Democratic (Party) Direction

But I'm not sure why y'all are spleening about a blogger clickfarming about a former President as if that's a meaningful puzzle piece in skirmish over power in the party.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, 24. oktober 2018 16:51 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Morbs posted it, and a lot of hijinks and misunderstandings ensued.

Libby generally tends to just reiterate the “very online left” takes after they’ve been made a thousand or so people before here

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 9:41 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like yeah dude i'm 100% with you on this and i don't think it's a take worth defending

the anti-anti-voting thing is a manifestation of her how bubble processes the guilt of having down played the threat of Trump/the GOP

what is this collective psychoanalysis horseshit

i just wish Obama would go back on the boat with that Branson guy; his "hope" turned out to be nearly as full of shit as Billy Blythe's

Imagining this to be some kind of “hipster” thing shows a complete lack of historical and ideological awareness.

man alive 100% correct this is actually an idiot 1930s USSR thing - social fascism

It wasn’t in response to you Hoos

oh the whole antediluvian Dem gang is here

It’s the 1918 WW1 comedy “Bud’s Recruit” isn’t it?

Here is the ranking of the institutions Democrats and Republicans the most to least confidence in. Data from the 2018 American Institutional Confidence Poll released today! https://t.co/o4cJ6xvKWb … @GUBakerCenter @knightfdn pic.twitter.com/kJdasbjsQr

— Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd) October 24, 2018

wtg amazon!

The new populist Republican party loves banks

"confidence" kind of a weird thing to assess wrt Amazon

Nerdstrom, please eat nitrate stock til you explode

some Amazon confidence reading:

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/23/oppenheimers-ai.html

As for using "liberal" as a pejorative, the American liberal is the most right-leaning iteration on the planet, and its quintessence right now is Chuck Schumer. So yes, fuck em.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), 24. oktober 2018 16:34 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is hilariously wrong, btw.

"confidence" kind of a weird thing to assess wrt Amazon

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:53 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not even confident my shit will arrive when they promise it will or that the shit they send me will be the genuine article but at least they aren't hiding anything I guess!

They generally have a rep for good customer service. Is there a company we were rooting for to be ranked higher?

AT&T

To the extent that such polling is in any way "useful" I'd rather know what institutions/companies ppl think are ethical rather than "reliable" or whatever

i would find these confidence questions nearly impossible to answer

so, poll thread?

Imagining this to be some kind of “hipster” thing shows a complete lack of historical and ideological awareness.

man alive 100% correct this is actually an idiot 1930s USSR thing - social fascism

― Mordy, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 10:25 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Many of today's American liberals are not even social democrats.

fwiw I consider myself closer to social democrat than socialist, but the discourse has been swung so far to the right in this country that you kind of need socialism back in the mix to even get a half-assed shot at social democracy.

also just to throw this out there for some perspective, guess who said it was imperative that the bolsheviks embrace social democracy as the only way forward for the russian revolution

it was lenin, lenin said it

these terms are always in contention within specific historical contexts and this whole discussion is silly

what you citin there HOOS

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xmX1Fe7zL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

just to be clear lenin died in 1924

anyone referencing lenin or marx or take-yer-pick-of-em in 2018 is an actual fanatic imo

agreed!!

just to be clear lenin died in 1924

― Mordy, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 6:20 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these terms are always in contention within specific historical contexts and this whole discussion is silly

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 5:43 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

glad we're clear

ffs cant even pick a fight with the fuckin trots these days on ilx burn it down

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/44436096_1741895499266212_5183054859368136704_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=6db7af0e47e2797a629b6a18f6d3bb23&oe=5C408F6E

ok sorry everyone i'm done now

i'm looking at a cam of Lenin's corpse right now

Lenin's corpse, what's on your iPod?

"Irsay went on to state that dwelling on serial pipe bombings all the time would likely cost Democrats the 2020 election."

https://politics.theonion.com/man-just-knows-hillary-clinton-going-to-have-opinion-on-1829977759

Uh, how did this thread get so good for a while?

you left it

ok that's mean

Not really!

Harsh but accurate.

Open goal tbf

sayin

Who is a Libby, is she famous?

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, October 24, 2018 10:51 AM (four days ago)

her grandfather is a legendary medical columnist. him > her tho I like libby too

But many Democratic candidates in the country’s most hard-fought congressional districts barely talk about the president. They feel that he is loathed enough on the left that they don’t need to throw red meat to raise money or attract volunteers. They’re worried that, if they spend their time attacking Trump, voters won’t know what they stand for. And they’re trying to woo moderates who want a check on the president without more gridlock or divisiveness.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/10/29/daily-202-democrats-tiptoe-around-trump-in-house-races-that-will-decide-majority/5bd66eb51b326b38c0be123c/?utm_term=.a9a060367d3d&wpisrc=nl_daily202&wpmm=1

And they’re trying to woo moderates

like trying to coax a frightened cat out of a tree by talking baby talk at it.

The writer of the article (who does the Washington Post's Daily 202 column every day) is obsessed with moderates and with centrist dems

lmao love you boo

The thing I don’t get about the President’s executive order on citizenship is that it seems to me this will mobilize voters against the GOP more than mobilize supporters of the GOP.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 30, 2018

The Hill is very, very good at what it does. (The lie is that Democrats didn’t actually say that.) https://t.co/cSxN7bISeH

— All Hallow’s Eve Not All Hallow’s Steve (@agraybee) October 30, 2018

i've spent the last day trying to figure out what this tweet thinks "the Democrats" "said" when the excerpt doesn't attribute anything to that subject or that verb, unless they're zeroing in really hard on "sure, we'll lower student interest rates"

The lie seems to be that this is the article The Hill published: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/411766-dems-damp-down-hopes-for-climate-change-agenda And there's nothing about the DNC. The story is that Dems don't think they can get sweeping Climate Change legislation passed with Trump as president, and therefore plans to do more piecemeal legislation. Climate Change was a big part of the 2016 platform: https://democrats.org/about/party-platform/

i know i'm supposed to remain positive about stuff because there are many degrees of awful, and giving up means reaching new levels of rock bottom, over and over, until finally realizing that we can't give up, but

we are fucked