These people do get that the parties use the apparatus of the state to hold their primaries, right? That the state -- not the parties -- pay for the primaries?
There is absolutely no legal 'right' to rig up primaries. I'm not sure what crazy-ass nonsense these people have been reading, but it doesn't exist. Private party or no, any election using government money is governed by the relevant statutes, not whatever the party pulls out of its ass.
the SRDines turn into corruption-loving neolib/cons when trying to rationalize this election faster than ancaps turn to fascists at the sight of a feminist
Like yea technically correct but who wants to vote for that shit? I bet these same people will give companies shit for paying workers minimum wage. Just because you can do something doesnt mean you should or that other people cant take exception to it if you do
/u/itsnotnews92
How is this 'playing the victim card', but 'HURR DURR DRUMPF WON BCUZ OF LE EVIL RUSSIA' isn't?
Could you perhaps just accept that Shillary was the worst presidential candidate in the way-too-long joke that your country's history is?
Part of the election process is that hardliners actually delude themselves into loving whoever their candidate is. There's no longer any pretending necessary.
That's not how it works. If trump gets impeached there isn't a special election. Do you mean she should run if she doesn't have to run against trump again? That was her best shot at winning lol
No no, I'm saying the Dems may get another wind if this ever happens. And that Hillary should take the opportunity for 2020. I'm not saying anything about special elections.
The founding fathers were such sexist pigs, setting up rules 200+ years ago just to steal the presidency away from a woman in 2017. If only she had known about the sneaky electoral college!
nah man, eating sushi with soy sauce is the equivalent of eating it with ranch. Trust me, once you've been in Portland for a couple years you'll get the hang of it.
When people told me they hated Hillary Clinton or (far worse) that they were "not fans," I wish I had said in no uncertain terms: "I love Hillary Clinton. I am in awe of her. I am set free by her. She will be the finest world leader our galaxy has ever seen."
I wish, in those exchanges, I had not asked gentle, tolerant questions about a hater's ridiculous allergy to her, or Clinton's fictional misdeeds and imagined character flaws. More deeply still, I wish I had not reasoned with anyone, patiently countered their ludicrous emotionalism and psychologically disturbed theories. I wish I had said, flatly, "I love her." As if I had been asked about my mother or daughter. No defensiveness or polemics; not dignifying the crazy allegations with so much as a Snopes link.
Maybe "I love her" seemed too womany, too sentimental, too un-pragmatic. Not coalition-building, kind of culty. But people say with impunity they love Obama, the state of Israel, their churches, Kurt Cobain. In the end, I wish I'd said it because it's true.
And I'm not alone in my commitment. Millions of Clinton's supporters — we were thanked by Clinton as the "secret, private Facebook sites" — expressed it among themselves, all the time, in raptures or happy tears with each new display of our heroine's ferocious intelligence, depth, and courage. We were frankly bewildered by the idea that anyone would hedge their commitment to her ("You don't have to be her friend"; "Yes, she's made mistakes"; "lesser of two evils"). We didn't remember anyone turning to this stock ambivalence when discussing Obama, Babe Ruth, FDR. If only one reporter — they knew about us — could have published a headline like "Clinton Inspires Historic Levels of Adoration From Her Supporters" about the people who have had their lives transformed by the power of her brilliant campaign, unrivaled effectiveness, and extraordinary career. Just one headline like that, like the ones Bill Clinton got.
Usually a legend is made by men and media — the legend of Kennedy, say, or Jim Morrison — and then, much later, a biopic, pretending to evenhandedness, reveals the legend's shortcomings, his "human" side. The shortcomings are almost always something exactly no one actually believes compromises his heroism. His problem drinking. His mistreatment of women. Well, takedowns of Hillary were always already written. She has somehow made the time to hear out each dead-end line of reasoning about her fake mortal sins, and often she has also thanked everyone for sparing her further moral lashings, as if that were a kindness. Under cover of "humanizing" the intimidating valedictorian, reports and investigations and media clichés vilified her. But the feminist hero never got to be a legend first. And yet she is one, easily surpassing Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs.
