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FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

get that OUT of my face posted:

if the term "3%ers" wasn't already claimed by a right-wing militia, i'd call them that, because they're the 3% of dems who think that Bernie Sanders is actively harmful to the party

They don't really have to deal with the consequences of neoliberalism or neoconservatism.

In fact? They probably benefit from it directly. They're concerned about decorum and "looking" like they actually care about minorities without actually doing anything. Like we get to hear about them bitching about Trump saying something lovely about people who practice islam, but remain silent when Obama, Clinton signed off on military action that killed thousands of practicing muslims around the globe.

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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

FuzzySkinner posted:

In fact? They probably benefit from it directly.
there's no "probably" about it. the only reason they got those blue checkmarks on twitter is because they got into their jobs and positions of power from being neoliberalism true believers. they're in no way representative of the vast majority of the american public, but then again, we don't have a representative system

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

wtf is the blue checkmark supposed to represent

edit: oh it's supposed to only represent someone whose identity has been verified, not importance or anything AFAIK

lohli
Jun 30, 2008
It's supposed to be handed out to people who are actually noteworthy like celebrities, journalists, or other figures of public importance.

IIRC lowtax failed to convince them he deserved one. :haw:

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.

get that OUT of my face posted:

every time i pass by a tv playing CNN it's almost always RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA. nothing about the Paris Accords, nothing about the budget that the NYC mayor said would "kill people" (his words), nothing about any actual policies trump helped pass or wants to get through

it's not that there's nothing to it, but no sitting president has ever been successfully smeared as a traitor and it's not gonna start now

It's probably more missing plane syndrome and not an effort from ccn to push any narrative

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

comedyblissoption posted:

wtf is the blue checkmark supposed to represent

edit: oh it's supposed to only represent someone whose identity has been verified, not importance or anything AFAIK

well in theory it's for notable people who are verified, the problem is when they take it away from people without banning them, it demonstrates there is something else going on there.

I'm sure ad-money is involved.

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.

lohli posted:

It's supposed to be handed out to people who are actually noteworthy like celebrities, journalists, or other figures of public importance.

IIRC lowtax failed to convince them he deserved one. :haw:

He said they said it's because he won't make his avatar his face

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

comedyblissoption posted:

wtf is the blue checkmark supposed to represent

edit: oh it's supposed to only represent someone whose identity has been verified, not importance or anything AFAIK

It felt like in 2016 during the primaries and onward you just had these rich, upperclass whites that would pop up with them. They talked down to everyone, supported hillary and then would accuse you of "racism", "sexism", "homophobia" for not bowing at the alter of neoliberalism.

get that OUT of my face posted:

there's no "probably" about it. the only reason they got those blue checkmarks on twitter is because they got into their jobs and positions of power from being neoliberalism true believers. they're in no way representative of the vast majority of the american public, but then again, we don't have a representative system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow40dJx5Yog

Sorry to link Jimmy Dore for the 9000th time in this thread, but this room full of democratic voters loving nailed it.

the majority of people don't want these dipshits running the party. They find them disgusting, and their actions similar to nixon-era republicans. Yet, because of nepotism or what ever the gently caress? This is what we get stuck with.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

any schmuck can get a blue checkmark so long as twitter thinks they can get ad money off of them. jon hendren and slowbeef are twitter verified ffs

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

It's probably more missing plane syndrome and not an effort from ccn to push any narrative
probably a column a/column b thing. the one tv i passed recently that had MSNBC was talking about the paris accords story

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
lol at CNN being caught fabricating a protest

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

FuzzySkinner posted:

Sorry to link Jimmy Dore for the 9000th time in this thread, but this room full of democratic voters loving nailed it.

Just make a Jimmy Door thread.

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

super sweet best pal posted:

Just make a Jimmy Door thread.

I could make a 'doors" thread.

I was too lazy to find the original video. But yeah, average people can't stand the current dems right now.

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

FuzzySkinner posted:

It felt like in 2016 during the primaries and onward you just had these rich, upperclass whites that would pop up with them. They talked down to everyone, supported hillary and then would accuse you of "racism", "sexism", "homophobia" for not bowing at the alter of neoliberalism.

Yeah if you look at some of the blue checkmarks that reply to Trump they're not celebrities and they have pretty pathetic follower counts, I find it hard to believe that those people would have checkmarks if they weren't a bunch of rich white Silicon Valley dwelling folks with Correct Opinions.

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

MaxxBot posted:

Yeah if you look at some of the blue checkmarks that reply to Trump they're not celebrities and they have pretty pathetic follower counts, I find it hard to believe that those people would have checkmarks if they weren't a bunch of rich white Silicon Valley dwelling folks with Correct Opinions.

