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Rodatose posted:they thought through everything about voting except the voting Bugfix: working as intended
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Lightning Knight posted:is there something wrong with this? this seems good? quiet rooms: $15000 free pizza: $974800 lactation room: $30985 counting votes: $0 chairs: $100000000 somebody please help me budget this my caucus is dying
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Lightning Knight posted:is there something wrong with this? this seems good? It's from Des Moines, right?
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we’re all red and mad but who amongst us has the courage to be nude
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Bernie should pretend to believe this and begrudgingly support locking up Pelosi +Gets an awful lib out of the picture +Appeals to trump voters +Boosts his law and order cred which could get some high posting energy k-hivers on board -Nothing
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Harrow posted:If we give the Democrats the maximum benefit of the doubt--if we assume good will all the way to their core, even though we know that to be false--the absolute best case scenario is that they have utterly failed to stop the country from being steadily dragged to the right, straight into fascism. So, vote republican? Your political system does not allow another choice really.
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Nix Panicus posted:Gay rights were won entirely through the court system by a tireless coalition of plaintiffs and lawyers. The most the Democrats have pretty much ever done on that front was to decline to argue on behalf of DOMA (which was a Clinton law he argued was necessary to stop a constitutional amendment nobody was pushing) in court. The log cabin Republicans did more to end doda than anyone else by fighting nonstop in court until Obama ended it just before the court ruling so republicans couldnt take credit for it as easily
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Harrow posted:https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1225089401119760387?s=20 https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1225092786317418496?s=20 big brains on displaaaaayy
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Dreylad posted:To give you an idea of how other countries' party leadership conventions can go sideways: in 2017 the Conservative Party of Canada went about selecting a new leader after Stephen Harper resigned. The Conservatives rented a convention centre in northern Toronto for the event. Will always find it hilarious that the only reason Canada didn't go fash was because of the weebs
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Fleetwood posted:https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1225092786317418496?s=20 lol letting the GOP abandon fair elections.. i think the Dems are abandoning that concept just fine on their own
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Fleetwood posted:https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1225092786317418496?s=20 Because there's no material difference between fighting ineffectively and just giving it to them you loving git
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jimmyjams posted:lol imagine if in 2000 they just counted 71%of the votes and went "welp, i guess bush won, we'll count and release the rest of the votes later, like probably after january 20th or something" but thats what happened
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Hot Diggity! posted:Has Polk been counted yet? he hasn't tweeted in 12 hours, best to assume that both he and the ballots are at the bottom of a lake somewhere
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Dante80 posted:So, vote republican? I wasn't really calling for an action either way. Our political system is utterly broken and we have no good choices. We either nominate Bernie Sanders or we're just going to continue either a slow march to fascism (standard Democrat in office, who accomplishes little before losing big to the Republicans again) or a fast one (second Trump term, likely accompanied by Republicans retaking the House). Either way it's a bad situation.
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Don Pigeon posted:Bernie will run as third-party and will win.
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Fleetwood posted:https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1225092786317418496?s=20 you ARE handing over the country to fascism on a silver platter, you stupid fuckin lib
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Harrow posted:I wasn't really calling for an action either way. Our political system is utterly broken and we have no good choices. Yeah I know, it was rhetorical. The truth of the matter is, the whole drat thing is stacked against you. From start to finish, birth to funeral. The only choice is to fight.
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Dante80 posted:So, vote republican? Participate in primaries to get more leftists, and don't vote for Dems at the presidential level
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It would be cool if the dems tried to show any sort of guile and tradecraft towards the gop but I forgot that that would get in the way of making GBS threads on the left and working people of the country.
