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"content": "If gun manufacturers were held responsible for gun violence, we'd have biometric safeties yesterday. ",
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"content": "I'm as democrat as the come and I just don't buy this argument.\n\nIf you drive your Toyota into someone tomorrow and kill them on purpose, should that person's family be able to sue Toyota the company or the car dealership that sold it to you? It just doesn't make sense. If we want biometric safeties on guns, let the CDC study it and then...make a law that says safeties on guns must be biometric.",
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"content": "Well the immunity granted to the gun manufacturers was to prevent lawsuits concerning the gun shops that sell to the black market. \n\nFor instance 20% of guns recovered at crime scenes in Chicago are sold by a single shop - Chuck's Gun shop in Riverdale, IL. But the laws basically protect the shop and the gun manufacturers from discovery. \n\nThe 2005 law was a response to Robert Rickter who was a whistleblower against the gun manufacturers that claimed they knew about shady gun dealers and still sold them firearms. The law was put in place to prevent even a discovery process to determine just how much the gun manufacturers know about their distribution channel. Because if the manufacturers have reasonable suspicion to believe a dealer is targeting criminals to sell firearms, or as Rickter claimed that manufacturers maintained a distribution system that encouraged retailers to sell guns to the black market, they can be held liable in a civil suit. \n\nThat the NRA moved hard and fast to block these lawsuits, is pretty telling that the whistleblower likely had merit. ",
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"content": "Guns are designed to kill people. It's a completely different thing. \n\nI'm not saying holding manufacturers liable is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm just saying that if that were the case, every single weapon would be completely traceable and would have actual childproof safeties built in and on and on. ",
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"content": "Guns are traceable through serial numbers and ballistics. Every gun can be equipped with safety locks, and should come with a compatible set. ",
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"content": "If Toyota was lobbying for no seatbelts, then yes. ",
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"content": "Roughly 2/3 of gun deaths are suicides...",
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"content": "Well OK, but HRC's positions (with her support of Australia model) is de facto ban on gun ownership and gun manufacturing",
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"content": "Nope...suing gun manufacturers is about forcing them to bankrupt.",
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"content": "No, it's not. Not anymore than suing any other manufacturer who lobbies to reduce safety. ",
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"content": "I think what gun manufactures can do about safety is mostly limited. It's not like cars. ",
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"content": "They can stop lobbying against common sense reform. ",
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"content": "FALSE. ",
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"content": "In Australia, government executed a mandatory purchase back program which took many rifles and handguns.",
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"content": "Sssssso? ",
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"content": "Main argument for HRC is her electability. \"Democrats will take your guns\" stuff will not play well.\n\nIn Virginia elections, Bloomberg outspends NRA 30-1 and pro-gun folks won the election.",
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"content": "Bloomberg ain't running for election. \n\nAnd the wingnuts said the same about Obama. The wingnuts will say the same about any Democrat. \n\nIt's sad to see the Bernie Bro Meltdown. \n\nThey are parroting wingnut talking points. \n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I wish some HRC surrogates know some English. Did Bloomberg run for election in Virginia or did I say that?. He SPENDS money in Virginia, he run all ads.\n\nObama didn't say anything close to what HRC says now..\n\nBTW, keep insulting Bernie supporters...it's really a good way to unite the party.",
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"content": "You insulted me first, junior. Don't whine now. \n\nAnd the NRA and their punks said far worse about Obama. \n\nYou think they wouldn't say the same about Sanders?\n\nDesperation is setting in. \n\n\n",
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"content": "Shooting yourself or another person is already illegal. Adding MORE laws to stop people from committing a crime that is already illegal has no benefit.",
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"content": "We already have LAWS against that!! Making a NEW law when we already have a law saying the mentally ill cannot buy a firearm is redundant.",
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"content": "Aren't you an unintelligent and uninformed individual. If Liberals ever wanted to have a REAL discussion the NRA is willing to be involved in that. But the unintelligent don't HAVE a plan but just to attack and spew incredibly naive comments. Just like you did.",
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"content": "I would expect an unintelligent and uninformed comment like that from a naive and illogical individual. \n\nTypical uninformed Liberal afraid to actually talk about facts and spews irresponsible hatred instead.....",
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"content": "Typical uninformed comment. No wonder Liberals are so hateful and unwilling to compromise and discuss like adults.",
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"content": "The irony of a Libertarian calling anyone else \"uninformed\" and \"illogical\".",
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"content": "So you support no further regs on Wall Street or the banks? ",
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"content": "We've already talked about this. You're arguing that some forty million Americans who live with some form of mental illness shouldn't be allowed to defend themselves from violent aggression. This is a group that is no more likely to commit acts of violence than the general population, but are several times more likely to be the victims of violent crimes like robbery, rape, assault, and murder. You're vilifying innocent and vulnerable people for the sake of political expediency. Shame on you. ",
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"content": "I don't think that gun suicides or any other suicides are unimportant. They're all terrible tragedies and should be treated as such. Let me make it clear how offensive your insinuations are. I've lost people I cared for deeply to suicide and not even half of them were gun related. Please keep your offensive hyperbole to yourself. \n\nPeople who wish to end their lives will find a way to do so. This is an unfortunate fact of life. The only effective method of addressing this would be to address depression and other mental illnesses themselves. We should be creating mental health infrastructure that will give people the support and resources to pull themselves through the difficulties they encounter in life. We should be addressing problems like bullying and substance abuse in an honest and direct manner. But, you're* not arguing for any of that, you're arguing against the Constitution. This shouldn't be something we only talk about when discussing the second amendment. \n\nThat being said, gun rights *are* human rights. The right to keep and bear arms is clearly enumerated in our bill of rights. \n\n>\"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.\"\n\nAmerican citizens have the right to arm themselves in self defense and for food gathering and recreational purposes. That's been the law of the land since the Constitution was ratified. You don't get to change that fact simply because you are uncomfortable with unavoidable facts of life. Do not suggest that I, or anyone else who does not agree with you has a callous or cavalier attitude about suicide. It does not evoke empathy. It creates contempt. You don't know the first thing about me. All you have are my arguments. Keep the discussion on those, thank you. \n\n\n",
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"content": "Again with the name calling. You're calling me a \"gun fetishist\" without even basic knowledge about me as a person. Wouldn't it be a good idea to consider whether I even owned *a* gun, let alone enough guns to be considered a \"fetishist\"? This is why people don't like you. Even you must know that your argument is invalid if you must immediately resort to name calling and straw man arguments. \n\nOf course there would be fewer suicides if their were fewer guns. There would be fewer burns if we were but to ban fire and heat. You're still ignoring the immovable law on this issue. If you want to change the Constitution, start working on a constitutional convention and rally support. \n\nEven if we were to ban all guns there would still be gun violence, deaths, and suicides. There would also be violence, deaths, and suicides by other methods. \n\nWhen you prohibit something you effectively place it into the hands of criminals. \n\nI'm sorry, but there's no easy solution to these problems and banning guns and gun ownership *is not* on the table. In fact gun control isn't at all popular with the electorate right now. As much as you may think that you're doing good, you're really just shooting yourself and the party in your respective feet. (pun intended) \n\nI feel like we've covered most of the bases here. I don't see how you could have anything more to add to this discussion. But if you want to continue, I'm going to ask you to please stop insulting me personally and making baseless assumptions about me. You don't know me and you should not be making claims about me as a person. ",
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"content": ">\"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, **the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed**.\"\n\nYou keep ignoring the final clause as if it's not necessary for the completion of the initial clause. This is simple stuff here, man. \n\nDid you know that any tool is a weapon if you hold it right? Speech that incites violence is just that: a weapon. It's rare that speech is found to be unlawful, but it's understandable why some speech shouldn't be protected by the first amendment. I challenge you to find me an example of a court ruling against the first amendment in this manner. You're not wrong technically, but you're off base. The first amendment protects speech, the second protects weapons. \n\nStrawman and strawman. 1)The US is emphatically *not* the UK. I hope you understand that. It's **imperative that you understand that.** 2)Yeah, there are some dumb people out there. They do some dumb shit. That's no reason to ban food, air, or water, now is it? \n\nLook, I don't know what you expect to get out of your position. Gun rights are baked right into the whole thing. They were so important to our founders that they were seconded only by speech itself. I understand that you mean well, but you're just spinning your tires in the mud. \n\nIf you're truly concerned about suicide, make mental health issues and infrastructure your core focus. You can actually accomplish something there. Guns are simply a part of the American tradition and culture. They're not going anywhere. If anything, this rhetoric that you're espousing has kept gun sales at record levels for the last decade or so. You're making paranoid people more paranoid and they're going out and buying more guns. \n\nAnd no, I'm no fetishist. I own a shotgun which I store at a family member's house. I haven't shot it in over twenty years. Pay attention to what's actually happening and you might find yourself in a position to effect actual change in your world. Stop it with the Sisyphusian efforts. Save yourself the bother. ",
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"content": "Good point. Even a dolt like Scalia understood the limits of the second amendment. Believe me, if he could have, he would allowed bazooka ownership. \n\nThe false dichotomy is the idea that someone's health history should supercede their basic rights. That basic rights should become a wedge between citizens and their healthcare providers. That people should be blacklisted for seeking treatment for what ails them. Do you not understand the implications of that? Can you please consider that there is some validity to what I said about gun ownership being an American tradition and a part of American culture? Have you traveled much? \n\nEdit: btw, it's petty to downvote every reply in a discussion. \n",
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"content": ">> false dichotomy is the idea that someone's health history should supercede their basic rights. \n\n>SCOTUS says you are wrong:\n\"nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the **mentally ill**\"\n\n\"Anything is a dildo if you're brave enough.\" —Abraham Lincoln \n\nCare to provide a source on your \"quoted text\"? \n\n>>That people should be blacklisted for seeking treatment for what ails them\n\n>OK, good point. There should be some process for getting a doctor to \"clear\" you. For instance, major depression is time limited. A psychiatrist could do an eval to make sure the depressive episode has ended. \n\n[Major depressive disorder] (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_%28mental_illness%29?wprov=sfla1) is a long term, if not life long disease. It involves the highest rates of suicide. \n\nThese are people who are included in that group that is [several times more likely to be the victims of violent crimes.] (http://depts.washington.edu/mhreport/facts_violence.php) You know, the people you want to disarm. \n\nConsider that the only subgroup of the mentally ill that are statistically more prone toward violence are people with antisocial personality disorder. They're a very small demographic. \n\n>This gets more into implementation, which is a fine discussion to have. But we can't have that discussion if you are still talking in black and white extremes that gun rights are absolute. Which even Scalia didn't believe.\n\nAll *rights\" are absolute. That's what makes them *rights*. Are you familiar with the term \"rule of law*? \n\n>This is the problem with the gun rights crowd. They are extreme and they will not compromise. They don't want a conversation, they want to shout about the 2nd amendment as absolute. \n\n>\n\nWhy are you worried about making them compromise? It's not going to happen. You call them gun nuts, I call them rural Americans. I also call them hicks, rednecks, and hillbillies, lovingly. I'm one of the latest group, but I'm not a \"gun nut\" or a \"fetishist\". I don't currently posses a gun. Some might even call me a **pragmatist** on this issue. I know how you HRC supporters like to use that word. I understand your perspective, I really do. I just think that your position presents like a drunk arguing with a bar. \n\n>>Edit: btw, it's petty to downvote every reply in a discussion.\n\n>The gun crowd keeps downvoting me, so maybe stop doing that. \n\n>\n\nI didn't. I downvoted one of your comments. It was the one where you hurt my feelings. Does that sound petty? Maybe it is. It's nowhere near as petty as downvoting every comment from the person you're talking to. Hopefully you can either apologize, or you can understand why I might choose to vote against the comment. Suicide isn't a small thing to me and I definitely understand your point. I just don't agree with your approach or your understanding of the situation. I haven't attacked you personally. I would *never* pretend to understand your life experiences because of your* political arguments on this topic. ",
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"content": ">This was from the Heller decision:\n>\"nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill\"\n\n>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/18/second-amendment-protects-people-with-old-nonviolent-felony-convictions/\n\nDid you even read this article? Seriously! \n\n> All rights\" are absolute. That's what makes them *rights. \n\n>No. NO rights are absolute because we they clash with the rights and interests of others. I have a right to swing my arms around, but not if you head is in the way.\n\nExactly, that's what makes them absolute. Owning a firearm isn't a violation of your rights. If I harm you or yours with a firearm, **I** committed a crime. If I stab you in the face with a fork, would that make fork manufacturers legally responsible? Should they include literature that would explain why it's bad to use forks to stab people? Would that make you feel better? Because it sure as fuck wouldn't decrease the amount of fork violence in this country. \n\n\n>Or as it was mentioned in Heller:\n\"Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is **not unlimited**. \"\n\n>I have been consistently downvoted by the gun crowd. I don't know how much of it was you, but it happens a lot. And I really have little respect for the gun rights crowd. Whatever merit they might have, they have squandered it by supporting and tolerating extremists. \n\nYou keep calling me the gun crowd. I don't really own a gun. What's your explanation here? I love guns? No, I don't care for them at all. I'm just a normal supporter of the rule of law. \n\n>It's a little like the police. When bad cops beat and kill people, the cops say, hey it's not all of us. But the problem is the good cops all stand up to support and protect the bad cops. They call it the thin blue line. Cops always support cops, no matter what. Which is why they all deserve blame for police violence they enable. \n\nSeriously? Is it possible that gun owners and gun rights supporters have no organization? But it's convenient for you to employ police unions. I mean, I don't get a union, you don't get a union, but the police definitely deserve a union to support their killing spree. \n\nWhat happens when the police come into your house and aim a firearm at your children? How about grenades*? \n\n>Same with the pro gun types. They tolerate the NRA that wants to block laws about gun lockers and smart triggers. They tolerate the NRA which bans the CDC and NIH from even researching the effect of gun violence. So the moderate gun owners blindly support and embolded the extremists. I think they all deserve blame and scorn.\n\nI don't like the NRA. For instance, they give Bernie D's and F's on gun rights when I feel like he deserves A's. But then again, what do I know. I only support the very basis of the American bill of rights. I'm just an asshole wasting everyone's time. \n\n>https://www.propublica.org/article/republicans-say-no-to-cdc-gun-violence-research\n\n>Banning research? Banning the government even collecting data on children shot by guns???? What the fuck is this, Soviet Russia? Holy fuck that is indefensible. But again, just another perk the Big Gun Lobby gets from its crooks in Congress.\n\nAnd how does any of that apply to what I've said here? Are you still calling me a Republican because I disagree with you on this one issue? \n\nMan, do I haven't been some questions for you. \n\nWhere are you on free education, K-24? How about single payer healthcare? How about universal basic income? Given that much thought? How about an entire repeal of drug prohibition? How about an across the board ban on lead munitions on US territory? What about banning fracture ming? What about spending money on rebuilding our infrastructure? \n\n",
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"content": ">>Where are you on free education, K-24? How about single payer healthcare? How about universal basic income? Given that much thought? How about an entire repeal of drug prohibition? How about an across the board ban on lead munitions on US territory? What about banning fracture ming? What about spending money on rebuilding our infrastructure? \n\n>Why do you ask? I'd gladly sign up for most of these. I'm pretty liberal.\n\n>Though this one wouldn't get passed because of the Gun Jihadists don't want any restrictions of their religious activity. \n\nI've now lost all respect for you. This conversation is over. If you'd like to learn more, please PM @ my user name. \n",
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"content": "When did I support the NRA or its agenda? Go ahead, I'll wait. I've never been a fan of the NRA. In fact, my account history will prove that I'm a staunch opponent of the NRA. Which makes sense considering that my presidential candidate has a consistent record of being graded D- and F on gun rights by the NRA. But that doesn't fit your narrative does it? \n\nWhat's wrong with you that you can't talk to a person and address their ideas? I don't understand. I'm concerned about people like you. You're arguing around me as if I were a tree. What's wrong with talking to me directly? Regardless of what you might think, I'm not your enemy. ",
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"content": "Strange that a person could hold a position that someone holds and that doesn't make them compatriots. Aren't we all democrats? Don't HRC and Sanders hold similar positions on many issues? Does that make them them the same. You need to understand that although certain that ideologies may overlap, they're not all the same. \n\nWhile it's easy for you to call me a Republican for supporting gun rights, I wouldn't have a problem describing a religious person who hands out condoms to young people a \"progressive\" whether they support the right to choose or not. At least they're actually doing something to fix the problem. All you're doing is complaining and calling names. \n\nOur party needs less of your type. We need more *people*. We don't need exclusionary tactics. In fact, that's what's going to lose this general election for us. Your elitist attitude is the result of what you smell when you have your head in your own ass. Good luck and good night. ",
