Republicans currently hold the presidency as well as majorities in the House and Senate. Given those election outcomes, I’m curious how people who believe voter fraud is widespread reconcile the two. What evidence or reasoning shapes your view?

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Even in the southeastern United States, where gas is usually less expensive, it is climbing to new heights. Even with a hybrid vehicle, it's difficult to spend this kind of money.

TLDR: I am a mixed-race woman and a registered independent. I find both sides morally corrupt for many reasons, but I truly believe that most people could agree on most things if they were reframed.

Edit to add: I am using"identity politics" as people identifying who they are fundamentally with a political party in the same way people do with sports teams, and looking past corruption because of it.

I have close friends on both sides of the aisle, and I think the thing that makes people disagree is simply the us vs. them that media and culture have created.

For example:

Yes, racism does exist. As a mixed person in a mostly white area, I have experienced it firsthand. It is real, and yes, people make comments and assumptions. Yes, people can assume your intelligence and political ideologies, and yes, it can affect school and work. However, when I am surrounded by people who are all on the other side of my mixed race, I experience it with them as well, and often to a worse degree, being labeled as white and therefore the entirety of my opinions and life experience are somehow invalid.

Gun violence is not ok, and we should try to do something to stop it. However, if an intruder were to break into my home, I would want to have one to defend my family.

Abortion is often framed as killing a baby vs. taking away a mother's rights, but I think there is value on both sides; both people are worried about someone not having a say in their own life. On one side, it is for the child, and on the other side, it is for the mother. I think getting an abortion for no reason isn't right personally, but people aren't out here just doing it for no reason, and some people don't seem to grasp that. For example, if the mother is in a situation in life where it is dangerous for her to have a kid, then she should absolutely save herself over the unborn child. I am a woman, but If i were a man with a woman as my partner, and she were to become pregnant and want an abortion and not tell me about it beforehand, I would be hurt and quite distraught, as I too had a role in the creation of the child. However, in the same vein, if me or someone I love's life was at risk or an unstable situation, I would want her or I to get an abortion as soon as possible and this shouldn't be able to be taken away by someone else. And this of course, applies to rape and incest, which is not a question at all. Abortion is a medical treatment, but it is not often treated as such by either side.

Obviously, everyone should have equal rights. This should apply to all races, genders, sexual orientations, creeds, etc. And it isn't right for ideologies to be pushed down people's throats; this includes both religion and sexual/gender ideologies. These 2 sorts of communities often fill the same spot in people's lives, and people do not realize this when they are stuck on their own side. One side tells a story that the other side wants everyone to be straight, and the other side claims that the other side wants eveyrone to be gay, and they both treat opposing this other threat as their "religion." However, if you were to talk to most people outside of the internet, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone with either of these extreme opinions; again, it is used to stir people up against each other. Everyone should be able to exist and live their lives and make their own choices.

I feel like it is not so hard to have decent human respect for people and consider that each person cares about things based on their own lived experience. And yet, politics tends to turn quite tribal, and it is very disheartening.

Anyways, I digress. Do you all think that most people could agree given the chance?

They used to be in the news every day and now nothing?

As both were independent states, and both were annexed. How is one different from the other?

And how is the government going to stop this? Will they give them what they want, do they even have the funds to do that?

You could also choose from the current 5 permanent members.

feel free to elaborate why!

Currently the permanent members are: the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia, China.

Im talking about for those who once supported an idea without knowing the potential downsides. But once they got into power, you're having 2nd thoughts about it, expressing it in regret thinking that it was a mistake.

Mine: Trump getting into power and supporting him because of SpaceX as well as his personality towards America, even if I had 2nd thoughts about it because his stance toward artemis. But once Elon granted keys to the Government and laid people off thier jobs, I may be thinking, man I should've voted for Kamala instead, she was right about whats going to happen under his 2nd term. Idk, maybe I was just used to President Joe Biden being a non-issue for me.

Edit: Another 180 incoming. The Recent Pro Palestine protests in New York City have been openly supporting Hamas as well as these people turning on Mamdani for hanging out with Jewish indivduals, literally turning on him.

I think many of us are kinda envious of the French.

Lately this subreddit came on my feed. Every post is literally about Israel not Berlin and you get banned for bringing up any fact or evidence. It’s weird.