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serious scrutiny in office
That's okay, you can avoid scrutiny by eating McDonald's three times a day, ending every communication with THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, and painting your face like a clown.
I'm sure he's picked up on these political "life hacks".
Those don't work in isolation though: you have to be a far-right psychopath (ie regular right wing) for them to work.
Can you even imagine having standards greater than demented, parasitic, criminally corrupt, malignantly narcissistic, pathologically lying, mentally-ill child rapist?
That would be crazy...
His life has already been combed through, one time he borrowed a table in college to use in a different room. He was a rapper and had a mustache for a while
What they actually mean is that, for years to come, they're going to ask him if he's extra sure he's not a terrorist in every single conversation
I AM NOT A TERRORISM THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO RHIS MATTER
He called a lady "auntie" that wasn't his biological aunt though
Say he's brown without saying he's brown lol
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Like every other culture uses familial terms for an extra layer of casual address, white people are the only ones that don't
I do. I know a ton of white people who do. My family does. This is true across family/friends ib multiple states. My kid calls our close adult friends uncle/aunt/gramma.
I guess some don't. I'm sure that's also true of some non-white people.
Sure, because that's the norm for humans
I'm sure you could find specific subcultures elsewhere that don't do this, but it's the default everywhere else. It's not just close family friends or people you grew up with, any friend from a generation up is Uncle or Aunty
I'm sure there's a reason for it, and it's probably a very interesting one
OK but saying white people don't do this is wrong
It's an exaggeration to illustrate a point... It's not literally true
But it is pointing at something that is true
Not in NYC you can't
Now that he's won and his victory was a landslide, this will be the most common strategy used by those that still care about appearing biased.
For every ranting lunatic on Fox News or in the White House, (and let's all let out a deep sigh over THAT Venn diagram), there will be another supposedly more reasonable person trying to blunt Zohran's momentum with "healthy skepticism". He can't do X. Y will be next to impossible. He has to compromise Z.
The thing is, that strategy can work. Public support is Zohrans best weapon, and it can be pulled through wearing people down. Get this young hotshot stuck in the mud and the shine might fall off real quick.
On the other hand, of Zohran pulls off a big win or two quickly, say in his first year or so, then he'll cement that anything is possible, destroy this line of attack and probably hold that office for 10 terms if he wants.
This feels a bit different. I feel as though public opinion might be colored by, if not outright informed by, his ability to make Trump freak out and devote more and more resources to the "Zohran" problem. If the American public, who by now is totally convinced that Trump if wholly against their interests, sees the object of their suffering seem afraid, that's psychologically anchoring. This man makes your abuser uncomfortable = he is safe.
Even if he's stonewalled, Zohran can truly put forward a message that this admin cannot ignore, even if nothing gets done. Nothing gets done because of Trump and he can totally spin that in the same way that no one blames the dems for the shutdown.
If the American public, who by now is totally convinced that Trump if wholly against their interests
Mate. What rock are you living under? 40% of Americans blame the D's for the shutdown as of last week. 40% of new yorkers voted for the corrupt narcissistic predator yesterday.
You seem to be making the same mistake as the average D did in 2016 and 2024; acting as though you aren't up against a corrupt billion dollar fascist psychological warfare operation — run by psychopaths and narcissists — who own 90+% of the media, social media, and information that the majority consume. Get out of your algorithm bubble and check your expectations against the actual data, else you'll be operating on false information, and reality will shatter your delusions eventually... check yourself before you wreck yourself!
100%. Trump is going to do everything in his power to make life in NYC hell, and with help from the right wing media he'll pin it on Mamdani. As you can see from today's New York Post cover, they're already laying the foundation.
See also this piece in The Atlantic, or go read the comments on any mainstream news coverage of this election.