Conjugal Visits With Aunt Becky

[archibaldcrane]

Warren is crushing these town halls though - "charisma" is a slippery-to-meaningless concept, but who is actually listening to her speak nowadays and coming away with "I dunno she kinda sucks and is lame"

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[Andalusian girls]

charisma is the ability to make people devote themselves to you and is more important than any policy position for a politician

[archibaldcrane]

but mostly i'm hoping the tertiary candidates can hang around long enough to prevent an outright majority contested convention lesgoooooooo

Kinda too many candidates right now - for a contested convention you need 3-4 strong candidates who are consistently getting 15%+ of each state. Below that, you get no delegates. Right now in most states only Biden and Bernie top 15%.

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[Abandon]

I don't place much of anything on someone's military service either, the military is a factory for producing people with shit politics by and large, but the Rhodes scholarship is damn impressive.

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hold up fam

[Abandon]

also, camp lemonyay's DFAC was tits, and Bahrain is 11/10, would go again

[archibaldcrane]

hold up fam

If you want to argue that the military doesn't make soldiers, on average, more conservative, go for it.

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[Xno Kappa]

also, camp lemonyay's DFAC was tits, and Bahrain is 11/10, would go again

They made a blackened halibut with a Parmesan crust I’ve been trying to replicate for years now.

[Lokus]

I assure you those guys were already conservative and want nothing more than to legalize weed.

[archibaldcrane]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbc...amp/ncna850406

Joseph Jackson was one of the millions of Americans inspired by Barack Obama's 2008 White House bid. A black man in the nation's whitest state, he coordinated voter registration drives and cast his first-ever ballot for the candidate who would become the nation's first African-American president.
And he did it all while incarcerated in a maximum-security prison, serving 19 years for manslaughter.

Maine and Vermont don't disenfranchise prisoners. Being extremely white states is probably not a coincidence.

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[Zealot]

I'm finding this dumber as it goes along.

Taking the most extreme examples and using it as an excuse to justify the continued disenfranchisement of millions of nonviolent offenders in prisons throughout the nation, even as those prisoners are used to weight voting districts, is shitty and dumb. Taking people's rights away and dehumanizing them in prison has given us the highest recidivism in the world, maybe time to try something else, especially when that something else could be as simple as "hey, you killed a guy? No vote. You stole $10 from a convenience store counter, felt bad and brought it back? Here's your ballot."

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[Gredival]

It's a weird credential to try and tout as making him more knowledgeable when the man is a warhawk and is ok with more wars and people dying.

You say that as if there is an alternative where no people die.

I'm not saying we need to first strike China, but to think that China and Russia aren't revisionist and that we don't have to consider the implications of any action or inaction we take on our position in the geopolitical hierarchy is delusional.

[archibaldcrane]

Gred in here like "if we didn't invade Iraq, China or Russia would've!"

[Andalusian girls]

he's saying there are revanchist, expansionist powers on this planet whose behavior is presently constrained by the American-led order, and were the American strategic umbrella withdrawn tomorrow wars would break out across the globe. Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Korean Peninsula would likely be the scenes of the first fighting, but they would not be the last, and any new world order established by our geopolitical rivals in China or Russia would prove itself more harmful than ours.

[archibaldcrane]

If someone says "warhawk" and Iraq isn't the first thing that pops into your head, and you start blathering about Russia and China you look like an idiot.

[Xno Kappa]

If someone says "warhawk" and Iraq isn't the first thing that pops into your head, and you start blathering about Russia and China you look like an idiot.

Likewise, if you start rambling about amurica bad and a better world under an Imperial Japan, Soviet Union, and/or Nazi Germany cuz you took a class that told you to watch a Chomsky video it’s time to shut the fuck up son.

[Gredival]

If someone says "warhawk" and Iraq isn't the first thing that pops into your head, and you start blathering about Russia and China you look like an idiot.

Please.

No one running on the Dem side is going to justify Iraq 17 years later Archi. There's a difference between warhawks like Clinton and maybe Pete vs. Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[Fiye]

Nah Pete would definitely be at the very least Clintonesque as a warhawk. Dude marched off to Iraq after attending Harvard and worships troops.

[Fiye]

Onion is gold btw

https://politics.theonion.com/town-h...ion-1834247611

[archibaldcrane]

Please.

No one running on the Dem side is going to justify Iraq 17 years later Archi. There's a difference between warhawks like Clinton and maybe Pete vs. Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Ok, do you think if we didn't take out Gaddafi that Russia or China would've "filled the gap"? Or if we didn't invade and occupy Afghanistan? Kosovo? Somalia?

What wars did we fight to stop Russian or Chinese influence in the past 30 years?

[Fiye]

https://twitter.com/RobHerring/statu...455301120?s=19

Guys I'm starting to get nervous help