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voters elected a majority of democrats to the house and senate and also elected a democratic president and it's somehow entirely their fault that the pols sat around with their thumbs up their asses for two years until they got voted out. you have no idea how politics works and are just using voters as a scapegoat for lovely politicians not enacting policies that would hurt their corporate donors.
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golly gosh we just don't have the power to pass bills because of those mean republicans. what's that? abolish the filibuster? well, uh, gee, hmm, but NORMS they didn't care about/want to actually pass any reforms or they would have ditched the filibuster day 1. the republicans were just a convenient excuse.
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Jul 11, 2018 23:11
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Wxhode posted:How is abolishing the judicial filibuster working out? lol if you think the republicans wouldnt do that in a heartbeat if dems hadn't and tried using it against republicans
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Jul 11, 2018 23:20
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here's a failed strategy you don't seem to have realized doesn't work: attacking the left and blaming them for the incompetence and lack of appeal of neoliberalism that leads to centrists losing elections to fascists
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Jul 12, 2018 00:13
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here's a question for skex: do you think obama and the dems in 2008-2010, after the election, did anything wrong? anything at all? e: capitalcomma posted:I was actually quite satisfied with Hillary's level of incivility. I just wish it wasn't directed at the people she was asking to vote for her. That was probably a mistake. also hillary's entry to politics wasn't as a democrat, it was as a republican Goldwater Girl. Whoops!
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Jul 12, 2018 00:21
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FilthyImp posted:What Supreme Court obama seemed pretty ambivalent about it
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Jul 12, 2018 17:55
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if anyone thinks crowley staying on the ballot is anything other than 100 percent intentional, contact me for a GREAT deal on red mercury
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Jul 13, 2018 02:14
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Remember that time Kamala Harris's office opposed releasing nonviolent offenders from jail because then they couldn't be used as prison labor and then when that blew up she pretended to be shocked and appalled her lawyers made that argument? She's a snake who if elected will do anything she can to stymie reform while spouting flowery language about how much she supports it. I expect her to be pushed heavily.
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Jul 16, 2018 16:38
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She had a shitload of cop support in 2014 despite the fact that they rebelled against her in 2010 due to her not pursuing the death penalty for a guy who killed a cop. Tells you everything you need to know.
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Jul 16, 2018 17:23
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Gonna be hilarious watching biden try and appeal to the young millennial vote considering he's the reason student loans are exempt from bankruptcy
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Jul 16, 2018 17:46
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Look I don't see the big deal about this death penalty law. It's only been used against bad people.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:01
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if you're a prosecutor and cops don't hate your guts you're a piece of poo poo
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Jul 16, 2018 18:14
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Gee if being state AG required her to do a bunch of evil poo poo maybe she shouldn't run for president considering it was a job she willingly signed up for and that speaks badly as to what her values are.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:45
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the thought of voting for cory booker makes me actually shudder.
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Jul 18, 2018 00:33
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The sun exploded.
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Jul 18, 2018 00:34
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StealthArcher posted:Rumply the gently caress.
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Jul 25, 2018 18:52
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PT6A posted:You can fault the Democratic party for that in 2016 certainly, but I don't think you can fault Obama for thinking it was a decent idea in the midst of the birther controversy and everything. Those are two different issues. the fact that the birther conspiracy was so persistent to the point that obama finally felt the need to release his birth certificate should have been a pretty big hint that obama's vaunted logic and reason were so much piss in the wind against trump
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Jul 31, 2018 03:17
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i dont really blame the dems for not predicting trump but i do blame the ones that actively promoted him
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Jul 31, 2018 03:19
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Russia is a potentially powerful Other it isn't, at all
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Aug 3, 2018 21:23
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what HA is proposing is typical dem thinking in that rather than opposing a powerful, malignant ideology (racism in this case) he thinks the dems should instead embrace it and turn it against the republicans. it's cowardice masquerading as cleverness and will undeniably fail.
