Look, guys, this is a serious event. The political future of the country, and thus the world, are at stake. The Democratic Party has poured a ton of money into this race. The question at hand is whether the influence if money (most of it from out of the district) can override the will of the people. It sickens me to see money wasted this way. Just like it sickens me to see people waste money spending too much on socks. You can get quality discount socks at socksoff.com
Real testimony from customer Byesome Soccsoff
"My vote is for cheap socks from socksoff. They are the clear winner"
So if you want quality designer socks that represent you go to socksoff. Socksoff.com
Literally my favorite time to read reddit is when democrats lose elections.
The melt is glorious.
These people get so invested in politics, something that has such a small effect on daily life, that they become physically ill when their object of worship candidate loses. It's phenomenal.
not at all. for instance last election democratic superpacs outspent republicans by almost double. the bigger difference was in how much the dnc itself spent. same with this. democrats have way more friends in high places as a result of the fact that cronyism works best when the government is large and powerful, not weak. It is one problem with centralization, people can and will manipulate it
Stupid people making stupid points and thinking that they're genius is pretty common here.
I'd like to think that they were all middle-schoolers, but it's clear that some of them are in college or well beyond it. And yet stupid people keep saying obviously stupid shit while thinking they're giving the sermon on the mount.
First of all, he told me he knew he was bi because he was crushing on both boys and girls in school. What, you never had crushes at 10 years old? Orientation has more to do than who you want to have sex with. I mean, I'm assuming you knew you liked the opposite gender at 10 despite the fact that you were presumable not sexually active, so I don't really understand the double standard. The fact that everyone's first thought of a 10 year old saying he's bi means that he's sexually active or something is disturbing. Even if it's just a phase, that's besides the point.
Bless their heart. /r/politics just can't stop winning. Every single time they loose. "This next special election is the referendum!" or "This is a moral victory! Republicans should be worried." Meanwhile they loose the next one too!
Why? They've been winning this whole time, while all you people have is smug assholism. You may as well wallow in it. You're not going to experience the thrill of victory any time soon.
The weirder thing is that the dude that made this is black. He has been making a ton of these and has become a bit of an internet enigma for the past 5 years or so.
WOW this is bullshit I smoked three whole bowls of the mary jane, leveled up 5 times in skyrim and shilled Jon all over the front page of Reddit and he DIDN'T FUCKING WIN? How is this 'fair'? Who made these rules?
social media is just meant to distract people from actually doing anything that matters anyway. Somewhere along the way idiots became convinced that upvotes and likes translated into realworld changes and sites like these have run with it.
You'd think that people would have learned the lesson the first couple of times but stupidity knows no bounds. And then, to top it off, you get news articles saying shit like facebook and reddit were responsible for Trump, which, indirectly is true because it distracted a tons of dopes from doing anything in the real world.
Too much srs posting. But really, social media was a mistake. This is what happens retards talk to other retards without an adult present. At least the drama is fun.
facebook and reddit were responsible for Trump, which, indirectly is partly true because it distracted tons of dopes from doing anything in the real world.
Lol did they miss the part where Bernie didn't win?
She's not retaining her seat, she's getting it for the first time. Before Trump was inaugurated the incumbent was Tom Price. But now he's the secretary for Health and Human Services, so he can't be a representative anymore. That's why they had a special election.
People in the media were casting it as a referendum for Trump's rule. Kinda silly because it's only one part of Georgia and the Republican candidate was not in fact Donald Trump.
I'm a dumb Texan. How is this in any way, shape, or form can be considered as a referendum on Trump?
Because the Democrats built it up as a "referendum" against Trump and then proceeded to throw a ton of money at the election.
Ossoff winning was supposed to be the turning point because in the minds of the DNC people should be sick of Trump's agenda by now. His win was supposed to signal to the RNC that they are going to lose big in mid-term elections next year.
My eyes are literally bloodshot red from crying for the last hour, and I just threw up from the stress. I can't believe we lost again. The president sexually assaults people, the Republican in Montana bodyslams people, and this bitch in Georgia refuses to let women with breast cancer get treatment. And the worst part is people still vote for them!
It's happening. We are in 1930s Nazi Germany. We must resist.
I am a socialist who is literally willing to die to implement socialism. I literally dream of the day that I will die of a bullet to the chest fighting fascism in the streets.
I have no other desire in the world other than to see the end of capitalism. I don't desire love, I don't care for material objects, I don't care for social status. My only desire is to fight and die for the cause.
At this point, I consider myself to be nothing more than an instrument of the socialist revolution. Nothing else matters to me. Death doesn't scare me. Prison doesn't scare me. Nothing scares me.
My life for socialism. My life for the revolution.
(Yeah, that was kind of dramatic, but I meant every word of it.)
I am a sock fetishist who is literally willing to die to implement sockism. I literally dream of the day that I will but discount socks in designer styles and at low prices.
I have no other desire in the world other than to see the end of paying too much for socks. I don't desire birkenstocks, I don't care for flip-flops, I don't care for ugg boots. My only desire is to be able to wear unique socks.
