2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

i don't understand xyzzz's problem

brain damage, afaict

damn Shakey spittin

i don't understand xyzzz's problem. gig workers should of course get the same salary, benefits and security employees do.

― treeship., Wednesday, 1 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

You don't understand much. Shakey understands less.

that evil woman!

i think we can safely ignore what our resident tankie has to say about elizabeth warren

idk how xyzzzz__ has escaped being 51'd yet, but I guess other people have a higher tolerance for the deliberate posting of inaccurate misinformation, conspiracy theories, alarmist nonsense, poorly sourced garbage etc. than I do

enh it's fair to be skeptical of the efficacy of "sending a letter to the manager"

In a 1968 interview, McCartney said that the song was "about the hole in the road where the rain gets in, a good old analogy—the hole in your make-up which lets the rain in and stops your mind from going where it will." He went on to say that the following lines were about fans who hung around outside his home day and night, and whose actions he found off-putting:

See the people standing there
who disagree, and never win
And wonder why they don't get in my door

Years later, McCartney acknowledged that the song was an "ode to pot".

perhaps less pertinent but still a good story:

The first of two recording sessions for "Fixing a Hole" was at Regent Sound Studios in London on 9 February 1967, in three takes. Regent Sound was used because all three studios at EMI's Abbey Road Studios were unavailable that night, so this was the first time that the Beatles used a British studio other than Abbey Road for an EMI recording. Also present at the session was a man who had arrived at McCartney's house in St John's Wood, shortly before McCartney was due to depart for the studio, and introduced himself as Jesus Christ. McCartney later recalled: "I thought, Well, it probably isn't. But if he is, I'm not going to be the one to turn him away ... There were a lot of casualties about then. We used to get a lot of people who were maybe insecure or going through emotional breakdowns or whatever. So I said, 'I've got to go to a session but if you promise to be very quiet and just sit in a corner, you can come.' So he did, he came to the session and he did sit very quietly and I never saw him after that."

That's all it was. I doubt a tankie is spending a nanosecond thinking about Warren xp

Is this some kind of Elizabeth Warren meta-commentary?

yeah I wasn't referring to that tweet in particular, which is just a nothingburger.

xps

when one looks into the abyss, ringo looks back

If you have issues with "posting of inaccurate misinformation, conspiracy theories, alarmist nonsense, poorly sourced garbage etc." I'd ask what you are doing on the internet. Maybe you should spend the remaining of your days quietly, waiting for death. xp

You are against the pollution of air, and yet you breathe air. Very interesting!

in which xyzzz exposes that the only two discursive models he recognizes are insanity and silence

^^^

"Insanity" is what Shakey sees, so I'm just saying that maybe he could do with silence. I mean when you comment on "a nothingburger"..

I didn't comment on it, I made a joke at your expense

That's ok Shakey still here

xyz using the Pee Wee Herman clapback i see

I am not American I will have to look him up sometime when I'm not busy curating tweets that boil US ilxor piss

I am American, I will have to look up what the regional term "piss" means

What a fun cultural exchange this is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

Clearly Warren should be using her massive executive power to force those companies to heel.

That she has not done so - and is instead merely doing strongly worded tweets - is unconscionable. How come she hasn't forcibly nationalized Google yet, huh, HUH?

I know she can't do that either lol. She's good at doing not very much and being annoying with it.

would make a good ilxor

can we ban xyzzzz from us politics threads already

Threadbanning isn’t a thing. It’s sitewide or nothing.

xyzzz's terrific on film and book threads

can we ban xyzzzz from us politics threads already

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

You and Shakey are really pathetic. Ok you don't like the tweet, so what?

(and erm, thanks Alfred)

eh I mean it's just disagreement not bannable

skeptical of the efficacy of "sending a letter to the manager"

tbf, as a US Senator sitting in a body that has the power to write law, Warren's letters carry more weight than most. But on a scale of 1 to 10, where the least effect is taking no action and the greatest is changing the law to compel compliance, this falls closer to a 3 or 4 than to any higher rating.

What's so incendiary about that tweet?

To quote the linked article, 'It is unlikely the CEOs targeted by Warren’s letter will listen.' Does anyone seriously disagree?

xyz posted it as flamebait and he knows it

he said so tbf

the purpose of sending such letters, in virtually any area of politics, is not to directly cause the CEOs to change policy, and pretending otherwise is trolling imo. again it is a good thing (and unfathomable a few years ago) for major elected officials to push it out there, as a normal and legitimate opinion, that the "gig economy," and the misclassification of employees as contract workers, is total exploitative bullshit.

look if it causes one well-off lib predisposed to liking Warren to reconsider how they view “contract workers” and the gig economy at large, it’s a good thing.

but man after 2008 and this recent go round can you imagine being an executive in corporate America and considering this kind of stuff (and Bernie’s tweets and public pronouncements to be fair) as anything other than something to ruthlessly mocked and savages by your fellow C suite ghouls, just out of earshot of the plebs?

Not even out of earshot.

@ will - so what? again, the intended audience is not the executives receiving the letter.

I agree and I do think it’s a Good Thing

Just morosely pointing out how little these things matter to the folks in control in the year of our lord 2020

look y’all have to listen to me whine
almost no one else will

Are you one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone.

no doubt about it :/

plz stop bitching that other posters shd be banned

so no Dem convention (I mean aside from virtual), right?

I'm sure the GOP will try to get one together around Labor Day if they feel like it, and I don't remember the lucky city (that may disinvite them).

Charlotte