General Politics Discussion [ARCHIVED] • Page 275

well, yeah? :D

 

Yeesh

 

I do like that tidbit.

 

Clinton's social media game remains one of the best parts of this election.
Not really the level of discourse I want from my president. But at least it puts a smile on my face.

 

+255k in July, +18k in revisions, and the unemployment rate is unchanged at 4.9% for the good reason that the labor force expanded by 420k.

 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/opinion/trump-reflects-white-male-fragility.html

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He appeals to a regressive, patriarchal American whiteness in which white men prospered, in part because racial and ethnic minorities, to say nothing of women as a whole, were undervalued and underpaid, if not excluded altogether.

White men reigned supreme in the idealized history, and all was good with the world. (It is curious that Trump never specifies a period when America was great in his view. Did it overlap with the women’s rights, civil rights or gay rights movements? For whom was it great?)

Trump’s wall is not practical, but it is metaphor. Trump’s Muslim ban is not feasible, but it is metaphor. Trump’s huge deportation plan isn’t workable, but it is metaphor.

There is a portion of the population that feels threatened by unrelenting change — immigration, globalization, terrorism, multiculturalism — and those people want someone to, metaphorically at least, build a wall around their cultural heritage, which they conflate in equal measure with American heritage.

 

She's not actually writing stuff like that or delete your account, but yeah one of the few things this election cycle that isn't completely awful

 

Obviously. But its still weird seeing it coming from the official twitter account

 

(Named Steve.)

 

Has Hillary Clinton done or said anything as a presidential candidate that’s surprised you?
Early on, she would say, “Yes, black lives matter,” but she wouldn’t acknowledge her role in processes that fundamentally showed black lives did not matter. She says that she is for economic justice, but she doesn’t support $15 an hour as the minimum wage.

After Bill Clinton told black protesters, “You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter,” you wrote, “My back is tired of being the path to the White House.”
I was angry about that for about a month—seriously, like every single day. It’s reprehensible for him to defend the impacts his policies have had on our communities. The Clintons use black people for votes, but then don’t do anything for black communities after they’re elected. They use us for photo ops.

Black Lives Matter Leader Says Even Great People Can Be Part of the Problem

 

Oh boy

Bernie Sanders: I support Hillary Clinton. So should everyone who voted for me

 

Fuck this guy. He equates "activity" with voting, and nothing else. Blech.