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SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

We would have Killer "antivax" Mike ads instead of Lena Dunham. Which I'll admit is probably a marginal improvement

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

Nae-naeing on Ellen is the pinnacle of black outreach. There's no chance Bernie could have done something that reflected an actual conversation and engagement with issues facing black communities.

Bernie people think hot sauce too spicy

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

We would have Killer "antivax" Mike ads instead of Lena Dunham. Which I'll admit is probably a marginal improvement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImFHom_GD8

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

We would have Killer "antivax" Mike ads instead of Lena Dunham. Which I'll admit is probably a marginal improvement

Hillary voters seemed to think Vax/anti-vax was some really important distinguisher this year. Amazing.

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Meanwhile, on Facebook...

TheBalor
Jun 18, 2001
I understand why people are worried that the Dems will take the wrong lesson from this, but I'm not certain you can be certain they won't self-correct. I've seen lots of people doing stupid grief-stricken things like saying we should get the "faithless elector coup" going, but the sentiment seems to be much more "Bernie was right, all power to Bernie."

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Dick Milhous Rock! posted:

Sorry I don't think that the Noise Machine isn't as ineffective as you believe?
Here's the only thing I can say about the only argument Trump has for scaring the populous: Communism/Socialism.


They already keep saying our sitting president is a socialist and everything didn't blow up.


Socialism isn't a danger anymore. The only thing close to Socialism/Communism scare now is Russia. Which thankfully they had some hijinks before the primaries ended that potentially linked them and Trump.

ThndrShk2k has issued a correction as of 16:57 on Nov 13, 2016

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

Venom Snake posted:

Ultimately Clinton herself is a smart, good women
lol

Venom Snake posted:

IK NOTE: ANY PRIMARY CHAT WILL RESULT IN A PROBATION
lmao

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy
Hmmmmmmmmm let's belittle a black dude for not trusting vaccines 100% what's Tuskegee idk either

Acelerion
May 3, 2005

Hey member that time clinton didn't hold a press conference for like 300 days

Lol

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

Hillary voters seemed to think Vax/anti-vax was some really important distinguisher this year. Amazing.

What? No I'm just using that as a concise way to say Mike's politics a catch shade like Lena's.

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

We would have Killer "antivax" Mike ads instead of Lena Dunham. Which I'll admit is probably a marginal improvement

Killer Mike appealed to the minority underclass and millenials. Lena Dunham appealed to exactly nobody outside of rich white women.

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

Hillary voters seemed to think Vax/anti-vax was some really important distinguisher this year. Amazing.

being anti-vax is totally indefensible. it's extremely dangerous to your children and everyone elses children.


Acelerion posted:

Hey member that time clinton didn't hold a press conference for like 300 days

Lol

She had lots towards the end of the election (while trump had none) but it didn't really make a difference other than reporters whining less

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Bickering about the primary endlessly while the world burns around us is silly. If you have a point like "She should have done X" or "Bernie appeals to Y" that's welcome discussion. What I think Lastgirl wants to avoid is "I told you so" spam which gets us nowhere.

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012
also saying that you're "open to the movement" isn't nearly the same thing as going full Jenny McCarthy

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

What? No I'm just using that as a concise way to say Mike's politics a catch shade like Lena's.

Mike's politics catch shade from the same dumb libs who obsessed over Khaleesi memes. The idea that Good Democrats hold the monopoly on sensibility is thoroughly and utterly shattered. Just because Mike is wrong about vaccines doesn't mean he's wrong about everything. Dismissing people out of hand because they hold a few silly views is alienating, and alienation was the name of the game in 2016.

Venom Snake posted:

being anti-vax is totally indefensible. it's extremely dangerous to your children and everyone elses children.

Cool, I guess we shouldn't cast a vote for Killer Mike then. :rolleyes:

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

Venom Snake posted:

Bickering about the primary endlessly while the world burns around us is silly. If you have a point like "She should have done X" or "Bernie appeals to Y" that's welcome discussion. What I think Lastgirl wants to avoid is "I told you so" spam which gets us nowhere.

Captain Internet
Apr 20, 2005

:love: HOTLANTA :love:
IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS
As a father of an autistic kid, please get all your children vaccinated so he can have friends. Lol gently caress u just kidding vaxes got nothing to do with it and are a convenient, external thing to blame.

Please get every vaccination for those kids with immunodeficiency and need the herd immunity so they don't get loving whooping cough or the loving mumps in tyol 2016.

