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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Ace of Baes posted:

On a brighter note, Keith released an 11 point plan for LGBT matters within the DNC.


"The LGBTQ community is an extraordinarily important part of the Democratic Party,” Ellison said. “But instead of just saying that, I want to make sure we reflect that by working as a party to engage our friends and family members in this community. That’s precisely why I’m prioritizing these LGBTQ-focused proposals — to let my LGBTQ friends know that as DNC Chair, the DNC will be on their side and that we will fight for them every single day — especially with Donald Trump in the White House.”


• Convene LGBT leaders and the LGBT Caucus to discuss a solution to the absence of a national LGBT Democratic group and capacity of the DNC LGBT Outreach Desk handling some of those responsibilities

• Add young, diverse LGBTQ people to the Democratic National Committee and create a pipeline for people from across the LGBTQ spectrum to better engage at all levels of the party.

• Maintain and grow the DNC LGBT Advisory Board – a 50 state grassroots group that helps represent the full diversity of the LGBT community that was initiated in 2016 and allows LGBT leaders across the country to directly connect with the DNC.

• Grow partnerships from DNC 2016 to ensure LGBT-owned businesses have access to DNC supply opportunities.

• Protect and promote the setting of strong LGBT delegate goals by states for the 2020 Convention.

• Ensure gender non-conforming people can fully participate on the Committee and as 2020 Convention delegates as current structure requires a male or female identity.

• Maintain database of LGBT Democratic officials and engage them regularly. Promote LGBT Democratic candidates in partnership with the DLCC, DCCC, and DSCC campaign arms using social media, press, and LGBT party events.

• Support grassroots engagement and training of LGBT Democrats around the country, especially in states where Republicans are actively attacking LGBTQ people. Restore regional meetings in which DNC LGBT Caucus members, Advisory board members, and LGBT actors can be trained and discuss issues.

• Ensure state party LGBT Caucuses are active and engaging with the leaders and staff that showcased their talents during the presidential campaign.

• Designate an outreach and organizing staff lead for each constituency community, including the LGBT desk, and ensure they are kept in the pipeline for future work in the party.

• Ensure LGBT caucuses of the College Democrats and Young Democrats are fully brought into the fold and regularly engaged in regional trainings, forums, and LGBT-focused party activities.


Ellison is the only DNC chair candidate to release a plan specifically for LGBT people.
b-b-b-but i was told socialists were racsexist :qq:

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ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

theflyingexecutive posted:

You act like it comes out of a vending machine.
No, I am acting like it can come out of a voting machine


It can! Watch Maine 2018 to see how well RCV does if it doesn't get blocked by proto-trump

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Ace of Baes posted:



Ellison is the only DNC chair candidate to release a plan specifically for LGBT people.

Ugh look at this identity politics neolib

Aurubin
Mar 17, 2011

zegermans posted:

Ugh look at this identity politics neolib

Stop looking in the mirror then! Heyooo!

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

b-b-b-but i was told socialists were racsexist :qq:

Oh have I got the article for you then!

quote:

The town hall also revived Sanders’s chronic problem of prioritizing economic justice over the identity-based concerns of marginalized groups. Towards the very end, Cuomo asked the senator what he’d say to Americans who see Democrats as “more concerned with what bathroom people go into [than] how they earn a living?”

“Very fair question,” Sanders said.

But it wasn’t a fair question. It was based on a pernicious premise that the senator should have challenged. Ensuring transgender Americans can use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identities isn’t some tertiary issue. It’s a vital anti-discrimination measure. And, for transgender Americans in the workplace, it’s very much about being treated equally as they earn a living.

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
keep licking those boots, zegermans.

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

This is really bad and gross.

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Lamont/Lieberman 2006?

Yep I'll give you that one, forgot about him.

Also can someone explain the significance of ending wet foot dry foot? That seems like it would be right up Trumps alley because it means less brown people? Why would Trump reverse it?

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

LmaoTheKid posted:

This is really bad and gross.

I just got blocked from a friend on Facebook for saying that. So far this election: 3 liberals have unfriended me to zero conservatives :lol:

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Rand alPaul posted:

I just got blocked from a friend on Facebook for saying that. So far this election: 3 liberals have unfriended me to zero conservatives :lol:

love me love me love me, I'm a liberal

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

I mean, Sanders had nothing to do with it but that question is bullshit and dismissive considering actual current events.

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

centrist dems are a worse enemy to the working class than the reactionary right wing

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

jarofpiss posted:

centrist dems are a worse enemy to the working class than the reactionary right wing

that's just not true lol. the reactionary right has vastly more power at this point

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

jarofpiss posted:

centrist dems are a worse enemy to the working class than the reactionary right wing

I mean, one is just annoying, the other are actual neo-nazis who now control our entire government...

