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Re: 2020 POTUS Candidates
« Reply #1150 on: October 24, 2019, 07:29:33 AM »
I'm pullin' for Buttman.  He seems to be one of the best democratic candidates.

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« Reply #1151 on: October 24, 2019, 08:41:58 AM »
I like Pete! He is a breath of fresh air!

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« Reply #1152 on: October 24, 2019, 08:51:57 AM »
Anyway I was thinking that right now since it looks like this is going to a brokered convention, if no one can poll higher that around 30%, then even with let's say 80% of the superdelegates behind one person, they'd only be bumping up around 38%.

I don't know when pledged delegates can break their vote for another candidate, but we'd seriously be looking at a jump ball for this thing. Pray that some of these people start dropping out, namely Kamala and down.
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« Reply #1153 on: October 24, 2019, 09:31:47 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

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« Reply #1154 on: October 24, 2019, 09:47:55 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.
Thought that was just me overreacting after hearing about the guy in Tennessee going on a rant about him yesterday.

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« Reply #1155 on: October 24, 2019, 09:48:46 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

I'm not one to typically even notice things like this (I'm pretty oblivious), but even I cringed a little at it...

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« Reply #1156 on: October 24, 2019, 09:54:00 AM »
Butts are objectively funny.

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« Reply #1157 on: October 24, 2019, 09:59:37 AM »
Butts are objectively funny.

Context, man. Have some self-awareness.

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« Reply #1158 on: October 24, 2019, 10:01:02 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Yeah.

I mean, I didn't respond initially because yeah, his name is weird, and Pete's campaign, and Pete himself, has been pretty playful and gracious about people mispronouncing his name, even to the extent of selling those BOOT EDGE EDGE t-shirts.

But when it crosses over to someone willfully making fun of his name, especially considering his orientation, it's pretty gross, and usually seems homophobic. I've seen 100s of these instances on Twitter and on comments sections of various pages (like the Hill..oh my God, it's horrible) and 99% of the time it seems to be middle-aged men making 6th grade butt jokes, usually with a homophobic slant (talking about "poles" and "butts," etc)

I'm like "Is this REALLY these dudes' best use of their time?? To make butt/gay jokes online? Seriously???"

No wonder Trump is so popular with the juvenile crowd.
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« Reply #1159 on: October 24, 2019, 10:40:20 AM »
tRump vs. Buttjudge ... the 2020 Battle of the Butts!

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« Reply #1160 on: October 24, 2019, 10:44:19 AM »
I haven't laughed so hard since 9th grade.

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« Reply #1161 on: October 24, 2019, 10:59:00 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Well uuhh I just think he has a funny name that has no obvious pronunciation. Nothing meant by it. Edited my post to remove it.

I personally forget the man is even homosexual most of the time he comes up in conversation.

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« Reply #1162 on: October 24, 2019, 11:08:39 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Well uuhh I just think he has a funny name that has no obvious pronunciation. Nothing meant by it. Edited my post to remove it.

I personally forget the man is even homosexual most of the time he comes up in conversation.

Childish nicknames allowed for other candidates though!! \sarcasm

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« Reply #1163 on: October 24, 2019, 11:32:22 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Well uuhh I just think he has a funny name that has no obvious pronunciation. Nothing meant by it. Edited my post to remove it.

I personally forget the man is even homosexual most of the time he comes up in conversation.

Childish nicknames allowed for other candidates though!! \sarcasm

No, that's childish, too. Just not childish and also homophobic.

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« Reply #1164 on: October 24, 2019, 11:35:46 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Well uuhh I just think he has a funny name that has no obvious pronunciation. Nothing meant by it. Edited my post to remove it.

I personally forget the man is even homosexual most of the time he comes up in conversation.

Childish nicknames allowed for other candidates though!! \sarcasm

Double standards abound.

Imagine if trump had committed the same faux pas with a differently abled person as Warren did the other day. Radio silence for warren. If trump had done it, we would never hear the end of it.