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

Venom Snake posted:

Bickering about the primary endlessly while the world burns around us is silly. If you have a point like "She should have done X" or "Bernie appeals to Y" that's welcome discussion. What I think Lastgirl wants to avoid is "I told you so" spam which gets us nowhere.

dude, just shut the gently caress up and take your noogies, you don't get to back out of the penance phase after physically helping to kill our species

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

TheBalor posted:

I understand why people are worried that the Dems will take the wrong lesson from this, but I'm not certain you can be certain they won't self-correct. I've seen lots of people doing stupid grief-stricken things like saying we should get the "faithless elector coup" going, but the sentiment seems to be much more "Bernie was right, all power to Bernie."

I'd say the "bernie is right" people are trying to get their ducks lined up while people who haven't figured that out yet are melting down on facebook about racists and not really offering any real opposition to taking over the party.

Or more accurately, I suspect the professional politico class from NY/CA that was in charge are running as fast as they can back to Wall St and tech jobs (and will feel next to no pain from a Trump administration). The smug college activist people will have few bad months and protest or whatever, but their hearts are in the right place, and the party will need their energy. They have been led astray by the rich liberal leadership who told them focusing on economic and class issues is the same thing as throwing minorities under the bus.

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Have there been any more good celebrity meltdowns yet?

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Cool, I guess we shouldn't cast a vote for Killer Mike then. :rolleyes:

This is the excuse I (and others) used to wave away Bill Clintons abuses as well as the bad stuff people around Clinton did. Do not laugh peoples concerns off. There are lots of surrogates out there that aren't anti-vax.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Venom Snake posted:

This is the excuse I (and others) used to wave away Bill Clintons abuses as well as the bad stuff people around Clinton did. Do not laugh peoples concerns off. There are lots of surrogates out there that aren't anti-vax.

Clinton had surrogates who were loving war criminals.

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Clinton had surrogates who were loving war criminals.

Did you read what I just said.


Venom Snake posted:

Do not laugh peoples concerns off.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Venom Snake posted:

Did you read what I just said.

Bruh these are all issues of degrees. Mike has never once acted in any kind of capacity to endorse anti-vaccination. Smearing him as if he has was the kind of toxic politics that ate out Democratic solidarity.

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

Venom Snake posted:

Did you read what I just said.

Jesus Christ SHUT THE gently caress UP HILL SHILL

your sole use as a human being these days is as a funnel of intelligence from your fellow wastes of skin

no one needs to hear your opinions on anything ever again

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mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Lawman 0 posted:

Have there been any more good celebrity meltdowns yet?

The "i'm not owned" and "#woke #brands" threads have some pretty good ones.

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

theory: lena dunham, or whichever celebrity you dislike who endorsed clinton, had a neglibile effect on the election or a slightly positive effect among a demographic you aren't part of, while nobody else cared, and is a topic somehow even more pointless than relitigating the primary

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

zeal posted:

Jesus Christ SHUT THE gently caress UP HILL SHILL

your sole use as a human being these days is as a funnel of intelligence from your fellow wastes of skin

no one needs to hear your opinions on anything ever again

This seems pretty rude, IMO.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

zeal posted:

Jesus Christ SHUT THE gently caress UP HILL SHILL

your sole use as a human being these days is as a funnel of intelligence from your fellow wastes of skin

no one needs to hear your opinions on anything ever again

dude he's completely owned up to how bad things were chill

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

This seems pretty rude, IMO.

good

bump_fn posted:

dude he's completely owned up to how bad things were chill

he has not, and until he does he should be treated like the scum he is

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Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

zeal posted:

good


he has not, and until he does he should be treated like the scum he is

Hmmm, no.

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Peel posted:

theory: lena dunham, or whichever celebrity you dislike who endorsed clinton, had a neglibile effect on the election or a slightly positive effect among a demographic you aren't part of, while nobody else cared, and is a topic somehow even more pointless than relitigating the primary

Fact: Smug celebrity youtubes are known candidate killers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Peel posted:

theory: lena dunham, or whichever celebrity you dislike who endorsed clinton, had a neglibile effect on the election or a slightly positive effect among a demographic you aren't part of, while nobody else cared, and is a topic somehow even more pointless than relitigating the primary

Negligible effects tipped the scales in several states.

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

zeal posted:

Jesus Christ SHUT THE gently caress UP HILL SHILL

your sole use as a human being these days is as a funnel of intelligence from your fellow wastes of skin

no one needs to hear your opinions on anything ever again

gently caress off

Mister Fister
May 17, 2008

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
KILL-GORE


I love the smell of dead Palestinians in the morning.
You know, one time we had Gaza bombed for 26 days
(and counting!)

