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Nathannah, 44 (she/her/them 🩷💛💜/🏳‍⚧). Way too much into women-focused shows and WLW couples, and just don't care about any show starring a guy. All here for middle-aged women, Paris Geller superfan that has their name on my license plate, and I adore Liza Weil and America Ferrera. Paris/Rory, Barbie/Gloria, Kara/Lena/Cat, Swanqueen all make me the giddiest, and I write fanfic that just doesn't want to end. Love all sports; Brewers, Rays, Packers, Bucks, Tigres, Mumbai Indians. Favorite artists are Sarah McLachlan, Holly Humberstone, Griff, etc.
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prokopetz

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Onion, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

(EDIT: Fixed a sentence incorrectly suggesting that Clickhole is still affiliated with the Onion – it totally slipped my mind that they'd sold it back in 2020.)

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anghraine

I was thinking about some 80s music, as one does, and was suddenly struck by the need to make a poll for one specific demographic I belong to: people born in the 1980s.

If your birthday song doesn't fit any of these categories, pick the one that fits best!

*Obviously I can't enforce this, but no, people born in late 1979 or early 1990 don't count as 80s babies for this poll, even if it was 1980/1989 somewhere in the world at the time, just not where you were born.

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If your democrat friends start muttering about stolen election conspiracy theories, the time to have a sit down with them and express your concerns is NOW, while you still have a chance to reach them, not 6 months from now when they're fully conspiracy-pilled.

Here's some of the talking points and why they're bullshit:

  • '10 million votes don't just disappear!' -> Joe Biden's 81 million votes were a statistical outlier, sparked by the recent experience of the Trump presidency. The democrats failed to maintain that sense of urgency, but Harris still got more votes than Hillary Clinton, more than Obama and more than any previous democratic candidate. These numbers are not weird at all.
  • 'The Republicans tried to infiltrate election- and vote counting organizations!' -> yeah, they did, and yet hundreds of independent legal observers didn't see anything go wrong enough to raise any alarms. Independent exit polls are also very consistently similar to the counted votes. Tons of international organizations specialized in this stuff observed the election and didn't see a reason to raise the alarm.
  • 'But I know a dozen democrats whose mail-in votes were not counted!' -> In any election a certain number of votes are registered as invalid because something was wrong with the ballot. In a country the size of the US, that translates to many thousands of votes. The internet allows these people to find each other, creating the false impression that a suspiciously large group of voted was not valid.
  • 'Musk used Star Link to mess with electronic voting!' -> Electronic voting machines are not connected to the internet and dozens of independent media have already debunked this myth. It is absolutely impossible to use Star Link to fake election results.
  • 'There is voter disenfranchisement!' -> This is true. This has always been true, for every election. It's an issue worth talking about but it's not a special secret conspiracy that's unique to this election.

But just as importantly as the facts: sit down with your friend and talk about the anxiety that's behind their conspiracy leanings. Acknowledge their pain and fear. Help them find ways to feel less powerless and regain their sense of agency. Take them to a mutual aid event, involve them in a fundraising event for a marginalized group, invite them to a local community effort. If they spend more time feeling connection and empowerment and less time doom scrolling online, they're far more likely to stay in reality.

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beskad

This this this

I worked as an election judge across multiple polling locations and election types in my state from 2018-2023 (presidential primary and general elections, midterms, and special elections like for the school board etc.)

US elections are extremely secure. There are so many safeguards in place. Everything is double and triple counted.

The number of ballots electronically counted by the box are checked against the number of physical ballots at the end of the night, and also the receipt papers that individuals exchange for their ballot. All three of these counts MUST MATCH. Sometimes you're off by 1 number and it means everyone stops and triple counts these papers until you find the error (human error, it's been 16 hours and two pieces of thin receipt paper were stuck together and the second person to recount finds it and everyone cheers because thank fuck, it means no one dropped anything on the floor anywhere.)

There are eyes everywhere and there's a deliberate mix of poll workers across political parties/affiliations. It's simply not possible to alter even 1 ballot at 1 polling place, much less thousands.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump won this election. If there was interference, it was NOT at the voting booth. That's simply not possible. The "interference" (if you can even call it that) comes from right wing propaganda convincing stupid and/or hateful and/or selfish people to vote for him.

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ralfmaximus

Reminder that twitter is now an informal, unregulated (i.e. warrantless) information source for Trump administration use.

The only people who should stay on Twitter are hardcore data poisoning enthusiasts. Never be within the same hemisphere of honest on there. If you think you would, even accidentally, admit so little as your actual composition of a single breakfast, fucking bail.

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embervoices

(There is a lot more. Rather than give you all the images, I've copied the full text below.)

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snailchimera
  1. This is actually the most hopeful thing I've read since the election. It's hard to believe we'll all be okay just because we're full of spite or we're on the right side of history. It's easy to believe Trump and his administration is a pile of venomous bucket crabs in clownshoes.
  2. Take that part about grifters and amateur analysts on the left seriously. Scam artists take advantage of panic and desperation, and a lot of us are feeling panicked and desperate. Also, when people are panicked and desperate, their critical thinking skills suck and they don't necessarily come to logical conclusions even when doing their best. God knows I've fallen for scams and dramatic worst case scenarios. The most important thing is to check your sources and be suspicious of dramatic appeals to emotion (though dramatic appeals to emotion don't mean something is false, either).
  3. Isolation fries your brain. I know there are lots of ways to wind up trapped in an isolating situation, but reach out to other people- preferably multiple groups of other people- any way you can. Volunteering is a good way to do this.
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I do love when an absolutely terrible troll decides to write a Lit fic with rape in it and immediately orphans their AO3 account because they don't actually want to face any accountability for their words. 😒

It doesn't even have a good trollish description (it's called "Rory's First Time" to just add to the utter lameness), it's just Jess tells Rory he need help with homework, but he has something else in mind. Like...oh yeah, completely triggering, enjoy the upcoming hate you'll get.

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I think I...flirted today with the trans girl cashier at Menards? She was cute and she connected with me regarding the burnt dark chocolate flavor of Resse's mini cups after checking out a MAGA construction crew dude and asghagshygd I wish I was presenting as a woman there.

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klapollo

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

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