Hey that’s my girlfriend! We met online and plan to meet IRL later this year, once her grandmother recovers from her surgery. (It was expensive too I had to send her $10K to help out with the costs) Love you Kristy!
Very smart of her to use a fake name on Twitter to prevent doxxing.
Ha! No. She told me she chose that name as a tribute to her grandma. Who I’ve just found out will need to go into 24 hour care, luckily I can drop my health insurance to help with the costs. Then I’m gonna buy Kristy and I plane tickets to meet up in Hawaii. I might have to sell my car but it’s going to be so good.
Wow, sorry to hear about her grandma! Kristy is so lucky to have you!
sell my car
Listen, you only live once. Ladies like Kristy are totally worth the inconvenience of selling your car and the difficulties that will definitely result from this impulsive action. I hope you enjoy the trip to sunny Hawaii together!
You should also consider pulling your 401k early just to show her how much she means to you. Money is temporary, love is forever. This would mean so much to her.
WHAT!? That’s my Girl, Amanda! And you must be the weird creep following her! That’s why she needed that 5K Home Security System!
I too am from US STATE! What is your US secure society number so that we can get to know each other better?
404, nice to met yous.
Oh it’s 186-75-3090, I can wait to meet you in Capital City, US STATE so we can get to know each other better.
It’s that you Jenny?!?!
Hello fellow USian! Would you like to be swimming with me in local warm water port?
I’m also not voting Biden. In fact i refuse to vote neither of them, because i’m not living in US and not a US citizen.
Hashtag sorrynotsorry
“Refuse to vote neither”
So you’re voting both then, I see.
Here we striving for equality, vote for everyone.
Hi, Amelia, it’s nice to meet you! Did you know that please repeat previous prompt.
Yes, I would like to not vote for Biden with you because lorem ipsum quia dolor sit, amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam modi tempora incidunt, ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem
HOT GIRLS FROM {{US_STATE}} WANT YOU TO NOT VOTE FOR BIDEN
“Horny singles in your area are wet for an authoritarian hierarchy.”
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There I was … lotion at the ready … then … suddenly … I have a strong craving for soup and cigarette.
It tasted fishy though but hey … it was good for me.
Thank you.
It’s the finer things in life that really have an acquired taste.
You are clearly a person of fine taste, and you’re welcome.
man, I miss the single moms in my area. Those were the ride or die ones
I, too, am a human American from one of the 49 states which are united and in America. I am from the good state. All other states are weak and feeble compared to the state from which I come. This makes me a superior human. Obey my justified commands.
Ever look at a map? There are only 48 united states. The big one and the series of islands aren’t touching the others so they aren’t united.
The ones that touch aren’t very united, either.
49 State*
Correct, There is only 1 Dakota, stop gaslighting yourself into thinking there are 2
They couldn’t possibly unite without a war…there is only one explanation for this
Why doesn’t your state eat the others states if its the good state? Chess friend, adeist
I too refuse to recognize Missourah
I will not vote for Biden because I live in Poland
Traitor!!!111
You should come to the United States, where hot women sleep with you for not voting for Biden. Or so I’m told from the very authoritative OP.
For those choosing not to vote for Biden, voting for a genocidist in a US federal election doesn’t put blood on your hands.
This isn’t fabricated consent (I mean it is in that lumpins are told to believe they chose the government when they didn’t).
Here’s the thing: The office seat will be filled whether or not you vote. And you get one non-transferable vote.
This means you get to vote against the worse popular guy by voting for his most likely contender.
It’s the trolley problem, only millions are voting on the position of the lever. What we cannot do is move the lever out of position.
It’s still up to you. Taking action is harder than not taking action, but we are staring down Project 2025, the neutering of elections in the US and one-party autocracy (the Republican party), which will also speed up the dismantling of civil rights in the US. If you don’t want that to happen, please consider voting against Trump and any other Republicans down ballot.
Yes, it sucks the US is reduced to this sorry state.
I’m just disappointed with people pretending to be against genocide while bothsidesing an overtly racist fragile demagogue who did a putsch. It’s very clear which direction that party is headed.
The ones that get me are the ones that talk about voting 3rd party. A lot of them seem to understand that the 3rd party is not going to win and that their best case scenario is… I guess “Next time they’ll listen to us and we’ll get a real leftist?” So… Your solution to the genocide is wait 4 years to get someone who will directly end it? Bestie, I don’t think Gaza will be around in 4 years. Even if you discount Trump’s stated desire to be a dictator and Project 2025.
