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It’s the top post on her feed, but it’s a set of images and the one featured is 4 of 6
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Can’t tell if this is parody or an alt 😄
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It’s more about letting people know the question is on the ballot AND in some cases where GOP fuckery happened, what a yes/no on the actual ballot question language means.
In fact almost all political advertising is much more predominantly focused on get-out-the-vote rather than changing minds (or at least it was 10+ years ago when I last was seriously involved at any level)
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Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)
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I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself. <sigh>
The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.
Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.
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Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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For those confused:
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It is if you’re old enough to know who the pic is actually of, or young enough to know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter actually are?
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Hmm, not sure how stubby fingers get “food” to “room” - especially as we know from your frequent misspellings and constant editing of your previous posts, you obviously disabled auto-correct.
And I didn’t imply anything, just asked a question as you seem to be constantly confused by common American English phrases - especially so for someone who is a native English speaker, and generally poor reading comprehension. “I don’t know what that means” is probably one of your five most common replies in comments.
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but meh, just some room for thought I guess
It’s “food for thought” - are you sure you’re a native English speaker? You seem to have big problems with both idiom and reading comprehension.
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You weren’t wrong - title is clickbait-y as hell.
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I don’t need to assume anything. You offer all the proof necessary with your pattern of behavior. Thanks, bud! Good luck with those resources I provided!
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Hey genius, I already did. I even provided visuals. Not sure what else I could do. You have pictures, you have a Wikipedia page. You either have the ability to parse a secondary school level explanation or you don’t. If you don’t, that’s on you.
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Okay, just so we’re clear, a page with less than a thousand words and requiring at best a high school reading level is beyond you?
I mean you regularly copy and paste walls of text almost as long as that in comments, but you can’t manage to derive the meaning out of a simple web page?
Did you have some sort of head injury or stroke?!
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That’s explained by the link below the comic. I’m sure you can work it out.
Oh, and you have a history with BYU anyway, right? So maybe this will help https://education.byu.edu/reading-is-lit-resources
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Slow your roll there, bud! Not sure I’m equipped to deal with that level of irony. Hell, I think you just violated the Geneva Conventions.
Sealioning in a discussion of your penchant for that type of trolling behavior?! Thanks for being such a genuine example - maybe we should just link to your account off the wiki for anyone needing an example?
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Of course you do. Lying and acting confused really wears thin. If you have the capacity to read and understand the articles you share, you have the capacity to read and understand the comic and the linked web page.
If you continue to profess that you don’t understand, I can only conclude that you can’t even read and understand the articles you’re sharing, and that you are somehow functionally illiterate. If that is the case, please let me know as I can send you some resources that can help.
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This isn’t a review of the show, it’s literally about the business side and how months after release, Fallout is continuing to gain viewers.
This could just be a journalist who noticed the numbers, but my guess would be a planted article from the show’s producers who are probably in negotiations with Amazon on what the shooting budget for the next season is and are looking at creating pressure to force Amazon to give them more money. This kind of thing happens all the time.
www.scientificamerican.com
> Platforms can also respond to misleading content that does not violate official policies using community-based moderation that adds context to misleading posts (like X’s [Community Notes](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/community-notes) and [YouTube’s new crowdsourced note program](https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-ways-to-offer-viewers-more-context/)). Larger platform changes such as [ranking content based on quality, rather than engagement](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941), might hit at the root of the problem rather being than a Band-Aid fix.
www.natesilver.net
Edit: had no idea “poll” was such a four letter word, especially when talking about them in the abstract. Anyone want to chime in on the downvotes? Is it just “all polls are bad” or is it Nate Silver? Honestly had no idea talking about poll weighting would be so unpopular. --- Since there’s always a lot of interest in the validity of polls, I found this to be interesting. It’s Nate Silver’s explanation of how they do weighting of polls when aggregating based on the pollsters track record. He makes it clear that the bias is often a result of the methodology and not necessarily a “thumb on the scale” and how the pollster executes a poll can introduce bias - and how they account for that. Many folks have issues with Nate, but he’s at least very transparent in how they account for bias based on previous performance, not just the poll source. So while you may disagree with his decisions, you can at least look at his numbers and know how they got there.
“Federal Election Commission records show Stein paid $100,000 in July to a consulting outfit that has worked with Republican campaigns, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid. The firm, Accelevate, is operated by Trent Pool. The Intercept reported that he appeared to be part of the mob that breached the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., 2021. The Journal hasn’t independently verified the reporting.”
www.theguardian.com
> Donald Trump has complained bitterly to Jewish donors that a majority of Jews vote against him in US presidential elections, suggesting that the Democratic party has a “curse on you”. This is more Laura Loomer bullshit, isn’t?
> “Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance said Wednesday that Haitian migrants with legal immigration status are “illegal aliens” who have been unlawfully protected from deportation, suggesting that would change if Trump wins the election.” Articles like this remind me of how absolutely fucked we are if these assholes win.
newrepublic.com
> “With membership at new lows and no electoral wins to their name, it’s time for the Greens to ditch the malignant narcissist who’s presided over its decline.”
> Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) renewed their efforts to bring ranked choice voting to U.S. congressional elections, reintroducing their *Ranked Choice Voting Act *. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) is introducing companion legislation in the Senate. > > The legislation would require ranked choice voting (RCV) in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028, allowing voters to express support for multiple candidates for public office, with the candidate receiving the most votes declared the winner.
“Asked how many members of the House of Reps there were, Stein guessed 600-some before hosts corrected her.”
www.bostonglobe.com
"According to FEC filings, the Synapse Group has worked for Republican Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination this cycle, as well as GOP candidates for Congress. Synapse has also been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for field and canvassing work by America PAC, the outside spending group started by allies of Musk that has spent millions of dollars this election cycle to boost Trump and oppose Democrats."
newrepublic.com
There is no KBSF-TV in San Francisco, and, according to a [BBC Verify investigation](https://x.com/shayan86/status/1831116960341348589?s=46\&t=CIY7fYccGpYmPpiAuYI8fQ), the original website that published the story was registered less than two weeks ago. The photograph attached to the article, which supposedly depicted the crash itself, was actually snapped in Guam in 2018. And the video of Brown—whom the article and video misname several times—also appears to be a deepfake. The x-ray images of Brown’s spine, allegedly taken after the accident, can be [traced](https://x.com/Shayan86/status/1831129794186035462) back to medical journals that have no relation to the supposed crash.
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A group called “Lion of Judah,” led by self-described Republican opposition researcher Joshua Standifer, is traveling the nation to recruit Christians to “key positions of influence in government like Election Workers.”
In light of at least someone around here announcing that they were switching from supporting the Green Party to the Socialist Worker Party, I thought it would be helpful to provide an introduction to the kinds of things that party believes in. This is offered straight from the party's official website without additional comment and it stands to reason that this viewpoint is endorsed by their presidential candidate Rachele Fruit.
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Robert Reich articulated something that has been bouncing around my head since 2016
newrepublic.com
>”This helps take away votes from Joe Biden,” the activist told one person at the rally, according to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by a *Washington Post* reporter. “We’re helping the Trump team who’s trying to get him on there,” added a woman by his side.
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