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Ac30

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Warren would be a fine VP, except she's pretty old. Not as old as the old olds, but still pretty old. You can't do an Old/Old ticket. She'd have worked as Pete's (or Beto's! Or Booker's!) VP but uh yeah that's not happening.

So basically we're never, ever going to know how many people get infected in this country, huh?

Probably not, but I'd wager that asymptomatic patients and those wrongly diagnosed with the the seasonal flu will affect that too.

It's also fucking with regular diagnostics work because the kit components are pretty standard lab stuff used in a ton of different tests.
 

Kaitos

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This is the exact thing that made me think this would come down to a race between her and Biden. Wild that she became an also ran before we even hit Super Tuesday.
If you're a consensus pick, that doesn't mean you're actually a favorite.

Also I think the electability factor has hurt her more than anyone else (not completely undeserving since she usually polls the worst against Trump in a H2H)
 

Aaron

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Eh, if she can't be president I think she'd be of better service remaining in the Senate. VP seems like a waste.
The only reason I'd disagree with that is because if she was Sanders' VP, her boss literally just had a heart attack.

Certainly not hoping for a backdoor Warren presidency but I think it's worth considering. Warren is the best pick in terms of continuation from Sanders' policies and ideals in case worst comes to worst, most other obvious candidates are either far less competent or significantly to his right. The age + health history makes VP selection more crucial than ever if Sanders is the nominee.

Also worth pointing out Sanders wanted Warren to do double duty as Secretary of the Treasury, which if she had to be poached from the Senate is the ideal job for her. So she'd have something to do while operating in the mostly ceremonial VP role as well.
 
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There's a Twitter video of a 65 year old woman making nude videos on OnlyFans that's making the rounds and is semi-viral right now.

Next, I find out that she's doing it because she desperately needs money to afford medical care and food/housing for her 45 year old disabled son who has "mental issues, PTSD, bi-polar, depression, and anxiety" and because she might be at risk for ovarian cancer.

made. I always thought I would live to be 100 and my son would die first. So here we are, I get $773 a month social security. I have no retirement from the work I did for over 30 years. I do work but with being so ill the hours I can work are severely reduced. My son does not get disability. We applied and he was turned down due to not having worked enough to pay into the system. I am applying on his behalf for SSI to see if maybe he can get some kind of income that way. He is on Medicaid and I am grateful for that as it covers all his medical/psychiatric/psychologist/medication expenses. He also gets $16 in food stamps each month. You read that right.....$16.00. I hope there are peop;e out there that care enough about one old lady and her son. So I'm putting my life out there for the whole world to see. I hate having to ask for help. For years I did whatever I had to do to put a roof over our heads and food in our stomachs, I've sold my plasma even though every single time I passed out. I have sold everything of value. I don't live a fancy life, I drive a 22 year old Toyota. I am at home with my son nearly 24/7, only leaving to go to the bank, pharmacy or Walmart to buy food. I'm hoping there are some good souls out there that will see the real need we have and want to help us.
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Michelle on Twitter

“https://t.co/NKMdiNpiXM Please consider donating to my gofundme page. I'm facing major medical bills and 2 surgeries in the near future.”

This country is beyond fucked.
 
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Kaitos

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There's a Twitter video of a 65 year old woman making nude videos on OnlyFans that's making the rounds and is semi-viral right now.

Next, I find out that she's doing it because she desperately needs money to afford medical care and food/housing for her 45 year old disabled son who has "mental issues, PTSD, bi-polar, depression, and anxiety" and because she might be at risk for ovarian cancer.



This country is beyond fucked.
fuck, Jesus.
 

fontguy

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Oct 8, 2018
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If you're a consensus pick, that doesn't mean you're actually a favorite.

Also I think the electability factor has hurt her more than anyone else (not completely undeserving since she usually polls the worst against Trump in a H2H)

Yes, but my thinking was that, with such a wide field (back when Harris, Booker, etc. were still in), she would gradually pick up derelict voters as candidates dropped out. Being the universal second choice in a situation where almost nobody ever gets their first choice seemed like an attractive position to be in.

