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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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[-] FundMECFSResearch 211 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 1 month ago

Damn, he’s a good lookin dude in your picture, he looks insane in OP’s post!

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

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

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

In the age of HD video, it is remarkably easy to catch a single frame of someone looking ridiculous.

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

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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[-] Zorsith 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, pic in the post kinda makes him look like a Mii character

[-] FundMECFSResearch 5 points 1 month ago
[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

He got the John Brown [abolitionist] treatment

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

He looks like a guitar pick in that photo.

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[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 130 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago

The MAGA movement is, at heart, a racist movement. So yeah. They're pretty racist.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

Politics aside, he looks like he wants to do experiments on anthropomorphic bandicoots.

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

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

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago

Doesn't look like him at all.

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[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 month ago

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

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I see it as a bit funny. Like, it's his reaction to her comment of stupidity

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Me when I remember the cans in the freezer

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[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 month ago

Look at me, I am the mayor now

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

I really don't like to poke fun at people's appearance. But also, yeah...

[-] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 45 points 1 month ago

Only whites are native born to the North American continent.

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

As far as I know, white people were the only people ever to see North America or set foot on it in all of human history. Everyone else is a guest!

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Only some whites

Rossy isn’t one of them

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

So she means the Native Americans.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago

"No, not like that!"

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Imagine looking at that list of policies and thinking "not on my watch"

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

As a Trump loving landlord and minimum wage employer I would be OUTRAGED.

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

<Thinking...>

He is black he must be an immigrant

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Black with a non-white, muslim-sounding name.

[-] SleepyBear@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

See this guy is a "problem" being a foreign born citizen running for public office. When we just finished up having a foreign born citizen fucking around in our federal government for 6 months in a position that was not voted for, or on. Ill give you 1 guess as to what the difference is between those two people I mentioned, and its the reason why both Fareh and Mamdani are under such scrutiny.

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

He isn't a foreign born citizen at all. Born in D.C. He doesn't even have an accent. They saw his name and skin color and masked off their stupid.

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago

And by "born" we mean white.

[-] lennee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

She's definitely still mad about Obama's birth certificate.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

It would be very funny if they wrote a bill that limited citizenship to people born in "America"

[-] Fabian@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

I mean, citizenship in the US is granted by place of birth because that way freed slaves could become citizens. Before that, citizenship was reserved for white people

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

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%

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Look at me, I am the mayor now

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

No one objected to Arnold.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Hmm, I wonder what the difference is.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

We'll never know.

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Does she really mean white people or people with Christian sounding names? Like, which flavor of racists does she really want to be?

[-] Goldholz 7 points 1 month ago

That beared and hair! He knows his style for his headshape and i am so jellouse!

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Yo! Same high school as my mom!

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Holy fuck. With a resume like that, he's got my vote....

I don't live there, but if I did....

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