare the number of registered voters with the number of votes cast. Because remember, what the Democrats are accused of tends to be what the Republicans are doing.
Also, can someone point me to a good website where I can keep an eye on the races left? Especially Florida....
Edited by Swanpride on Nov 9th 2018 at 1:14:37 AM
There's also the statement in the episode that white women don't have the same kind of sense of solidarity blacks do.
Phrased, "(Rich) White women hate each other." Hillary being a rich white woman attracted the ire of other rich white women.
Which I don't agree with but it's a comedy.
It's actually a subplot on Veep that Selena Myer (the protagonist) is hated primarily by white women as her biggest issue among voters. Being a mother, millionaire, family woman (which she sucks at but pretends otherwise), politician, and lawyer—the show says she makes them all spiteful rather than inspired.
But I don't understand why my mother, a Southern woman college professor, hates Hillary with a burning fury while voting for Obama two times plus Hillary's husband.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Nov 9th 2018 at 1:28:36 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Let's not get distracted here. Internalized sexism is a thing, and you are way more likely to find it in woman who grew up well-off and largely protected from the more live threatening effects of systemic sexism. Not to mention that the more fundamentalist Christians tend to be sexist and racist by definition.
It is beyond me how any women can vote for Trump but what gives the Republicans the win above everything else are white guys.
The Riddler in Arkham Asylum explained a lot about life when he said the key to dead baby comedy is simple, "It's not my baby." In this case, most women don't think of Trump's victims as them or their loved ones potentially so they don't care.
They're more threatened by the brown people.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.There's that, but the main issue with the media narrative for Trump vs Sanders would be that it'd be framed as capitalism vs socialism instead of Trump vs Clinton's "two people no one wants". Sanders would have been wrecked
Honestly, what Hillary might or might not have done doesn't matter, because she won't campaign again. But Sanders might. And I don't think that he should, if he cares about the US he should step back and support a Democrat from the middle of the party.
So...anyone knows where I can check the state of counting for the last seats?
