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Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
sad turtle

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Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
I've had some time for reflection and I feel we're being too rough on Dems.

It's actually hard to win seats when you're being paid to not give a poo poo about people.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

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

oh good i guess the democrats can finally pick a message now

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Raskolnikov38 posted:

oh good i guess the democrats can finally pick a message now

"Now is the perfect time to reach across the aisle!"

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015
It will be hilarious when 2018 rolls around and the democratic party has no message possible because the leadership was banking almost entirely on stopping Trumpcare and it died in the senate.

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Raskolnikov38 posted:

oh good i guess the democrats can finally pick a message now

Err, uhh, lead with our values and umm protect the ACA.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Raskolnikov38 posted:

oh good i guess the democrats can finally pick a message now

Defending Obamacare today, tomorrow, forever.

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015
"We will bring democracy to Iran"

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
I wish he hadn't chickened out on his promise to run against Bernie because it would have been so funny

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

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

Agnosticnixie posted:

It will be hilarious when 2018 rolls around and the democratic party has no message possible because the leadership was banking almost entirely on stopping Trumpcare and it died in the senate.

lol they're going to focus entirely on russia

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol they're going to focus entirely on russia

Russia and Iran is what I fear mainly because with the Daesh war drawing down this is going to be a signal for the hungry, hungry washington establishment for yet another bloodbath and there's already a resolution on the table. The dems are probably not insane enough to strike directly at Russia (even with lunatics like Panetta and Clark), but they are absolutely not going to bat an eyelid at killing a few million Iranians just to show them.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Al! posted:

thats a p interesting story i hadnt heard before: company finds a way to convert literal poo poo into crude oil at some insanely efficient level, but its less profitable than just buying it, so the technology isnt widely used

Except in Bartertown.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Why am I suddenly sporting a hardon?

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Obligatory repost:

Look at the dumbass Dem platform on Iran
https://www.democrats.org/party-platform#iran

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005


Where's Beria leering creepily...?

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015

Frijolero posted:

Obligatory repost:

Look at the dumbass Dem platform on Iran
https://www.democrats.org/party-platform#iran

Clinton's 08 foreign policy in her own words "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,"

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

https://mobile.twitter.com/randygdub/status/796229362643152896?lang=en

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/sovietfuntime2/status/886986978243301376

:discourse:

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

You know we could run a celebrity.



https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/21/viggo-mortensen-mauricio-macri-argentina-film-funding%5C

Crowsbeak has issued a correction as of 02:16 on Jul 18, 2017

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
lmao they're actually going to lose seats in 2018, amazing

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Agnosticnixie posted:

Clinton's 08 foreign policy in her own words "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,"

I'm glad Clinton dead.

I Am A Robot
Jul 1, 2006

docbeard posted:

"Now is the perfect time to reach across the aisle!"

lol it's going to be this

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

docbeard posted:

"Now is the perfect time to reach across the aisle!"

"Let us make the grandest of Grand Bargains!"

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

ok this is the single most succinct image of the corporate left ive ever seen

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
the democrats are a waste

UHD
Nov 11, 2006


nationalize the bathrooms

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
Hey guys the donors decided your next candidate.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...kt5R&ocid=ientp

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/887120796434534400

lol

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
it's almost like symbols have different meanings depending on context...

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Darkman Fanpage posted:

it's almost like symbols have different meanings depending on context...

Check four baldman

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Donor approved ✔️
Enjoys prison labor ✔️
Endorsed by CC ✔️

She's got all the marks of a great Democrat.

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/887129269687734273
What you have to understand that privately many D's rather "blame GOP" ahead of 2016, rather than shoulder burden of governing.
Their polling says they can win by leashing GOP to Trump.


Wishful thinking?
At the very least the House will see a lot more Dems probably.

