US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3172

On March 05 2016 06:27 strongwind wrote:

Wait, why wouldn't SJW college types support a SJW candidate? Or do you really think it's because he's old and white? I would think young voters would be the one demographic that wouldn't care much about those designations. Even the socialist label doesn't turn many of them off. Also the fact that he's got this far has largely been due to young voter participation (check Reddit for example). It just hasn't translated to the polls for some reason.

On March 05 2016 06:30 Souma wrote:

Sadly I do have SJW/uber-PC friends who don't want to vote in Bernie because he's an old white male.

On March 05 2016 06:29 ErectedZenith wrote:


Yes SJWs are racist.

On March 05 2016 06:28 wei2coolman wrote:

Clearly you don't understand identity politics. Identity > policies.

On March 05 2016 06:37 frazzle wrote:

Wow, that's a nice unsupported narrative you've got going there. Tell me more.

On March 05 2016 06:50 Plansix wrote:

I think the only person who believes that is you, since you ask its so much.

On March 04 2016 05:00 frazzle wrote:

Call it racism, or call it entitlement resentment, dogwhistle politics revolving around the premise that many if not most blacks are part of a moocher mentality, that they are 'bought' by the Democratic party through promises of welfare state giveaways, is a staple of Republican politics. This often extends to a criticism of black culture and a belief that Democrat policies serve to enable supposed counter-productive gangsta elements, whether it's an epidemic of black men not raising their children to a refusal of African-Americans to adopt societal norms in order to secure employment (i.e. pull up their pants), obsession with these topics is a central part of the Republican message .

On March 05 2016 06:48 oBlade wrote:

Don't you believe Republicans are racist?

Many Americans tell pollsters and politicians that they're angry. Why?

At least part of the answer might be tucked inside the February jobs report, released Friday by the Labor Department. Consider this:

On the one hand, the report was brimming with good economic news. It showed employers added 242,000 workers last month, exceeding most forecasts. It also showed upward revisions for job growth in January and December.

The unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent and the labor force participation rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 62.9 percent, marking the fourth increase in the last five months. U.S. companies have now added 14.3 million jobs over six straight years, a record hiring streak.

That all helped push stock prices higher. By midday, the Dow Jones industrial average was back up over 17,000 for the first time since Jan. 6.

Given all of that, what's not to like?

How about shrinking paychecks?

Average hourly earnings fell last month — down 3 cents an hour to $25.35. In addition, the average workweek declined by 0.2 hour to just 34.4 hours in February.

On March 05 2016 06:59 CannonsNCarriers wrote:
Speaking as single, professional income level white male in Los Angeles; I meet all kinds of women on the internet and in real life. I have never been oppressed by an SJW. Ever. For all the talk of their threat to our wilting masculinities, I have never even once been oppressed by any of these Cis, White, High income, Male crushing beasts. And this is in Los Angeles. I mean maybe, maybe in the hippiest parts of Berkeley there may be some Cis, White, High income, Male oppression but there needs to be a strong showing of actual evidence (even in the Bay Area, would not start up bros dominate?).

On March 05 2016 06:59 CannonsNCarriers wrote:
Speaking as single, professional income level white male in Los Angeles; I meet all kinds of women on the internet and in real life. I have never been oppressed by an SJW. Ever. For all the talk of their threat to our wilting masculinities, I have never even once been oppressed by any of these Cis, White, High income, Male crushing beasts. And this is in Los Angeles. I mean maybe, maybe in the hippiest parts of Berkeley there may be some Cis, White, High income, Male oppression but there needs to be a strong showing of actual evidence (even in the Bay Area, would not start up bros dominate?).

On March 05 2016 06:05 strongwind wrote:
I do kinda find it amazing how Bernie wasn't able to get anywhere near the Obama turnout among young voters, even with the packed rallies. Not sure where the disconnect is.

Republican leaders fought to restore confidence in their process for picking a presidential nominee on Friday after an establishment backlash against Donald Trump and another insult-strewn television debate left the party facing unprecedented, and possibly existential, challenges to its unity.

“We are in territory that our party hasn’t seen,” conceded Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), at a meeting of conservative activists gathered outside Washington, when he was asked what would happen if there was no clear winner by the time of this summer’s GOP convention.

Priebus insisted the chances of the race needing to be decided by a so-called “brokered convention” – at which delegates would be freed from voting in line with state primary election results – were just 10-15%, but discussion of an apparent attempt by former nominee Mitt Romney to engineer such a scenario was met with loud boos from the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Though strongly supportive of Texas senator Ted Cruz and mostly suspicious of Trump, the audience at CPAC appeared even more skeptical of any attempt to rig the nomination process by party leaders in Washington.

“There is no way that the people are not going to decide,” a defensive Priebus told CPAC. “Whoever the nominee is of our party, they are going to get the full backing and 100% support of the Republican party.”

Shortly after Priebus spoke, Trump announced he had pulled out of a planned appearance at CPAC on Saturday, something organizers claimed amounted to a “clear message to conservatives” and suggested the party was in actual fact now torn in three conflicting directions.

On March 05 2016 07:12 Plansix wrote:
SJW is a fictional avatar of a hyper aggressive progressive person. They are not real, but a compost of every meme, youtube video any other contextless media on the internet that shows unreasonable progressives talking about social issues. Its like “red neck” or “foot ball jock”. Its just a stereotype that is powered by the tiniest grain of truth.

On March 05 2016 07:31 wei2coolman wrote:

I had a TA for my ethnic studies class claim that she couldn't get a job in the private sector because of institutional racism in the private sector. She was a dance major, and her current PhD thesis was about interpretating dance as a form of changing political tension.

yeah.... i mean....

On March 05 2016 07:38 Plansix wrote:

What college was this and where was she obtaining this mythical PHD?

On March 05 2016 07:31 wei2coolman wrote:

I had a TA for my ethnic studies class claim that she couldn't get a job in the private sector because of institutional racism in the private sector. She was a dance major, and her current PhD thesis was about interpretating dance as a form of changing political tension.

yeah.... i mean....

On March 05 2016 07:42 wei2coolman wrote:

It a was an University of California.

tbf she was probably an acolyte of Reza Aslan.