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"content": "Yeah she got things done. She and her husband have put millions of Americans (especially black Americans) behind bars and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis into the ground. Let's not forget those millions of young Americans who have no possible exit strategy for their debt. Yeah, the Clintons have done a lot. Let's stop them. ",
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"content": "You want to push *that* narrative? HRC was especially outspoken about the crime bill. She even used some dogwhistle terminology to describe the people she wanted to ~~cage~~ imprison. \n\nBernie made it clear that while he did **not** agree with the criminal aspects of the bill, he had no choice but to vote for protecting women and banning assault rifles. \n\nNice try though. ",
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"content": "Really? Do you understand that the piece of legislation in question contained at least **three sets of laws*\" and your playing on a third of it? If he had voted against it you'd be arguing that he doesn't care about women's rights and that he supports assault weapons. \n\nCould you be more transparent? ",
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"content": "> Even a dolt like Scalia\n\nScalia was a horrible man but he was not a dolt. He was an extremely intelligent man. His intelligence is what made him all the more dangerous. If he was a dolt, he would be handling luggage at the airport, not sitting on the Supreme Court.\n\nScalia was smart and dangerous like Ted Cruz is smart and dangerous. Don't underestimate them by thinking they're dolts.",
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"content": "I'm sorry if you think that I'm underestimating them. I'm not. They're both dipshits because they are/were both more than comfortable with using their intelligence to benefit their specific groups. Yeah, in America that makes one a piece of garbage. You see, the United States is anything but homogeneous. In fact, all of the darkest moments in our history were instances where we neglected to respect the plurality that is the United States. Divisive politics is getting close to running it's course in the US. \n\nDivisive politics has been a boldface attempt to take the focus off of classism. You may dismiss this however you like, but the class that has been pushing this agenda is nearly unknown. I mean, we all know the Waltons. But who else? ",
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"content": "So you support no further regs on Wall Street or the banks?",
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"content": "> And we could save most of their lives if we kept depressed people from having guns.\n\nAnd they weren't allowed to have ropes, pills, or access to elevators that go to the top floor. \nOr maybe we could actually address why they want to commit suicide... ",
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"content": ">If you try to overdose on OTC pills, there is a good chance you will fail. Not so with guns. \n \nJust add Vodka.\n \n>\"Oh, we can't solve one problem if it doesn't solve all problems!\" Dumb. \n \nIn my opinion, it solves exactly *zero* problems, so... \n \n> \"We shouldn't 'keep mentally ill from getting guns, we should treat mental illness\" \n \nStraw man. \nThat's not what I said. \nWe can and should do both. \nThese lawsuits have nothing to do with that.\n",
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"content": "What's your point? \nYou just proved the intention was to not legislate, but sue into submission. \nIs that democracy?",
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"content": "KKK is not applicable as it is not a question of national policy. \nThis is subverting the democratic process for all voters to come together and pass laws as solutions to issues. \nThis is takes power out of the hands of the voters and puts it into the hands of unelected judges. \nThat's not democracy.",
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"content": "> our court system is not \"democracy\"\n\nThis is exactly my point. \nReading comprehension fail. \nBye.",
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"content": ">what you are describing is \"tyranny of the majority\". courts protect minority rights. bill of rights is not up for popular vote, and no matter how unpopular someone is, their rights are protected by courts. \n \nHow is it that you continue to make my arguments for me? \nThe bill of rights is not up for populer vote, nor is the constitution, you know, the document that *gives you the right to bare arms*. \n>no matter how unpopular someone is, their rights are protected by courts. \n \nYeah, like the right to own a firearm, for example?",
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"content": "And it's my opinion that elected officials should decide these things. \nI understand you've been to middle school, no need to repeat yourself. \nAlso, never have been an NRA member, never will be. \nJust one baseless accusation after another.",
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"content": ">We have THREE branches of government \n \nI know, I too went to middle school.",
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"content": "http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/keane-gun-liability-hillary-clinton/ \n \nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/16/hillary-clinton/clinton-gun-industry-wholly-protected-all-lawsuits/",
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"content": "I've spent a lot of time working with community organizations that deal with workforce development, and I will say this in defense of this comment by Bernie Sanders: There is a humongous difference between systemic poverty, generational poverty, and situational poverty. By and large, the kind of poverty experienced by different races differs significantly based on this. For example, a White person will rarely experience systemic poverty the way many minorities might. That doesn't mean their experience with generational poverty isn't worth anything, it just means that the experiences are different.",
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"content": "Politifact -- False, but Bernie Bros don't deal in facts in their bubbles. \n\nHere are some facts for the next week to deal with though:\n\nAccording to 538. \n\n**MI** Clinton 60.2 Sanders 37.3\n\n**MS** Clinton 79.2 Sanders 14.5\n\n**FL** Clinton 66.1 Sanders 30.9\n\n**IL** Clinton 66.0 Sanders 29.9\n\n**NC** Clinton 60.3 Sanders 36.1\n\n**OH** Clinton 61.9 Sanders 35.3\n\nIf this doesn't change, it will be over.",
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"content": "Ok, that invalidates absolutely none of what I said. People experience poverty in different ways and due to different factors and the article you posted didn't discuss that because they took Sanders' comment at face value. You can disagree, personally, all you want. This is one of the areas in which I am literally an expert.",
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"content": "Ever spent anytime in Lewiston, Maine?",
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"content": "Again, I'm going to have to ask you to make a point or stop wasting time.",
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"content": "No, or you wouldn't ask. You really need to get out in the world, experience things. It will open you up to new experiences, things, etc. White, very poor, drugs, crime. Systematic.",
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"content": "> You really need to get out in the world, experience things. It will open you up to new experiences, things, etc.\n\nAh yes, because you, a semi-random internet stranger, are the perfect person to make this assessment. This is presumptuous and condescending to the point of being downright rude. You wouldn't have to resort to such weak tactics if you had the experience or knowledge about what we are talking about to either agree or make a coherent argument against what I said.\n\n> White, very poor, drugs, crime. Systematic.\n\nWithout being intimately familiar with the situation I can't make a real assessment of the factors at play in Lewiston, Maine. Based on what you've said, it doesn't seem like *systemic* poverty as much as it sounds like *generational* poverty.",
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"content": "They a French there. In Maine they seem to be treated similar to blacks elsewhere. I do not know why.",
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"content": "> In Maine they seem to be treated similar to blacks elsewhere.\n\nI'm so sure.",
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"content": "Hey, u/Ziapolitics, do you think that poor White people are treated the same as poor Black people? That some face the same kind of racism based on their historic French roots?",
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"content": "This is such an odd exchange between the two, I don't understand the debate here. \n\n>do you think that poor White people are treated the same as poor Black people? \n\nNo. \n\n>That some face the same kind of racism based on their historic French roots?\n\nI'm not even sure what these means. ",
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"content": "> That some face the same kind of racism based on their historic French roots?\n\nDo you think that a White person being mistreated based on nation of origin (in this case France) is the equivalent to the racism faced by people of color?",
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"content": "No, not even close.",
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"content": "Lol. We took Michigan tonight. We're coming for the others. Deal with it. ",
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"content": "Then why did Sanders fall further behind in delegates?",
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"content": "Because of their own southern state that was pretty much guaranteed to Clinton. How many of those are left? ",
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"content": "dirty, dirty, dirty",
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"content": "clean living with integrity doesn't feel gross, it's feels like freedom.",
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"content": "I'm envisioning an 18-year old intern posting all of this stuff. ",
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"content": "i saw it and was shocked too! imagine trying to come off to the public as impartial, only to find out that they were being paid by the clinton campaign all along. very un-democratic",
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"content": "Super PACs are allowed to spend money pushing candidates on the internet so long as the content itself is free. So it would be stupid if groups weren't doing this to some degree. \n\nSomeone's gotta step in to police the bullshit, though.",
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"content": "Youtube of the Intercept. No agenda here.",
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"content": "does it make it untrue? i realize that truth is sometimes a foreign concept, but i haven't been able to disprove the assertions made.",
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"content": "Well a youtube video does not provide verifiable sources that can be checked conveniently. So unverifiable is useless.",
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"content": "easily verifiable. has been verified. attached is the original article from which the video was made.\n\nhttps://theintercept.com/2016/02/25/tv-pundits-praise-hillary-clinton-on-air-fail-to-disclose-financial-ties-to-her-campaign/\n\n\ndirty dirty dirty",
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"content": "TV pundits. BFD. They were dirty a long time ago. So you are not talking anything real like the NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Bloomberg, CNN News online, etc. Their reporting in other words. Krauthammer on Fox is dirty. I didn't need anyone to tell me that. Since when have pundits been neutral? I misread it. No news here. ",
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"content": "is krauthammer paid for and retained by a campaign?",
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"content": "I have no idea, this article says financial ties, not paid and retained.",
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"content": "actually, the article does say paid and retained.",
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"content": "With no proof. Nice.",
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"content": "you are a paid operative of the clinton campaign. that statement can't be proven. the facts revealed in both the article and youtube segment are, in fact, documented.",
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"content": "http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/6/on-wall-street-simple-facts-refuting-the-hillary-bought-and-sold-narrative",
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"content": "may i retort?\n\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/is-clinton-bought-by-wall_b_9190792.html",
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"content": "Do you complain about this on the links/videos you post?\n\n\nLemme guess, no.",
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"content": "His only hope is to repeatedly attack the source. He's not very good at crafting a convincing argument by himself, so he defaults to ad hominem attacks against the source of the information.",
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"content": "He has to be getting paid. Or a nice recommendation from someone. The persistence of posting and conspicuous absence of consistent logic is astounding.",
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"content": "CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post... no agenda there either.\n\nedit: http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/\n\nWhile I appreciate the downvotes, it only goes to show how removed from reality some people are.\n\n",
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"content": "Source?",
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"content": "http://cdn.truthinmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/P-Clinton-Fox-News-Donations.jpg\n\nfor a start",
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"content": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Cutter\n\ndeputy director of communications bill clinton\n\nhttps://theintercept.com/2016/02/25/tv-pundits-praise-hillary-clinton-on-air-fail-to-disclose-financial-ties-to-her-campaign/",
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"content": "OK, I look under Clinton, I don't see NY Times, I don't see Washington Post or Amazon or Bezos, I see Walt Disney but I never post from ABC so who cares, don't see Bloomberg, Newsweek, The Atlantic. Who are we talking about?",
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"content": "comcast\n\nhttps://globalwatchmanblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/2491961-9409079642-media.jpg\n\npretty sure general electric makes a ton of money off war. i miss eisenhower",
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"content": "You mean NBC?",
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"content": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_General_Electric\n\nlooks like comcast to me",
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"content": "Don't they own NBC though? Oh in case you missed it. http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/6/on-wall-street-simple-facts-refuting-the-hillary-bought-and-sold-narrative",
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"content": "three letters TPP, secretary clinton is the single most flip-flopping, will say anything to get elected, power hungry politician i have ever witnessed. love the comments section of this article. it's funny how blind people can be.",
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"content": "And NAFTA cost 800000 jobs right? Yea.",
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"content": "a million, but close.\n\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/nafta-at-20-one-million-u_b_4550207.html",
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"content": "http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/07/bernie-s/sanders-overshoots-nafta-job-losses/",
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"content": "so you don't agree with obama? freedom hater.\n\nhttp://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/more-nafta-nonsense/\n\nsame tactics you used in 2008",
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"content": "Whatever, what does that have to do with the media I don't know. GE used to own NBC. David Letterman would joke about it.",
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"content": "general electric loves wars, wars=money, clinton=wars, nbc=clinton",
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"content": "It's blatantly obvious in both television and online coverage... but since you asked, here are the current front page articles on the each of their websites.\n\n[CNN](http://imgur.com/KhOpx2H)\n\n- Sanders plays defense on \"ghetto\" comment\n\n- Clinton likens Sanders' campaign to her failed 2008 effort\n\n\n[MSNBC](http://imgur.com/cEm7iAw)\n\n- NRA praises Sanders on gunmaker liability\n\n- Why Sanders' 'ghetto' gaffe matters\n\n\n[WaPo](http://imgur.com/Rz2XoXH) (these guys take the cake)\n\n- 'Excuse me!' Bernie Sanders doesn't know how to talk about black people\n\n- What Bernie Sanders still doesn't get about arguing with Hillary Clinton\n\n- Awkward reality for Bernie Sanders: A strategy focused on whiter states\n\n- Mental health patients to Bernie: Don't compare us to Donald Trump\n\n- Clinton is running for President. Sanders is doing something else.\n\n\nNot one mention of his Maine victory or winning 3/4 states this weekend. But since you already know this and will surely be unconvinced in spite of what I've presented, I wish you the best of luck in continuing to try and shape the discourse of this race across reddit in Hillary's favor.",
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"content": "Sorry, what is the relationship with the Washington Post and any of the named media pundits? And what is the relationship between the pundits on the editorial side and the news reporting side? Do you have any evidence that there is not a strict wall between news reporting and editorial at CNN? I am not going to ask about MSNBC because I don't post from there and we know that Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes love Bernard.",
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"content": "Let's rewind. You dismissed this video because it came from the Intercept, which you claim has an agenda. You posted no proof of this. I commented to note that you dismiss the Intercept while spamming articles from CNN/WaPo/etc., yet have no qualms about their much clearer slant. You asked for a source. I presented evidence showing this slant. \n\n\nAnd then you ask a bunch of unrelated questions. Also, Maddow has moved away from pro-Bernie rhetoric following Nevada (optimism -> skepticism).",
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"content": "What is the evidence again?",
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"content": "http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/\n\nVery curious to hear your thoughts.",
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"content": "What a stupid post, you didn't prove a thing. This is just pathetic. I'm not saying there aren't pro-Hillary pundits, there are. But your comment doesn't prove you point. ",
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"content": "Thanks! And what a useless rebuttal. You chose to ignore the bias shown in the screenshots and use a Trump attack phrase to deflect without any explanation of your position. \n\nYou're one of the regular spammers of pro-Hillary, anti-Bernie articles on /r/democrats (among other subs), therefore I won't try to convince you of something that goes against your entire basis for posting on Reddit. Just know that you and /u/michaelconfoy do more harm than good in pushing Hillary as a candidate.",
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"content": "> You're one of the regular spammers of pro-Hillary, anti-Bernie articles on /r/democrats\n\nCompared to the trashy people that post pro-Bernie and anti- Clinton articles. \n\n>Just know that you and /u/michaelconfoy do more harm than good in pushing Hillary as a candidate.\n\nTotally disagree. It would be more harmful to allow Bernie nonsense spread freely without the counter viewpoint. It would be a shame if facts we're continually suppress because of Bernie bots down voted things that they don't like. I've had enough of Sanders. But your arrogance is hilarious. It's harmful to push Hillary as a candidate we support. Looks like you are an average Bernie Sanders supporter, and don't care about Hillary. That's fine, my job isn't to convince you. I can lead a close minded person to the facts, but I cannot make them open their eyes.",
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"content": "> Totally disagree.\n\nMike is one of the most subtly racist people I've seen post in r/Democrats. You yourself said that you would condemn that kind of campaigning, so why would you defend it now?",
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"content": "> Mike is one of the most subtly racist people I've seen post in r/Democrats\n\nAgain I haven't seen that, but I'm not saying it doesn't happen. And yes I will continue to condemn racism from the political left.\n\n>so why would you defend it now?\n\nJust because I'm criticizing Bernie Sanders and his supporters does it mean I'm supporting racism.",
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"content": "> Again I haven't seen that, but I'm not saying it doesn't happen.\n\nJust be careful about whom you are hopping into intellectual bed with.",
