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Brian Fantana

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  1. See this is also a major issue everyone has in general. He 100% deserves criticism for that. He should absolutely be taken to task for the goofy ass argument he presented to justify not using the word. The problem is that people take any criticism whatsoever as "cancelling" someone, or claim that by criticizing one aspect of their commentary, we're "demanding perfection". It's bullshit. I'm the loudest anti-Israel poster on this site, I'm well aware of his idiotic refusal to use the word genocide to describe Israel's actions, but that doesn't mean I now hate Bernie Sanders because I disagree with him on the terminology. Just because most people can't take criticism without feeling "cancelled" doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
  2. He was great on some things and not so great on others. I'm grateful to him for some of the things he did, including beating the brakes off Trump in 2020, but he also cost the Democrats a great deal going forward with his stubbornness.
  3. Sure, that would be great. That's not what the Democratic Party wants. They want people that behave like Wesley Bell and they largely have nothing but contempt for their base. That's the main difference between them and the GOP. The GOP despises their base as well, but they pretend not to enough to keep them captured.
  4. I mean you're not wrong. Mamdani seems like the best strategist the left has seen in a long time. Obama had great strategy but can't really be categorized as a leftist. And it's a moot point because Mamdani could never run for President anyway, assuming he actually wins the mayorship and does well. The point I was making is that while leftist policies are largely popular among the electorate, the Democratic establishment would never allow a leftist to be the Presidential nominee. Bernie is as close as it's ever gotten or likely ever going to get. Moneyed interests are what's most important to mainstream Democrats, and that's not likely to ever change.
  5. I'm aware of that, but he effectively is one/is associated with them in the minds of most Americans because of the Presidential run and his positions at least sometimes aligning with them.
  6. And also, Bernie is one of the few mainstream politicians that has maintained largely the same policy positions on the same issues for the entirety of his political career. It's extremely rare to find any politician that sticks to his guns like that. Whether they agree with him or not, most people have at least some level of respect for him because of that, and the level of popularity he has maintained over the decades has made it impossible for the Party to discard him, even though they would certainly like to.
  7. Any Democrat with openly leftist views that tries to burst into the mainstream is almost always actively squashed by the Party. Bernie had too much longevity and popularity to be cast aside, but they for sure couldn't allow him to be the nominee, at the cost of giving the world Donald Trump. AOC and Mamdani are outliers that have thus far been able to weather the anti-leftist hostility that is endemic to the Party by appealing directly to their constituents rather than simply parroting the Party lines, for the most part. Mamdani employed the super radical strategy of talking directly to his potential constituents, absorbing what policies they wanted from their mayor, and then running directly on those policies. It turns out, when you do that, it's difficult for the Party apparatus to eject you, even when they try their best, as they did and are.
  8. One side is doing whatever it wants, the other side is doing nothing. Unless you count book tours, I guess.
  9. If we were going to lose anyone from a position on the 2-deep on offense before the season I'm glad it's RB. We can fill that position up and our 2 backups are solid and will be fine, though it does suck to lose Joyner.
  10. It started because of some racist shit some stupid Aggy player said about Hispanic players on Tech's team before a game a long ass time ago.
  11. Ok that makes more sense haha....I pretty much agree with everything you said other than I think she would have a good shot at a Senate seat if she was actually trying to message. I don't really understand the D strategy of just shutting the fuck up right now.
  12. Bro. nobody is crying lol what are you talking about...they're just trolling the Big 12 office Simmer down and drink some coffee
  13. Don't act like a bitch just because your school is poor
  14. You're literaly not even responding to the post I made.
  15. I would guess homeboy is in timeout at the moment
  16. Protesters confront Missouri Congressman Wesley Bell about his support of Israel | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR This fucking moron is exactly what is wrong with the Democrat party today. This is the guy that AIPAC poured millions of dollars into in order to unseat Cori Bush because she dared to have a position on Gaza that ran counter to the Party line. He has nothing but contempt for his constituents, evidenced by the numerous plainclothes, off duty cops he hired to rough up the crowd because he knew they were going to be hostile to him. He's literally only there to take Israeli money and do genocide denial from his seat of power. That's his only purpose.
  17. She would have more than a shot if she actually did something. Where is she right now? She's being silent on any number of issues that should be important to her constituents and she's wasting the popularity she has among the base.
  18. Mad and bad
  19. Literally not a single person. The weirdest people always object when you bring up how we worked with and sheltered many Nazis post-WW2.
  20. Well apparently I do come up with good site mottos...
  21. You are so stupid it's actually painful.
  22. Yeah, my point is I've literally never seen or heard anyone say that outside of terminally online circles circa like 2018 or whatever. It's so niche and irrelevant I had literally pushed it out of my brain entirely until you brought it up.
  23. Yeah no shit dumbass what do you think the word "imply" means
  24. Screenshotting so this little bitch can't later claim he didn't heavily imply he wants Derka to kill himself: Jesus christ dude, get a grip
  25. I simply call people what they want to be called and don't give it a second thought beyond that like a normal person
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