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  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • This seems to be a complete misunderstanding of how the primary system works. I am saying that Bernie won West Virginia and got the majority of those delegates that could be won that day. That is winning the state. The super delegates get lumped in but they aren't a part of the same process. Bernie won WV because he got the most votes even if he didn't get the super delegates he still won the state. You could literally look at my source I provided and you'd see that he won.

    I'd recommend separating the super delegates from the situation and look at it just for what the delegates were up at the time of the vote. Thats what determines who won the state.

    Even better, just look around this wikipedia article to see who won what states and everything. It's all right there. I'm just repeating the literal reality of how it went down.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • See now that's an actual conversation to have! Not saying that Clinton cheated and/or was always going to be the candidate but that how the media represented the race depressed turnout. That's a thing that continues to happen from the media trying to suppress progressive turnout and it often works. But those things still don't change that if those progressives hadn't been so easily suppressed and had continued to go out and fight and vote regardless of what the media said, just like trump voters did, then Bernie would have won the primary and the super delegates wouldn't have mattered. And then likely would have won versus Trump, in my opinion.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • You win the majority of the delegates that were up during the primary by voting in the primary. Which Bernie did. But when the convention rolled around and Hillary was 3 million votes ahead of Bernie country wide and significantly closer to the nomination delegate threshold, the super delegates came into play to decide things. But that doesn't change that Bernie won the state. Those 8 super delegates are from West Virginia but they were only allocated at all because neither Bernie nor Hillary had reached the delegate threshold needed to win the nomination.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Nope Bernie won the state. He won and got 18 delegates and Clinton got 11. But then at the convention Clinton got the 8 super delegates from the state which put her at 19 delegates to Bernie's 18 but Bernie still won the state. Here's my source.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Yeah this is something that really bothers me about my fellow leftists and is pure revisionism about the 2016 primary. Bernie lost fair and square and all we had to do to make sure that didn't happen was get more people to vote for him. But according to many people on here if the candidate fails to win then it's their sole fault because they couldn't convince voters to go with them. But I guess that doesn't apply to Bernie.

    Also I hate how DWS screwed up talking about this all because she was biased as fuck towards Clinton. Her bias wouldn't have mattered if more people had voted for Bernie but her having a bias at all must mean Bernie was cheated out of the nomination.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Ah yes, super delegate shenanigans like the majority going to the candidate who had over 3 million more votes than the other. The only way Bernie could have won with super delegates is if he got almost all of them. And if he did then the candidate who got 3 million less votes would have won the nomination and we would still be facing people saying the democratic primaries aren't "fair".

    Now don't get me wrong, DWS was biased as fuck. But if the voters simply turned out and voted for Bernie then bias wouldn't have mattered. The RNC was biased towards Jeb bush and Ted Cruz but you know how that turned out.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Even 2016 was pretty fair. The nomination went to the person with the most votes and the majority of the non-super delegates. Bernie lost because people didn't want to vote for him because of a variety of reasons but not because the primary wasn't "fair". If more people voted for him he would have won.

  • Every time...

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  • Ballotpedia. Doesn't do local elections everywhere but still.

  • Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC

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  • Honestly they should have made something much smaller to make a name for themselves then slowly build up to something larger like a Highguard. You can't make a sort of shadow drop like they did by being "former devs" of a game when in almost all instances of that marketing has failed. It's just dumb to try and start with something as big as Highguard even disregarding the problems with the game.

    Bad management all around.

  • Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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  • I have a Substack and a Ghost (an alternative that's better in some ways and worse in others). The benefit to Substack is that growth on there is very possible with little participation in the social media like aspect they have, Notes. Ghost, meanwhile, has made growth incredibly difficult since they don't have that social media feature and you need people to actually sign up for your site instead of just clicking subscribe. It's kinda frustrating because I genuinely don't want to support Substack in any way but I write about videogames for almost 150 subscribers with continued and consistent growth and leaving that would be....annoying. What I've ended up doing is simply refusing to do any paid subscriptions through Substack so they don't get any money from me and instead have made a buy me a coffee and will eventually make a patreon.

    There's also just the reality right now that most of these types of places have some Nazis on them since Nazis are now just chilling out in the open as opposed to hiding in their basements like they used to. There's only so much you can do if you want to be on the internet as a creator.

  • Fearmongering

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  • This reminds me of my stepmother who, a couple years ago, had my younger half brother go to public highschool for the first time. She assumed that, in their rather well off suburb, public schools were like a fight to survive. She literally "joked" about wanting to send him to school with a knife to protect himself.

    Some people will just believe in propaganda whether it's believing public schools are a dangerous place in a well off suburb or that bullets just chill on the ground outside of a school in the inner city. It's all BS and they'll look for anything to confirm their beliefs, including mistaking an obvious drill bit for a bullet.

  • Suozzi: ‘I failed’ when voting to pass DHS funding bill

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  • Dude should have known not to vote for it, like how the majority of his caucus knew not to, instead of voting for it and then mere days (or a week or two, I dunno time is crazy) later saying he regrets it. You only get one shot dude, do better.

    As for his district, they need to primary him and show him, and other Democrats, that they will be out of a job if they do things like this.

  • American democracy on the brink a year after Trump’s election, experts say

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  • Interesting how, if the OP's text is indictive of the original version of the article, The Guardian had to change their first sentence from saying Trump placed his hand on the bible to saying just him taking his oath of office since he didnt place his hand on a bible.

  • Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes

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  • That was Square Enix not Ubisoft.

  • Republicans make deepfake AI video of Democrat giving a kid trans hormone therapy

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  • What fucking estrogen kit would that even be? It looks so fucking fake, needles haven't looked like that in decades. My estrogen needle and syringe is also tiny as fuck, there are two bottles in that kit, and only one bandaid that's already had the wrapping removed? This is the most obviously fake bullshit I have ever seen not just because of how dumb it is but because of how inaccurate that stuff is.

    Also, two needles/syringes? Just two? So it's two doses? That's not much of a kit considering that'd be two weeks of a dose. Plus the syringes being so large shows they don't understand how little your dosage is, I take .3ml every Friday, that syringe is too large to even be able to draw so little and measure it accurately. Also I've never seen a bottle of estrogen that fucking big, they literally don't ship that large. I'm just. This is so fucking dumb.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards

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  • Especially since "later" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here given that it was literally within days.

  • Bell peppers are the same colours as traffic lights

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  • There are some people who constantly see the yellow lights as orange lights for some unknown reason and their partner then immediately pokes fun at them every time they mention the wrong color. For those people the orange bell pepper gets referenced a bunch.

    I am one of those people

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  • DOJ weighs novel federal hate crime case against Charlie Kirk's alleged killer

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  • A lot of Christians don't think Mormons are Christian. They are of course, but many don't think so.

  • MRI Cooked His Brain

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  • If you mean the washcloth then no, it's just a normal washcloth that you would use at home. They just lay it over my eyes and I can't see the cage so it's easier to convince myself it's not there.

    If you end up getting another one, they say that you shouldn't move at all during the scan and that's not quite true. There are multiple scans and you can quickly adjust in the lul between loud dub step noises. When I'm not sleeping through the scan I'll take those few seconds to adjust and get more comfy. Just some advice. Those spots also might be harder to hear if you listen to music just fyi, I don't.