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"content": "Same to you.",
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"content": "I'm as open-minded as they come. But open-minded can easily be led astray without critical thinking. Any scrupulous reader could go through your post history and see you're not seeking to inspire genuine acceptance of your candidate, but rather to spread propaganda. ",
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"content": "> without critical thinking\n\nWhich I think you lack in abundance. \n\n>Any scrupulous reader could go through your post history and see you're not seeking to inspire genuine acceptance of your candidate\n\nHow so? I post pro-Clinton articles, someone who is open minded and has critical thinking skills can read them and make their decisions themselves. It's not my job to force you the read articles. If you wanna be closed minded go right ahead. \n\n>but rather to spread propaganda\n\nAgain as opposed to you and other Sanders bots? It's only acceptable if it's about Sanders? That's stupid, and I'm sorry, but your also stupid for subscribing to that belief. As for spreading \"information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.\" I'd look in the mirror before you start talking. ",
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"content": "Calling people stupid is such a great tactic. Effective too!",
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"content": "> Effective too!\n\nI don't think calling people stupid is an effective campaign tool. It's condescending and counter-productive, I'm calling people stupid not because I want to put a damper on their elective thinking, but if it looks like a duck and acts like a duck it's probably a duck.",
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"content": "http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/",
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"content": "Well, it is hard to find something good to say about the guy. So what? They run negative ones on Clinton. NY Times run negative ones on him too. He wanted major media exposure, well he got it. He can't handle the fire, go home. He is an amateur and his campaign is collapsing. They are running more negative ones on the Republicans than that.",
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"content": "> Youtube of the Intercept. No agenda here.\n\nAs if your posting history doesn't show YOUR agenda.\n\nYou're like the Clinton campaign's Iraqi Information Minister.",
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"content": "It's gotta be exhausting. If there's no compensation involved I can't fathom what's driving it.",
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"content": "> It's gotta be exhausting. If there's no compensation involved I can't fathom what's driving it.\n\nNeither can his therapist.",
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"content": "Good good, I get a commission every time one of you BernieBros used the word \"shillary\" with a straight face. ",
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"content": "who said shillary? that's kind of funny, did you make it up?",
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"content": "It's... in the thumbnail for the video, genius. ",
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"content": "oh yeah, i didn't see that. hahahaha. i like hillbot better anyway!",
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"content": "Actually... its $hillary. Since, you know, she's addicted to power *and* money.",
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"content": "Which \"Bernie Bros\" in particular? ",
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"content": "You, specifically. ",
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"content": "How's that? \n\nBecause I disagree with you? Or is it because I disagree with you on your own level outside of this sub? Consider that one only needs to spend a few moments looking at your account history to exact the quality of your rhetoric. Don't pretend like you're in a position to pass judgement on others. Maybe you should keep your arguments on the topics at hand. ",
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"content": "I was being sarcastic. Lighten up BernieBro. ",
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"content": "You're a genius, and everything you've ever posted online is worthy of an A+ and permanent preservation for the better of humanity in the future.",
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"content": "Comparing Sanders supporters to Nazis is really disgusting.",
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"content": "Given the amount of negative stories she's had in the last year, she hasn't been getting a very good return on investment. ",
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"content": "This channel is garabge. ",
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"content": "> This channel is garabge.\n\nYour posts and links are garabge.",
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"content": "Hahaha that's cute ",
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"content": "what about the text version? so far i haven't been able to discredit their sources. i was shocked too!\n\nhttps://theintercept.com/2016/02/25/tv-pundits-praise-hillary-clinton-on-air-fail-to-disclose-financial-ties-to-her-campaign/",
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"content": "http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/6/on-wall-street-simple-facts-refuting-the-hillary-bought-and-sold-narrative",
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"content": "what i find most interesting is the fact that they assert that she isn't as bought as others and is thereby purer somehow. they also attempt to malign senator sanders through the use of 200,000.00 to his senatorial campaign by a dnc general fund which was, in part (about 8%) paid through wall street funds. you cannot be suggesting that secretary clinton isn't beholden to the moneyed interests that pervade politics today.",
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"content": "Wall Street has made Hillary Clinton a millionaire\n\n\nhttp://money.cnn.com/2015/10/13/investing/hillary-clinton-wall-street/",
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"content": "The problem is that I don't think you know what a pundit is.",
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"content": "pun·dit\nˈpəndət/\nnoun\nnoun: pundit; plural noun: pundits\n\n 1.\n an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public.\n\ni thought these folks were neutral, but they're not :(",
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"content": "I've always known that pundits are not the same as journalist. I'm just disappointed to find out they aren't actually experts.\n\nI mean, the same people who want you to believe that Hillary Clinton is inevitable are the same people who said Donald Trump would drop out by last July. And we're supposed to think that they are any more connected to the pulse of American politics than we are?",
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"content": "The very nature of pundits means that they are nor neutral. However, journalists and reporter are supposed to be neutral. ",
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"content": "that would be partisan pundits, not supposedly neutral pundits. i understand what you are saying though, but these folks don't disclose that they are being paid by hillary's election team.",
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"content": "['Cause maybe she kinda does.](http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/keane-gun-liability-hillary-clinton/)",
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"content": "Better than ending Wall Street or the WTO",
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"content": "Well Hillary wouldn't want to end her best donation sources.",
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"content": "Most of the Goldman Sachs are from individuals. Got a problem with Democrats working on Wall Street?",
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"content": "Yep, the highly ethical traders of Goldman Sachs wouldn't accept \"bonuses\" to redistribute to the bank's favorite candidate.",
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"content": "Yes, everyone that works there is a crook. Source?",
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"content": "Of course, nobody there is a crook. They're all just naughty children that needed a good bail out and for Hillary to tell them to cut it out.",
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"content": "I have a problem with Wall Street owning politicians, yes.",
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"content": "I have a problem with the NRA owning supposedly progressive candidates. ",
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"content": "I do too. \nBut we are going to have to agree to disagree on who you are implying.",
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"content": "Well, if Wall Street \"owns\" Clinton, then the NRA \"owns\" Sanders. \n\n",
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"content": "Wall street donated to Hillary. \n\nThe NRA did *not* donate to Sanders. \n \nSo either you are speaking in hyperbole, or you are lying. \nWhichever you want to tell yourself. \nYou have a nice day.",
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"content": "Wall Street didn't donate. People who support Wall Street made individual contributions. \n\nThe NRA told their members to vote for Sanders. \n\nSo yeah, same thing. \n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Whatever makes you feel better, snow flake.",
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"content": "And the retreat is compete. ",
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"content": "Whatever makes you feel better, snow flake.",
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"content": "Dance, dance some more. ",
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"content": "Whatever makes you feel better, snow flake.",
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"content": "And boogie. ",
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"content": "Wall Street has given millions to HRC personally. That's completely independent of campaign donations. ",
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"content": ">Well, if Wall Street \"owns\" Clinton, then the NRA \"owns\" Sanders. \n\n>\n\nThat's interesting considering that the [NRA has given Bernie Sanders a D- on gun rights.] (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/20/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-nra-report-card-d-minus-most-recent/) Maybe you're confused? ",
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"content": "Well then why support gun owned Sanders?",
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"content": "An endorsement is not ownership. \nDonations would cause suspicion, but there are none.",
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"content": "Hillary Clinton has received millions in personal income from Goldman Sachs and other financial institutions. ",
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"content": "Source?",
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"content": "Google is your friend. ",
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"content": "Considering half of Americans have investments in Wall Street. ",
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"content": "I'm not clear on what you're trying to communicate there.",
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"content": "Wall Street is not evil and most people don't want it destroyed. Sanders talks about it as if most Americans don't have a vested interest in booming markets. ",
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"content": "> Wall Street is not evil and most people don't want it destroyed\n\nNever claimed otherwise. \n>Sanders talks about it as if most Americans don't have a vested interest \n\nSanders talks about it as if it's unregulated (which it is) and played a hand in a very bear market (which it was). \n> in booming markets. \n \nMost Americans have a vested interest in falling markets too.",
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"content": "Most Americans do NOT have a vested in markets falling. That is incorrect.\n\nSecondly, Wall Street is NOT unregulated. Just not as regulated as you like. \n\nWhy is it that Sanders supporters have to rely on such exaggerations? \n\nMaybe it's because they are losing and are looking for the post-loss excuses. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> Wall Street is NOT unregulated. Just not as regulated as you like.\n\nThat's fair. \n>Why is it that Sanders supporters have to rely on such exaggerations? \n \nCause nobody does that in politics, esecially not Hillary supporters (That would be No true Scotsman, since you are learning logical fallacies today) \n \n>Maybe it's because they are losing and are looking for the post-loss excuses. \n \nAnd that would be conformation bias.",
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"content": "Aw, someone is mad. \n\nAs least you admitted you were not telling the truth. That's progress. ",
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"content": "I'm telling the truth. \nThere is something called \"Hyperbole\". \nThat means to exaggerate for emphasis. \nIt's not a lie, it's an overstatement to express an idea. \n\"That meal was the worst I've ever had, it tasted like shit\". \nNobody thinks it actually tasted like literal waste, it's used to communicate more effectively and it's not a lie. \nAnd I'm not mad. \nWho gets mad at a faceless internet person that has no effect on their life?",
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"content": "It's not the truth. She does not in slightest way want to end the gun industry. \n\nIt's a lie. You are free to lie, just don't try to hedge it by claiming it's just hyperbole. \n\n",
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"content": "We are going to have to agree to disagree. ",
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"content": "Not really. You were not honest. I was. This isn't a disagreement. It's a proof. ",
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"content": "Whatever makes you feel better, snow flake.",
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"content": "It's not about feelings, either. It's about facts. ",
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"content": "> Whatever makes you feel better, snow flake.\n\n",
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"content": "Again, feelings are for idealists. \n\nFacts are for the pragmatists. ",
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"content": "Whatever makes you feel better, snow flake.",
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"content": "Now twirl. ",
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"content": "Whatever makes you feel better, snow flake.",
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"content": "And dip.",
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"content": "Well, considering that [53% of Americans have no money invested in the stock market including retirement accounts] (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/31/stocks-and-the-recovery-majority-of-americans-not-invested-in-the-market/), *most* Americans *do not* have a vested interest in Wallstreet or its profits. ",
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"content": "No. No, she doesn't. \n\nDoes Sanders want to end all private investment in stocks? ",
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"content": "Yes, yes she does. \nWhat does that have to do with the tea in China?",
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"content": "It's a comparison to your strawman argument.\n\nHillary does not have a track record of banning guns, nor introducing leg to ban guns. \n\nSo your argument falls flat in a desperate attempt to excuse Sanders. ",
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"content": "I'm not sure that you know what a straw man is. \nCause this isn't one. \nThe article very plainly lays out a fully formed argument against Hillary, not a straw man.",
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"content": "It is a strawman since you are asserting she wants to end the gun industry. \n\nThat is an exaggerated mischaracterization of her position. Which is a strawman. \n\n",
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"content": "> exaggerated mischaracterization of her position \n \nThat would be [reductio ad absurdum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum), not a straw man. \nAnd I said \"kinda\" which implies \"not in entirety\". \nSo it's also not reductio. \n",
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"content": "I'm familiar with them. \nI disagree with that *very* biased article. \nAt least CNN is *somewhat* neutral. \nMother Jones is *totally* on the far far far left of this issue. \nI will never accept as fact any reporting on firearms from Mother Jones as they have very publicly stated their opinion on the issue. \nThat would be like quoting Breitbart on healthcare! \nOr Fox News on, well, anything really.",
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"content": "You understand that there are left, center, and even right democrats, right?",
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"content": "No...he's not blindly anti-gun. Suing gun manufactures for gun violence is like suing car manufacturers for drunken drivers. ",
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"content": "Roughly 2/3 of gun violence are suicides and I am pretty much sure that only a tiny percentage of gun violence are cases where non-owner used the weapon",
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"content": "http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html",
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"content": "Since when New York Times is a right wing website?\n\nFrom article..\n\n> When Americans think about deaths from guns, we tend to focus on homicides. But the problem of gun suicide is inescapable: More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide\n\nIf 33,000 people dies from gun violence every year and more than 60% are suicides than suicide from guns are about 20,000",
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"content": "Because guns didn't exist until modern firearms manufacturers invented them and gun rights aren't written directly into the US Constitution?",
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"content": "Here's the full text for the sake of being* accurate and honest. \n\n>\"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.\"",
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"content": "I am amazed by fellow Democrats who got crazy about Koch Brothers or Sheldon Adelson's donations to GOP politicians' SuperPACs somehow have no problem about Wall Street or other special interest groups donates Hillary's and other Democrats' SuperPACs",
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"content": "No. \nThey are completely liable for a defective product. \nhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/keane-gun-liability-hillary-clinton/",
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"content": "And that is it.\n\nChainsaw:\nhttp://law.justia.com/cases/wisconsin/court-of-appeals/1991/90-2663-6.html",
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"content": "What's your point? \nShould we start doing background checks for chainsaws? \nMaybe chainsaw safety courses? \nPerhaps people should have to wait for a 24 hour waiting period before buying a chainsaw?\n",
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"content": "They are the only industry that have special liability protection. No one has said why they deserve this protection. Everyone brings up cars, chainsaws, etc. that don't have this protection as if that is relevant. They have it because the NRA and the gun lobby had money. Plain and simple.",
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"content": "You are either misrepresenting the situation or you don't understand some of it. \nThey are still liable for a mismanufactured product. \nJust like cars etc. \nThey just have a front firewall for frivolous lawsuits. \nThey got it because the courts were being abused. \nActually read the CNN article I posted instead of repeating the same stuff that keeps getting shot down.",
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"content": "They got it because of that uh? Why didn't any other industry get it? Was the poor arms industry being picked on? Was that the problem? You of course have the data to back that up right?",
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"content": "> They got it because of that uh? Why didn't any other industry get it?\n\nOther industries weren't being attacked. \nI'm sure we'd do something like that for the auto industry too if the situations were similar. \nThe auto industry has laws on the books that doesn't allow you (a consumer) to buy directly from the manufacturer. \nThat's why Tesla has such an up hill battle. \nWhy does the auto industry have that protection and no other industry does? \n>Was the poor arms industry being picked on? \n \nYes, it was. \nAnd your flippant way of asking that makes it very obvious that you have no intention of reasonably coming to a compromise. \n>You of course have the data to back that up right? \n \nHuh, I didn't know you knew what a source was. \n[But yeah, I do.](http://www.cnn.com/1999/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/15/wh.guns/index.html)",
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"content": "That is not data. That is the White House. The gun lobby had much more with their bought Congress. Show me the data that they were going to go out of business because of the suits with out this protection. Should be readily available in the Congressional hearings for passing this law, right?",
