2016 Democratic National Convention - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - July 25-28

[NYC17]

...what? lol. "Super smart hyper aware intellectual?"

Just because I don't like them doing it doesn't mean I don't understand WHY they are doing it. That has no bearing on it being stupidly, and annoyingly, pandering.

Great. You aren't the target, so all the whining about it is just strange.

[KrazyK923]

Great. You aren't the target, so all the whining about it is just strange.

Yes nobody ever talks about something they think is stupid on the internet.

I guess I'm sorry that I wish a campaign that I'm already not too stoked on would stop doing something pathetically pandering that I dislike?

[NYC17]

IMO its going after the women's vote. Any women here? How important is that sort of thing to you?

This is a good question to ask women who are casually aware or interested in politics. That's who they're interested in winning over.

Given Trump's propensity towards chauvinism, and just straight up weird shit regarding women, it's a smart and easy goal to have.

[Theodarzna]

IMO its going after the women's vote. Any women here? How important is that sort of thing to you?

I find it annoying and just dumb as hell, as if my uterus depended my vote.

After all I still am fuming made over the Madeline Albright "Women go to hell for not voting Hillary!" And Gloria Steinem called us all sluts for not shlicking it to Hillary.

[Bumkin]

IMO its going after the women's vote. Any women here? How important is that sort of thing to you?

Lots of women hate Hillary Clinton and support Bernie or Jill Stein, idk who is hillarys campaign manager but he/she is fucking up big time, thats not how u get the women votes lol, telling women theyre special little flowers just cuz theyre women, they arent dumb, Hillary's campaign is so fucked up , Trumps gonna win by a landslide it seems

[NYC17]

Yes nobody ever talks about something they think is stupid on the internet.

I guess I'm sorry that I wish a campaign that I'm already not too stoked on would stop doing something pathetically pandering that I dislike?

Congrats on joining the crowd I guess??

[Crissi]

Bah sorry. Phone died.


As anyways I adored bills speech. It was certainly different from the rest of today and yesterday's which is good.

To Alexw: it's not so important really. It's how one addresses women's issues that is important.

[belfpala]

I find it annoying and just dumb as hell, as if my uterus depended my vote.

*decided.

Sorry, I'm listening to Hannity right now. That's always a mistake.

[Guy4123]

I might be misremembering, but It seems familiar, but then again my sister does the "Your here, lets go do something or whatever." Maybe I am just blargh and imagining it, I like to look out the passenger window and just zone out and read signs.

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...... a deep annoying darkness has lifted from the thread, What merciful angel have we to thank for this righteous act?

Well you could have gone through it just driving around. It's not like Wales is a huge country. It's a longer distance between Sacramento and San Francisco than Caernarfon and Forden

[Theodarzna]

*decided.

Sorry, I'm listening to Hannity right now. That's always a mistake.

Siri is a cunt who ruins everything.

[Crissi]

Siri is a cunt who ruins everything.

Down with auto correct, that motif honk!

[Mafic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs Done.

This is timeless and good music.

[Theodarzna]

Well you could have gone through it just driving around. It's not like Wales is a huge country. It's a longer distance between Sacramento and San Francisco than Caernarfon and Forden

When I visit my sister always has money saved up and we go around and sometimes willfully get lost for the fun of it. I've likely been through it and may not have realized. Having used the magic of google I am 80% Sure I've been close to or near it at some point.

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Down with auto correct, that motif honk!

I'm starting to get pissed, I can't type in English in English anymore. Siri is a stone cold bitch. -_-

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I'll give Hillary this out, a lot of the damage done to her has been by people around her that sometimes I feel like she has zero control over or her friends get over zealous in their attempts to help her.

In the end a lot of these people are her close friend, and they WANT to help her out however they can, even if its not ethical as in the case of DWS. BUT sometimes it comes off wrong or a bit tone deaf or just ludicrious as was with Madeline Albright OR Gloria Steinem.

[alexw]

Millennials are not more liberal than Boomers who grew up in the 60s and 70s and shaped those two decades with art, music, etc. Millennials are not even more liberal than FDR Democrats who were considered very socialist and arguably American communists laid the groundwork for a conservative FDR to follow.

You believe Millennials are more progressive, but in truth they are not.

Err what? Did you pay attention to bernie sanders and the make up of his supporters? Or the demographics of the occupy protesters? Polls even show they view socialism more favorably than capitalism.

This really isn't something that is arguable so I don't know why on earth you are trying. Millennials lean decidedly to the left and more than their parents. They want legal pot. They are far more supportive of gay marriage. They are far more against racism in all its forms. They want socialized single payer healthcare. They want college tuition funded by taxes. They strongly support redistribution from the top to everyone else. On and on it goes.

[Gray_Matter]

Interesting image for those hard core Bernie supporters:



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"breaking the glass celling!"
fucking kill me, please.

Depending on how old you are, and whether you are a woman or not, will make a huge difference as to how much that will mean to you.

[cubby]

Depending on how old you are, and whether you are a woman or not, will make a huge difference as to how much that will mean to you.

I agree with you but would add that there shouldn't really be an age limit to that issue being important - the number of women in political roles is frighteningly low - and the U.S. just now nominated the first woman for Presidential nominee of a major party. We have a lot of work to level the playing ground.

[Theodarzna]

I agree with you but would add that there shouldn't really be an age limit to that issue being important - the number of women in political roles is frighteningly low - and the U.S. just now nominated the first woman for Presidential nominee of a major party. We have a lot of work to level the playing ground.

Maybe if your Albright or Steinem but honest as an under 30 woman, I do not give a fuck. Plus I was born in a country that already had a female prime minister.

[alexw]

Interesting image for those hard core Bernie supporters:



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Depending on how old you are, and whether you are a woman or not, will make a huge difference as to how much that will mean to you.

That 100% fits in with what I was saying about millennials being much farther to the left than older generations. Even republicans understand this. When they start voting in Sanders style politico's over the next 30 years the aging Reaganite boomers won't know what's hit them. I expect more and more angry white boomer backlash. I really do like how they blame indoctrination by universities as opposed to the complete and utter failure of their policies.

Addressing the South Carolina delegation, Luntz attributed the Democratic Party’s hold on younger adults to colleges and universities that he said are leading them toward socialism.

"We have lost. It's not like we are losing, we have lost that generation. And I don't care if you are a Democrat, Republican, independent, none of the above. The fact that 58 percent [of millennials] say socialism is the better form of economics, that is the damage of academia,” he said at a breakfast event here.

“The No. 1 priority to me is what happens at universities. And yes, Capitol Hill matters, yes politics matter, but a whole generation is being taught by professors who voted for Bernie Sanders. That’s a problem that begs for a solution.”

Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, identifies as a democratic socialist.

As Luntz spoke, one delegate muttered under his breath, “We are screwed.”

[belfpala]

Maybe if your Albright or Steinem but honest as an under 30 woman, I do not give a fuck. Plus I was born in a country that already had a female prime minister.

So, Switzerland didn't give women the right vote until before you were able to vote? Neat.

[cubby]

Maybe if your Albright or Steinem but honest as an under 30 woman, I do not give a fuck. Plus I was born in a country that already had a female prime minister.

Don't you think that last fact pretty much takes you out of the mainstream experience of US voters? I'm not digging on you at all - just pointing out that there could be a large perspective difference that you may not appreciate.

Germany or England?