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Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

TheScott2K posted:

Hope Hicks definitely hosed Lewandowski and probably fucks Trump.

evilweasel posted:

shut the gently caress up

Well, let's see what TD sa-



Oh.

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Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


bird cooch posted:

Lol, run a socialist for president? Sure go nuts. Better stand up a party from near scratch in less than a year.

Get started.

DSA

https://twitter.com/AnchorageDSA/status/897730705286987776

Shitshow posted:

Has this been posted yet? Because it is so sweet.

https://twitter.com/Henry_Langston/status/897846695916187652

:laffo:

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

theflyingorc posted:

The answer to "how do we beat Trump in 2020" is to not "run" anyone. Let it be an actual primary, don't put your finger on the scale at all, and the winner shouldn't come out tainted.

It would be nice, but I think this might turn out to be more difficult to accomplish than is immediately apparent. Party elites gravitate towards the candidates that they think will win, because they want access to the person who wins the election.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Shitshow posted:

Has this been posted yet? Because it is so sweet.

https://twitter.com/Henry_Langston/status/897846695916187652

loving crybaby. I've been handcuffed and I didn't cry, suck it up you prick.

Eltoasto
Aug 26, 2002

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.



ahahah his crying and outrage to Chelsea Manning mocking him.

XOIC of Radishes
Oct 1, 2009

I planted radishes in this special dirt and they came up all weird!
:science: :ughh:
Here comes Sessions!

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

PhazonLink posted:

They also hosed the dog because they're morally inept pieces of poo poo.

:drat:

Nice callout.

StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Aug 16, 2017

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


DreamShipWrecked posted:

This article sets out to attack the antifa but seems to justify their actions at every turn

I always wonder how these Serious and Respectable guys feel about the people in the comments to their articles calling for hate crimes based on their writings. Does it maybe ever give them the slightest pause to think "huh maybe I'm the bad guy here?" before shaking their head and penning more worthless garbage.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

theflyingorc posted:

The answer to "how do we beat Trump in 2020" is to not "run" anyone. Let it be an actual primary, don't put your finger on the scale at all, and the winner shouldn't come out tainted.

I think this is probably what's going to happen.

i guarantee this is what's going to happen, because so many people want to run there's no loving way they could ever agree on someone beforehand

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe
Cotton Hill now speaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-WbM0HATw

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

yronic heroism posted:

It must really burn you that this is the thread for fighting fascism and no one cares about stupid poo poo like condiv word policing democrats' twitter feeds then.
No this is the thread for liberals to spin elaborate theories about how best to fight fascism while making GBS threads on the people who actually, you know, literally fight fascism.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

evilweasel posted:

i guarantee this is what's going to happen, because so many people want to run there's no loving way they could ever agree on someone beforehand

It's going to look like the Republican zoo primaries at first, but then the 12 Democrats will open their mouths during the debates and bore everyone to tears with their boring competence.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002


imagine being such a broke-brained idiot that your reaction to "the president is literally supporting neo-nazis" is to rush to start defining good liberals and bad liberals

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

Levitate posted:

It's the fuckin' KKK, white supremacists, and literal Nazi's! If there are any groups that people should be standing up to in the streets it's those fuckers! Holy poo poo the hand wringing about small amounts of property damage and what is so far relatively minor scuffling is loving insane compared to LITERAL NAZI'S MARCHING IN THE STREETS COME THE gently caress ON

You know what? Every single one of those hand-wringing liberals is actually a selfish rear end in a top hat who has it good (job, mortgage, family, etc.) and doesn't want to rock the boat too much, and they believe speaking out against violence of all kinds helps them take the moral high road.

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better


Lol biggest internet tough guy in the world who feels threatened by "tranny fanatic" Chelsea Manning's Twitter account and has to have a gun on him at all times.

Lock him up

bird cooch
Jan 19, 2007

Kilroy posted:

Weren't you the one calling for unity yesterday? Good to know what you really think, though.

You've completed validated my statement that the only choice for leftists is to take on both fascists and liberals at the same time. Leftists should consider them both to be enemies of democracy, liberty, and life on Earth.

Stop hitting yourself.

Some Pinko Commie
Jun 9, 2009

CNC! Easy as 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣!

