Politics & Stuff

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17 hours ago, Vesper said:

the US system is first past the post single member district plurality and/or majority wins with no proportional representation

3rd, 4th parties are doomed to failure from the start

the only role they can play is that of spoiler

No they just didnt cheat.

Crowder literally got his staff to drive to locations of voter address's and it was all car parks and derelict homes!

Biden laptop scandel also revving up and looks to be worse than the hilary clinton stuff!

Not that the FBI will do anything to damage a sitting prez but legitimacy of the us election and most of the sideshow is now all coming un done!

Rudy guilliani is now looking like a 'truther'

Voter ID should be sorted out just like vaccine passports

wanna go to resturant? show us your papers...

Wanna vote? yeah crack on...My names osama bin laden...no worries just pop your vote in the ballot box or have someone help you to use the hackable voting machines we use here in freedom land!

Give me strengh lol

Edited October 13, 2021 by Warning_Hazard

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Tories, Trumpers, radical dogmatic Brexiteers, Little Englander stooges, Nigel Farage ball-cupper types, racists, misogynists, homophobes, fundie baby jeebus buybull banging nobs, QAnon qwazies, NF/BNP wannabe stormtroopers, anti-vaxxer death cult crackpots, white nationalist cunts of all stripes, and all other forms and manifestations of RW nutters, shills, dupes, trolls, CT-pushers, etc etc..................... 

all add up to have this combined cumulative effect on pluralistic, tolerant, science/fact-based modern liberal democracy:

 

 

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Trump-endorsed Georgia US Senate candidate Herschel Walker's spokeswoman thinks swastikas are ok because they are used as 'anti-mandatory vaccination graphics'

Edited October 13, 2021 by Vesper

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Woman at Traverse City Sch Bd meeting this week: “Satan’s agenda is behind this. Masks don’t work and neither do vaccines. It’s destroying and killing. You want to program children to turn in their parents. Right now, there are classrooms in the US that are teaching cannibalism.”

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On 24/11/2021 at 15:28, NikkiCFC said:

 

Bloody actors nothing more

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A Black couple ‘erased themselves’ from their home to see if the appraised value would go up. It did - by nearly $500,000

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Black-Marin-City-couple-sues-appraiser-for-16672840.php

Paul Austin thought things were going well when the appraiser came to his Marin City home last January.

The appraiser complimented the views of the San Francisco Bay, and he was sure to point out all the improvements, Austin recalled at an Oct. 13 meeting of a state reparations task force. So he and his wife Tenisha Tate-Austin were shocked when the appraisal valued their home at $995,000 — nearly half-a-million dollars less than another appraisal 10 months earlier.

The couple, who is Black, got a second opinion last February. This time, they asked a white friend named Jan to sit at the kitchen island and pretend to be the homeowner. They also “white-washed” their home by hiding art and family photos. That appraiser said their house was worth $1,482,500.

The $487,500 discrepancy between the two 2020 appraisals pushed the couple to filed a fair housing lawsuit in federal district court this week against appraiser Janette Miller, her appraisal firm Miller and Perotti Real Estate Appraisers, Inc. and national appraisal company AMC Links, LLC. It’s the latest escalation in a series of similar cases of alleged racial bias in the home appraisal process as California property owners move to reap financial gains from record home prices.

“We did our homework,” Austin told the Reparations Task Force in a panel on the racial wealth gap in October. “We believe the white lady wanted to devalue our property because we are in a Black neighborhood, and the home belonged to a Black family.”

Miller’s firm and AMC Links, LLC did not respond to requests for comment.

Researchers at the Brookings Institution have found that owner-occupied homes in majority-Black U.S. neighborhoods are undervalued by an average $48,000 per home, representing some $156 billion in cumulative losses — a dynamic that has prompted calls for policy reform to automate more of the home valuation process and otherwise minimize bias. Some in the appraisal industry, meanwhile, contend that the process is inherently subjective and driven by extreme pressure to increase home values, opening appraisers to unfair personal liability when homeowners disagree with the results.

In the case of Austin and Tate-Austin, the large appraisal discrepancy illustrates how even Bay Area residents able to purchase a home in one of the nation’s most expensive real estate markets can be shut out of some of the massive wealth generated by increasing property values.

The Austin family bought the home in late 2016 for $550,000, according to the lawsuit, and Austin said they spent around $400,000 expanding the footprint, renovating the interior and adding features like an outdoor deck and an in-law unit with bay views. With the higher second appraisal designed to take race out of the equation, the home is now worth nearly triple what they paid five years ago.

“There are definitely things about this complaint that are uniquely strong,” said the couple’s attorney, Julia Howard-Gibbon of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California. “They erased themselves from the home, essentially.”

Though similar cases with extreme differences in appraisal values have also surfaced in Oakland, Stockton and other California cities with a large Black population, the new lawsuit revolves around the North Bay’s unique racial dynamics.

Austin knows firsthand that Marin City, an unincorporated area wedged between affluent Sausalito and Mill Valley, grew out of the pre-World War II migration of tens of thousands of Black workers seeking employment around the Sausalito shipyard. His own grandparents lived and worked there. Though they saved money to move to other areas of Marin County, Austin said in his October testimony that they were unable to buy property elsewhere because of exclusionary practices like discriminatory bank lending and racial covenants.

