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Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound

loquacius posted:

I don't really think anyone ITT would disagree with this in a straight up-or-down decision, the problem is that a lot of people have been using "RUSSIA" as a buzzword to mean "HILLARY DID NOTHING WRONG please stop criticizing Democrats"

like I said before, it's bad that so many high Trump officials are doing the dirty with Russia, and it's good that we can use this to take them down, and we need a continued focus on quality-assurance of the Democratic Party to return to relevance. All of these things at once.

the people using russia as "hillary did nothing wrong" are idiots though... yet outside jeffersonclay no one is saying that so i'm wondering where the gently caress all this rage at poo poo not actually happening here is coming from

everyone seems to be in agreement that the dems need to change and that a leftist takeover of local parties is crucial to shift the national org towards those changes

let the establishment dems focus on that poo poo instead of trying to marginalize a leftist takeover of the party

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logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
Susan sarandon is a great singer though

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

JeffersonClay posted:

Clinton was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign and she almost certainly would have won anyway if she hadn't gotten hosed by Comey and Putin.

Basically, if she wasn't a Clinton lol.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

logikv9 posted:

susan sarandon only backs the best candidates, like ralph nader

This but unironically

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
Brad woulda won if Janet didn't ruin everything for him

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011

JeffersonClay posted:

Clinton was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign and she almost certainly would have won anyway if she hadn't gotten hosed by Comey and Putin.

she could have easily won even with that happening but chose not to because she thought it was a foregone conclusion and skipped right to trying to consolidate power and earn favors. our current situation is due to her hubris alone and yet you're still here carrying water for her

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

https://i.imgur.com/I5HfeSJ.mp4

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Gringostar posted:

the people using russia as "hillary did nothing wrong" are idiots though... yet outside jeffersonclay no one is saying that so i'm wondering where the gently caress all this rage at poo poo not actually happening here is coming from

everyone seems to be in agreement that the dems need to change and that a leftist takeover of local parties is crucial to shift the national org towards those changes

I only loving wish

quote:

let the establishment dems focus on that poo poo instead of trying to marginalize a leftist takeover of the party

:yeah:

Uniting and standing together etc is all very well and good as long as we're uniting and standing together under actually good ideas which will work, win elections, and improve the country

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

loquacius posted:

*that bad vanity fair article I didn't like

ok, well, I can't believe I have to type this out, but: you can find stupid people saying stupid things on the Internet in defense of literally any opinion, including, yes, all of yours and all of mine; you and Vanity Fair need to spend less time handwringing over it

No you need to spend less time handwringing about what I and vanity fair are saying, checkmate.

Gringostar posted:

the people using russia as "hillary did nothing wrong" are idiots though... yet outside jeffersonclay no one is saying that so i'm wondering where the gently caress all this rage at poo poo not actually happening here is coming from

lol I'm not saying that either. I am saying that Hillary told use exactly what was going on here and some of us denied it at the time, and are continuing to do so now. There's plenty of blame to go around here.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

logikv9 posted:

Brad woulda won if Janet didn't ruin everything for him

never stop posting here, you are a beacon of light in these trying times of all these pbbhthth posts~

yes, im drunk at 1 pm :beerpal:

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

JeffersonClay posted:

Clinton was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign and she almost certainly would have won anyway if she hadn't gotten hosed by Comey and Putin.

:laffo: Even when you admit it was her own fault you can't bring yourself to accept it.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

JeffersonClay posted:

No you need to spend less time handwringing about what I and vanity fair are saying, checkmate.

just a heads-up, handwringing forever is a really weird way of saying that

also we're playing Catan

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

logikv9 posted:

Brad woulda won if Janet didn't ruin everything for him

Brad played both sides, not pure enough for the -Geeg.

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

Fiction posted:

she could have easily won even with that happening but chose not to because she thought it was a foregone conclusion and skipped right to trying to consolidate power and earn favors. our current situation is due to her hubris alone and yet you're still here carrying water for her

MizPiz posted:

:laffo: Even when you admit it was her own fault you can't bring yourself to accept it.

Y'all have some pathological problem where any statement that could possibly validate Clinton or imply that everything is not entirely her fault is an insult to true leftism or something and it's adorable.

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound

loquacius posted:

I only loving wish

people in this thread agree on it

not like... establishment dems

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Fiction posted:

she could have easily won even with that happening but chose not to because she thought it was a foregone conclusion and skipped right to trying to consolidate power and earn favors. our current situation is due to her hubris alone and yet you're still here carrying water for her

ding ding ding

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

JeffersonClay posted:

Y'all have some pathological problem where any statement that could possibly validate Clinton or imply that everything is not entirely her fault is an insult to true leftism or something and it's adorable.
Wait a second... condescending... blind to opposition... weirdly entitled...

