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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Statistically it probably wasn't 45 men by today's definition.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

......I think I know what you're getting at, but if I'm right, that's pretty racist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

what are you talking about? racist? I think they're saying that since ~2% of the population identifies as trans and more are probably eggs, we likely had one trans president before, but they weren't out to the public, or perhaps even themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Bingo.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn't have added up to "1".

Which is why I said thats pretty racist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

But he said by today's definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past