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Southern Black Voters are so Privileged. (Original Post) rbrnmw Apr 2016 OP
At least this guy cleared up one confusing point for me. The Polack MSgt Apr 2016 #1
I wonder who the leaders are wryter2000 Apr 2016 #3
And which ones? The African American community is all over the place, so to speak Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #11
This guy - that thread we are on JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #14
Yes I have tried to swat that fly Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #15
He's very JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #18
We've always interfered with that. Kind of Blue Apr 2016 #19
Oh, gag wryter2000 Apr 2016 #2
Me, too. Counting the days but Kind of Blue Apr 2016 #10
Ah yes, privileged indeed. BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #4
The thread mentioned in the OP was too awful to waste any time on Gothmog Apr 2016 #5
Goodness, I looked at the link and thought Kind of Blue Apr 2016 #6
no subject just . . . JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #7
I don't post much, but I'm loving your Marie Antoinette Lisa D Apr 2016 #9
Well since vapid rich women JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #12
Once again, we are *here* I LOVE that frosted cupcake of a silly movie Number23 Apr 2016 #25
This one and the Great Gatsby JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #28
I originally read the thread until I reached the The Polack MSgt Apr 2016 #8
Oooh wryter2000 Apr 2016 #29
Let us allow a moment of silence in memory of Starry Messenger Apr 2016 #13
This place never, EVER seeks to amaze and repulse Number23 Apr 2016 #16
A good percentage of the "good leftists" are rightwingers laughing their asses off steve2470 Apr 2016 #17
And they are LAUGHING their asses off somewhere. wildeyed Apr 2016 #21
no I didn't know about that steve2470 Apr 2016 #22
Or peal off just enough of his salty and defeated wildeyed Apr 2016 #23
Look at this one JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #24
Well this part is true: wildeyed Apr 2016 #30
Pretty sure they are not all people. wildeyed Apr 2016 #20
Lawd Chitown Kev Apr 2016 #26
LOL rbrnmw Apr 2016 #27

The Polack MSgt

(13,189 posts)
1. At least this guy cleared up one confusing point for me.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 11:47 AM
Apr 2016

AHEM, and I quote:

"HRC carried the AA vote in the South largely because that vote in that region tends to do what its leaders tell it to do."

Thanks Ken, I was wondering how that worked.

I dip back in to DU every now and again and it never fails to remind me that I really shouldn't

Jackie Wilson Said

(4,176 posts)
11. And which ones? The African American community is all over the place, so to speak
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:24 PM
Apr 2016

in who they support, just not in the GOP, of course.

Many of the AA so called leadership and social big shots supported O'Malley, and many support Bernie, while yet still many support Hillary.

The comments in that thread by those (let me clear my throat) people represent a LARGE number of the Bernie community.

Sad to say.

Fact is simple, many white Bernie supporters are supporting him solely for their own pocketbooks, I have had at least one of them admit it. But many think that way.

So they see the AA community as interfering with that.

And I am a Bernie voter who believes Bernie would be WAY better for all of us than Hillary, and at the same time I know, not think, Hillary will be WAY better for all of us than any conservative candidate.

To sum it up, if only the black people knew what they were doing... No wonder they call it privilege.




Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)
19. We've always interfered with that.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 08:47 PM
Apr 2016

We've always been seen as the competition but one that could be suppressed thru outright violence and microagression and discrimination and disappearing from society.

Those bros don't know the first instinct of survival is just plain old physiological. Can I breathe??? Their revolutions fail, in this country at least, because they repeatedly forget it's just as simple as that. They also forget that every single time we hear of another killing, another jail house death, mass disappearance into prison, we - at least I - feel it as not another statistic but the constant message your life means nothing.

And so to hear repeatedly that economics is the driving force to stop predation is fucking ridiculous.



Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)
10. Me, too. Counting the days but
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:23 PM
Apr 2016

know they'll find other ways to rage on. It feels too good when one has lost almost from the beginning when it comes to the campaign's mishandling of PoC issues.

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
4. Ah yes, privileged indeed.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 11:52 AM
Apr 2016

I trashed that thread and in the trash is exactly where it belongs.

Unfortunately, the stupid lives on.

Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)
6. Goodness, I looked at the link and thought
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 12:29 PM
Apr 2016

it read, I WillyT Not Yield. Read it wrong. Didn't click on it thinking it's a link to Stockholm guy's thoughts.

Supremacy will twist and reason any way it can to protect its feelings if not its power. Poor thing, I hope he/she feels better now.

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)
12. Well since vapid rich women
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:29 PM
Apr 2016

Who allow the word 'revolution' to roll off their lips are acceptable around here - Why not?

Besides - it's from one of my top ten favorite movies!