I hope someone asks him why not even 1/1000th of the energy spent on mythical illegal immigrant crime is being spent on tracking down the Nazis that publicly stated they were going to attack the people of Gainesville, Florida at their next rally.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

bird cooch posted:

Lol, run a socialist for president? Sure go nuts. Better stand up a party from near scratch in less than a year.

Get started.

The GOP got a national socialist elected, can't be that hard

Xae
Jan 19, 2005

Cool, we're about to start the Leftist-Liberal slap fight again followed by the "Why don't those other guys I just spend months/years making GBS threads on work with me!" retard spiral.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


enraged_camel posted:

You know what? Every single one of those hand-wringing liberals is actually a selfish rear end in a top hat who has it good (job, mortgage, family, etc.) and doesn't want to rock the boat too much, and they believe speaking out against violence of all kinds helps them take the moral high road.

The conservatives have convinced themselves that antifa are literally murdering cops and burning cities to the ground so at least from that perspective I could see why they can draw some warped moral equivalence between them and the nazis (especially when the nazis are so ovbiously not bad because they are white and dressed like golf course employees). The Democrats that see that confederate statue come down and start crying about precious Property Values are horrible and have no excuse.

It seems like there's less of this stupidity after yesterday's presser so I'm hoping there's less complaining about "violent" leftists from the left.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Enigma89 posted:

Jailing political opponents? He hasn't even done anything to Hillary. Won't happen.

Protesters at the inauguration are still facing felonies. Just because he doesn't need to arrest Hillary doesn't mean he can't arrest political opponents.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/anti-trump-protesters-facing-decades-bars-170522063956218.html

quote:

On January 21, most of the 230 protesters and bystanders arrested the day before were charged with felony rioting, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a $25,000 fine.

But on April 27, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment which added additional charges for some 212 defendants, three of whom had not previously been charged.

With new felony charges including urging to riot, conspiracy to riot and destruction of property, many of the defendants are facing up to 80 years in prison. Many other defendants, among them journalists, are facing more than 70 years.
...
"I was arrested when the police kettled the crowd," Taylor says, explaining that many protesters and bystanders were disoriented by pepper spray and stun grenades.

"The MPD closed off an entire city block and arrested everyone within that block. There was no order to disperse and no warning," Taylor recalls.

"It is no coincidence that this repression coincides with the first visible manifestation of resistance to Trump's regime."

Taylor's accusations that the police failed to give warnings were echoed in a report (PDF) published by the DC Mayor's Office of Police Complaints.

It concluded that "less than lethal weapons were used indiscriminately and without adequate warnings in certain instances".

Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe

Harrow posted:

Here's the latest "far too early to worry about that" thing I'm worried about :

Let's say Trump makes it all the way to 2020, ramps up his reelection campaign as expected, all of that. How the hell does a Democrat beat him? I'm not even talking about Democrats or their policies, or any specific candidate. I mean: if we assume the GOP is exactly as in-the-tank for Trump as they are today, if we assume Russian disinfo campaigns are at least as aggressive as they were in 2016, if we assume Donald is exactly as willing to cheat as he was in 2016, how do you win that election? When he rallied to jail his opponent in 2016, he was a candidate without the power to do so; if he does the same in 2020 (because, let's be honest, they'll find something to spin into a serious offense no matter what Democrat runs against him), he'll have a lot more power to actually make that happen. He'll have a DOJ in his pocket to drip-feed ominous statements and half-truths, to insinuate there's "an investigation," even if no charges ever materialize.

How do you run against that?

I don't want to be doom-and-gloom, we're-hosed-forever here, I mean I'm actually interested in what strategy you can possibly take against something like that.

Run a social democrat. Inspire the base, run someone who's politics are so sexy they'll forgive small transgressions.That's it, it's that simple.

That said, you are right to be worried.

PenguinKnight
Apr 6, 2009

Majorian posted:

This is, uh, probably one that they should consider pulling...:stare:

I doubt it, since that same author has an article about how while Anti-fa aren't as bad as nazi's, they're still bad because slippery slopes can decide any speech isn't allowed in public and something something undermining the civil rights movement, talking about VA

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Xae posted:

Cool, we're about to start the Leftist-Liberal slap fight again followed by the "Why don't those other guys I just spend months/years making GBS threads on work with me!" retard spiral.