The fact that his family encountered what seemed like a new version of the same old problem more than a half-century later, he said at the October meeting, made him feel ill.

“My stomach hurt, my head hurt, just because of what we went through,” Austin said. “I don’t wish that on anybody.”

Attorneys for the couple argue in the new lawsuit that “Marin City has a long history of undervaluation based on stereotypes, redlining, discriminatory appraisal standards, and actual or perceived racial demographics.” By focusing the first appraisal only on the small number of homes sold in the immediate Marin City area, Howard-Gibbon said the appraiser “built an invisible barrier” around the home by comparing it only to other sale prices in a long-marginalized area — a result she called “recycled discrimination.”

The plaintiffs are seeking a jury trial, financial damages and a court order directing the appraisers to take action to ensure the issues in the complaint are not repeated.

Austin said at the October meeting that he is also focused on ongoing issues like recent desegregation orders issued for Marin County schools. He still can’t help but notice that neighbors’ homes on smaller lots have already crept up to values around $1.6 or $1.7 million.

“Yes, I do want to see a change,” Austin said. “I don’t want to see my children have to deal with this.”

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All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization - 2020 Edition (visualcapitalist.com)

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South Dakota US

Last week, $5,000 was dropped on the ice of a local hockey rink. It was intermission and the crowd wanted to be entertained.

School teachers duked it out for the one-dollar bills to pay for classroom supplies.

One teacher came away with $592 for supplies and school programs in the so-called “dash for cash”. Another pocketed $380. The cash was donated by CU Mortgage Direct, a home lender.

News of the stunt went viral and many online commentators were rightfully horrified. Why were public school teachers battling each other at a hockey game for much-needed funding for pencils, paper and whiteboards.

Studies have shown a direct correlation with the rise of social media. politcal polarisation with no debate, populist leaders and a general 'dumbing down' agenda. Basically authoritarian control is on the rise....we can stop it 🤨

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🥳 Tories lose North Shropshire seat they held for nearly 200 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-59693102

The Conservatives have lost the North Shropshire seat they held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats.

The by-election followed the resignation of former MP Owen Paterson who was found to have breached parliamentary rules on lobbying, and had held a majority of nearly 23,000.

New MP Helen Morgan secured 17, 957 votes with a turnout of 46.3%.

The defeat caps a week of challenges for the prime minister.

Following a 34% swing, Ms Morgan, who stood for the Liberal Democrats in the 2019 general election, said it meant the "party was over" for Boris Johnson.

She thanked the people of North Shropshire "not just for putting your faith in me to be your champion in Parliament" but for the "hard work and sacrifices you have made over the past two years to get our communities through this awful pandemic".

 

 

    🤡                                            North Shropshire by-election: Tories lose to Lib Dems in humiliation for Boris Johnson

Shock defeat for Tories who had held the seat for almost 200 years

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/12/17/north-shropshire-election-result-tories-lose-lib-dems-win-labour/

The North Shropshire seat has returned a Conservative MP since 1830. It will prove a humiliating defeat for the Tories and will be regarded by many as a referendum on Boris Johnson’s leadership.
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'Boris, the party is over'

In her victory speech, Ms Morgan said the people of Shropshire have spoken and said: "Boris Johnson, the party is over".
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Christine Jardine, the Lib Dem Treasury spokesman who was at the count in Shrewsbury Sports Village, told The Telegraph it was clear "people from Buckingham to North Shropshire, safe Tory areas, are dissatisfied and are looking for alternatives and are coming to us".
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Ms Jardine added that the "final straw" for North Shropshire voters "was the shenanigans in Downing Street", regarding allegations of parties held at Downing Street last Christmas.
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PM's Peppa Pig gaffe cut through with voters

Earlier this week Lib Dem sources told The Telegraph that Boris Johnson’s recent Peppa Pig gaffe ..., which saw him lose his speech notes and appear to speak at random about the animation at a CBI event, had “cut through on the doorstep”, along with the Conservatives plans to make changes to the subsidy payments of farmers.

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Tory frontbenchers right now

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Labour backed eveything the tories have done for 2 years with no alternatives and the same exact same tax hikes etc. They even voted to push the restrictions that will ruin many lives and business's this xmas when half the tories rebelled.

Lib dems neither liberal nore democratic to boot.

Edited December 17, 2021 by Warning_Hazard

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Nobel peace price for Barack lol

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-vastly-undercounted-civilian-deaths-caused-by-airstrikes-nyt-2021-12

The US vastly undercounted civilian deaths caused by airstrikes in the Middle East, NYT investigation finds

 

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5 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Nobel peace price for Barack lol

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-vastly-undercounted-civilian-deaths-caused-by-airstrikes-nyt-2021-12

The US vastly undercounted civilian deaths caused by airstrikes in the Middle East, NYT investigation finds

 

Its a fuking joke

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Barack didn’t do mean tweets though 

but really I doubt presidents are much more than puppets

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4 hours ago, lucio said:

Barack didn’t do mean tweets though 

but really I doubt presidents are much more than puppets

They are all puppets, you dont get to be where they are unless your part of the brotherhood/sisterhood. Name me 1 leader atm whom you can trust? Not one is worthy. You dont get to decide shit, they are all pre-elected.