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[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Your suggestion is wrong. Eliminating the Electoral College is advocated for by everyone who supports Democracy. It is also not a coincidence that the Electoral College disproportionately benefits one party over the other. And to cement that advantage they employ anti-Democratic measures in an attempt at voter suppression.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/c/upliftingnews is a good community to add to your subscriptions if you'd like a regular dose of good news! Good news is out there, it's just much harder to find than bad news these days.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is the first time we have seen moderators actually fact check Trump live. I'll take that in spite of the interruptions.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 118 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I have been disappointed by that as well but this has been astoundingly good as far as debates have gone. The immediate fact checking is long overdue. And frankly I look forward to pointing at Trump's extra speaking time as a bulwark against the "iT wAs BiAsEd By ThE lIbErAL mOdErAtOrS" complaints.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I like Sportsurge as it usually points to high quality sources. StreamEast is usually my pick. Just make sure you have ublock and a VPN and you're golden.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem is not with criticism of Zionism or the majority of the Democratic party being openly pro-Zionism. The problem is with equating the Democratic party with the Republican party and acting like it is somehow "brave" or "righteous" to demonize the only political party in the United States with any shred of decency remaining.

 

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[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I sincerely hope this is a poor attempt at a joke because that kind of statement has contributed directly to the current situation. It is not antisemitic to criticize the Israeli government, Zionism, or the IDF and its actions. It is antisemitic to say the reason you are criticizing those things is because they are all Jews.

Conflating those two not only makes it impossible to speak out against the atrocities being committed, it makes violence worse against Jews.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

That's actually the alt code for an en dash. Em dash is Alt+0151!

 

After never having considered the idea of solo roleplaying before I stumbled across Mythic GME and it has become my new hyper fixation. Not only is it a blast to play solo, but I can't wait to use it to help me run my home game. My wife and I also spent several hours the other evening playing a Traveller session using Mythic as our guide. What a blast! :D

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

I got mine last year. I was fully recovered in terms of physical activity within probably 4-5 days but I did get two very uncomfortable sperm granulomas that hung around for several days each. My nuts swelled up and turned purple so that was pretty fucking scary but it wasn't anything dangerous. Just a lot of aching. But within a month I was completely back to normal.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

It is almost a certainty that Trump will lose the popular vote. It is highly likely the election will be extremely close still because of the electoral college. In a country of hundreds of millions, it only takes hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states to change the outcome, regardless of the majority.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not a numbers thing, it's a facts thing. That's just how criminal justice works (or is supposed to). So to address your second paragraph―the number of people and whether they are men, women, or otherwise is entirely irrelevant. If someone can be proven to have done wrong, they did wrong, period. I'm not stating I agree or disagree with his acquittal, I was just making sure I hadn't missed some news that he had, in fact, been found guilty. I'm well aware that wealthy people and, in particular, powerful men get unfair advantages in the criminal justice system.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 43 points 7 months ago (15 children)

I'm gonna have to go with Adam Savage. I loved Mythbusters and continue to watch his Tested one day build videos today and view him as something of a role model from a creative standpoint.

Also to chime in about your mentioning of Kevin Spacey, the guy is definitely a weirdo and has done some really tone deaf things (coming out as gay in the midst of being involved in sexual abuse accusations, posting videos of himself as Frank Underwood denying charges levied against him on YouTube, etc.), but wasn't he acquitted of or found not guilty in literally every sexual abuse charge that was brought against him? And in both the US and the UK?

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