Yeah, its weird how people come in here to start that poo poo up whenever Trump does something hosed up

Its almost like they do it for a reason :thunk:

TyrantWD
Nov 6, 2010
Ignore my doomerism, I don't think better things are possible
https://twitter.com/rebeccagberg/status/897809022526664705

Don't government employees have to accrue leave days?

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


What the gently caress is Sessions talking about?

Javes
May 6, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT APPEARING OFFLINE SO I DON'T HAVE TO TELL FRIENDS THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY VIDEO GAME TEAM.
Sessions claimed Chicago and Miami have the same population?

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

The Glumslinger posted:

Yeah, its weird how people come in here to start that poo poo up whenever Trump does something hosed up

Its almost like they do it for a reason :thunk:

its not like they're plants, they're just broken people who only care about themselves

when it's everyone against the nazis there's no glory in being part of the overwhelming majority so they need to come up with reasons why everyone else opposing the nazis is garbage to feel special and righteous

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

TyrantWD posted:

https://twitter.com/rebeccagberg/status/897809022526664705

Don't government employees have to accrue leave days?

Do either of them have actual real jobs? "Vaguely important person who hangs around with the president" doesn't count

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Chicago chicago chicago

He's against Sanctuary Cities.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Pollyanna posted:

What the gently caress is Sessions talking about?

what do you mean?

Hellblazer187
Oct 12, 2003

Sneakster posted:

Just run him through the Lazarus pit, he'll be fine, he's literally the most popular candidate and the liberals are polling worse than a man who's getting the Nero playing fiddle treatment from what should be his allies.

What are you even talking about?

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Javes posted:

Sessions claimed Chicago and Miami have the same population?

they do, in the sense of more than he can count on his fingers and toes

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



Just caught up after pages and pages of new developments. I attended Heather's funeral at the Paramount, and I'm glad to say that I didn't see a single Nazi in the vicinity. Police were swarming the Mall, but I think they probably knew not to come here after what happened.

Despite the eyebrows raised by Heather's stepfather's "all lives matter" comment, the people who spoke were pretty adamant about changing the world for the better and not giving in to hate. That's not an easy message to hear, and especially for people who knew Heather better than I did (she and I never crossed paths much in school). I thought everyone did a great job. Her Mom in particular did a really good job of giving a non-political political speech (if that makes sense). You'll probably see it on the national news.

There was only a single interruption: at the very end of the service, as the family was preparing to file out, some genius decided that it would be a great time to start haranguing about Trump. A lot of the people inn the audience - me included - probably agreed with what the woman was saying, but nobody wanted to hear it in the middle of Heather's service.

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit

PJOmega posted:

Facebook is utterly inundated with fase profiles created for the sole purpose of generating white noise in comments. Likely to an unrecoverable extent.

That isn't to say that there aren't millions of Midwestern idiots who are vocal about their support, but a ton of the disruptive accounts exist solely to choke out real discourse and to provide cheerleading effect to people nominally on "their" side.

A month back I went and joined a bunch of progressive FB groups and quickly realized that almost all of them were bot farms talking to each other. I remember one in particular where after I posted disagreeing with someone IU got dogpiled by 5 different profiles that each had a generic 2 syllable first name and generic 3 syllable last name, among other similarities. FB is worthless for discourse at present.

Shammypants
May 25, 2004

Let me tell you about true luxury.

They are pretty fortunate to post today as well, considering low effort and low quality troll threads didn't exist in DD years ago. They have their little hive of stupidity all set up, or prison, however you want to look at it.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Deified Data posted:

Run a social democrat. Inspire the base, run someone who's politics are so sexy they'll forgive small transgressions.That's it, it's that simple.

That said, you are right to be worried.

very :agreed:

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Pollyanna posted:

What the gently caress is Sessions talking about?

"Alien criminal"
"Alien criminal"
"Alien criminal"

These shitbags keep repeating things hoping they'll stick. I hope someone throws shows at him.

https://twitter.com/visibleotters/status/897634177729822722

TLM3101
Sep 8, 2010



Azhais posted:

The GOP got a national socialist elected, can't be that hard

:golfclap:

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coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot
how many times is Sessions going to say "Sickago"

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