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Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Condiv posted:



imagine writing this article

imagine having to remind centrists that bush is not a loveable former president who the obamas love to hang out with and hug, but a loving monster

The take making the rounds amongst centrists is basically comparing Syria to Iraq and saying that invading Iraq made it a better place

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Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
The only way you win FL is by energizing the left bc anyone right of well-meaning-but-ignorant liberal is a chud ghoul around here

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Skex posted:



everyone on the Left (and yes liberals are Leftists) .



Source your quotes

I loving love it when these Smartest Minds In The Room turn out be totally loving politically illiterate

why should we listen to you when you're showing us how dumb you are

You say "ideal vs current Democrats" as if any leftist agrees with Liberal ideology. These aren't matters of purity, anyone on the left has irreconcilable disagreements with liberals, as if our ideologies are mutually exclusive.

Phi230 fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Oct 12, 2018

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Trabisnikof posted:

Under this plan of "incrementalism now, incrementalism tomorrow, incrementalism forever" how many years do you ballpark it would take to completely transform the economy, destroying ~1/3-1/2 of it, and remaking the remainder into a new globally compliant system?

I'm honestly curious how long you think that'd take. 20 years? 50? 100?

Neoliberalism by 2040!

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Nanomashoes posted:

Universal healthcare is above 50% popularity in like every state so why cant dems run on it, even in conservative states?

The secret is that Dems are ideologically driven to not support Universal Healthcare

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

ah-ah-ah, Skex. dodging the question. what do we say about vote-splitters.

the people who willfully attempt to split the vote away from the democratic party's candidate.

are they our enemies, Skex.

is Joe Crowley your enemy. or is he your ally in the fight against those disgusting Leftists.

he is not both, you see.

Come 2020 Skex is gonna bitch and moan about how leftists made him vote for Trump

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Yeah, that's all fair. There are a very few Democrats that do seem to get this (AOC, to a lesser extent Beto), but most of the establishment democrats and almost all Democrats over age 50 still give every appearance of just not caring that much about actually winning races; the most charitable interpretation is that they're all still mentally locked in the Reagan Era and the much more probable explanation is that they're interested in lining their own pockets.At the broader systemic level yes absolutely progressives and socialists need to be running for office and winning primaries by taking the heads of establishment dinosaurs. AOC is a great potential model and the various groups backing her have shown us how that can be done.

At at individual voter level in the current reality, though -- that's an explanation for low voter turnout, not an excuse for it. Like, I work with disadvantaged populations, and do a certain amount of voter-rights education and voter registration as part of my work. I know how many people get hosed over hard by photo ID requirements, etc. But end of the day . . . until the current Republican party is forced out, no one is in a position to listen to those excuses or ameliorate them; the only option that individual people have is to leap the hurdles thrust at them anyway and vote anyway. We have to walk over the broken glass and get to the polls anyway.

Its all nice and fun to talk about voter suppression in an abstract way such that you can "leap over the hurdles anyway" as if its that easy. Voter suppression works, if it were as easy as you say then voter suppression wouldn't work.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
On the contrary, neolib Democrats create conditions for fascism to rise and when it does, they collaborate with it and generally refuse to fight it in any meaningful way so lesser evilism really is a matter of fascism now or later.

Of course, the liberals in this sub forum are so dedicated to bourgeois democracy they will refuse to acknowledge any other way to do politics and choose "fascism later" every time rather than meaningfully change things so they dont have to make that choice

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Absurd Alhazred posted:

So a Lost Cause of the Clintoncracy warrior, then.

Also her posting is very representative of where white + middle/upper class liberals are at

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

WampaLord posted:

And whooooo boy do they loving hate Bernie.

You will not believe how quickly they will go full PUMA when he wins the nomination.

If anybody left of ronnie raygun wins the nomination, they're all defecting to Trunp or yet unnamed centrist saboteur

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
In 2 years time I have no doubt that the white liberal/suburban liberal discourse is gonna be "we need to work with trump against the dangerous left"

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Fulchrum posted:

Those judges clearly have your vote too, since you desperately, desperately want to reward the Republican party for putting Kavanaugh on the court.

you actually are supporting the man who did vote for kav though

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
the deciding vote, even

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
I think Fulchrum and everyone like him should uh, gently caress off and die

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Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
There is no such thing as a compassionate conservative.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Ardennes posted:

He is an openly gay member of PSOL, so almost certainly a target. The question is how willing Bolsonaro is willing to go a couple with such a high international profile.

There won't be any repercussions because American media, elite liberals, conservatives, et al would be happy if Greenwald was dead.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Not a Step posted:

Is there a mandatory spine removal procedure you have to undergo to get into liberal leadership? Because these takes are real bad

Its called being rich, white, and suburban

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

sexpig by night posted:

I think Kemp's just a piece of poo poo, we shouldn't ascribe Russia to all our lovely actors. He doesn't need any outside support to be a power hungry psycho

I think ascribing every Nazi and Reactionary in America to a Russian Puppetmaster is incredibly dangerous

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
Gillum's defeat proves hillary is the kiss of death

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Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
I was super owned by polls and blind optimism but I did notice something similar to 2016 in that nobody had gillum yardsigns up like nobody had hillary signs up so shrug

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