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"content": "There isn't evidence for something that was preemptive. \nYou aren't even making sense, but that's nothing new.",
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"content": "So they do have special treatment over other industries?\n\nAnd also lobby to get the laws even looser.",
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"content": ">So they do have special treatment over other industries? \n \nThey have a protection that was put in place because of abusive lawsuits. \n>And also lobby to get the laws even looser. \n \nSo does every other industry in the Country. \n\"Good ones\" and \"bad ones\". \nEverything from oil to solar lobbies the government.",
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"content": "They have a protection that no other industry has. \n\nIt's wrong. ",
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"content": "Plenty of industries have protections that others don't. \nSo do we need to go though every law on the books and make sure no one industry has protections another doesn't? \nThe gun industry has a protection against certain lawsuits that would be thrown out anyway. \nOther industries don't need that protection because they aren't a target. (no pun intended) \nThey are still liable for a defective product or failure to adhere to safety guidelines. \nIf you want to make \"guns safer\" this isn't the way to go about it. \nLobby for better safety features and/or better mental health programs, better training, better awareness programs and proactive mental health treatments. \nWe have a serious problem in the country with mental issues going unnoticed or ignored. \nBut what you are actually pulling for here is the ability to file worthless lawsuits. \nLet me be clear, I have no problem with this law being lifted. \nI just don't like people misrepresenting it. \nAnd the amount of misinformation, be it intentional or not, is ridiculous. \nhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/keane-gun-liability-hillary-clinton/",
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"content": "So it is wrong? Or not. \n\nThere is no misrepresentation here. They get special treatment, because guns. ",
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"content": "The world is not black and white. \nNot everything is right or wrong. \nThe misrepresentation is coming directly from Hillary's mouth. \nShe is literally either intentionally lying or she is ignorant of the actual facts. \nCars get special treatment because cars. \nFood gets special treatment because food. \nShouldn't each industry have taylored legislation relevant to their unique needs and products? \nAnother *question* you should be asking is, \"Are they really the only ones with this protection?\" \nThe answer is a resounding \"No\". \nOnline service providers also have a similar rule against people misusing their product (the same protection the gun industry has).\nIf you'd actually like some facts... \nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/16/hillary-clinton/clinton-gun-industry-wholly-protected-all-lawsuits/",
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"content": "I think the bottom line is that most blacks don't care one way or another. And I get that. \n\nIf you're trying to virally promote photos of you from the 60s to prove that you 'support equal rights' then you're doing something wrong. And I say that as a fan of Sanders. \n\nYou know what would trump photos of arrests at civil rights rallies from the 60s? \n\nUm, lots and lots of legislation that proves that you support equal rights and a lot of action that proves you are fighting for blacks and hispanics. \n\nAll that matters is your voting record and what you have promoted CURRENTLY. \n\nTo me, those photos seemed like a desperate marketing attempt to get a demographic that hasn't shown much interest in him. \n\nIt's a shame really…I think Bernie would do more for equality across the board if he can get elected but his message hasn't gotten through or it hasn't be well received. One or the other. \n\n\nWithout the black demographic, Bernie is going to have a very, very hard time winning. That's the truth and bottom line here.",
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"content": "They're not a marketing attempt. They're history whether one agrees with Senator Sanders and his candidacy, or not. ",
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"content": "Idiotic HRC surrogates still doesn't get it...\n\nIt's not about what Bernie did 60 years ago...it's proving Bernie Sanders is holding same principles in his entire political life.\n\n> In spite of his claim that race relations would be better under his presidency than Pres. Obama’s, Sanders seems to be focused on the white voter as part of his winning strategy.\n\nWTF he supposed to do...blacks are voting for Hilary by 4-1. Of course he will focus to white and Latino voters. \n\n> He seems actively to distance himself from the concerns of the African-American community and only expresses concern for specific African American issues after he has been dragged to them\n\nProof?",
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"content": "> It's not about what Bernie did 60 years ago...it's proving Bernie Sanders is holding same principles in his entire political life.\n\nWhere as Clinton has just had the principles since she was 21. The problem here is that he may have had the principles but he has a sparse record of doing anything regarding them. Sanders supporters just don't get that.\n\n",
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"content": "Really? You can have a substantial debate between Hillary 2008 and Hillary 2016!\n\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-2008-2016_us_56041a79e4b0fde8b0d184a2\n\nhttps://youtu.be/I9E9-lZ456A?t=12m17s",
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"content": "25 years in the Congress and he managed to hire how many black staffers? Zero? Had to work at doing that I figure.",
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"content": "So he has to apply a some kind of racial quotas instead of hiring applicants whom he finds qualified?",
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"content": "If he couldn't find a qualified person of color in DC, he wasn't looking. #feeltheburned.",
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"content": "Didn't a million people march with King? I don't see how this gives much standing.\n\n",
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"content": "what, what, what???",
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"content": "Maybe the democrat sub is not the right place to spread right wing smears against the head of the Democratic Party. ",
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"content": "Hillary Clinton is hardly the \"head of the Democratic Party.\"",
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"content": "She's the presumptive nominee running for president--aka head of the party. \n\nEDIT: Even if you downvote me, it's still true. ",
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"content": "That doesn't make her the head. \nNot unless she is elected, in fact. \nEven being the nominee doesn't make you the head.",
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"content": ">Even being the nominee doesn't make you the head.\n\n\"Head of the party\" isn't an actual title. It's what you call the most powerful person within the party. The person who sets the agenda. The public face of the party. And that is, without a doubt, Hillary Clinton.",
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"content": ">It's what you call the most powerful person within the party. The person who sets the agenda. The public face of the party. \n \nI'd call that Debbie Wasserman Schultz. \nShe sets the agenda, she decided the debate details, she's the face of the party.",
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"content": "You think Clinton answers to her? Please.\n\n>she's the face of the party.\n\nHuh? The public face of the party is clearly Hillary Clinton! I mean, there's dozen of articles about her every week in every newspaper, and endless TV coverage, etc. etc.\n\n(Actually, Barack Obama is the head of the party for now.)",
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"content": ">Actually, Barack Obama is the head of the party for now. \n \nNow that is something we can agree on.\n\n",
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"content": "Just wait and see. ",
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"content": "i had no idea this was i right wing source. i have some concerns about her electability as i believe in the rule of law.",
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"content": "He didn't say source, he said smear. ",
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"content": "ohhhh, i guess i'm living up to his user name. i didn't realize that this was a smear though. seems legit.",
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"content": "I'm reporting this article, again for spreading nonsense. ",
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"content": "https://hacked.com/hillary-clinton-email-hacker-to-be-extradited-to-the-us/\n\nhow about this?",
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"content": "I need a real source. Tell me when you get it. ",
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"content": "how about two?\n\nhttp://www.weeklystandard.com/clinton-hacker-extradited-to-u.s./article/2001449\n\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3481740/Notorious-Romanian-hacker-Guccifer-released-Hillary-Clinton-s-private-emails-George-Bush-s-family-photos-extradited-United-States.html",
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"content": "Questionable source. All the e-mails were retroactively classified as there is a lot of inter-agency dick measuring on what's classified or not classified. Why is no one digging into Colin Powell's use of a private e-mail server when he was SoS....that's right he deleted EVERYTHING on it and no one cares",
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"content": "yeah, because as a general, he had a real understanding of why state secrets are secret, and what would be appropriate to have on a personal e-mail.",
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"content": "https://hacked.com/hillary-clinton-email-hacker-to-be-extradited-to-the-us/\n\nis this better",
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"content": "Some facts about Jeff Bezos, founder/CEO of Amazon and owner of WaPo:\n\n- he's very very very extremely wealthy, so he obviously stands to lose from a tax perspective if Bernie wins\n\n- Despite being ideologically opposed to the Democratic Party (at least in principle), Bezos has enjoyed friendly ties with both the Obama administration and the CIA. As Michael Oman-Reagan notes, Amazon was awarded a $16.5 million contract with the State Department the last year Clinton ran it. http://www.geekwire.com/2012/bezos-secretary-clinton-announce-amazon-kindleus-gov-deal/\n\n- Amazon also has over $600 million in contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization Sanders said he wanted to abolish in 1974, and still says he “had a lot of problems with.”\n\nFeel free to add more.",
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"content": "http://fair.org/take-action-now/media-activism-kit/how-to-detect-bias-in-news-media/\n\nAnd while I appreciate your patronizing link, I know what ad hom is. Ad hominem = attacking people, not ideas, in the context of an argument. The argument here is that WaPo is slanting hard in favor of one candidate. Information about Bezos and his interests in seeing Hillary get elected is NOT an ad hom, but in fact evidence supporting the conclusion. But you're one of the Hillary minions so this will likely fall on deaf ears - since you don't want to have genuine debate.",
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"content": "Could you be lazier? Not even someone that agrees with your point wants to look at your stupid link.",
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"content": "This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/) reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n*****\n> There were two posts in this time frame that one could consider neutral: "These Academics Say Bernie Sanders' College Plan Will Be a Boon for African-American Students, Will It?" and "Democratic Debate: Clinton, Sanders Spar Over Fracking, Gun Control, Trade and Jobs." None could be read as positive.\n\n> Amazon also has over $600 million in contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization Sanders said he wanted to abolish in 1974, and still says he "Had a lot of problems with." FAIR has previously criticized the Washington Post for failing to disclose, when reporting on tech giant Uber, that Bezos also owns more than $1 billion in Uber stock.\n\n> The Washington Post's editorial stance has been staunchly anti-Sanders, though the paper contends that its editorial board is entirely independent of both Bezos and the paper's news reporting.\n\n\n*****\n[**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/49hx4j/washington_post_ran_16_negative_stories_on_bernie/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ \"Version 1.6, ~42636 tl;drs so far.\") | [Theory](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31bfht/theory_autotldr_concept/) | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr \"PMs and comment replies are read by the bot admin, constructive feedback is welcome.\") | *Top* *keywords*: **Post**^#1 **Sanders**^#2 **Bezos**^#3 **Amazon**^#4 **Washington**^#5\n\n",
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"content": "What do you think should happen. No reporting on Bernie's losses? No reviews of his platform or claims? \n\nBernie's not doing well in the primary. You're going to see some stories about that. And Bernie's platform is largely divorced from reality - pointing that out is responsible reporting, and certainly under the purview of a serious newspaper.\n\nI get that you want to feel like people who don't share your politics are being duped. At some point, reality will set in.",
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"content": "It's the hyperspin in the period between the debate and Michigan primary that's troubling. Even-handed vetting and some smears are normal. One article every 1.5 hours falls far outside of what might reasonably be expected.",
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"content": "If Sanders were to receive exposure in balance with his chances of winning, he'd get 1 article out of 20. From where I am sitting, he is over-represented.",
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"content": "You didn't address my comment. WaPo wants to ensure that 5% chance of winning doesn't happen by pushing a massive, slanted batch of articles. Conflicts of interest are entirely ignored in the media today.",
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"content": "I think that the problem - Sanders' problem. You're problem. - is that Sanders' weaknesses are real. His failings are real. And his predicament is real. You seem to think that unbiased looks like a 50/50 review of the two candidates. That isn't actually correct. What you are seeing is an appropriate balance. Bernie is getting bad press cause he deserves it. He is making gaffes. He is losing the race. He is failing to expand his base of support. It is all spiraling downward. That is why it looks the way it does. It is fair. It is balanced. It isn't the coverage you should challenge, but rather you conception of reality.",
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"content": "Your comment is rife with misspellings (e.g., \"you're\" in the first sentence), baseless generalizations (\"his failings are real. And his predicament is real\"), and other departures from reality (Bernie is \"making gaffes\" - improper phraseology - and \"failing to expand his base of support\"). I'll respond in full if you provide some evidence for your assertions.",
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"content": "If I was in your position, I'd try to shift the topic to grammar as well.\n\nHere are the real failures:\n\n[National Polls- Sanders has never, ever been ahead. He is currently losing ground.](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/national-primary-polls/democratic/)\n\n[The money race - Sanders way, way, way behind](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/election-2016-campaign-money-race.html)\n\n[Political endorsements - pretty much no one who has worked with Sanders thinks he should be president](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/)\n\n[Primary projections- Sanders is poised to lose every upcoming race this month](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/primary-forecast/florida-democratic/)\n\n[Delegate count](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/democrats/). Sanders is already further behind than any successful candidate in history.\n\n[And once you add up the unpledged delegates, Sanders is barely a blip in Clinton's rear-view mirror](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/primaries/delegate-tracker/democratic/)\n\n[And prediction models only give Sanders a 4% chance at winning the nom](http://predictwise.com/politics/2016-president-democratic-nomination).\n\nSo - he's not really in this race. Never was.\n\n[Here is an article on the most severe gaffe from this weekend](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-ghetto-gaffe-highlights-campaigns-struggle-race).\n\n[And some reality about his debate performance](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/07/daily-202-five-reasons-bernie-sanders-lost-last-night-s-democratic-debate/56dcf1e6981b92a22d730a5d/)\n\n[Here is one about Sanders' problem with minority voters](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/04/why-exactly-does-bernie-sanders-struggle-with-black-and-hispanic-voters-heres-why/)\n\nAnyway - it doesn't really matter if you can understand the truth or not. Bernie is out. ",
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"content": "Nope..problem is media hitting Bernie from absurd points of views. There was an article in Vox (http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11139718/bernie-sanders-trade-global-poverty) that how Bernie's anti-\"free\" trade policies will hurt people in third world countries and how Bernie is an asshole trying to protect manufacturing jobs in US\n\nOr take \"Excuse me I'm talking\" thing...somehow it's not rude that Hillary Clinton's effort to talk over in Bernie's turn but when Bernie reminds that it's his turn he's a sexist, racist etc...",
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"content": "I would like to say I'm sorry, but since most of you have no problem when they do this to the other side (In fact, most of you would cheer it), I can't say I am.\n\nYou just learned how corrupt and connected the DNC is, how biased the Left Wing media can be (GASP! It's not just FOX) and how power isn't just having a bunch of supporters shout your name; It's about having newspaper editors in one pocket and super delegates in another.\n\nI would like to say this will teach many of you a lesson, but I have no doubt you will line up, bend knee and vote for Hillary anyway, if you show up at the polls at all.",
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"content": ">I have no doubt you will line up, bend knee and vote for Hillary anyway\n\nI may prefer Bernie over Hillary, but Hillary is a far cry better than whichever America-hating scumbag the GOP will put forward.",
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"content": "That's actually pretty amazing. I'd like to poke fun at Bernie Sanders as much as the next guy, but Washington Post isn't doing some conspiracy vendetta against Sanders, I just reporting on reality. At this point deep down Bernie supporters must know that they're hitting the brick wall of reality. Even sanders knows he has no chance for the nomination, but he's going to continue running until the convention because he wants to be failed Jed Bartlett. This was Bernie Sanders' plan all along. You never intended to get the response that I did, when he launched his campaign, he launched his campaign to move Hilary closer to the left, which he accomplished. So Kudos to Bernard Sanders. ",
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"content": "I largely agree. But this degree of smearing from a mainstream publication over such a short period of time is unprecedented, and clearly intended to hurt Bernie ahead of Michigan.",
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"content": "There was no stumble on Sunday, or this weekend. Aside from one comment that did not warrant the publication of 16 new articles.",
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"content": "Welcome to any day in the past 25 years for Hillary Clinton. ",
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"content": "Boo hoo. Grow up bernie supporters.",
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"content": "Get ready for a new wave of vague, nonsensical talking points from Hillary supporters.",
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"content": "They should really get a better team of interns to argue on Reddit. This bunch isn't doing a great job. ",
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"content": "Did you count the negative one on the front today on Clinton?",
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"content": "Link?",
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"content": "In the middle of the crack-cocaine epidemic, you can't blame her for trying. But the campaign failed unequivocally.",
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"content": "Yeah, and you can't blame her husband's administration for causing it. Amirite? \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking\n\nTo be fair, I think ol' Ronnie was largely ignorant. He was a confused old fool who was being played by his CIA spook Vice President, George H. W. Bush.\n\nI think Bush even tried to kill Reagan, as he killed JFK. But, that's just crazy... right?",