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« Reply #1165 on: October 24, 2019, 11:44:34 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Well uuhh I just think he has a funny name that has no obvious pronunciation. Nothing meant by it. Edited my post to remove it.

I personally forget the man is even homosexual most of the time he comes up in conversation.

Childish nicknames allowed for other candidates though!! \sarcasm

No, that's childish, too. Just not childish and also homophobic.

Ok now you just jumped from "appearance of" to "definitely". Not appropriate to attach that moniker to other people's motives.

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« Reply #1166 on: October 24, 2019, 11:46:41 AM »
Anyway I was thinking that right now since it looks like this is going to a brokered convention, if no one can poll higher that around 30%, then even with let's say 80% of the superdelegates behind one person, they'd only be bumping up around 38%.

I don't know when pledged delegates can break their vote for another candidate, but we'd seriously be looking at a jump ball for this thing. Pray that some of these people start dropping out, namely Kamala and down.

Huh.  I was expecting additional candidates to drop out after the first few state primaries/caucuses, and any delegates that candidates who later drop out happened to have won would either be released or handed off to another candidate.  That's what happened - I think - in the similarly crowded Republican primary ahead of the 2016 election.  I don't see anything structural that would lead to a different outcome.  The few pundit comments I've seen seem to think we'll have a presumptive nominee before the convention.

But it would be interesting to see a brokered convention.  We haven't had one of those since...the 1960s?

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« Reply #1167 on: October 24, 2019, 11:47:53 AM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Well uuhh I just think he has a funny name that has no obvious pronunciation. Nothing meant by it. Edited my post to remove it.

I personally forget the man is even homosexual most of the time he comes up in conversation.

Childish nicknames allowed for other candidates though!! \sarcasm

No, that's childish, too. Just not childish and also homophobic.

Ok now you just jumped from "appearance of" to "definitely". Not appropriate to attach that moniker to other people's motives.

I apologize for appearing to attach the motivation of homophobia to the childish nickname you gave to a presidential candidate. 


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« Reply #1168 on: October 24, 2019, 11:52:01 AM »
Well...Tim Ryan has dropped out.

That should shake things up a bit.

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« Reply #1169 on: October 24, 2019, 11:56:23 AM »
Anyway I was thinking that right now since it looks like this is going to a brokered convention, if no one can poll higher that around 30%, then even with let's say 80% of the superdelegates behind one person, they'd only be bumping up around 38%.

I don't know when pledged delegates can break their vote for another candidate, but we'd seriously be looking at a jump ball for this thing. Pray that some of these people start dropping out, namely Kamala and down.

Huh.  I was expecting additional candidates to drop out after the first few state primaries/caucuses, and any delegates that candidates who later drop out happened to have won would either be released or handed off to another candidate.  That's what happened - I think - in the similarly crowded Republican primary ahead of the 2016 election.  I don't see anything structural that would lead to a different outcome.  The few pundit comments I've seen seem to think we'll have a presumptive nominee before the convention.

But it would be interesting to see a brokered convention.  We haven't had one of those since...the 1960s?

The major difference between the Dem and GOP primary though is that the the GOP has a large number of winner-take-all delegates for whoever wins a particular state. That's how Trump ended up with 45% of the GOP vote but about 70% of the delegates.

Dems have a few caucus states that determine delegates in a bit different way, but other than that, all delegates are proportional. So the Bernie/Hillary delegate count matched their vote count much closer. (the pledged delegates anyways.)

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« Reply #1170 on: October 24, 2019, 11:57:59 AM »
Mayor Pete (Candidate Pete?) has just announced 50% of his cabinet and judicial appointments will be women.  It'll be interesting to see whether that has an impact.

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« Reply #1171 on: October 24, 2019, 12:04:57 PM »
Anyway I was thinking that right now since it looks like this is going to a brokered convention, if no one can poll higher that around 30%, then even with let's say 80% of the superdelegates behind one person, they'd only be bumping up around 38%.

