Democratic (Party) Direction

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

Heck yes

Hoping to see more of this.

well would you look at that

this is the first I've heard of Justice Dems that I know of but if this is the sort of candidate they're pushing, more power to 'em

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

Founding principle of the Liberal Party of Canada iirc

Libby Watson provides the political coverage you need:

https://splinternews.com/texas-democrat-receives-huge-load-of-deer-semen-to-camp-1823436068

The names of the individual prize deer from which the semen was lovingly extracted are listed on the campaign finance report: Hotshot. Texas Giant. Bambi Chewy. Yard Dog. Sweet Dreams. All impressive names for those big, sexy deer. Who wouldn’t fuck Texas Giant, honestly?

lmao

https://imgur.com/wtO1Nas

finally a true poster-candidate running for office in texas

He seems cool! They should have him on.

woops thought this was posted in the chapo thread for a second, apologies everyone

Ha, it applies to both threads, too

love the meme candidate

it seems like the kind of thing i'd hate but it's super endearing i wish him the best of luck and i think he'd do a great job

yea that rules i'd be persuaded to vote for anybody that showed up to my door, because i am vain and gullible

finally the perfect candidate to use my political slogan idea "It Me"

lmao

im in

make amemica lit again

Much like Million Dollar Webpage (or whatever that was called) this seems like an incredibly effective publicity stunt that can probably only work once.

if even the once tbh

there's another similarly inclined fellow running in Alabama but he's playing it much straighter

www.webforalabama.com/issues/

I would absolutely vote for that dude.

(The guy in Texas, I mean.)

he probably needs another 5-10 years of age/experience but I think he might have a political future.

his smartest move: no twitter account

#WV Senator Richard Ojeda, running for Congress, ummm... elicits a reaction pic.twitter.com/j2pWl1RkQp

— Brad McElhinny (@BradMcElhinny) February 26, 2018

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/02/richard-ojeda-west-virginia-blue-army-one-217217

That dude rules

“I was unknown, and had no money, but I got 34 percent of the overall vote against Rahall,” Ojeda said. “And I beat him like a drum in Logan County.”

“Such a thorn in our side,” John Moffett told me. Moffett is the executive director of the People’s House Project and an Ojeda booster now, but back then, he was a Rahall aide who developed a grudging respect for the novice challenger who got a third of the vote “with literally no campaign structure.”

you know I'm starting to think this whole notion of needing to pad out yr resume with "experience" is total nonsense

Obama thought so.

“You know, hey, here’s the thing,” Ojeda told me. “Donald Trump, Donald Trump, made everybody excited because he said shit nobody else has ever said. But the difference is, Donald Trump wins, and he ain’t done jackshit to help us. Now let me tell you something about Ojeda. Ojeda won, and I’m telling you right now: I guarantee you there’s not one single freshman damn Democrat, there’s not one freshman friggin’ senator that’s ever made more damn noise than I have and has done more than what I’ve done.

“I get shit done!” he said. “I just started a friggin’ movement!”

this guy is much more ridiculous than the meme candidate

(not meant as a criticism, really)

In the video, Ojeda also gave out the number to his cellphone. A few weeks ago, I called it.

After I introduced myself, Ojeda uncorked a nearly unbroken, 13-minute tirade in which he called lobbyists “the absolute scum of the earth,” said they should have to wear body cameras in the Capitol, said they shouldn’t even be allowed “in the damn Capitol,” and told me one of the first things he did as a state legislator was give energy industry lobbyists a tongue-lashing. “I threw Big Energy out of my office!” he said. “They said, ‘Well, is there anything we can do to change your mind?’ I said, ‘You can get yo’ ass out of my office.’” He continued by scorching lawmakers for making decisions based on corporate campaign contributions instead of the interests of their constituents.

“Bootlickers!” he screamed into the phone.

“Bootlickers!”

I asked when I could come visit him.

he seems insane in a great way

“I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.” And anybody who doesn’t? “I will make their life a living hell.”

tbh though I am a little concerned that the pro union rhetoric is just timely pandering. Dems have a history of talking big on this stuff and then not following up.

He was talking up a teacher strike well before the strike, though.

yeah i don't think it's pandering with ojeda, but fair point institutionally.

yeah I just like to fret

Interesting line slipped into that Politico piece:

‘In hard red, Donald Trump-loving West Virginia’

They referring to the state? The county? The local area? Less than half the state voted for him, but you always always always have to push that idea to reinforce popular belief that everybody subscribes to one belief and one belief only

They're referring to the state of West Virginia, whose electorate voted for Trump by more than 2 to 1, giving him more a higher percentage of the vote than any other state and more votes than any candidate in the same state since LBJ.

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