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I don't believe any of what you wrote, and I haven't said anything remotely similar to that. There's no "conspiracy" here. Some people, who have been identified with cell phone tower pings and video footage at ballot boxes, voted hundreds of times each. That's it. You can make up all sorts of crazy things and accuse me of saying them, but I'm pointing out nothing more than what we know to be true.
It's illegal to put more than one ballot in a ballot box. We have videos of people putting in hundreds. We have their cell phone pings tracking them from the ballot box to the local Democrat HQ. That's it. No cybersecurity companies were involved in a conspiracy with judges. Someone got some ballots and a handful of people illegally put them in to mail-in boxes. End of story.
Either that or he actually believes what he writes, and thinks of our government as a kind, protective force filled with noble, selfless people who are fighting for our freedom and well-being.
How naive can you be? He absolutely would have gotten away with it had he voted 8 times. You have such blind faith that our government is looking out for us!
I'm not deflecting anything. You've written an entire paragraph that you say is "according to me," yet doesn't contain a single thing I've written, or believe to be true. Why/how would I bother to try to support a statement I've never made? What you're doing is called constructing a strawman. Rather than address what I wrote, you've written a paragraph of utter nonsense and said "well, since you believe this, you're wrong because..." and then proceeded to engage in a debate with an imaginary partner. Have fun with that!
The court cases you reference weren't about anything I brought up. Like I said, you are free to believe what you want. I'm left believing our government is corrupt, and filled with people who will do whatever is necessary to remain in power. You seem to trust them, and believe they have your best interests in mind.
And no, I don't "easily believe" anything. I was highly skeptical that anything irregular had happened, but I went into investigating it with an open mind. The evidence is overwhelming, and I can't pretend otherwise.
Nothing has been debunked in that film. You're misconstruing the lawsuit filed by one person, Mark Andrews, a voter from Georgia falsely depicted illegally voting, as somehow disproving the entire film.
Look at ssa.gov for evidence.
I'm not a Trump supporter, so you can stop with that line of attack. Beyond that, consider what you wrote.
The fact that other Republicans won in many places where Trump lost is telling. In Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin there were 450,000 ballots only had a vote for Biden, and no one else. That's extremely unusual. Some people will only vote for president, but nearly all voters vote for at least some other candidates or issues.
The problem is that that doesn't prove anything. There are numerous other anomalies. Benford's Law is a mathematical principle applied in analyzing the validity of statistics and financial records. The IRS uses it to find people who cheat on taxes. In every election up to 2020, it held true. In the 2020 election, the were numerous results that were significantly anomalous, all in key swing states, and all in the favor of votes for Biden. Again, is it proof? No. But the odds of it not being due to ballot stuffing are small.
There are 19 counties that are considered Bellwethers. The winner of those counties has won the election every time in the last 10 elections. 18 voted for Trump, making him the first to lose in that scenario in decades.
The documentary 2000 Mules meticulously documents people who voted multiple times, using video footage, cell phone data, and more. Their phones show them at local Democratic HQ, then at the ballot box dropping off stacks of ballots.
Can you prove this in a court of law? Probably not. But is it obvious to anyone paying attention? Of course it is. Were it reversed, and had Biden been hosting rallies for thousands of people all over, and everyone in the country was talking about him, while Trump hid in a basement and was ridiculed, and then Trump won, you'd be touting the above evidence. It's because your guy won that you are willing to ignore the obvious.
Just rewatched it in preparation for season 4. When the rest of the family can finally see Ben... chills. And the hard cut at the end, leaving you wondering. It hasn't lost any of its power.
Depends on whether or not illegals are registering to vote. :)
Very true. A lot has been written about the Japanese who were placed in internment camps during World War II, but Italians were also interred. There's a long history of anti-Italian prejudice in this country that has been forgotten.
It's more of an old-fashioned thing. The example I gave above is that the Italian-born Rudolph Valentino, perhaps the most famous movie star of his time, was known as the Latin Lover. It wasn't until the Catholics abandoned the Latin mass in the 1960s that the term Latin became less commonly associated with Italians.
From personal observation, my dad's family came from Sicily and my mom's from Mexico. When the two families got together, they disagreed about most everything. The one thing they all did agree on was that we were all Latin.
Today, most people think of Central and South Americans when the term Latin is used.
Shockingly, you're resorting to insults and made-up, straw man attacks.
You believe what you want. You can even continue to make up things I didn't say and attribute them to me. I pointed out that the term Latin has long been used to refer to Italians as well as Latin-Americans. Why this bothers you so much, I don't know, but based on your fairy tale retelling of history, I can guess.
If you really believe they need 2.5x their budget, and if you believe what studios say a given film cost, then sure.
I believe a more realistic viewpoint is that Hollywood exaggerates the costs of movies, in large part to write off more against their taxes than they probably should, but also to fortify the mythology around the entire industry. Much like NBA players heights are exaggerated, it's good for business.
The profit to the studio from the tickets sold was probably about $43 million. But, studios also receive money from corporations and other sponsors for all manner of things. The MCU films get about $100 million per movie from that alone. Challengers likely received nowhere near that much, but it wouldn't be crazy to assume they got $10-15 million for various product placements or shared advertising.
The film likely made the studio a small profit, but there's no way for us to know.
If my relating facts bothers you, let's drop this. Everything I wrote is verifiably true. You offering a false version of history based on wishful thinking of what you want to be true rather than what is true.
Mexicans are descended from Spanish people, which is why they speak Spanish.
I don't know that you're the most Italian person ever if you've never heard another Italian refer to himself as Latin. It's certainly more of an old-fashioned term, but if you go back to the '60s and earlier, the term Latin was synonymous with Italian.
The Latin Grammys, and the Latin music category, is specific to Spanish-speaking songs from the Latin-American countries. That circles back to my original point: both my Sicilian family and my Mexican family think of themselves as Latin, and both thought of the other side as Latin, too.
Latin was the language of the Romans. The actor Rudolph Valentino was known as the Latin Lover. Latin has forever been synonymous with Italians. My entire family of Sicilians, as well as all the Sicilian and Italian families with whom we interacted all use the term Latin to mean "of Italian origin."
The term is also used to describe the Spanish-colonized people of the Americas, as their ancestors came from Spain, another Latin country that traces its roots to the same Roman empire as do the modern Italians.
You're Latin, whether you call yourself that or not.
Almost the same thing. My family is Sicilian on one side and Mexican on the other. When the two families would get together, about the only thing they could agree upon is that we were all Latin.
She's Italian, so yes, she's Latin.