it's not 20-30% of them, it's +20-30 net percentage points which means a majority or at least plurality want it (eg if 60% of ppl support it, 30% are against it, 10% don't know, then 60% - 30% = +30 pts)
looked up his religious beliefs and it seems he's an atheist/agnostic who subscribes to christianity solely for the vibes and his western world fetish
Elon Musk announced that he's a “big believer in the principles of Christianity” and “a cultural Christian”. Musk's reasons are moral and political – he believes Christianity can boost both happiness and birthrates.
the other day my 70s born dad got pissy when i asked him if movie theaters had color when he was a teenager
she's an immigrant who was raised by muslim refugee parents, definitely about to be fodder for swiss fash who'll ignore the fact she's agnostic
phone or work phone that gives email notifications? i feel like that'd be a lot more convenient seeing they could wait 5 minutes vs having to immediately drop whatever they're doing for a call
he's definitely not losing in every swing state, most of the polls are super close to margin of error and trump's gotten several leads. 538 simulates their odds of winning the electoral college:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
right now they give trump a 44-in-100 chance of winning. that's basically a coin toss, and it looks like his odds improved a bit in the past week
for comparison, before 2020 election day they gave biden a 89-in-100 chance of winning and in 2016 gave trump a 30-in-100 chance
supporting a ceasefire does not at all mean you're pro-palestine. most EU countries voted for the UN deal months and months before all while supporting israel. plenty of zionists want a conditional deal where israel's hostages are returned and palestine's colonial subjugation and apartheid continue, just not as overtly.
found a poll from this week that 60% of americans support continuing military aid to israel. and you can't assume the 40% against it are against it on principled grounds, many of them are simply isolationists who don't want their taxpayer money going to other countries
thanks, and yeah it's kinda like my brain is running 80mph instead of 100. ngl, i'm a little underwhelmed because i saw all these posts "first time i took adderall my inner monologue was quiet for the first time and i cried," "i was able to do a chore without repeating it in my head 40 times," "i finally felt present and out of my head when talking with someone," etc
not expecting a miracle pill and i know i have to apply myself too, but everything is very subtle and i only feel slightly less scatterbrained. my psych said i seem to have severe ADHD but she wanted to see how it affected my anxiety and insomnia first (all of which it's minorly helped), so now i have to wait another 2 weeks to talk about raising the dose. wish i'd started this earlier but oh well
also a couple frat boys tried to recruit me which surprised me because i dress somewhat alternative and they all look like clones. one gave me his insta and he had a group photo of like 25+ people where every single one of them was white despite our school being 50% poc, like wtf?
also very depressed rn. i transferred universities and this is my first week at a much bigger school than my last one. pretty intimidated cus i dont really know people here, and i'm in the sophomore dorms where it seems like everyone already knows each other and has their established groups :/
i went to a transfer meetup thing yesterday and got a couple instagrams and talked with someone for a little while, so that's promising, but now idk what to do. kinda wanna hang out again but i don't wanna come across as desperate dm'ing him at least for a couple days. he mentioned a rock climbing thing which i think i would be into.
club fair starts on wednesnday so hoping to meet people there but so far i'm feeling extremely lonely this weekend and a constant fomo. nervous i'm not going to make connections this year because i'm either too awkward when i'm anxious or too chatty when i'm comfortable
went on a starting dose of ADHD meds a couple weeks ago and they've been helping my social anxiety a good bit and maybe calmed my brain 20%, defo helping more than any anti-depressant meds ever have, but i'm still overthinking how things will go here at almost every moment and probably will be doing that all weekend. kinda just wish i could have a normal brain for once
i was 13 in 2017 and back then when getting to know each other, we'd ask each other normal things; favorite rapper or artist, favorite sports player, favorite youtuber, etc. ik someone who works with younger teens now and says one half-jokingly asked the group "favorite male model," and several boys said "chico" and someone went on a bit how his cheekbones, facial harmony, hunter eyes, canthal tilt, whatever are "perfect," and someone else was arguing his favorite model mogs him.
these kids deadass make/watch tiktok looksmaxxing edits of male supermodels they admire and/or envy. it's usually partly ironic and they laugh around when they talk about these things but obviously they still seem to buy into it, seems like boys now are insanely more obsessed and conscious about looks than they used to be, often to the point of dysmorphia. their judgements on face features also feel like just straight up racist phrenology
that's when they peaked. 2nd biggest economy in the world, even more than the USSR. now theyre like 4th or 5th
subconsciously liberals almost always seem to avoid language that seems too "forceful," even when it comes to basic human rights. insisting on any means is authoritarian and something the trumpies do
they must vote, pray, and compromise (their dignity). when it doesn't work out, they blame disillusioned non-voters and go into waiting for the next election, where they'll proudly choose the oligarchs that promise stagnation over regression every 2 years for the rest of their lives and wonder why everything keeps getting worse
cringing imagining this middle aged ivy elite square drafting this trying to come off as cool and nonchalant
probably wrote a 2 sentence comeback to the lame fact check before realizing it's just as lame, then realized he didn't have it in him and tried something simpler despite never using 'lmao' before in his life, then asked his intern "not capitalizing this is hip isn't it?"