I want to reverse the usual schedule of things, then. We don't have to wait until she dies to act. Hillary Clinton's name belongs on ships, and airports, and tattoos. She deserves straight-up hagiographies and a sold-out Broadway show called RODHAM. Yes, this cultural canonization is going to come after the chronic, constant, nonstop "On the other hand" sexist hedging around her legacy. But such is the courage of Hillary Clinton and her supporters; we reverse patriarchal orders. Maybe she is more than a president. Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself. The presidency is too small for her. She belongs to a much more elite class of Americans, the more-than-presidents. Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Fucking Hamilton.
Hillary Clinton did everything right in this campaign, and she won more votes than her opponent did. She won. She cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second. Instead, she will be decorated as an epochal heroine far too extraordinary to be contained by the mere White House. Let that revolting president-elect be Millard Fillmore or Herbert Hoover or whatever. Hillary is Athena.
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1 SnapshillBot 2017-09-22
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1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
Sanders is a jew.
Coincidence? I think not
1 LemonScore 2017-09-22
Oy vey!
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
(((millionaires))) and (((billionaires)))
1 LemonScore 2017-09-22
Sanders suddenly stopped talking about millionaires when it was revealed that he's one himself. The new rhetoric focuses exclusively on billionaires.
1 newcomer_ts 2017-09-22
TL;DR ~ Russian interference allegation is nothing but a pure ol’ projection or colloquially, a “cheater’s paranoia”.
Which explains why she just won’t go away. Because we all know what happened to that lady who said “Let them eat cake!”
1 the_black_panther_ 2017-09-22
1 DontTrustRedditors 2017-09-22
Democrats think that only white men have to follow the rules, basically. Everyone else is allowed to ignore them to 'make history'.
This is literally what they believe, though you can never get them to admit it.
1 The_Reason_Trump_Won 2017-09-22
I'm shocked the democratic party is bleeding senators, reps, governorships, and local politicians all over the country. It just makes no sense
1 DontTrustRedditors 2017-09-22
These people do get that the parties use the apparatus of the state to hold their primaries, right? That the state -- not the parties -- pay for the primaries?
There is absolutely no legal 'right' to rig up primaries. I'm not sure what crazy-ass nonsense these people have been reading, but it doesn't exist. Private party or no, any election using government money is governed by the relevant statutes, not whatever the party pulls out of its ass.
1 heavenlytoaster 2017-09-22
Lol
1 dogbref 2017-09-22
the SRDines turn into corruption-loving neolib/cons when trying to rationalize this election faster than ancaps turn to fascists at the sight of a feminist
1 Ace4929 2017-09-22
Like yea technically correct but who wants to vote for that shit? I bet these same people will give companies shit for paying workers minimum wage. Just because you can do something doesnt mean you should or that other people cant take exception to it if you do
1 ahbslldud 2017-09-22
Imagine being so retarded you unironically believe this.
1 the_popcorn_pisser 2017-09-22
They are though.
1 ahbslldud 2017-09-22
I was talking about the original quoted text about it being okay for the DNC to be thundercunts.
Looks like I'm the retard now.
1 LemonScore 2017-09-22
1 uniqueguy263 2017-09-22
Well, they can. They also have the right to bang their heads against the wall until they pass out and get brain damaged
1 uniqueguy263 2017-09-22
Extremely relevant username
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2017-09-22
Behold the SRDine grandstanding in it's native habit.
1 Namenamenamenamena 2017-09-22
That tommy guy is an absolute retard. I'm on mobile someone reply to this parent with a shoutout.
1 Zazz_Lacker 2017-09-22
“i got enough time to amass thousands of posts in this left-wing subreddit, but I don’t have time to actually debate someone who disagrees with me.”
1 realShitAtUsernames 2017-09-22
/u/itsnotnews92 How is this 'playing the victim card', but 'HURR DURR DRUMPF WON BCUZ OF LE EVIL RUSSIA' isn't? Could you perhaps just accept that Shillary was the worst presidential candidate in the way-too-long joke that your country's history is?
1 itsnotnews92 2017-09-22
Oh fuck off. You’re Austrian, why is your opinion relevant?
1 realShitAtUsernames 2017-09-22
Take that back or i'll start a worl war.