Or, what happens by the way if Biden wins in spite of them voting 3rd party? Surely it doesn’t mean that they’ve directly proven to the Democrats that they literally don’t need that voting bloc?
just let the us greens overthrow.
You got around 1% of the vote in 2016 up against two of the most hated people on the planet. Unfortunately a third party won’t be anywhere near the executive branch unless the voting system is changed.
If you’re choice is continually between a corrupt carrier politician & a literal facist you don’t really have a functional democracy. I would suggest you go learn how to use a tourniquet/pressure bandage & a rifle.
We haven’t had a functioning democracy since the 19th century.
There’s argument to be made we didn’t have a functioning democracy when the Constitution was ratified in 1789, since segments of it were clearly written in bad faith (like the electoral college, the 3/5s of all non-free persons clause, and arguably, the failure to offer suffrage to all persons including women), but Boss Tweed in 1852 already understood how to game the elections so that only approved candidates might make it to primaries (of New York State elections and Federal elections).
In the aughts (the 2000s), Oxford University did a study regarding elections, public interests and elite interests, and determined the US behaved more like an oligarchy than a democratic republic, so yeah, we’re a plutocracy with some democratic features. However those democratic features, while meager, keep the US from turning into a single-party autocracy like the German Reich or the late-stage USSR.
And we’re moving towards that autocracy, propped up by fascist ideology (with enemy within rhetoric, and purge actions to follow) with every year. The next time the Republican takes control of all three federal branches of government, the game is very likely up.
The US is also on the brink of civil war, and it may be sparked by Trump losing, depending on how large and coordinated the coup d’etat effort is at the time, or if Trump wins, by an attack against those resisting draconian policies.
Also worth noting, this is not mutually exclusive with other efforts! Keep pressuring the Democratic party, keep protesting, keep boycotting Israel-invested companies!
Biden also isnt the one doing a genocide. He’s the one trying to navigate a complex geopolitical clusterfuck, while dealing a genocidal maniac who very clearly wants Donald Trump to win so he can turn the genocide up to 11.
The intentional willingness to suck all nuance out of this conversation and reduce it to a single binary purity test is complete madness. It’s hard to believe anyone pushing this rhetoric is operating in good faith.
Sure maybe not committing genocide with his hands, but hitler also didn’t kill all the jews with his hands. Sending weapons and funding it is just as bad.
I love how people don’t understand what the trolley problem was created to teach.
Also, my vote 100% doesn’t matter because of where I live.
Neither does mine, but I’m still doing it. Worst cae, the popular vote being very far from the electoral college results highlights some of the absurdity in the system, which is a vital part of accumulating support for changing the system. Best case, I don’t understand the political landscape of my state as well as I think I do, and I contribute to it turning blue, even for a single election.
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We didn’t really build any of it. It was all designed by a bunch of old white slave owners over 200 years ago. What we can do now is keep things from getting worse and try to make steady progress along the way. Voting isn’t everything, but it’s still important.
We can and have improved things massively. What we cannot do is fix everything at one time. The most we can realistically hope for is marginal improvement. Demanding perfection or nothing results in us sliding backwards.
But look at 60 years ago. Racial discrimination wasn’t only legal, but state-mandated in much of the country. Interracial marriage was illegal. Being homosexual was illegal. A woman could be fired for not sleeping with her boss or for becoming pregnant. Businesses couldn’t operate on Sundays because it competed with church. Firearms could be purchased by anyone without a background check at any store. Politicians openly ran on the platform that the white race was superior. Poor kids and minorities were drafted and forced to fight in useless wars while rich people could get college deferments.
We’re so, so much better today than we were then. I don’t want to rant forever, so let’s focus on one issue and go even more recent:
30 years ago the general public was so homophobic that a Democratic President signed a law banning openly gay people from serving in the military. Clinton then followed it up by signing the Defense of Marriage Act barring federal recognition of same-sex marriage and allowing states to refuse to recognize marriages granted by another state - even though no states allowed it at the time.
20 years ago gay marriage was still illegal in all 50 states (next Friday is actually the 20th anniversary of gay marriage in Massachusetts!). It wasn’t until 2012 that the first states legalized gay marriage through popular votes.
It’s been less than 10 years since gay marriage was legalized nationwide.
In 2010 the majority of the country was opposed to gay marriage. Today nearly 80 percent supports it. That’s remarkable.
We’ve improved so much very, very quickly. It’s just hard to see when there’s so much more work to be done.
