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I would guess that she's trying to separate the voters from the representatives, so that when someone calls out a republican politician for being racist, they have a harder time convincing their voters that she was calling them racist as well.

Right now it seems like people see their political party as their identity, there are both democrats and republicans who do it but I'd say it is far, far more common with republicans.

You can, and should, hold your representatives accountable when they do bad shit, regardless of whether you voted for them or not, and if your party starts standing for things that are worse than another party then you should change who you vote for.

It's a long road to get back from this division in the US, but I hope there's a future where it's possible.

I can add that if you ever say something that you yourself think was stupid, it's often better to just own up to it than to play it off (within limits). Something like "That was a stupid thing for me to say, I'm sorry, you're just very beautiful and I'm a bit nervous" as an example.

Implying that the only two options are supporting Israel committing genocide or Hamas committing terrorism is like straight out of of the Israeli regime's playbook.

To be fair, had it been possible to control hurricanes, I have no doubt that Blackrock would try to use it to extract profit but they're hardly alone in that.

Wait, you have to be happy for that?

Guess I'm into men.

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I agree that it's likely made up, and that the guy likely has a lot of misogynistic views, but you at least don't need to misrepresent the post.

When did they claim that Israel wasn't to blame? Two things can be true at the same time.

There's a saying that humans only understand three probabilities: 0%, 50%, and 100%. So if 90% of people who are rich were born into wealth and 90% of all people are not wealthy, what does that mean?

Usually the knee-jerk response is to say that it's equally easy for rich and poor to end up wealthy, or sarcastically claim that it's supposedly impossible to become wealthy if you were poor.

Statistically, it'd mean that while 10% of rich people were self-made, they'd only represent 1% of the overall population, meaning it'd be roughly 100 times more likely for someone who wasn't born wealthy to remain poor.

These are gross oversimplifications with numbers that are not based on fact, but it's just a simple example to show that something can be possible in a system where certain people are disadvantaged and it doesn't detract from the fact that systemic issues exist.

And how do you propose to create this organization and get countries to agree on its legitimacy?