Though this was all assuming that she had a respectable enough number of voters locked in to carry her through the early races. And boy did she not have that.
 

adam387

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There's a Twitter video of a 65 year old woman making nude videos on OnlyFans that's making the rounds and is semi-viral right now.

Next, I find out that she's doing it because she desperately needs money to afford medical care and food/housing for her 45 year old disabled son who has "mental issues, PTSD, bi-polar, depression, and anxiety" and because she might be at risk for ovarian cancer.


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Michelle on Twitter

“https://t.co/NKMdiNpiXM Please consider donating to my gofundme page. I'm facing major medical bills and 2 surgeries in the near future.”

This country is beyond fucked.
This is so awful. God we are a fucked up mess of a country.
 

JesseEwiak

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Your analysis of Pete's political alignment isn't wrong, exactly, but your conclusion that 80% of America being conservative as something we should just accept is low-key horrifying to me. The whole point of Pete running the way he is, is to set a new line in the sand for where the acceptable compromises should be. "This is the most that we, the ruling class, have to offer. Better things aren't possible. Sanders being elected would set a new status quo for the party for what's possible, and we can't have that."

As just about anyone from Mexico or further south could tell you, the American colonial project didn't start with the war in Afghanistan. It took about a century -- and a war -- for Black people to be regarded as human. I have zero pretentions to the notion that change is going to be easy, but it is necessary. Indeed, compared to most of the economic and social gains available to people in the rest of the developed world, we are terrifyingly conservative. That's why any time you read a thread about US labor on the main etc. forum you'll get a small chorus of Europeans echoing how utterly decrepit and full of moral rot our baselines for social support are.

I'm not going to get into another fight about how much the actual status quo wlll change if Bernie wins or not, but on the European point - it's always amusing to me, when European people try to act all high 'n' mighty about things, when they also try to ignore, shrug off, or have alternate explanations, for when over the past five to ten years, when their are actual significant amounts of brown people in the public sphere, that the European working class is acting exactly like the American working class when we started allowing black people into the American mainstream - running to parties who promise to punish The Other, while protecting the welfare state for the "right" people.

It turns out the reason why the main reason the welfare state suffered less damage in Europe wasn't some secret solidarity, a stronger union movement, or anything like that, but rather, there was no Other to point too until recently. Now, there is, and pissed off white people in former East Germany, rural France, and Belgium are acting just like pissed of white voters in America - voting for the far-right.

The reality is, assuming the GOP can't short circuit the electoral process permanently and something black swan isn't happening like a 3rd World War with China, the most likely world in 2050 is one where the US is a reasonable social democracy, and Europe is largely ruled by a bunch of either far-right or "left wing, but anti-Islam" parties, ala the Danish Swedish Democrats, or the shift Die Linke's leader tried in Germany.
 

T.Rex In F-14

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There's a Twitter video of a 65 year old woman making nude videos on OnlyFans that's making the rounds and is semi-viral right now.

Next, I find out that she's doing it because she desperately needs money to afford medical care and food/housing for her 45 year old disabled son who has "mental issues, PTSD, bi-polar, depression, and anxiety" and because she might be at risk for ovarian cancer.


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Michelle on Twitter

“https://t.co/NKMdiNpiXM Please consider donating to my gofundme page. I'm facing major medical bills and 2 surgeries in the near future.”

This country is beyond fucked.
Welp, going fetal. I can't even imagine. No words for how this makes me feel. It is beyond unconscionable.
 
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I'm not going to get into another fight about how much the actual status quo wlll change if Bernie wins or not, but on the European point - it's always amusing to me, when European people try to act all high 'n' mighty about things, when they also try to ignore, shrug off, or have alternate explanations, for when over the past five to ten years, when their are actual significant amounts of brown people in the public sphere, that the European working class is acting exactly like the American working class when we started allowing black people into the American mainstream - running to parties who promise to punish The Other, while protecting the welfare state for the "right" people.

