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some_guy , in Vance: ‘Laura Loomer is not affiliated with the Trump campaign’
andrewta , in "We're creating a story": Vance admits he's making up Haitian immigrant smears

With so many narratives they could have chosen:

When a ton of immigrants come in it puts a strain on the social welfare system.

When a ton of new immigrant children comes into a new school district it puts a large strain on the teachers.

I mean there are things they could have chosen, but pets being eaten? Really? How exactly did they choose that?

Put up random crazy things on a wall and throw darts?

Okokimup ,
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Because you don’t want your voters to have to think about nuanced issues. You want them to react with pure emotion.

exanime , in 'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians

"I never meant to spark false rumours when I literally spread false rumours"

  • this lady
sndmn , in Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets

Why can nobody call them what they are? Lies. Not “claims” or “mis-truths” or some other less accurate alternative word for the lies they spew?

eatthecake , in "We're creating a story": Vance admits he's making up Haitian immigrant smears

He said it’s based on reports from his constituents. The headline is misrepresenting what couchfucker said by leaving out part of the conversation. He is creating publicity for his campaign.

DancingBear , in A Minnesota man gets 33 years for fatally stabbing his wife during Bible study

“A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day; restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.” Proverbs 27:15-16

a9cx34udP4ZZ0 , in Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades, a Gallup analysis finds

My .02? There’s a large swath of “conservative” women who like the idea of going to church, being a stay-at-home mom, and having a husband that goes to work every day and provides for them. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that life.

But what they found out is the guys espousing that lifestyle actually want to treat their wife as property. There was a solid 30 years of momentum building around “maybe I don’t want to have a two-income household, maybe I just want to be a mom”. Unfortunately, while the women were thinking “we’re partners in this household, I take care of the meals and the kids, you take care of making money” - the dudes were thinking “I own you, you do what I want, I do what I want, if you talk back, I’ll put you in your place”.

Infynis , in Racial tensions in Springfield have simmered for months. Trump’s rhetoric now has Haitians there in a full-blown ‘panic’
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I think something that could really help would be for people in power to give these immigrants a platform to tell their story, why they’re here, and what their life is like. The fascists fuel their movement by dehumanizing the other. We should be trying to publicly humanize them as much as possible to counter that.

But I also totally understand why they wouldn’t want to be put under that kind of spotlight. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what these Republican domestic terrorists want.

Infynis , in Racial tensions in Springfield have simmered for months. Trump’s rhetoric now has Haitians there in a full-blown ‘panic’
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

I think something that could really help would be for people in power to give these immigrants a platform to tell their story, why they’re here, and what their life is like. The fascists fuel their movement by dehumanizing the other. We should be trying to publicly humanize them as much as possible to counter that.

But I also totally understand why they wouldn’t want to be put under that kind of spotlight. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what these Republican domestic terrorists want.

Bluefalcon , in WSJ Editorial Board Roasts Trump For Listening to ‘9/11 Conspiracist’ Laura Loomer: ‘Is He Trying To Lose The Election?’

Someone is spamming archives trying to scrub that article.

drunkpostdisaster , in Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades, a Gallup analysis finds

I need proof that men are not the leaser gender right now. I want to not hate myself for a moment. Because right now the suicide rate seems like a good thing.

some_guy , in Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets

Who would have thought JD is an opportunistic piece of shit who has contempt for others?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In , in Racial tensions in Springfield have simmered for months. Trump’s rhetoric now has Haitians there in a full-blown ‘panic’

were swiftly debunked

This phrase always annoys me. Debunking means that you can prove something isn’t true. I.e. proving a negative.

There is absolutely no evidence to say Trumps statements are true, but we can’t say they were debunked.

WatDabney , (edited ) in Ditch and pitch: Alaska Republican Party passes resolution to end ranked-choice voting in November

These groups understand the Republican voters, many of whom are not inclined to rank candidates. Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters who will do so.

Or in other words, Democrats are more likely to actually think about their votes and find things to appreciate in multiple candidates, while Republicans are more likely to just slavishly vote for whoever has an [R] after their name and disregard everything and everyone else.

And arguably more to the point, Republican politicians count on that.

SnotFlickerman ,
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Republicans are more likely to just slavishly vote for whoever has an [R] after their name and disregard everything and everyone else.

Huh, when you put it that way, it almost sounds as if Republican voters aren’t very smart. /s

Hegar ,
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Republican voters, many of whom are not inclined to rank candidates. Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters

This makes absolutely no sense. Not inclined to rank candidates? What the fuck does that mean? Humans rank things. We have preferences. Malleable voters is also absolute nonsense.

Ranked choice favors the candidate that the majority of voters support. Republicans oppose it because they want to win seats where the majority of voters don't want their candidates or policies.

some_guy , in Officials ignored warning signs prior to young girl’s death at the hands of her father, lawsuit says

According to the lawsuit, the father’s uncle Kevin Montgomery contacted the agency to tell them Harmony had a “vibrant” black eye after she was “punched clear in the eye socket with full force” and that Adam had told him he’d “bounced her off” every wall in the house.

What the actual fuck.

The couple later discovered the girl was dead after the car broke down, Kayla Montgomery testified. She said her husband put the body in a duffel bag. She described various places where the girl’s body was hidden, including the trunk of a car, a cooler, a homeless center ceiling vent and the walk-in freezer at her husband’s workplace.

So this guy was toting a child-corpse around and hiding her in places where others simply didn’t notice? I wanted more info on the step-mother. Is she in prison for complicity in the scheme? I gotta think so.

Followed a link in the article to her testimony:

Kayla Montgomery said Harmony was potty trained, but had begun having frequent accidents. She testified that her husband punched Harmony in the head after two such accidents in the car.

He later covered Harmony with a blanket as the child cried, moaned and eventually went silent, the stepmother said. Their car broke down soon afterward and Adam Montgomery put Harmony’s body in the duffel bag, she said.

[…]

“Right,” said Montgomery, who is serving an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to perjury for lying during grand jury testimony about where she was when Harmony was last seen.

[…]

The duffel bag made it from the trunk of a friend’s car to a hallway cooler near an apartment where Kayla Montgomery’s mother lived, and then to a ceiling vent in a shelter where the family stayed for about six weeks.

I find it difficult to believe that a corpse spent six weeks in a ceiling without detection, but there’s no reason to believe that she’s lying about this child dying from abuse. If anything, I think the step-mother may share more guilt in hiding the body. But I guess prosecutors weighed his conviction as the most important aspect of the case.

We live in such a fucked up society.

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