#unlikley

[crystal-overdrive]

I use bg3 as an example for the choice design section of my class and I'm looking through all my footage to find a new choice to discuss...I don't think I have a single bit of video that doesn't have Gortash in it or my Tav in Banite armour. 🙈

[nervousgaylaughter]

good news: i got my crush’s phone number

bad news: it’s to discuss physics

good news: my crush told me she appreciates me

bad news: she priorly talked about how she liked the guy who reports sports on the morning announcements

good news: i added my crush on snapchat

bad news: she later referenced how she first downloaded snapchat so she could talk to a guy she liked

conclusion: this is the most progress ive ever made with a crush, however she is super straight

[casuallyodd]

Shapiro isn't bad, he's done some good things

Josh Shapiro - Wikipedia

But I'm glad he's wasn't chosen. I'll lay out why in a second but I'm curious about him being Jewish.

I didn't know he was Jewish when I first leaned about him. I never assume ancestry or group identity based on name or some specific body part alone (which seems the common way people say they "knew" a person was [HERITAGE]). So I want to ask:

When did you first learn Josh Shaprio is Jewish?

The first article I read/heard about him

Not immediately, but soon after I learned who he is

Several stories/months/years into knowing about him

Only because of this post

Only care to see results

Voting ended onAug 14, 2024

Anyways, back to my "disappointment" in Shaprio. Again, he isn't bad overall. He wouldn't have prevented me from voting for Harris/against Trump.

But he's done several things I do really dislike.

Shapiro supported enforcing Pennsylvania's anti-boycott law against Ben & Jerry's after the ice cream maker announced that it would not renew its license in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Shapiro called BDS a "stain" that Governor Wolf was right to prevent from taking hold in Pennsylvania and said it "is rooted in antisemitism."

...

Shapiro supports cutting Pennsylvania's nearly 10 percent corporate tax rate to 4 percent by 2025.

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On efforts to mitigate COVID-19, Shapiro has broken with some in the Democratic Party and opposes mask and vaccine mandates

Then there's his private school support

Shapiro supports a Lifeline Scholarship bill, which creates education savings accounts for children in failing public schools that can be spent on approved expenses including tutoring, instructional materials and private school tuition.

That doesn't sound bad! It isn't except it analogous to the "kid pays off fellow student's lunch debt". The solution given is a band-aid. Fix the actual problem. Help the public school not fail by giving it more funding and support. It also allows rich people to escape the "failing" school while poor people are stuck there. (Do we need to spend time on the likely racial breakout here?)

During the drafting of Pennsylvania's state budget in mid-2023, Shapiro supported a Republican-led school choice proposal that would distribute $100 million to families for private school tuition instead of sending their children to public schools.

By the way that move above was done without talking to his Democratic caucus. They were totally caught off-guard and surprised. It's not that there won't be compromise with Republicans. But the way it was done was dumb.

And more importantly, he again is pushing to take money from public schools and give it to private schools.

Note, all of this came before October 7, 2023 and his subsequent remarks about college protests in December (I think some of his remarks are dumb and others are misrepresented - they also came after I had already been disappointed in him).

I guess I was just surprised in the number of think articles saying Shaprio wasn't chosen based on antisemitism. And I'm sure there are those that hate him for that reason alone. And they should fuck off. Dumb reason. I was just curious how people knew he was Jewish so they could hate that about him.

[cryptcollector]

yes, i used to have braincells but past performance does not equal futire results so jot that down

[writing-sucks-and-is-hard]

On set with the fake siblings #unlikley #unlikelyseries #film #vancouver #hollywoodnorth #acting #costume #ZanCarmicheal #actress #siblings

[megmog2000]

"It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already over, 

there's nothing to do and there's nothing to say, 

'Til the man of her dreams comes alone, 

Picks her up and puts her over his shoulders, 

It seems so unlikely in this day and age"

[sweetmelolagnia-man]

64,72, and 98

Hmmm i actually got one ok, well…

64- At 8 i was getting dress and going to work.

72- My ringtone? Latch by Disclosure FUCK LOVE THAT SHIT!! (sorry but i really like that song)

98- Do i have some1 who makes me happy? MY MOMMA! Always there for me, and brings me food! (non-relative person; no)

[tillwedrop]

I wish I could save money, then again I also wish I could save the world. I don't either of those are going to happen.