My god, JeffersonClay is Hillary Clinton.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



ayo bee the wizzle Clinton was a bad candidate and Bernie woulda won just by the by in case y'all forgot

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

No handwringing. No handwringing. You're the handwringing.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Wait a second... condescending... blind to opposition... weirdly entitled...

My god, JeffersonClay is Hillary Clinton.

maybe he wrote the vanity fair article

e: oh, also, weirdly fixated on obtaining vengeance against those he perceives as being opposed to him in some way, don't forget that part

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

loquacius posted:

maybe he wrote the vanity fair article
I don't know what article you're talking about, and 99 percent of the time this thread reads like a dozen old people all sharing one bed and sniping at each other about very specific disputes from decades past.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

FactsAreUseless posted:

I don't know what article you're talking about, and 99 percent of the time this thread reads like a dozen old people all sharing one bed and sniping at each other about very specific disputes from decades past.

Was posted a few hours ago:

MaxxBot posted:

Don't like the decades of failed pro-corporate centrism from the establishment Dems? You must be ALT-LEFT

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/why-the-alt-left-is-a-problem

UHD
Nov 11, 2006


get off my lawn hillary

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

loquacius posted:



e: oh, also, weirdly fixated on obtaining vengeance against those he perceives as being opposed to him in some way, don't forget that part

it's perfectly normal to keep a long-running list of posters who were with you and posters who were against you

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

wrt the vf article in the words of the alt-left:

NAH

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound

Oh Snapple! posted:

it's perfectly normal to keep a long-running list of posters who were with you and posters who were against you

i hate you all

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

loquacius posted:

also, weirdly fixated on obtaining vengeance against those he perceives as being opposed to him in some way, don't forget that part

:ironicat: Now let me tell you more about why the election of Tom Perez is an unforgivable insult to the left and heralds the destruction of the Democratic Party.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

JeffersonClay posted:

:ironicat: Now let me tell you more about why the election of Tom Perez is an unforgivable insult to the left and heralds the destruction of the Democratic Party.

I don't really see the connection

Yes, I perceive the existence of factions on the left and I'm really disappointed in the DNC for not taking an easy out w/r/t factional unity because of their own idiot pride

that's not really the same as trying to yell at SA forums posters about things some anonymous person may or may not have said on Twitter months ago

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

No fixated. No fixated. You're the fixated.

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
The Actual Suck Zone

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

utah might switch to ranked ballots, how does this effect the democrats chances?

https://twitter.com/fairvote/status/837728876742721536

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

Gringostar posted:

multiple people in the trump administration being connected to russia is totally unimportant

meanwhile lets obsess about how hillary being connected to wall st was important

these two things seem different somehow.

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

loquacius posted:

that's not really the same as trying to yell at SA forums posters about things some anonymous person may or may not have said on Twitter months ago

I'm actually a lot more worried about leftist media like Greenwald and the Jacobin (as the vanity fair article mentioned in the section I quoted) but the people who regurgitate their nonsense are bad too.

No vomit no vomit you're the vomit

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

Terror Sweat posted:

utah might switch to ranked ballots, how does this effect the democrats chances?

https://twitter.com/fairvote/status/837728876742721536

Everything's coming up Egg McMuffin

The_Politics_Man
Aug 25, 2015

JeffersonClay posted:

I'm actually a lot more worried about leftist media like Greenwald and the Jacobin (as the vanity fair article mentioned in the section I quoted) but the people who regurgitate their nonsense are bad too.

No vomit no vomit you're the vomit

why is socialism bad?

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

FactsAreUseless posted:

I couldn't care less if Russia literally went to polling places and wrote TRUMP over anywhere it said "Hillary Clinton," that doesn't mean I'm not concerned about person after person in the Trump campaign and administration being revealed to have Russian ties while the administration moves to lift sanctions and tighten our relationship with a far-right dictatorship.

But we are already "Great Allies" of Saudi Arabia and Israel :confused:

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

resar posted:

why is socialism bad?

It's pretty chill in a good number of implementations.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

But we are already "Great Allies" of Saudi Arabia and Israel :confused:
I also have problems with our alliance with SA. (I have issues with Israel's current far-right government as well but obviously Israel is a pretty complicated topic).

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011

JeffersonClay posted:

It's pretty chill in a good number of implementations.

social democracy dont count

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The_Politics_Man
Aug 25, 2015

JeffersonClay posted:

It's pretty chill in a good number of implementations.

What are the good implementations?

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