Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic primary in Michigan

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    7 天前

    That’s my senator!

    (Tanis lives in Oregon. She gives not one fuck about her location and whether it relates to other candidates representing her. She is not having of fucks, she is fuckless.)

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    Damn, true tho. Also it’s Michigan, a lot of michiganders know some Arab-Americans. This is like someone running for a New York office being criticized for being named Moses Goldstein. It’s hard to find Arab names scary when you know an Ahmad and he’s a chill dude

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      Most Arab and Middle Eastern peoples are, in my experience, pretty damn good people.

      But really that applies to everyone. Most people from most places are pretty damn good people.

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        Hot take: immigrants are on average better people because they’re willing to make difficult personal sacrifices, outside their comfort zone, in a different culture, to help their family.

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          Adding they also feel social pressure to be a “model immigrant” or “one of the good ones” to racists.

          And that there are spectrums everywhere in life

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      In the southern half, maybe. The southeast, more likely. The northern half - don’t count on it. Looking at the polling I’ll be gobsmacked if he wins any jurisdictions above a line from grand rapids to Saginaw. And there’ll be a lot of red on that map below that too.

      Yes, I know land doesn’t vote, but there’s a lot of combined votes to offset with diminishing populations and plenty of voter suppression in the big SE cities.

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    Average americans don’t have a doctor they trust with a name like his

    Mainly because average americans can’t afford having a doctor

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    Shout-out to Mena Abrahim, who I trust not with my own health but with my kids, which is more important than me.

    His name or how he looked (except his resemblance to a good friend of mine) was never of import. He was a good doctor, still is although we are fortunate enough to not see him too much anymore. Which is kinda sad, unless you’re a PCP, you’re there for people when they’re suffering, and then you disappear off their radar. But when I get a sinus infection, I’ll hit him up.

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    I learned how to say my Drs name, and everytime I’d call to schedule an appointment the tech would have no idea what I was talking about. I had to call her by her first name.

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    I remember kindly the doctor who cared for my kid when they were a baby. I cannot pronounce or spell his name, but he was great.