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Do Stein or Johnson advocate for completely reforming the electoral system in their platform? Kind of a #hottake but I feel like any 3rd party needs to lead off with that to warrant serious consideration.

 

This man is so fucking gross.

 

AP: S. Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants'

Cw: rape, torture, etc

 

I've only heard Stein talk about it to the extent of reformation in campaign contributions/corporate influence in elections. Why would it take that to warrant serious consideration of a third party though? Do you mean in terms of actually winning? Because I think you could look at the two main candidates and come up with an abundance of reasons to seriously consider voting third party.

 

the mental gymnastics are astounding

 

I wish he were dead.

 

It is important to understand that, rather than being a means to get black support, he is using black suffering to get white voters to get on board. It is about scaring them and drawing out paternalistic empathy.

 

is it even empathy he's going for? or is it just trying to give off enough of an appearance of "empathy" to convince white people he isn't actually racist

 

He is sort of signaling to white folks that this is the "white man's burden".

 

Which, really, isn't all that different from liberal tactics, it just manifests itself differently because he's coming from a different starting point

 

Yep.

 

Two NYPD reform bills are currently being considered by the City Council. One would require "cops give their name, rank and command during most routine stops now... [and hand out] a business card with the number of the Civilian Complaint Review Board" and the other would" force police to inform civilians of their Constitutional right to refuse to consent to a search." Both of these bills have majority support. The former even has enough votes to override a veto by de Blasio (Democrat), but 'his ally' Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (another Democrat) is blocking the bills from getting a vote.

 

He corrected the spelling of Wade's first name.

 

The AP is really shitting the bed the last week.

 

http://nyti.ms/2bWGTn4

Deep dive on housing discrimination and Trump.

 

I can't even begin to explain everything wrong with this

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-tragedy-tweets-2016-8

This trend is disgusting. And yet people vote for this monster.

 

lol.

 

Android = him.

iPhone = staff

iPad = ....?

 

Bill Gates' net worth hits $90B, proving Thomas Piketty's point