Lycus posted:

Looks like the biggest disconnect between goon reaction and outsider reaction to the debates is Booty Judge.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

I’m 100% in favor of Canada style healthcare for all America, but isn’t it a moot point in America unless the Democrats have 60 senators?

Ogmius815 posted:

I think there’s a fairly good comparison to be made between the bernout crew and Ivan Karamazov.

Solvent posted:

Hello.
I’m going to come with a long range snipe because I can’t sleep.
I can’t sleep, I haven’t posted in months, and I want this to be something I can quote without having to toxx for it.
Something Awful is a drat fine place full of brilliant people who have some serious opinions (problems).
Reading Goon takes on the debates are waaaaaay better than watching them.
Here are some of my opinions, ripe for first (second) page hatred.

Warren is the democratic nominee, I didn’t watch the debates, I’m not remotely interested in them.
I knew she was the democratic nominee when she started running.
She knew she was the democratic nominee when she started running.

Joe Biden didn’t want to run at all, he’s doing this to call more attention to the democrats who are. To say he’s committing political suicide is to say “who is that guy again? oh yeah, barry’s vp”.
I think he wanted to step out of the way a couple years ago, but people, I don’t know who, butt people think he should have ran.

Check my probes, I was the literal first person in C-SPAM to say Bernie would have won after Colbert looked like he was going to cry on election night.
That being said: “I am not now and have never been a member of the communist party or otherwise affiliated with it.”
After minimal in the DSA thread, I’ve declared this rabid communist bullshit to be not funny anymore.
You loving goons. God drat. Go talk to some people outside of your bubble. It’ll do them and you some good if you try.
I dunno, hear them out and not try to demonize them or convince them of anything maybe.
Try to find things you agree with (those) people about, make any sort of common ground.
Bernie has made his point, and I salute his unbelievable integrity. The man is a saint even if you don’t agree with him.
If I’m incorrect about Liz and he is nominated, of course I’d vote for him. I love the man.
When I say Bernie is unbelievable, I say “hey there’s a politician in Washington who’s had the same message for longer than I’ve been alive!” (I’m one of the oldest of my generation) I’ve said this before too, wouldn’t it be fair to ask who the hell that person who’s been in politics so long, and has stayed on message so consistently could possibly could be if you’d never heard of the man?

Good luck to people with a horse in this race, I’m not so sure that the orange crybaby will be voted out at all.

The world is a complicated place, and it looks more interesting (frightening) all the time. I’m tired of people trying to make me feel stupid and bad because a plastic shopping bag doesn’t break and drop all my food on the ground. How come I can’t shop at the co-op for oatmeal that isn’t full of roundup, without getting the side eye like I came to church wearing a yarmulke? I’m sorry I like steak and beer, as well as kombucha and insoluble fiber.

Maybe the bad guy wrestler will make me rich too somehow, and prevent the utter dissolution of the white race (my team).
Maybe it’s time I just let go of trying to care about people who just aren’t like me, and instead focus on my own family.

I’ve talked to too many people, young and old, without interjecting my own opinion for at least five loving minutes to have faith in the system right now, and I’ve read a lot of yours. I’m so very, very sorry (tired) that this post is (mostly) in earnest.
The internet really did make us all stupid.

Apologies, I’m going back to my hiatus for at least another month.
I also need to buy a new av.
Not like anybody noticed or cared.
I’ll be reading even if not posting, so, thank you if you took the time to read my spectacularly bad post.

Ogmius815 posted:

I’m pretty sure the Marianne “fans” are doing a sort of bit. No one really wants her to be the nominee. It’s entertaining to have one total kook in the debates, like with Mike Gravel or Ross Perot.

VH4Ever posted:

Boy am I loving glad I never followed anyone's advice to listen to these assholes. They contribute nothing but worthless bullshit to the political zeitgeist in this country.

OB_Juan posted:

I might have missed something, what's "lanyard" about?