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Dolphin posted:Hillary won 6/6 coin tosses. this is not true, there were a lot of hot takes because some outfit like the Des Moines Register initially reported her winning something like that and everyone lost their poo poo, but the source for the original count was, I’m not kidding, counting tweets about it. the original article was a “look at our quaint little process” article, not something speaking authoritatively to report what happened. the quiet follow up once the local paper realized everyone was paying attention was ignored, because they’d already shat out their thinkpieces and nobody wanted to look dumb and pull articles or print retractions. eviltastic has issued a correction as of 17:44 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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I'm not too worried about this one. Bernie's margin is big enough in New Hampshire that fuckery would be extremely obvious and a three-week recount would be worth it if that happened. If I had to guess, the Dems are smart enough that if they're going to manipulate votes and gently caress over Bernie, they're not going to do it in NH. Everyone expects him to win there. He beat Clinton there by a huge margin in 2016. He's consistently polled very well. They can afford to just toss him those delegates and move on because it'll be easy enough to make it not really affect the narrative ("We already knew Bernie would win there, it's practically his back yard," etc.). Basically a ratfuck in NH would be the most reckless, stupid, and useless thing and oh god drat it that means they're gonna try it
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Actually research your state and local candidates
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Lightning Knight posted:is there something wrong with this? this seems good? y'know what doesn't need any of that poo poo? regular rear end voting plus allowing people to vote via mail gently caress iowa, gently caress caucuses, gently caress the dnc, and gently caress america
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uncurable mlady posted:quiet rooms: $15000 I mean ok but just because they’re loving idiots who can’t be bothered to just count some drat sheets of paper doesn’t mean those other things are bad. everyone should get free pizza. seize the means of producing free pizza
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Harrow posted:I'm not too worried about this one. Bernie's margin is big enough in New Hampshire that fuckery would be extremely obvious and a three-week recount would be worth it if that happened. delaying the results from iowa also means that he has to split his election monitoring / anti-ratfuck measures between two states
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Kazak posted:Actually research your state and local candidates  When I was in grad school back in Athens, Ohio, there was a super corrupt rear end in a top hat who kept winning the race for Athens County sheriff. He did this because he kept running as a Democrat, and a lot of college students there would just vote straight-ticket Dem. A huge portion of the electorate in the county wasn't paying attention to local politics by and large so he could just kinda skate by on party affiliation.
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uncurable mlady posted:quiet rooms: $15000
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Jewel Repetition posted:Participate in primaries to get more leftists, and don't vote for Dems at the presidential level Agreed, but if I understand this correctly, the best thing is to actually keep fighting on the state/local level. Most of the fuckery is done there, after all - and a true grassroots force can actually accomplish stuff.
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Dante80 posted:So, vote republican? The other choice is to go ape poo poo and ruin everything for decades out of spite. I don't think it's a particularly good option but if the DNC nominates Bloomberg at a contested convention (over Bernie with a plurality) it may actually be the lesser of two evils to do that.
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Harrow posted:
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Dreylad posted:To give you an idea of how other countries' party leadership conventions can go sideways: in 2017 the Conservative Party of Canada went about selecting a new leader after Stephen Harper resigned. The Conservatives rented a convention centre in northern Toronto for the event. man those few days of trudeau apologizing again and again were so funny days gone by....
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Limerick posted:Bernie will win, but he would not run as a third-party candidate, and a third-party candidate would not win (in 2020). Well then he will lose. 1. Primary results that favor Bernie will be embargoed just like in Iowa. 2. This allows the media to jump on the idea that other succ dems are "winning" 3. We get to the convention with only 59% of all precincts reporting and no one having a confortable lead. 4. A dweeb like Pete gets superdelegates and wins the nomination. The Democrats have shown they are willing to forgo the integrity of their own elections to see Bernie lose. Third-party is the only way.
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Dog Toothbrush posted:lmao at still pleading to vote down ballot dems after this, there is no better scenario to them than republican presidents and dems sprinkled in with the dog catcher and elected judges to maintain an air of legitimacy Is it galaxy-brained of me to believe that the idealogical splits between Democrat and Republican are mostly meant to divide us so that we don't notice that both parties are actively working to reduce us to wage slavery? Sometimes I think I am just paranoid. I mean, when push comes to shove the Democrats don't really work to advance the progressive causes they espouse, and most of the citizenry is too concerned with who won on The Bachelor to notice. Everyone likes to compare our society to 1984, but when you really squint, it looks a lot more like Fahrenheit 451.
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