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Trump blocked from Maine presidential ballot in 2024
  • In competitive states, he won by only 43k votes as opposed to the many more votes he won by in the popular vote. In other words, had those votes been cast differently, the electoral college would be very different

  • FBI Labels Anti-Fascists and Anti-Racists as Violent Extremists
  • I don't really have a guide anywhere, but there are a number of them on the web. One of the OSINT powerhouses is BellingCat. They make finished products. There's https://liveuamap.com/en for a map on the RU/UA war. Oryx is a good estimate for equipment losses there (I bet you can tell where my interests lie) I'd recommend getting to know some of these finished products first. That, and reading about the history of where you are looking at. Learning about the politics of Coal? Read some books about it. Get some perspectives. Want to know about the Isreal/Palestine conflict? Get to know the last 100 years of conflict since the Ottoman Empire fell

    There's a real big difference in bits and bites investigating and actual finished products. A lot of the tools out there are for getting these bits and bites like https://osintframework.com/. One can buy commercial satellite photos, but those are expensive. They're usually already bought by people on Twitter anyway. Putting together products is the hard part though, and there are quite a few pitfalls that one can fall into between unreliable sources and deceptive imagery persuasion or DIP. Ryan McBeth is a great source to look at to help you spot this sort of thing.

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  • True. Al Jazeera is a Qatari state run media enterprise. They're pretty reliable on news on things outside the Middle East, but tend to have a massive bias when it comes to matters of Qatar's interests.

  • Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program
  • Then that school policy is fine too, as it bans Anyone from wearing dreadlocks. This applies to the white Texans, the Hispanic Texans, the Black Texans etc.

    That reasoning doesn't work. It's targeted against a certain group of marginalized people just like the Hijab law and the same principle.

  • Opinion: Republicans should be laughing at Boebert too — that they’re not is a sign of the times
  • The Author states

    No, I remain a Republican because I agree with the party’s stated positions on the free market, school choice, a balanced budget, low taxes, fewer regulations and tariffs, protecting unborn babies, encouraging personal responsibility, maintaining a strong presence in the world, enforcing rule of law, and upholding the Constitution.

    Your comment reeks of the very same blatant partisanship that the modern republican party suffers from, or what I call 'team spirit'. The policies he lists seem anti-welfare and democratic.

    I criticize the Republican Party as they are anti-democratic and isolationist as well as favouring the prison system over education and rehabilitation. This keeping them on the very welfare system they want to reduce. Some other policies benefit companies too much also such as the school choice.

    Had Republicans continued to focus on problem solving instead of obstructionism, perhaps I'd be more inclined to vote for them

    But when the hammer swings the other way, I hope that the rest of America will learn the lessons of the 20s: both in the 20th and 21st centuries

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  • I disagree. For ideologies like that, there always would have to be an enemy. I think they would teach that the Jews went into hiding and are still exercising their "international jewery". After all, there's no plot to begin with, so the same rhetoric could be useful before and after mass genocide. It's not a pretty alternative history, and I think it would affect other minorities too

  • Bernie Sanders says President Biden will win in 2024 if he runs on a "strong progressive agenda"
  • Then all communists and socialists are Fascist also. Mussolini was an ardent socialist before being a fascist, and indeed still considered himself a Socialist. Joseph Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbontrop pact with Adolph Hitler, who was a thug for the Marxists before starting his National Socialist Workers Party. The Conservatives who value the appeal of Strength that Fascist thinkers call out with also fall prey to Fascism

    Indeed the Liberal Government of the United States subverted governments to install Fascist governments in South America such as the government under Pinochet. You and I both have the potential to be Fascist. I do not think that Nate Silver is any more of a Fascist than you or me, simply because he doesn't shout from the street corners about the evils of Fascism.

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