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would have beaten Donald Trump by a historic margin if he had been the Democratic nominee, according to a private pre-election poll provided to The Huffington Post.

The national survey of more than 1,600 registered voters, conducted by Gravis Marketing two days before the general election, found that Sanders would have received 56 percent of the vote while Trump would have won 44 percent.

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Gravis_Sanders_Election_Poll.pdf

Remember back during the primary the hillshills kept saying how polls 'this far out' don't mean anything?

"November 6, 2016" :classiclol:

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Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Bruh these are all issues of degrees. Mike has never once acted in any kind of capacity to endorse anti-vaccination. Smearing him as if he has was the kind of toxic politics that ate out Democratic solidarity.

Killer Mike believes a lot of very nebulous stuff that while is mostly harmless could become a problem later on. This isn't me saying "he's fuckin garbo throw him out" it's me saying that recognizing your surrogates flaws and being prepared to deal with them is the smart way of going about things. It's smearing if you go public with it in an attempt to discredit him. Which sounds like something the other campaign might do no?

Surrogates are your hand reaching out to the community. You need to tailor them for what you want to accomplish. Where the HRC campaign hosed up was keeping coordination at arms reach which led to disorganization and mixed messages. That and sending celebrities to deliver political messages.

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Negligible effects tipped the scales in several states.

If you reach the point where it comes down to how smug your celebrity videos are, you've already hosed up really really badly.

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Bruh these are all issues of degrees. Mike has never once acted in any kind of capacity to endorse anti-vaccination. Smearing him as if he has was the kind of toxic politics that ate out Democratic solidarity.

Yeah I just point out him buying into that nonsense because it made me look back on listening to Reagen and thinking "man if he thinks Obama answers to the Illuminati or some poo poo this guy is a huge jackass."
But I intended it originally as a joke anyway, since like someone else said most people don't give a poo poo about Lena either

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Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

civil war update

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58287caee4b0c4b63b0d16bb

quote:


POLITICS
Harry Reid Endorses Keith Ellison For DNC Chair
Party leaders are lining up behind the Minnesota progressive.
58 minutes ago | Updated 26 minutes ago
Zach Carter Senior Political Economy Reporter, The Huffington Post

ALEX WONG VIA GETTY IMAGES
Rep. Keith Ellison, center, is gaining the support of Democratic Party leaders.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Sunday endorsed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) as the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

“My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong progressive who knows how to get things done,” Reid said in a statement provided to The Huffington Post. “Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith.”

Ellison has not formally declared his candidacy for the DNC post, which would make him the formal head of the Democratic Party. But he has been building support for a bid among party insiders, according to multiple sources. Reid’s successor as Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), has endorsed Ellison, as has Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told MSNBC Thursday that Ellison “would make a terrific DNC chair.” A Sanders petition backing Ellison has already garnered over 520,000 signatures, according to a source close to Sanders.

The DNC post is widely viewed as the opening skirmish in a battle over the future direction of the Democratic Party. Though she shifted left during the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton hailed from a centrist, corporate-friendly Democratic wing that has long dominated the party’s leadership. Progressives believe that faction was discredited by Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump.

Ellison co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has been a steadfast supporter of workers over corporate interests during his time in office. He would be the first Muslim DNC chair and the third black person to hold the position.

The head of the DNC is typically anointed by a Democratic president, and is often a figurehead primarily responsible for fundraising, rather than major strategic decisions. With Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the presidency, however, the head of the DNC will play a much more influential role in Democratic politics. The formal selection of the chief is decided by a complex voting process involving state party leaders, who drifted strongly for Clinton over Sanders in the presidential primary. Endorsements from Reid and Schumer suggest that the thinking in establishment circles has become more sympathetic to Sanders supporters following Clinton’s loss.

Not every Democratic leader is on board with Ellison, however. On Saturday, former Obama confidant David Axelrod tweeted that Democrats need a “full-time party chair,” adding that “the job just became infinitely more demanding and important.” The tenure of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair is widely regarded by party insiders as a debacle, and some Democrats cite her dual status as DNC Chair and congresswoman from Florida as a contributing factor in her failure. She is also deeply unpopular with progressives.

Agnostic as to who, but Dems should pick a full-time party chair. The job just became infinitely more demanding and important.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 12, 2016

In a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Ellison diagnosed the party’s recent electoral troubles.

“You’ve got to have a vision to strengthen the grass-roots,” Ellison said. “Make the voters first, not the donors first. I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barbershop, the lady at the diner, the folks who are worried about their plant is going to close ― they’ve got to be our focus.”

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