LionArcher posted:

So it basically comes down to my fear that I think Harris is more electable,

Condiv posted:

biden's racist as gently caress. imo that's worse than anti-vaxx, but you do you

ELO Musk posted:

If he talked about an american's bottom line going down but that technically yes taxes go up instead, I think it'd be a lot more persuasive. I'm no political analyst, though, just someone who believes in a message that has recently felt very stale and unable to adapt

Trabisnikof posted:

I'm serious that Williamson is better than Biden.

VH4Ever posted:

Dude this LITERALLY is how we have Trump. Remember people saying "OMG we MEMED a president into office!"

I don't think she'll win either but this sort of thinking is so wrong-headed and dangerous I've no idea where to begin.

Condiv posted:

that and the stuff she puts out there is genuinely funny

phasmid posted:

At this point, if a candidate says anything anti-science they should be drummed out, imo. We don't have time to play games with people's uneducated belief systems.

GreyjoyBastard posted:

if only black people read DnD and CSPAM

oh well, Biden's the nominee now

Typo posted:

Judakel posted:

That's why you vote them out.

Mellow Seas posted:

Williamson now has higher unfaves than faves according to that chart, because people don’t actually want Melisandre to be President.

TGLT posted:

she's the only candidate with a plan for a mass exodus back to the primeval plane
https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/145658786131099649

Condiv posted:

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/37081071291990016

i'm p sure people still hurt each other in evangelion

Groovelord Neato posted:

angels are monstrous beings that had to say "be not afraid" whenever they appeared to humans so they wouldn't poo poo their pants.

Typo posted:

but rather blood angels savior of humanity

Epicurius posted:

I'm pretty sure Lincoln was speaking metaphorically. I'm not sure about Williamson.

VH4Ever posted:

You wanna meet me on the streets sometime, rear end in a top hat? I'll show you where the gently caress you belong.

Go ahead and probe me, mods. gently caress this place.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

redneck nazgul posted:

I still support Harris, but Warren is my second choice. My top six, for what it is worth) are:

Harris

Warren

Booker

Inslee

Klobuchar

Gillibrand

These are the ones I could enthusiastically support. For the most part the rest are from “I’ll vote for them, but not as happily.” Still six good (if not perfect) candidates is pretty amazing!

the_steve posted:

I'm no expert, but isn't that kind of the entire loving point?

Judakel posted:

You only seem to point it out with the Berndawg, though. That's okay because I know you're a big supporter of his.

I don't know how I missed this but, 10%:

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1145828182744076288

Solkanar512 posted:

I'm not pulling the trick of "only one problem matters", I'm pointing out that it matters with all the others. The rest of you continue to think that being an anti-vaxxer is just some joke that only stemlords care about rather than a serious public health crisis. Literally calling someone a "tedious liberal" because they have to worry about measles outbreaks is incredibly hosed up.


This is little more than bullshit equivocation. Pete gave a lovely answer because he clearly hasn't thought the problem through. Marianne literally makes her living off of snake oil bullshit. You're being disingenuous as usual when you equate the two.


Quit acting like little shits and take this seriously.

mcmagic posted:

This would be very disappointing.

eke out posted:

by the same logic, surely famous clinton-endorser Bernard Sanders will pick a centrist over Warren when he drops out because ?????

VitalSigns posted:

Imagine Lance Armstrong making these kinds of arguments.

"Well yes I doped, and then I won all those medals, but since we can't go back in time and redo the race without me doping you can't prove that I wouldn't have won anyway. Therefore you have to ignore it!"
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if people who tribally identified as Lance Armstrong fans who did make absurd arguments like that to defend Team Lance

Groovelord Neato posted:

identically.

Your Boy Fancy posted:

Fascinating.

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1148549603387744256?s=19

The Glumslinger posted:

Lol, did people not have taste buds in the 70s?

Condiv posted:

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1149654663773343744

its extremely disheartening to me that warren is finding ways to get around paying her staff

it calls into question her labor friendlyness (which is supposed to be her selling point) when she's pulling this stuff

mcmagic posted:

There are D candidates who say they want to keep the electoral college?