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budaatum:
No society loves Handmade Tails, and societies that have Handmade Tails imposed on them would never let their people vote.

Good thing America isn't that society, and will democratically reject dump, again.

raumdeuter:
Any society that loves handmade should put it on votes and choose to. Its the point of democracy

raumdeuter:
Kamala a woman says she is Okay with her name
Amazon a woman says she is okay with the name and understands
Millions of women say they are okay with it and understand that the unique identifiers

But you the perpetual loser a failure, a victim who has never spent 1 second as a woman is whining on behalf of women who are smarter than you

LordReed:
I dunno but I see it the other way round. Calling females by their first name to me in empowering since their first name is theirs while their surname is their fathers' or husbands'. To me calling a woman by her surname is kinda "shifting the glory" to either her father or her husband.

raumdeuter:
There are thousands of immigrants and people with foreign sounding first names or last name that are doing great

That you are a serial failure has nothing to do with your last name. I am certain the same last name you blamed for your numerous failures in life, if you go on linkedin and search your exact last name you will see many people with that same name doing well in America

That shows you that failure is peculiar to you as a person and nothing to do with your name

This young guy in Bidens admin in Treasury his last name is Adeyemo,
Barack Hussein Obama got into top law firms and became a Senator and 2 times president but you think a name is the problem

I am not shocked your retardedd self was here bitchingg about women going by their first names, when women dont see a problem with it

If you notice, its a unique thing with you. Failure, excuses, victimhood this is why I am certain you wont amount to anything in life

raumdeuter:
Did you change your last name or employers didn't see your African sounding last name too?

AmazonTopaz:
Read the responses to this thread.

https://x.com/dremilyportermd/status/1841494935842734086?t=wJyIwKOx6AMx-vreYk6Y8w&s=19[/quote]I've gone through tons of posts on a lot of threads. X, Reddit. etc. etc.
I struggled with it last month when I first heard something similar.
I see both sides, but the more I read, the more I was convicted about the implicit bias in it.

So, I think both can be true.
It can be true that Kamala uses that as her brand, and to evince some familiarity.
And it can also be true that overall in society we call women their first names to take their power away.
I don't see loggerheads there. Biden likes people calling him Joe as well (His bus had his name Joe in fact, just like Kamala). But we refer to him as Biden more often.

So, this post on the Tweet you linked speaks to part of the reasons why why I think there is a bias. And I'm sure part of the marketing in her name was to make her not threatening to men, like those men in PA, WI, etc. etc.

I think we should think about WHY a woman’s marketing/election team may have felt the need to use her first name in the first place. So she’s more “relatable” or “demure”? It’s so engrained most of us don’t even realize it.

I think the Mayo Clinic study is the telling one. Females Doctors were called by their first name more frequently than men. Those women aren't marketing themselves using their first names.

raumdeuter:
You are a lunatic. And I am being kind to you

I assume you have a Nigerian sounding last name yet you got a job or you think your Nigerian name is why you are jobless?

When you were still in diapers a Barack Hussein Obama worked in these lawfirms you cannot step into

raumdeuter:
Did you test this theory out or you just swallowed it hook, line and sinker because you subcontracted your thinking process out?

Its only a real thing for deranged mind like yours. Nancy Pelosi is a female and she is a politician, Margaret Thatcher is female and a politician, Elise Stefanik is female and a politician, Amy Klubacar is female and a politician, Tulsi Gabbard is female and a politician. Does this theory work on them?

When you are in a lunatic driven rabbit hole, then stop digging

Or do you refer to Nancy Pelosi as Nancy, Sonia Sotomayor as Sonia, Margaret Thatcher as Margaret, Elise Stefanik as Elise? or Okonjo-Iweala as Ngozi? Or these are not women enough?

AmazonTopaz:
@Ijebos I understand his point


Even Kamala will prefer to be called by her first name and I understand the rationale.

I call her Kamala too because it is her unique identifier for me.

I can also see your point too but I don't think that is a big deal.

Tina Peters, just sentenced to 9 years in prison, told the judge that people who want her to go to prison are in trouble because God doesn’t like people messing w/his kids & she is a child of God. She then said she couldn’t go to prison because she sleeps on a special mattress. pic.twitter.com/vKI1iOvdfG

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 3, 2024

AmazonTopaz:
@Ijebos I understand his point


Even Kamala will prefer to be called by her first name and I understand the rationale.

I call her Kamala too because it is her unique identifier for me.

I can also see your point too but I don't think that is a big deal.

Women doctors are twice as likely to be called by their first names than male doctors
Women patients were 40% less likely to use their doctors' first names.

A Cornell University report from 2018 noted how this discrepancy starts young — college students were nearly 56% more likely to call a male professor by his last name on the review site Rate My Professor. Male and female doctors, professors, and even vice presidents all have to earn their degrees and titles the same way, and yet we insist on calling professional women by their first names.

