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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Racist Meme: The South Doesn't Count [View all]Enrique
(27,461 posts)369. look inward n/t
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You know, it never ceases to amaze me that when comments from another site are posted,
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#419
But you agree that vile, racist posts that are scrubbed deserve to be repeated?
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#494
I will hidden if I link to Mr. Pitt's work.....But I am sure you are familiar with that
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#513
Thankfully, the other poster who opined on this matter was able to use the search box.
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#531
Usually, sincere apologies are followed by contrition, humility and a change in behaviors.
opiate69
Mar 2016
#502
I disagree with you, but I'm glad we agree that theoretically, they should be treated equally by
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#536
Will Pitt's POSUCS comment was repeated here endlessly. And his was not a vile, racist, bigoted rant
kath
Mar 2016
#515
Ahem....plenty of AA and other posters did take it as a vile, bigoted rant.
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#521
I'm of the belief that there's no point in posters questioning each other's ethnic/minority claims.
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#574
It surprises me that no one else seems to have brought this up here in the past week.
kath
Mar 2016
#464
Like you searched riderinthestorm? For what, shits and giggles, or to 'prove'!! she wasn't
polly7
Mar 2016
#562
Oh, it was absolutely unjustifiable, agreed. I hadn't thought she tried to justify it.
SusanCalvin
Mar 2016
#576
I am a matrilineal Jew...My mom was Jewish...My dad wasn't...I forgive her.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2016
#492
Did someone actually say the voters in the primary in the south don't matter?
RiverLover
Mar 2016
#331
OK fine, let her get you upset about made-up memes that never happened but in her mind.
RiverLover
Mar 2016
#338
You just "don't like the rhetoric"....that didn't exist. And you rec her OP based on a lie.
RiverLover
Mar 2016
#346
Not only that, she posted an article by a raging racist and defends doing it.
cui bono
Mar 2016
#320
I don't necessarily either, but she stated that that is what she is doing. n/t
cui bono
Mar 2016
#377
Primaries do not involve the electoral college. You should check that out.
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2016
#500
Democrats have no winner take all states. Pledged delegates are awarded proportionally.
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2016
#514
Ask Tad Devine. He was instrumental in creating that system of Super Delegates.
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2016
#538
I think if every 4 years you get to vote first, by definition you don't count "less".
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2016
#13
There you go interjecting those pesky facts into a perfectly good poutrage again.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#16
Did you ask around yet about who is harassing my family with screeshots of du and dkos?
bravenak
Mar 2016
#20
Are you still claiming someone posted your name and personal info "over and over and over" here?
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#30
I could care less what ANY OF YOU thinks about my credibility after these anti black racist memes
bravenak
Mar 2016
#43
That's probably a good thing since anyone who uses hate speech against a minority has none.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#55
This whole thread is like watching a train wreck, ship wreck and 40 car pile up at the same time
Number23
Mar 2016
#666
Because I don't take orders from you? And anyone who disagrees with you is "stalking" you.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#85
I remember those posts, who said they get to decide who is and isn't a PoC?
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#156
This is why I don't dare post pictures here, I actually think some people are that sick.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#195
I've seen you stalked relentlessly and bullied ....... you've risen above it like a star. nt.
polly7
Mar 2016
#200
Yes, it really is. Like I say, that kind of cruelty is something I will never, ever understand and
polly7
Mar 2016
#234
She told me in a pm that someone wasn't "black enough" to say the things they were saying.
cui bono
Mar 2016
#381
Nah .......... I don't leave just because someone tells me to on a place I've paid money to post.
polly7
Mar 2016
#153
Yes, the anti-semitic rant posted on FrontPage Mag - a cesspool site owned by the vile David
kath
Mar 2016
#273
I love that site too, I've posted a lot of their finds in the A & A group.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#301
She did indeed threaten me, and after they tried to find my facebook account I should be worried.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#134
Cruelty ..... I don't know, BMUS. I'm kind of glad I don't truly understand it. nt.
polly7
Mar 2016
#193
Results of the inevitable alerts on you, brave.. they want to silence you once again.
Cha
Mar 2016
#137
Yeah, their obsession says everything about them and nothing about their targets.. it's despicable
Cha
Mar 2016
#150
What about when people kept bringing up Will Pitt's POSUCS comment over and over and over and
kath
Mar 2016
#487
Hey .... you started all the elementary school bullshit - I thought that's the direction
polly7
Mar 2016
#545
Yep. I agree. Plain fucking nasty . But carry on, an idle finger is the devil's tool. nt.
polly7
Mar 2016
#570
I think everyone is wise to the tactic now, that's the beauty of DU.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#292
after being so thoroughly hoisted on their own petard..... would maybe back off a bit,
AlbertCat
Mar 2016
#554
She also used dog whistles about his religion, he doesn't "share the faith".
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#258
Oh yes indeed, my dad always told me what goes around comes around.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#277
I'm going to copy and paste this threat for my journal, just in case.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#202
You repeatedly accused me of stalking you and colluding with people you say contacted your family
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#214
No one follows you around, you're posting on an open internet forum.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#230
It's deflection, any time her own hate speech is brought up she accuses others of harassment.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#176
I think you should report it to Admin - maybe, just maybe, they will pay attention one day
kath
Mar 2016
#307
Whoever alerted on it should report the jurors too, threats of violence should be hidden.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#311
If you didn't notice a threat of violence, maybe it was because there wasn't one.
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#404
I usually burst out laughing at all your posts ........ and I'm never really sorry.
polly7
Mar 2016
#480
I wish I could believe you....But your posts seem angry, not amused, and that's too bad.