At this point, I consider myself to be nothing more than an instrument of the sockist revolution. Nothing else matters to me. Athletes foot doesn't scare me. Mismatched socks don't scare me. Nothing scares me. My life for sockism. My life for the discounts. Socksoff.com
(Yeah, that was kind of dramatic, but I meant every word of it.)
I am a socialist who is literally willing to die to implement socialism. I literally dream of the day that I will die of a bullet to the chest fighting fascism in the streets.
I have no other desire in the world other than to see the end of capitalism. I don't desire love, I don't care for material objects, I don't care for social status. My only desire is to fight and die for the cause.
At this point, I consider myself to be nothing more than an instrument of the socialist revolution. Nothing else matters to me. Death doesn't scare me. Prison doesn't scare me. Nothing scares me.
My life for socialism. My life for the revolution.
(Yeah, that was kind of dramatic, but I meant every word of it.)
Is this copy pasta or did a script break? Literally saw this posted about 50 times in the last 10 minutes or so, with a bunch of these getting removed.
It stings, okay? Doesn't help that T_D is teabagging everyone.
Edit: I see the liberal subs are getting restless...a few more months of this, and we'll have a full scale rebellion. T_D is probably trying to provoke one. I don't know if it's wise on their part, though.
1) The DNC poured money into this district. Likely the most expensive congressional race in history.
2) In their minds, liberals built this race up to be some sort of referendum on Trump. It was supposed to be the turning point in the resistance and they believed that if if they won here it would foreshadow big Dem wins in the mid-term elections.
What make this even funnier is that Bernie-esque politicians are winning seats, and raising even less money while doing so. Neoliberalism is dead, but the Dems don't wanna see that.
Nah not Quist, I'm talking about people like Christine Pellegrino and Edie DesMarais (who managed to take a seat that's been held by a Republican I think since it's been a thing).
What make this even funnier is that Bernie-esque politicians are winning seats, and raising even less money while doing so.
Huh? That's no accurate at all. Liberals of all sorts have been losing elections steadily since 2010.
Neoliberalism is dead, but the Dems don't wanna see that.
FTFY.
It's not neoliberalism that is dying, it's all liberalism and the Democratic party is the one delivering the death blows.
They have gone from being the party of the working man to being the party of the intellectual elite and from pushing a somewhat common-sense based, left of center agenda to pushing far left dogma.
Hillary style liberals, while horrid in their own right, aren't the downfall of the democratic party. It's the 20 and 30-something, social progressives pushing their far left agenda. It drives moderate democrats away and they have little choice but to vote either 3rd party or Republican.
Hillary style liberals, while horrid in their own right, aren't the downfall of the democratic party. It's the 20 and 30-something, social progressives pushing their far left agenda. It drives moderate democrats away and they have little choice but to vote either 3rd party or Republican.
What? Did you pay attention at all to the GE? I just.... What?
Also I'm talking about this year specifically, not every election up til now. "Berniecrats" didn't even exist until last year.
And it's those "far left social progressives" who are trying to get the party back to supporting the working people.
Really? Because the last time I checked the blue collar working man didn't care about gay rights, trans rights, refugee rights, "free" college, "free" healthcare, and government entitlements. They cared about being able to live and provide for their families off of a 40 hour per week job.
The progressive movement started by the working class has little resemblance to today's progressivism. Bernie may be trying to return it to it's roots, but it's like reviving a corpse. Today's social progressivism is largely limited to the college educated middle class, and is really just a small band of that group.
you do realize georgia has one of the country's ten largest cities right? a city that headquartered the clinton news network, coca cola, and home depot? and that this race is in that city, a city full of hispanics and african americans, and a city with a gay councilor right? Did you also know that Georgia didn't go fully red until 1994
Probably not. There is no red district the democrats have any chance of winning with any candidate, because their actions over the last 6 months have made it impossible for Republicans to vote for them.
Would you vote for people who constantly call you evil, sexist, racist, inbred, subhuman and all the rest? Not if you have a brain in your head.
That guy wasn't the center. He was the fake-center. Neoliberals are not centrists. They claim to be centrists, but they don't occupy the center. They just do whatever corporations tell them to while also supporting feminism. That's it. that is the entirety of neoliberal politics: do what campaign donors tell you and shill feminism constantly to 'prove' what a good liberal you are.
I think a script or bot broke or something unless a bunch of people decided to just copy/paste the same comment about puking on a mattress or crying and whatnot. Like I'm not even that invested politically, but there was some weird shit getting posted and mysteriously deleted soon after.
Once this happened I knew /u/Prince_Kropotkin would be rampaging through neoliberal Tokyo. Right now there are thousands of fleeing neojapanese running from the big red menace.
It makes me sick that we are now completely controlled by Republican thugs and have Trump as President. I was at my mom's for the holidays and literally broke down crying there thinking the world my daughter will grow up in. I was screaming and lashing out at family dinner, since most of my relatives voted for such a racist, sexist, and Islamophobic piece of shit. My aunt had to give me a valium to calm down. I still wake up crying every night knowing that America, the country that once embraced progress and voted for the First Black President and had a chance to break the glass ceiling and have the First Woman President, actually voted in the embodiment of Hitler. A man who literally wants to throw gays and Muslims in camps.
