Since we can't call out Trolls and Bad Faith posters and the Ignore function doesn't actually ignore it. Add
"mmo-champion.com##li.postbitignored"
to your ublock or adblock filter to actually ignore ignored posters. Now just need a way to ignore responses to them as well.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
I can tell you right now, that screaming at the Biden team isn't going to get us to any progressive place. It's just not gonna happen. If you're progressive and you want to push Biden, you've got to find a different way. Being a jerk won't work
We've entered the no malarkey hour!
Democrats don't want jerks. I think that's pretty clear at this point. So the whole "I have to shoot the hostage to get change done" thing is not working.
Dem voters have overwhelmingly rejected Bernie, his tone, and his peevishness.
Government Affiliated Snark
You have to entertain the idea that neither candidate was the better candidate. @Elegiac is making a very solid, objective point. Sanders was supposed to bring out the young vote with exciting ideas and progressive policies. And that did not happen.
You can boil all that down to three words: Progressive Messaging Sucks.
Because whatever chance she may have had at refining her messaging was aborted by the fact she was competing against an established giant in the field. "Warren" is a stand in for an alternative progressive to Bernie. It might have been Booker, or Castro, or someone else.And if Warren was the better candidate, why did she get destroyed at every turn?
I've already authored several long posts about Bernie being a risky headliner for the progressive movement and it seems those fears have been more than justified.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
That's a desperate deflection. You don't know any more about what I "really" care about than I know what you "really" care about--and I don't really give a shit what your secret motives are. Everything I listed is true and happening right now--if that makes you uncomfortable with yourself and your choices, good.
Last edited by Levelfive; 2020-03-11 at 03:37 AM.
Who's up for eve more Unity?
It's still *possible* Biden will end up sweeping all 279 *counties* in Michigan, Mississippi and Missouri tonight.
That's an extremely broad and deep coalition.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light, I suppose.
The interesting thing is that it debunks the idea that Bernie won in those states over Hillary because of NAFTA, that they just couldn't stand that so much that they had to go for the isolationist candidate, and that's how she lost to Trump in the general in those states, who ran against NAFTA (in comical terms, someone said last week that Trump was "to the left" of Hillary because of issues like NAFTA).
But then, how do you fight against that as Biden, you ask? Well, Trump has scrapped NAFTA and replaced it with.....a Dem-written deal which he had nothing to do with. In fact, all the substantive things Republicans wanted in USMCA were so fucking horrifically worse than NAFTA, but Dems managed to nix them outright. It's the exact opposite of NAFTA, where a Democrat signed a largely Republican shitshow of a bill, and made it better. And then Trump trashed the TPP and has since been disastrous on the Asian trade situation, forcing allies like Australia into making deals with China individually. All Biden has to do is be a little quiet on this and point out Trump hasn't done jack shit on this issue, and that's about all we can hope for.
Last edited by Dacien; 2020-03-11 at 03:45 AM.