Subjunctivitis
Oct 12, 2007
Causation or Correlation?
Late to the debate, but chiming in on the spicy take of "bosses = tyrants"... yeah, that's exactly what they are. The folks at the top give your boss a little slice o the cheddar to keep the workers' dirty slimy hands off the money that the workers are busy making for the capitalist at the top. For the courtesy of whippi- er, micromanaging the employees, management is rewarded with a salary and annual bonus. Sometimes managers get a monthly or quarterly bonus if the worke- er, business does a good job.* Just because it's an obvious and terse comparison doesn't make it as puerile as a 7-y/o saying "I hate my parents telling me what to do!"

We've figured out how to keep a certain amount of tyranny/aristocracy out of the federal and state government, but we continue to subject ourselves to it for 40+ hrs/wk. Our daily lives are subject to a top-down hierarchy where the jobs we do are on the terms of someone else, someone up. As such, it shouldn't be much of a wonder why corporations and business lobbying groups hold the reins of the government decision-makers. Our democracy is a farce because we are habitual vassals -- we've supplanted land with private property.

*I waited tables for a while at a restaurant chain where we got secret shoppers. If the restaurant got good marks on the secret shopper report, i.e., when the employees did a good job, managers received a bonus. What did the employees who did a good job receive? The opportunity to write their own schedule for 1 month. That "reward" was what management gave us. Corporate gave us zilch. We got to choose how much and when we wanted to work. If we didn't get that score, you better believe management was pissed at us, because they didn't get their bonus. This is one of the better restaurant corporations.

P.S. lol, just lol if you're a socialist and don't listen to the monthly sermons of Rev. Richard D. Wolff on Democracy @ Work.

Subjunctivitis has issued a correction as of 03:53 on Jul 18, 2017

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Darkman Fanpage posted:

it's almost like symbols have different meanings depending on context...

:thunk:

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

Subjunctivitis posted:

Late to the debate, but chiming in on the spicy take of "bosses = tyrants"... yeah, that's exactly what they are. The folks at the top give your boss a little slice o the cheddar to keep the workers' dirty slimy hands off the money that the workers are busy making for the capitalist at the top. For the courtesy of whippi- er, micromanaging the employees, management is rewarded with a salary and annual bonus. Sometimes managers get a monthly or quarterly bonus if the worke- er, business does a good job.* Just because it's an obvious and terse comparison doesn't make it as puerile as a 7-y/o saying "I hate my parents telling me what to do!"

We've figured out how to keep a certain amount of tyranny/aristocracy out of the federal and state government, but we continue to subject ourselves to it for 40+ hrs/wk. Our daily lives are subject to a top-down hierarchy where the jobs we do are on the terms of someone else, someone up. As such, it shouldn't be much of a wonder why corporations and business lobbying groups hold the reins of the government decision-makers. Our democracy is a farce because we are habitual vassals -- we've supplanted land with private property.

*I waited tables for a while at a restaurant chain where we got secret shoppers. If the restaurant got good marks on the secret shopper report, i.e., when the employees did a good job, managers received a bonus. What did the employees who did a good job receive? The opportunity to write their own schedule for 1 month. That "reward" was what management gave us. Corporate gave us zilch. We got to choose how much and when we wanted to work. If we didn't get that score, you better believe management was pissed at us, because they didn't get their bonus. This is one of the better restaurant corporations.

P.S. lol, just lol if you're a socialist and don't listen to the monthly sermons of Rev. Richard D. Wolff on Democracy @ Work.

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar
So what you're saying is the managers of applebees should run the country?

:thunk:

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

ThndrShk2k posted:

So what you're saying is the managers of applebees should run the country?

:thunk:

restaurant managers are the lowest form of life

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
The dishwashers and wait staff, I'd say the cooks but they're complicit in war crimes.

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar
I have the same faith in restaurant management as I do with restaurant waitstaff, servers, washers, chefs, cooks, and IT people.

Which is very little to none.

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Sad Billionaire
Mar 31, 2009

What a twist
Fan of Britches

Frijolero posted:

Obligatory repost:

Look at the dumbass Dem platform on Iran
https://www.democrats.org/party-platform#iran

So much of their platform is nightmarish. "We believe that development assistance is an essential instrument of American power"? Also I'm glad to see that the democratic party is still firmly committed to closing guantanamo bay.

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