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goose willis posted:The DNC just picked Tom Perez so there goes the DNC
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 22:19 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 07:00 |
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Was there any doubt
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 22:19 |
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As a Democrat, the only thing I hate more than Donald J Trump is winning elections!!!
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 22:31 |
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Tom Perez is fine. I wouldn't have voted for him, but the main knock on him is basically 1) Bernie didn't endorse him, 2) He was an Obama appointee, and 3) as an Obama appointee, he talked the administration line re: TPP. Fortunately, given that DNC chair is emphatically not a policy job and is about apportioning resources and coordinating strategy of various other campaigns... and given that what's Perez has had to say sounds an awful lot like what Keith Ellison has had to say, and having him be the chair as a full time job and letting Ellison stay in congress... Eh, it's fine. It's not good or exciting but loving lol if this is your line in the sand.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 22:40 |
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The nice thing about all of this is that a whole ton of people are aware for the very first time that there is a DNC head and they now know who he is
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 23:17 |
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CaptainPsyko posted:Tom Perez is fine. I wouldn't have voted for him, but the main knock on him is basically 1) Bernie didn't endorse him, 2) He was an Obama appointee, and 3) as an Obama appointee, he talked the administration line re: TPP. He also immediately made Ellison his deputy chair.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 00:28 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:How does the rest of the state view NYC Self important blowhards the vast vast vast majority of whom are no more special than your average upstate Stewart's cashier, but seem to think that because they live in Brooklyn, they are important
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:23 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:How does the rest of the state view NYC We're part of the state too. Please don't pretend we aren't.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:28 |
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gobbagool posted:Self important blowhards the vast vast vast majority of whom are no more special than your average upstate Stewart's cashier, but seem to think that because they live in Brooklyn, they are important
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:28 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:How does the rest of the state view NYC Also you guys are the capital of Finance, which is pretty much the most evil industry on the planet next to Diamond Mining, so don't get all morally righteous cause you can get Ethiopian takeout
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:31 |
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Grondoth posted:Also you guys are the capital of Finance, which is pretty much the most evil industry on the planet next to Diamond Mining, so don't get all morally righteous cause you can get Ethiopian takeout A good point; virtually everything that the most obnoxious City types hold special about NYC exists solely because of the Finance sector in one sense or another. The irony is that the actual scumbags that work on wall st are less obnoxious about the magic of NYC than the anime Marxists in Brooklyn
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:40 |
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gobbagool posted:A good point; virtually everything that the most obnoxious City types hold special about NYC exists solely because of the Finance sector in one sense or another. The irony is that the actual scumbags that work on wall st are less obnoxious about the magic of NYC than the anime Marxists in Brooklyn upstate guy doesn't realize said bankers now live in Brooklyn. Jesus dude if you're going to be an upstate downstate console warrior maybe get your facts straight?
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:42 |
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Matt Zerella posted:upstate guy doesn't realize said bankers now live in Brooklyn. Does it really matter which burough they live in? They still go and work on the street with a literal golden calf and ruin the whole world.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:51 |
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Matt Zerella posted:upstate guy doesn't realize said bankers now live in Brooklyn. Yeah the bankers that can't afford to live in the city. I live upstate but work in the city. None of this is a mystery and you edgy millennial Brooklynites are terrible bores but sure love to condescend to everyone outside of your parochial existence
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:51 |
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gobbagool posted:Yeah the bankers that can't afford to live in the city. I live upstate but work in the city. None of this is a mystery and you edgy millennial Brooklynites are terrible bores but sure love to condescend to everyone outside of your parochial existence I live in Queens, dummy.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:54 |
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Grondoth posted:Does it really matter which burough they live in? They still go and work on the street with a literal golden calf and ruin the whole world. Correct. Hobbyist socialists in Brooklyn condescend to everyone else based on cultural Imperialism, enabled 100% by money generated by their dads on wall st
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:55 |
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Grondoth posted:Does it really matter which burough they live in? They still go and work on the street with a literal golden calf and ruin the whole world. You're not going to get an argument from me here. But it matters when people who live in Brooklyn are called "anime Marxists" when that's not the case at all.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:55 |
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Matt Zerella posted:You're not going to get an argument from me here. But it matters when people who live in Brooklyn as "anime Marxists" when that's not the case at all. That's fair. That's fair. Where do the Anime Marxists hang out? Is it cool?