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"content": "Crazy's one word for it.",
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"content": "> you can't blame her for trying.\n\nYes I can. And I do. She tried to harm and succeeded. ",
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"content": "I'm not sure how telling kids to stay away from drugs is intentionally doing harm? You can criticize the tough-on-crime policies of the 80s and 90s but this was just a PSA campaign.",
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"content": "It was the simplistic thinking behind it that was so evil. We knew that for example weed wasn't that big of a threat. Yet we treated it the same as say crack.",
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"content": "I'm not sure how a TV commercial telling kids to \"just say no\" is the same thing as the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. One is a simplistically misguided attempt to try and educate kids about avoiding harmful behaviors, the other is a murderous disaster that is nothing short of neo-Jim Crowism.\n\n\"Just Say No\" didn't work, but it also wasn't what was putting people in prison at an absurd rate. They're both part of the same failed policy program, but they're hardly equivalent.",
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"content": "It was just say no and turn people in.\n",
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"content": "She also was a huge part in starting stemcell research for Alzheimer's. Despite aggressive opposition from Republicans. ",
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"content": "But only once her husband was diagnosed with the disease. 'Til it happens to you, as Gaga says...",
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"content": "Sorry but negative value is not worthless, it is destructive.\n",
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"content": "Come on. This is bull. Lets not try to attack a first lady. Its not like saying no to drugs was even terrible advice. I dont recall her advocating zero tolerance either. I really dont think when someone passes that it is the appropriate time to assault their legacy, especially over something like this.\n\nLook at it this way, Michelle Obama has pushed for kids to get healthier. If we find out in 20 years that her efforts were ineffective or counterproductive I dont think its something people should attack her with when she passes. I seriously doubt Nancy had any bad intentions with the Just Say No campaign, just a mistaken strategy.",
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"content": "\"Just say no\" is zero tolerance. The anti-drug panic of the eighties has led to the loss of countless lives and futures. ",
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"content": "They are related but one is a PSA and the other is a judicial policy. Zero tolerance happens with or without her campaign.",
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"content": "One only existed in order to promote the other. ",
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"content": "How so? I see them more as parallel ideas from the same philosophy",
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"content": "I agree 100%. It wasn't productive in ending the war on drugs but it was a starting point. \n\nOn a macro level, highlights the differences between conservative and liberal thinking. Conservative thinking believes if everyone says no it will stop it and take personal responsibility. Liberal thinking knows it needs to be addressed on a group, neighborhood, and community level and through legislation. ",
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"content": "Well said. She was conservative and had a more black/white view than liberals. As such she advocated a policy that seemed logical to her based on that view. And its not even like it was an unreasonable concept. Sometimes the easy solution works. This time it didnt. ",
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"content": "Not just worthless but deadly. She bears some responsibility for the people who died in the drug war. She could have taken a leadership role in figuring out how to actually address drugs. Instead she took the intellectually lazy way out, and we payed the cost.",
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"content": "That's nonsense. The debates don't move opinions much at all. This is straight up narrative shaping. ",
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"content": "And seriously, do you work for the Clinton campaign?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "*comment removed* - personal attack",
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"content": "Racist headline.",
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"content": "How is this racist? ",
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"content": "Maybe Gil has a point. Maybe enough of the black community has risen out of poverty to stop caring about the poor, or civil rights, or health care as a right, or reasonable regulation on Wall Street, or free public college, etc., etc.\n\nThis BS narrative that the ideology promoted by the corporatist neocon wing of the Democratic party appeals to *any* large group of people is pure nonsense. \n\nThe entire foundation of Clinton's campaign is predicated on low information voters from *every* demographic, not just the poor, or the black community. This isn't about her candidacy appealing to any minority group, it's about her as a vague idea appealing to a large set of groups that don't want to be bothered with the details. The vast majority of Clinton supporters I've spoken with have *no clue* she doesn't support single-payer. They lap up tired old neocon lines about free trade being reused by Clinton to explain away modest regulatory proposals. They have *completely forgotten* that the war on terror is illegal, and that our country is engaging in systematic violations of international law, including war crimes the *Bush administration* used to define *terrorism*. They have no sense of our place in history, or the dramatic shift to the right that American politics have taken, especially since 9/11.\n\nThere's a lot of chatter these days about how the Fox Newsification of the right gave rise to demagogues like Trump, *well what do you think happened on the left*? The same trend, only with a different starting off point. Just like the Republicans, Democrats increasingly rely on low information, heavily biased media like cable news to form their worldview, and the result is a huge voter base from *every* demographic whose vote can be had with nothing but platitudes and watered down, \"let them eat cake\" style policy should the odd progressive force them to offer us a few scraps.\n\nThis isn't about race, it's about information, and the stark contrast between age groups in the party demonstrate its future: when the low information voters are no longer the majority, corporatists like Clinton will no longer have any viability. Enjoy it while it lasts, neoDems.\n\nEDIT: typo",
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"content": "[Like these low information voters right?](https://www.michigandaily.com/section/editorials/daily-vote-hillary-clinton) I got one of my grad degrees from there. You do better?",
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"content": "I guess your degree didn't teach you to check your link. I don't need to answer a survey to read an article that explains nothing relevant to the fact that you offer no argument whatsoever in defense of supporting a corporatist in 2016.\n\nYou have nothing to say about her foreign policy, her muted and vetted economic policy, her refusal to accept healthcare as a right, or any other pertinent information. Like a typical Clitnon supporter you offer nothing of significant but an obvious inability or refusal to address the reality of corporate hegemony.\n\nEDIT: typo",
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"content": "Who gives a shit about Karl Rove or what he wants? He's completely irrelevant. ",
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"content": "The dream is over. ",
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"content": "How inspiring..",
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"content": "We'll be fine. Thanks. ",
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"content": "Your smugness is revolting and not helpful to your cause.",
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"content": "Pot, meet kettle. \n\n",
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"content": "Likewise",
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"content": "lol, where did the chicken come from?",
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"content": "You should really consider supporting Trump. Your rhetoric fits perfectly.",
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"content": "Using the most obnoxious and tired emoji only cements OPs point. There's no chance you're over 21. ",
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"content": "I never claimed that I was over 21. But I don't see how an emoji predict my age nor does it prove anything about the OPs point. In fact all it proves is that Bernie Sanders supporters are the biggest hypocrites in politics.",
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"content": "Says the guy who has stated publicly that he'll be voting for Trump or staying home if Bernie gets the nomination. ",
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"content": "Again, that was hyperbole. If it came down to Trump v. Sanders I'd vote for Jill Stien, Gary Johnson, or just write in Hillary. I have lots of options than silly St. Bernard. ",
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"content": "Name calling: the identifying characteristic of a solid position in a discussion. \n",
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"content": "And yet you continue to reply to me. Go figure. \n\nBtw, name calling is a violation of the rules of this sub reddit as well as the site wide rules. ",
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"content": ">Btw, name calling is a violation of the rules of this sub reddit as well as the site wide rules.\n\nThen stop whining about it and do something. ",
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"content": "Fine, maybe I will. ",
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"content": "Okie Dokey",
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"content": ";p",
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"content": "Don't mind /u/VegaThePunisher . They would've been Hoover or Blain supporters and opposed FDR's New Deal platform as \"too extreme.\" These folks were wrong then, and they'll eventually be shown to be wrong again.",
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"content": "And you would have supported Stalin at the time. \n\nSee how this game works? ",
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"content": "> See how this game works?\n\nClearly it's a game that you suck at.\n\nThat, and you don't know what you're talking about.",
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"content": "No? And you were alive in the late 20s to know specifically? \n\nOr are you mad your \"New Deal\" smear backfired, comrade? ",
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"content": "I sure as hell was alive in the 90s and can remember that having a Clinton in the White House wasn't all rainbow-farting-unicorns and utopia.\n\n\"Comrade\" is a nice touch. You're illustrating how Clinton supporters aren't really different from Repugnicans, which is the one of the primary issues for Sanders supporters.",
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"content": "You were just smearing me above by calling me a then-Hoover supporter and now you are claiming offense? \n\nTypical.",
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"content": "That's why he'd be better in the Senate, where he belongs, not the Oval Office. What this country needs leaders who are moderates and pragmatists, not ideologues.",
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"content": "Problem: Hillary isn't a leader.",
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"content": "Lol are you imply that Bernie is more of a leader than Hillary. That's hilarious. ",
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"content": "I don't think he mentioned Bernie Sanders. He said Hillary Clinton isn't a leader.",
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"content": "No, but he implied it. That's what I said he did, which is correct. If Hillary isn't a leader then who is? Because like hell if it's Bernie Sanders. ",
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"content": "Whether Bernie Sanders is a leader or not is completely independent of whether Hillary Clinton is a leader or not. You're the only one implying anything.",
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"content": "Trevor it's painfully obvious that u/areyoumydad- was implying that Bernie is a leader with his baseless statement of bashing Clinton. ",
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"content": "Can you quote where that was stated? I'm not sure it implies that at all.\n\nAdditionally, what qualifies this as a \"baseless statement of bashing Clinton?\"",
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"content": "> I'm not sure it implies that at all.\n\nWell the only way we can know for certain is if the OP says that he believes that Sanders is a better leader the Hillary. \n\n>Additionally, what qualifies this as a \"baseless statement of bashing Clinton?\"\n\nIt's Clinton bashing because he's caller he weak, not a leader. It's baseless because the claim is made on emotion and not primary or secondary sources. ",
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"content": "Here's one example:\n\n- [Letter Shows Sanders Led Early Warning to Clinton on Keystone Pipeline XL](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-escobar/letter-shows-sanders-led-_b_9404124.html)",
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"content": "Bernie is wasting time at this point. ",
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"content": "Tell me which is better for this [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfZ8uWaOFI) or [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd3MtdzKZ38) I prefer #2 of course. Punk, seen them in concert in Ann Arbor, and it is the reality.",
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"content": "Had Hillary been Hillary, oh wait...\n\n>. I’m saying Hillary would be the next president if she were a man. No contest.\n\nTrue!",
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"content": "Identity Politics created Trump and I can't believe that Democrats are keep pushing it...",
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"content": "What are you even saying? ",
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"content": "Thanks for posting one of the main points of the article.",
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"content": "You're welcome. ",
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"content": "Don't forget the most important part though:\n\n> Hillary’s candidacy is allowed and designed by the patriarchy, and by design it leads to rejection. Because by the time we, as a people, are ready for a woman as our president, we are ready for so much more. Because by the time she made it to the upper ranks of the boy’s club, she’s just one of the boys.\n\n> Audre Lorde says that the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.* You try to change the system but the system gets stronger because you’re working it. That’s why Hillary is where she is. That’s why Hillary is what she is. But it was always rigged against her, against all of us. It always will be.",
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"content": "You do realize that I consider the thesis of this article pure bullshit, right? There are some sentences and phrases that I agree with, but for the most part, this is total nonsense. To clarify, I'm not discrediting or disavowing feminism, and I agree that the system is inherently biased against women and that has affected Hillary Clinton. I also agree that is Bernie Sanders was a woman , the same kind of things that we're seeing now would be equal in discontent But the core of the argument is a premise I reject, but the supporting phrases are sound for the most part. ",
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"content": "It's pretty much a personal narrative on the mixed feelings some people have about Hillary Clinton. You can disagree all you want, but it doesn't mean that people don't feel this way.",
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"content": "I'm not discrediting their feelings, refardless if they are well found it or not, I'm stating my opposition to the thesis. Just like it is her right to feel that way, it is my right to express my opinion. Or does that only work if I support Bernie Sanders? ",
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"content": "> **You can disagree all you want**, but it doesn't mean that people don't feel this way.",
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"content": "All am asking you to do is respect my opinion, like I respect yours, and this woman's. ",
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"content": "Is there anything in this thread that suggests that I don't respect your opinion?",
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"content": "We get it, Hillary! Bernie is Jewish.",
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"content": "Hey, maybe the sub for democrats isn't the place for spreading weird conspiracy theories about the soon-to-be nominee of the party? ",
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"content": "Yes because FOX News so wants to help Hillary.",
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"content": "Nothing to do with Faux News. This debate was on CNN.\n\nAnd when Hillary made the \"your services\" comment, my SO and I both had the same thought: Ms. Ghattis was a Clinton campaign plant, and that the intent of the (very dumb, idiotic) questions were to remind viewers and Michiganers that Bernie is Jewish.",
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"content": "Oh that's right. I was thinking of the Town Hall debate.\n\nBut still I highly doubt any question was a plant. If they got caught (CNN), we would never ever hear the end of it. Not a good bet for CNN to playing games like that.\n\nI will agree however it was a really stupid question. It was asked by an audience member.\n",
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"content": "Are you suggesting that you don't think that CNN vetted the questions?",
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"content": "> It was asked by an audience member.\n\nI bet you a month of Reddit Gold that we'll learn that Ms. Ghattis has substantial ties to the Clinton campaign. Do we have a bet? :D\n\nEdit: Emoticons make everything better.",
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"content": "They said who the audience member supported before they asked the question. Go look at the tape if you are that sure of one of your wild conspiracies are true.",
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"content": "> They said who the audience member supported before they asked the question. Go look at the tape if you are that sure of one of your wild conspiracies are true.\n\nNot true.\n\n[Here ya go ](https://youtu.be/G3EJ7HXVHHQ?t=1h44m30s)\n\n\"... She's undecided on a candidate ...\"",
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"content": "In that case you owe me a month of reddit gold. But keep it for yourself. I have plenty.",
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"content": "How so? I'm saying she was a plant and isn't \"undecided,\" but rather, a Clinton campaigner.",
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"content": "Of course you are. Everyone is after Bernie. You have more conspiracy theories than the X-files.",
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"content": "I will graciously accept your apology (and a beer if you're in the Seattle-area) when it's conclusively shown that Ms. Ghattis is Clinton campaign plant. :D",
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"content": "It's a deal. Although a stupid deal. You folks aren't exactly prone to admitting you are wrong, even when proven so.",
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"content": "Whatcha mean \"you folks?\" ;)\n\nI promise you that I'm quite reasonable once I know that I'm dealing with someone else who is reasonable. I'll even admit that there are a couple of issues with which I disagree with Sanders.\n\nAlso, there are things that either he could do or that we could find out about that would cause me to not support him. There are certainly Sanders supporters for which that statement wouldn't be true; but in my own experience, I'm encountering many, many more Clinton supporters for which that statement isn't true.\n\nClinton supporters defending situational ethics, self-serving pragmatism, dirty pool, *whatever it takes to win!*, etc., these folks ... smh.",
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"content": "Still you instantly think there is some sort of conspiracy when a question is asked you don't like. ",
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"content": "It was more Clinton's answer than the question itself.",
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"content": "All conspiracy theories are immediately false, unless preceded by [\"Vast right wing ...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy) . Amirite?",
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"content": "You know, for whatever reason, candidates' religions are important to a lot of voters, so it shouldn't surprise you that someone would ask about it.\n\nAnd there's no reason to think this was a plant. This is such garbage, man. Just the most ugly shit ever. All the smears and lies in the world aren't going to change the results of the primaries anyway. So take it to r/sandersforpresident, ok?",
