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The GOP loved to poo poo on the "community organizer" thing but it was massively better credentials than any of the law firm this and bank that bullshit the wonks put in their resumes.
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Agnosticnixie posted:The GOP loved to poo poo on the "community organizer" thing but it was massively better credentials than any of the law firm this and bank that bullshit the wonks put in their resumes. its a huge reason why he coasted into the presidency. he had more legitimacy with the average person and didn't have to account for secretly loving capitalism way too much since it wasnt really on a record anywhere, plus with so little political experience he got to dodge the iraq war poo poo he clearly would have voted for.
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Frijolero posted:Uhh, Obama was the greatest of garbos See I disagree here. They all suck because they're liberals. Rahm sucks because he's a genuine reactionary.
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Guy Goodbody posted:How is that good? Becoming a homemaker at age 18?
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Concerned Citizen posted:she supported both public option *and* medicare buy-in, two separate proposals (although she is a bit ambiguous there). she also supported a public option when she ran in 2008 She clearly conflates the two in that quote. What she means by "public option" isn't at all remotely what anyone else considers a public option.
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Guy Goodbody posted:The idea that Democrats are owed votes from the American people purely because their polices are less harmful than the Republicans'. It has never worked. And it doesn't even make sense. I don't think it's true that this strategy never works. I think it can work under certain conditions. Specifically, if a large enough portion of the American public is satisfied with the status quo, a strategy which focuses on opposition to a harmful opponent can be successful. This is because, when people are generally satisfied with their lives, they tend to be more concerned at the prospect of things becoming worse than they are interested in the prospect of making things better. I believe that a big cause of our current problems is that there's a huge disconnect between the quality of life of the types of people generally responsible for the direction of the Democratic Party (educated, well-off urban managerial-professionals, for lack of a better description) and the quality of life of a huge portion of the Democratic voter base. This disconnect has always existed to one degree or another, but it's particularly noticeable now. A big part of me fears that societies will always tend to become reactionary once quality of life reaches a certain level; i.e. people will always start caring less about positive progress once a certain threshold of quality is reached, as we saw with Baby Boomers who were raised in a relatively prosperous country (provided you were white, at least). So, at best, a society will just fluctuate between progressive and reactionary policy.
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Bip Roberts posted:Becoming a homemaker at age 18? Why do you care so much how adults choose to live their lives?
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Subjunctivitis posted:https://twitter.com/LucianNikki/status/881990708227211264 i agree with her 
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Subjunctivitis posted:https://twitter.com/LucianNikki/status/881990708227211264 nah
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Venom Snake posted:A race to the bottom where our fed government is essentially just throwing the entire population to the wolves would just end in balkanization/mad max hellscape how else do you think this ends kid
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GalacticAcid posted:See I disagree here. I'd call Hillary a centrist, Obama a tragic figure, and Rahm stinking pile of dogshit.
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Yeah Rahm deserves a special level of scorn even among the Dems, who are bad.
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Bip Roberts posted:Becoming a homemaker at age 18? It's not a life choice I would recommend. But, it seems like a very Republican response to see someone facing a potential problem in life and propose as a solution something that will disrespect their accomplishments, shame them, and make their life artificially more difficult while not actually helping them at all.
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Rahm was like the archetype of Clinton's people who got in the WH because they needed to let her have a few surrogates on top of State to concede.
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Baloogan posted:lol he was obama's chief of staff Those Pod Save America fuckers bring up their time in the White House every once in a while about how Rahm Emanuel would have them go in to work even during a holiday just to work on the ACA some more and they're laughing, but to me it just sounded like learned helplessness.
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In honor of America Day and the Suck Zone:  quote:"Embrace the suck": Translation: The situation is bad, but deal with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxs924BWX80
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https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/881989353253163008 what the gently caress even
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Frijolero posted:Uhh, Obama was the greatest of garbos Rahm is the only member of the Obama administration who is fascist without subterfuge.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/881989353253163008 lol
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When I think companies with lots to say about long term strategy and operational sustainability, I think Zynga and Linkedin
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Nanomashoes posted:Macron Wins: Now Europe Does What Investors Want https://twitter.com/NuclearTakes/status/882181907760414720
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Redonner Gloire a la France
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steinrokkan posted:When I think companies with lots to say about long term strategy and operational sustainability, I think Zynga and Linkedin Both the DNC and Zynga had their leader break down in tears at their nadir, so they do have something in common
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Ytlaya posted:I don't think it's true that this strategy never works. I think it can work under certain conditions. Specifically, if a large enough portion of the American public is satisfied with the status quo, a strategy which focuses on opposition to a harmful opponent can be successful. This is because, when people are generally satisfied with their lives, they tend to be more concerned at the prospect of things becoming worse than they are interested in the prospect of making things better. I believe that a big cause of our current problems is that there's a huge disconnect between the quality of life of the types of people generally responsible for the direction of the Democratic Party (educated, well-off urban managerial-professionals, for lack of a better description) and the quality of life of a huge portion of the Democratic voter base. This disconnect has always existed to one degree or another, but it's particularly noticeable now. I've yet to see this strategy ever work in politics anywhere. The only time it "works" is when turnout for both sides is embarrassingly low. See: Bill Clinton.
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consumed by normies posted:why-some-men-dont-work-video-games-have-gotten-really-good.html this is not a joke btw its Real
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"Trees, not as huggable as you thought" gonna be thinking about that one for a while
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the CEO of Ticketmaster wants a Dignity Party https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/882066735159017473
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