It turns out the reason why the main reason the welfare state suffered less damage in Europe wasn't some secret solidarity, a stronger union movement, or anything like that, but rather, there was no Other to point too until recently. Now, there is, and pissed off white people in former East Germany, rural France, and Belgium are acting just like pissed of white voters in America - voting for the far-right.

The reality is, assuming the GOP can't short circuit the electoral process permanently and something black swan isn't happening like a 3rd World War with China, the most likely world in 2050 is one where the US is a reasonable social democracy, and Europe is largely ruled by a bunch of either far-right or "left wing, but anti-Islam" parties, ala the Danish Swedish Democrats, or the shift Die Linke's leader tried in Germany.
It's not that there IS an "other," but that American institutions are rooted in this fear of the other, whereas the refugee situation is relatively new. Having already HAD a built up welfare system means it's still harder to link racism to the destruction of the social welfare system than it is here.
 

Pixieking

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There's a Twitter video of a 65 year old woman making nude videos on OnlyFans that's making the rounds and is semi-viral right now.

Next, I find out that she's doing it because she desperately needs money to afford medical care and food/housing for her 45 year old disabled son who has "mental issues, PTSD, bi-polar, depression, and anxiety" and because she might be at risk for ovarian cancer.


twitter.com

Michelle on Twitter

“https://t.co/NKMdiNpiXM Please consider donating to my gofundme page. I'm facing major medical bills and 2 surgeries in the near future.”

This country is beyond fucked.

John Oliver did a health/M4A piece a couple of weeks ago. He should mention this to really drive home how sickening the state of US healthcare is.
 
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Japan is closing all their public schools...so you know stock market will be fine.
 

Ithil

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Trump will absolutely refuse to ever admit there is an epidemic on his "watch" so get ready for hundreds of people in the US sick and him going "EVERYTHING IS GREAT, TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL, BUY STOCKS", soon.
 

viskod

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Nov 9, 2017
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Trump will absolutely refuse to ever admit there is an epidemic on his "watch" so get ready for hundreds of people in the US sick and him going "EVERYTHING IS GREAT, TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL, BUY STOCKS", soon.

If we are at the beginning of or in the obvious throes of an epidemic around November he will absolutely believe in emergency procedures at that point just to keep people from being able to vote.
 
Oct 28, 2017
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Japan is closing all their public schools...so you know stock market will be fine.

In this instance, I believe the motivation is more for the optics than anything else.

People are pressuring Abe to do something because he's not really doing anything. Well, closing all schools is definitely doing something while not really doing anything. People are still using trains, the Shinkansen is still operational.

Which is stupid because its just going to get people to panic more.
 

metalslimer

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IggyChooChoo

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If we are at the beginning of or in the obvious throes of an epidemic around November he will absolutely believe in emergency procedures at that point just to keep people from being able to vote.
I'm more worried about the high specific risk that our likely nominee is at for a severe case of coronavirus: 78-years old, a history of heart problems, under a ton of stress, not getting enough sleep, constantly traveling and shaking hands.
 

PixelatedDonut

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"Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like "socialism" and "capitalism." Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions. This is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores. An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete. They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone to irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local, and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover). One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services. But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the "free" world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a piratically overinflated military-industrial complex and to ease the tax burdens of the immensely wealthy?"

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www.commonwealmagazine.org

Three Cheers for Socialism | Commonweal Magazine

In the late modern world something like socialism is the only possible way of embodying Christian love in concrete political practices.
 

SolarPowered

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White wealthy people already have too much of a say in how this country is run. One thing that this primarily has shown me is that white liberals aren't as fucking down as they like to appear. Their reaction to a diverse coalition of people rising up has been quite telling.
Indeed

We saw what MSNBC really looks like underneath the mask. White "liberal" America will not make this as smooth as it should be.
 
