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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So here's a fun fact. How many people have endorsed Biden. as it turns out, a LOT.
It's one of the longest articles on wikipedia.
People tried, hell Jhon Oliver had a whole segment on how one of his biger supporters was the guy in charge of a company who made PPE and he tried to cash in on that with "Hey mister president I backed you and I make masks, surely you want to buy my mask, I get a return for suporting you and you get to look like a hero"
He was ignored, and says he supports Biden now as a result.
Oh and he tried this in Febuary too, before the whole situation had been made super political and in a way that would have let Trump come to every ones rescue instead...
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Yea the situation is that dumb
Edited by Imca on Nov 2nd 2020 at 9:03:00 AM
Some of the replies tell the reason why: Texas election law requires a building on Election Day, but not for early voting, so the one place still open for drive-thru voting tomorrow, the Toyota Center, can still be driven through and still be counted as a building.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."And 538 has frozen its predictions, 89.2% for Biden,
though I wish that number was easily visible somewhere on the page. Stop rounding!
Looking at what's been happening in Europe lately it seems like the tired old "Democratic Party would be rightwing in Europe" thing isn't actually true.
That's not even getting into what the politics in East Asia are like.
I'm honestly kind of weary of people treating East Asia as not mattering.
Edited by M84 on Nov 3rd 2020 at 2:01:05 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI didn't see this before: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Texas Republican's request in their appeal to completely shut down Harris County's drive-thru voting.
That's what's funny to me. Literally all fox news and Republicans do is accuse any democrat of being a radical socialist. Like that makes sense with Sanders and AOC becaus they own that label, but Harris? Biden? It's absurd. To be honest it's hard to tell how much of it is selling bullshit to their base and how much they of it they actually believe, but either way it's complete political illiteracy.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Nov 2nd 2020 at 3:10:27 PM
The Republican leadership seems to exist on projection and accusing people of what they are doing. So much so that I believe they are possibly a bunch of atheist pedophile Satanists who run a human trafficking ring and drink blood.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I actually had pretty jarring run with this recently. Remember that study that was posted about how the Republicans are closer to ultra-right authoritarian parties than typical center-right Western European ones?
Well, that same study also outlined how the Democrats compare. And even though they had data in their faces telling them that's not true I still saw people repeating this claim. It was a bit surreal.

Edited by Resileafs on Nov 2nd 2020 at 10:33:42 AM