FUCK. I need to go calm down. I can't believe uneducated white people did this to us.
You get that with all of thise 'drugs and sex are evil!!!!' shit the alt-right has started in with lately, you're pretty much blowing every single inroad you've made with younger people, right? Trying to refight the drug war is suicidal at this point. It won't be ten years before even states like Texas legalize at least partially.
The drug war is over. Conservatives lost, and they deserved to. It was never about making the world better or safer. It was about throwing your political enemies in jail, because that was explicitly the reason for it that Nixon stated in his tapes, and he's the one who started the drug war.
It was evil and wrong. You do not arrest people because they vote against you.
You do realize that I'm talking about them saying that they had to take a (((Valium))) just to control their rage? I don't care about recreational drugs, I think theere's a problem with the saturation of prescription drugs with younger people these days
Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of organic gluten free tofu nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of tofu nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to do. I didn’t mean to do that to my mom but I’m literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I’m going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can’t be happening. I’m having a fucking breakdown. I don’t want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Ossoff to be representative for Georgia's 6th Congressional District and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in California???? This is so fucked.
Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck did he lose? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe Georgia hates the global poor. I want evidence-based policy. I want Ossoff to be state representative and maintain neoliberal hegemony. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought America was already great???? This is so fucked.
I think that what's making this more traumatic for the kids here is that they really genuinely believe that their opinions are the only possible valid ones and that the politics they are so invested in is morally righteous. They have some half memory of Bush junior (very bad man!) and 8 years of being on the Obama bandwagon (very good man!) and now there are some hints being given regularly that the world might be a bit more complicated and diverse in beliefs than they were taught to believe.
I deal with it everyday. 50+ year old liberals and their "righteous" crusade who think that there must be something wrong with you if you support any of Trump's policies.
This week they are having a "die in" to protest healthcare reform in my little town of 800 people. 50 and 60 year olds lying in the grass, pretending to be dead because their candidate lost in November.
This week they are having a "die in" to protest healthcare reform in my little town of 800 people. 50 and 60 year olds lying in the grass, pretending to be dead because their candidate lost in November.
They may pick up a few seats, but have no chance to take either the house or the senate.
Having a strategy that's basically 'call everyone else evil' isn't going to go far in most districts. There are a lot of open Republican seats, but not many of them will go to Democrats because of the way the Democrats responded to the 2016 election.
It's like a Tea-partier thinking he could take an Obama district in 2010. It's just not going to happen. None of those people are even going to hear you out. You've shat the bed with them.
The real entertaining story of this election is when people bring up the swing from 2016 votes. The previous Democratic candidate got 38.3%, so this is a big increase. Of course, the previous Democratic candidate did not fucking exist.
I award /r/politics the gold in the mental gymnastics category of the 2017 GA-06 election. This is awarded thanks to your leaps and bounds in logic made in order to construe the results as a victory for the Democrats somehow.
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n/a Hitlery_Clinton 2017-06-21
Bernie can still win this
n/a SperglockHolmes 2017-06-21
I just donated my bussy, match me!
n/a Matues49 2017-06-21
Way too much of a damaged good, even for a donation.
n/a easementbyforce 2017-06-21
You'll phonebank, then?
n/a LSU_Coonass 2017-06-21
they will need a phonebank so big that Bernie will want to break it up
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-06-21
It was a long shot but at least there's still socksoff.com
n/a TipTupKek 2017-06-21
how the FUCK did you miss the opportunity for socksossoff.com
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-06-21
Soxsoff.com
n/a bareballzthebitch 2017-06-21
Look, guys, this is a serious event. The political future of the country, and thus the world, are at stake. The Democratic Party has poured a ton of money into this race. The question at hand is whether the influence if money (most of it from out of the district) can override the will of the people. It sickens me to see money wasted this way. Just like it sickens me to see people waste money spending too much on socks. You can get quality discount socks at socksoff.com
Real testimony from customer Byesome Soccsoff
"My vote is for cheap socks from socksoff. They are the clear winner"
So if you want quality designer socks that represent you go to socksoff. Socksoff.com
n/a LSU_Coonass 2017-06-21
Literally my favorite time to read reddit is when democrats lose elections.
The melt is glorious.
These people get so invested in politics, something that has such a small effect on daily life, that they become physically ill when their
object of worshipcandidate loses. It's phenomenal.n/a RestoreFear 2017-06-21
I thought the total for both added up to $50 million?
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
the total includes outside superpacs
n/a Che_Gueporna 2017-06-21
So the Republicans didn't have to spend money cause the Koch brothers did it for them?
