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Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

call me when we officially get a crack-ping from nate

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docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Raskolnikov38 posted:

continual posting of manifestos is [...] good

1) These are the days of miracle and wonder

2) My traveling companions are ghosts and empty sockets, I'm looking at ghosts and empties

3) We come and we go, that's a thing that I keep in the back of my head

4) If that's the way it's gonna be I'm gonna call the whole thing to a halt

5) I mean everybody here would know exactly what I was talking about

6) Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard

7) This is the story of how we begin to remember

8) Many dead, tonight it could be you

9) I have no opinion about that

10) You are the burden of my generation

11) That's why we must learn to live alone

foobardog
Apr 19, 2007

There, now I can tell when you're posting.

-- A friend :)
No time to read the rest of the thread, but if you're wondering if Zoltan Istvan is a good transhumanist (that is, a left one):

Zoltan's Laws of Transhumanism posted:

A transhumanist must safeguard one's own existence above all else.

A transhumanist must strive to achieve omnipotence as expediently as possible—so long as one's actions do not conflict with the First Law.

A transhumanist must safeguard value in the universe—so long as one's actions do not conflict with the First and Second Laws.

He's not.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

docbeard posted:

1) These are the days of miracle and wonder

2) My traveling companions are ghosts and empty sockets, I'm looking at ghosts and empties

3) We come and we go, that's a thing that I keep in the back of my head

4) If that's the way it's gonna be I'm gonna call the whole thing to a halt

5) I mean everybody here would know exactly what I was talking about

6) Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard

7) This is the story of how we begin to remember

8) Many dead, tonight it could be you

9) I have no opinion about that

10) You are the burden of my generation

11) That's why we must learn to live alone

some manifestos can be good. manifestos on posting are usually not

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

a primate posted:

polls are garbage but I still have no idea how Biden gets those numbers

all fired up to vote for an empty suit

the same story it has been this entire time

he is the only name in the list the old landline owners recognize. they are not fired up to vote for him

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Raskolnikov38 posted:

some manifestos can be good. manifestos on posting are usually not

im fond of this one

:justpost::posthaste::choco:

more of a mantra tho

Serf
May 5, 2011


i have yet to meet one solitary soul who likes joe biden. i've met a person who mentioned loving tom steyer, but no biden people! polls are loving fake and always have been, do not believe their lies

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

I've met one and shes a former union organizer but she was really only interested in schmoozing with the party insiders and gladhanding to a better position in politics.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

foobardog posted:

No time to read the rest of the thread, but if you're wondering if Zoltan Istvan is a good transhumanist (that is, a left one):


He's not.

I say it checks out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhBzBZkLMG8

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

lmao yeearrgggh haven't seen American Factory, but it can't be a documentary if it doesn't have a point of view! otherwise it's just an infomercial, in this case an infomercial for the succ

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


a primate posted:

polls are garbage but I still have no idea how Biden gets those numbers

all fired up to vote for an empty suit

it's still 2019 and no one is paying attention aside from the people who are already paying attention

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Lastgirl posted:

people are losing their homes, families and being kicked out and sent to unknown places to die

but uh, ahh..we must observe the norms and respect that.

jesus. im sick

obamaishlty:::: well, now let's not get ahead of, ourselves we're have to remember who we are as a nation, we can't forget that bankers are people too, they have families

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

foobardog posted:

No time to read the rest of the thread, but if you're wondering if Zoltan Istvan is a good transhumanist (that is, a left one):


He's not.

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Al! posted:

gently caress you obama!!!!!

Gomez Chamberlain
Mar 22, 2005

Subakh ul kuhar!

Over Easy posted:

The root is typically succ adjacent but bringing home the goods on this one

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/1199153651090149382?s=20

This fuckin' owns

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
https://mobile.twitter.com/Cacciopp...ingawful.com%2F

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

polls are loving garbage but if i was inclined to believe them i'd say its shaping out to be a repeat of the republican 2012 primary where are all the lovely moderates bounce around to the flavor of the week (Beto, the cop, Warren, the buttman) and will eventually sigh and settle on Biden who will lose spectacularly to trump.

I guess Bernie is...ron paul in this scenario? except not terrible

Serf
May 5, 2011


The Nastier Nate posted:

polls are loving garbage but if i was inclined to believe them i'd say its shaping out to be a repeat of the republican 2012 primary where are all the lovely moderates bounce around to the flavor of the week (Beto, the cop, Warren, the buttman) and will eventually sigh and settle on Biden who will lose spectacularly to trump.

