Willie Tomg posted:

russia is gross and right wing but the russia investigation as-such is rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. fix the problem and get onto a dang life boat, nerds.

Ytlaya posted:

My feeling about the Greenwald thing is that it's possible for someone to be "correctly wrong" in a situation like this. Like, it makes sense to be skeptical of intelligence agencies and attempts to claim foreign interference, even if those claims end up being true. Even if he ends up wrong, I think it's better to have the instinct to be skeptical in that situation than to instinctively just support everything the CIA/FBI and politicians claim.

Basically, I think it's important that our media have people like Greenwald who default to skepticism of government claims, even if those claims have the possibility of ending up true. Given that almost all of the rest of the mainstream media just blindly accepts everything the government says, it's important to have that counter-voice.

Zas posted:

Ok for real I don’t get why people talk about Greenwald so much, is it just cause he’s kinda famous and provocative or what? He comes up all the time and I just don’t get it

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i'm surprised the PSA guys dont have a leftist thought siren that triggers and drops a glass dome over guests that express non-lib talking points

a helpful bear posted:

Especially funny is Jon is possibly the most "left" and least corporate Dem aligned of the original trio and he refused to call capitalists the Devil lol

Main Paineframe posted:

during the Dem majority, plenty of progressive stuff (like card check and a public option) passed the House easily only to die in the Senate at the hands of Blue Dogs

CountFosco posted:

I know that people in this thread can get pretty bummed about the Democrats and their succ, but I have good news! I discovered a movie which can actually solve the problems, by creating a movement where, by everybody being more authentically themselves, we can actually solve all the worlds problems! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Mz_Fy-gS8

I know you will all be super relieved to know that the CEO of whole foods and the chicken soup for the soul guy are on the case!

Condiv posted:

https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/1019265787528392704

capitalist to the bone indeed

Guy Goodbody posted:

https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1019278600900661248

anime was right posted:

bernie goes on fox news

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

ok this is good use of “welcome to the resistance”

https://twitter.com/samknight_one/status/1019274598754471938?s=21

Joementum posted:

tfw you're in a three way tie for third in the NH primary and come up with an extremely clever portmanteau

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1019374852829040645

Calibanibal posted:

Nah

she won because of good policy. Any idiot with a heart can do it

Calibanibal posted:

*points to tattered new balance shoes* I wore these out pounding the pavement and talking about data center consolidation

Thoguh posted:

I look forward to bring told in 2020 about how Booker is actually the second most liberal person alive.

frankenfreak posted:

SUUUUUCCCCCCCCCC (it's the sound of air squeezing into my head as my brain escapes it)

Also serious question: where's that data center consolidation meme coming from?

Joementum posted:

Corky Romanovsky posted:

That is a pretty insane spending ratio, but yeah on the follow-up sentence.

ThndrShk2k posted:

Of the People
By the People
For the People


Love to imply the Democratic Party isn't Of or By the people.

mastershakeman posted:

Not by zuck who would need a booster seat at the debate

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

surprised to see tim ryan—position against the absent pelosi?

https://twitter.com/gideonresnick/status/1019939214346145792?s=21

Skypie posted:

imagine if he made congress pass a medicare for all bill lol

Over Easy posted:

I am puking in my mouth and the mouths of the people I love constantly at this attempt to make the slime knobs who "work" in the intelligence agencies out to be some kind of heroes.

We all know this but I am putting it into the record for future generations. The vile psychopathic people who do intelligence are a combination of the worst aspects of cops and the worst aspects of troops all in one. These blood soaked bozos operate a global atrocity carnival with zero accountability and take in sick paychecks on your dime to do it. We all understand that if we were to list all of the hosed up things the alphabet soup communities have perpetrated, we'd be here all day and we'd contemplate suicide all night.

On top of that they get all lovely about how they keep us safe from 9/11s by killing poor children and selling heroine to pay islamists to fight the Syrian army. I mean poo poo, gently caress 9/11 I guess but GOD drat AMERICA.

Phone posted:

a curated selection from the comment section of this article about wapo being a piece of poo poo https://splinternews.com/white-supremacy-thrives-in-darkness-1827704781





the empire deserves to fall

Shear Modulus posted:

in short, just remember that whenever some neoliberal economist says anything about the economy they are speaking not of the real economy but of some theoretical frictionless vacuum economy where power imbalances do not exist

Gunshow Poophole posted:

fighting with an immigrant POC friend of mine on facebook over this as he screams about everything between Philadelphia and Sacramento being racists all the way down

brain worms go deep

galenanorth posted:

The thing about the common "oh, they paid it back and we made a $15.3 billion profit on $426.4 billion invested after six years" defense of the bailout is that it doesn't account for inflation, normally when banks give loans to us, they get compounding interest on it and a lot more profit than 3.5% for all that risk, or 0.5% per year, especially considering the mortgages were worthless. The profit is also never reported as having taken into account inflation. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder and Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi claim the financial crisis would have been much worse without it, but I figure that doesn't mean they couldn't have addressed the financial crisis another way.

Grondoth posted:

I didn't even think about it until I heard Richard Wolff say it but why the gently caress do we care what skills "the economy" wants? Why aren't we building an economic system that uses what people want to do and know how to do, instead of trying to cram ourselves into the positions that a few rich people can profit from?

I mean we all know why but I had never thought of the economy as a thing that people make, instead thinking about it as some sort of external force that needed to be appeased. We don't need to re-train people, we need to make jobs that they can do.

Gene Hackman Fan posted:

https://twitter.com/dickbutt_2020/status/1020360277517217792?s=19

Well, I have found my candidate.

Taintrunner posted:

gently caress I hate Hillary Clinton so much