#voting pattern

[indizombie]

Pre-poll surveys, exit polls, and analyses of election results emerging from Karnataka have all made it apparent that the highest preference for the right-leaning BJP – which, at least symbolically, frowns upon freebies – was shown by the wealthiest and most educated segment. Preference for the left-leaning Congress and JD(S) – which campaigned on the plank of welfare schemes – increase as we proceed to the poorer and less educated segments. Three of the four districts in Karnataka where the BJP managed to win a majority of the Assembly seats are Bengaluru Urban (16/28), Dakshina Kannada (6/8), and Udupi (5/5), districts that constantly top the Human Development Index and per-capita income rankings in the state, statistics that indicate a higher concentration of the rich. Everywhere else, the Congress and the JD-S won a majority of the seats. This dissonance in the voting pattern can be attributed, at least in part, to the increasing inequality between the rich and the rest, in Karnataka and across India.

Rakshith Ponnathpur, ‘The rich, the rest and freebies: Unpacking a problematic narrative’, Deccan Herald

[socialjusticeinamerica]

We somehow lost 11 million votes since 2020 and Chump somehow gained 12 million since 2016.

🤔🤦🏾🤦

C’mon man…every poll, odds maker, every exit interview, every single indicator showed Harris either ahead or dead even. Plus Trump spent months telling his people not to vote because he didn’t need them as he already had enough to win. Something’s fishy.

[looking-for-wisdom]

just finished Derry Girls (2018)

[robbyykeene]

might go quiet on here for a while. not feeling particularly fond of this show or charitable towards its violent misogyny at the moment. for obvious reasons i hope

[dostoyevsky-official]

one of the most despondent results is the local loss of democrat iwen chu in ny state senate seat 17 to republican stephen chan. chu lost primarily because of concerns about a crime wave that empirically does not exist, and opposition to a homeless shelter over fears it would increase crime (they don't; a homeless shelter would in fact decrease crime and aggressive interactions)

[coffinpal]

Wondering how your au turtles will react to seeing all the other turtles have masks that are a different color for each turtle

The others are too attached to their red masks but Mikey met these two lovely lads and really wants one now!!

Featuring:

Color-coded Mikey: @camilieroart

Teenage Mutant Neglected Turtles Mikey: @nerves-nebula

Make sure to vote for them @tmntaucompetition !!!

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Round 1 Match 38

[greencheekconure27]

Another one for the tankie blocklist:

As exemplified by the posts below, @ casanova-lives's mama did indeed raise a stupid fuck. Glad OP is at least aware of this.

And as a bonus, the person I found their blog through (accidentally, because their url raised a red flag), @pattern-recognition

Big Stalin fan this one:

Stalin pictures, holodomor denial, komsomolka, zvaigzdelasas, and pro Russian propaganda: classic combination.

[parrotxx]

which characters should be in tpq best character tournament? (besides the potatoes)

[hacash]

as a white woman myself the NBC poll that found 53% of white women voted for Trump is going to live rent-free in my head from now on, I'll be honest.

because from the way much of social media has been covering this election, the large male voting spike for Trump means that every man in America (and, because of how US centrism seems to work, every man on the planet by association) is misogynist down to the DNA, either through this vote or through not stopping his fellow male friends and families' votes. the fact that millions of men voted against Trump is irrelevant! this is all about treating people as a monolith!

so, with that approach in mind, logically that means you can only approach the 53% fact in one of three ways. namely:

much in the same way: hold that every white woman is also guilty of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, transphobia, etc etc, by dint of either voting Trump or not stopping her fellow white women voting Trump. the fact that you might know white women who voted against him doesn't matter! again, we're treating this as a monolith! and as we've been seeing a lot of posts insisting that all American women should now be going out of their way to 'make all American men miserable', logically it follows that everyone should also be shunning every white woman they know, making them miserable, isolating them, etc etc, a practice which I can't say sounds particularly fair, kind, or effective in shoring up support against the Cheeto Nero at all.

hold that every man voted for Trump knowing precisely how awful he is and should be punished accordingly....but those women who voted for him didn't fully appreciate what they were doing! they've been sucked into the patriarchal thought-trap! they're not going to benefit from a Trump presidency at all (no shit) which means they're less culpable than the men who voted for Trump! now, personally I don't feel that arguing that in comparison to men, women are hapless babies who aren't capable of fully understanding the consequences of their actions (even when they do something shit) is wholly in line with feminist values, but maybe someone else can explain to me why I'm wrong there.

accept that every vote for Trump served to put us in the shit but also accept that nuance exists right across the gender spectrum. accept that there's going to be a whole range of motivations for voting Trump amongst the entire electorate, and that trying to 'punish' any particular demographic probably isn't going to do any good whatsoever (and that doubling down on gender separatism is pretty much playing right into the MAGA-handbook).

like, keep yourself safe from the downright dangerous elements in your community, absolutely. but in general, if people are going to read that statistic, sit with it a while, and then decide to extend grace and the benefit of the doubt to the demographic of white women by virtue of not assuming every white woman is a racist, transphobic misogynist Trump-voter until proven otherwise - which is probably the healthiest approach in the coming years - it's both easy and right to do the same thing with the men you know. (and, hey, it might even win a bit more additional support against the angry wotsit, which at the moment is not to be sniffed at)

[90363462]

AND ANOTHER ONE that's cozying up to the 🍊🐵 bc he might need A PARDON

I KEEP TELLING Y'ALL that there are DOZENS of these D-list celebs who are in TROUBLE TROUBLE with the FEDS behind some crypto fluckery

If they ain’t doing that then they are associating with pedos

Head on a SWIVEL, Fam

[muirneach]

friends romans countrymen…

[bulbabutt]

Grumbling loudly cuz notes get out of hand

I don’t wanna hear shit on that post about “I’m not concerned with who someone voted for cuz both candidates bad” that’s not the fucking point the pOINT WAS THAT THAT PERSON IS A FASCIST AND CELEBRATING IT AND NOBODY SAID ANYTHING

[devilsskettle]

no offence but are you fucking kidding me rn

[here-there-were-dragons]

i'm seeing three times as many people bitching in the tag about the very idea that someone might not like this breed than i see people actually expressing unambiguous dislike for this breed