I guess Bernie is...ron paul in this scenario? except not terrible

this would be true if you're a cuck who believes in polls

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Serf posted:

this would be true if you're a cuck who believes in polls

well yea obviously. the only thing I can say for sure about the polls is that they're trash and as far as statistically relevant there's a 4 way tie for 1st and Kamala Harris still technically exists.

If I had to put money down right now on who is gonna get the nom I'm still betting on Warren just because she's a compromise candidate and enough succ and leftists will come around to her and let's be honest the succ is stronger in the rank and file dems then c-spam would have you believe.

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
:tastykake:

Rodatose has issued a correction as of 00:25 on Jul 5, 2020

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Rodatose posted:

Bernie is winning

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
Biden is way to shaky to get through the entire process. The donors are already throwing whatever poo poo they can because they know the polls are meaningless.

though if they circled the wagons around Biden they might be able to survive it.

but they won’t

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://mobile.twitter.com/mopenshaw/status/1199353142749618176

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014


Hahahahaha it's not even december and dudes already unskewing the polls.

Someone bring out the next poll boy, this ones reached its melting point

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
rex nutting

king nutting, the nutting king

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i was driving to my parents. your continual posting of manifestos is not good

Yet you dismiss plenty of posts on better topics recently for this specific nitpick when you belittle those takes in their appropriate context at appropriate times to interject in off topic comments. Nobody cares about this diarypost you insane person. Whatever weird hang up you have please let it go or direct it at Democrats.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Fleetwood posted:

obamaishlty:::: well, now let's not get ahead of, ourselves we're have to remember who we are as a nation, we can't forget that bankers are people too, they have families

He sucks rear end.

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004


while it is true, all of this is invisible to me as I work in a warehouse and think that $50,000/yr is living opulently

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Raskolnikov38 posted:

some manifestos can be good. manifestos on posting are usually not

yeah this is an example of posting about posting so keep blabbing that you aren't doing it ya loon

YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog
Biden will be Sanders's final boss on the way to the nomination because olds gotta olds.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

MeatwadIsGod posted:

It's literally this, and he knows it. Like everyone else in the power elite he isn't worried that Sanders would lose to Trump but that he would win and reveal what an utter failure Obama was on every level.

this was the most salient part of the politico piece imo:


In that speech, while cataloging the litany of authoritarian trends and making obvious references to the ways that he believes Trump has debased American politics, nonetheless his prescription was defined by anti-radicalism. He decried equally “unregulated, unbridled, unethical capitalism” and “old-style command-and-control socialism” in favor of traditional American liberalism, “an inclusive market-based system.” In case he wasn’t clear that populist demagoguery can come from either ideological direction, he added, “So those who traffic in absolutes when it comes to policy, whether it’s on the left or the right, they make democracy unworkable.”

This clinical detachment was on display the following day as well, when he hosted a town hall event for his foundation. Obama was asked by a young woman from Cameroon about how he decided on which political party to join. Obama’s answer was broad and sweeping in its view of America’s two parties and barely hinted at the common view among Democrats that the Republican Party under Trump is a radical outlier that should be vilified.

“In the United States,” Obama said, speaking in the slow and deliberate style that was the basis for comics who mimicked him, “there was a time where I might have been a Republican because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. And at that time it was the Republican Party that was opposing the expansion of slavery in the United States. Today, it’s the Democratic Party that reflects the values that I spoke about at the Mandela Lecture yesterday. And that doesn’t necessarily mean that will always be the case. It doesn’t mean that in every instance I have agreed with the Democratic Party platform, but broadly speaking, when you look at who’s been concerned about broad-based economic growth, who’s been concerned about civil rights, who has been most supportive in making sure that women are treated fairly in the workplace, who’s supported collective bargaining, who has been most concerned with environmental issues, including climate change. Right now, that happens to be the Democratic Party. And again, that wasn’t always the case. There used to be more variation and different ideological views even within the parties so you might have more flexibility.”

