Here's why voter suppression is a myth and not a reason I'll just vote blue no matter who.
In 2008 we all remember what the black voter turnout was like.
In 2012 voter turnout went down for white voters, Hispanic voters, and AAPI voters. Guess who it didn't go down for? Black voters. As a matter of fact according to the census bureau 2012 was the first time that black voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout.
Now yes there was a record low turnout of black voters in 2016 but that's likely due frustration of the black community after a decade of Obama doing absolutely nothing for them.
Move forward to 2020, even by Biden's own admission black vote helped him win the election.
The overall black vote increased in 2020 from 55.9% in 2016 to 58.7% in 2020.

So given this facts it appears more and more black people are voting. So why all the talk about voter suppression?

It's a scam to trick black people into voting for nothing.

As a community black people must stop getting so emotional about trigger words. There are certain things that as soon as black people hear them they become emotional and don't think logically anymore.

Some examples are racism, white supremacy, voter suppression, xenophobia, and racial inequality
I will also include groups such as Proud Boys, Neo Nazis, and KKK.

The Democrats have become well aware that they can bring up anything to do with these specific topics and it will trigger black people. They will become emotional and run to the polls just upon hearing anything to do with those specific topics.

The Democrats will talk about these such things just to trigger you. They will talk about and quote all sorts of stats about how black mothers are more likely to die during childbirth, how children and predominantly black schools have worse outcomes, and the racial wealth gap.

All the while the Democrats do absolutely nothing to address those issues.

I've learned to become cold-hearted. I don't become emotional when I hear anything about racism or white supremacy.

When the Democrats bring up these talking points and all they're doing is talking about it with no solution, my very next question is, " and what are you doing about it?"

Black people have to not be so triggered by the mere thought of racism. We as a people have dealt with it for over 400 years. It has to stop being an emotional trigger that you act on.

Otherwise the Democrats will bring these issues up every 2 years, never do anything to address them, and you will go vote. Absolutely nothing will change within that 2-year period and the Democrats will repeat the same thing.

I'm no longer vote based on racism. I no longer vote against the Republicans because they're racist. If that were the case then I have to somehow vote against the Democrats too.

I know I'm simply a person who votes on the issues. Which candidate is going to provide meaningful police reform with some form of punishment? Which candidate is taking steps to close the racial wealth gap? Which candidate is having a real conversation about reparations? Which candidate is proposing a hate crimes bill for black people? Which candidate is proposing resources solely for the black community?

Notice that I said candidate and not party. I will not vote down ballot for one party or another. And one candidate in a specific party has a policy that I like then I'll vote for that candidate. If the rest of them are on some BS then they won't get my vote.

As I've always said I'm not anti voting. I'm just not going to waste my time voting for someone who isn't offering me anything other than the promise that the Republicans don't have that seat because they are racist.

I don't care if a racist is in office. I only care that my vote goes to someone who is offering something to me.

The cancellation of “Batgirl” was just the tip of the iceberg. Warner Bros. Discovery in an SEC filing on Monday announced that it had written off between $2 billion and $2.5 billion worth of content in the July-September quarter — a pretty bright Bat Signal to Wall Street that underlines the company’s commitment to cost cutting.

What Warner Bros. Discovery’s army of accountants called “content impairment and development write-offs” are part of greater “pre-tax restructuring charges” recognized in its fiscal third quarter, totaling between $3.2 billion and $4.3 billion. The difference comes from other restructuring costs, like the severance packages that accompany mass layoffs, and the consolidation of offices and other facilities.


‘Batgirl’ Was Just the Beginning: Warner Bros. Discovery to Write Off $2 Billion in Content in Q3

I have one of the older Raspberry Pi boards, I made it into an emulator and I had always planned to do something else with it. But sadly as I was using it recently, the screen went dark and went back to my home screen (have roku tv). I tried restarting it, unplugged eveyrthing and so on, and still nothing. I think something got burnt out on the board.