1 The_Reason_Trump_Won 2017-09-22
Not an argument
1 Ultrashitpost 2017-09-22
Why defend Hillary? I can get that you don't want Trump, but the elections are over now. You can stop pretending to like her.
1 BannaHamHock 2017-09-22
Part of the election process is that hardliners actually delude themselves into loving whoever their candidate is. There's no longer any pretending necessary.
1 the_popcorn_pisser 2017-09-22
If Trump does get impeached, or something big happens, Hillary would be stupid not to run again.
1 Namenamenamenamena 2017-09-22
That's not how it works. If trump gets impeached there isn't a special election. Do you mean she should run if she doesn't have to run against trump again? That was her best shot at winning lol
1 the_popcorn_pisser 2017-09-22
No no, I'm saying the Dems may get another wind if this ever happens. And that Hillary should take the opportunity for 2020. I'm not saying anything about special elections.
1 Namenamenamenamena 2017-09-22
Like she might be able to win if the republicans get crippled by controversy?
1 the_popcorn_pisser 2017-09-22
Yeah pretty much.
1 Namenamenamenamena 2017-09-22
Gotcha.
1 uniqueguy263 2017-09-22
She's Hillary. Didn't you learn anything from 2016? She can never win at anything
1 the_black_panther_ 2017-09-22
Imagine being so unable to admit that you're wrong that you have to go through someone's post history looking for dirt
1 itsnotnews92 2017-09-22
Imagine being so unable to accept that you lost the primary by millions of votes that you're still bitching about it over a year later.
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2017-09-22
But when I do the same thing about the general it's different.
1 the_black_panther_ 2017-09-22
Laughing at you isn't bitching. Nice try though
1 JenkemStyle 2017-09-22
Imagine being so unable to accept that the you lost the Electoral College by 77 votes that you're still bitching about it nearly a year later.
1 shitpersonality 2017-09-22
BUT SHE BEAT DONNY IF YOU CHANGE THE RULES TO USE A DIFFERENT METRIC FOR VICTORY! LOOK AT HER BOOK SALES!
1 Prometherion13 2017-09-22
The founding fathers were such sexist pigs, setting up rules 200+ years ago just to steal the presidency away from a woman in 2017. If only she had known about the sneaky electoral college!
1 heavenlytoaster 2017-09-22
Yeah but who won the world series?
1 glmox 2017-09-22
bernie wouldve won :3
1 realShitAtUsernames 2017-09-22
what i love is that my nationality is the only dirt bitch could dig up, apparently. Should i be proud or ashamed?
1 the_black_panther_ 2017-09-22
Here? Ashamed tbqhwyf
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
she didn't even roast your flair
weak af
1 LemonScore 2017-09-22
Wow, you really are a racist.
1 casualrocket 2017-09-22
that comment was not racist, assuming your being sarcastic.
1 Bonzalez 2017-09-22
Here I was thinking that ignoring logic cause it came out of a ferner's mouth was a Trump supporter thing. Good to see it's got bipartisan appeal.
1 casualrocket 2017-09-22
god i would have voted for a toaster oven over her
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
guess not
1 DudeCat 2017-09-22
I thought this was going to be some juicy JLaw drama but came away disappointed.
1 ExportImportBank 2017-09-22
the 2016 primary is gamergate, it's been over for years but the dumbest among us are still screeching about it
1 zahlman 2017-09-22
Nah, the general was gamergate. Haven't you read all those think pieces?
1 Imaurel 2017-09-22
Oh man. I was wondering where some of my upvotes came from. Hey, if we're SRDines, what's your name?
1 dogbref 2017-09-22
human garbage
1 Imaurel 2017-09-22
I meant the sub, not you personally.
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
It as accurate for both.
1 BannaHamHock 2017-09-22
dramanauts is a term I've seen used
1 Bonzalez 2017-09-22
That's been largely replaced by bussy enthusiasts.
1 BannaHamHock 2017-09-22
I'll never accept the retarded bussy meme
1 Ylajali_2002 2017-09-22
My name is Brendan.
1 Imaurel 2017-09-22
Ok. From here on out I will refer to it as /r/Brendan.