I don't know when pledged delegates can break their vote for another candidate, but we'd seriously be looking at a jump ball for this thing. Pray that some of these people start dropping out, namely Kamala and down.

Huh.  I was expecting additional candidates to drop out after the first few state primaries/caucuses, and any delegates that candidates who later drop out happened to have won would either be released or handed off to another candidate.  That's what happened - I think - in the similarly crowded Republican primary ahead of the 2016 election.  I don't see anything structural that would lead to a different outcome.  The few pundit comments I've seen seem to think we'll have a presumptive nominee before the convention.

But it would be interesting to see a brokered convention.  We haven't had one of those since...the 1960s?

The major difference between the Dem and GOP primary though is that the the GOP has a large number of winner-take-all delegates for whoever wins a particular state. That's how Trump ended up with 45% of the GOP vote but about 70% of the delegates.

Dems have a few caucus states that determine delegates in a bit different way, but other than that, all delegates are proportional. So the Bernie/Hillary delegate count matched their vote count much closer. (the pledged delegates anyways.)

Right.  Even with the sorta-proportional rules for the Democratic primary (isn't it true that most states you have to hit the 15% minimum?  I thought that was the case but haven't looked closely), it sure seems that the 1%-2% polling candidates (Tim who?) will drop out as they run out of money.  Later, it sure seems like whomever is in a solid fourth or fifth place might earn some delegates before they will be urged to drop out and throw their support behind another one of the candidates in the name of party unity and beating Trump.  I seem to remember that being the conversation around candidates like Cruz and Sanders in the 2016 primaries.

I'm not sure how many candidates would say, "Nah, I'll take my 20% of delegates and my case to the convention in hopes of being a consensus or everyone's-second-choice candidate rather than fold my hand and accept a Cabinet level position or VP nod by whomever wins this thing."  And I'm not sure if Harris at this point can win enough delegates to keep the leader in a plurality-not-majority situation to make it even a possibility.

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« Reply #1172 on: October 24, 2019, 12:11:43 PM »
Anyway I was thinking that right now since it looks like this is going to a brokered convention, if no one can poll higher that around 30%, then even with let's say 80% of the superdelegates behind one person, they'd only be bumping up around 38%.

I don't know when pledged delegates can break their vote for another candidate, but we'd seriously be looking at a jump ball for this thing. Pray that some of these people start dropping out, namely Kamala and down.

Huh.  I was expecting additional candidates to drop out after the first few state primaries/caucuses, and any delegates that candidates who later drop out happened to have won would either be released or handed off to another candidate.  That's what happened - I think - in the similarly crowded Republican primary ahead of the 2016 election.  I don't see anything structural that would lead to a different outcome.  The few pundit comments I've seen seem to think we'll have a presumptive nominee before the convention.

But it would be interesting to see a brokered convention.  We haven't had one of those since...the 1960s?

The major difference between the Dem and GOP primary though is that the the GOP has a large number of winner-take-all delegates for whoever wins a particular state. That's how Trump ended up with 45% of the GOP vote but about 70% of the delegates.

Dems have a few caucus states that determine delegates in a bit different way, but other than that, all delegates are proportional. So the Bernie/Hillary delegate count matched their vote count much closer. (the pledged delegates anyways.)

Right.  Even with the sorta-proportional rules for the Democratic primary (isn't it true that most states you have to hit the 15% minimum?  I thought that was the case but haven't looked closely), it sure seems that the 1%-2% polling candidates (Tim who?) will drop out as they run out of money.  Later, it sure seems like whomever is in a solid fourth or fifth place might earn some delegates before they will be urged to drop out and throw their support behind another one of the candidates in the name of party unity and beating Trump.  I seem to remember that being the conversation around candidates like Cruz and Sanders in the 2016 primaries.

I'm not sure how many candidates would say, "Nah, I'll take my 20% of delegates and my case to the convention in hopes of being a consensus or everyone's-second-choice candidate rather than fold my hand and accept a Cabinet level position or VP nod by whomever wins this thing."  And I'm not sure if Harris at this point can win enough delegates to keep the leader in a plurality-not-majority situation to make it even a possibility.

