Is there any reason not to vote by mail in the US?
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Maybe a lot, but I don’t know the actual fraction they make up among fascists, or how important their fraction is in terms of their potential power in the future. The proud boys followed Enrique Tarrio but they also dogwhistle about great replacement and are overwhelmingly white. My big assumption is that movements full of white supremacists will struggle to recruit POC, but maybe I’m wrong about that, or maybe Christian patriarchy will overtake white supremacism as the main driver of fascism in America. I don’t know. In a country this racist, I have a hard time imagining it.
I realize, but if you add up everyone they targeted it wasn't 1 in 4 people.
Maybe I'm wrong or deluding myself, but I think that a white-supremacist fascist movement—and I don’t know of I can imagine any other kind in America—would have a hard time going fully mask off and saying "okay we're doing white-supremacist fascism now" in a country where 25% of the population are not white and a lot of people are armed, and I think they would need to be mask-off fascist if they wanted to round up trans people on a national scale. *I’m not saying there won’t be patchwork fascist control at the state and county levels, pushing things as far as they can, like Florida but worse, with police increasingly turning a blind eye to transphobic attacks.
Jews were less than 1% of the population in prewar Germany
electing a president to do what
in the US there aren't enough white people to take over the country, I think it'll be neoliberal police state transphobia, not third reich transphobia.
*not trying to be flippant with this brief comment, just trying to be concise because I don't have the credibility to be verbose
probably turned into jello in there
The Lancet suggested around 186,000 deaths, direct and indirect, back in July of this year
In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2 375 259, this would translate to 7·9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip. A report from Feb 7, 2024, at the time when the direct death toll was 28 000, estimated that without a ceasefire there would be between 58 260 deaths (without an epidemic or escalation) and 85 750 deaths (if both occurred) by Aug 6, 2024.10
is the hole that big depression in the street visible in the background after the drone turns the corner?
Why has the official death toll in Gaza barely changed for months?
bump, off the top of my head I don't have any good ideas for companies that are unusually bad and also especially likely to be guilty of tax fraud