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In reply to the discussion: You guys have to see this thread. [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)104. I can't find the post yet, but you said of O'Malley and positions and reciepts. Then gave a list of
what he actually accomplished in his state. I was impressed and understand your support him now. I'll start reading the group.
I planned to vote for BS in the primaries, not disparage other candidates but if the real life crew is anything like online, nothing doing. But the HRC accepted me under those terms, that I'd vote for her if she won the nomination and wanted to learn more about her. She's made a huge difference in the way women and girls are being treated in other countries, and these are POC she's helped.
I have always said, to dismiss 51% of the world's population is not a winning strategy. Which is why the attack on women's rights is occuring to suppress them. Barefoot, pregnant, under the thumb of one boss who one is married to, uneducated and unpaid, paid less.
The GOP is making life choices for women that greatly affect their financial lives and their freedom and role in society, are as bad as taking the right to vote.
Which Texas did by suddenly requiring divorced women who still bore their ex's last name, to prove they were who they were at birth to correct the record. But they had been voting for years. Years of poverty from the causes I listed above kept them out of politics, too.
This is the thing about HRC that some find appealing. Not that she would be POTUS. But that women need to be elevated and that would indeed stop wars, poverty and violence. Because enlightened women don't choose to do these things first, they are more cooperative and less confrontational.
(It's like that pic of Bain I've posted which is interesting to me as it shows a certain level of mental strength she has, but she is against guns:
But there is a disconnect there that is obvious to me. Because the woman who is pregnant is vulnerable, and most women eschew such violence. For me it's funny, but it's not what most women would do.)
A polite person visited the HRC group to advocate for O'M. But that is a violation of boundaries to not go along with the intent of a group. It just seemed surreal. Obviously, the HRC group is about getting her elected.
Just as the BOG is about the Obamas and what he has done. And on and on with all the safe haven groups. Which are not safe havens at all, when you see what has happened to 1SBM.
1SBM posted very early this morning and will come tonight to find a notice in his mailbox, I guess. I hope he doesn't go. He is one of the most openminded and also is involved in his own networking for AAs in his state.
He is the real deal. Which is more than I can about so many others posting online. I just don't believe them anymore.
I planned to vote for BS in the primaries, not disparage other candidates but if the real life crew is anything like online, nothing doing. But the HRC accepted me under those terms, that I'd vote for her if she won the nomination and wanted to learn more about her. She's made a huge difference in the way women and girls are being treated in other countries, and these are POC she's helped.
I have always said, to dismiss 51% of the world's population is not a winning strategy. Which is why the attack on women's rights is occuring to suppress them. Barefoot, pregnant, under the thumb of one boss who one is married to, uneducated and unpaid, paid less.
The GOP is making life choices for women that greatly affect their financial lives and their freedom and role in society, are as bad as taking the right to vote.
Which Texas did by suddenly requiring divorced women who still bore their ex's last name, to prove they were who they were at birth to correct the record. But they had been voting for years. Years of poverty from the causes I listed above kept them out of politics, too.
This is the thing about HRC that some find appealing. Not that she would be POTUS. But that women need to be elevated and that would indeed stop wars, poverty and violence. Because enlightened women don't choose to do these things first, they are more cooperative and less confrontational.
(It's like that pic of Bain I've posted which is interesting to me as it shows a certain level of mental strength she has, but she is against guns:
But there is a disconnect there that is obvious to me. Because the woman who is pregnant is vulnerable, and most women eschew such violence. For me it's funny, but it's not what most women would do.)
A polite person visited the HRC group to advocate for O'M. But that is a violation of boundaries to not go along with the intent of a group. It just seemed surreal. Obviously, the HRC group is about getting her elected.
Just as the BOG is about the Obamas and what he has done. And on and on with all the safe haven groups. Which are not safe havens at all, when you see what has happened to 1SBM.
1SBM posted very early this morning and will come tonight to find a notice in his mailbox, I guess. I hope he doesn't go. He is one of the most openminded and also is involved in his own networking for AAs in his state.
He is the real deal. Which is more than I can about so many others posting online. I just don't believe them anymore.
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Thank you. Have you seen the attacks in the big forums on minority communities?
Number23
Jun 2015
#17
That's why so many of us don't even bother. There is no reasoning with people like this
Number23
Jun 2015
#31
I have truly come to believe that THIS is the one true goal of this group of loud know nothings
Number23
Jun 2015
#52
IDK if they understand what they are doing will discourag people from voting, period:
freshwest
Jun 2015
#62
That's why I feel some are Libertarians. This was the 2008 behavior of Pauls.
freshwest
Jun 2015
#66
Why do I get the feeling most of these folks probably couldn't even do that right?
Number23
Jun 2015
#35
Yes, between that and jumping into groups, they have all the zeal of a Paulite. And some..
freshwest
Jun 2015
#58
Well, I was born and paying attention and it was ALL about race. They should stop denying this!
freshwest
Jun 2015
#69
You need to hurry up and post your findings from your three OPs. That will make for some very
Number23
Jun 2015
#73
I loved the idea of of an MLK memorial in DC--I hated the execution of that thing.
MADem
Jun 2015
#51
Last I heard Secretary Salazar said it was staying blank. That is what the artist recommended.
MADem
Jun 2015
#59
Help me, you are speaking of the Bernie supporters who are using MLK to incorrectly imply
randys1
Jun 2015
#16
Wait, but... I want to understand what you were talking about, if not that, what.
randys1
Jun 2015
#21
Oh, that. I am arguing with a braindead rightwinger elsewhere at the moment, a group of us are
randys1
Jun 2015
#29
I saw that OP when it only had a few posts. Just saw it again. The "Amens" have done it for me
Number23
Jun 2015
#19
I have been banned from the Bernie group. I have supported Bernie both financially and in his
randys1
Jun 2015
#23
"The Bernie group on DU is nothing like the Bernie group in the real world, I hope"
Number23
Jun 2015
#26
I can't find the post yet, but you said of O'Malley and positions and reciepts. Then gave a list of
freshwest
Jun 2015
#104
I know you do! I'm more likely to use that gun. Some have cut on me too long. I got a short fuse now
freshwest
Jun 2015
#106
That forum brooks zero dissent--even if the dissent has nothing to do with the candidate.
MADem
Jun 2015
#28
Apparently a few folks saw fit to "inform" the OP that we were just terrible, awful here
Number23
Jun 2015
#77
Are you starting to see why you can practically count on two hands the number of black posters in
Number23
Jun 2015
#18
And deliberately going against the new rules on electioneering. It won't be locked, because... MLK!
freshwest
Jun 2015
#83
When I saw that one quote by MLK posted yet again, without context, without anything...
Spazito
Jun 2015
#88
And here's the thing, most Bernie supporters on DU dont know what he means, anyway.
randys1
Jun 2015
#91
Thank you for this thread. Reading all of your comments makes me feel normal again.
betsuni
Jun 2015
#79