There is a 15% rule, but that 15% is true for both state-wide delegates and district-wide delegates. So someone like Kamala may only get 9% state wide, but will likely be over 15% in some districts. This would lock her out of the state-wide delegates, but she wouldn't be left with 0 either. The same is true for Bernie. Even if he gets 15% state-wide, but misses 15% in some districts, he'll get some state-wide delegates but not the district delegates where he came in under 15%.

So there is a general cliff at 15%, but it's not all or nothing. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out come February.

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« Reply #1173 on: October 24, 2019, 12:12:24 PM »
What is with the childish plays on his nickname? It's skirting the homophobic. Gross.

Well uuhh I just think he has a funny name that has no obvious pronunciation. Nothing meant by it. Edited my post to remove it.

I personally forget the man is even homosexual most of the time he comes up in conversation.

Childish nicknames allowed for other candidates though!! \sarcasm

No, that's childish, too. Just not childish and also homophobic.

Ok now you just jumped from "appearance of" to "definitely". Not appropriate to attach that moniker to other people's motives.

I apologize for appearing to attach the motivation of homophobia to the childish nickname you gave to a presidential candidate. 

Honestly, I hadn't considered that Pete was gay when I posted my comment.  I like Buttgieg and hope that he wins the presidency.  I just think that he has a funny name . . . and was picturing Val Kilmer in my head saying "I'm buttman!" so it seemed like solid gold humour at the time.  Like with Anthony Weiner's name (well, it was funny until he started sending pictures of his wiener to everyone - but I digress).

My intent wasn't to be homophobic, but in retrospect I can see how it would come off that way.  Although initially from my perspective you seemed to be tilting at windmills, I see where my mistake lay now, and appreciate you pointing it out for me.  I'll try to think before making butt jokes from now on.  No promises on that front though.  :P

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« Reply #1174 on: October 24, 2019, 12:26:31 PM »
Tulsi Gabbard fans, maybe read this and reconsider:


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-2020-democratic-primary

What is Tulsi up to? What a weird title for an article.

She is up to running in the Democratic primary for president.

A better question is, what is Hillary up to? She's not even in the race and throwing darts at someone she doesn't like.

It seems weird that the Democratic party structure cannot debate a pro-peace, anti-war position with logic and facts instead of accusing someone serving in the miliitary and congress with being a "Russian asset". This McCarthyism must end for the good of our country.

Tulsi's response to Hillary was strong and on-point.

Tulsi and Jill Stein should sue Hillary for slander.

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« Reply #1175 on: October 24, 2019, 12:34:56 PM »
Tulsi Gabbard fans, maybe read this and reconsider:


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-2020-democratic-primary

What is Tulsi up to? What a weird title for an article.

She is up to running in the Democratic primary for president.

A better question is, what is Hillary up to? She's not even in the race and throwing darts at someone she doesn't like.

It seems weird that the Democratic party structure cannot debate a pro-peace, anti-war position with logic and facts instead of accusing someone serving in the miliitary and congress with being a "Russian asset". This McCarthyism must end for the good of our country.

Tulsi's response to Hillary was strong and on-point.

Tulsi and Jill Stein should sue Hillary for slander.

Well, Hillary was right about Trump...

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« Reply #1176 on: October 24, 2019, 12:50:02 PM »
Tulsi Gabbard fans, maybe read this and reconsider:


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-2020-democratic-primary

What is Tulsi up to? What a weird title for an article.

She is up to running in the Democratic primary for president.

A better question is, what is Hillary up to? She's not even in the race and throwing darts at someone she doesn't like.

It seems weird that the Democratic party structure cannot debate a pro-peace, anti-war position with logic and facts instead of accusing someone serving in the miliitary and congress with being a "Russian asset". This McCarthyism must end for the good of our country.

