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SpankMe

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65. Yep, DU's better than any progressive resource out there

Sun Nov 8, 2020, 01:14 AM

Nov 2020

Still...a post of mine was hidden by a jury a couple of days ago because I said I was pessimistic about our ability to prevail based on how fickle and fucked up the voters can be. (This was while the toss-up states were still counting and things were even closer than today.)

I mentioned that Miami-Dade went for Hillary by a margin of 30, but went for Biden by a margin of only 7, largely because of single issue Cuban voters spazzing out over Biden's policy to change Cuba through engagement rather than continuing the still ineffective embargo.

The jury hid it for - get this - promoting right wing talking points!

As awesome as DU is, and as grateful as I am for EarlG and former owner Skinner for bring it to us, there's still a streak of butt-hurt among some DU members that gets translated into mob rule. I hope DU will fix the jury system in the future.

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