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Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
sep. 30 2019

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RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer

Zurtilik posted:

I would argue the thread labeled [Dems] or [Biden] can kind of serve that purpose.

why not the one called [succ]?

the whole point of having our own forum is to not get hosed with like this

:qq: the mods don't like it :qq:

who cares? read something else

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

they did a good job completely killing whatever momentum the nascent left in the US had

Stinky Wizzleteats
Nov 26, 2015

because of their media outreach a lot more people know what gaslighting is, thats kinda good

a helpful bear
Aug 18, 2004

Slippery Tilde

Zurtilik posted:

I would argue the thread labeled [Dems] or [Biden] can kind of serve that purpose.

how cspam has fallen forgetting your roots: :justpost:

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

RaySmuckles posted:

why not the one called [succ]?

the whole point of having our own forum is to not get hosed with like this

:qq: the mods don't like it :qq:

who cares? read something else

seriously as long as we're not actively harassing people or shouting slurs then who fuckin cares

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Stinky Wizzleteats posted:

because of their media outreach a lot more people know what gaslighting is, thats kinda good

they also have first hand experience on gaslighting with the very brilliant and not at all condescending "$1400 + $600 IS $2000, moron" talking point

Zurtilik
Oct 23, 2015

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
Hmmm... I don't necessarily agree with the elimination of succ. I was kind if just parroting what the mods were going to say.

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

RaySmuckles posted:

why not the one called [succ]?

the whole point of having our own forum is to not get hosed with like this

:qq: the mods don't like it :qq:

who cares? read something else

the actual admins are mad/having a tantrum, just let our brave mods be their low energy patsies. u just wait em out. not like they actually care. That and its drat funny+we get to roast our mods in the interregnum.

a helpful bear
Aug 18, 2004

Slippery Tilde
Well u have a troll as your av this is very misleading!!!

Bootleg Trunks
Jun 12, 2020

Democrat party

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Homeless Friend posted:

the actual admins are mad/having a tantrum, just let our brave mods be their low energy patsies. u just wait em out. not like they actually care. That and its drat funny+we get to roast our mods in the interregnum.

yep just gotta wait until the storm passes. they will run out of energy or get distracted soon enough

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer

Homeless Friend posted:

the actual admins are mad/having a tantrum, just let our brave mods be their low energy patsies. u just wait em out. not like they actually care. That and its drat funny+we get to roast our mods in the interregnum.

seriously, what on earth are they mad about? is it really just that the zone is rude and irreverent?

sounds like a serious case of insecure copbrain

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Flavius Aetass posted:

they're great at inspiring people to believe in them, over and over and over

I think credit for this belongs to the Republican Party, not the Democrats.

Breadallelogram
Oct 9, 2012


I think they suckckskcskc

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

RaySmuckles posted:

seriously, what on earth are they mad about? is it really just that the zone is rude and irreverent?

sounds like a serious case of insecure copbrain

it had gotten to a higher degree of toxicity in the past couple of months but our brilliant mod team did nothing to address the problem until it became supercritical

BRAKE FOR MOOSE
Jun 6, 2001

please stop everyone, this is a positive place, a place of celebration

Democrats are good at keeping prices low and fires under control by cleverly utilizing the labor of incarcerated peoples

RBC
Nov 23, 2007

IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-G__sqsHc

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

please stop everyone, this is a positive place, a place of celebration

Democrats are good at keeping prices low and fires fought by cleverly utilizing the labor of incarcerated peoples
Democrats are good at bringing back slavery!

Sea_Caldwell
Feb 5, 2021

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Raskolnikov38 posted:

it had gotten to a higher degree of toxicity in the past couple of months but our brilliant mod team did nothing to address the problem until it became supercritical

there's no way they could have seen this coming, it has never happened in the history of c-spam

besides the 20 times it did

Happiness
Oct 10, 2004

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol who is that fucker anyway

person who inexplicably got made mod by posting links to streams of blm protests every single day for several months

WorkerThread
Feb 15, 2012

Happiness posted:

person who inexplicably got made mod by posting links to streams of blm protests every single day for several months

this website is fascinating sometimes

Crusty Nutsack
Apr 21, 2005

SUCK LASER, COPPERS



pew pew

BRAKE FOR MOOSE
Jun 6, 2001

the new succ zone, whenever we are graced with its presence, should have more lmao and less gently caress off this time around

like this!

Happiness posted:

person who inexplicably got made mod by posting links to streams of blm protests every single day for several months

lmao

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

#1 cool zone poster and #1 bootlicker

WorkerThread
Feb 15, 2012


gently caress off

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Democrats are good because I am being held at gunpoint to say this

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

Democrats are good because I am being held at gunpoint to say this

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!

