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Kraftwerk posted:This can't be how the government of the most powerful country on Earth operates?? It's just idiots like me at every level of government and the Trump admin hired people dumber than the average goon to fill their administration.
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Typical Pubbie posted:Why is it so hard for progressives to accept that a lot of POC advocacy groups are run by people with close ties to the Democratic establishment. Same for the unions, same for Planned Parenthood, same for the human rights campaign. They can accept that while also being disappointed that they sold out their advocacy in exchange for those sweet sweet personal connections.
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Honestly the HRC deserves more poo poo for the Delaware senate race than for Nixon in NYC. Endorsing a guy who was actively homophobic over a queer black woman is unconscionable.
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Sep 15, 2018 20:31
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Radish posted:Also on another topic the GOP having a list of women ready to vouch for their SCOTUS nomination hours after the allegation means its definitely real and they knew. You know, I was thinking this, but then I realized that I can completely imagine the GOP saying, “Has he ever been accused? poo poo, let’s start lining up witnesses just to be safe.” I mean, he clerked for that harasser, right?
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Pirate Radar posted:You know, I was thinking this, but then I realized that I can completely imagine the GOP saying, “Has he ever been accused? poo poo, let’s start lining up witnesses just to be safe.” I mean, he clerked for that harasser, right? They clearly saw something in this ballpark coming, yeah. The question is whether it's because they were just generally preparing or because there's much worse still out there to come.
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Lightning Knight posted:Honestly the HRC deserves more poo poo for the Delaware senate race than for Nixon in NYC. Endorsing a guy who was actively homophobic over a queer black woman is unconscionable. https://twitter.com/hrc/status/922606069364543488?s=21
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Morherfucker I just came to post that. https://twitter.com/joaozinho_santi/status/1041193856786685952?s=21
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Office Pig posted:Finding every instance where US politicians invoked 'regime' for their latest political targets seems like a fun thing to do on a gloomy, flooded Sunday. So I had to look up who he was talking about and between that and his palling around with Cory Booker, I have adjusted my expectations down accordingly.
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/AndrewGillum/status/1041134690713960448 We’ve been told over and over again that we should assert our positions in the primary by voting for progressives, but when we do, some of those candidates end up going back on their positions. Happened with Beto, too.
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socially liberal but economically conservative peeps in a nutshell perfectly fine with people being ground to dust and maimed by horrific working conditions
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https://twitter.com/CobraKeiser/status/1040968867240194048quote:“Feinstein also acted out of a sense that Democrats would be better off focussing on legal, rather than personal, issues in their questioning of Kavanaugh,” Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer write. quote:Feinstein seems to believe that what a powerful man has allegedly done in a bedroom, even criminal behavior, is irrelevant to what he might do in a courtroom. She’s stuck in an era that differentiated between “personal” and “public” conduct, even when the two clearly intersect, as they do in this case. quote:The politics of the Franken situation at least added up. Supporters see his departure as a huge loss to the party. He’s a rare liberal communicator who can go toe to toe with the big TV stars of conservative media. They also see ousting him as holding themselves to a higher standard than Republicans, who voted in Donald Trump. quote:The woman in question asked for anonymity; she didn’t ask for inaction. Why would she write to Feinstein? Why write to her member of Congress, Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo? For generic catharsis? No. She was asking for action. Feinstein is doing nothing with protecting her identity.
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nothing we didn't already know but this tweet has a nice chart: https://twitter.com/_alice_evans/status/1041368663016853504
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Lightning Knight posted:So I had to look up who he was talking about and between that and his palling around with Cory Booker, I have adjusted my expectations down accordingly. It's also worth mentioning that even if Ortega's politics weren't left-wing, the sort of language in that tweet should still be attacked, since it's the kind of rhetoric that leads to military intervention. theCalamity posted:We’ve been told over and over again that we should assert our positions in the primary by voting for progressives, but when we do, some of those candidates end up going back on their positions. Happened with Beto, too. In my experience it's usually fairly easy to tell which ones are mostly legit (for example it was always obvious that O'Rourke and Gillum were going to just be regular Democrats), but the problem is that your average voter isn't going to be able to notice this stuff. Though that might change if the pattern keeps repeating.
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https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1041357671662841859 Trump was threatening him with the boot. This is his solution.
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Just think of the Experience we would lose without Feinstein. https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1041474343618994182?s=19 A lot of serious centrists seem pretty invested in downplaying a scotus and his attempted rape. I'm sure a rapist is going to be very impartial when it comes to laws regarding women's rights. Also this dude is clearly a hatchetman that will side with the GOP no matter how twisted his legal logic needs to be. You can't get worse. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Sep 17, 2018 |
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It wouldn't be the first rapist Democrats accepted for political expediency.
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I think Schumer has nightmares where there's a 5-4 SCOTUS is the Democrat's favor (no Garland compromises) and wakes up screaming like Cuomo probably did when he lost the IDC.
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double nine posted:nothing we didn't already know but this tweet has a nice chart: You may want to read this idiot's next tweet, where she blames it on not reading Hillbilly Elegy.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You may want to read this idiot's next tweet, where she blames it on not reading Hillbilly Elegy. god that book is nearly as good a sign of insufferable idiots as Jordan Peterson or Rand...
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sexpig by night posted:god that book is nearly as good a sign of insufferable idiots as Jordan Peterson or Rand... As someone in some kind of quasi escape from the underclass, the nepotism and delusion among the middle class seems bizarre and endemic. Everyone has an internship at their uncles company, its treated as not a joke for a parent to own a company you get a job you're objectively not even close to qualified for, its like every single institution that's considered a gateway and milestone of achievement is nothing but worthless spoiled trash who have every wheel greased along the way. Its just treated as normal and expected. Its like middle class society is built on this fragile delusion where you're not supposed to make cracks about how people get their money cause deep down they know its usually morally criminal.This one time I got tricked into going into a Northrop blood rite initiation ritual, and I figured the adviser who looked like a liberal caricature would share my sense of humor since she made dumb tweets about protecting her students from Trump. So I asked her how the student crowd (that was not told who was sponsoring it) seems really international (a large portion is foreign), and asked her what she thought the chance was that at least one of them had a family killed by a Northrop product. Shouldn't of did that. Slaughter positive, socially inclusive.
