HomerianSymphony @ HomerianSymphony @lemmy.world

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I don't understand. She's in New York City. She could probably bump into an Arabic speaker if she just stood on the sidewalk for five minutes.

Is the other party boasting on Twitter about their Arabic-language outreach?

Hence the rising fascism. The corporate class knows the only way to get the common people to continue to support them is through scaremongering about imagined threats.

I guess you could argue that using ð and þ like OP does makes English spelling clearer.

Right now, the digraph TH can make two different sounds (the sound in thy and the sound in thigh), and if a reader comes across a word or name they don't know (like Athena or Mathers), there's no way for them to know which TH sound it uses.

Using ð for the thy sound and þ for the thigh sound (which is what OP is doing) makes it clearer.

He probably doesn't know that Puerto Ricans can vote in US elections.

The only reason English abandonned the letters ð and þ is because we switched to using the French alphabet. I'm not sure I would describe that as natural change.

Old English was never consistent about the difference between thorn (þorn) and eth (eð), and they were used interchangeably in English writing.

(Unlike Icelandic, where þ is consistently the unvoiced sound and ð is the voiced sound.)

Wow, I can't believe ðere are so many people here who would downvote someone just for using variant orþography. SMH.

"Excited: Having great enthusiasm, passion and energy."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/excited

If Democrats don't know what "excited" means, that would explain a lot.

I don’t think that’s it. Jews tend to live in New York or California, which she has no chance of losing.

and redefine democratic excitement to be focused solely on Palestine

I’m not redefining anything. I’m telling you: Democrats are not excited about Harris.

“Sure, she supports genocide, but logically you should still vote for her for these other reasons” is not how you win an election.

If people aren’t excited to vote for your candidate, they stay home.

Yeah, probably. She should still do it.

Her problem isn’t just with the Palestinian community.

There was a surge of enthusiasm among Democrats when Kamala was first elected because people thought she might take action on Gaza. That enthusiasm soon evaporated when it became apparent that she wouldn’t.

People are desperate for anything and she’s giving them nothing.

They cannot deviate from the official position, tone, language, admission of guilt, etc.

Just have her hug an Arab child or something.

Why are they so bad at this?

If you're saying that you shouldn't vote unless your candidate has a chance of winning, you might as well tell every Democrat voter in a red state to stay home on election day.

There is no third option.

There is a third option.

doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

And what if they seem equally likely to escalate the situation?

Trump says he'll let Israel finish the job. Kamala says she disapproves of what's happening in Gaza, but will always support Israel and will always provide them with weapons.

Same fuckin' thing.

I kinda know what you're saying. I find liberals of both persuasions (Democrat and Republican) quite foolish and intolerable, and when the inevitable collapse of America comes (I'm guessing in the next four years, no matter which one wins), part of me imagines gloating over them with "See what your liberalism has wrought?!".

But a much more sensible part of myself realizes that a bunch of apolitical, ordinary working Americans are going to suffer in the collapse, including my relatives, and I probably will not feel like gloating.

(Me, I'm fucking off to Thailand as soon as I turn 50 and can qualify for a Thai retirement visa.)

The Telegraph is a right-wing rag.

That just means they're well-connected to the establishment and probably know something we don't.

For a mainstream British broadsheet to be running headlines like this (even in an opinion piece) is not a good sign.

This isn't clickbait. This is getting the public used to the idea of war.

Why don’t you just go outside and take a walk? I’d bet $100 some cardio will do you good.

That is a completely uncalled-for insult, and I am not going to bother conversing with someone who resorts to insults. Insulting me is not an argument.

Blocking you. Bye!