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Aug 3, 2018 21:28
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Fostering fear of a foreign government that's trying to gently caress with our election systems to keep left-wing candidates out of office and keep Republicans elected seems pretty logical to me. hell yeah the dems should be trying to foster fear of a foreign government. this is definitely a good and winning position that will not have ANY negative repercussions if it works! COLD WAR COLD WAR COLD WAR
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Aug 3, 2018 21:39
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Feldegast42 posted:I think the Russia stuff is more important than socialists / leftists think but it should be used as apart of a grander narrative of why our democracy has been crumbling due to both internal and external oligarchs and corruption. Russia Is Bad, therefore we should reform our electoral system to make sure hostile outside groups and internal capitalists can't subvert it at every turn i don't think russia narratives should be pushed at all because it's far more likely to be used as a tool to enact the red scare 2.0 on activists (see: facebook shutting down an antifa counterprotest page as "fake russian activity") than as a way to promote election security
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Aug 3, 2018 21:46
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Ice Phisherman posted:No, but it's a telling photo right after a significant event. tell me more, qanon
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Aug 5, 2018 04:45
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Tiresias2 posted:I have mixed feelings about ICE, they deported me and all but as I've suggested I'm pretty into the idea of the nation state and I do want it to be stable. sorry, what?
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Aug 31, 2018 12:27
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ICE is a white supremacist organization explicitly created to terrorize and deport mexican immigrants, and you think this is a good idea that will help the nation be stable despite personally being deported by them. this is some galaxy brain fascism
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Aug 31, 2018 12:41
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Let's not overlook the part of his post that said maybe we should invade Iran so they get to read queer comic books.
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Aug 31, 2018 13:09
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seeing as how its utterly impossible to form any kind of conclusion about kavanaughs "alleged" sexual assaults or put his nomination on hold until he's investigated more maybe they should just vote against putting him on the supreme court and save the position for someone who didnt have a 200000 dollar debt mysteriously wiped out right before his nomination or multiple accusations of being a sex pest
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Sep 27, 2018 23:30
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Radish posted:I think Democrats doing that bullshit a second time would be the slow death of the party, especially if Manchin gets to vote for Kavanaugh with their blessing. While they aren't as pissed off as leftists regarding the plundering of this country, even "moderates" are angry as hell at Trump and his feckless party. There's absolutely no interest from anyone for another round of "let's move on and hug it out :-)" while the entire GOP is still gargling blood and calling for the death of their enemies. them doing it the first time was also the slow death of the party
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Sep 29, 2018 17:04
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tbh i don't really think this matters either way. is anyone's vote actually going to be changed by this...?
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Oct 15, 2018 23:47
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yeah i was referring purely to electoral results, not whether it was morally correct.
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Oct 15, 2018 23:53
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*sobbing* won't SOMEONE think of the tpp
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Oct 22, 2018 22:23
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the TPP was shady bullshit that wouldn't have helped anyone but the rich and pharma companies (it aimed to strengthen patent laws and raise the price of medicine, definitely the mark of an awesome deal). im glad its semi-dead except that some of the bullshit is coming back for round 2 in nafta.
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Oct 22, 2018 22:45
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GreyjoyBastard posted:it's not dead why should i give a gently caress? boo hoo some us corporations are going to make a few million less. its not like they would have passed that on to consumers anyway or paid taxes on it. the only thing normal people would see is higher medicine prices and stricter ip enforcement.
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Oct 22, 2018 22:51
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because you can't separate theory from reality?
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Oct 23, 2018 00:24
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arms sales to saudi count as looking the other way now and not military assistance, cool
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Oct 23, 2018 17:41
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even if trump had personally dismembered the journalist as a favor to the sauds it would be a way lesser crime than arming them for a war that kills hundreds of thousands
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Oct 23, 2018 17:45
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the state of the left has less to do with "favorite pronouns" (gently caress you) and more to do with how any threat to capitalism is systematically targeted by the media, political and policing forces of the ruling elite
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Oct 24, 2018 18:50
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you dont win over conservatives, you win over everyone who isnt one. you also dont throw trans allies under the bus by telling them their issues dont matter.
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Oct 24, 2018 19:21
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the thing about consevatism is its not inherently a popular ideology, its only widespread through massive propoganda networks and disenfranchisement and even then can only get the support of 35 percent of the population, because it doesnt actually benefit anyone but the rich and bigots. you dont need the support of every fox news grandpa because they are outnumbered by the people who respond when you appeal to their direct material interests.
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the right has always stoked up racism / nationalism / homophobia to sell itself to people who arent rich, this is by no means a recent development
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