Tulsi's response to Hillary was strong and on-point.

Tulsi and Jill Stein should sue Hillary for slander.

Well, Hillary was right about Trump...

I am not debating Trump and have no interest to.

Hillary made allegations with no basis. She should be sued for slander.

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« Reply #1177 on: October 24, 2019, 01:18:58 PM »
Tulsi Gabbard fans, maybe read this and reconsider:


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-2020-democratic-primary

What is Tulsi up to? What a weird title for an article.

She is up to running in the Democratic primary for president.

A better question is, what is Hillary up to? She's not even in the race and throwing darts at someone she doesn't like.

It seems weird that the Democratic party structure cannot debate a pro-peace, anti-war position with logic and facts instead of accusing someone serving in the miliitary and congress with being a "Russian asset". This McCarthyism must end for the good of our country.

Tulsi's response to Hillary was strong and on-point.

Tulsi and Jill Stein should sue Hillary for slander.

Well, Hillary was right about Trump...

I am not debating Trump and have no interest to.

Hillary made allegations with no basis. She should be sued for slander.

Hillary didn't say Tulsi was a Russian asset.

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« Reply #1178 on: October 24, 2019, 01:19:26 PM »
Castro said he'll drop out if he doesn't raise $800k by the end of the month.

Where's the libel/slander in what Clinton said? She said "asset" right, not "agent"? I'm not saying that you need to agree, but I think reasonable people can believe that Stein was an asset to Trump and all of those who stood to gain from his win, and Gabbard seems to be going out of her way to make as many enemies in the Democratic party as she can, and should she choose to run an independent campaign and/or take shots at the eventual Democratic nominee, you could make a similar case. Or you can disagree, but we all disagree about the worth of many things. Now if she had called them agents (and technically I think Clinton said that Gabbard is being groomed by Republicans, not Russians, certainly anyone can see that conservative media is providing some support)

I'd be curious what would happen if someone like Gore, Kerry, or maybe a ten-year-younger Carter threw their hat(s) into the ring, that'd make for some fun speculation.

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« Reply #1179 on: October 24, 2019, 01:23:00 PM »
Hillary didn't say Tulsi was a Russian asset.

I know the NYT had to issue a correction, but near as I can tell from reported transcripts of the podcast, Clinton called Stein a Russian asset, said that Republicans are grooming Gabbard, and also said that Gabbard is a favorite of the Russians. I'd say that its pretty much the same thing, at least in the context.

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« Reply #1180 on: October 24, 2019, 01:23:31 PM »
Tulsi Gabbard fans, maybe read this and reconsider:


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-2020-democratic-primary

What is Tulsi up to? What a weird title for an article.

She is up to running in the Democratic primary for president.

A better question is, what is Hillary up to? She's not even in the race and throwing darts at someone she doesn't like.

It seems weird that the Democratic party structure cannot debate a pro-peace, anti-war position with logic and facts instead of accusing someone serving in the miliitary and congress with being a "Russian asset". This McCarthyism must end for the good of our country.

Tulsi's response to Hillary was strong and on-point.

Tulsi and Jill Stein should sue Hillary for slander.

Well, Hillary was right about Trump...

I am not debating Trump and have no interest to.

Hillary made allegations with no basis. She should be sued for slander.

Hillary didn't say Tulsi was a Russian asset.

You might be right.

Jill Stein is a Russian asset.

Tulsi is being groomed by the Russians.

Semantics.

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« Reply #1181 on: October 24, 2019, 01:25:03 PM »
Hillary didn't say Tulsi was a Russian asset.

I know the NYT had to issue a correction, but near as I can tell from reported transcripts of the podcast, Clinton called Stein a Russian asset, said that Republicans are grooming Gabbard, and also said that Gabbard is a favorite of the Russians. I'd say that its pretty much the same thing, at least in the context.

I heard the actual audio of Hillary's commentary. Didn't you? She said Tulsi was being groomed by Russians.