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Ac30

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White wealthy people already have too much of a say in how this country is run. One thing that this primarily has shown me is that white liberals aren't as fucking down as they like to appear. Their reaction to a diverse coalition of people rising up has been quite telling.
White suburbanites not being down for a revolution is the least surprising thing ever. Just like the WWC continuing to back Trump.



Idiots.
 

Autodidact

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White wealthy people already have too much of a say in how this country is run. One thing that this primarily has shown me is that white liberals aren't as fucking down as they like to appear. Their reaction to a diverse coalition of people rising up has been quite telling.
White liberals will vote for Bernie, dear. Of course, you're probably using the word in the "dirty rotten capitalist" sense, not in the "progressive" sense that 99% of Americans use it.
 

PixelatedDonut

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White liberals will vote for Bernie, dear. Of course, you're probably using the word in the "dirty rotten capitalist" sense, not in the "progressive" sense that 99% of Americans use it.
Nah I use it in the way of being a Black American, constantly being told how important we are to the party, but always being first on the chopping block and only being acknowledged when politically beneficial. Like I said before, you can really tell who has isolated themselves, the same way the pundit class didn't get Bernies rise.
 
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GoldenEye 007

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There were some arguments earlier in here about being technically right vs having good optics re: Castro comments.

Not sure how this is much different. Where yes the rules are written like they are. But everyone also knows this is a crowded race and it would be nearly impossible for anyone to get an outright majority of delegates after the primaries. And going against a clear plurality winner would be a losing proposition. It's also dumb to go on the record to speak about it because it's only going to piss people off more.

As always, if the plurality is truly close like within a few percentage points, then yeah let's say Bernie supporters will need to get over it and fall in line with whatever happens (except Bloomberg, fuck him).

But if there is a wide gap at the top, the only answer is for those delegates to fall in line. Lest the party burns to the ground in real time for all to see in July. One thing destroys the Democratic Party as we know it, the other loses you boomer republican supporting Cubans in a single state that were never going to vote for any Dem in the first place.
 
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acheron_xl

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For just once in my life I want to see so-called liberals to my right have to suffer and pull the lever for someone they find distasteful.
 

ChippyTurtle

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Oct 13, 2018
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For just once in my life I want to see so-called liberals to my right have to suffer and pull the lever for someone they find distasteful.

Like Trump?

Ugh.....im voting for Bernie and im a moderate, but i hope he manages to convince enough people to avoid a brokered or contested convention. That beyond all else would settle the matter.
 

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www.commonwealmagazine.org

Three Cheers for Socialism | Commonweal Magazine

In the late modern world something like socialism is the only possible way of embodying Christian love in concrete political practices.

Friend of mine sent this my way last week—the entire piece, from beginning to end, is withering. A few Northeastern conservative family members are big D.B. Hart fans (somehow) and I'm so curious how they handle this from him. Could be eye-opening, might not.

There's *so* much goddamn work to do rehabilitating this country.
 

Tamanon

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Superdelegates should not hand him the nomination if he's at a plurality only. That's what the convention and the traditional delegates are for.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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Now I'm not saying I want to TEST this theory, and lord knows it could go real badly, but maaaybe there's an upside to a contested convention in that it keeps the GOP off-foot with no focus until three months before the election? And maaaybe assuming the party doesn't tear itself apart and comes to a consensus, the nominee benefits from an enthusiasm boost that has less time to fade before the election?

Maybe?

Just looking on the bright side of life here.
 

GoldenEye 007

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Superdelegates should not hand him the nomination if he's at a plurality only. That's what the convention and the traditional delegates are for.
That depends on the margins. Again, technically right and what would very likely burn the party down in actual practice vs. recognizing that the likelihood of an outright majority was always nearly impossible because people are staying in the race longer than they should be and someone with a clear plurality lead should probably get the nod.
 
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