This odd tangent, delivered by someone with less impeccable progressive credentials, might be attacked from the left as a kind of false equivalence, a statement about the two parties that is so abstract that it drains the very real differences between them today. But one way to make sense of it, as well as his “whether it’s on left or the right” warning of the day before, is that Obama has come to see the threat to stability differently now: Although the peril is more acute today from the right, his own party needs to be on guard against an absolutism rising on the left, which also happens to be the source of the attacks on his own legacy.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Willa Rogers posted:

this was the most salient part of the politico piece imo:


In that speech, while cataloging the litany of authoritarian trends and making obvious references to the ways that he believes Trump has debased American politics, nonetheless his prescription was defined by anti-radicalism. He decried equally “unregulated, unbridled, unethical capitalism” and “old-style command-and-control socialism” in favor of traditional American liberalism, “an inclusive market-based system.” In case he wasn’t clear that populist demagoguery can come from either ideological direction, he added, “So those who traffic in absolutes when it comes to policy, whether it’s on the left or the right, they make democracy unworkable.”

This clinical detachment was on display the following day as well, when he hosted a town hall event for his foundation. Obama was asked by a young woman from Cameroon about how he decided on which political party to join. Obama’s answer was broad and sweeping in its view of America’s two parties and barely hinted at the common view among Democrats that the Republican Party under Trump is a radical outlier that should be vilified.

“In the United States,” Obama said, speaking in the slow and deliberate style that was the basis for comics who mimicked him, “there was a time where I might have been a Republican because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. And at that time it was the Republican Party that was opposing the expansion of slavery in the United States. Today, it’s the Democratic Party that reflects the values that I spoke about at the Mandela Lecture yesterday. And that doesn’t necessarily mean that will always be the case. It doesn’t mean that in every instance I have agreed with the Democratic Party platform, but broadly speaking, when you look at who’s been concerned about broad-based economic growth, who’s been concerned about civil rights, who has been most supportive in making sure that women are treated fairly in the workplace, who’s supported collective bargaining, who has been most concerned with environmental issues, including climate change. Right now, that happens to be the Democratic Party. And again, that wasn’t always the case. There used to be more variation and different ideological views even within the parties so you might have more flexibility.”

This odd tangent, delivered by someone with less impeccable progressive credentials, might be attacked from the left as a kind of false equivalence, a statement about the two parties that is so abstract that it drains the very real differences between them today. But one way to make sense of it, as well as his “whether it’s on left or the right” warning of the day before, is that Obama has come to see the threat to stability differently now: Although the peril is more acute today from the right, his own party needs to be on guard against an absolutism rising on the left, which also happens to be the source of the attacks on his own legacy.

he is bad

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

lol @ this part, too, bc of the poo poo I got in 2008 and beyond for saying that obama ran to the right during the primary, contrary to the CW:


A close family friend told me, “Remember he ran to the right of Hillary in 2008 on a lot of issues, and because he happened to be young and new on the scene and he happened to be African American, people just assumed that he would be running as a community organizer. And the reality is, on many issues he was running equal to or to the right of her. His politics are not strong left of center. I mean it's left, but he's nowhere near where some of the candidates are currently sitting, at least when he got himself elected.”

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

These days when his staff brings him ideas, issues, outrages that he might address, Obama always asks a simple question, “To what end?” More often than not, he stays mum.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

lmao:


One person who is very close to both Obama and Biden said the only time the Biden campaign has been disappointed in Obama is over Trump’s Ukraine scandal. “I don't think anybody in the Biden world challenges Obama’s affection for Biden, or challenges his strategy of not weighing in for anybody,” this person said. ”I do think there's frustration when Joe Biden and Hunter Biden get attacked by Republicans on the Ukrainian thing and they say, ’Obama and his administration looked the other way back when this was happening,’ and Obama doesn't say anything. The Biden people ask, ‘Why won’t Obama say something?’”

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Willa Rogers posted:

These days when his staff brings him ideas, issues, outrages that he might address, Obama always asks a simple question, “To what end?” More often than not, he stays mum.

Hard things are hard

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

:qq: why won't obama defend hunter biden? :qq:

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Willa Rogers posted:

:qq: why won't obama defend hunter biden? :qq:

he's just preserving his political capital for... something

YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog
Powering up to unleash his ultimate blast on Bernie in a futile attempt to stop him.

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Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Spergin Morlock posted:

he's just preserving his political capital for... something

he's preserving it for a brokered convention in which he will try to swing the super-delegates.

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