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Related: About this forumSouthern Black Voters are so Privileged.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511614873The Polack MSgt
(13,189 posts)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
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Ignorant, ignorant, ignorant.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)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.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)He does a disservice to you and your candidate sir.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Race cardy isn't he? That's GOT to be an April Fools Day joke.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)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.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)I can't wait for this to be over so posts like that one won't be allowed.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)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)I trashed that thread and in the trash is exactly where it belongs.
Unfortunately, the stupid lives on.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)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)Lisa D
(1,532 posts)gifs.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)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)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)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)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.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Gotta go read that.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Way over the top - the op has a hide but you can drop down to see the op.
.http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7732079
I seriously took it for a joke.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)"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)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.
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)Thank FSP I'm on the Red Line...and if folks see me giving my phone sideeye...oh well
This was me reading that nonsense