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Bernie Sanders is a good politician. He wants the socialism, like UHC, $15 minimum and ending the prohibition of weed. His messaging toward people of color wasn't good but I hope he fixes that the next time he runs for president. I think he can be convinced to support a basic income, too. I would really like a basic income for everyone.
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SulphagneSocialist posted:This is me officially getting on the gently caress Joe Biden train. Bottom floor baby. He's Hillary Clinton with worse positions but he's a creepy white dude who loves to mack on women in public, so him winning would reaffirm everything we think is terrible about America. yo i've been hating on him since i found out he was in bed with credit cards yronic heroism posted:Elizabeth Warren is cool and good. The right is targeting her early which should tell us something. It's bizarre to put all eggs in a 78 year old Bernie basket. doesn't she support payday loans or some poo poo?
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Majorian posted:That was DWS, who really is awful. oh, right Kilroy posted:What the gently caress kind of brain damage is it where people constantly attribute the opposite of a thing to a person and is there some virus we can engineer to neutralize this in the human population? i don't think you know what thread you're in
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Sep 29, 2017 21:13
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This gives me hope that I, a fat neckbearded goon, can walk into the local political arena, say "hey everybody I'm socialist", and have a decent shot at winning.
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VitalSigns posted:🎶I cried on September Eleventh, as though I'd lost a brother of mine, want a full version of this someday
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Oct 31, 2017 19:17
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WampaLord posted:It's not just about her wishes. this sounds hella sketchy
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Nov 20, 2017 02:22
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Now imagine if he hover handed instead.
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Dec 2, 2017 00:53
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you guys eat food the nazis ate
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Jan 12, 2018 22:28
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Galaxy Brain Democrat: Maybe rape is ok??? Universe Brain: Rape is ok if the intent is for a joke and not for sexual gratification or dominance.
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Mar 1, 2018 01:10
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It's appropriate. This is the thunderdome thread afterall. Two men enter, one man leaves.
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Mar 11, 2018 00:25
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Koalas March posted:omg quote is not edit, gently caress me if you're ever de-moded it'll be for doing this.
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Apr 2, 2018 01:44
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More importantly, I think Bernie has learned what went wrong with his messaging to people of color. It was embarrassingly bad in the '16 primary, and yet younger people of color basically forgave him for it. That's amazing in itself. He's going to fix that messaging this time, and combined with what we now know of america's distaste for Hillary and centrists in general, he's going to have some serious momentum. Not even the DNC rigging the system will slow him down.
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A man, who needs to ration his walmart brand insulin vials because the only health care he can afford has huge out of pocket deductibles, briefly scans his voter's pamphlet, his hand shaking from the hypoglycemia taking hold. Democrats he's never heard of fill the list, each making fig-leaf promises to make health care affordable, but Bernie Sanders stands out, offering a single payer solution that makes health care accessible to everyone. In a bout of dizziness and sweat, he takes his time to carefully turn the page without dropping or ripping the pamphlet. A grimace contorts his face when he scans Bernie's brief profile. "Nah, too old." He marks the spot on his ballot for Hillary Clinton, the only other name in politics he knows of in the past 40 years of his existence. The damp absentee ballot crumbles as he jams it into the envelope. He grips his chest tightly as he makes the long walk to his mailbox. Each step gets heavier and heavier, and just as the mailbox is within his sight, a terrible pain grips his entire body. He hits the ground with a thud, his balled up ballot gently rolling down his gravel driveway. As daylight turns to darkness, his last thoughts are of his car, a weathered and rusted pontiac firebird he left sitting in the front yard. "It only needs a tune-up" he murmurs, before the last ray of light leaves his eyes.
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Jul 23, 2018 21:41
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If the internal division is great enough, it is worth bucking the general for another candidate. If your only choice left is two flavors of evil, it makes sense to deny both in favor of a good, even if it means the most evil wins. Choosing the lesser evil does not make them the good option.
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Jul 25, 2018 01:40
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Condiv posted:The thing about McGovern that is always ignored in favor of a “the left can’t win” narrative is the fact that McGovern was stabbed in the back by his own party. The centrists in the dem party actually rebelled and advocated for people to vote for nixon. Now imagine, after all this build-up about Trump's ties with russia and so on, suddenly eating the world's hugest pile of poo poo as they support him over Sanders.
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Jul 28, 2018 21:02
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The +2 favorability to UBI among the white working class is a good sign, I think. Even if it's part of a margin for error, I expected that to be heavy negative.
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Aug 2, 2018 01:47
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well now I'm wondering how many goons have heard of an ice cream social.
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Aug 9, 2018 20:35
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I personally have trouble reading PJ's word salad and rely on the kindness of goons to simplify her arguments. Also I'm not sure how much credit she should get for predicting the rise of the alt-right when I've been occasionally reading 4chan's /pol/ since Obama was elected and saw them form in real time. Like, it was really obvious. It's like pointing out an acorn properly planted would grow into a tree.
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Aug 10, 2018 21:34
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Lapua posted:Of all those Dems who support universal health care, how many understand that America can't afford it. 22 trillion in debt, Social security going bust in 30 years, tell me where does the money come from to fund this? I haven't seen the "social security going bust in x decades" argument in years, thanks for the nostalgia.
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Aug 23, 2018 22:59
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EdithUpwards posted:America deserved 9/11. If you can't accept this fact and keep it in focus you stop being a living human being and become something else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3N63QdSw0
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Sep 4, 2018 22:55
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The trick to avoiding being purged is to not post in the trump thread, I feel. I don't even recommend reading it. But by all means post here. Centrist dems suck balls, socialists kick rear end.
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Sep 21, 2018 20:28
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As a budding socialist I consider this thread good. Hell, even the main USPOL thread is kinda good.
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Oct 1, 2018 23:42
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It seems absurd to hold accountable large swaths of voters over a 16 year gap. So much has changed between then and now. Also, it was the supreme court that helped Bush win. They knew exactly what would happen. They get the blame for doing this to themselves.
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Oct 7, 2018 20:17
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I think not talking about the shooting in the uspol thread was a good thing, because the gun control debate tends to override whatever other discussions were being had and gets incredibly messy every single time. Closing it may or may not have been a good decision, but it depends on where the future of this thread and the trump thread goes. I will probably never step foot in the trump thread because no matter how well it's moderated, there are simply too many posts about the same things every day that it makes it hard to read. Getting people to post less in it has not been something any moderator has attempted to address. I'm in favor of renaming this thread as the socialist thread, because that's the umbrella most of us operate under here.
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Oct 28, 2018 23:14
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WampaLord posted:It was fun watching them flip from "fine, we don't need your worthless lefty votes" to "you loving lefties and your purity tests costs us the election!" I don't remember the "we don't need your votes" lasting that long, it was after the primary they were already heavily leaning on the "you loving lefties" just out of sheer gamesmanship. Because politics is about the winning team rubbing it in the faces of the losing team, not about making the country better.
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LeoMarr posted:Remember folks bush was called monkey looooong before obama was even an idea in the dem hivemind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgO1LUijb0k
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