1 glmox 2017-09-22
mayo detected
1 captainpriapism 2017-09-22
hi brendan
1 Ylajali_2002 2017-09-22
hi carl
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
What kind of depraved person writes comments that long about politics in a meta sub? What drives a man to those inane actions?
1 LemonScore 2017-09-22
Leftism.
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
...have you seen the crazy manifestos from the right, too? It's retards all over the goddamn place.
1 do0rkn0b 2017-09-22
HOW'S UR LITTLE SPACE ALIEN DOING TODAY?
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
It's getting chillier in Portland, so he's gonna be curled up in some blankets all day. He's a sleepy little man.
1 komradekommunism 2017-09-22
Post kevbo
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
http://i.imgur.com/BO9q3NT.jpg
1 do0rkn0b 2017-09-22
I see you cleaned up
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
The dirtiness of my room coincides with how hung over I am.
1 komradekommunism 2017-09-22
🐶🐶👌👌🐶🐶
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
does he always have that derpy little frown?
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
He gets a smile going sometimes.
1 GeauxHouston22 2017-09-22
jap beer jap food
thought you was a mayo
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
Eating sushi is literally the whitest thing one can do.
1 GeauxHouston22 2017-09-22
if you were really white, you'd know that all white people eat their sushi with ranch to dip it in
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
nah man, eating sushi with soy sauce is the equivalent of eating it with ranch. Trust me, once you've been in Portland for a couple years you'll get the hang of it.
1 TedBundyAMA 2017-09-22
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
My heart just melted <3
1 LemonScore 2017-09-22
Awwww <3
1 LordZedd84T 2017-09-22
Kevbo is the only reason we keep you around.
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
I mean yeah, he's why I got modded in the first place.
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
I borrowed it from /r/inconvenientfacts
Basically a sub full of leftist effortposts .
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
oh no
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
owned by none other than our beloved Prince_Kropotkin
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE IF PEOPLE ACTUALLY APPRECIATED MY ROLE IN THESE THINGS
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
don't worry senpai noticed you
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
Thnx bby ily
1 Sarge_Ward 2017-09-22
tbh next time be more noticeable.
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
I'm not combative enough to be noticeable.
1 riemann1413 2017-09-22
more than hot enough tho
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
Awww, shucks, thanks.
1 riemann1413 2017-09-22
i'm objectifying you, be more offended
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
Objectify me harder, daddy.
1 riemann1413 2017-09-22
owo
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
me2
1 riemann1413 2017-09-22
👏kill👏your👏self👏
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
have a nice day! :D
1 riemann1413 2017-09-22
👏kill👏your👏self👏
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
Isn't it a great sub?
1 Zachums 2017-09-22
I've never been more inconvenienced in my life!
1 InOranAsElsewhere 2017-09-22
Yeah bby I know.
1 BannaHamHock 2017-09-22
The time investment of copying and pasting some political pasta compared to modding Reddit is not in your favor.
1 zahlman 2017-09-22
excuse u
1 mmzznnxx 2017-09-22
Yes, SRD is cancer, we know this.
1 nomad1c 2017-09-22
pls nominate st bernard so i can watch him lose to trump
1 Pepperglue 2017-09-22
Too bad DNC can't play favorites for the rest of the country during the General Election, u/itsnotnews92.
The vote isn't rigged. You just lost.
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
looks like it was
1 Pepperglue 2017-09-22
It was attacked, but no votes were rigged.
Worrisome, yes. OMG election is a fraud, no.
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
Don't need to change vote counts if you can just stop people from voting
1 Pepperglue 2017-09-22
Wasn't the voter registration tampered with during the primaries, but not during the general?
That was when BernieBros were calling the election was rigged.
1 Frank_Tenpenny 2017-09-22
There's a chance that de-registration happened on both counts.
1 Pepperglue 2017-09-22
Before that info comes out, I'm not taking that chance.
1 teamsprocket 2017-09-22
Thought this was about the movie. I'd like to see them try and defend the greatest movie of 2017.