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:57 |
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Grondoth posted:That's fair. That's fair. Where do the Anime Marxists hang out? Is it cool? Trump made anime real so it's everywhere.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:59 |
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Matt Zerella posted:You're not going to get an argument from me here. But it matters when people who live in Brooklyn are called "anime Marxists" when that's not the case at all. Yeah nothing like discussing the oppression of the worker over a $7 cup of coffee
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:00 |
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gobbagool posted:Yeah nothing like discussing the oppression of the worker over a $7 cup of coffee They're busy discussing market forecasts because their dads are all retired to the UWS dude. You're weird.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:01 |
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gobbagool posted:Yeah the bankers that can't afford to live in the city. I live upstate but work in the city. None of this is a mystery and you edgy millennial Brooklynites are terrible bores but sure love to condescend to everyone outside of your parochial existence Oh this explains a lot. I'd want to burn the drat place to the ground if I didn't want to live in it but had to work there, so GO there, like every day.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:09 |
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stewart's cheeseburgers are so bad and chewy but i've eaten so many of them
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:14 |
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Why you eatin' anything from Stewart's except the ice cream?
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:14 |
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Grondoth posted:Oh this explains a lot. I'd want to burn the drat place to the ground if I didn't want to live in it but had to work there, so GO there, like every day. Nah I'm only there once or twice a month. Always glad to roll off the island on the train. I enjoy the City and the people there but the punk rear end bitches from Brooklyn are tiresome in their need to feel superior.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:15 |
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Grondoth posted:Why you eatin' anything from Stewart's except the ice cream? shame
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:15 |
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Grondoth posted:Why you eatin' anything from Stewart's except the ice cream? The sriracha chicken roll things are good, for convenience stood food
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:16 |
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i live in Brooklyn and i know that i ain't poo poo. but i'd rather live here than Manhattan, which is so expensive, noisy, and same-y that it's not worth it. i like Queens tooCaptainPsyko posted:Tom Perez is fine. I wouldn't have voted for him, but the main knock on him is basically 1) Bernie didn't endorse him, 2) He was an Obama appointee, and 3) as an Obama appointee, he talked the administration line re: TPP. he's not ideal by any means, and it does suck if only for the first reason i brought up, but he'll doubtlessly do better than Debbie, who ran everything like nothing was wrong when it absolutely was. also delaware didn't fall to the GOP yesterday so there's momentum in realizing state elections actually matter
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 17:04 |
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http://news.wbfo.org/post/advocates-hope-common-council-support-will-lead-universal-healthcare-nyquote:For the third year in a row, a bill is traveling through the New York legislature with the goal of creating a statewide single-payer healthcare system – more commonly known as ‘universal healthcare.’ Similar bills passed the state Assembly in 2015 and 2016, but failed to gain Senate approval. With the repeal of the Affordable Care Act on the horizon, advocates see this year’s attempt as more important than ever.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 17:13 |
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at a post-election forum he hosted, Jesse Hamilton said he'd support a single-payer bill. kind of a moot point since he's empowering the people that won't let it get to a vote
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 17:38 |
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Perennial bill introductions are not news. Let me know when it actually gets out of a senate committee and I'll call it interesting.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 22:35 |
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Matt Zerella posted:I live in Queens, dummy. Speaking of which, Queens DSA meeting is this Tuesday in LIC. You in? edit: https://twitter.com/fotemp/status/836216174652313601 unbutthurtable has issued a correction as of 18:47 on Feb 27, 2017 |
# ? Feb 27, 2017 05:36 |
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cuomo's favorability rating is officially at 60% and his job performance rating is trending slightly positive, because NY state is filled with morons
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 23:13 |
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I'm starting to think New York Dems aren't actually good. https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/836271832185593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 23:30 |
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so how long till the whole rotten burg sinks
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 23:33 |
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unbutthurtable posted:Speaking of which, Queens DSA meeting is this Tuesday in LIC. You in? Thanks! I've been meaning to get to the Queens meeting.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 00:28 |
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zeal posted:so how long till the whole rotten burg sinks Never. One-party states are actually the worst. Give me a purple state with representatives that actually care about the voters any day of the week.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 02:01 |
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What if the state Republicans could be pushed into being less lovely and then the state Democrats will have to face real competition for once I mean it's not like the generic party Democrats we get are any different from centrist Republicans anyway
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 02:04 |
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goose willis posted:What if the state Republicans could be pushed into being less lovely and then the state Democrats will have to face real competition for once The centrist Republicans have been steadily defecting to the Democrats since at least the 90s.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 02:08 |
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NY Republicans are like cartoonishly lovely, though, so we can't hope for any good there. Like, I remember right before Skelos got busted, he held this press conference where he literally said, "heh heh, it would be a shame if anything happened to poor people in NYC" like he was baby Gotti.
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