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Sneakster posted:A brief perusal of its wikipedia is about on par with having a hook shoved into your urethra. yea it rules that libs got a new source of 'bootstraps, but PATRONIZING instead of HATEFUL' to use. That whole book is a guy from a not even tiny, isolated, place saying them simple country mice are just too proud and ignorant to understand they can't spend their day drinkin moonshine by the crick and slappin on their belly like a drum. Like, he fuckin describes the Country Bear Jamboree and goes 'you need to get these people to agree with you by being more racist'. Also he INSTANTLY went on to become a venture capitalist for Peter "An actual vampire piece of poo poo" Thiel, ya know, salt of the earth folks.
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If liberals directed the kind of rhetoric they use against poor whites towards minorities they would all be labelled 100% unequivocally racists and social darwinists
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:If liberals directed the kind of rhetoric they use against poor whites towards minorities they would all be labelled 100% unequivocally racists and social darwinists For some reason I imagine people that argue black people are poor cause of rap would laugh at saying white people are poor cause of country music. One of the things I've noticed in terms of stark differences of class is how despite the poor being considered degenerate filth, its basically the idealized form of the abstract moral values of both ends of political spectrum. Poor people will offer you space when they barely have any, almost all the authorities figures are women, and its the only part of society that's actually integrated to any extent, resources are tenuous enough that authority figures must be obeyed, and the lack of tact is trashy free expression. Feminist, family values, obedience, thriftiness. Questioning authority is how you get in trouble. I joked in the trump thread about baring anyone in a frat from being a judge, but bourgeois environment doesn't exactly discourage exploitation and sexual violence. Mostly strong nuclear families train them from birth to trust authority, that dad is to be obeyed, and male domination is the norm. Its the only environment I've been in where girls seem to either expect sexual violence, or its just assumed and ask to keep to a minimum. The guys I've interacted in it treat women like garbage as a game. The Supreme Court Justice being a gang rapist isn't exactly the biggest surprise from this kind of hyper patriarchal culture, I wouldn't be shocked by anyone is a position of political or economic power to have some sordid sexual impropriety, that's how winners act, they take what they want.
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The Kingfish posted:The idea that women are treated better by proles than the bourgeoise is pretty specious, unfortunately.
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The Kingfish posted:The idea that women are treated better by proles than the bourgeoise is pretty specious, unfortunately. willingness to be abusive does not vary, but it's amazing how much having money provides an insulative effect the person who would beat the poo poo out his wife for the crime of backtalking him is just as much a monster with a net worth of 500K as with 5K. but at 500K, the toolkit to solve the problem of "it looks like she might tell somebody" includes hush money.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:willingness to be abusive does not vary, but it's amazing how much having money provides an insulative effect To expand on that, the rich have a separate patriarchal legal system that the poor aren't a part of. If you do a few rapes as a rich white man and it somehow goes to trial and results in a conviction, you get slap on the wrist because the judge doesn't want to harm your career. I mean for the sheer volume of sexual abuse Harvey Weinstein metered out to cause the start of the Me Too movement, the thought he would serve a single day of jail time is unthinkable. He at worst suffers a bit of embarrassment because other rich people don't want to get their picture taken with him in public anymore. Iron Twinkie fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Sep 18, 2018 |
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:If liberals directed the kind of rhetoric they use against poor whites towards minorities they would all be labelled 100% unequivocally racists and social darwinists while there are certainly a lot of racist working-class whites and I don't think centering WCW as a whole too much is a great strategy for the left, there are a hell of a lot of liberals who just use anti-racism and general wokeness as a pretext for rank classism
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I don't buy that rich people don't commit abuse against women and children at huge rates comparable to poor people, they just have the means to hide it or the abuse is considered normal and acceptable.
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Lightning Knight posted:I don't buy that rich people don't commit abuse against women and children at huge rates comparable to poor people, they just have the means to hide it or the abuse is considered normal and acceptable. 
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Iron Twinkie posted:To expand on that, the rich have a separate patriarchal legal system that the poor aren't a part of. If you do a few rapes as a rich white man and it somehow goes to trial and results in a conviction, you get slap on the wrist because the judge doesn't want to harm your career. I thought the "you gonna get raped" pamphlet they gave me in jail was funny, until I noticed I was the only one they gave one to. Barry Convex posted:while there are certainly a lot of racist working-class whites and I don't think centering WCW as a whole too much is a great strategy for the left, there are a hell of a lot of liberals who just use anti-racism and general wokeness as a pretext for rank classism It was the poor people, the people with no power were the real villains all along. Now let me explain how gangster rap trapped the black community in learned helplessness and not raising taxes on my employer is the only realistic way of addressing anything. The people who spend a lot of money to live in whites-only neighborhoods are not racist, that's class reductionist to say we should end segregation. Whats this pink stuff oozing out my ear? Lightning Knight posted:I don't buy that rich people don't commit abuse against women and children at huge rates comparable to poor people, they just have the means to hide it or the abuse is considered normal and acceptable. I can't imagine anyone is dumb or obtuse enough to not understand the relation to patriarchal abuse and that a large portion of the poor are single mothers. But liberals, so, I'm sure some genius is cooking up a stellar argument for bringing back the work houses. Sneakster fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Sep 18, 2018 |
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