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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Article on Tim Kaine
. After reading it and a few others I don't get the complaints from the left about him. Yes, he's not Warren. He's hardly a conservative Democrat though.
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You'll simply get a refashioned Republican Party in one form or another, possibly with a name change.
Stein wants to take left-wing votes from the Democrats, and that unfortunately requires embracing some of the worst elements on the fringe left and Internet left. She's appealing not solely, but in a large part to, the group that the pragmatic left sometimes refers to as the "Progressive Unicorn Brigade". The good news is there hopefully aren't enough people like that to sabotage the Democrats.
edited 14th Jul '16 9:32:56 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
Twitch will be livestreaming the Democratic and Republican National Conventions with chat
.
Expect a solid wall of "Cuck", bigotry and Stormfront talking points.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
As in "cuckold". Someone who is not man enough to keep his women in line and loyal to him. Gag. Thank the so-called "Men's Rights Movement".
edited 14th Jul '16 9:35:49 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
Stormfront users are surprisingly forwards with their preferred fetish, namely cuckoldry. Something about white women being stolen from their white husbands by black men.
It's like that part of the manosphere doesn't even try pretending that they aren't General Ripper expies that aren't allowed to make officer in the military for good reason.
edited 14th Jul '16 9:39:12 PM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotThere's also a strong element of miscegenation to many cuckold fetishes: the idea of having one's wife taken by a black man, in particular...
edited 14th Jul '16 9:38:27 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Started on /v/ with a story about Anthony Burch and his marital problems if I recall, around when all that... business was going on. Then proceeded to get spammed by the alt-right as a generic meaningless insult to the point you can get called a "cuck" for being the one to do the cuckolding. Also to the point I'm seeing people on the left cracking jokes about characters getting "cucked" because they were on the wrong side of a love triangle or even a pair of crackships, oddly enough.
Too many of them are the angry loner type who didn't get a date to the prom and have never recovered from it. Others start out with seemingly progressive viewpoints, but are unable to distinguish feminist critiques of the patriarchy, or minority critiques of whites, from attacks on themselves, and go off to sit in a corner and rail about how "feminists are devoid of logic" and "whites are a victimized class" and the like.
edited 14th Jul '16 9:52:40 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
A lot of it is pretentious edgelords suffering from delusions of grandeur. It sucks because now a large amount of people on the left also categorically hate atheists too due to the perception that we're all fedora-wearing racist white men or anti-Semites and Islamophobes.
edited 14th Jul '16 9:57:03 PM by AlleyOop

Alternately, the Dems might come to their own crisis and split into center-left and far-left but that seems further out so far.
edited 14th Jul '16 9:28:26 PM by Elle