Sundial

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[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity under guidelines set by the administration, said the government closely tracks the incidents referred to the State Department and questions the Israeli government about them. Even when cases aren’t resolved, the official said, the investigations help to inform policy.

What fucking policy? The policy of it's ok to kill kids as long as they're brown and the money keeps rolling in?

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with InDesign, so maybe if that's the case? I'd be surprised even then since the pasted text doesn't match the source in the slightest. But that could be a possibility.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Again. Read.

I explained my logic in my replies with HomerianSymphony (OP). If you want me to explain further you can ask.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you took the 2 seconds to read my comment above the one you quoted you would have noticed that I said her campaign got screwed over by someone, not that she did it intentionally. Maybe read the context before you accuse someone of something? It's the second time this week alone that you've done it to me.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I did. I'm explaining why I believe this was intentional. This isn't a graphics design issue. Even if a graphic designer were to take the translation, mistakenly flip it to read right-to-left instead of left-to-right (I doubt it), the calligraphy is still wrong.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's not just the wrong order (which is also a very big fuck-up in itself). In Arabic letters in the same word connect with each other (with a few exceptions). It's kind of like cursive writing. Look at my first comment to see what I mean. There's no way anyone translating this made these kinds of mistakes by accident. Even if it were some English speaking intern who used Google Translate it would have been done better (as shown in my first comment).

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

The 100K number is from the Democratic primaries. The situation in the middle-east has deteriorated much more since then. I wouldn't be surprised if that 100K number grew.

That being said, you may be right in that Harris will win and I hope you are. But like I said in my comment above, it's a toss-up on who will win the state of Michigan at this point. And whoever wins Michigan has a really good chance of winning the election. It really should not have been so close for this state, given how important it is.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (15 children)

That's a pretty loose definition of the Arabic language if I'm being honest. Even a 6 year old just learning to write Arabic would know better.

Either her campaign got screwed over by some Arabic speaking Republican or someone who wanted to discredit her because of the whole Gaza issue.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's a pretty significant voting block in the state. Biden won Michigan in 2020 thanks in large part to the Arab-Americans.

It's unclear how many skeptics Harris will be able to win over, especially since she has not proposed any concrete changes on U.S. policy toward Israel or the war in Gaza. Four years ago, Joe Biden won by a 3-to-1 margin in Dearborn, where nearly half of the 110,000 residents are of Arab descent. Now Democrats are concerned some of these voters will go to Trump or third-party candidates like Jill Stein.

Source.

Harris doesn't have that much of a lead over Trump in the state, it's well within the margin of error. And losing Michigan means there's a good chance she loses the election. The only Arab-Americans who are actually voting for her are doing so begrudgingly because they hate Trump even more. But that's not exactly a winning strategy. Hillary Clinton lost Michigan, and the election, in 2016 due to this mindset.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Full of mistakes is an understatement....That's not even Arabic.

This is what you get if you put the phrase "Vote by Tuesday, November 5th"

التصويت بحلول يوم الثلاثاء 5 نوفمبر

Whoever did this should be fired lol.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a Lush in your area? Might not be a bad idea to check it out if you do.

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