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
not at all. for instance last election democratic superpacs outspent republicans by almost double. the bigger difference was in how much the dnc itself spent. same with this. democrats have way more friends in high places as a result of the fact that cronyism works best when the government is large and powerful, not weak. It is one problem with centralization, people can and will manipulate it
n/a DistortedLines 2017-06-21
That's a great song by the way
n/a LSU_Coonass 2017-06-21
oh a classic, I remember downloading it off napster and burning it to a cd with garth brooks and jo dee messina when I was 7.
n/a wwyzzerdd 2017-06-21
I saw Charlie Daniels in concert back in early 90s. Lots of stomp'n and whomp'n and hoot'n and hollar'n at that show.
n/a Thhueros 2017-06-21
Ah yes, I remember reading about how much the Nazis loved reducing the size of the government.
n/a glmox 2017-06-21
yeah life under reagan or khrushchev was pretty much indistinguishable
n/a CirqueDuFuder 2017-06-21
Yes and elections in the USSR had dramatic differences in outcome too right? You are talking about completely different countries and governments.
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
Stupid people making stupid points and thinking that they're genius is pretty common here.
I'd like to think that they were all middle-schoolers, but it's clear that some of them are in college or well beyond it. And yet stupid people keep saying obviously stupid shit while thinking they're giving the sermon on the mount.
n/a glmox 2017-06-21
indeed! so i guess you agree with me that differences in political structures effect daily life, then?
n/a CirqueDuFuder 2017-06-21
No. I am stating that any election does not change daily life like your comparison.1
n/a glmox 2017-06-21
oh no, it's retarded
n/a CirqueDuFuder 2017-06-21
Which election had people choose between Reagan or the latest head of the Soviet Communist Party?
n/a headasplodes 2017-06-21
Damn you're fucking dumb nigga
n/a glmox 2017-06-21
Not an argument
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
I gotta wonder what is going on in /u/giant_asian_slackoff's home that their 11 year old son has come out as bisexual.
n/a nanonan 2017-06-21
Just think of how many times he must have gotten really pissed in the last month from all the rolling back of LGBT provisions that has taken place.
n/a Cloacalla_Festival 2017-06-21
Mom, Dad, dad -
I like Yugioh and possibly also sucking some dick. Can I have some Gogurts in my lunchbox every day from now on?
n/a EarnestNoMeta 2017-06-21
Not 11 yet. A ten year old.
n/a Giant_Asian_Slackoff 2017-06-21
I think I should defend myself.
First of all, he told me he knew he was bi because he was crushing on both boys and girls in school. What, you never had crushes at 10 years old? Orientation has more to do than who you want to have sex with. I mean, I'm assuming you knew you liked the opposite gender at 10 despite the fact that you were presumable not sexually active, so I don't really understand the double standard. The fact that everyone's first thought of a 10 year old saying he's bi means that he's sexually active or something is disturbing. Even if it's just a phase, that's besides the point.
Also, really? The whole "all adoptive parents are predators" trope? Come on, you can do better than that. If you're going to make baseless assumptions about me, it might be helpful if you knew the backstory. I didn't just randomly adopt him.
TL;DR You're an absolute idiot. Downvote away!
n/a Thhueros 2017-06-21
Can we hook that boi up with /u/chaosakita?
Shes lonely and your son sounds like the perfect match for her.
n/a EarnestNoMeta 2017-06-21
http://reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/6iirb3/reddits_latest_darling_basic_plastic_mayo_jon/dj7qxfd
Ayyy
n/a missmurrr 2017-06-21
ben shapiro with the bantz.
n/a TheWhiteUsher 2017-06-21
Ben Shapiro will never successfully banter because he is literally a five foot four virgin
n/a wowbagger88 2017-06-21
These homos can't even come up with their own criticisms and insults. Dems have no identity.
n/a Fingfangfoo 2017-06-21
Bless their heart. /r/politics just can't stop winning. Every single time they loose. "This next special election is the referendum!" or "This is a moral victory! Republicans should be worried." Meanwhile they loose the next one too!
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
*lose
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
Come on man, he is a T_D poster.
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
Hispanic populations?
n/a TNBK 2017-06-21
I would have let it go, but the man did it twice. Not a good look
n/a holy_black_on_a_popo 2017-06-21
How do you know?
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
Why? They've been winning this whole time, while all you people have is smug assholism. You may as well wallow in it. You're not going to experience the thrill of victory any time soon.
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
Because I can spell and I don't treat politics like it's a sport.
n/a EarnestNoMeta 2017-06-21
Haha you don't? Brb checking post history...
n/a SovietWarfare 2017-06-21
We already have the house, senate, and presidency though.
n/a Straightest_Guy_Ever 2017-06-21
Congratulations!
That is not going to have any positive effect on your life though.
n/a SovietWarfare 2017-06-21
What are you talking about? A repeal of Obamacare would be a real net good.
n/a RestoreFear 2017-06-21
A Democrat loses in deep red Georgia? I for one am shocked.
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
deep red atlanta is the home of cnn
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
https://imgur.com/8UPaPS6
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-06-21
Now there's a protest vote well cast if I ever saw one.
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
what the hell?
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
The weirder thing is that the dude that made this is black. He has been making a ton of these and has become a bit of an internet enigma for the past 5 years or so.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/racist-slurs-on-tampa-truck-shock-confuse-and-mislead-onlookers/2315250
n/a nanonan 2017-06-21
Well you're not alone.
n/a EarnestNoMeta 2017-06-21
Lmfao have you ever even HEARD of Atlanta?
