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white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

So weird, this cool 'Vote Reminder' app keeps getting deleted every time Uber updates.

:drat:

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comingafteryouall
Aug 2, 2011


Fullhouse posted:

bring back Huey Long

Anybody read All the King's Men?

pretty good book. more Democrats should read it. growing up in TN, that book basically took me from hating everything about the south to having respect for the less-celebrated traditions by itself.

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

comingafteryouall posted:

"for the greater good"

Clintons did it but were just trying to backstab working class Democrats the whole time.

In their... "defense," their idea of greater good was probably to create a Reaganesque coalition of minority voters and centrists, create a theoretically more stable voting block than involving those nasty barely-voting socialists. And hey, it theoretically and incrementally raises the tide for everyone, so it's all fine, and everyone wins.

Then it bit rear end this year.

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Republicans: This psychotic candidate for state legislature has an (R) after his name, gonna vote for him!

Democrats: This candidate is Problematic because she isn't an ally of Transracial Demisexual Otherkin, I'll just stay home because it's a midterm anyway. ... Wait, where have my abortion rights gone?

Wow great opinion guy

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

MaxxBot posted:

It's especially dumb because you don't need to do this to promote minority rights at any level. loving Ta-Nehisi Coates and BLM don't do this and they actually accomplish things. It's mostly twitter/tumblr warriors and white guilt idiots posting this stuff and they rarely accomplish anything other than making people mad on the internet.

I wonder if Hillary would have seen losses amongst African American voters if Obama had tried to do anything to address the BLM movement.


Fullhouse posted:

bring back Huey Long

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
I want to drive the republicans out of power and back into their lovely whitebread mcmansions in the outer ring suburbs and pass a New New Deal that would make Eugene Debs blush

I want a new Fairness Doctrine

I want to break up the big defense companies because there aren't enough to ensure fair competition in contract bidding

I want to return shipbuilding and warship design to Navy Department control so that ships are build in government facilities

I want immigration and citizenship streamlined to cut the ground from the bastards who exploit illegal immigrants

I want a UBI

I want government-run health care

I want strict corporate and banking regulations, but otherwise they're free to make as much profit as they want provided they pay money back into the economy so it doesn't just sit in the bank collecting interest

I want the most progressive taxation plan possible

I want the rich to have to spend a certain amount of their yearly earnings on projects that will benefit the public at large

I want a strong military that can credibly protect America's allies

I want a total rebuilding of our national infrastructure

I want alcohol-free beer clearly labelled as such

I want America to be the toughest, meanest, most productive, most inclusive, most happy, and greatest goddamned country on the face of the Earth and anyone who doesn't want the same thing can eat poo poo

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

the art of the necromancy summoning circle is lost to us, unfortunately

so we're gonna have to go for the reincarnation lottery

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:


I want alcohol-free beer clearly labelled as such




no

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
you edited your post goddamn you

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

gently caress you I accidentally bought a six-pack of that poo poo once by mistake, nobody should suffer that fate

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich
Pretty awesome that thanks to "free trade" the gear and equipment the armed forces use can be built in Mexico for pennies on the dollar.

Thanks NAFTA!

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
the Roman rich had to placate the masses and win elections by spending themselves into debt on building public works and stadiums and parks and monuments

the American rich get the poor to give them money so they can run for office and win elections to vote themselves tax cuts

what is wrong with this picture

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

they ain't exactly common. for one white collar dude who realizes this economic arrangement is loving unsustainable there's 20 ayn randian literal motherfuckers

if they're willing to help on the ground, they're welcome to!

to be fair the only ones i know are ones who left academia cause they couldnt get a job

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

gently caress you I accidentally bought a six-pack of that poo poo once by mistake, nobody should suffer that fate

Should have given it to someone else that didn't know it was non alcoholic and then watched them get hosed up off of the placebo effect

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

Should have given it to someone else that didn't know it was non alcoholic and then watched them get hosed up off of the placebo effect

man, some things just aren't done

yeah, eat the rich, but don't serve them alcohol-free beer

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

Zikan posted:

this honestly pisses me off the most about the obama administration. it was good policy but it also would have been good electoral strategy to prop areas that the obama coalition was weak in. it would have been a shot in the arm for labor and given them hope and a reason to organize for the offense rather then the defensive meat-grinder they are currently in

it's almost like it never happened tho. does anyone even talk about labor or card check anymore? sad!

