2020 Democratic presidential primary

Mayor Pete is basically a vanity candidate for the gifted adult children of Manhattan and similar places.

Mayor Pete is like my rich, gay, white banker neighbors - lefty in some ways, but capitalist to the core, generally clueless about race and class, and with a mean conservative streak when it comes to "law and order" and "propriety" and shit like that.

"rogermexico"

he's campaigning to pundits, not voters. which may not be the worst strategy in the world considering so many voters nowadays think they're supposed to BE pundits.

Pete obvs. xpost.

(I originally typed Peto just now, a fun slip).

that Lazare piece is a solid overview of policy positions, I don't really see anything up its own ass about it

who these candidates select as advisors on foreign policy is certainly important

he's campaigning to pundits, not voters. which may not be the worst strategy in the world considering so many voters nowadays think they're supposed to BE pundits.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, September 16, 2019 11:14 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm and this is the most infuriating thing.

Working Families Party endorses Warren.

― Frederik B, Monday, September 16, 2019 3:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ppl in my twitter tl now saying WFP is dead to them. O___o

are those ppl riding hard for 'Bernie or Die'?

that Lazare piece is a solid overview of policy positions, I don't really see anything up its own ass about it

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, September 16, 2019

the facts reported are 100% accurate and the rhetoric is 100% Jacobin. nothing wrong with in context tbh, just didn't want to leave the provocation unacknowledged since morbs wanted a morning thumbwrestle and shakey was unavailable.

What cheering in the Quiet Car looks like. Thanks @WorkingFamilies! pic.twitter.com/kuPZlWBlbp

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 16, 2019

warren is such a mom. that's a compliment btw.

I'm glad that Warren hasn't felt compelled to put motherhood too front and center in her campaign, except when it was relevant to the topic at hand, like paid family leave. For a long time I didn't even think she had any children.

one of her kids is a pharma exec no? i like warren, but maybe that's why she doesn't bring up her children often.

i think she doesn't bring up being a mom that often because, while it's a compliment from my perspective, a plurality of americans seem to hate "moms"

they also hate women without children

they also hate women

one of her kids is a pharma exec no?

she had a pharma start-up back in the 90s. Now runs some kind of business staffing agency.

ah. too much twitter not enough news for me, sometimes.

a plurality of americans seem to hate "moms"

tbf if you are a human who has chosen to breed at any time after 1980 then you are probably a sociopath

Warren gets away clean though

fp’d you for racism

it's a fair cop

A whole species of primates aged 36 and up, all of us aging badly into the future. In 2070 the last 90-year-old woman dies while getting her chin wiped off by the last 89-year-old woman. She dies a year or so later in a pile of feces and expired tuna cans.

Thanks for that vision sic

surely we'd all commit ritual suicide at 65ish

I wouldn't call breeders sociopaths though, merely deliriously optimistic and inexplicably selfish

I wouldn’t call sterilers sociopaths though, merely deliriously pessimistic and inexplicably selfish

Cheering in the Quiet Car would be a good name for a book about east coast liberals or something

Trump coming to SF tomorrow w Carson, presumably to spit on homeless people

Be sure to wear some flowers in what is clearly not your hair

I wouldn’t call sterilers sociopaths though, merely deliriously pessimistic and inexplicably selfish

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, September 16, 2019 2:02 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't act like you're the one generally called upon to defend yourself

ilxors failing to understand reproduction on an existential level continues to be one of ilx's best running gags

Yeah all the persecution for not having kids must be rough, but your consolation is not having to be responsible for another human life. Can we go back to talking about the primary?

ilxors failing to understand reproduction on an existential level continues to be one of ilx's best running gags

― Mordy, Monday, September 16, 2019 2:16 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean it's a gag but also I don't understand it

it's only my second week at this job I don't have a ton of tasks yet

it's all about the birds and the bees

Bees over babies

Which candidates are in favor of making reproduction a function of the state is my question, I’m voting for them

lxors failing to understand reproduction on an existential level

These arguments don't do much to counter sic's sociopath accusation.

Apparently WFP gave the leadership more of a say in the endorsement this time

What kind of irresponsible, deranged animals refuse to turn around 200,000 years of evolutionary impulse on a dime?

“Which candidates are in favor of making reproduction a function of the state is my question, I’m voting for them”

Republicans

200,000 only??

when we really ripened up

What kind of irresponsible, deranged animals refuse to turn around 200,000 years of evolutionary impulse on a dime?

there were only 200 years of industrial damage to the biosphere at that point and ppl refused to turn that around either

Horny sapiens

Allow me to apologize for having a sub-replacement number of offspring

WFP isn't really a party

having a child in my house wdnt be a party either

you should have it in the hospital, where it's sterile

How's the baby one day gonna have babies if it's sterile?

so it's come to megadeth lyrics now i see