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
wooo
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
the question is will this thread turn into gloating, sobbing, or actually looking for drama?
n/a Time_to_Drink 2017-06-21
Yes
n/a BizarrelyRussophilic 2017-06-21
WOW this is bullshit I smoked three whole bowls of the mary jane, leveled up 5 times in skyrim and shilled Jon all over the front page of Reddit and he DIDN'T FUCKING WIN? How is this 'fair'? Who made these rules?
n/a eskachig 2017-06-21
Three whole marijuanas? You fucking madman.
n/a Clark_Savage_Jr 2017-06-21
Whoa whoa whoa, be a little more low key. Cops could be watching this thread.
n/a WhiteZhengChengGong 2017-06-21
Yo I'm the cops man. Get it on the flo'.
n/a Clark_Savage_Jr 2017-06-21
I'm a Sovereign Citizen. You have no power over me.
#HideInShadows #GoldFringeOnFlag
n/a WhiteZhengChengGong 2017-06-21
"he's got a gun!!!"
blat blat blat
"he dead"
n/a HINDBRAIN 2017-06-21
I sent him positives vibes and signal boosted him and NOTHING
n/a autistitron 2017-06-21
I don't get it, I clapped and re-tweeted rants about white people and STILL THIS HAPPENED
n/a happyorangejuce 2017-06-21
I really don't see the Democrats starting to win any time in the near future.
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
They don't stand a chance in districts that are have high inbred demographics.
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
Guys leave me alone, I have nothing against the inbred, some of my best friends are inbred.
n/a ownersinc 2017-06-21
As well as your family, yeah?
n/a raps_caucasionally 2017-06-21
Total burn bro 😎
n/a CirqueDuFuder 2017-06-21
Versus districts with no fathers?
n/a Muhammad_raped_Aisha 2017-06-21
There are lots of Muslims in Georgia?
n/a EarnestNoMeta 2017-06-21
Atlanta is inbred now? Lmao cracker, mayocide now.
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
Well sure, the northern subs are where the successful pure bloodlines live.
n/a neutralvoter 2017-06-21
social media is just meant to distract people from actually doing anything that matters anyway. Somewhere along the way idiots became convinced that upvotes and likes translated into realworld changes and sites like these have run with it.
You'd think that people would have learned the lesson the first couple of times but stupidity knows no bounds. And then, to top it off, you get news articles saying shit like facebook and reddit were responsible for Trump, which, indirectly is true because it distracted a tons of dopes from doing anything in the real world.
n/a GeriatricColonoscopy 2017-06-21
Too much srs posting. But really, social media was a mistake. This is what happens retards talk to other retards without an adult present. At least the drama is fun.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-06-21
Lol did they miss the part where Bernie didn't win?
n/a captainpriapism 2017-06-21
im hearing a lot less about how this is a referendum on trump now funnily enough
n/a Pepperglue 2017-06-21
I'm a dumb Texan. How is this in any way, shape, or form can be considered as a referendum on Trump?
I mean, yeah, the Republikkans (heh) may have even more sway in the Congress, but a womyn gets to retain her seat. How is that not progress?
n/a SlavophilesAnonymous 2017-06-21
She's not retaining her seat, she's getting it for the first time. Before Trump was inaugurated the incumbent was Tom Price. But now he's the secretary for Health and Human Services, so he can't be a representative anymore. That's why they had a special election.
n/a Pepperglue 2017-06-21
Oh I see. Then all the more reason for that womyn to win.
So is this supposed to be a test of water for local's approval of Trump administration? Still seems a bit overblown.
n/a SlavophilesAnonymous 2017-06-21
People in the media were casting it as a referendum for Trump's rule. Kinda silly because it's only one part of Georgia and the Republican candidate was not in fact Donald Trump.
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
Because the Democrats built it up as a "referendum" against Trump and then proceeded to throw a ton of money at the election.
Ossoff winning was supposed to be the turning point because in the minds of the DNC people should be sick of Trump's agenda by now. His win was supposed to signal to the RNC that they are going to lose big in mid-term elections next year.
Obviously the DNC was wrong...
n/a Pepperglue 2017-06-21
Ah. So it's DNC's delusion that made this such a big deal.
n/a captainpriapism 2017-06-21
they thought his win would represent a swing away from trump and boasted about that shit constantly before it happened, which is always smart
n/a Pepperglue 2017-06-21
That is just weak, and sad.
n/a ____________13 2017-06-21
'referendum on Trump' generates more Dem donations
n/a FTFallen 2017-06-21
My eyes are literally bloodshot red from crying for the last hour, and I just threw up from the stress. I can't believe we lost again. The president sexually assaults people, the Republican in Montana bodyslams people, and this bitch in Georgia refuses to let women with breast cancer get treatment. And the worst part is people still vote for them!