the existence of mainstream queer rappers is definitely a very new thing. you have openly bisexuals like tyler the creator, frank ocean, and isaiah rashad. lil uzi vert goes by they/them. childish gambino said he was unlabelled and playboi carti is too. and like, half of brockhampton was gay or bi
ask any young straight guy what his favorite rappers or artists are and there's a solid chance he'll mention one of those. especially with frank and tyler who everyone knows like men, it's pretty cool when i see straight guys everywhere who are practically stans of them and have posters in the dorm
Tesla
yk this lib bought it sometime around the late 2010s when they all thought elon musk was irl ironman and the greatest genius of our age before he made his chuddery obvious
'Of course I would accept her help,' Shanon told DailyMail in an exclusive interview. 'She hasn’t [offered] it so far. I’m here. I’m okay.'
She said: 'I would like to make amends with Simone personally – I'm just waiting for her and Adria. I speak to Adria more than I speak to Simone. I would just ask her to forgive me. Can we move forward? Don't judge me on my past. Let's move forward.'
impressively tone deaf. doing a tabloid interview and saying "don't judge me on my past" after your last conversations didn't work is like the pushiest and least remorseful thing you could do
before this clip he went on for a full minute and a half about how her TIME cover portrait was "too beautiful" and they must've had to hire a sketch artist because "pictures didn't work out for her" !trump-yassified
it's not old-old but far from youthful either. maybe late middle aged. she does look good for her age tho tbh
boomers are born 1946-1964 and she was born in 1964. kinda at a cusp but still boomer
still not a sliver as cringe as the AI dancing video of him and elon he posted
> "I just told her I didn't respect her as a competitor," Navarro said of the exchange, per AFP. "I think she goes about things in a pretty cut-throat way. It makes for a locker room that doesn't have a lot of camaraderie, so it's tough to face an opponent like that, who I really don't respect."
> "She told me she doesn't know how I have a lot of fans," Zheng said. "It looks like she's not happy with my behavior toward her. If she's not happy about my behavior, she can come and tell me. I would like to correct it to become a better player and a better person."
> Zheng clarified that she wasn't upset by Navarro's words. "I'm glad that she told me that," Zheng continued. "I will not consider it an attack because she lost the match."
this is one of three times a US tennis player has acted like a sore loser in the past several days:
Danielle Collins scratches her match due to "injury" as she was losing. After her Polish opponent congratulated her on her career, Collins calls her "insincere" before walking away. She then played doubles 2 hours after her supposed injury.
Coco Guaff argues with chair umpire after losing to Croatia, says "this always happens to me" while crying. (i think some people are debating if her gripe was somewhat fair, but i feel like implying the judge is always out to get you is definintely doing too much. at least she didn't disrespect her opponent 🤷)
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Owens and her boss had been publicly beefing for months over the Israel-Hamas war, with Shapiro at one point daring her to quit.
> The feud began last November when Owens tweeted that “no government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide.” Soon after, Shapiro publicly called Owens’ behavior “disgraceful”
Spoiler: she doesn't actually care about Palestinians, she's just anti-semitic.
> Owens posted to X a series of Bible verses suggesting “you cannot serve both God and money.” That pointed remark was viewed by many as a not-so-subtle use of the antisemitic “dual loyalty” trope against Shapiro, who responded: “Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit.” Owens hit back that her boss was “utterly out of line” and “acting unprofessional and emotionally unhinged for weeks now.”
btw, pretty sure he couldn't fire her because the CEO wouldn't let him
> Owens later liked a social-media post asking conservative rabbi Shmuley Boteach whether he is “drunk on Christian blood again” [and] defended Kanye West's remarks.
