Fateh was born in Washington, D.C., and is the son of immigrants from Somalia. He graduated from Falls Church High School and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from George Mason University.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Fateh

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    He looks like an absolute badass

    They really chose the worst photo to make him look bad.

    Fateh’s higher education bill included tuition-free public colleges and universities and tribal colleges for students from families whose income is less than $80,000 a year.[18] It also included an increase to Hunger Free Campus grants,[19]emergency assistance grants.[20]

    Fateh was the chief Senate author of a bill to provide minimum wages and worker protections for drivers for rideshare companies such as Uberand Lyft.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Fateh

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        OP’s post image is probably a still image from a video of him ripping someone a new one in committee.

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        35 years old. I’m glad we’re having such young people hit the spotlight in politics (I say this as a young person myself)

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          As somebody in between being a young and an old, holy shit yes!

          We in the exclusive Oregon Trail Generation (born late 70s into early 80s, tail end of gen x into the oldest millennials) get to watch how much harder it has gotten for young people, driven by ancient politicians who had things the easiest of any generation throughout their lives, economically speaking.

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      I feel like such a weirdo because I don’t see it. I think he looks totally fine in OP’s pic! Normal looking bloke to me lol

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      I was going to say that, in their photo he looks like a thug or gang member, in your’s he looks fantastic

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        he looks like a thug or gang member,

        My man looks like a nerd at his first high school debate. Where do you get gang member of a skinny guy in a suit?

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          I didn’t even notice the suit in the first photo until I saw your comment, I just saw his face and thought of the “I’m the captain now” meme.

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            You mean like, “I’m the captain of the lacrosse team at Falls Church High School”, right?

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        Please step back and analyze your biases to figure out why his image fits those stereotypes in your mind.

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          Please step back and analyze your need to call out people based on incomplete information to figure out why you couldn’t just ask for more info like the other comments in the thread.

          This is my reason why I thought the first photo made him look like a thug.

          When I first saw the photo I thought he looked very similar to the “I am the captain now” guy. That was my initial reaction, now obviously the more you study the images the more differences you find, so after a while you realize they a quite different.

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          fr, the original photo he’s wearing a suit and tie and sitting at a desk. There’s nothing there making him look like a “thug or gang member” beyond his race.

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    Look who loves democracy until it works.

    Someone needs to push back against this and say, “We want this! We asked for it, by name!” Like your lame ass party and the other lame ass party don’t fucking do shit so we started looking for people that will do shit. Guess what, we found them. Grow up and accept that if you do unpopular things, you will become unpopular.

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      Republicans generally have not liked democracy since the 60s.

      Many of the recent Republican Presidential candidates did not win the popular vote even when they got into office. Many Republican drawn maps are rigged / gerrymandered such as Texas and before that North Carolina. Republicans were lighting ballot boxes on fire in 2020 and 2024. A few Republicans tried to remove Term Limits for Trump. The only reason the Republicans have a house and senate majority is because the house is capped at 435 and the senate gives 2 seats to every state regardless of the fact that North Dakota has 800k population, Wyoming 590k, and California almost 40 Million.

      Sometimes Republican voters will literally poll that Democracy doesn’t work.

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          Democrats are losing because republicans are gerrymandering and democrats suck at gerrymandering, making the house biased in favor of republicans.

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          Yes, it’s like the only time democrats are willing to bring a gun to the gun fight.

          I’m not giving them a pass but gerrymandering efforts have benefitted the Republican party significantly more which is why it’s seen more as a red state issue

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        tbf Somalis have a very distinct look to them, kinda like India in some parts. I got some khazak friends who all look like Genkhis Khan, I shit you not lol There are certain regions where you can just spot that they are from there, and this mayoral candidate and the actor are both of somalian origin

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    Wow, yeah “Kate” you are onto something. There is something fishy going on here. He is… (reads about him for 10 seconds) very black indeed. Of course.

    Fucking people.

    Signed, white guy with way too many relatives who would agree with smiling racist lady.

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    Give MAGAts credit, they have a natural talent for grabbing bad photos of people they dont like.

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      We need to leave racism in the past and move forward - together - as a nation that roasts people purely on how much they look like video game villains

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        It’s not the most lookie-likey I’ve seen, but triangular heads are hard to come by, and he’s got the funny beard too.

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    Kate_p45? Definitely AI trash starting a fight to blind people with emotion and make them hate each other instead of being rightly mad at the oligarchs perpetuating the system.

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      There wouldn’t be a fight if there weren’t people that agreed with it.

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      A disproportionate number of MAGA folk are descendants of European settlers who do not beleive in egalitarianism. They never believed in it. White supremacy was the cultural norm just a few short generations ago and in many ways it still is the implicit norm.

      Real progress was being made in challenging this but the Nazis aren’t going to have it so… What’s it going to take for ‘the good ones’ to step up?

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    In 10 years with 2% CPI increase each year, minimum wage will be worth the exact same as today if you rose it by $4 tomorrow.

    The past few years it’s been between 3-6%

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      See, that’s the thing.

      CPI increases have always persisted. So minimum wage has now become so worthless that it’s impossible to survive on it.

      IMO, we should tie minimum wage increases to the inflation rate.

      Inflation goes up 2%, so does minimum wage.