The NYT secretly edited their original article and said "groomed by Republicans", but Hillary's exact words were "groomed by Russians".

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« Reply #1182 on: October 24, 2019, 01:31:38 PM »
So what IS Hillary up to?

If she enters the race it would be an affront to anyone else that is in the race and gone through the motions and all of the debates. If she does enter, she better do it before the next debate, or else she will be accused of running without wanting to debate anyone else. If I were any of the other candidates, I would be pissed.

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« Reply #1183 on: October 24, 2019, 01:49:24 PM »
I would be very surprised if Clinton enters the race.

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« Reply #1184 on: October 24, 2019, 02:03:53 PM »
I would be very surprised if Clinton enters the race.

At this point, she doesn't have a chance.

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« Reply #1185 on: October 24, 2019, 02:09:01 PM »
Tulsi Gabbard fans, maybe read this and reconsider:


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-2020-democratic-primary

What is Tulsi up to? What a weird title for an article.

She is up to running in the Democratic primary for president.

A better question is, what is Hillary up to? She's not even in the race and throwing darts at someone she doesn't like.

It seems weird that the Democratic party structure cannot debate a pro-peace, anti-war position with logic and facts instead of accusing someone serving in the miliitary and congress with being a "Russian asset". This McCarthyism must end for the good of our country.

Tulsi's response to Hillary was strong and on-point.

Tulsi and Jill Stein should sue Hillary for slander.

Well, Hillary was right about Trump...

I am not debating Trump and have no interest to.

Hillary made allegations with no basis. She should be sued for slander.

Hillary didn't say Tulsi was a Russian asset.

You might be right.

Jill Stein is a Russian asset.

Tulsi is being groomed by the Russians.

Semantics.

No. She said Tulsi is being groomed by the Republicans.

She said Tulsi is a favorite of the Russians.

I think that's a fairly important difference.

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« Reply #1186 on: October 24, 2019, 02:11:43 PM »
There's no point in debating someone who hasn't actually heard the audio.

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« Reply #1187 on: October 24, 2019, 02:23:18 PM »
I don't care a thing about Tulsi.  I only care about whether it is Warren or Biden and then whether the winner can beat Caligula in the general election.

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« Reply #1188 on: October 24, 2019, 04:10:02 PM »
There's no point in debating someone who hasn't actually heard the audio.

Perhaps not.

I have, however.

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« Reply #1189 on: October 24, 2019, 04:21:08 PM »
There's no point in debating someone who hasn't actually heard the audio.

Perhaps not.

I have, however.

I guess we heard two different things then. Fair enough.

If Hillary does enter the race the Dems will lose a lot of Independents like myself who would never vote for her. I hope the current candidates stay in the race and the person that ends up winning has a decent foreign policy.

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« Reply #1190 on: October 24, 2019, 04:49:50 PM »
Hillary won’t enter the race. I can’t see wasting even a moment’s worth of energy on that thought. And hell, even if she did, no way would she be nominated. It’s too late for her.

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« Reply #1191 on: October 24, 2019, 08:12:31 PM »
I think Trudeau's actions were overtly racist.  I think the argument that he didn't know doing this was racist is bullshit.

Honestly, I hadn't considered that Pete was gay when I posted my comment.  I like Buttgieg and hope that he wins the presidency.  I just think that he has a funny name . . . and was picturing Val Kilmer in my head saying "I'm buttman!" so it seemed like solid gold humour at the time.  Like with Anthony Weiner's name (well, it was funny until he started sending pictures of his wiener to everyone - but I digress).

My intent wasn't to be homophobic, but in retrospect I can see how it would come off that way.  Although initially from my perspective you seemed to be tilting at windmills, I see where my mistake lay now, and appreciate you pointing it out for me.  I'll try to think before making butt jokes from now on.  No promises on that front though.  :P

Quote from: JustinTrudeau
I take responsibility for my decision to do that... it was something that I didn’t think was racist at the time but now I recognise it was something racist to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDX7yVmQam8

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« Reply #1192 on: October 24, 2019, 08:20:50 PM »
Given the long history of homophobic people practicing buttface, I can totally see your point.

