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

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

Some other Senator(s) also write sternly worded letters to corrupt execs, where is the outrage over their fecklessnesd

https://m.chron.com/travel/article/Senators-warn-airlines-refunds-15169687.php

That is worse in some ways as cash refunds should've been a condition to getting bailout.

"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."

Yes I know it's the start of a boring, years long campaign. Like to think she'd lend her support to any strikes from precarious workers.

See how this develops, might even link to another tweet sometime. Bit of concern trolling doesn't hurt.

Bit of concern trolling doesn't hurt.

incorrect

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Nintendo DS screenshots!

Dem Convention (in Milwaukee) delayed until August 17th: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/490811-democrats-to-delay-convention-until-august-sources

dream on

per Biden's press call this afternoon, he would still prefer to become the Democratic nominee and then have his voters die painfully before November than to see fair elections in America.

that’s definitely what he said

would prefer it if ILX posters would just quote things directly instead of constantly warping everything to reflect their oh-so-hot takes. the rest of the internet is already full of bad faith takes and performative anger.

I wouldn't interpret without linking to the actual quote (tbf I couldn't find audio)

shakey what makes performative anger different from real anger

do you want people to be angry but keep it on the inside

judging by his musical tastes, no

anger is an energy, but like _performative_ energy is a synergy amirite. focus group updated lydon, he's good with it.

lol _performative_ anger. even my shit jokes, i blow them

Sic’s type of post conveys how angry he is about the quote, but obscures the quote itself.

This is bad for discourse, it implicitly privileges feelings over facts.

Feelings don’t care about your facts Shakey

It’s begging the question is what it is

Shakes, you support voting in person next week? Great take.

tee hee silby

caveated tee hee Hunter

Shakey some people complain about tweets being embedded instead of linked, whaddaya gonna do

I thought it would be another couple of years before Shakes went full Ben Shapiro.

The point is no one should be voting in person anywhere in the US in the next 2-3 months. The fucking end.