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Diana Moon Glampers said:
For some people picking up accents is very fast, as is imitating specific speech bits. Once you "unlock" the specific phonemic traits of an accent you can do it fairly easily at will and switch between them easily (you will fall out of practice if you stop for a while, though, for anything but the accents you picked up before age ~20). Moving all over the US has gotten me the ability to do a full Fargo or a Georgia drawl, but the only accents that work to get good jobs are East Coast or West Coast, so I go with the latter.
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Slight PL: I'm Southern born and bred. I even speak German with a Southern accent (because it makes Germans laugh and the Swiss annoyed).

But after about a week in Merseyside, I could sound every bit like a Scouser, to such a point that when I went back to London, they looked down on me as they would anyone from Liverpool lol.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
The whole "party flip" meme is WAY too simplistic to explain what happened in the 1960s or what has been happening since 2016 (arguably since 2008 ) and it's really not a matter of the "the sides being the same" - I only share a very, very small amount of ideology in common with, say, the Democrats of 1992.
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Democrats already go mask off when a black person decides they are Republican, calling them "uncle tom" and other racist shit. It's more then plausible that if they lose bad enough they will do a complete 180 on racial and gender politics - while Republicans turn out to be relatively ambivalent. Democrats were the slave-owners who saw their slaves as prizes possessions, and when slavery was banned they resorted to emotional manipulation.
 
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Diana Moon Glampers said:
The rally "boo" situation is bad. Genuine X-Pac heat for Harris, two days in a row. I wouldn't be surprised to see her take a couple of days off. She knows it's done.

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Really, after this how can she even come out now? This is so bad.

ETA I looked at the TDS thread on here. It's baren with a few Trump up polls. It's amazing how awful this went for Harris and the nasty dems.
 
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Five weeks ago Harris was at 64%
Three weeks ago Harris was at 58%
Two weeks ago Harris was at 52%
A week ago Harris was at 48%
Today Harris is at 45%
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The most damning about this is that supporting one of these candidates is completely socially taboo and shunned upon doing in the mainstream so many supporters keep it to themselves. And it ain't Kamala.
 
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Hunter Hearst Helmsley said:
Maybe you get some change if Trump pulls the blowout, but even then I think they might triple down.
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I fucking hope this happens. People are getting sick of them doubling down. Rate me optimistic, but if Trump pulls off a blowout and they triple down, it will obliterate the democrats and cripple their credibility for at least a decade.

And really, that's what I want, if only because it'd be the funniest outcome
 
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Greasy Goblin said:
I fucking hope this happens. People are getting sick of them doubling down. Rate me optimistic, but if Trump pulls off a blowout and they triple down, it will obliterate the democrats and cripple their credibility for at least a decade.

And really, that's what I want, if only because it'd be the funniest outcome
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The Republicans just haven't taken advantage of a full 3-way power lead. 4 really with USSC too. This will be a major, incredible statement on can they walk the walk. They are poised to have it all now,
 
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