AmazonTopaz:
No disrespect to your niece but her viewpoint is not helping anyone. If she is concerned she should volunteer and help Harris get a Democratic Congress.
Not wanting her to win based on hypotheticals is silly particularly when the alternative is a lunatic.

raumdeuter:
You don't need to give a shit about my opinion. People are called by whatever name is Unique and will avoid less confusion. I have provided multiple examples but you cannot think which is why our education is always questioned and I am certain you are the dumbest poster here because no one will bring such bullshitt reasoning when just 3 mins of reasoning will sort it out. You so called implicit bias theory was destroyed by me in less than 2mins. That is superior education. After getting schooled you likely realized how stupidd that opinion was instead of admitting, you start Yada yada, Word salad, trump supporter like a toddler learning to speak

I am asking you

Now lets test your theory and tell me if you call these famous women by their first name or last name Nancy Pelosi, Sonia Sotomayor, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Margaret Thatcher

Most people will call the above women by their last name Pelosi, Sotomayor, Thatcher, Stefanik, Okonjo-Iweala and not their first name because that name is distinct enough and causes less confusion to the average listener

Or do you refer to Nancy Pelosi as Nancy, Sonia Sotomayor as Sonia, Margaret Thatcher as Margaret, Elise Stefanik as Elise? or Okonjo-Iweala as Ngozi? Or these are not women enough?

Well, Democrats have a problem defining what a woman is anyways

JD Vance refused to answer this question at the debate but he told us Donald Trump won the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/VyGrnCVAaw

— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) October 3, 2024

budaatum:
Reminds me of John Kerry for president. He sounded so much like he was campaigning to post graduates that even undergrads didn't understand what the heck he was saying.

Dump, of course, tacked right, and talks hilly billy, and is 'understood' by deplorables. He says great but they know he means 'white'.

raumdeuter:
Extreme foolishness and the victimhood has done irreparable damage to you thats why you are always a victim and can never be succesful

A name is to serve as a unique identifier as much as possible, So people address you by a name that is distinct and will cause less confusion.

If you say Harris, there are many Harris that can be confused for each other but if you say Kamala there are fewer Kamala than Harris. Kamala will serve more as a unique identifier for Kamala Harris than say Harris

When you say Clinton, There was a popular Clinton that people already know which is Bill, to distinguish, you have to say Hillary which zeroes in on the person you are speaking about same thing with Michelle Obama

The same logic when people are describing Bush. If you say Bush, there are likely different people that can be confused for it, That is why people use the differentiators like HW, W or Jeb. Actually When Jeb Bush ran his campaign he was called Jeb all through and he was not a woman
Even in Basketball, While some male ballers are more popular by their first name, some are more popular with their last name. People address Lebron Shaquille Kobe with their first names and Jordan, Durant, Westbrook by their last names or in your view its implicit bias that's making people address men differently?

Now lets test your theory and tell me if you call these famous women by their first name or last name Nancy Pelosi, Sonia Sotomayor, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Margaret Thatcher

Most people will call the above women by their last name Pelosi, Sotomayor, Thatcher, Stefanik, Okonjo-Iweala and not their first name because that name is distinct enough and causes less confusion to the average listener

Or do you refer to Nancy Pelosi as Nancy, Sonia Sotomayor as Sonia, Margaret Thatcher as Margaret, Elise Stefanik as Elise? or Okonjo-Iweala as Ngozi?

raumdeuter:
You have failed all your life in every endeavor that says enough about you

Call the vice president by her (last) name
The Sunday afternoon President Biden stepped back from the 2024 race, I was on the phone with my mom. “Well, Kamala is the obvious pick,” we agreed. Later that day after Biden’s support for the vice president was announced, I was on several text threads, most of them echoing something like this: “I’m so excited about Kamala;” “Come on, Kamala;” “Kamala looks great;” “Very excited about Kamala!” and simply “Kamalaaaaaaaa.”

No one referred to her as “Vice President Kamala Harris,” the VP, Kamala Harris, or even simply Harris. And while it may seem trivial, before this goes any further, we need to start calling the vice president by her full name.

A 2022 Mayo Clinic study found that female doctors were twice as likely to be called by their first name compared with their male counterparts. And this happens across professions and class lines — even to first ladies like Dr. Jill Biden who happen to also be college professors. A Cornell University report from 2018 noted how this discrepancy starts young — college students were nearly 56% more likely to call a male professor by his last name on the review site Rate My Professor. Male and female doctors, professors, and even vice presidents all have to earn their degrees and titles the same way, and yet we insist on calling professional women by their first names.
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2024/08/09/vice-president-kamala-harris-election-laura-hertzfeld

IjeBos:
My man, 4 hours a day.
You spend 4 hours a day on Nairaland.
You should go and hide and never show your face again.

