NoneOfUrBusiness

They live in the Emirates so life must be very restricted for her.

As a Middle Eastern guy with stereotype-level knowledge about the Emirates, I don’t think so. Even if Islam demanded women be restricted in their lives (it doesn’t) Emirates is very famous as an “only Muslim on the cover” country. Now we can’t really guess anything about her life, but whatever she wants to do, it won’t be the country stopping her.

Only those who visit Lake Como can want to buy our souvenir; memories are not bought but lived.

Amazing.

I mean okay. That’s kind of not how people work. You can hate it, but it’s just not how people work. I thought y’all had learned that by now.

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So I read the article and… Uh… Not convinced. Her platform was vague “nothing will fundamentally change” slop. I mean Biden’s term did have many good initiatives that it would be nice to keep, but yeah this ain’t it.

However, she has not provided many details on her plans,

We call that in plain English “not making promises”. I mean hell she couldn’t even commit to keeping Lina Khan.

Trump has never been able policies; Trump is a culture war candidate who says what his voters want to hear. Comparing him to dem candidates is a mistake.

Uh… Harris’s goal wasn’t to convince voters she was better than Trump. That much was obvious, and also not nearly enough to win her the election.

but what could she have done better?

She could’ve ran policies popular with her base instead of ignoring it and cozying up to Republicans. She could’ve made real campaign promises instead of just repeating “I’m not Trump” ad infinitum. She could’ve, you know, actually campaigned instead of repeating the mistakes of 2016.

How is it not a crushing victory? Trump won the popular vote and either won or is leading in all swing states. He fucking wiped the floor with the DNC.

There are other wordle sites BTW so it’s not like you have to stop playing the game, just don’t use NYT’s version.

Oh shit I didn’t notice. As a proud grammar Nazi, I must now commit keppusu.

I live in a region that’s been a melting pot for quite some time now

If you’re in Europe, I’d wager that your country has a thriving right wing movement that has seen increased support over the last 10 years, and that they gained that support at least partially by promising to stop immigration or deport immigrants. Otherwise, well, there’s too little information here for me to say anything.

That’s not rooted in objective reality or facts.

It’s objective truth that a significant fraction of any population is deeply xenophobic and doesn’t view these things as you do. I’m making a claim about the human psyche, not ethnic differences, so you’re not really refuting my point.

but a felon can run as a candidate

No no this one is one of the good ideas in the American system. In dictatorships this sort of restriction can be and is used as a way to prevent political rivers from running for office.

I can imagine like 20-30% of racists around, or people who’ve been fooled by some charismatic character. But not half.

You have too much faith in humanity. A smart-sounding Greek guy or another said that democracy is only possible with a homogenous population, otherwise the country will tear itself apart. I don’t agree with that conclusion, but the process they described is true, in both Europe and America. The way I see it, America has been ethnically diverse for a lot longer so they’re closer to or at the peak of the allergy-like reaction you witness in an ethnically diverse democracy. Meanwhile Europe only started feeling it recently because of Middle Eastern immigration, and it’s looking like that. Europe will in all likelihood go down a worse version of the same trajectory we’ve seen unfold in America.

The first one makes more sense when you realize that America was originally supposed to be somewhere between one large state and X independent states in an EU-style union. Presidential elections are the federal government asking the states who they want to be president and the states then asking the people (technically they don’t have to do that part AFAIK). It’s weird but internally consistent at least.

Shipped.

Switch to freelance.

I mean it gets the customers status symbols and the manufacturers money. As long as those phones later end up on the used market it’s a win-win.

The US invasion strengthened the Taliban and basically killed native resistance to their regime, so the US does bear some responsibility for this.

Do you see that collapse coming now that the Taliban have total control?

I mean I did say they now have Chinese support where at the time they’d have been more or less on their own.

Because that was the situation before the US invaded.

Untrue. The pre-2001 Taliban saw fierce resistance from the North Afghan Alliance, among others, and didn’t control all the country’s territory. Compare to now where there’s no meaningful resistance to their reign of terror.