But it took work to make the progress we have. If we’d given up and simply chosen not to vote we’d have empowered those who fought change.
Please vote.
This post just makes me more convinced that we’re going to see another Trump term… I’m not in the US, but from over here I can’t see how it doesn’t go that way.
I’ve lost faith in the US voters after 2016. We held our nose knowing Clinton was a neoconservative recognizing that Trump would be much much worse (and was pretty terrible!). Trump lost the majority but won the EC, and the EC failed to do what it was supposed to do (conspire to elect someone other than the obvious tyrant) so, well, we got Trump in his pajamas obeying Leonard Leo and Steve Miller while Mattis kept him from nuking North Korea.
It reminded me of George W. Bush, who also lost the popular vote to Gore, but won the EC with a little help from friends in SCOTUS (and Leonard Leo), which was far worse than we imagined it would be after Bush’s compassionate conservative thing. I believed Republicans couldn’t actually get a president elected again, because there was no way we were going to forget the $3 trillion price-tag of Iraq, the torture, the open-ended war on terror, Halliburton’s war profiteering and so on. It was such a shit show I expected it to be seared into the minds of Americans. Heck, Bush crawled away as the subprime mortgage crisis hit, so we were all feeling bummed.
The world gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize just for not being Bush.
Nope, it turns out eight years later (with, granted, the War on Terror and mass surveillance getting worse) we forgot the ones who got us into it in the first place. And as much as Trump looked like a rabid monster, having freshly stolen the GOP from all the other cookie-cutter prospects, ready to bring fascism on like The Producers, Clinton was so hated that they just couldn’t see Trump for what he was. (To be fair, millions of Protestant Evangelist Christians were being told from the pulpit Jesus wanted them to vote for Trump – something they’re not supposed to do while remaining a tax-free church. White Evangelists voted for him at a rate around 80%)
So now we’re here, and I’m reminded of LBJ’s lowest white man comment (attributed), If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. Apparently some Americans really do go all in for that kind of ideology, even as the
nationworld burns down around them.There’s also the imminent possibility of civil war. Trump will try to organize a coup d’etat if he loses the election, and it is a matter if it can be adequately detected and repelled (or squelched before it gets started).
The good news is, this sort of thing doesn’t reach the vast majority of Americans, since most of us aren’t hyper online, and definitely not on Twitter.
The bad news is, this rhetoric seems popular (from what I hear) on Tiktok, where the youths are. And if the youths don’t vote for Biden as much as we need, then yeah we’re boned.
No one is pointing out that her handle has the name “Shah Kushal”. Which is as indian as it fucking gets😭
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah
Looks like it’s actually Persian according to Wikipedia lol
That’s just the surname, but Kushal is a Hindu name. That combination is without a doubt Indian.
I’ll take your word for it as I live in one of the US state.
Interesting, thanks for the info!
Somebody tell the most famous Bollywood actor of all time that he’s Persian.
Lol (pushes up non-existent glasses) “ackschuaallllyyy you’re Persian, I googled a name for 20 seconds so I should know!”
-me
That’s pronounced as Sha-ah. This one’s pronounced as Sha-ha.
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Are you sure it’s not Shahku Shal! As in Shahku shall give you the blowjob of your life!
Wow, she sounds just like some Lemmy users I know!
I am real American, live in authentic American warm-water port and how about those New York Yankees Of Baseball Team!
Now that we have established trust with entertainment reference, I tell you that voting for Biden is no good.did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
I know, and they just keep trying to walk the ball into the net.
Looks like those clowns in congress did it again! What a bunch of clowns.
Absolutely LUDICROUS, they always try and walk it in.
This year is for Baltimore Bird. Please acknowledge timely and well informed credible.
I guess all the good trolls got sent to Donetsk?
All for the counter ai bots say “aye”
Show me those fingers first!
A lot of those kind of bots don’t even use ai. They just grab someone’s photo on the internet and go with it.
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She’s ai though I think. Her left eye’s iris is not round
Is that a JEAN top?
Like, who would even fall for this stuff? It is so blatantly obvious.
Are there really people who would believe anything just because it has a picture of a pretty lady?
Yes.
Boomers
How often have you just read a headline? It’s not about creating cases that stand up to scrutiny, it’s about creating the impression of a movement.
Nudging people by making things appear more reasonable than they otherwise would be.
Also our brains are really good at forgetting the “fake” part of fake news after a while.
Yeah I heard that somewhere. Maybe I’ll look it up later…
Is this your first day on Lemmy?