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
I mean at least the centrist Dems would protect the loving voting rights act

To be honest I'm extremely demoralized about turning things around the more I think about how easy it will be for GOP-controlled states to minimize votes and perpetuate their own power

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Tatum Girlparts posted:

I mean, one is just annoying, the other are actual neo-nazis who now control our entire government...

and the former are crippling attempts to oppose the latter

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

Rand alPaul posted:

I just got blocked from a friend on Facebook for saying that. So far this election: 3 liberals have unfriended me to zero conservatives :lol:

bernie bros who dont want to talk about non-economic aspects of intersectional issues: yeah ive seen em online i guess, i know one, im sure theres more out there

neolibs who dont want to talk about economic causes of intersectional issues: every fuckin neolib i know

LmaoTheKid posted:

love me love me love me, I'm a liberal

some of the recently self-anointed progressives i know have a dream team vision that amounts to "nixon and kissinger but maybe one of them is a woman and the other is wildcard primetime sitcom stereotype of underprivileged identity"

its just a way to assuage the guilt of actually being fygm conservatives by checking boxes on an ethics scorecard theyve divorced from history and social theory

jarofpiss posted:

centrist dems are a worse enemy to the working class than the reactionary right wing

the function of the democratic party is to absorb, dilute and dissolve leftist threats to the status quo

Tatum Girlparts posted:

I mean, one is just annoying, the other are actual neo-nazis who now control our entire government...

wow, how did that happen. what a fuckup, who would let neonazis gain power

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

centris dems work actively to suppress the left as well as maintain a status quo that is ruled by capitalist oppressors while pretending to be allies of the working class.

the reactionary right wing are explicitly enemies of the working class and are doing their best to blow the whole drat thing up.

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

Breakfast All Day posted:

the function of the democratic party is to absorb, dilute and dissolve leftist threats to the status quo


this

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Tatum Girlparts posted:

I mean, one is just annoying, the other are actual neo-nazis who now control our entire government...

Which one usurped St. Bernard?

Check and mate.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Anime Schoolgirl posted:

b-b-b-but i was told socialists were racsexist :qq:

this is only for white cis gay males, obviously

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Agree, a trans-panic being a legal murder defense is less of an issue than Billy Joe Bob's heroin addiction.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
gently caress you

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

zegermans posted:

Agree, a trans-panic being a legal murder defense is less of an issue than Billy Joe Bob's heroin addiction.

the point is they're both important issues fuckhead, you can be upset at downplaying one without downplaying the other as some kinda stupid spite move

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Tatum Girlparts posted:

the point is they're both important issues fuckhead, you can be upset at downplaying one without downplaying the other as some kinda stupid spite move

:stare::stare::stare:

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

what now man

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

zegermans posted:

Agree, a trans-panic being a legal murder defense is less of an issue than Billy Joe Bob's heroin addiction.

They're both horrific injustices and failures of the American system. If you think the left can't address both problems at the same time, you're part of the problem.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Majorian posted:

They're both horrific injustices and failures of the American system. If you think the left can't address both problems at the same time, you're part of the problem.

spoilers: he's part of the problem

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/01/12/exclusive-keith-ellison-veils-lgbt-plan-bid-become-dnc-chair/

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Breakfast All Day posted:

bernie bros who dont want to talk about non-economic aspects of intersectional issues: yeah ive seen em online i guess, i know one, im sure theres more out there

neolibs who dont want to talk about economic causes of intersectional issues: every fuckin neolib i know

Yeah I can count on my hand how many Bernie Bros actually fit the narrative of not giving a poo poo about anything except white man jobs, where as when Hillary said, "but will that end racism?" she pretty much accurately described neoliberalism and why it's so attractive to so many people.

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

zegermans posted:

Agree, a trans-panic being a legal murder defense is less of an issue than Billy Joe Bob's heroin addiction.

it probably is to billy joe bob's family and community

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

He feels as though you understand

I Am A Robot
Jul 1, 2006

jarofpiss posted:

centrist dems are a worse enemy to the working class than the reactionary right wing

Everyone is working for their rich donors so their actual beliefs are irrelevant at this point. At least the right wing is honest about it. The Republicans are wolves while the Democrats are just wolves in sheep's clothing. So yeah in a certain sense they're worse.

I Am A Robot
Jul 1, 2006

Ace of Baes posted:

Corey Booker belongs in stockades, along with the rest of wallstreet.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Thoguh posted:

Isn't Trump in more or less open war with the deep state right now?

yeah and then trump wins that lil civil war and replaces the bureaucrats with raving fascist cronies with all the backdoors to facebook and google

Jokerpilled Drudge
Jan 27, 2010

by Pragmatica

Phobophilia posted:

yeah and then trump wins that lil civil war and replaces the bureaucrats with raving fascist cronies with all the backdoors to facebook and google

Exactly, all of these positions are POTUS appointees, unless they are planning some sort of assassination in kitchen they aren't going to be able to stop the Trump. can we please stop living in this fantasy where power does not exist?

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Enkmar posted:

Exactly, all of these positions are POTUS appointees, unless they are planning some sort of assassination in kitchen they aren't going to be able to stop the Trump. can we please stop living in this fantasy where power does not exist?

It's very important that we focus on our greatest enemies, the people who almost but not quite agree with us.

Meanwhile, Trump destroys civilization.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Shear Modulus posted:

What's the deal with the yard sign thing

During the primary against Bernie and then again during the general against Trump people would point out that they kept seeing lots of signs for Hillary's opponents but very few if any for her but the ardent Hillbots defended that by saying that yard signs don't vote.


Joke's on them though. I'm a yard sign and I vote. And so do my yard sign friends.

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deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
what i want from a party is organized opposition to the capitalist elite

some people serve the capitalist elite while agreeing with me that, like, you shouldn't discriminate against black people, and women should have free access to abortion

those people are still my enemy, just as much as the white supremacist christian patriarchs are, because both white supremacism and american liberalism are ideologies which sustain capitalism

the culture war in america is between the believers in two ideologies which are both capitalist, and both of them claim the other is the degeneracy which has ruined everything

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