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― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
i'm tempted to respond, but seriously, how many times has this conversation occurred
New board description plz.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
She's working in the system because she sees that as most effective, and speaking out against it has weight when she is inside it; she might run for her seat as, and would probably win as, an independent in the future. It's hyperbolic to condemn her now for something she might never do.
The symbolism I interpreted was: "We all hate Trump together." Then the roll call's visual symbolism spoke to the diversity of a political party that now includes everyone
I believe there was an opening to argue that Trump has hollowed out the Republican party, that its (ostensible, for former adherents) values have been sacrificed on the altar of corruption and venality and ego - to make a case both with, and for, the Republican outreach. This opportunity seemed to be whiffed.
Arguing for old-ways bipartisanship after the changes in the other partisanry over the 12 years since Biden retired, let alone the last four years, is the biggest signal that he is not up to the job of Presidenting imo.
(I watched an hour or so on three of the four nights.)
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
I don't accept that the Green New Deal is doomed from the start.
that's good, because it MUST happen (or something close to it) or we're fucked, and the route to success within the existing system, in the next 20 years, is a hell of a lot more likely than the route to success under whatever milo and others are advocating for
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
I'm honestly confused about milo's "route to success."
If it's more productive "to remind people of how awful and useless the Democrats have been for multiple generation," what does that actually accomplish in the long term? Even if I accept that it's true, how does it help change the reality of the situation?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
I want to go back to how Howard Dean was never actually popular outside the Internet but everyone acts like a goofy yelp torpedoed his campaign, tbh
xp: milo doesn't have a route to success
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
I don't accept that the Green New Deal is doomed from the start. I would rather give money to the Democratic Party in the hopes that it does get passed
I didn’t say that it was - I was describing a scenario where she tries to ‘pass legislation and benefit people’ while also serving the function I described earlier.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
I’ve never claimed there is a guaranteed route to success? There is a route to continued failure and it’s the one that has been pursued my entire life and gets us a guy talking about shooting people in the leg in the face of national unrest at the murder of innocent black men by police.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
History only ever moves in one direction, it is known
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
No one believes there is a "guaranteed" route to success, but I'd like to hear about a route that you think has some promise.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
note to self: come up with a guaranteed route to success, sell it to people for $
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
If it's more productive "to remind people of how awful and useless the Democrats have been for multiple generation," what does that actually accomplish in the long term?
... I didn’t say one was more productive than the other, you did? I drew a line about why people, including ILXors, who bemoaned the politician closest to AOC ideologically think (for now, with low stakes) that she’s the best thing ever.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Yes, I said that one was more productive than the other, and you disagree and said that it wasn't.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
"Making people more complacent with the Democrats does not seem more productive to me."
Anyway, I'm still waiting on your route to success.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
... I disagreed with your statement that one was more productive, yeah.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
You’ll have to keep waiting on that thing I’ve never claimed to possess I guess?
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
You should ask if I’ve stopped beating my dog next!
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
can somebody please beat me over the head with their opinion until i am dead
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
... I disagreed with your statement that one was more productive, yeah.― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:22 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:22 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Fine, maybe I extrapolated too much from that.
You’ll have to keep waiting on that thing I’ve never claimed to possess I guess?― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:24 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:24 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
Convenient!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
here you go, Brad: Lana Del Rey is terrible
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)
"Seven Wonders" rules!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
in the spirit of this thread, i feel like the musical opinion that should be beaten on someone's head is probably something about radiohead or the 1975
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
er wait, no
i think this calls for a straight up beatles v stones discussion
Hail To The Thief really is their best album
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
nooooooooooo we were so close to solving something
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
The Blessed Madonna remix of "Levitating" is meh.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
How can you say Nickelback is awful if you haven't had a quadruple-platinum album yourself?
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
Nickelback is better than The Strokes
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
Historical import aside, The Beatles were too inconsistent to be numbered among the greats and all of their albums are rife with unforgivable flaws.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
(Shit, almost forgot.)
Fite me.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
xxp
Lol, I see my Twitter challops truly struck a chord of sorts
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
lol not gonna lie, mentioning The Strokes will always make me mad
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
Take your anger to the next level:
Noteworthy album covers of 2020
(Sorry.)
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
The Democratic comms masterminds are right in tune with this thread.
Biden campaign responds to the first night of the RNC by playing off of Simon & Garfunkel lyrics pic.twitter.com/bg46RxHfnF— David Freedlander (@freedlander) August 25, 2020
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 06:49 (three years ago) link
Both @CoriBush and @AOC might be two of the lowest income Americans ever elected to the United States Congress. They reflect America in terms of class more than almost all of their colleagues. pic.twitter.com/hfsz7NpuLG— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) August 31, 2020
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
so weird that the only people even close to my income level seem to represent my interests much more than all of the rich members of congress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
Who are the six Senate poors?
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
willing to bet the poors are like 15-20 years younger than everyone else on average.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
class and generation are such strong relevant predictors of ideology yet you can't engage anyone on those terms because they get angry and that's bad.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
flaw: wears thong birks
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wore-most-150646147.html
― the burrito that defined a generation, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
the kind of journalism that makes me to be a proud Yahoo Mail lifer
― the burrito that defined a generation, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
Those look like really nice shoes. Fashionistas: what's the deal?
― peace, man, Monday, 14 September 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
I don’t think it’s fashionistas who have a problem with them. It’s people who haven’t kept up w the fact that Birkenstock’s have been very hip and acceptable for like the last 5 years.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
nice
Some days I wake up & it seems there’s 500 GOP wannabes pitching themselves as the “anti-AOC.”First of all, as Republicans y’all don’t have the range.Secondly, most of you are just afraid to run against your actual Dem opponent. It’s lazy. Work harder. https://t.co/rMMQOSo3lG— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 18, 2020
― frogbs, Friday, 18 September 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
We laugh now but when she runs for higher office we'll see all these "her negatives are so high, just like Hillary's" stories
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 18 September 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
an excellent rejoinder by AOC... that no Republican will ever be exposed to
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 18 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
its not AOC but she's good too
Firstly, this is my country & I am a member of the House that impeached you.Secondly, I fled civil war when I was 8. An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one. https://t.co/zcKKjdC8ju— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) September 23, 2020
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
I've been offline for several days, but I did watch the VP debate. Most of it was the usual carefully crafted talking points, some blatant lies from Pence, and the frequent evasion of direct questions by both participants, but there was one moment that genuinely astounded me. It was when Vice President Pence, speaking to a wide cross-section of tens of millions of Americans, referred to Representative Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as "AOC" with no further explanation of who he was speaking about.
That sort of three-initials fame in the USA has been limited until now to FDR, JFK, and LBJ. And she's a first term congressional rep! That moment truly gobsmacked me.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 10 October 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
You know, I noticed that, too. At first I thought it was a sign of disrespect, but then I thought it was a symbol (however unintentional) of her power.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 October 2020 03:31 (three years ago) link