1 glmox 2017-09-22
mother! was as big loud and dumb as any of the fast & furious movies while not being half as fun
fite me
1 teamsprocket 2017-09-22
u just didn't get it
it was just too deep of an allegory for u
small-in-the-mind fool
1 glmox 2017-09-22
ur right the bible and also colonialism truly deep thoughts of a modern genious
1 glmox 2017-09-22
When people told me they hated Hillary Clinton or (far worse) that they were "not fans," I wish I had said in no uncertain terms: "I love Hillary Clinton. I am in awe of her. I am set free by her. She will be the finest world leader our galaxy has ever seen."
I wish, in those exchanges, I had not asked gentle, tolerant questions about a hater's ridiculous allergy to her, or Clinton's fictional misdeeds and imagined character flaws. More deeply still, I wish I had not reasoned with anyone, patiently countered their ludicrous emotionalism and psychologically disturbed theories. I wish I had said, flatly, "I love her." As if I had been asked about my mother or daughter. No defensiveness or polemics; not dignifying the crazy allegations with so much as a Snopes link.
Maybe "I love her" seemed too womany, too sentimental, too un-pragmatic. Not coalition-building, kind of culty. But people say with impunity they love Obama, the state of Israel, their churches, Kurt Cobain. In the end, I wish I'd said it because it's true.
And I'm not alone in my commitment. Millions of Clinton's supporters — we were thanked by Clinton as the "secret, private Facebook sites" — expressed it among themselves, all the time, in raptures or happy tears with each new display of our heroine's ferocious intelligence, depth, and courage. We were frankly bewildered by the idea that anyone would hedge their commitment to her ("You don't have to be her friend"; "Yes, she's made mistakes"; "lesser of two evils"). We didn't remember anyone turning to this stock ambivalence when discussing Obama, Babe Ruth, FDR. If only one reporter — they knew about us — could have published a headline like "Clinton Inspires Historic Levels of Adoration From Her Supporters" about the people who have had their lives transformed by the power of her brilliant campaign, unrivaled effectiveness, and extraordinary career. Just one headline like that, like the ones Bill Clinton got.
Usually a legend is made by men and media — the legend of Kennedy, say, or Jim Morrison — and then, much later, a biopic, pretending to evenhandedness, reveals the legend's shortcomings, his "human" side. The shortcomings are almost always something exactly no one actually believes compromises his heroism. His problem drinking. His mistreatment of women. Well, takedowns of Hillary were always already written. She has somehow made the time to hear out each dead-end line of reasoning about her fake mortal sins, and often she has also thanked everyone for sparing her further moral lashings, as if that were a kindness. Under cover of "humanizing" the intimidating valedictorian, reports and investigations and media clichés vilified her. But the feminist hero never got to be a legend first. And yet she is one, easily surpassing Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs.
I want to reverse the usual schedule of things, then. We don't have to wait until she dies to act. Hillary Clinton's name belongs on ships, and airports, and tattoos. She deserves straight-up hagiographies and a sold-out Broadway show called RODHAM. Yes, this cultural canonization is going to come after the chronic, constant, nonstop "On the other hand" sexist hedging around her legacy. But such is the courage of Hillary Clinton and her supporters; we reverse patriarchal orders. Maybe she is more than a president. Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself. The presidency is too small for her. She belongs to a much more elite class of Americans, the more-than-presidents. Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Fucking Hamilton.
Hillary Clinton did everything right in this campaign, and she won more votes than her opponent did. She won. She cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second. Instead, she will be decorated as an epochal heroine far too extraordinary to be contained by the mere White House. Let that revolting president-elect be Millard Fillmore or Herbert Hoover or whatever. Hillary is Athena.
1 MadMaxMercer 2017-09-22
I am a grab bag of conflicting emotions right now...
1 TedCruzIsAFilthyRato 2017-09-22
Masturbated to this. 4/10
1 Bastamourne 2017-09-22
Lol what's the source for this?
1 glmox 2017-09-22
the decline of western civilization
1 zahlman 2017-09-22
wew
1 MadMaxMercer 2017-09-22
/u/itsnotnews92 said without a hint of irony....
1 captainpriapism 2017-09-22
americans discussing politics is never not funny
"i heard this soundbyte on tv!"
"uh uh i heard this one"
1 zahlman 2017-09-22
MUH
1 zahlman 2017-09-22
haha what