Politics The Official 2018 Midterm Election Thread

Started by Enigma, Aug 17, 2018, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. Flacko
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

    Nov 6, 2018
    There really isn't a massive difference at all. Aside from semantics about gun control and abortion.

    Both neoliberal corporate parties.
     
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  2. Charlie Work
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    Nov 6, 2018
    There are several out and out socialists who didn't accept corporate money holding office in congress.
     
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  3. Flacko
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

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  4. Goku187
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    Nov 6, 2018
    This s--- will never not be infuriating

    There were children in cages this summer
     
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  5. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Nov 6, 2018
    Ahhh looks like the people who don’t know how probability works are coming out early.
     
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  6. Charlie Work
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    Obama was blowing children up too.
     
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  7. Charlie Work
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  8. Flacko
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  9. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Nov 6, 2018
    look i am not stumping for national democrats here but i’d love to see you make the argument that there’s no difference to a person with no health insurance and hypertension or, you know, anyone whose skin is darker than a paper bag
     
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  10. dna hits
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    Nov 6, 2018
    Yeah you will see. I’m going to vote after finishing eating. I would go with the Democratic Party this time around, but they are way too corrupt. Also they got out of control with bombings before trump got in. A lot of innocent lives lost “cough cough Clinton Benghazi”.

    If the democrats do win, I’ll laugh while your a--- gets drafted to war which is what the democrats want. I’m automatically dq’d from having multiple herniated disc. Have fun going and shooting innocent people because the next war will be severe. I’d rather remain at peace with the world like we are currently.
     
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  11. Flacko
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

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    The democrats haven't even ran on a medicaid for all platform which is what the majority want.

     
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  12. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

    Nov 6, 2018
    Yeah, it's easy to support M4A while it's an abstract, intangible idea. There's no bill here people are committing to. Very skeptical of people like Beto who were "means tested" mainstream dems just a few years ago taking up the vocabulary of more radical politics.
     
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  13. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Nov 6, 2018
    a ton of state-level dems are running on aggressive medicare expansions within their states though. as bad as booker et al are, they’re not the whole political landscape.
     
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  14. Charlie Work
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    Eh, it's a pretty easy decision to chose a democrat over a republican.
     
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  15. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    This was obviously sarcasm lol. She was pointing out the ridiculousness of confusing the two.
     
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  16. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    yeah lol, i think the reasonable conclusion is “man the democrats are kinda useless,” not “man the democrats are kinda useless and indistinguishable from the republicans,” which is f---ing stupid
     
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  17. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

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    Sure, but how many of these people were perfectly happy conceding all that ground that got us here? Just because you can read a weather vane doesn't mean you're a reliable progressive.
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    of course! but alternately, i don’t think every 30-40 year old house candidate who makes the decision to take the dccc’s money and infrastructural support is necessarily in lockstep with the centrists in the party
     
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  19. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

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    Idk, the democratic party is pretty d--- uniform on stuff like arms sales, military funding, and backing Israel. Joe Manchin can still call himself a democrat. That should tell us how far we have to go.
     
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