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"content": "Did Sanders campaign plant you here? Can you prove they didn't? Source?",
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"content": "I'm so tired of seeing stuff like this on this sub. I'm guessing this isn't the response you were looking for, I suggest posting this to r/politics, they enjoy anything that bashes Clinton. As for here, not so much. I'm gonna report this article for spreading nonsense. ",
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"content": "Right? It's so dumb. Like why call yourself a democrat when you just want to slander the person who's going to be running as the democratic nominee?\n\nThis kind of shit isn't criticism. It's straight up conspiracy theory character assassination. ",
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"content": "> Like why call yourself a democrat when you just want to slander the person who's going to be running as the democratic nominee?\n\nSo you're a democrat when you slander Clinton, but you're a bad evil republican when you have criticisms of Bernie Sanders. That's some A+ logic mate. \n\n>It's straight up conspiracy theory \n\nlol what?\n\n>character assassination\n\nSure my friend. Maybe you're a troll, your username seems to suggest that. ",
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"content": "> So you're a democrat when you slander Clinton, but you're a bad evil republican when you have criticisms of Bernie Sanders. That's some A+ logic mate.\n\nWhen you post unsourced stupid smear-job shit about *anyone* you should be ashamed of yourself, but why you'd come to the Democrat sub to slander Hillary Clinton, who will be the democratic nominee very shortly, is beyond me. \n\nAnd I'm not your \"mate.\"\n\n>lol what?\n\nlol Posting some unsourced shit from some nothing website where someone is insinuating that Clinton and CNN worked together to plant an audience question is straight up conspiracy theory nonsense.\n\nJust another in the endless string of \"isn't Hillary evil, hurr durr!\" shit that's been stinking up this site for months.\n\n>Maybe you're a troll, your username seems to suggest that.\n\nThis is like PEAK reddit. I'm a troll for suggesting people shouldn't spread lies about the certain democratic nominee in the subreddit devoted to the Democratic party! It's just amazing!\n",
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"content": "> When you post unsourced stupid smear-job shit about anyone you should be ashamed of yourself, but why you'd come to the Democrat sub to slander Hillary Clinton, who will be the democratic nominee very shortly, is beyond me.\n\nI 100% agree.\n\n>And I'm not your \"mate.\"\n\nYou don't want to be mates :(\n\n>This is like PEAK reddit. I'm a troll for suggesting people shouldn't spread lies about the certain democratic nominee in the subreddit devoted to the Democratic party! It's just amazing!\n\nPeak reddit is when we start praying to Bernie Sanders like the folks on r/politics\n",
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"content": "I think we probably agree with each other. But it's so hard to tell.\n\nMaybe we could be mates. :)",
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"content": "Boy, we're going to have to call you a WAHmbulance. ",
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"content": "Okay. ",
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"content": "Do you want a WAHmburger with those cries? ",
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"content": "Sure. I'd also like a milkshake. ",
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"content": "Mississippi called for Clinton. Wins all age groups. Michigan only has less than 1% in, Sanders winning!, all white county though.",
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"content": "Clinton won the white vote in Miss.",
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"content": "Missouri will be considered a big win for her. Looks like she will win big there. The only race to be called yet. ",
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"content": "You mean Mississippi",
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"content": "Yea...,one of those **M** states. :D",
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"content": "Michigan the other. Sanders lead is disappearing there as the city votes come in. Trump is crushing it.",
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"content": "Yea wait until Wayne County comes in.",
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"content": "Down to 2% now.",
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"content": "Wait until the top of the hour. Many of the counties are in another time zone so they don't close until 9:00 (EST)",
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"content": "Where did you get that idea? **ALL** of Michigan is EST.",
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"content": "http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/michigan_time_zone.shtml",
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"content": "Wow - you really think four UP states with very little population are going to affect the outcome?",
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"content": "We'll see.",
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"content": "Hillary just gained 3% in the last five minutes.",
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"content": "#Rubio is doing terrible!\n\nHe's losing to Carson who isn't even running anymore.",
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"content": "Rubio is done. Cruz may come in second now in Michigan.",
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"content": "Rubio is so toast. Staying in the race will now become embarrassing.",
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"content": "538: A number of networks have called Mississippi for Trump. I have no reason to doubt he’ll win, but only a tiny fraction of the vote in two counties is currently being reported. I’d like to have just a little more of the vote to be sure. Meanwhile in Michigan, Trump is rolling through like Desmond Howard during one of his returns for the Wolverines back in the day. He’s winning in every part of the state while Kasich and Cruz slug it out for second place.",
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"content": "And poor \"Little Man\" Rubio isn't even being mentioned. He's losing to Carson.",
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"content": "NATE SILVER 9:01 PM\nOn the GOP side, it’s looking like a good night for polling averages in Michigan. Although one poll in the Republican race showed Kasich winning, there was quite a bit of polling in the state and the rest had Trump with the lead, sometimes a fairly big lead.\n\nAs a result, our “polls-only” forecast projected the tally at Trump 39, Cruz 23, Kasich 22, Rubio 13. Meanwhile, our “polls-plus” forecast had it Trump 37, Kasich 24, Cruz 23, Rubio 14. The results so far — with Kasich’s strongest areas probably overrepresented a bit and Cruz’s underrepresented — are Trump 38, Kasich 27, Cruz 22, Rubio 9. It looks as though Kasich picked up a few late votes from Rubio, but otherwise polling averages will have done a pretty good job.\n\nBut the news is not all good for the polls, with the Democratic race in Michigan much closer than polls projected.",
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"content": "These are the election nights I dread. Trump has won Michigan and Mississippi, and it was an easy call. Clinton crushed Sanders in Mississippi and is well-positioned in Michigan, where Detroit and Flint have yet to report. Fortunately, we still have a fight on our hands for second place on the Republican side in Michigan, and Idaho and Hawaii haven’t even started counting the votes yet.",
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"content": "As I have said before, next Tuesday is where will see more definite results. Especially for republicans with 5 WTA primaries. Three of them are huge. ",
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"content": "NATE SILVER 9:25 PM\nI said earlier today that I had an intuition Sanders could beat his polling in Michigan tonight, but I didn’t expect things to be quite so close. If Sanders winds up winning in Michigan, in fact, it will count as among the greatest polling errors in primary history. Clinton led by 21.3 percentage points in our final Michigan polling average. Previously, the candidate with the largest lead to lose a state in our database of well-polled primaries and caucuses was Walter Mondale, who led in New Hampshire by 17.1 percentage points but lost to Gary Hart in 1984.",
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"content": "If my math is correct. Again Hillary will end up with more delegates for the night. Even an upset win isn't bringing Sanders any closer to the nomination.",
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"content": "Michigan still close. Hillary is closing in.",
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"content": "It is doable, but will be close. Detroit still not reporting.",
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"content": "I think Sanders will eek a narrow victory. Won't matter after next Tuesday.",
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"content": "There are about 90K votes still in Detroit out. but Clinton is only getting 65% so far. Depends on that along with what is missing from the rest of the state.",
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"content": "Yes the trend is Bernie gaining. I think he is going to win this one.",
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"content": "They had to lock on /r/hillaryclinton /r/sandersforpresident user started a brigade. They ID'ed him and reported to reddit admin. He has reddit gold but they are going to try and get him shadowbanned nevertheless. ",
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"content": "Looks like the bernie bros have made a swoop through here too",
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"content": "Drama. Let me know what happens. ",
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"content": "Silver got a state wrong. Gamblers lost money in the UK.",
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"content": "538: HARRY ENTEN 10:17 PM\nI know this may upset the Sanders fans (who don’t exactly love me), but our delegate targets say that Sanders should win Michigan by four delegates over Clinton in a race that’s tied nationally. The problem is that Sanders has already run well behind his overall delegate targets. That means he needs to be doing even better than them to really have a shot. This doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good night for Sanders — it definitely was. But the road ahead is long even if he pulls off what would be a shocking victory.",
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"content": "Will Hillary end the night winning more delegates than Sanders?",
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"content": "NATE SILVER 10:20 PM\nIs Bernie Sanders being boosted by high Democratic turnout in Michigan? It’s hard to say, because we don’t have a great reference point. In 2008, about 600,000 Democrats voted in the state’s primary. By contrast, about 600,000 have already voted this year with only half of precincts reporting. So that’s a huge turnout, right? Not so fast. In 2008, turnout was depressed in Michigan because Barack Obama’s and John Edwards’s names did not appear on the ballot — instead, Hillary Clinton ran against “uncommitted” after a dispute about Michigan having jumped too far ahead in the primary calendar. Meanwhile, Michigan Democrats held caucuses in 2000 and 2004. They did have a primary in 1992, again with about 600,000 Democrats participating, although that came fairly late in the primary calendar, after Bill Clinton was relatively assured of the nomination.",
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"content": "Cruz is going to come in second in Michigan too. No matter what, crazy time for Republicans. They will be the only two standing in a week.",
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"content": "Pretty much the only ones standing now.",
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"content": "CLARE MALONE 10:56 PM\nWe’re still waiting on the Michigan Dems’ side of the results, where the race is looking unexpectedly close between Clinton and Sanders. Exit polls coming out of the state are showing that about four in 10 Democrats said that electability and experience were most important to them — those people leaned Clinton — and six in 10 said honesty or empathy were most important, and those are people who have tended toward the Sanders side of the equation.\n\nThis, from our friends at ABC News, is interesting: “Eight in 10 voters in the Democratic contest in Michigan were more interested in an experienced candidate than in an outsider,” and although in the past Clinton has won this group by seven out of 10, her share in Michigan of this demographic is “just more than half” right now.\n\nCould it be that some “main line” Michigan Dems — the exit polls say that seven out of 10 voters in the primary identify this way — decided that Clinton probably had things sewn up and decided to go with bit of a “heartstrings vote” in the form of Sanders? Maybe.",
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"content": "NATE SILVER 11:04 PM\nI said in our Slack chat today that I had a “gut feeling” that Sanders could beat his polling in Michigan. I also said, for the record, that you should mostly ignore that gut feeling. But it wasn’t a total shot in the dark. There were a few things that made me think a closer-than-expected result was possible:\n\nOur demographic model, as opposed to our polling model, suggested that Michigan could be relatively competitive. It had Sanders winning Michigan by 4 in an even national race. The national race isn’t even — instead, Clinton is up by 13 percentage points in our national poll average. But still, that would extrapolate to a high-single-digit or very-low-double-digit win for Clinton, and not the blowout pollsters were expecting.\nAs I wrote earlier today, complacency was a risk for Clinton voters in Michigan, especially with an open primary with voters potentially casting ballots in the Republican contest instead. “In sports, we’d call Michigan a ‘let-down game,’” I said.\nMichigan has a history of polling upsets, such as John McCain winning the Republican primary in 2000 and John Engler beating Jim Blanchard in the gubernatorial race in 1992 despite being way behind.\nBasically, I’m not sure that Michigan was ever really a 20-point race, as polls had it. Based on the demographics of the state, it probably narrowly favored Clinton. But then, perhaps some of her voters didn’t show up, or voted in the GOP primary instead, because it didn’t look like Clinton needed their vote. That might potentially be enough to push Sanders over the top, although it will be very close.\n\nBy the way, this is part of why we try to approach the primaries from multiple perspectives. Our polling averages are a useful tool, but not the only one we look at.",
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"content": "And we are back to a 2% lead again.",
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"content": "HARRY ENTEN 11:11 PM\nSanders’s lead just dropped to about 24,000 votes with some more of Wayne County reporting. Wayne (at 75 percent) is still behind the overall state count (81 percent) in terms of precincts reporting, but 24,000 is still a healthy lead. We’ll see what happens next.",
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"content": "Looks like Sanders will still eke this one out. But again it will only be a moral victory. Clinton will end up with more delegates tonight.",
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"content": "HARRY ENTEN 11:22 PM\nAnother chunk of Wayne just came in and Clinton is now down just 17,000 votes or so, but that’s still not a small advantage for Sanders. Still votes left in Wayne, Grand Rapids and Flint. We’ll see if it’s enough to make up the difference. I’m somewhat skeptical",
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"content": "Me too. I don't think it will be enough.",
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"content": "AARON BYCOFFE 11:26 PM\nWe won’t know exactly how many delegates Sanders or Clinton will take out of Michigan until the results are final, but based on the numbers so far, The Green Papers estimates that Sanders would get 72 delegates and Clinton 58. That would put Sanders five delegates above his FiveThirtyEight target for Michigan and Clinton five delegates below.",
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"content": "A 2 point difference and he get 14 more delegates? Do you know why that would be?",
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"content": "Congressional Districts won.",
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"content": "That's what I figured. So she could have pulled of the win tonight and still got less delegates.",
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"content": "From NYT live blog:\nAlan Rappeport11:14 pm ET\nwas a lot of anecdotal chatter today about Clinton supporters feeling that she had Michigan locked in and saying they were going to vote in the Republican primary to meddle a bit. I wonder if some of her supporters didn't take this seriously enough.",
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"content": "HARRY ENTEN 11:31 PM\nI am skeptical of the math working out for Clinton in Michigan given that Kent County (home to Grand Rapids) just reported a ton of votes on its election department page, and it has Sanders expanding his lead there.",
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"content": "NATE SILVER 11:30 PM\nOne reminder about the Democratic calendar: Although there are a lot of reasonably good Clinton states on March 15 — according to both polls and demographics — we then have a stretch of states that look quite strong for Sanders. These include Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, Wisconsin and Wyoming, all of which vote from March 22 to April 9.\n\nSo if Clinton underperforms her polls on March 15 in states such as Ohio as she did tonight in Michigan — and pollsters probably ought to be checking their turnout models carefully after tonight — she could have a really long few weeks ahead, even though Sanders’s delegate math remains highly challenging.",
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"content": "MSNBC just declared Bernie the winner.",
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"content": "Bernie won Michigan. That makes me sad. But I gotta move on, we got half the delegates in MI, and we still won the most delegates overall tonight. When I say we, I am of course referring to Hillary supporters. Kudos to Bernie. ",
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"content": "Almost 800 delegates up fro grabs next Tuesday. That should prove to end it or extended it. Hillary needs 1165 more delegates to sew up the nomination.",
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"content": "She might lose Ohio. But her campaign needs to focus on Illinois, North Carolina, and Florida. There needs to be decisive wins there. ",
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"content": "She is ahead in most of the states next week. Just going to have to wait and see.",
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"content": "> She is ahead in most of the states next week.\n\nShe was ahead in Michigan too. We need to work hard.",
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"content": "True ",
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"content": "> You also see who the true Democrat is. It’s not Sanders.\n\nNot a very good position to take when you're relying on support from Sanders supporters in the general election.",
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"content": "Well if they are then they will, if they aren't then they won't.",
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"content": "Ok, good luck with that. I'm sure Hillary has enough support alone to beat the Republican Party while alienating half of her own party.",
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"content": "1/2? I am sorry, Sanders is gotten half the votes so far? In the Bernie Bros bubble perhaps.",
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"content": "He currently has over 40% of the delegates after going through Hillary's strongest states. But I guess that's irrelevant in your Hillary bubble.",
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"content": "Her strongest states? Tell me after next Wednesday. ",
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"content": "> He currently has over 40% of the delegates\n\nCorrection -- he has less than a third.\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_delegate_count.html\n\n>after going through Hillary's strongest states.\n\nCorrection -- she still has a majority of her strong states ahead of her:\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/march8dem.html\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/march15dem.html\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/dem_pres_primary/\n\n",
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"content": "Correction: that includes unpledged superdelegates and you know that. The count is 658 to 471, which is particularly relevant to the discussion of how many Democratic voters are supporters of Bernie Sanders. Alienating over 40% of your core voters is a terrible idea and 400 superdelegates are meaningless in the general election.",
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"content": ">that includes unpledged superdelegates \n\nCorrection: Those delegates have already committed to Hillary Clinton.\n\n> The count is 658 to 471\n\nCorrection. The elected delegate count is 745 to 540. Hillary Clinton widened her lead over Bernie Sanders yesterday as he fell further behind.\n\n>400 superdelegates are meaningless in the general election\n\nA meaningless statement. Superdelegates count in the primary.",
