Democratic (Party) Direction

It was a response to this, not a suggestion of a likeable progressive:

in 2016 part of clinton's appeal to voters like me was that her command of logistics in "GOTV" efforts more than counterbalanced her stunning lack of personal likability.

If anything, I might be less convinced of her command of GOTV logistics.

yeah i am convinced of the opposite that in fact her logistical abilities were highly overrated and ultimately as an organizational manager she was a total failure

what about new states of being, ecstatic self whatevers

how'd she do there

Andrew WK 2020

It was a response to this, not a suggestion of a likeable progressive

ahh kk

neoliberalism.jpg pic.twitter.com/AtC0L2uPm6

— maple cocaine (@historyinflicks) February 28, 2018

very important to tweet out fundraising flyers from 2013

oh shit, i bet this year's Schiff event is outta my price range

no signs of a beyonce tour tho

Schiff is drawing the ire of the worst left twitter accounts right now because he’s visibly going after the fascist President. Very normal.

Every time I see Schiff on TV he impresses me with his clarity and ability to speak in sentences. He hasn't struck me as a warmonger – he strikes me as a guy who might've been an obscure congressman had not this moment come.

I don't know his other positions.

Every time I see Schiff on TV he impresses me with his clarity and ability to speak in sentences.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 5:09 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've always been struck by the same. I don't think it makes for political salability, but it does or should make for spectrum-wide credibility and is a sign of a good prosecutor.

Schiff is drawing the ire of the worst left twitter accounts right now because he’s visibly going after the fascist President. Very normal.

lmao have you ever met tankie twitter cause they're definitely worse

when Fidel died I got a taste of tankie Twitter

anyway i'll take hyperskepticism over the Mueller swooning any day

False binary.

XXpost yeah, that’s definitely true. I use to follow an account that collected bad talkie tweets.

Most leftists are aware that Mueller was Bush II's FBI guy.

*tankie tweets

I'm not sure i want to know what a tankie is.

mueller talk is consistently the most mortifying on ilx

I'm not sure i want to know what a tankie is.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:34 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

keep it that way you are lucky

people that said RIP COMRADE! when fidel fucking castro died

pic.twitter.com/heRrqp0O6i

— Tankie Takes (@tankietakes) February 13, 2018

jesus christ

people that said RIP COMRADE! when fidel fucking castro died

well, I know some trots said that too...yknow what I'm just gonna see myself out now

wow thanks for the heads up on that tankie twitter feed some real gems in there

the dprk tankies are the weirdest i had no idea they even had a fanbase

Most leftists are aware that Mueller was Bush II's FBI guy.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 5:25 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

While an important chapter, that's an inadequate description of a broader career that omits his showdown with Bush

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582358540/muellers-reputation-in-washington-is-stunningly-bipartisan-journalist-says
http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/msnbcs-ari-melber-looks-back-on-robert-mueller-s-fight-with-the-bush-administration-1038001219660

people that said RIP COMRADE! when fidel fucking castro died

― flappy bird, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 6:15 PM (forty-nine minutes ago)

iirc one of the ppl who did this was that moron jill stein

i thought about jill stein for the unlikeable progressive conversation but i'm not sure she qualifies as having gotten anywhere

yes JD i remember that

people that said RIP COMRADE! when fidel fucking castro died

well, I know some trots said that too...yknow what I'm just gonna see myself out now

― Simon H., Wednesday, February 28, 2018 1:41 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i know it was fucking disgusting

Also Justin Trudeau tbf

While an important chapter, that's an inadequate description of a broader career that omits his showdown with Bush

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582358540/muellers-reputation-in-washington-is-stunningly-bipartisan-journalist-says
http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/msnbcs-ari-melber-looks-back-on-robert-mueller-s-fight-with-the-bush-administration-1038001219660

― Moo Vaughn,

I'm aware of it (I've read Takeover), I just had to burnish my leftist credentials, see.

well trudeau just has no spine he'll bend any way the wind blows

I wonder if he'd bend after a couple cocktails if ya know what I mean

hell yeah brother

plz don't start sounding like the f*gg*ts on JoeMyGod

I can't resist soft dudes who look like Ezra Koenig.

that "tankie takes" twitter makes for grim reading

seeing kids with anime gifs using cutesy twittertalk to lol about how the holodomor didn't happen is enough to make me never want to use the internet again

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC47sWmXgAEUlJZ.jpg:large

lmfao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02X8bX_EBv4

I haven't been a commie that long but even I know stalin apologia is a bad look

I think that the genesis of a tankie is accepting the idea that the instruments of the power structure do not tell you the truth. From there it seems a short, logical step to think that everything they say is a lie. Once you have grasped that principle, you arrive at interlocking syllogisms:

A. The media and government do not tell me the truth.
B. I hear or read statement or position X in the media or from the government.
C. Therefore statement or position X is a lie, or is based entirely on lies.

A. Every lie is the opposite of the truth.
B. Statement or position X is a lie.
C. Therefore the opposite of X is the truth.

For example: the media and government say that NPRK is evil, therefore it must be the pure essence of good.

Logic does wonders like this with under-examined premises.

I'm very sorry for having prompted this digression itt lol

DPRK tankies seem like people who flipped a coin and took their Asian fetishism that way instead of becoming anime Nazis.

i wish i could go back to when i didn't know what a "tankie" is

It’s true: Ocasio2018 has officially endorsed defunding ICE.

ICE was passed in the same barrage as the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. Black-box, unaccountable, secret detention is not what America is about.

Time to correct course. https://t.co/EGmFsHh9b7

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) February 28, 2018