Number23

(24,544 posts)
25. Once again, we are *here* I LOVE that frosted cupcake of a silly movie
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 10:36 PM
Apr 2016

It is cinema escapism at its best. It's just all gorgeous palaces, ridiculous gowns, petty grievances and piles and piles of sugar frosted fruit. Oh, and a revolution comes in at the end.

I watch it every single chance that I get.

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)
28. This one and the Great Gatsby
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 05:32 AM
Apr 2016

Piles of champagne, beautiful clothes, over the top party scenes -

Oh and there's a hit and run, murder, and suicide at the end - but I've never seen so many beautiful flowers!

The Polack MSgt

(13,189 posts)
8. I originally read the thread until I reached the
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 01:20 PM
Apr 2016

Quote I posted above.

Then I left - I should have kept reading.

1StrongBlackMan went full fire mode in the thread and we should all read and marvel at it.



Nicely done - Of course, you have had a whole bunch of practice on this subject these last few months. Too much in my opinion, but your rhetoric gets sharper and the opposition stays on the same themes.

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
13. Let us allow a moment of silence in memory of
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 03:19 PM
Apr 2016

those poor oppressed people under the subjugation of Black Southern voters. I swear, it's like the Reconstruction-era rhetoric all over again.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
16. This place never, EVER seeks to amaze and repulse
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 07:28 PM
Apr 2016

Some of these folks around here don't seem to have enough sense to work a keyboard making their repeated ability to populate this place with such ignorant, unadulterated garbage that much more spectacular.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
17. A good percentage of the "good leftists" are rightwingers laughing their asses off
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 07:36 PM
Apr 2016

What the percentage is, I don't know, but some of the stuff people post is just.....so over the top, it HAS to be a rightwinger. The rest of the "good leftists" are so politically naive, it hurts.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
21. And they are LAUGHING their asses off somewhere.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 09:02 PM
Apr 2016

Were you around for Seventhson and that group? There were a bunch of GOP trolls who infiltrated the board in 2004 and did a big reveal on election night when all of us were pretty much devastated already. I did not have any dealings with that group, but it cut pretty deep for some. I guess some never do learn. Oh well, we tried to warn them.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
22. no I didn't know about that
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 09:06 PM
Apr 2016

I would not be surprised when one day, the GOP and right wing trolls all take the mask off and laugh at the other Bernie supporters. It's common knowledge the GOP WANTS to run against Senator Sanders. If he gets the Dem nomination, they will milk the Communist angle until it bleeds and dies, even though we all know he is not a Communist and even anything close to that. Real socialists usually say that Senator Sanders is NOT a socialist, more like a Denmark-style capitalist.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
23. Or peal off just enough of his salty and defeated
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 09:11 PM
Apr 2016

supporters by goading them into sitting the GE out In close elections, it only takes a few percentage points here and there. Hell in 2000, it was what, 230 VOTES? GOP knows that.

They must either be Libertarian or freelance now, because the GOP are even more afraid of their own frontrunner than ours right now

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
30. Well this part is true:
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 12:51 PM
Apr 2016

"You just got snow jobbed. That is all." Wasn't by Obama though.

Here are a few from the BernBot generator:

Racist Hillary Clinton is the same as vengeful Margaret Thatcher.

DLCer Hillary Clinton is no better than dog breath Donald Trump.

Corrupt Hillary Clinton is the same as spiteful Ronald Reagan.


Hellbot replies:

Logic FAIL. Do you have a link for that?

Because MATH. Do you have a link for that?

Your argument is invalid. Do you have a link for that?

(Juries, please note: extreme & humor in play )

They are very simple, I did them with a free online generator. I haven't updated it in ages. I would def add super predators, email and something about David Brock if I was going to bother...... The Bernbot is just a smear word + Hillary Clinton + false equivalency + silly adjective that I threw in to make it a little bit funny + talking point buzzword. If I changed the adjectives to something more prosaic, then you would not blink an eye if I started posting them here under a different account. So you can see how it would be easy to produce a HUGE number of posts with a slightly more complex algorithm.

A good portion of info online is already written by computers. Pretty obvious to me that a portion of content here is also being produced that way. Some also appears to be outsourced to some sort of overseas propaganda call center. I do not think I am being paranoid, but I wish there was a way to prove it. Probably some sort of language analyzer that could tell me, but I don't have access to that kind of thing.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
20. Pretty sure they are not all people.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 08:56 PM
Apr 2016

I made my own BernBot Rhetoric Generator™. Just programed in a logical fallacy and a few buzzwords and it sounded EXACTLY like more than a few regular posters around these parts Then I made a Hillbot to reply to it. Next primary, I will propose to the admins that they completely outsource the entire project and ONLY let bots participate in GDP threads.

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