elpablo21
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I gave up following Iowa
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sonoftony
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agreed. Iowa a whole mess
- Jul 20, 2009
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Damn, there is a debate tomorrow. Completely forgot.
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Looking forward to seeing Bloomberg get washed in the debate
- Jul 7, 2005
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The verbiage/portmanteau term used to describe minorities in the country historically including by the likes of Dubois and MLK
If you wanna take umbrage with it you've got that right. I just don't see the issue here personally, champ
Your talking about verbiage from more than HALF A CENTURY ago. Do you have any idea how much black society and culture has changed since then? This dude up her talking about how black people were referred to as and by in the 1950’s?? The year is now 2020....I understand you might have just watched Roots for the first time in honor of Black History Month but please don’t hesitate to say the word BLACK or better yet refer to us a BLACK PEOPLE. It’s okay.....I promise you.
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To my knowledge he has not qualified yet
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Dammit. The washing waits
- Jun 28, 2004
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Every Democrat will be called a socialist, Alinskite, terrorist sympathizer and all around enemy of upper middle class and white suburban America.
The way that the GOP talks is fixed. What is variable is what the Democratic nominee will talk about.
I can’t guarantee that Bernie will be able to overwhelm the system with new voters but he’s got a better shot than candidates who talk about policy minutia or worse yet, vague bromides about restoring America’s soul or decency. Nation States have no souls and for people making under 40k a year, America never had any decency.
Nothing is guaranteed except complete and utter economic, ecological and political ruin if we keep playing this third way, triangulation strategy. The fact that the median voter might be willing to accept fascism instead of social democracy is a situation that needs to be remedied as soon as possible. Bernie may not be able to do that but at least he’ll try which cannot be said of most of the other candidates.
The way that the GOP talks is fixed. What is variable is what the Democratic nominee will talk about.
I can’t guarantee that Bernie will be able to overwhelm the system with new voters but he’s got a better shot than candidates who talk about policy minutia or worse yet, vague bromides about restoring America’s soul or decency. Nation States have no souls and for people making under 40k a year, America never had any decency.
Nothing is guaranteed except complete and utter economic, ecological and political ruin if we keep playing this third way, triangulation strategy. The fact that the median voter might be willing to accept fascism instead of social democracy is a situation that needs to be remedied as soon as possible. Bernie may not be able to do that but at least he’ll try which cannot be said of most of the other candidates.
- Jan 12, 2013
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My preorder for A Very Stable Genius got delayed to February 10 
I just want to read it already
I just want to read it already
- Jan 12, 2013
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There hasn't been much reporting on Parnas and Fruman's 2 co-conspirators in the indictments. Here's what one of them has been up to.
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Let me get this right...
On the one hand, some are quick to remind anyone who'd listen that Clinton won the popular vote. And as such, 45* not only is illegitimate because of foreign election interference, years of racist gerrymandering, and an electoral college system designed, in part, to protect a slaveocracy. He is illegitimate because he does not have the popular will of the people.
On the other hand, some of those same folks want to dismiss the 6,000+ votes cast for Sanders over the next guy. 97% is too close to call, they say, and the 6,000 number more ambiguous than it seems.
Now granted, 2.8 million is way more than 6,000. But either the minute percentage difference and the popular vote advantage counts for something all the time, or it doesn't count at all.
It would be nice to wait for some official certification. But that misses the ways in which these percentages are hardly neutral. Indeed, part of the delay in even crowning a victor is that the results weren't the ones certain interest groups were hoping for. We're missing the ways in which political actors are masturbating to slight percentages to blunt Sanders' momentum. We're also missing the ways in which Sanders is using the popular vote tally to claim legitimacy. But in either case, the numbers are political.
For the record, Sanders won.
On the one hand, some are quick to remind anyone who'd listen that Clinton won the popular vote. And as such, 45* not only is illegitimate because of foreign election interference, years of racist gerrymandering, and an electoral college system designed, in part, to protect a slaveocracy. He is illegitimate because he does not have the popular will of the people.
On the other hand, some of those same folks want to dismiss the 6,000+ votes cast for Sanders over the next guy. 97% is too close to call, they say, and the 6,000 number more ambiguous than it seems.
Now granted, 2.8 million is way more than 6,000. But either the minute percentage difference and the popular vote advantage counts for something all the time, or it doesn't count at all.
It would be nice to wait for some official certification. But that misses the ways in which these percentages are hardly neutral. Indeed, part of the delay in even crowning a victor is that the results weren't the ones certain interest groups were hoping for. We're missing the ways in which political actors are masturbating to slight percentages to blunt Sanders' momentum. We're also missing the ways in which Sanders is using the popular vote tally to claim legitimacy. But in either case, the numbers are political.
For the record, Sanders won.
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Is this post directed at me?
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aepps20
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Different like when you say nothing when Trump shows little respect for due process
“But...but... that’s different”
Yet you make convoluted defenses of due process when a white male conservative sexual deviant preys on an underage girl.
Different like that?
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You really gonna just steal
aepps20
‘s schtick? It’s enough having to deal with him saying it continually.You spose to be the quasi-level-headed one.
- Jul 20, 2009
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Ok, how about thisYou really gonna just steal
You spose to be the quasi-level-headed one.
Different like you clutching your biscuits that people assumed you not being black and calling you white
And you then doing the same thing to tiger posters
Different like that? Better?
- Dec 15, 2012
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Whether sanders wins or loses the popular vote or the state delegate count him and Pete are going to end up with the same exact amount of federal delegates. In the grand scheme of things it makes very little difference given that 6,000 votes is 0.17% of Iowa's total population.
aepps20
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“But...but... that’s different”
I hope you have a different response for your own family.
- Dec 23, 2003
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They must have told him to come sing at their church on Mens day, but didn't tell him that the women's choir sings on Mens day
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Fam didn’t make an assumption.
I told him I was black. And he continues to call me a white man, lol.
I didn’t know
IATT
was from the Bahamas... but now that I know I won’t say/imply that he’s white. It was my mistake for the assumption.Also, I don’t know if he identifies as black. I know some folks from the islands don’t.
But I digress, this is worlds better than the pedo nonsense.
Nike Jordan
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Goonberg is now running ads featuring Obama.
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