Holy Sweet Jesus, 4 hours a day since 2014?
Dude, noone is causing your failures but you. Not the immigrants, not other black people.
Lol.

ObaIgwe1:
You supported Biden 4yrs ago? That is news to me.

And what economy realities are you talking about? How come high inflation was global phenomenon immediately after covid? You should appreciate Bideneconomics, you would have been worse off.

The inflation started with The Biden rescue plan which was an injection of government spending, at $1.9 trillion (or about 9 percent of overall U.S. economic activity, i.e. GDP) at that time. This boosted overall spending in the economy, which, in turn, counteracted the sharp rise in unemployment and spending cuts by both households and businesses that resulted from the COVID lockdown.

Remember, Biden’s American Rescue Plan focused on direct stimulus checks to households, providing funds for state and local governments to sustain their public health, education and public safety programs, the expansion of unemployment benefits, the protection of workers’ pension plans, and expanding the tax credit program for low-income families with children.

The Biden rescue plan, did indeed prevent a 1930s-level economic collapse in 2021. Unemployment in the U.S. could well have risen to perhaps 15-20 percent in 2021. But this achievement by the Biden administration has gone mostly uncredited, given that it succeeded in preventing a calamity that did not happen, as opposed to advancing a positive economic breakthrough of some sort.

But the good news is that inflation is coming down, economy is stronger, more jobs have been created and things are looking forward...

Just so bad that Biden is made to take the fall for Covid measures which Trump badly mismanaged. Americans should be grateful for Bidens economic measures not crucify him... but of course the easy thing to do is to blame the current government for the inflation without looking at the cause.

Xavier5:
Being attacked by the left and the right for my "unpopular views" na normal thing sha.

You should see me having to explain my Liberal values whenever I'm called "not being liberal enough" because I chose to appeal to the liberal value of reasoning which made me not to propagate those narratives of the "powers that be of the left" that are ridiculous and false. E funny die 😂😂😂

Make I no even talk about that of MAGAs whenever I oppose Trump, that one na another case 😂😂😂😂😂.



Wonders 😂😮

Me, after 2016 in which I supported Hillary (I'm still heartbroken she didn't win. When she gave her speech at the DNC, one of the things that came out of my mouth was, "This should have been the President." ), 2020 I was just looking at Trump and Biden like a zombie, same way I'm looking at Trump and Kamala 😂😂😂.


#Xavier

raumdeuter:
2016, Hilary spent 760M on campaign Trump spent less than half of that. Yet she lost

Maybe these ad will make groceries cheaper or reduce the cost of living. Haley voters for Harris you mean Democrats who tried to vote in GOP primaries?

Haley herself is supporting Trump

Haley supporters ignore your economic realities, ignore the failed policies of the last 4 yrs, ignore that you cant afford the same things you could last year and just vote against your economic interest because the "Haley for Harris" campaign will subsidize and make things cheaper for you

AmazonTopaz:
For Kamala to be a successful President she needs the House and Senate to make any meaningful change. I agree with you, this is a big shoe to fill because if she messes up, misogynists will tell us that women should not be in power despite incompetent men like Trump, Hoover, Reagan etc being in power.

I want her to succeed and I hope she gets to nominate SCOTUS Justices if she stays for up to 8 years.

Xavier5:
Na which Harry Potter stunt you wan pull 🤣🤣🤣



Everybody with their view on the issue. Same way a couple of folks I've engaged with told me Walz made an unwise choice being Kamala's VP. In their view, a man of his capacity should have been the main guy. That's just it.

This is election, so many likes and dislikes are flying all over the place, but one thing is certain, Vance and Walz, love them or hate them, are way more presidential than their principals. For Trump and Kamala, I'm so livid with GOP and DEMS.

Xavier5:
One, I don't vote who I feel is not worthy of my vote. I need to be at peace with my conscience.

Two, nothing will make Americans lose their power to vote, not now, not in the future, except you are trying to tell me that the democratic and governmental institution is weak. But, it's not, it's stronger than anyone, be it Trump or Kamala, so how will "we the people" lose the right and power to vote?

It's boring and annoying having to hear this narrative. "Trump is a threat to democracy. Trump is this, Trump is that..." All that's bullshit, neither Trump or Kamala is greater and stronger than America's democratic and governmental institutions. These institutions stands supreme over all. So no right or power is going anywhere.
As it should be... 😎

#Xavier

Xavier5:
MY THOUGHTS ON THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

Honestly, I have to admit, the vice presidential debate was the presidential debate we were looking for but never got. For the first time in a long while, we were exposed to a civil, respectful, passionate, smart, and patriotic debate, scratch that, discuss between two smart, respectful, passionate, sane, composed, presidential, and patriotic Americans. The debate was way... way... way better by miles to the junks we've been having in the name of presidential debates.

