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milestogo (23,162 posts)

I'm really tired of rich white male victimhood.

Sick to death of it, in fact.

CousinIT (12,670 posts)
1. You and me both. SOOOOOO sick of it. n/t

Rebl2 (17,883 posts)
7. Sorry
Should have said parents. Had an old ex boyfriend and his mother thought he could do no wrong. He disrespected her and eventually me. His father wasn’t around much and didn’t have a lot to do with his upbringing. Oh and they were in no way rich.

orchlight (6,977 posts)
6. I'd hazard the fathers hold equitable culpability as well

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221207949

Do you ever wonder why so many Blue states refuse to hand over their voter rolls to the federal government?

After all, there is a federal law that requires certain measures to ensure ballot integrity, passed in the wake of the 2000 Florida debacle. It requires, among other things, that states clean their voter rolls of ineligible voters.

But these states refuse to do that, and they refuse to show that they aren't breaking federal law.
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Judicial Watch, an invaluable conservative organization, sued the State of Oregon for its practice of mailing ballots to its "eligible voters" without ensuring that the voters were, indeed, eligible. Rather than face the lawsuit and the inevitable discovery proving their intention to cheat, the state settled it, agreeing to clean 800,000 ineligible voters off its rolls.

800,000. In a state of 4.3 million people, with only 3.4 million registered voters. That's about one out of four voters on the rolls. And those are only the ones we know about.

They'll be hard pressed to identify a liberal who has been assassinated by a conservative. However, I can think of plenty of conservatives and liberals whom liberals have killed or attempted to kill.

The homelessness crisis in Multnomah County, Oregon, is among the worst in the country. Home to deep-blue Portland, where the deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023, according to data from the county health department, Multnomah has a per-capita homeless rate of 1.3 percent, and some shelters are closing due to budget problems.

That means that there is more demand than ever for the county's public housing resources. Multnomah allocates those resources using a points-based system, which refers those with the requisite number of points to public housing. The county considers factors such as how long a person has been homeless, whether he or she is survivor of domestic violence, and, if applicable, the age of his or her children.

It then weighs those factors against some less conventional criteria: whether the person is a minority, a non-native English speaker, or "LGBTQIA2S+."
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The rubric, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request, is "designed to prioritize … BIPOC households, LGBTQIA2S+, [and] people with disabilities," according to a Frequently Asked Questions pamphlet. It awards 1 point for "interest in LGBTQ services," 2 points for "English as a second language," and another 2 points for "interest in culturally specific services," a catch-all term for Portland's race-based housing programs.
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The Free Beacon identified five states and dozens of cities that have incorporated racial preferences into their housing programs. The preferences operate through various mechanisms, including grant requirements and funding formulas, and could jeopardize the funding of any publicly financed projects subject to antidiscrimination laws. Several use points-based rubrics similar to Multnomah County's, giving race more weight than poverty or unemployment.

In at least two states, Maryland and Minnesota, race appears to be the single largest factor in allocating certain forms of rent relief.

The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings.