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I'm an atheist because all religions are cults

I feel like you think this was an intelligent or insightful take.  Unfortunately, it’s pretty low hanging fruit spam of the neck beard variety.

Seriously. There should be an unofficial rule against crappy one-liners on this board.

The only people "set off" by this were deranged Trumpist idiots who spew dumb, sh*tty disinfo like faked gay relationships instead of ever saying anything meaningful. DePape & Paul had no relationship & the "something" that "set him off" was being a far-right conspiracy theorist, which he admitted to at his trial when he testified in his own defense with his words.

"Idan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!" - Sharon On-Siboni (Idan Oh's mother)

Idan's mother and father proudly support Israel and defended their son actions at UCLA, saying that he is heading to UCLA to join the IDF.

https://twitter.com/mouradanas2007/status/1791379679246750147

I am surprised they let you back on here. This board was much better the past few months without your useless commentary on Israel. Reading a lot of your posts just shows the way a lot of younger, leftists have been poisoned by propaganda in a conflict with quite a few ambiguities.

Let me tell you that it's hard to come back because this place has turned into a Zionist echo chamber, but I had to do it because everyone else willing to speak up for the Palestinians has been silenced.

Not to justify Milei's erratic and often childish behavior, but if Sánchez's own ministers are going to be the ones hurling insults at him first... can the Spanish government really claim a moral high ground here? I'm not that convinced myself.

sanchez did endorsed against him in the run off

We’re in a weird place right now where the national polls are looking better for Biden but the swing state polls are still looking pretty bad for him. However this looks to be the same polling outfit that showed close races in the rust belt trio.

I’m not skilled enough to offer a thorough explanation for this, but I still feel better about Biden’s chances compared to a few months ago.

It's not that hard to explain.

Democrats in 2016 and 2020 had a PV advantage. Clinton won the PV with 3% while losing the EV. So it would make sense that a narrow EV win for Trump would likely have a Biden PV win.

Especially since a lot of states keep trending D like TX long run and aren't going to return to Bush margins.

I don't know why people suddenly buy that the PV / EV discrepancy would suddenly disappear unless you really believe states like California will suddenly shift 15% to the right or something.

Secondly... it's not like Biden suddenly is ahead of Trump. Trump has a 0.9% lead on RCP vs Biden. If Trump really wins the PV by that margin, i don't even think the race would even be that close... as some think it'll be now. Basically puts MN and VA really into play, not that it really would matter though in the grand scale of things since all Trump needs is 270 electoral votes, not a PV win or MN or VA voting for him.

The only poll, which was a Democratic internal, had Trump up 3.

Yes, but coalition looks different. Trump would do better in DeKalb/Fulton/Clayton and outside Atlanta metro, but worse in places like Cobb/Gwinnett.

https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1792340425510211763

Edit: Yeah they're dead.

https://twitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1792348729858768951

Why do people all of a sudden seem to think the polls are picking up shy Trump voters who refused to answer the polls in 2016 or 2020?

Short answer:

Wishful thinking

The fact that he was a unifying figure

Dislike: Fanning the culture wars

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I like how you snipped out the other part of that post. After 9/11, he did unify the country, and I don’t think we would have that type of national unity, if such a tragedy happened today.

If true, Bush is largely the reason for that.

Take it from someone who was actually walking the earth when this happened: he took that "national unity" and turned it into a nightmare decade of racism, jingoism and the cynical destruction of the middle class.

Race relations arguably peaked in America from like 1998-2013 which means the Bush Presidency was the only presidency where race relations were at their peak throughout .

Also Bush made it clear multiple times that he supported being inclusive and condemned racism. The culture also was not racist either as I too grew up in that decade (though I was in 6th grade when Bush left office) and did not feel things were racist at all and when it comes to pop culture I find the criticism that shows like 24 were Islamophobic to be insane.