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« Reply #1193 on: October 24, 2019, 08:23:11 PM »
Given the long history of homophobic people practicing buttface, I can totally see your point.
Given the long history of homophobes making butt jokes directed at gay men, I see yours.

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« Reply #1194 on: October 24, 2019, 08:28:09 PM »
What exactly do you want from me?

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« Reply #1195 on: October 24, 2019, 08:55:41 PM »
What exactly do you want from me?
Obliquely, I'm supporting you (as I did Trudeau) because of course it's silly to read the worst possible intentions into every statement. I don't want to live in a world where people are reduced to the dumbest thing they ever posted on social media.

And sorry--I'm using you a little as an example to make a broader point about how it is impossible calculate every possible interpretation that might be read into a statement or gesture; e.g. Karl Popper's "It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood". Anyone at any time can fail to foresee how something can be insulting in a certain context. If we really cared about each other's feelings, we would never say anything!

Finally, this topic is probably a fetish of mine since I'm nearly a free-speech absolutist and also believe that the line is being moved in the wrong direction with respect to social acceptance of certain forms of "risky" speech (e.g. various strains of satire and artistic expression). Let's spend our time worrying about actual racism or actual homophobia, and not on cosplay or little jokes made on a message board.

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« Reply #1196 on: October 24, 2019, 09:21:29 PM »
What exactly do you want from me?
Obliquely, I'm supporting you (as I did Trudeau) because of course it's silly to read the worst possible intentions into every statement. I don't want to live in a world where people are reduced to the dumbest thing they ever posted on social media.

And sorry--I'm using you a little as an example to make a broader point about how it is impossible calculate every possible interpretation that might be read into a statement or gesture; e.g. Karl Popper's "It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood". Anyone at any time can fail to foresee how something can be insulting in a certain context. If we really cared about each other's feelings, we would never say anything!

Finally, this topic is probably a fetish of mine since I'm nearly a free-speech absolutist and also believe that the line is being moved in the wrong direction with respect to social acceptance of certain forms of "risky" speech (e.g. various strains of satire and artistic expression). Let's spend our time worrying about actual racism or actual homophobia, and not on cosplay or little jokes made on a message board.

I just wanna push back a little on this... “actual” racism and homophobia has to include murder?

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« Reply #1197 on: October 24, 2019, 09:28:46 PM »
I think there are two points, one worthwhile, one a bit less so from my POV:

1. Not wanting to live in a world where people's (former) worst actions define their (hopefully more mature) present. If someone did the wrong thing but learned and out grew it I'd like society to value who they became rather than who they were. Not always possible, often hard to gauge but I'd agree that believing in the capacity for growth is the more valuable mindset.

2. There's pushback against media figures for making jokes, etc, that are tasteless / anti-X group, and that's bad. I find this point very hard to agree with. Largely those who are complaining are people who've had few (no?) restrictions on their speech, or made a career out of sitting on the line between insightful and mean. Society's standards change and now they are up in arms. Well, boo hoo hoo, hard to care. Bill burr/Dave Chappelle are great recent examples of people who should be intelligent enough to make insightful and entertaining quips about society (as they've done before) but instead have shown that they aren't currently able to move with the times, perhaps controversy is the last avenue to relevance.... Though I hope not.

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« Reply #1198 on: October 25, 2019, 05:05:26 AM »
It was interesting to see that Trump was recently excoriated for calling his impeachment proceedings a lynching and that Biden was then excoriated in retrospect for his use of the same term in the 1990s in relation to Clinton's impeachment, something which seems to have passed without much or any comment at the time.

Personally I think it's an improvement in the public discourse that "lynched" is now unacceptable as a metaphor, just as it is now much less acceptable to use "raped" as a metaphor.  The people who tend to still think those usages are acceptable tend to be the people less likely to be on the receiving end of lynching or raping, ie white men.

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