Three set of things I noticed from the comments of wall street journal were I watched the debates (I preferred an independent media rather than a right wing or left wing media in other to avoid the right wing or left wing bias comments, the audience of wall street journal were a mix of civil and sane liberals, conservative and independents) were;

* Vance and Walz were more presidential than their principals.
* Audience wished Vance and Walz were the presidential candidates instead.
* It was the debates Americans had been looking for; civil, respectful, smart, passionate and patriotic.

And I'm 100% in agreement with that. For the first time in a long time, I saw liberals and conservatives seeing eye to eye with each other, and disagreeing respectively in the comments. For the first time in a long while, patriotism was the order of the day. The aura of Vance and Walz truly rubbed off on the audience.

One of the most beautiful thing was hearing, "I agree with Vance on this," "I agree with Walz on that." The empathy Vance showed towards Walz when he talked about his mass shooting experience was heartwarming, likewise how they focused their attention on each other when one was speaking, it showed they were willing to listen, and probably learn.

As I said, I'm 100% in agreement that these two should have been the presidential candidates instead of their principals. Vance had the cerebral capacity, and Walz exuded enormous passion to serve his country. With these two as presidential candidates, irrespective of who would have won, America would have been in good hands. That's how it should be rather than a situation where one gets scared when a particular candidate wins. The greatest miracle Americans would be eternally grateful for is waking up and finding out that these two are the presidential candidates 😂😎😁.

Who won the debate? To me, both won. They showed that there's hope for America. They showed that we have people that are willing and passionate to serve this great country. Both made their case to the best of their abilities, and I can tell from the body language of the moderators that they enjoyed the show, who wouldn't? I almost didn't want it to end.

Someone asked me, if Vance and Walz were the presidential candidates, who would I have supported?

Now that's a tough choice, but after reflecting on it for quite some time, I will say, Tim Walz. Why? Well, when I see Tim Walz, I see a patriotic, competent and passionate leader and servant of the people. Don't get me wrong, Vance is a smart, sane, cool, patriotic, and passionate guy also (he's willingness to grant interview and engagements both with left and right wings media and audience is highly commendable), yes he has his flaws, but he's an amazing guy whether you love him or hate him, he's someone I would love to see run for president someday. As I said, Vance is an amazing guy, but I prefer Tim Walz for the reasons mentioned.

Aside that, the performance of Tim Walz right from his time as Congressman to his moments as Governor has been impressive, not perfect, but impressive. Yes, he's made bad decisions and said things that were either wrong or false as a political leader; yes, I don't agree with all his views and policies, but nevertheless, hate him or love him, he's a competent leader, and way more presidential than Kamala and Trump combine.

When I heard him speak during his unveiling as the vice presidential candidate, I was like, "This should be the presidential candidate." And I'm not being sexist here, I will pick an Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosy, or Michelle Obama over Tim Walz, but with Kamala, I'm going with Walz. Kamala doesn't appeal to me for a number of reasons. But if Vivek Ramaswamy is in the scene, forget about it, Vivek Ramaswamy all the way, that's my guy. I guess now, I will be called a Democrat voting Independent for saying I will vote Walz over Vance 🤣🤣🤣.

This is the reason, I'm very mad at the Dems and GOP. GOP had the candidates like Ron DeSantes, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy etc, but chose Trump of all people. Dems had people like Tim Walz, Gavin Newsom etc, but preferred Kamala. Why won't they, when they know they have loyal voting base🤦🙄.

Right now, with Trump and Kamala as the presidential candidates, I'm not supporting neither. As a matter of fact, I've washed my hands off the election. Whoever wins, wins, I don't give a fück. My focus is on 2028.

But all in all, the debate was impressive, and Vance and Walz were amazing. There's hope for America 😊.

#Xavier

ObaIgwe1:
I like this Evangelical for Harris ad

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4hSz2boDVPc

raumdeuter:
There is an insecure guy, who has failed at everything and has no one close to him who loves him seeking validation o the web. He is begging for your endorsement, So kindly give him and make his day

Xavier5:
Me still trying to understand how I entered this fight 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

raumdeuter, IjeBos

ObaIgwe1:
This guy has gone viral for giving Vance 'civics lesson' after debate

Some Trumpists here might need to learn from him too by listening to him s l o w l y

VP has no power to conceive and implement his/her own policies.

‘Fox & Friends’ Flabbergasted by Poll Showing Vance and Walz Tied
Conservatives gushed over “beautiful” JD Vance, comparing him to a “cool cucumber” and a “morning cigarette.” Voters thought he and Tim Walz were evenly matched in the VP debate.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-flabbergasted-by-poll-that-shows-vance-and-walz-tied-walz-won-independents