It's happening. We are in 1930s Nazi Germany. We must resist.
n/a Thhueros 2017-06-21
I am a socialist who is literally willing to die to implement socialism. I literally dream of the day that I will die of a bullet to the chest fighting fascism in the streets.
I have no other desire in the world other than to see the end of capitalism. I don't desire love, I don't care for material objects, I don't care for social status. My only desire is to fight and die for the cause.
At this point, I consider myself to be nothing more than an instrument of the socialist revolution. Nothing else matters to me. Death doesn't scare me. Prison doesn't scare me. Nothing scares me.
My life for socialism. My life for the revolution.
(Yeah, that was kind of dramatic, but I meant every word of it.)
n/a bareballzthebitch 2017-06-21
I am a sock fetishist who is literally willing to die to implement sockism. I literally dream of the day that I will but discount socks in designer styles and at low prices. I have no other desire in the world other than to see the end of paying too much for socks. I don't desire birkenstocks, I don't care for flip-flops, I don't care for ugg boots. My only desire is to be able to wear unique socks. At this point, I consider myself to be nothing more than an instrument of the sockist revolution. Nothing else matters to me. Athletes foot doesn't scare me. Mismatched socks don't scare me. Nothing scares me. My life for sockism. My life for the discounts. Socksoff.com
(Yeah, that was kind of dramatic, but I meant every word of it.)
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-06-21
My life for Aiur.
n/a Ultrashitpost 2017-06-21
My life for hire*
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
hey man, you might think my kind as brutal monsters, but I'm glad you don't have violent fantasies. makes you halfway interesting to talk to
n/a Clark_Savage_Jr 2017-06-21
I know this is pasta, but isn't it especially sad that they dream about dying for a cause instead of dreaming about achieving their aims?
Being willing to die for a cause and desiring to die for a cause are way different things.
n/a jubbergun 2017-06-21
That's because dying is easy. Living is hard, and working toward something even harder.
n/a YHofSuburbia 2017-06-21
Nice, I liked Hamilton too :)
n/a nanonan 2017-06-21
Imagine what a charismatic leader could do. No wonder they fear Trump so much.
n/a SovietWarfare 2017-06-21
Willing to die to implement it so he can die under it.
n/a Clark_Savage_Jr 2017-06-21
Probably better to catch a bullet than go to a gulag or starve to death.
n/a Thhueros 2017-06-21
I am a socialist who is literally willing to die to implement socialism. I literally dream of the day that I will die of a bullet to the chest fighting fascism in the streets.
I have no other desire in the world other than to see the end of capitalism. I don't desire love, I don't care for material objects, I don't care for social status. My only desire is to fight and die for the cause.
At this point, I consider myself to be nothing more than an instrument of the socialist revolution. Nothing else matters to me. Death doesn't scare me. Prison doesn't scare me. Nothing scares me.
My life for socialism. My life for the revolution.
(Yeah, that was kind of dramatic, but I meant every word of it.)
n/a Widdafresh 2017-06-21
Is this copy pasta or did a script break? Literally saw this posted about 50 times in the last 10 minutes or so, with a bunch of these getting removed.
n/a FTFallen 2017-06-21
Fresh salty pasta
n/a OctoroiGuldan 2017-06-21
Democrat losing in Georgia? What a shocker.
n/a johnnyfog 2017-06-21
It stings, okay? Doesn't help that T_D is teabagging everyone.
Edit: I see the liberal subs are getting restless...a few more months of this, and we'll have a full scale rebellion. T_D is probably trying to provoke one. I don't know if it's wise on their part, though.
n/a raps_caucasionally 2017-06-21
Is this real? Or is this pasta?
n/a IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-06-21
FRESH PASTA
n/a skeetsurfing1984 2017-06-21
Nothing says "Democrat" like failing to accept the results of a democratic election!
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
This would be a valid point if you guys hadn't treated them like shit for years. So yeah, people you hate hate you back. What a fucking shocker.
n/a nanonan 2017-06-21
This time try wearing two vagina hats, that might work.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-06-21
How is this even news worthy? I'd anything, a Dem getting up to 47.5% of the vote in Georgia is the only shocker here.
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
A couple of reasons...
1) The DNC poured money into this district. Likely the most expensive congressional race in history.
2) In their minds, liberals built this race up to be some sort of referendum on Trump. It was supposed to be the turning point in the resistance and they believed that if if they won here it would foreshadow big Dem wins in the mid-term elections.
n/a GetouttheGrill 2017-06-21
The GOP spent a ton too. DNC just spent more (and much more of their spending was individual donations.)
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
GOP spent $9 Million, I think. So a lot but less than half of the money the DNC wasted on the race.
n/a Nuubcakez 2017-06-21
A lot of money used in the race for Handel came from Super PACs, so it looks like she spent less on her campaign.
Dems still spent 8m more than the GOP though.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/20/us/politics/georgia-6th-most-expensive-house-election.html
n/a Fjordbaanger 2017-06-21
What make this even funnier is that Bernie-esque politicians are winning seats, and raising even less money while doing so. Neoliberalism is dead, but the Dems don't wanna see that.
n/a coco-o 2017-06-21
Literally who? You realize that 'berniecrat' Rob Quist lost to the guy who beats up reporters?
n/a Fjordbaanger 2017-06-21
Nah not Quist, I'm talking about people like Christine Pellegrino and Edie DesMarais (who managed to take a seat that's been held by a Republican I think since it's been a thing).
