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CoggyMcFee

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  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • Yeah, I always wonder how often there’s a need to refer to inhabitants of two continents together as a single entity. Like, if you say someone is South American or North American, that is never confused with being someone specifically from the US. When would those terms be insufficient?

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • Don’t you mean “from AND into”?

  • Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025

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  • When they announced the ads it was just the incentive I needed to quit Prime totally. I don’t miss it. I already was wary of buying from Amazon due to the sketchy sellers and fake products, so I’m glad buying my stuff elsewhere except when I can’t find something somewhere else, which has been rare.

  • Pronouns bad!

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  • Even subject pronouns are certainly used in everyday speech, even if less often compared to English.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

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  • I’m not sure what you mean. Of course it’s never happened because we’ve never done it that way.

    If you’re saying that if you go back and calculate previous elections, then it never would have made a difference, that doesn’t mean it could not happen. Growing up I learned that there was only one time in history that the popular vote didn’t match the EC, but now it’s become a constant threat. If it becomes a viable path then eventually it is bound to be exploited.

    What you are talking about simply isn’t functionally equivalent to just straight up popular vote, for the reason I described. Votes are not worth the same amount in different places.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

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  • This only solves it if you also make the number of delegates for each state be proportional to its population size. California has 68 times the population of Wyoming but only 18 times the number of electoral votes.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

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  • The thing is that the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is nothing until it’s all the way there. Having 95% of the necessary electoral votes has the same effect as 0. So there’s no reason for opponents to even care about it until it is within striking distance of the threshold. It seems to me that if we ever reach a point where it comes down to just a state or two, that legislation will be fought tooth and nail, not just in those last states, but there will be fights and legal challenges in states that have already entered the compact to reverse it too. And even if we manage to win the fight and it gets activated, we will still have to keep fighting in perpetuity because almost any state pulling out would undo the whole thing.

    I’m not saying people shouldn’t even try, maybe some good comes of it regardless. It just doesn’t seem like a solution as much as a statement.

  • Hollywood can’t ditch its Teslas fast enough: “They’re destroying their leases and walking away”

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  • Believe it or not some people may not have been investing significant amounts of time into learning about Elon Musk’s personality in 2014

  • J.D. Vance offers ‘proof’ of pet-eating, but it’s proven false with 1 phone call

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  • This is the ignorant “I don’t understand statistics” take. If Nate Silver had given Clinton a 100% chance to win, then maybe you’d have some sort of point. But, in fact, the 538 projection gave Trump a much higher chance than most of the major election models, to the point that I remember Nate having to defend himself against angry people on Twitter over and over. He wrote an article ahead of the election pointing out that if an outcome has a 30% chance of happening, not only is it possible, but in fact you expect it to happen 3 in 10 times. I was very nervous on Election Day 2016 specifically because I had been closely following 538 projections.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at Mike Johnson and calls to fund government with Dems

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  • It makes logical sense for a person to draw this conclusion, but MTG is famously an idiot, so that’s what’s baffling. What convinced her to change her tune?

  • A Georgia woman has died after an abortion ban delayed lifesaving care

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  • The name “pro-life” is absurd. Too far from reality

  • A Georgia woman has died after an abortion ban delayed lifesaving care

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  • I think you all need a new name for yourselves. It sounds absurd at this point

  • Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrested

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  • I’ve noted that you are a superior human who doesn’t waste your time with celebrity nonsense. I assume that’s what you were going for with this comment.

  • Feline!

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  • It is genuinely amazing. I have watched it multiple times since I first saw it! It feels like something that would be funny but should get old after a few minutes, and yet it never does.

    The whole talk appears to be done in one continuous take!

  • Harris trolls Trump by posting most of debate as ‘new ad’

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  • If true, that would be exactly why you would need more than the exact bare minimum number of Democrats for what you want to accomplish, so that one or two can’t make a name for themselves by gumming up the works.

  • Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the electoral college in latest forecast

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  • When the 270 mark is passed, it has the effect of making every vote equal everywhere.

    Right, and this is bad for the Republican Party, so they will do everything in their power to stop it.

  • What were or are your thoughts on the US Pres. Debate?

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  • Bill Clinton never debated George W Bush

  • What were or are your thoughts on the US Pres. Debate?

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  • What kind of Dem candidate is pro fracking?

    One who exists in a fucked up electoral system where the entire fate of our country rests upon a few thousand votes in western PA.

  • Oh no, me cheese

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  • There was a time when it was the coolest snack to have at school in the US. Very popular. And it is still certainly a thing for kids nowadays.