Raskolnikov38 posted:

#1 cool zone poster and #1 bootlicker

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Raskolnikov38 posted:

#1 cool zone poster and #1 bootlicker

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author

:munch:

boo boo bear
Oct 1, 2009

I'm COMPLETELY OBSESSED with SEXY EGGS
button-haver versus fun-haver

same as it ever was.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Anyone who follows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram account probably expected that she would, at some point, post a video about what it was like to be inside the United States Capitol on January 6. Millions tuned in last week as she recounted what she saw.

The sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous account had all the hallmarks of an AOC video — the self-deprecating laughter, the intense hand gestures, the clumsy maneuvering of the phone — only this one was undoubtedly more personal. She disclosed that she was a sexual assault survivor and explained that it was especially important for her to tell her story. “We cannot move on without accountability,” she said.

Unsurprisingly, all manner of right-wing commentators wasted no time in denouncing the Instagram video as a narcissistic, manipulative, self-centered, and — most amusingly — overly political response to the right-wing riot. More unexpected, though, were the denunciations from some corners of the Left.

On the Jimmy Dore Show, Glenn Greenwald took AOC to task for refusing to let bygones be bygones and rebuffing Ted Cruz on Twitter. The Texas senator had made a cynical overture to AOC by retweeting her call to investigate Robinhood’s role in the GameStop scandal, to which she responded: “I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out . . . In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign.”

Greenwald bemoaned AOC’s treatment of Cruz, citing a missed “opportunity for Right and Left to join together” — as if the problem with the Democratic Party is that it doesn’t collaborate with the Republican Party enough.

Luckily, AOC has yet to take the less-than-sage advice regularly hurled at her (for example, that she should force a floor vote on Medicare for All or be exposed as a sellout).

Since being elected in 2018, AOC has proven adept at the difficult balancing act of confronting those in her own party when necessary while parrying the GOP’s incessant attacks on her — and she understands very well just how racist and dangerous a significant section of the Republican base is. In 2018, federal investigators discovered a Facebook page made up of thousands of Border Patrol agents posting openly racist and sexist rants about detainees along with sexually graphic depictions of AOC. The existence of the group came to light as she and other lawmakers were on their way to visit a facility in Texas where members of the Facebook group worked.

Being an unabashedly left-wing politician in this country is not without its risks and requires a thick skin. This goes double for women and, especially, women of color. AOC had good reason to fear for her life on January 6.

In the Instagram video, she described the tense atmosphere in Washington, DC in the days leading up to the riot and receiving text messages from concerned colleagues that she “needed to be careful” because “everybody knew something was going to happen.” The buildup that she detailed, coupled with the reality that the armed, rabidly angry base of her political opponents was swarming the Capitol building, was more than enough reason for her to be terrified by the time she heard a booming voice yell, “Where is she? Where is she?” (She later learned it was a police officer.)

What seems to bother AOC’s detractors is that she’s even talking about it at all and in such personal terms. But this is just how she does politics. From the first day AOC was elected to Congress, she promised that she would take her constituents with her and demystify what went on in those supposedly hallowed halls. She is speaking to the audience that voted for her — and people who would have if they could have.

AOC’s approach is based on a rather obvious supposition: that people don’t want to be condescended to by politicians, they want to be leveled with. AOC’s Instagram videos are a venue to do just that. While other politicians struggle to seem like real people, AOC engages with supporters and brings them, as much as she can, into the foreign world of the legislature, sharing her dilemmas with a rare and striking frankness.

Her firsthand account of “What Happened at the Capitol” is not an aberration but a continuation of an extremely communicative, extremely effective style of politics that matches our era. Considering the historically unprecedented events that occurred at the Capitol, we should want our politicians to share what they saw, and we should expect them to be moved and sometimes terrified by those events. We should expect our politicians to be real people.

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Yinlock posted:

there's no way they could have seen this coming, it has never happened in the history of c-spam

besides the 20 times it did

going to be funny when people in the other threads start complaining about taints being run and ask for a dedicated succ zone

Crusty Nutsack
Apr 21, 2005

SUCK LASER, COPPERS



you neutered my laser, unfair bs

Mr. Sharps
Jul 30, 2006

The only true law is that which leads to freedom. There is no other.



spacemang_spliff posted:

going to be funny when people in the other threads start complaining about taints being run and ask for a dedicated succ zone

eh its like when a bat gets into the house just open a window and eventually they find their way out

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH

Stinky Wizzleteats posted:

because of their media outreach a lot more people know what gaslighting is, thats kinda good

won't somebody please think of my film history thesis

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Sea_Caldwell
Feb 5, 2021


Holy poo poo it's Slytherin vs Griffindor!

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