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
Huh? That's no accurate at all. Liberals of all sorts have been losing elections steadily since 2010.
FTFY.
It's not neoliberalism that is dying, it's all liberalism and the Democratic party is the one delivering the death blows.
They have gone from being the party of the working man to being the party of the intellectual elite and from pushing a somewhat common-sense based, left of center agenda to pushing far left dogma.
Hillary style liberals, while horrid in their own right, aren't the downfall of the democratic party. It's the 20 and 30-something, social progressives pushing their far left agenda. It drives moderate democrats away and they have little choice but to vote either 3rd party or Republican.
n/a Fjordbaanger 2017-06-21
What? Did you pay attention at all to the GE? I just.... What?
Also I'm talking about this year specifically, not every election up til now. "Berniecrats" didn't even exist until last year.
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
Really? Because the last time I checked the blue collar working man didn't care about gay rights, trans rights, refugee rights, "free" college, "free" healthcare, and government entitlements. They cared about being able to live and provide for their families off of a 40 hour per week job.
n/a Fjordbaanger 2017-06-21
And you don't think that's what Berniecrats are trying to do? Hell that was one of the main point of contentions between them and establishment Dems.
n/a A7_AUDUBON 2017-06-21
The progressive movement started by the working class has little resemblance to today's progressivism. Bernie may be trying to return it to it's roots, but it's like reviving a corpse. Today's social progressivism is largely limited to the college educated middle class, and is really just a small band of that group.
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
You people...
Before you lose, it's the most important election ever!
Then you lose, and it's 'how is this even newsworthy' (yes, it is one word, you fucking tard).
n/a hexane360 2017-06-21
Ah, yes. I am the Democrat. I'm obviously crazy because I keep having different opinions.
n/a Thulein 2017-06-21
You're not even the same guy you faggot.
n/a LedinToke 2017-06-21
ur the faggot faggot
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-06-21
What do you mean you people? I had no idea this election was even a thing until I came across this thread.
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
you do realize georgia has one of the country's ten largest cities right? a city that headquartered the clinton news network, coca cola, and home depot? and that this race is in that city, a city full of hispanics and african americans, and a city with a gay councilor right? Did you also know that Georgia didn't go fully red until 1994
n/a froibo 2017-06-21
The entire state of Georgia did not vote. Atlanta itself did not vote.
n/a PhysicsIsMyMistress 2017-06-21
"We need to go to the center to win the election"
still loses election
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-21
I'm sure a berniecrat would have totally won given the chance.
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
Probably not. There is no red district the democrats have any chance of winning with any candidate, because their actions over the last 6 months have made it impossible for Republicans to vote for them.
Would you vote for people who constantly call you evil, sexist, racist, inbred, subhuman and all the rest? Not if you have a brain in your head.
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
That guy wasn't the center. He was the fake-center. Neoliberals are not centrists. They claim to be centrists, but they don't occupy the center. They just do whatever corporations tell them to while also supporting feminism. That's it. that is the entirety of neoliberal politics: do what campaign donors tell you and shill feminism constantly to 'prove' what a good liberal you are.
n/a Widdafresh 2017-06-21
I think a script or bot broke or something unless a bunch of people decided to just copy/paste the same comment about puking on a mattress or crying and whatnot. Like I'm not even that invested politically, but there was some weird shit getting posted and mysteriously deleted soon after.
n/a Cloacalla_Festival 2017-06-21
Moving to the country,
Drumpf Hitler freezes peaches!
n/a raps_caucasionally 2017-06-21
What does this comment mean?
n/a Gothmog26 2017-06-21
He's retarded. That's what it means.
n/a zahlman 2017-06-21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ
n/a rarestpepesforsale 2017-06-21
Once this happened I knew /u/Prince_Kropotkin would be rampaging through neoliberal Tokyo. Right now there are thousands of fleeing neojapanese running from the big red menace.
n/a Whatafuxup 2017-06-21
he may be an anarchist but /u/Prince_Kropotkin is our anarchist.
i mean i'm still going to kill him whenever this civil war kicks off but until then, he's alright people
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
The only people I trust less than anarchists and marxists, are neoliberals and libertarians.
n/a ironicshitpostr 2017-06-21
As an ancap, fuck all of those statists. Bring on the opium-smoking prostitots, amiright?
n/a carthoris26 2017-06-21
Fresh pasta?
FUCK. I need to go calm down. I can't believe uneducated white people did this to us.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-06-21
This has to be satire. Tasty pasta tho
n/a autistitron 2017-06-21
It's /r/politics, they're conditioned to act like this so I'd say it's legit.
n/a KedaT22 2017-06-21
Literally embodiment of Hitler
n/a Alt3rnativeT3ntac1e5 2017-06-21
Give me my (((drugs))) just so I can function like a regular person
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
In all fairness, that's what medicine is for.
