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@Osint613 I like the real time updates. I also like the primary sources that back them up. Photos, videos, tweets from officials, press releases, etc.

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@LifeWithoutLack @Reinsch84 @stephenfhayes Show me where they explicitly used race to draw districts?

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@synopsi What if the aliens are LLMs?

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@Reinsch84 @stephenfhayes I could get on board. But why is it race can’t be one of many factors for college admissions, but can be for who ICE decides to ask for papers?

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@LifeWithoutLack @Reinsch84 @stephenfhayes It literally doesn’t. The main way to get a district thrown out is to consider race when drawing it.

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@Alt_Azn His closing arguments were pretty incredible. Also the prosecutors tried to argue it was impossible for the defendants child (an athlete) to go from a run to a sidestep, to a back pedal, so Kent did it live in the courtroom in a suit and dress shoes.

Just an amazing job by him.

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@TheLaurenChen Did you talk about "the bulge"?

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@X_BryanH I'm not a lawyer, but I was curious so I watched all 4 days. It didn't seem like they did a good job. They spent so much time trying to show that Mr. Chow was a computer whizz and it took forever for them to explain why they were trying to show that.

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@IAmDouglasKim He spent 3 years in prison because he was a “flight risk” and a “danger to the community”.

Why?

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@IAmDouglasKim I wonder why they thought an American citizen, former computer science professor, married to a CPA, with three children, was a huge flight risk?

What about him made them think he was a flight risk?

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@TheLaurenChen Also, speaking of racism, what about a guy who has 3 kids, was a professor of computer science, and has a CPA wife screams “flight risk”? Could it because he was a Chinese immigrant?

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@ASFleischman It’s a two way street. Building a defense can take time. The government has an army of people. They have a professional video editor to put together clips for their case. Many witnesses work for the government, etc.

Building a great defense requires time and patience.

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There is nothing to this other than them batching votes. Between 42% and 45% Pratt gained 5 figure vote change and Bass got 0 votes. Was that also a conspiracy?

Regardless, we should make our elections better and less opaque. We should have results much sooner.

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Red flag… 🚩🚩🚩

39.3% vote in…
Karen Bass had 117,579
Spencer Pratt had 86,323

42.4% vote in…
Karen Bass 130,429
Spencer Pratt 86,323

Virtually every candidate received votes except for Spencer Pratt. Impossible.

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@MJTruthUltra @SpaceFentDealer So is it a conspiracy that bass didn’t receive a single vote between 42% and 45%?

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@PatrickJnmarie @meghanncuniff Well, a jury, who over multiple days saw all the evidence, concluded that it was not murder. They saw more evidence and heard more testimony than I did

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@PatrickJnmarie @meghanncuniff Chow did not allege the child was threatening him. He alleged the child was pointing a gun at his son. He shot in defense of his son, who was at gunpoint

Also it was the 14 son that made the bad decision to run after the boy, not the father. The father says he ran after his son.

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@dilanesper Part of it is the flip has to be believable and not just for political points. Otherwise it is lose-lose. You don’t win the people who don’t believe you will follow through. You lose the people who are upset you flopped. This plagued Harris.

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@TheLaurenChen What is crazy is this dude was a professor of computer science and his wife a CPA. They just wanted to run their own business without being looted and assaulted.

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@reddit_lies We have government healthcare for the poor. It’s called Medicaid. Also it is their choice to live in an area that isn’t conducive to public transit. There is plenty of cheap housing in many democrat run cities with public transit.

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@PatrickJnmarie @meghanncuniff Protection from what? What would have happened if he didn’t have a gun? This entire incident would have just been a verbal altercation.

The store clerks son should not have pursued him so aggressively. But that child would still be here had he not had a gun.