Comment on A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost

ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  facepalm thanks, fixed the titled

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  • Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t correct that. He’s wrong. It’s way more than 46, most multi-term presidents defeated several different contenders.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also a lot of people ran in the general election that weren’t members of the two major parties.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And I raaaan. I ran so far awaaaay.

        I just ran.

        I ran all night and daaaay!!!

        …I couldn’t get away.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I voted for Aunt Jemima in 1978, after I was born at age 6 without a face in 1983.

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• CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s right.

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• Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Statistically it probably wasn’t 45 men

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …I think I know what you’re getting at, but if I’m right, that’s pretty racist.

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    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      what are you talking about? racist? I think they’re saying that since ~2% of the population identifies as trans and more are probably eggs, we likely had one trans president before, but they weren’t out to the public, or perhaps even themselves.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn’t have added up to “1”.

        Which is why I said thats pretty racist.

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      • Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bingo.

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