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Tom Perez B/K/M?
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B 77 25.50%
K 160 52.98%
M 65 21.52%
Total: 229 votes
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stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

FuriousxGeorge posted:

You voted for Hillary Clinton, lol.

so are you a decriminalize every drug libertarian, a taxes are the real slavery libertarian, children should be able to sell their labor libertarian, the south will rise again libertarian or what

i mean every option is super dumb but id like to know which flavor of dumb you are

e: forgot hoard gold and guns, that's my bad

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Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


NewForumSoftware posted:

You sweet summer child, such naivety warms my heart

I said that if the DNC didn't learn from Kansas I'd change my mind and agree with the OP.

Settle down.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

SSNeoman posted:

far from most. those people are well in the minority. sucks to be them I guess.

If “Did Not Vote” Had Been A Candidate In The 2016 US Presidential Election, It Would Have Won By a Landslide

NewForumSoftware
Oct 8, 2016

by Lowtax

SSNeoman posted:

I said that if the DNC didn't learn from Kansas I'd change my mind and agree with the OP.

lol

quote:

Settle down.

x2

stop tone policing you big baby

can't believe I found the one guy going "well I'll give them ONE more chance" 30 years into abject failure

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

SSNeoman posted:

We're not even done with special elections. Settle down.
The DNC pretty much is done with them, except for the runoff in Georgia.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

stone cold posted:

so are you a decriminalize every drug libertarian, a taxes are the real slavery libertarian, children should be able to sell their labor libertarian, the south will rise again libertarian or what

i mean every option is super dumb but id like to know which flavor of dumb you are

e: forgot hoard gold and guns, that's my bad

Legalize drugs and other victimless crimes, protect civil liberties, stop being world police type. Disagree on economics, but I disagreed on economics with everyone on the PA ballot.

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


steinrokkan posted:

That's fine if you are willing to give a straight, honest answer to the inevitable follow up: "Which party are the neoliberals"

both

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

Alienwarehouse posted:

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had much more in common than they did not, specifically on war, defense contractors, corporate welfare, banks, private prisons, and fracking.

This poo poo is epically dumb and the leftists who were pushing this narrative (and voting accordingly in swing states) during the election are part of the reason we have trump.

FuriousxGeorge posted:

I didn't protest vote. He was the best candidate on the ballot even with his flaws and my areas of disagreement with him.

Holy poo poo.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011



Now do it for 2012, 2008, 2004 and 2000.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-2016/

Voter turnout has been low for the past couple of decades. This has nothing to do with Trump or Hillary, though admittedly the two made the situation slightly worse.

Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Apr 22, 2017

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Sure. So in the end the message remains the same as it was before all the spin doctoring - gently caress politics.

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

FuriousxGeorge posted:

Legalize drugs and other victimless crimes, protect civil liberties, stop being world police type. Disagree on economics, but I disagreed on economics with everyone on the PA ballot.

what are the other victimless crimes in your definition, like don't be squirrelly if you're a children should be able to sell their labor type

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

SSNeoman posted:

Now do it for 2012, 2008, 2004 and 2000.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-2016/

Voter turnout has been low for the past couple of decades. This has nothing to do with Trump or Hillary, though admittedly the two made the situation worse.

Well yeah. This problem did not begin with Hillary or Trump.

NewForumSoftware
Oct 8, 2016

by Lowtax

SSNeoman posted:

Voter turnout has been low for the past couple of decades. This has nothing to do with Trump or Hillary, though admittedly the two made the situation worse.

It's continuously been falling since "lesser of two evils" neoliberalism is all that's been on the table

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

stone cold posted:

what are the other victimless crimes in your definition, like don't be squirrelly if you're a children should be able to sell their labor type

Man it would be so much easier for you if I was a strawman, but no.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


FuriousxGeorge posted:

Well yeah. This problem did not begin with Hillary or Trump.

So why bring up the point? Especially in a discussion about the effectiveness for voting third party?

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

FuriousxGeorge posted:

Man it would be so much easier for you if I was a strawman, but no.

i mean, voting libertarian automatically makes you super stupid, don't get me wrong, but it's not that it would be easier, more like you're insanely bland

the lincoln chafee of libertarians

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


steinrokkan posted:

Sure. So in the end the message remains the same as it was before all the spin doctoring - gently caress politics.

No, not necessarily. The message is "gently caress Republicans and also the Clintons". You can still fight for a political alternative

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


icantfindaname posted:

No, not necessarily. The message is "gently caress Republicans and also the Clintons". You can still fight for a political alternative

Pretty words. Whatcha got on that front?

Alienwarehouse
Apr 1, 2017

JeffersonClay posted:

This poo poo is epically dumb and the leftists who were pushing this narrative (and voting accordingly in swing states) during the election are part of the reason we have trump.

CorrectTheRecord must be paying you well. Or worse, you're genuinely this stupid.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

icantfindaname posted:

No, not necessarily. The message is "gently caress Republicans and also the Clintons". You can still fight for a political alternative

No, you can't, because admitting to voting third party starts this whole circle of bullshit over again, and nothing is done.

Alienwarehouse
Apr 1, 2017

We'll also wait for noted shithead JeffersonClay to provide evidence that Hillary Clinton did NOT have cozy relationships with defense contractors, corporate welfare, banks, private prisons, and pro-fracking lobbyists.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

SSNeoman posted:

So why bring up the point? Especially in a discussion about the effectiveness for voting third party?

I don't understand what's confusing you about this conversation.