> [She previously suggested] that 'secret Jewish gangs' control and perpetrate 'horrific acts' against people in Hollywood
> Hunger Games is about revolutionary anti-imperial class struggle
> George Lucas said the Empire is inspired by America and the Rebels by the Viet Minh
> The Matrix was created by a trans woman and at least partly an allegory for being trans
> Divergent is shitty lib fanfiction but very obviously anti-conservative
> Alan Moore was a communist or anarchist
wow these movies are just like January 6th when we resisted communism by smearing our shit on the capitol walls!! !so-true !biaoqing-copium
Heard My Chemical Romance was created after witnessing 9/11, so I looked up the band's political beliefs and came across this thread about Frank Iero
> he's literally so confusing. remember a few years ago when he had a 'don't tread on me flag' on his basement wall? he also was totally voting for bernie sanders. ... when blm movement got its biggest attention in 2020 he published some shitty depoliticizing note. its one of the worst notes i've read back then
> > He's definitely not a right winger. Maybe moderate leftist. Not everyone needs to fit into a neat little box.
> > He is an "Italian American" style leftist from NJ. Definitely socially progressive and left of center on social issues, but still sees value in some traditions. It makes sense if you know anyone from New Jersey
I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals
The 25-year-old actor was among 30 demonstrators taken into custody during Joe Biden’s appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, organisers confirmed
https://www.instagram.com/p/C31D99SOJuq/?utm_source=ig_embed&img_index=1
> Hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews and allies just took over NBC’s famed 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters in NYC to disrupt President Biden’s appearance on @LateNightSeth
Trump later claimed he was intentionally mixing them up key background Biden has had a series of physical and verbal slip-ups throughout his presidency, which critics ...
> Biden, 81, recalled a 2021 conversation with world leaders regarding the Jan. 6 riots:
> “And then Helmut Kohl turned to me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times and learned that 1,000 people had broken down the doors of the British parliament, killed some bobbies on the way in, to deny the prime minister to take office?"
> Kohl served as Germany’s chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and died in 2017. Merkel was the country’s leader at the time of Biden’s conversation.
(He made this same mistake twice in the same meeting)
> Earlier this week, Biden confused French President Emmanuel Macron with late President François Mitterrand—who led the country from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996
> Biden claimed he declared “America is back” in 2021, and “Mitterrand from Germany — I mean France — looked at me and said, ‘How long you back for?’”
There's certainly a larger anti-zionist crowd on the app, but western tiktok is 100% still run by neoliberal ghouls
I've reported blatantly fascist stuff on the platform before; a comment saying race mixing is immoral, a comment saying desegregation ruined America, a video saying Gaza should be turned into a parking lot, and I've ALWAYS ended up getting the "we've reviewed your report and found no violation" thing. Exact same shit I've gotten with Instagram, Reddit, and pre-Musk Twitter
Meanwhile today I commented this at a The Strokes fan with an Israeli flag in their name, and fully ratio'd them before getting this notification a few hours later:
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan reports.
Not sure what to make of this. TikTokers' first anti-imperialist "theory" being from a far-right anticommunist religious zealot with valid criticisms but no real analysis and a bit of "Jews control everything" seems perfect for the mainstream media to weaponize. On the other hand, people are realizing America are the bad guys and terrorists don't hate us for our freedom, and will hopefully learn more, far better stuff?
Tiktok took the videos down but I screenshot these two comments lmfao: !joker-laden !
Edit:
CNN article (the thing I linked in the post was a video)
FOX News, NBC, New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, CBS, Reuters, TIME Magazine, The Hill, etc. all reported on it in the past few hours. You got headlines like "Bin Laden's Letter to US Stuns Young Americans: 'He Was Right'"
In a letter first shared with NBC News, progressive leaders said the administration's position on Gaza "risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party."
> The leaders of progressive groups focused on mobilizing young voters are warning President Joe Biden that his handling of the war in Gaza could depress turnout in a demographic that’s already notoriously difficult to energize on Election Day.
> "We write to you to issue a very stark and unmistakable warning: you and your Administration’s stance on Gaza risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party next year.
> “We mobilized the record youth turnout in 2020 that pushed your ticket over the finish line... Many of us worked to provide the critical source of support for Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections that prevented the Red Wave.
> "Young people are a cornerstone of a winning Democratic coalition, and the vast majority of young people in this country are rightfully horrified by the atrocities committed with our tax dollars, with your support, and our nation’s military backing.
> “We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law. Your legacy hangs in the balance.”
> Signers include the heads of groups like March for Our Lives, United We Dream, Gen Z for Change, and the Sunrise Movement.
> A New York Times-Siena College poll of five swing states found that among voters under 30, who lean heavily Democratic, just 5% “strongly approve” of how Biden is doing his job and 25% “somewhat approve.”
Literally has a lower approval rating with the most Democratic generation than the most Republican generation. Zero chance his ass is getting reelected
> Your first mistake was commenting or even being part of "World Politics." It's just full of clueless yanks and Israeli sympathisers.
