Social psychological theories suggest two necessary conditions for people to feel included. First, they need to simply belong to the larger group — as white people, men and Christians racists in U.S. society do. Second, they need to feel that their unique racist backgrounds are respected and appreciated within the larger group. Hence, people may feel excluded from a group when they feel unseen or disrespected for their racist backgrounds even if they belong to the group.

Fuck that guy. The Monday after he suspended his campaign, he filed paperwork in Kentucky to get on the ballot there.

In that it is evidence of the Republican party dissolving, yes.

Most often the electoral vote follows the popular vote. There has only been twice in history when it didn’t.

Wrong.

That’s not what’s happening here.

All of this is the Republican party dissolving. The “old guard” GOP is splitting from the MAGA-fascists, explicitly and publicly, not just in whispers behind closed doors or off the record and anonymously.

Imagine if the Republican party had split like this two years ago, actually forming up and running a “third party” candidate (I put that in quotes, because in this hypothetical, there would definitely be a fight about whether Trump or the postulated “old guard” candidate would be the “third party” one) in addition to Trump and (at the time) Biden. Splitting the vote like that would have the same effect, putting a Democrat back into the office of President, unless the combination would end up with no candidate reaching 270 electoral votes.

The same thing is essentially happening now, except there’s no third party. Instead of fielding their own candidate, that old guard is throwing in behind Harris. The message being sent is “That’s how bad we think Trump is, so bad that we’re endorsing the Democrat.” It’s permission for life-long Republicans - who have been well-taught to stay in line behind R candidates - to reject fascism.

Of course the Democratic party is going to support and amplify the GOP falling to pieces, and rejecting fascism is a good thing.

Well, it’s roughly based on population, but the inclusion of two electoral votes for each state “just for being a state” tips the scale in favor of voters in less urban, more rural states.

It’s more than that. When you accept the responsibility of acting as an agent of the state, your actions are those of the state. And we the people have a right to know what actions the state is taking, especially in policing, where those actions are far too often against us.

Going beyond that, bodycams protect everyone, both the public and the officers. Having spoken to police officers about bodycams, the good ones love them, because if someone decides to make a false complaint against an officer, they have bodycam footage to defend themselves with. One officer told me that the number of complaints went down after the introduction of bodycams, because the department would say, “Okay, we’ll pull the footage” … and a good number of those complaintants would suddenly vanish.

The only cops who don’t want bodycams are the ones who would be incriminated by that footage.

If you are on duty, and acting as an agent of the state, your bodycam is on. If you’ve invited your wife into your patrol car while on duty, your bodycam is on. If you’re “involved in a traffic collision” while on duty your bodycam is on.

You fascist fuck.

I don’t want to be grouped together with any of you.

Too late, you’re still a Nazi.

IDGAF what the bible says

10. Don’t copy entire article in your post body

“I wAs JoKiNg!”

Garland should never have been AG.

Garland was supposed to be a SCOTUS justice, blocked by McConnell, et al. When he was appointed AG, he exercised great caution to ensure that nothing he did had the appearance of “revenge” or selective prosecution. That behavior is absolutely necessary, but it wouldn’t have been if it wasn’t Garland as AG.

And this only matters to people who think that “whiteness” is somehow better than “non-whiteness.”

And this only matters to people who think that “whiteness” is somehow better than “non-whiteness.”

Seriously clickbait headline, WaPo. Schools are installing playgrounds where there were previously just open stretches of pavement that kids played on because they had no other choice.

Funny(?) …

I would use ‘funnily’ in that context.

As for the rest, the US actively supported China while the Japanese were invading. Doolittle’s Raid, for example, overflew the Japanese islands, dropped some bombs, and then landed in China, because they wouldn’t have had enough fuel to turn around and go home. China was essentially an ally in WWII.

Not yet.

That’s what the page has on it right now, that could very easily change to include ads, malware, whatever.

Note that OP (one hour old account as of this posting) has made several posts, all to this same domain. Time to block.