It's Silicon Valley, Brooklyn, Manhattan or DC. it's a lot of people like these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Jeffery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Walsh
https://twitter.com/sadydoyle?lang=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Chu
https://twitter.com/peterdaou?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://twitter.com/AlGiordano?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock
https://twitter.com/bitchyologist?lang=en
https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://twitter.com/timjacobwise?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias

People you've never heard of or people that your parents have heard of due to O'Reilly bitching about them or something. They love to gaslight and pretend they care about minorities. They're white as a ghost though and probably wouldn't be caught dead in a lowerclass neighborhood with blacks or Hispanics in it. (Did you know Arthur Chu, who hates White People lives in an upperclass suburb in Cleveland that is 98 percent white and has a 50k median income!? That's an example).

Somehow they all came out of the woodwork during the 2016 primary and now we're stuck with their uselessness dictating what the left does in this country.

FuzzySkinner has issued a correction as of 22:00 on Jun 5, 2017

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

i've heard of most of those names but hell if i know what most of them actually do for a living

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747
Do all woke idpollers have negaverse counterparts like Arthur Chu and Ian Miles Cheong?

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
I like that there is apparently a non-zero number of people who care about what icon somebody has next to their name on twitter

Clawtopsy
Dec 17, 2009

What a fascinatingly unusual cock. Now, allow me to show you my collection...

steinrokkan posted:

I like that there is apparently a non-zero number of people who care about twitter

lohli
Jun 30, 2008

Byolante posted:

Do all woke idpollers have negaverse counterparts like Arthur Chu and Ian Miles Cheong?

Cheong was a woke idpoller, so maybe it's a case of identifying which wokes match together and then we can place bets on which of the pair will defect?

passionate dongs
May 23, 2001

Snitchin' is Bitchin'

steinrokkan posted:

I like that there is apparently a non-zero number of people who care about what icon somebody has next to their name on twitter

these people youve never heard about are dictating EVERYTHING

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

passionate dongs posted:

these people youve never heard about are dictating EVERYTHING
they're not even doing that. people like sady doyle are just parroting neolib doctrine with every tweet and thinkpiece that they write. it's all banal, regurgitated trash

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

I'm seeing a "Clinton owned slaves" meme popping up.

It's really pathetic how people are defending her still.

https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/872272501241331713

https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/872245782719610882

FuzzySkinner has issued a correction as of 20:00 on Jun 7, 2017

Hemingway To Go!
Nov 10, 2008

im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway

FuzzySkinner posted:

I'm seeing a "Clinton owned slaves" meme popping up.

It's really pathetic how people are defending her still.

https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/872272501241331713

https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/872245782719610882

it's from her own 1996 book, written by her, somehow no one brought it up until now though.

here's where i first saw it (warning, gbs thread)

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
https://twitter.com/Wokieleaksalt/status/872555775813718016

https://twitter.com/WsternInsurgent/status/872674211181080576

MaxxBot has issued a correction as of 06:14 on Jun 8, 2017

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


lol

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

holy poo poo it's real

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Thats possibly the most powerful self own in the history of the human race

putrid aidsman
Apr 13, 2017

by Lowtax

Weltlich
Feb 13, 2006
Grimey Drawer

:sbahj:

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Byolante posted:

Thats possibly the most powerful self own in the history of the human race

it could be worse

Rahu
Feb 14, 2009


let me just check my figures real quick here
Grimey Drawer

:wow:

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/872860185576001536

"no, no see i was just proving to my wife that tentacle porn exists and furthermore i..."

lol dig that hole kurt

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

"i found this link on a subforum called Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse and neglected to close the tab" -Kurt Eichenwald

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth
Why don't people own up to their interests? Especially someone like this, why does it matter if he likes hentai? Just own it.

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.

The_Franz posted:

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/872860185576001536

"no, no see i was just proving to my wife that tentacle porn exists and furthermore i..."

lol dig that hole kurt

Notice the tags :shh:

sword_man.gif
Apr 12, 2007

Fun Shoe

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Notice the tags :shh:

well he explains that, the tentacle porn was just too gosh darn obscure and he couldn't find any

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep
wait who is this Kurt guy?

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

HIJK posted:

wait who is this Kurt guy?

A hack fraud with decades of horseshit in his past who threatened violence upon a Jill Stein voter in public. Feigned epilepsy to try and lock up a Twitter troll, etc.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

HIJK posted:

wait who is this Kurt guy?

he was once almost killed by a tweet

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HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

Taintrunner posted:

A hack fraud with decades of horseshit in his past who threatened violence upon a Jill Stein voter in public. Feigned epilepsy to try and lock up a Twitter troll, etc.

Guy Goodbody posted:

he was once almost killed by a tweet

:lol: oh my god epilepsy twitter man gets pwned once again? Amazing

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