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"content": "Alright I feel like you're trolling at this point, but I'll give it one more try. The superdelegates are free to change their support at any time and often will based on the pledged delegates. \n\nBut more importantly, the whole point of what's being discussed here is that around 40% of Democratic votes so far in the primary are people voting for Bernie Sanders. It would be in Hillary's best interest (or any of you supporters of Hillary) to not alienate those voters because then she's splitting the Democratic Party vote should she make it to the General Election. If Hillary enters the GE with even half of Sanders supporters saying they won't vote for her, she's got very little chance to win.\n\nOh and an update is not a correction.",
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"content": "> often will based on the pledged delegates\n\nThat is demonstrably not true. In the 2008 election, 94 percent of the pledged delegates did not switch their vote.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_superdelegates,_2008",
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"content": "I see you like to pick and choose how you want to steer the conversation. If Sanders wins over 50% of the pledged delegates and the superdelegates decide the nomination, you're gonna loose support of half the party, if not more. But again, continue to masturbate over this \"I'm a winner in life because my candidate is doing better\" all the while shooting yourself in the foot. ",
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"content": "> you're gonna loose support of half the party, if not more. \n\nYour proof for this is where?",
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"content": "There doesn't have to be proof. If you tell your party in no uncertain terms that their vote doesn't matter in who you choose for the nomination, people are going to leave the party. Stop being obtuse.",
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"content": "> If Sanders wins over 50% of the pledged delegates and the superdelegates\n\nSanders is behind in delegates. He consistently fails to meet the number needed to pull even with Clinton. He falls further behind with every primary. Monday he was less than 200 delegates behind. Today he's further behind.\n\nSo talk of more than 50 percent for him is coming close to a statistical impossibility.",
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"content": "Let's see: when asked about her blind spots, Hillary blithely said \"Oh, I don't have any!\" while Bernie talked about the difference in experience that whites and blacks have, exemplified by the cab story.\n\nI guess \"I don't have any!\" is the Real True Democrat position.",
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"content": "Sanders, I have Fat Mike rapper and Cornell East that the black community hates.",
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"content": "Yeah because millennials have been so privileged with all the gains of the economic recovery. ",
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"content": "Are you telling me that white millennials aren't privileged, because that's a terrible argument. Are you telling me that it not a privilege to throw away your vote, a tool that so many people fought and died fore doesn't come from a position of privilege. I'm Black millennial, I don't have the privilege to throw away my vote. You take your condescending elitism...",
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"content": "I don't disagree that white millennials have a far more privilege than their minority counterparts, but I am disagreeing that they escaped the results of the this economic downturn. I was more pointing out that to say this is about elitism is wrong, and misunderstands the point of why a Bernie supporter would not vote for Hillary. Which a large portion of them will. No need to just call me an elitist and to shove it up my ass. I'm sorry if what I said distressed you or frustrated you. \n",
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"content": "> I'm sorry if what I said distressed you or frustrated you.\n\nWe're cool. I'm sorry for blowing up and telling you to shove something somewhere. ",
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"content": "Glad to hear that, and I can totally understand why you would get passionate about this. This is one hell of a scary election cycle. ",
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"content": "> This is one hell of a scary election cycle.\n\nIt's one very ugly cycle. The animosity between Bernie and Hillary supporters is getting higher and higher. I'm personally a Clinton supporter, and I take full responsibility to all the ugliness that I've brought into the cycle. Hopefully we can unify like in '08, and then beat the living day lights out of Trump.",
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"content": "I'm not too worried about Trump. Hillary and Bernie both beat him in a general election...by not nearly enough in my opinion. [It is Cruze that I'm worried about.](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html)",
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"content": "Thank you so much. :D",
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"content": "I believe the phrase was earn my vote or lose it. I'm not voting for a pro-death penalty hawk like HRC.",
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"content": "> People who refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton on principle may be able to ride out the storm of a Republican administration. Many of us can’t\n\nAnd? Maybe you should have factored that in before trying to push Hillary on us?",
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"content": "His odds go up when the capacity for critical thought goes down.",
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"content": "That's really insulting to our young people. People are allowed to disagree with you and still be intelligent people capable of critical thought.",
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"content": "Please. This is not an insult. The prefrontal cortex - the executive function - develops between the ages of 18 and 26. This is science, not bias. The physiological capacity for critical thought develops after the age of 17.\n\n",
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"content": "Except the group of cognitive skill referred to as executive functions doesn't actually include critical thinking per se. It involves calibration of risk and reward, problem-solving, prioritizing, thinking ahead, self-evaluation, long-term planning, and regulation of emotion. Additionally it develops on a continuously, so while the brain isn't \"fully developed\" until 25, many of those skills are present to a greater or lesser degree.\n\nPeople, especially in this sub, need to really get past the notion that something is \"fact\" as a means of eliminating ambiguity. The ambiguity still exists.",
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"content": "I'm not sure your expanation doesn't support my argument. Exactly how much ambiguity are you comfortable with in this instance?\n\n ",
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"content": "It supports your argument in so far as your argument oversimplifies what I said.",
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"content": "Say what you want. This is a non-starter. I am right.",
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"content": "No you're wrong. We can send 17 year olds to war, but you're taking issue with allowing them to participate in our political system. Despicable. ",
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"content": "No. We can't send 17 year olds to war. I recommend reading a book.",
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"content": "The minimum age for military service is seventeen with parental consent. I recommend not commenting on topics you know nothing about. ",
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"content": "Man. It's gotta hurt a little to be wrong after you came out all overconfident like that and demeaned by base of knowledge. \n\n17 year olds can enlist with parental permission (notice - they are not considered old enough to make that decision on their own). But that isn't what you said. You said \"sending 17 year olds to war.\" Which is totally illegal and not at all what we do. A soldier must be 18 to fight in combat.\n\nMaybe you should......not comment on topics you know nothing about.",
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"content": "Look here, we can sign them up where they get out of basic and go off to war directly after turning eighteen. This is an indisputable fact. \n\n\nYou're taking issue with allowing them to participate in our primary system with the knowledge that they'll be eighteen in time for the general. \n\n",
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"content": "17 year olds are not ready for the full responsibilities of citizenship. This is not my opinion, this is a reality expressed in virtually every aspect of our legal system.\n\n17 year olds are minors. They are not responsible for themselves, and if no adult will accept responsibility for them, they become wards of the state.\n\n17 year olds are not allowed in combat.\n\n17 year olds are not held to adult legal standards.\n\nAnd 17 year olds can't vote. \n\nThe reality regarding voting is consistent with other legal realities. And all are scientifically sound because 17 year olds have not physiologically developed the capacity for critical thought.\n\nSo - yes. I think that any proposal that they should vote in our elections is ridiculous on its face.",
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"content": ">17 year olds are minors. They are not responsible for themselves, and if no adult will accept responsibility for them, they become wards of the state.\n\nNot in my state. A seventeen year old is responsible for themselves. If they're working full-time their parents can legally emancipate them. \n\n>17 year olds are not allowed in combat.\n\nAs I've already explained, a seventeen year old can sign a contract that will place him or her on a direct path to combat as soon as their eighteenth birthday. \n\n>17 year olds are not held to adult legal standards.\n\nWrong again. A seventeen year old will be tried as an adult for any crimes they've committed. They'll be held legally responsible for supporting any children they conceive.\n\n>And 17 year olds can't vote. \n\n\nThat's what we're discussing here, isn't it? In some states a seventeen year old can vote in the primaries provided they will be eighteen by the date of the general election. \n\n>The reality regarding voting is consistent with other legal realities. And all are scientifically sound because 17 year olds have not physiologically developed the capacity for critical thought.\n\nThis is a subjective manner of looking at things. There no shortage of adults who lack critical thinking skills. There's nothing preventing them from voting, driving a big rig, operating a small business, having children, or any number of critical activities. You're just shitting on this one group of young adults because their vote seemingly hurts your candidate's odds. It's pathetic. \n\n",
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"content": "1) That they can be emancipated at 17 demonstrates that they are, in point of fact, minors on the state level. And, on a national level, they are minors.\n\n2) The clarification you made to your original point about sending minors to war has been noted - but still supports my argument.\n\n3) Wrong again - an exception may be made to try a 17 year old as an adult, but that is not the default position,\n\nYou might have a point to make, but you should consider constructing it on solid ground. That you require such an extreme departure from factuality in support of your viewpoint speaks volumes.",
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"content": "In my state a seventeen year old is automatically tried as an adult in any and every criminal case. Go ahead and look it up. Google \"Missouri criminal law adult\". I'd post you a link, but it's a PDF. \n\nYou're trying to ignore the fact that the issues of adulthood and personal responsibility aren't as black and white as \"eighteen = adulthood\", because you think that it helps your argument. It's not that simple. A seventeen is an adult in some capacities, but treated like a child in others. I get that you feel that's okay, but I'm not so sure that the double standard is a good idea. We're trying to teach these young people to be responsible adults and to participate in our society. It's hypocritical to try them as adults, ship them out to basic training, and put them in jail for failing to pay child support while simultaneously denying them a stake in our political system. It's disingenuous to suggest that this issue is cut and dry. ",
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"content": "I think you are over simplifying things here. \nKeep in mind these 17 year olds will be 18 when the real election happens. \nI'm not saying I agree that is enough to actually let them vote, but I think it's enough to allow discussion.",
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"content": "I disagree entirely. I am certainly not oversimplifying.\n\nMy logic is solid, and shouldn't be dismissed as something so base as insult. 17 year-olds lack the capacity for responsible decision-making. That is why they are denied the full responsibilities of citizenship. It is also why they are not held accountable for their own actions from a legal standpoint. They are held under the care of their parents, and if they cannot be, they are placed under the care of the state. They are children - minors. Realizing this is not insulting.\n\nSuggesting they should be awarded the franchise is reckless and irresponsible.\n\n",
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"content": "> My logic is solid, and shouldn't be dismissed as something so base as insult.\n\n/r/iamverysmart",
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"content": "Honestly, this whole discussion demonstrates my point. Good come back. Way to address the issues at hand. I made an argument, and you....well, the best you could do was to make a joke.",
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"content": "I didn't call it an insult, that was the other guy. \nAll I'm saying is that they will be 18 and able to vote in the presidential race so it's not unreasonable for them to want to have a say in who runs in that race. \nI also specifically said that doesn't mean they should get it, but that discussion is reasonable.",
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"content": "Okay on the insult thing. But the discussion is still ridiculous. This is one of those things that will win traction on Reddit, but not in reality.",
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"content": "Again, I'm not saying they should get what they want. \nNot at all. \nBut I understand why they want it and it's not unreasonable *to have a conversation* about it. \nThese are young people that are excited about the prospect of participating in our government. \nThey shouldn't be discouraged by getting dismissed outright. \nWe currently think of the young vote as a Sanders vote, but keep in mind the slightly bigger picture of a democratic vote. ",
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"content": "This is a discussion that should be had - hypothetically and in a classroom. In fact, I have it a lot. Every year.\n\nAnd, you might notice that this is an article about Sanders supporting the idea. It stinks of self-advancement at the expense of national interest.\n\nAnd - regarding the bigger picture - even young voters over 18 are an unreliable voting demographic. ",
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"content": "Okay, I totally admit that this has gone too far now... \nhttp://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/08/politics/bernie-sanders-lawsuit-ohio-teenage-voters/index.html",
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"content": "Enjoyed the article. And, honestly, I am a little bored today. I'm going to need distraction - even if it comes in the form of internet \"debate.\" ",
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"content": "> I'm going to need distraction - even if it comes in the form of internet \"debate.\" \n \nIn the middle of a primary? I think you'll be able to find one.",
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"content": "I know. I try not to troll for trolling's sake. But my actual position is so alien to typical reddit politics that I can provoke argument on pretty much any point.\n\nIt's cause I am old.",
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"content": "Yeah, I'm right there with ya buddy. \nI find I start Internet wars when I didn't even know I was saying anything contentious.",
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"content": "It's easy when \"can you provide a source for that claim\" is often considered contentious.",
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"content": "LOL. You are so cute. Most 17 year olds can't do half the stuff you mentioned. They certainly can't choose their college - unless their parents let them. They can't even take a loan without a cosigner. They can certainly spend what they earn for the most part, but I think you will find (again) that a minor's right to property is not absolute. It is, in fact, under the control of their guardian. 18 year olds also cannot make their own medical decisions without parental consent. And - your stock argument also fails on the right to property issue.\n\nWow - were you trying to be funny? 17 year olds are literally not allowed to do any of the stuff you said.\n\nSeriously. Wow.\n\n\nWow.",
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"content": "tl;dr. making bad points longer doesn't strengthen them.",
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"content": "Sanders performs well in little pockets. He is getting his ass handed to him over all, though.\n\nBut - what is your point? Are you responding to me?",
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"content": "Interestingly, the more that people know about him, the more they like him. Have you considered that younger voters have the benefit of hindsight without the burden of a lack of complete information and thus can draw their initial conclusions based on the entire facts instead of a limited chunk? Have you also considered that young people have massively greater utilization of and access to vast amounts of information that older people do not in order to make their decisions? And that someone who made decisions based on the limited information available when those decisions were made made the same decisions those with all the facts would make now convinces people that perhaps that person has excellent judgment and foresight? And that perhaps someone fighting for the same goals for decades despite massive opposition, goals that are now finally gaining public support, shows a conviction of character? No? Maybe you should do some critical thinking yourself.",
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"content": "I find your argument confusing. \n\nI don't think you made one salient point. Explain why you think young voters are better qualified.\n",
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"content": "What I was arguing was why young people overwhelmingly support Bernie Sanders. Trends consistently show an inverse correlation between age and support for Bernie Sanders (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/the-great-democratic-age-gap/459570/). These trends also exist for opinions about socialism (https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/05/11/one-third-millennials-like-socialism/). During the Cold War, young people and old people alike learned everything they knew about socialism (and especially communism, but they were often lumped together even though socialist European states were some of the biggest buffers against the USSR) from US government and radio and television propaganda. It was called the Red Scare for a reason. Naturally, being told at every turn that any kind of socialism was an evil against humanity and the antithesis to the \"great champion\" that is US capitalism (even though we were and still are a mixture of the two, take social security, minimum wage, workplace safety regulations, environmental regulations, etc.), an \"evil\" that \"wants to destroy our way of life,\" can pretty substantially influence one's opinion about anything even remotely associated with that evil. Thanks to the backfire effect (http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-backfire-effect-why-facts-dont-win-arguments), when presented with information that conflicts with your existing views, regardless of how accurate or realistic that information is, those with established opposing viewpoints are substantially more likely to feel even more strongly that their original beliefs are correct. This is a massive barrier to critical thinking. Naturally, those who are drawing their first conclusions, as young adults entering the political scene for the first time may be, aren't particularly influenced by this effect since they have few or no well-established and reinforced beliefs to begin with. This is a substantial factor, but not enough to explain the overwhelming support for Bernie Sanders among young people. However, combined with the massive use of social media and overall internet utilization by younger Americans that isn't mirrored in older Americans, who instead tend to watch televised news shows that present information at their discretion and with some sort of bias (http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2015/03/cable-news-in-the-age-of-millennials/) (http://www.pewinternet.org/data-trend/social-media/social-media-user-demographics/) (http://www.pewinternet.org/data-trend/internet-use/latest-stats/) (the linear trend exists here again), younger Americans have access to massive amounts of information and facts from which to draw their initial conclusions. Given that they have no prior conclusions about Bernie Sanders or his policies to influence their willingness to critically analyze any information they receive and are able to form their initial conclusions based on vast amounts of uncensored and varied information, they are able to think far more critically than older Americans, whose personal life experiences affect their ability to evaluate any information presented to them fairly and critically.\n",
