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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)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Don't correct that. He's wrong. It's way more than 46, most multi-term presidents defeated several different contenders.

Edit: I got 63 white men and 1 white woman, not counting pre 12th amendment elections, not counting minor candidates who didn't win any states electors. There's a lot more if you include minor candidates, but then one of them would be Cynthia McKinney who is a black woman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also a lot of people ran in the general election that weren't members of the two major parties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And I raaaan. I ran so far awaaaay.

I just ran.

I ran all night and daaaay!!!

........I couldn't get away.

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

I voted for Aunt Jemima in 1978, after I was born at age 6 without a face in 1983.