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


SSNeoman posted:

Pretty words. Whatcha got on that front?

http://www.dsausa.org/

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

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JeffersonClay posted:

This poo poo is epically dumb and the leftists who were pushing this narrative (and voting accordingly in swing states) during the election are part of the reason we have trump.

You know you're going to have to back up your assertions that leftist criticisms of Clinton played any meaningful role, right?

Majorian fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Apr 22, 2017

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Majorian posted:

You know you're going to have to back up your assertions that leftist criticisms of Clinton played any meaningful role, right?

It's good at least for the truth to come out, that the real reason he thinks Hillary lost is that she was stabbed in the back by socialist traitors

Someone really needs to rebuy them that Hindenburg avatar

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

Majorian posted:

You know you're going to have to back up your assertions that leftist criticisms of Clinton played any meaningful role, right?

You see that I'm discussing this with two leftists who believe the false equivalency between Trump and Clinton justifies voting for Gary Johnson in a swing state, right? I'm not sure the burden on me is to prove they're not meaningless outliers.

Alienwarehouse posted:

We'll also wait for noted shithead JeffersonClay to provide evidence that Hillary Clinton did NOT have cozy relationships with defense contractors, corporate welfare, banks, private prisons, and pro-fracking lobbyists.

If you're not smart enough to identify meaningful differences between Hillary and Trump on defense, corporations, criminal justice and the environment now, no amount of reasoned explanation is going to fix the problem. Also Majoritarian is trying real hard to pretend leftists like you don't exist enough to matter so maybe throw him a bone?

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:
"Was it defeat to choose the lesser of two evils?"
- Paul Maud'Dib, "Dune"

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

FuriousxGeorge posted:

Legalize drugs and other victimless crimes, protect civil liberties, stop being world police type. Disagree on economics, but I disagreed on economics with everyone on the PA ballot.

Legalizing drugs without dismantling capitalism let's the pharmaceutical companies that created the opiate crisis push their shot even harder

HannibalBarca
Sep 11, 2016

History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.

stone cold posted:

i mean, voting libertarian automatically makes you super stupid, don't get me wrong, but it's not that it would be easier, more like you're insanely bland

the lincoln chafee of libertarians

Chafee was too weird to be bland, you're looking for Martin O'Malley

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015

stone cold posted:

what are the other victimless crimes in your definition, like don't be squirrelly if you're a children should be able to sell their labor type

"Child labor must be a victimless crime in their mind; I'm sorry what are children?"

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Majorian posted:

You know you're going to have to back up your assertions that leftist criticisms of Clinton played any meaningful role, right?

I'd really like him to explain how criticism in the primary is treason.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

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JeffersonClay posted:

You see that I'm discussing this with two leftists who believe the false equivalency between Trump and Clinton justifies voting for Gary Johnson in a swing state, right? I'm not sure the burden on me is to prove they're not meaningless outliers.

No, you've been making this claim for quite a while now. You need to back it up. I'm not really interested in someone's absurd excuses for voting for Gary "Hurrrr Aleppo?!" Johnson. I'm interested in why we should believe you when you claim that left-wing criticisms of Clinton hurt her significantly in the general election. I'm also interested in why the fault should be placed with the leftists who pointed out her painfully glaring flaws, instead of folks like you who insisted that those flaws were inconsequential.

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

Again, with JC telling Sanders voters here not to bother to vote for Abuela last year because she had in the bag, and people like Schumer talking about the white working class vote being irrelevant, it's hard to care about their stabbed in the back by leftists rhetoric now.

If the Democrat party is actively pushing away voters, it's their fault not the voters.

And Hillary/Mook themselves were guilty of this with the stuff that happened in Michigan.

A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Legalizing drugs without dismantling capitalism let's the pharmaceutical companies that created the opiate crisis push their shot even harder

uh, its still better than putting vast swathes of a particular ethnic group in a cage.

i mean libertarians are super morons but this doesn't prevent them from being the stopped clock in this case.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

A big flaming stink posted:

uh, its still better than putting vast swathes of a particular ethnic group in a cage.

i mean libertarians are super morons but this doesn't prevent them from being the stopped clock in this case.

I mean I'm limiting this analysis to opiates here but yeah

free weed

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

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shrike82 posted:

Again, with JC telling Sanders voters here not to bother to vote for Abuela last year because she had in the bag, and people like Schumer talking about the white working class vote being irrelevant, it's hard to care about their stabbed in the back by leftists rhetoric now.

If the Democrat party is actively pushing away voters, it's their fault not the voters.

And Hillary/Mook themselves were guilty of this with the stuff that happened in Michigan.

Yeah, once again, if anyone needs a reminder of why Jamelle Bouie and other liberal columnists are absolutely part of the problem...

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

Seriously look at JC's post history before and after the election. It's a good microcosm of the HRC 'movement' - dismissing stuff like the email scandal as nothing, making GBS threads on Sanders and actively wanting to push away his supporters, sucking on Mook's big data dick, and suddenly after November blaming everyone else but Abuela.

Man, I wish I had hung out with JC on election night, that'd have been awesome to watch.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Legalizing drugs without dismantling capitalism let's the pharmaceutical companies that created the opiate crisis push their shot even harder

So you prefer "Let's keep the minorities serving time and slave labor in for-profit prisons."

Got it.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

Mister Facetious posted:

So you prefer "Let's keep the minorities serving time and slave labor in for-profit prisons."

Got it.

i prefer dismantling capitalism :shrug:

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Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

i prefer dismantling capitalism :shrug:

Yeah, what's three strikes and another twenty years to those minorities, amirite?

They can wait.

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