Anyway, I want to try something different. I can always remake an emulation station, but I want to try some other fun projects that you can make with a Raspberry Pi board. Do you have any suggestions? I heard some people have made clocks, small form PCs, and other interesting things. There was a cool one where someone made a talking mirror.

Iranian man who didn't wash for half a century dies at 94

Halloween is next week, and I know for a fact we'll be seeing a ton of people dressing up as Jeffrey Dahmer. Especially after the recent popularity of the Netflix show, and how it caused people to "meme" it up. I've looked at this show from the side of the victims families and all this show did was make Dahmer more famous. Aren't we supposed to highlight the victims and people who got away instead of making the killer a star?

I'm into crime discussion and watch a few YouTube channels about this sort of stuff. But this show was just something to make profit. Families were not asked for their blessing. And from what I am aware of, the profits weren't donated or given to the victims families.

I'm also looking at other documentaries as a problem. There's a documentary called Dead Asleep, and it's about a man who killed a family friend and claimed he was sleep walking when it happened. He was charged with the crime, but I guess the family of the victim declined to be involved in the documentary, so only the man's families side it taken into account. I guess the woman's family tried to get the documentary taken down due to inaccuracies and all that.

But yeah, made me feel uneasy about all the other movies/documentaries that have come out about murders and the family are in turn re-traumatized by it all over again.

It has been rumored for a while now that The Rock's daughter, Ava Raine would be joining the WWE under the NXT brand. She recently debuted on NXT, and was aligned with Joe Gacy's faction Schism. I haven't been watching much of NXT as of late, but I heard that she was going to be debuting soon.

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Do you think she will have her father's talent? I wasn't into her promo, but she's just starting out, so there is room for improvement.

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My 5th Twitter account permanently suspended and it feels good.

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I wanted a deep dish pizza to go with my Chicago Step lessons so I chef’d one up from scratch.

I added on layer of provolone, a layer of Italian sausage, a layer of fresh mozzarella, a layer of pepperoni, another layer of fresh mozzarella, added the sauce and then sprinkled with Parmesan, Italian season and olive oil.

I will take video when I cut it.



#glutenfree

Over the years, I have noticed a very disturbing trend when it comes to black men that are rich and famous. No matter what, it seems, they always seem to fall off. I remember when I was a teen watching the O.J. Simpson Trial. For some reason, no matter how famous, black celebrity men seem to make mistakes that cause them to fall off into obscurity. They even got Bill Cosby. It's rare to see any of them ride off into the sunset until they leave this earth. Kanye was super rich, and famous; until he made the wrong move, Now, Kanye's finished, They got R. Kelly also. What do y'all think about this?

Thecoli is a forum just like 6zeros, I personally think 6 is better than Thecoli, but have you guys ever used the website? and what are your thoughts on it?

Have you ever experienced any subtle racism or overheard covertly racist remarks while going about your day?

If so, please list your experience here.

Rules:

1. Name only 1 experience per post. Each post will count as an experience.
(Example: 102 posts in a thread will count as 102 experiences with subtle racism)

2. If you experienced subtle racism more than once in your life, wait for another person to share their subtle racism experience before posting your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th....ETCth subtle racism experience.

3. Don't quote anyone unless you are listing your experience with subtle racism in the same post.


My recent experience:
I had to get seen at a facility building. I entered into a building and a white female entered into the same building a few seconds later. Then front desk secretary (a white female) immediately called to meet with the white female instead me.

Which do you prefer when utilizing the internet? Either it be a desktop PC, a laptop, your favorite tablet, phone or another device. For me I use a mix of devices. For work and play, I have a gaming PC that I use. It's nothing impressive, but gets the job done. I also utilize my phone and I also have a tablet somewhere that I use sometimes. But for the most part I use my desktop pc and my phone.

What do you prefer to use? Either it be for work, gaming, watching videos, etc.