You get that with all of thise 'drugs and sex are evil!!!!' shit the alt-right has started in with lately, you're pretty much blowing every single inroad you've made with younger people, right? Trying to refight the drug war is suicidal at this point. It won't be ten years before even states like Texas legalize at least partially.
The drug war is over. Conservatives lost, and they deserved to. It was never about making the world better or safer. It was about throwing your political enemies in jail, because that was explicitly the reason for it that Nixon stated in his tapes, and he's the one who started the drug war.
It was evil and wrong. You do not arrest people because they vote against you.
n/a SovietWarfare 2017-06-21
This is why we need god in this subreddit, for this shit right here. This is one of the most degenerate things I've seen to date.
n/a GratefulUser 2017-06-21
Deus ex shitpost
n/a Mexagon 2017-06-21
You're a great reason why people should not do drugs.
n/a Cloacalla_Festival 2017-06-21
Drugs are great! For people who have earned the right to use them. Like me.
n/a Alt3rnativeT3ntac1e5 2017-06-21
You do realize that I'm talking about them saying that they had to take a (((Valium))) just to control their rage? I don't care about recreational drugs, I think theere's a problem with the saturation of prescription drugs with younger people these days
n/a Vladtheimpaler14 2017-06-21
Republicans are such thugs, they keep running around when we shoot at them.
n/a AgnryDM 2017-06-21
Quit making fun of that person's pain you fucking fascist. /r/drama users get the bullet first!
n/a kornonthepob 2017-06-21
Eh, those are the only good n woke yanks tbh. All the rest of you need 9/11ing stat
n/a Will0saurus 2017-06-21
Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of organic gluten free tofu nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of tofu nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to do. I didn’t mean to do that to my mom but I’m literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I’m going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can’t be happening. I’m having a fucking breakdown. I don’t want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Ossoff to be representative for Georgia's 6th Congressional District and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in California???? This is so fucked.
n/a glmox 2017-06-21
Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck did he lose? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe Georgia hates the global poor. I want evidence-based policy. I want Ossoff to be state representative and maintain neoliberal hegemony. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought America was already great???? This is so fucked.
n/a meatpuppet79 2017-06-21
I think that what's making this more traumatic for the kids here is that they really genuinely believe that their opinions are the only possible valid ones and that the politics they are so invested in is morally righteous. They have some half memory of Bush junior (very bad man!) and 8 years of being on the Obama bandwagon (very good man!) and now there are some hints being given regularly that the world might be a bit more complicated and diverse in beliefs than they were taught to believe.
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
That's not just kids but liberals of all ages.
I deal with it everyday. 50+ year old liberals and their "righteous" crusade who think that there must be something wrong with you if you support any of Trump's policies.
This week they are having a "die in" to protest healthcare reform in my little town of 800 people. 50 and 60 year olds lying in the grass, pretending to be dead because their candidate lost in November.
I hope some of them lie in dogshit.
n/a purplepilled3 2017-06-21
That's fucking hilarious
n/a KigurumiMajin 2017-06-21
He did an AMA, I don't understand how he could have lost!
n/a johnr754 2017-06-21
can't wait until the democrats score a decisive moral victory in 2018 tbh
n/a ThatDamnedImp 2017-06-21
They may pick up a few seats, but have no chance to take either the house or the senate.
Having a strategy that's basically 'call everyone else evil' isn't going to go far in most districts. There are a lot of open Republican seats, but not many of them will go to Democrats because of the way the Democrats responded to the 2016 election.
It's like a Tea-partier thinking he could take an Obama district in 2010. It's just not going to happen. None of those people are even going to hear you out. You've shat the bed with them.
n/a quotey 2017-06-21
The real entertaining story of this election is when people bring up the swing from 2016 votes. The previous Democratic candidate got 38.3%, so this is a big increase. Of course, the previous Democratic candidate did not fucking exist.
n/a botchlings 2017-06-21
At the cost of $22 Million dollars. So that's roughly $2.5 million paid per percentage point increase?
n/a freet0 2017-06-21
Only on reddit would a democrat losing in Georgia be a sign of the apocalypse
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-06-21
oh yes, because atlanta is the epicenter of republican politics
n/a DeliciousLeftieTears 2017-06-21
I award /r/politics the gold in the mental gymnastics category of the 2017 GA-06 election. This is awarded thanks to your leaps and bounds in logic made in order to construe the results as a victory for the Democrats somehow.
n/a grungebot5000 2017-06-21
my prediction: Trump gets impeached the day before the 2018 midterms and the GOP retains a one-seat House majority
n/a holy_black_on_a_popo 2017-06-21
Lol
n/a SovietWarfare 2017-06-21
DemoRATS lose again. What was this guy's outside contribution? Like near 90% I believe.
Loser dems lose again because there is no brakes on this train!
n/a Cloacalla_Festival 2017-06-21
Democrats aren't losers. They are just trans-winners!
n/a Thulein 2017-06-21
Dumbocrats, when will they learn?