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#497
Wow, all that from someone who DID stalk and harrass a poster here - that had a post hidden,
polly7
Mar 2016
#493
It IS harassment and it's being used in an attempt to shut Bravenak up. Looks like all
seaglass
Mar 2016
#417
Was it harassment when people kept bringing up Will Pitt's POSUCS comment for years?
kath
Mar 2016
#491
So explain this one to me, how do you marginalize voters who already voted?
nadinbrzezinski
Mar 2016
#19
Bernies' victories in ID and UT are as worthless to the Dems in the GE as winning the South
EndElectoral
Mar 2016
#22
Go back to the civil rights act passage of 64,and breakdown how often states have gone Repub and Dem
EndElectoral
Mar 2016
#44
This is about trying to discount the black voters in the south during PRIMARIES
bravenak
Mar 2016
#53
It's that "currently" whoever wins for the Dems in Utah or Mississippi doesn't mean squat in the GE
EndElectoral
Mar 2016
#97
Disagree. A voter in Mississippi would actually be worth the same as a voter in New York
EndElectoral
Mar 2016
#189
Electoral votes are proportioned by population anyway. Winner takes all is what skews things.
EndElectoral
Mar 2016
#227
Wow! Always when shown incorrect, dismissive and snippy. Even my teen kids don't do that! nt
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2016
#164
Wish you told the truth more often. Please do provide evidence of your latest outlandish claim.
DisgustipatedinCA
Mar 2016
#656
Those protesters were incredibly brave. Anyone who faces violence and stands firm is.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#207
DU expressed very little interest in Moral Mondays and the +/- 1,000 arrests...
WorseBeforeBetter
Mar 2016
#595
No, if you hear him speak, he says "unfortunately, the southern states vote for republicans"...
glowing
Mar 2016
#45
Not because dems voted with them!!! They have a way better local govt, DNC abandoned red state local
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#393
The "only real difference" you could find? Sounds more like the one difference you WANTED to find
MadDAsHell
Mar 2016
#49
Actually polling shows that with a Trump nomination Utah could be in play in the GE.
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#368
It's an unfortunate fact that GOP-heavy states don't count for as much in the general.
rachacha
Mar 2016
#128
Yeap, that and Cornell West seems to have disappeared from Sanders campaign
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#378
I am a proud Southern Bell, we really know we count and being discounted
Thinkingabout
Mar 2016
#175
The south counts, everyone counts, we need to stop dividing and start uniting!!! nt
slipslidingaway
Mar 2016
#179
That's what they call Bernie supporters, even though its incredibly obvious its a lie.
RiverLover
Mar 2016
#295
Because racial tone-deafness has been *from day 1* the weak point of Sanders's campaign
Recursion
Mar 2016
#208
Yeah, you probably don't. And this is why Sanders is losing African Americans 4:1
Recursion
Mar 2016
#226
Right, but I mean you thought it was rhetorically appropriate to bring up the 3/5ths compromise
Recursion
Mar 2016
#254
I can only assume that people are following orders to post things like this.
DemocracyDirect
Mar 2016
#280
Another gas lighting reply as if Sanders own words on the issue aren't recorded
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#380
Those were Sanders own words!!! He dismissed the southern primary states TOO!!
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#469
And some of us will blame it on Clinton pandering, and some of us have noticed the radio message
Todays_Illusion
Mar 2016
#304
They sure can. They can also only notice one type and ignore all other types.
bravenak
Mar 2016
#329
But one electoral delegate is not winning the state. It could mean a lot in a
JDPriestly
Mar 2016
#649
Agreed it doesn't mean much, since if Nebraska is in play then things look really bad for GOP
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#650
Give up and become conservatives. It's the only thing that will stop the race baiters.
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#631
Sanders, "..Democrats are “not going to win those states in the general election"
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#442
It means those states have too many right-wing WHITE voters for any Dem to be able to win them
Ken Burch
Mar 2016
#651
These guys have painted Sanders badly in terms of a white/black skin color division from the first.
delrem
Mar 2016
#652
Yet another Sanders supporter who acts like we can't read the context being the primaries...
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#653
The fall IS the context. Bernie wasn't saying those states don't count in the primaries.
Ken Burch
Mar 2016
#662
You saying BILL Clinton did nothing doesnt make it true, check out how many blacks made it to the...
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#663
Sanders: ".Democrats are “not going to win those states in the general election.."
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#443
Irrelevant to the primary and a disingenuous conflation of primary politics to general
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#453
The context was about primary election so no need to establish the known known
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#586
Also, a lot of those states are only Red because of gerrymandering and voter supression laws.
baldguy
Mar 2016
#413
Sanders: "Democrats are “not going to win those states in the general election"
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#458
Her we go with the wingerish meme that stating facts about race is race baiting
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#457
I think the Bible Belt's history of antisemitism is not an African American versus white issue.
Vote2016
Mar 2016
#468
So if the school bully says that the kid over there said some racist comment...
DemocracyDirect
Mar 2016
#504
I thought America was growing up, becoming less racist and more open but after reading
Jackie Wilson Said
Mar 2016
#580
No one says they dont count, but Mississippi and Alabama are going to go to the GOP. I guarantee it.
davidn3600
Mar 2016
#582
Because you foolishly tried to educate someone on an issue you were laughably wrong about.
opiate69
Mar 2016
#622
This thread would make a lot more sense if those cheering its premise weren't railing against
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2016
#611
What, you mean like how Iowa and New hampshire and all the western states also "don't count"
Scootaloo
Mar 2016
#626