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Where Americans Have Been Moving Into Disaster-Prone Areas
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    Now 100%

    Flood Insurance Risk Rating 2.0 is kind of sneakily the second best environmental policy Biden got done (after IRA). Actually charging places in flood plains the amount it costs to rebuild, rather than subsidizing it so people repeatedly rebuild in places that flood all the time, will incentivize people slowly to move away from those areas, or at least pay what it costs to live there and know what they're getting into.

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  • Letters to the Editor: Your 'protest vote' for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trump
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    Now 60%

    More accurately, a vote for Stein is a vote for whichever major party candidate the voter wouldn't have voted for. In most cases, someone voting for the Green Party would vote for Harris, so it's a vote for Trump.

    That isn't a moral judgement, it's the facts of a two party system. -1 vote for Harris = +1 vote for Trump, no other votes matter.

    And that's not telling someone you don't consider their political beliefs. Considering their political beliefs, they should vote for the major party candidate that they agree with the most, or they will effectively be voting for the one they agree with least.

    That's not the approach with Trump supporters because Trump is the major party candidate they agree with most, by definition. If anything one should try to get Trump supporters to vote 3rd party, Libertarian or for RFK or whoever.

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  • Conservative Christians were skeptical of mail-in ballots. Now they are gathering them in churches
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    Now 33%

    There's zero evidence that it's happening "often" so I'm mostly using the space to point out that there's more to "church" in America than the white evangelical politics-forward churches they see represented on TV. Those pastors are on TV because they are the exception.

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  • Conservative Christians were skeptical of mail-in ballots. Now they are gathering them in churches
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    Now 33%

    Every church I've ever been to has been carefully non-partisan on candidates. It's not just tax status, they don't want to cause parishioners to feel unwelcome because they need the attendance.

    I know some churches are being overly political, sure, but I absolutely believe the majority are doing the right thing.

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  • Conservative Christians were skeptical of mail-in ballots. Now they are gathering them in churches
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    Now 77%

    Churches are social organizing spaces, they have been involved in politics since the very beginning. As long as they are doing it the right way, by encouraging voting but not voting for a particular candidate, and running voter registration drives, driving people to the polls, that's good. We want more people to vote.

    It's not hypocritical to once be skeptical and then learn that something is OK. That's called learning.

    I blame people for being obtuse when they were complaining with zero evidence that there was a problem, I don't blame people at all for working legally to increase voting.

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  • AOC doesn't want to be New York City mayor. Most likely, she has bigger plans
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    Now 92%

    She's obviously Bernie's heir apparent and will replace him as The Left Wing Democrat to come in 2nd in the primaries now that he's too old and she's old enough.

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  • They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.
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    Now 90%

    Overall kind of a lot of turnover actually...only one Clinton became president, and he was never VP. The other Clinton got beat out by the first black president for the nomination in 08, and then she lost to some guy who had zero political experience.

    If anything, we learned that being black doesn't exclude you from being president, being female doesn't exclude you from being a major party nominee, and you can still become president even running for office for the first time at age 70. The promise of the statement is more true than ever.

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  • USA approves $8.7bn aid package for Israel
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    Now 100%

    You'd have to renounce US citizenship, the US taxes citizens living abroad too. And after you've done all that, you won't have changed the amount of money going to Israel by a penny and you will have made it slightly more likely pro-Israel-funding politicians get elected because one vote against has left.

    So if anything you're overturning your life to make the problem worse.

    Donate to aid organizations if you want to improve the situation for Palestinians. That's what you can do.

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    Now 100%

    What I want to know is what's up with two-name first names like Mary Jo or Betty Lou. Did that happen before or after the invention of middle names?

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