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could you encapsulate the hundreds of years of systematic depersonalization better than that omission and subsequent editorial interjection??

I'd like to point out all I did to generate that roundup was type "why did biden oppose busing" into Google and then post 4 articles off the first page of search results; it's not like we are talking about information that requires serious research skills to find and cross-reference.

So this faux-naive "maybe this wasn't the nefarious thing it is being made out to be with these paraphrases and summaries" bullshit can fuck right off along with the self-pitying "why is everyone piling on me for bending over so far backwards to grant benefit of the doubt that I'm stepping on my eyebrows" grandstanding

i experienced the horrors of forced bussing for one long year at Longfellow School in Cambridge. it so thoroughly deranged me psychologically that when i returned to my almost-all-white school in Tennessee i wrote my parents a two-page essay about why they should let me go back to Cambridge on my own to attend school there instead.

DJP and Tracer may well appreciate that the neighborhood I was referring to above was Charlestown, Massachusetts

Ha, Charlestown is one of the cornerstones of Husock's thesis (the NRO piece I linked) that busing was bad, largely because... it ruined high school rivalries and made racists look racist.

(His entire argument is basically "I thought people opposed to busing were racist but then I met and liked some of them, so obviously they objected for another reason" only he doesn't ever get around to stating another reason)

I was too young to witness the actual riots, but I can say with 100% certainty those people in Charlestown were absolutely racists.

klobuchar blows

Sanders and Gravel were the only ones to answer yes to "allowing at least some incarcerated people to vote" https://t.co/2nDDcpCIKx pic.twitter.com/vr8scMgx9L

— roq (@roqchams) June 21, 2019

(note that some major candidates (harris, biden) are missing from that questionnaire)

she’s like Beto or Coldplay in that you start out finding her charming (kavanaugh zings! “yellow”!) and she becomes increasingly irritating the more she shows you who she is.

i understand that some of these answers must have been more complex than a yes/no binary, and possibly miscategorized (delaney, for example, is listed as a no on legalizing marijuana at state/federal levels, but that's because "suggested that he supported legalization of marijuana at the federal level but said that states should be able to make their own decision")

but how the hell do get asked about allowing incarcerated people to receive Pell Grants and not just answer with an unambiguous YES?

i hope she gets minnesota lice

from eating salad with a comb

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/06/trumps-white-house-isnt-ready-impeachment/592189/

Trump is following the Democratic race closely. One White House official said that he likes to make fun of South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s last name, pronouncing it Boot-edge-edge-edge.

he's history's greatest monster!

lol

Candidate comfort food:

Warren: Chips and guacamole
Harris: Fries
Gabbard: Vegan cupcakes
Buttigieg: Beef jerky
Gillibrand: Whiskey
Castro: Iced tea
Booker: Veggies
Klobuchar: Baked Potato
Williamson: “I have no comfort food”

(@NYtimes) pic.twitter.com/vI9EISTo7h

— Behind 2020 (@Behind2020) June 20, 2019

What kind of whiskey is she eating there?

And every single thing about Tulsi Gabbard is so wrong, I'm worried it might make her right.

veggie whiskey

Gotta get that Iowa vote.

https://i.imgur.com/wbJ2wq7.png

Have people read that New York magazine article about Gabbard’s relationship with that Hawaiian religious community? It’s a trip.

I respect Gillibrand's stepping out of the box but I don't appreciate Castro galloping on her coattails with a nonsensical escalation

xp: I don't think I read that article but I've read enough about it elsewhere (as well as her original political incarnation) for me to be a 100% no on Gabbard, to the point where if she magically became the nomination, I would vote third-party or write-in.

Booker: unfit to lead

Have people read that New York magazine article about Gabbard’s relationship with that Hawaiian religious community? It’s a trip.

― o. nate, Friday, June 21, 2019 8:39 AM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, this was a wild piece. never ceases to amaze me the kind of thoroughly mediocre douchebags that wind up as cult leaders commanding a sizable following. like her whole family basically just worships some dude named Chris who surfs and is apparently objectively a dumb asshole.

what’s wrong with surfing?

wasn't trying to surf-shame. no judging of the pursuits of religious leaders. i'll keep my anti-carpenter hot takes to myself.

that's an interesting article (the new york mag one). Gabbard is an enigma certainly. I think she has her positive qualities but they're far overshadowed by her negative ones.

on a different topic: I'm in an FB group started by a friend of mine that has been utterly taken over by one pot-head Bernie Bro. I'd been relatively shielded from these types in the last election and heard more about them than experienced them myself. But he's exhausting and awful.

I wonder if maybe the media is playing a role in stoking the Bernie/Warren flames

Bernie: “I think that there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected, and I understand that.”

Also Bernie: ”Elizabeth is a friend of mine. I think she’s running a good campaign.”

Vanity Fair headline:https://t.co/epdoxTS9V4

— Marissa D. Barrera🏳️‍🌈 (@mdb2) June 21, 2019

Saw that and ...

Sanders, throwing down the gauntlet, was recently quoted as saying, 'Elizabeth...I think she's...a...paign.'

loool

Bernie: "People tend to vote for candidates they identify with or believe can tackle the issues they care about."

Vanity Fair: SANDERS HATES YOUR GUTS AND WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING

Liberal Twitter: Bernie's a madman! A STRAIGHT WHITE MADMAN!

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) June 21, 2019

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/21/elizabeth-warren-private-prisons/

honestly this alone is enough for me to get in the tank

yes.
she offers donors (and i imagine everybody) a "she's got a plan for that" text list that i am enjoying being on.

damn that URL’s almost enough to get me to give The Intercept a click

lol

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warren-vows-to-scrap-privately-run-federal-prisons-as-she-rolls-out-a-new-plan
even fox commenters (mostly) like this!

though actually the deeper i sank into that particular mire the more wildly elliptical the responses became so you know maybe just visit her website

To be fair to the DNC, given the scope of their grift, these are actually "moderate" prices. pic.twitter.com/CQnyotISbB

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) June 22, 2019

Lmao

"He was just doing a limited strike" says the 'Face the nation' host

“Oh…just a limited strike!" @BernieSanders quipped, "Oh, I’m sorry, I just didn't know that it's okay to simply attack another country with bombs. That’s a limited strike? That’s an act of warfare,” pic.twitter.com/JgbLkkakX7

— Currie Dobson (@Ventuckyspaz) June 23, 2019

"I'm sor-RHEE"

Lol

he fucking rules

yeah

there is a pretty significant policy gap here btw Bernie and the rest of the candidates EW included

I think Gabbard is pretty strongly non-interventionist too, more surprising (or not) given her own military service record.

"not" i'd say; i dunno too many people who served in the military who are hawks unless absolutely necessary.

This almost makes me miss Hubert Humphrey. pic.twitter.com/TqLWBoYGab

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) June 23, 2019

isn't the border being vitally important to america's greatness kinda trump's whole thing? ffs beto