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

Der Meister posted:

it's almost like it never happened tho. does anyone even talk about labor or card check anymore? sad!



quote:


August 04, 2010 - 03:36 PM EDT
President Obama told the AFL-CIO on Wednesday that he would "keep on fighting" to pass the controversial "card check" bill.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/112613-obama-says-hell-keep-on-fighting-to-pass-card-check-bill



:lol::lol::lol:

How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

:lol::lol::lol:

How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya

good job obama

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

hmm i wonder why people who hav had their unions crushed and are all on heroin due to life's misery won't vote demoncrat

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

man, some things just aren't done

yeah, eat the rich, but don't serve them alcohol-free beer

Maybe instead of killing the rich before they kill us we should all just sit down and talk things over a nice non alcoholic beer

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

Trumped up Trickle Down Economics

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

Der Meister posted:

hmm i wonder why people who hav had their unions crushed and are all on heroin due to life's misery won't vote demoncrat

You see, for every blue collar heroin addict we lose in the rust belt we will pick up two white collar republicans in a coastal city :smuggo:

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.

Fiction posted:

Wow great opinion guy

Lol my reaction to your posts have completely 180.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
mods change my name to Great Opinion Guy

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.

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

Maybe instead of killing the rich before they kill us we should all just sit down and talk things over a nice non alcoholic beer

Fine, if the talk is our demands or we kill them

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

anime was right posted:

mods change my name to Great Opinion Guy

But you'd still have a three word name!

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I wonder how bad dems even justify backing leadership like Pelosi or Donna Brazile given their horrible record at supporting down ticket races.

Don't forgot how they justified Hillary taking Wall Street money, not supporting organized labor and staying silent on issues like the Dakota Pipeline since it was necessary to defeat Trump

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

they justify if by fat loving paychecks, five course meals and alcoholism

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

etalian posted:

I wonder how bad dems even justify backing leadership like Pelosi or Donna Brazile given their horrible record at supporting down ticket races.

Don't forgot how they justified Hillary taking Wall Street money, not supporting organized labor and staying silent on issues like the Dakota Pipeline since it was necessary to defeat Trump

"we get a shitload of money, and when people see how bad trump is, it'll be back to normal in 4 years" which lol

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
Pelosi succeeded in fighting Medicare cuts in 2005 so she's not the worst yet

Knowing the rules and knowing how to fight w the few tools you have makes you useful , see notorious Keith Ellison endorser chuck schumer

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

Maybe instead of killing the rich before they kill us we should all just sit down and talk things over a nice non alcoholic beer

the rich already want to kill us, I don't wish to give them a legitimate excuse

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011
im depressed about social services

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

etalian posted:

I wonder how bad dems even justify backing leadership like Pelosi or Donna Brazile given their horrible record at supporting down ticket races.

Don't forgot how they justified Hillary taking Wall Street money, not supporting organized labor and staying silent on issues like the Dakota Pipeline since it was necessary to defeat Trump

Pelosi, at a bare minimum, is good at her job of corralling House Democrats. Brazile et al seem entirely useless at anything at all other than "keep debilitating Clintonite stranglehold on the party, prevent anything ever getting better."

But yeah gently caress anyone who stiffs organized labor, solidarity forever.

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Pelosi, at a bare minimum, is good at her job of corralling House Democrats. Brazile et al seem entirely useless at anything at all other than "keep debilitating Clintonite stranglehold on the party, prevent anything ever getting better."

But yeah gently caress anyone who stiffs organized labor, solidarity forever.

Eh. I'm not too happy about Pelosi. The rethuglicans really lover her because all she seems to be able to do is give them more representatives

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

it isn't pelosi's job to get representatives elected

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich

Fullhouse posted:

it isn't pelosi's job to get representatives elected

I was referring to republican reps

Everyone hates pelosi.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
I don't hate Pelosi.

I'm ambivalent to her.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
I know it's from a few days ago but why was Hillary's first speech since the election about fake news?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Fullhouse posted:

it isn't pelosi's job to get representatives elected

Well that's a good thing or she would be fired.

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Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Samurai Sanders posted:

I know it's from a few days ago but why was Hillary's first speech since the election about fake news?

because she's out of touch and desperately needs a scapegoat

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