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15 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

The Great Depression was even more potent to the great masses, and if we were a few years into it I'd say that the USA would be very open intoxicated by Bernie.

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There are parts of the country in something very much like a Great Depression right now, and have been for years.

Those same parts of the country that decided the last election.

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1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

He will try to attack Bernie as a socialist. But whether it lands and whether it hurts are separate questions.

He won't hide from it or apologize, so it won't hurt him among persuadable people who will judge based on the confidence of the attacker/defender. We take our cues from how people react, so if the Sanders campaign and, perhaps more importantly, the Sanders coalition doesn't react like the punch hurt then people won't think it was a hard punch.

Democrats usually collapse in the face of that punch. They fall to the mat. Bernie will smile at it, and the Bros will hoot and holler and post Soviet memes and make a joke out of it.

posting Soviet memes when the Russians are proving to be an existential threat to our elections is a GREAT idea!!!  The laughs will be hilarity.  I can't wait.

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4 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

The Russians are not an "existential threat to our elections".

We are doing a fine job of that on our own.

hilarity!  hahaha, hahahaha.  hahaha. bwhahahahaha.  : - |

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3 minutes ago, Calihorn said:

We deserve whatever fate awaits us.

I tend to agree, which is why Donald Trump's presidency doesn't bother me all that much. Of course, that's the white privilege talking. I understand why minorities in this country are terrified of a second term.

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21 minutes ago, Calihorn said:

Yes, the weakening regional power presents an existential threat to our Democracy.

pretty much got Donald to the White House.  so yeah, it's a problem.   but then I read every page of the Mueller report so what do I know.

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39 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

The Russians are not an "existential threat to our elections".

We are doing a fine job of that on our own.

I wonder why the DNC insisted on using Robbie Mook and his app for the primaries and caucuses?

Sanders campaign anticipated the problem and has watchers recording every result to counter fictitious results produced by the app. 

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1 minute ago, Calihorn said:

The fact that Russia tried to interfere is far less of an issue than our willfully ignorant electorate.

Our wilfully ignorant electorate means that anyone who tries to interfere stands a chance at succeeding. Which makes their interference *more* of an issue, not less. Your logic.. isn't.

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Just now, ndawg said:

Our wilfully ignorant electorate means that anyone who tries to interfere stands a chance at succeeding. Which makes their interference *more* of an issue, not less. Your logic.. isn't.

The Russians didn't make us willfully ignorant, we did. The fact that potentially millions of people couldn't tell obvious propaganda from reality is our fault.

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The fear-mongering about populism and populists is hilarious because when you do that what you're advocating is oligarchy and revealing yourself to be completely amoral scum.

Foreign interference in elections has always and will always exist.

Unless the Russians are literally hacking the voting system, they aren't a "threat" to our democracy in any rational context.

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9 minutes ago, Calihorn said:

The Russians didn't make us willfully ignorant, we did. The fact that potentially millions of people couldn't tell obvious propaganda from reality is our fault.

You might want to disentangle the notion of something being an issue from the notion of who is to blame.

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3 minutes ago, Calihorn said:

MY original post for this conversation was mocking the idea Russia poses an existential threat to our Democracy.

And a more balanced perspective is that we have a gaping wound that was self-inflicted, and it's now open season for foreign powers to exploit our weakness. Not to mention, as the impeachment trial closes, it's becoming clear that, for the first time in our history, our government will flat out permit interference.

Nothing about Russia's GDP has anything to do with their capacity to do harm, particularly given that they realistically face zero repercussions for anything they do going forward.

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fivethirtyeight confirms results of unreleased poll in Iowa - 

It is not looking good for Joe.

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FiveThirtyEight can confirm that it contains the correct final findings of the unreleased Iowa poll:

Sanders 22 percent,

Warren 18 percent,

Buttigieg 16 percent,

Biden 13 percent.

Imagine the news cycle that would have been, with national front-runner Biden making such a poor showing in the last, highest-profile poll before the caucuses. 

https://twitter.com/ClareMalone/status/1224485118271803392

 

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In a perfect world, everyone not named Sanders and Biden drops out after tonight so the party can get the actual fight over with as quickly as possible before people get so mad that they don't support the eventual nominee.
I'm worried that it's already too late. 
 


I’m highly confident all Democrats will vote and vote Democrat. The middle 10% however....
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55 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

 

Really trivial things that make me surly:  

Dictionary entries that use almost the same word to define the one you're looking for.

*** "ol-i-garch

1. a ruler in an oligarchy."***

If some person happened to be looking up the word oligarch, does Oxford really think they'll know what an oligarchy is?  

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