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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I suspect that the new strategy is also in part a sign of confidence about winning the White House and a desire to win the Senate. If they can tie Trump to the rest of the Republican Party the Dems should make good Senate and House gains.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
That's fairly explicit in the article. Democratic House and Senate candidates were expressing displeasure that they weren't allowed to link their opponents to Trump in campaign ads.
Was the thread this heavily Democratic before this election cycle? I mean, it feels like a breath of fresh air seeing so many whose view more or less line up with mine so strongly, but part of me is afraid of falling into confirmation bias.
There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.Well, if the democrats do regain congress by some miracle, I can only hope they take Trump as the wake up call he should be. If it goes back to business as usual once this election is over, Trump will look benign compared to what's I suspect is coming.
It's a slightly left of center centrist echo chamber. I also frequent right wing and left wing echo chambers to expose myself to a diverse range of political opinions. I have yet to find a good echo chamber for establishment conservatism, unfortunately.
edited 14th Oct '16 12:58:12 PM by CaptainCapsase
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No, the token "saner than the the rest" teammate. He's not less sleazy than they are, but he is slightly more connected to reality. Slightly.
If anything he's worse than many of the crazier guys, if only in the sense that Alex Jones and his ilk sometimes come off as genuinely mentally ill. Rush is not sick. He's just a bastard. And unlike some of his compatriots—like Glenn Beck who seems to be belatedly realizing what a monster he's helped make—he shows no signs of stopping or even dialing it back.
edited 14th Oct '16 1:00:31 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
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This leaves us with the famous "reality has a liberal bias" line as an explanation, but that is somewhat facile. Rather, it's that the Democratic Party, by and large, aligns its policy goals with practical ideas that have scientific reasoning behind them.
We also don't traffic in hard left ideology: some hardcore anarchists have gotten banned and we would not accept someone who strongly advocated for ecoterrorism or anti-vaccination either.
edited 14th Oct '16 1:01:10 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"This thread definitely feels more comfortable than any other I've seen when it comes to politics. Even then, we still do have a few Republicans or harder left people hanging around.
And I don't think it's an echo chamber really. People have gotten into disagreements and debates fairly often. It's just that this election has everyone in the same boat.
Regarding Limbaugh, as I said before, it's not that he's significantly less odious than others on the right; saying that is sort of like comparing a tray of meat that's been left out for two weeks with one that's only been left out for ten days. Rush is a terrible, terrible human being who deserves all the scorn heaped on him.
Rather, he's simply not willing to go as far as the Breitbart/Jones crowd in declaring everything to be alien Nazi conspiracies. He bears a lot of the blame for them, though, as he's one of the original talk radio jockeys who built his audience by pushing the Republican establishment towards the frothing, no-compromise extremes that it now occupies. He lit the fire, he placed the stink bombs that drove reasonable Republicans out of the mainstream of their party, and thus helped create the vacuum that the alt-right has now stepped into.
He has been instrumental in pushing the GOP towards its most extreme elements. That he is no longer the most extreme thing out there is not to his credit.
We try to leave room for debate, even if we believe the conclusion to be foregone. It's healthy. We can't shut out all contradictory viewpoints; that would create an echo chamber.
edited 14th Oct '16 1:13:26 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@smokey: People get into disagreements all the time in echo chambers within the accepted range of discourse. "Shall we gas the n*****s or the k**es first" to use an extreme example. The better sort of echo chamber doesn't outright ban polite dissenters, just treats them like a leper to varying degrees, and that's how I class this place. I don't feel comfortable here, and that's the point; the bulk of one's time discussing politics should be done with people you disagree with, in my opinion.
edited 14th Oct '16 1:26:12 PM by CaptainCapsase
I have to confess I'm not overtly familiar with him, but I get the impression Limbaugh has also done immense damage to the conversation about gender issues, perpetuating the stereotype that feminists are ugly, obese women who are just bitter that society is rightfully ignoring them (a caricature still unabashedly used by many mysogynists of varying political opinions), and is also responsible for popularizing the word "feminazi".
I believe he has made a few surprisingly sensible and honest statements lately, like saying that voting for Clinton was a much more ethical choice over Trump, but he has a lot to answer for still.
edited 14th Oct '16 1:21:21 PM by Draghinazzo
Limbaugh said that Clinton is better than Trump? My stars and garters, I do believe I shall faint.
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Well I do wonder what it would be like to achieve such uniqueness in worldview that just about everyone of every stripe wants to see you swept under the rug, committed, or worse, yet you feel so blissfully affirmed in it, you don't care one way or the other what people think of you.
edited 14th Oct '16 1:26:34 PM by nervmeister

This. Only now do they somehow realize he's not of Presidential character?
There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.