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"content": "Not that National Polls are worth anything now. Of course if we look at futures markets or betting sites which are more accurate, we have to give this a pants on fire.",
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"content": ">\"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.\" - Mahatma Gandhi\n\nFeel the Bern. ",
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"content": "Oh, Jesus Christ. I support Bernie, I just can't stomach his supporter, who think you can win an election with kewl memes and hashtags. \n\nI wish whoever came up with Feel The Bern would suffer the same fate as Donald Trump eventually will. They're equally as useless. ",
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"content": "Yeah? Well, I don't really care about your personal opinion. Thanks for sharing, though. ",
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"content": "I can't stomach you, because you say a lot of truly ignorant things and then try to use your support of Bernie Sanders as a shield.\n\nYou occasionally make a good point, but readers have to dig through a rant that's only half baked to find it. No one is interested in that.",
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"content": "Do you have evidence that gambling behavior is predictive of election results? Because the last guy to make that claim only had \"herp derp\".",
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"content": "A lot of people bet on Clinton winning in Michigan.\n\nOh ... Wait ...",
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"content": "because independents lean bernie by a large margin. they make up over 1/3 of the electorate nationwide too! time for the new-new deal and not a neo-neo con!!!",
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"content": "This is wrong. Yes, *SOME* independents lean toward Bernie. Not the ones who left the GOP for even more crazy shit and *those* people make up a huge portion of the vote.\n\nIf you don't believe me, consider that they secured the House and Senate for the GOP after these fools were marketed to by the 'tea party,' which is that 'independent' group you're talking about.\n\nThere isn't a huge group of liberal independents. Not at all. Those people are the vast minority, very vast. \n\nIf what you're saying is true (that 1/3 registered voters fall into the 'independent' category and that they \"lean\" toward Bernie by a \"large margin\") this nomination process wouldn't even be *close*. \n\nIn several states, you don't have to be registered to vote for a specific candidate in the primaries. And anyone who is republican who wants to vote for Bernie has already re-registered (or are too dumb to understand how the process works…it's different in each state).\n\nBy your claims, Bernie would be winning each caucus and primary by 20-30% and the truth is that he's still barely clinging by the skin of his teeth. \n\nThe simple truth is this: If he *does* win the nomination, conservative independents will likely vote for trump and liberal independents will vote for Bernie. And both of those groups make up a very small percent of the electorate. \n\nTruth. \n\nJust because people claim to not subscribe to either party doesn't make them an independent. In America, it usually just means they're too lazy to vote and not informed enough to really be able to address and discuss the political topics of the day. \n\nAnd to prove my point, if these 'independents' write in candidates instead of choosing from one of the big 2, they will prove exactly how insignificant their voices and votes are in America. \n\nStop dreaming. \n\nPolls are useless (if you don't believe me, look at the results in Michigan tonight on the democratic side) and the poll Bernie was referencing is just another useless poll.\n\nedit: You cannot look at the polls you dislike and claim that they're bullshit and then pick the ones who support your candidate of choice and then pretend that they're magically accurate. One way or the other.",
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"content": "your arguments are specious and dangerous in that they move us closer to a republican in the whitehouse. choose the new-new deal not a neo-neo con. bernie is the only viable choice, which is why he polls better versus the insane asylum. nice try attempting to lump berners in with the tea party but we see through your lies.\n\nhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/180440/new-record-political-independents.aspx\n\ncheck it yourself\n\nyour claims: mostly false",
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"content": "You're argument is really flawed in that the Tea Party operates largely as a contingent within the Republican Party, not as an independent or third party.",
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"content": "Really, big shit. \n\nMichigan proved tonight that polls don't mean fuck-all. Even people like Nate Silver has shared the same sentiments. \n\nI support Bernie but it's absolutely laughable to \"rate\" a \"claim\" about a fucking \"poll.\" \n\nThere's so much wrong with this, I don't know where to start. \n\nYes, it's *true* that Bernie *claimed* that the polls *suggest* that he *might* have a *better* chance of beating Trump by *larger* margins, *maybe*.\n\nGotcha. \n\nFor a group of people who claim to like science, a lot of you all are also very given to absolute fantasy and worthless prognostication. ",
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"content": "Well that's incredibly disappointing. ",
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"content": "Yeah. Bummer that the more electable candidate won. I'm really hoping for a GOP White House, too. ",
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"content": "I've heard people say that he is more electable, how is that? History has shown that more moderate Democrats win national elections. \n\nI'm genuinely curious about this sort of statement.",
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"content": "Much higher favorability rating/pulls more independents. [Here's a graphic](http://imgur.com/KMxAb2B) that summarizes nicely. And [another one](http://imgur.com/nHAe6km) explaining the importance of favorability in recent general elections.",
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"content": "You have to factor in Hillary's favorability is impacted by thirty years of \"You're a lesbian\", \"You had hit men kill Vince Foster\", \"Chelsea's real father is [x]\", and every other nonsense conspiracy you can think of. If Bernie is the nominee, then the Republicans will ramp up that nonsense against Bernie. Both you and I know what kind of dingbat things they'll say and I won't give them the dignity of repeating them here. However, don't pretend that they won't have an impact on his favorability.",
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"content": "....... And they wouldn't say Hillary's an outstanding LIAR ?",
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"content": "Depends, they may soft ball him in the hopes of avoiding a Trump presidency. I don't believe that they will but I think deep down they trust Sanders with the keys more so than Trump. ",
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"content": ">You have to factor in Hillary's favorability is impacted by thirty years of \"You're a lesbian\", \"You had hit men kill Vince Foster\", \"Chelsea's real father is [x]\", and every other nonsense conspiracy you can think of. \n\nVery few people still remember that (or even heard it the first time)",
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"content": "Very few millennials remember that. Most people can remember the 90s. ",
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"content": "There's a lot in Bernie's past that could be torn apart by a Republican op researchers. \n\nHis travels to the communist bloc come to mind as well as his writings in a 1970s socialist newspaper. They're going to tear him apart with personal attacks in a way that the Clinton campaign refuses to do.\n\nI wouldn't discount the ability to hurt him since he hasn't faced real right-wing scrutiny in the past.",
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"content": "Not really. That kind of stuff is only going to matter to people who wouldn't vote for him anyway. Don't forget the \"dirt\" they dug up on Obama. Moreover, Hillary has even more skeletons, and they are far more recent. ",
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"content": "That's is just your opinion. What's not opinion is that more people are voting for Hillary. ",
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"content": "Only to you !",
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"content": "An to lots of other people too mate. ",
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"content": "The polls were off. By a lot. And I suspect the debate had something to do with it because there were no polls after the debate. \n\nI'm from Michigan and I think the debates tipped the state off to something that's a big no no to Michiganders. Supporting free trade. We're the home of the auto companies. This state HATES NAFTA. They blame it for the auto companies shipping jobs overseas. Keep in mind when the rest of the country entered the recession in 2007, we had been in a recession for 4 years already. There is a lot of anger there. A lot of people who feel like the federal government ignored our economic problems to benefit other states with free trade agreements.\n\nSo I think Bernie hit a note when he spoke against NAFTA in the debates. \n\nI don't think this strategy will work nearly as well in other states that probably don't give much of a shit about NAFTA. I think Michigan was a special case. Though I do expect Sanders got a media bump here.",
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"content": "I call on the Democratic Party to now unite behind Bernie Sanders and to focus on defeating the Republicans in the general election.",
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"content": "He's over 200 delegates behind. And only beat his target in Michigan by 2 delegates. A target that probably should have been much higher because of all the losses he's had before tonight. While it was an impressive comeback lets not pretend this really changes the race that much.",
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"content": "I know. I just wanted to make a media/Clinton campaign-style absurd statement whose intent is to try to demoralize the opposition.\n\nHowever, I do hope that winning Michigan shows that this race isn't over, that Hillary Clinton's coronation isn't inevitable, and then Sanders can start narrowing that lead. ",
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"content": ">Sanders can start narrowing that lead. \n\nLiterally the opposite happened last night. Sanders is now even more behind than he was before. ",
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"content": "True. But Clinton's confederacy of the caucuses is nearly over. She's nearly out of Southern Strategy states as the campaign season leaves the Derp South.\n\nMichigan showed that Sanders could defy polls and overtake Clinton if he's within 20% or so. That, and an increasing number of folks who would've stayed home otherwise are feeling like Sanders has a shot. They will start showing up now.\n\nI'm hopeful that we here in WA State can give Sanders an 85%+ win. :)",
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"content": "The reason he lost the south is because he doesn't appeal to minority voters. Bernie hasn't shown that he can overcome that problem, and he cannot win the democratic nomination with only white voters. ",
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"content": "It's not a coronation when she is getting most of the votes. ",
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"content": "If we \"unite\"--why shouldn't should be behind the candidate with the most delegates? Who \"unites\" for the overall loser?",
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"content": "> If we \"unite\"--why shouldn't should be behind the candidate with the most delegates? \n\nBecause Sanders does better against Trump than Hillary in the majority of polls.",
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"content": "So, lemme ask you sometin (if this were the Walking Dead sub, I'd have to rub my head)...\n\nAre you basically saying that primary Democratic voters don't matter? That their wishes shouldn't be honored? Democracy is only for when you agree with the results?\n\nThat sounds suspiciously like what the Republicans are saying about Trump voters.",
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"content": "> That their wishes shouldn't be honored? Democracy is only for when you agree with the results?\n\nThe media and the superdelegates side already with Hillary Clinton, you shouldn't be riled up and intepret things I didn't say. \n\nI was pointing it out in a strategic manner. The Americans deserve the president they have chosen. ",
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"content": "If you think the forerunner should drop out and support the second-place candidate, well... I don't know what to say about that other than \"huh?\" Does not compute.",
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"content": "> If you think the forerunner should drop out and support the second-place candidate, well... \n\nAt least there is an option to choose amirite?\n\n>support \n\nIdk what goes through your mind, but that would never happen.\n\nI was just saying, that Sanders does better against Trump than Hillary, nothing more or less.",
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"content": "Those polls won't count for squat if it means ripping the rug out from her campaign *as she's winning.* That would not sit well with a lot of her supporters. And why should it? The only way Sanders ends up with the nomination would be to pull something like the Republicans are talking about, through a brokered convention. If that happens, all bets are off, and don't even expect a fraction of Clinton supporters to vote for Sanders in the general.\n\n",
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"content": "National polls are irrelevant. ",
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"content": "Hillary has a history that is littered with scandals. Email, Bengahzi, Wallstreet, guncontrol, Sexist campaign. the list can go on and on,\n\n\nBernie? he's old, he's self proclaimed socialist.\n\n\nwhile I'm sure some of those issues with Hillary won't affect Hillary supporters much. Bernie supporters simply DON'T trust Hillary. and she has done minimal to show she can be trusted. a good number of Bernie supporters will flock to trump. since they trust him more than her.\n\nIf you expect All the Bernie supporters to flock to Hillary you're poorly mistaken.",
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"content": "I'll just put this here: I signed it by the way. http://wontvotehillary.com/",
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"content": "Of course the Bernie supporters would flock to Trump. They're basically the same. \"I'm going to make things wonderful and fix all your problems and other people are going to pay for it!\" while providing no specific details is working wonders for both of them. But you're kidding yourself if you think all Republicans are going to vote for Trump. The crossover would occur on both sides.",
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"content": "Head on back to your little hive /r/Hillaryclinton\n\nAssuming you haven't bleached your eyes. and blew your ear drums. You would have noticed clinton playing copy cat with sander's messages. \n",
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"content": "Sanders fell further behind yesterday. To take that as a win is just mind boggling. Do numbers mean nothing anymore?",
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"content": "they do mean something. it means he has to work harder. when you fail at something are you supposed to just give up? NO, you assess the situation, address them, and get back in the fight. \n\nlike it or not Sander's isn't giving up. ",
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"content": "And Sanders playing copycat pretending to be a Democrat. Watch yourself. ",
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"content": "of course he's not a full fledged Dem, he's said it himself he's a socialist. ",
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"content": "He's not a Dem at all, really. ",
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"content": "Are you going to keep acting the part of captain obvious, or do you have a source or physical evidence? otherwise we're done here.",
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"content": "Source or evidence? \n\nHe just became a Dem when he announced his run. And the Dem party in the US is not a socialist party. It's a liberal or progressive party. \n\nYou may like Sanders. I do too, but stop pretending he is a Democrat. ",
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"content": "ok my bad, He's not a Democrat. Had to look at my previous comment to see what I said. You're right. He's straight up socialist. ",
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"content": "Not that there's anything wrong with that. But if he loses it will be because of that classification. And the fact Clinton was already so entrenched. ",
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"content": "You're confusing New Democrat/Clintonian Democrat with being a REAL Democrat.\n\nYou can tell the two apart by how New Democrats/Clintonian Democrats work with Republicans to increase wealth inequality, tax breaks for the rich, corporate welfare, repealing Glass-Steagall, horrible trade deals like NAFTA and TPP, and lying to America about idiotic wars.\n\nNew Democrat/Clintonian Democrat/Establishment Democrat == Republican-lite",
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"content": "Uh, no. \n\nDemocrat is either Liberal or Progressive. \n\nNot socialist. Deal with it. \n\nIf not, then go start a socialist party and see how far you get. \n\n",
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"content": "We're gonna take this over. Besides, with your charm and wit, you'll fit in well with the GOP.",
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"content": "You can't even get a delegate lead, so I would aim lower. \n\nLike class president. ",
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"content": "> You can't even get a delegate lead ... \n\nIf that changes before the convention, will you retire your Reddit handle? Are you willing to back up all the shit you spout?",
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"content": "Why the fuck would I do that? \n\nAnd if Sanders won, I would be happy to vote for him. ",
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"content": "> Why the fuck would I do that? \n\nBecause you talk a LOT of shit. I just thought you'd enjoy the opportunity to show you weren't all talk with no guts.",
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"content": "I am more on the republican side of things, BUT! from what we have for republicans It's a joke. Trump is riding on the anti establishment train. but he's far from what I want for pres.\n\nBernie, while he may be listed as democrat. He pointed out alot of things that need to be dealt with. And I actually agree with him. \n\n\nHillary. no, just no. too many scandals, too many things that trump could point out. she would be shredded limb from limb. \nall trump could do to Bernie is screem socialist. as far as I know. Bern can counter that easy. Hillary not so much.",
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"content": "> Bernie, while he may be listed as democrat. He pointed out alot of things that need to be dealt with. And I actually agree with him.\n\nHi Cheveleon_! \n\nThe truth be told: I don't agree with Bernie Sanders on everything.\n\nBut I do believe three things about him, and this is why I support Sanders:\n\n1) Bernie Sanders has more integrity and is the most honest mainstream presidential candidate that I can recall (I'm in my mid-40s, and perhaps somebody could make a case for Gary Johnson, John Anderson, Ross Perot, etc.). That means that his beliefs and convictions are derived via thought and consideration and not SuperPACS, handlers, and focus groups. \n\nHonesty and integrity still mean something to at least *some* of us (hopefully, a majority of us).\n\n2) What has become a multi-billion dollar industry, America's campaign-based economy, undermines democracy itself. Money is not speech and corporations are not people; people are people. Some of those people run corporations, which is great! But that doesn't grant the super wealthy additional power to affect the outcomes of elections. There is no candidate that I can recall (same disclaimer as above) who I believe will do more to change this than Bernie Sanders. \n\nThat, and I believe it's crazy to expect politicians funded by banks and multi-national corporations to look out for our interests. I want the president during the next too-big-to fail bailout to be beholden to us, not Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, etc.\n\n3) Under the guise of \"trickle down\" economics, we've reduced the amount of taxes that the wealthy pay to the extent that America's infrastructure is failing and we're falling further behind other developed nations. Water supply systems, roads, bridges, electrical grids, energy needs, broadband accessibility, etc. America is long overdue for an FDR-era type public works program, or we face becoming a nation less and less competitive in the 21st century. \n\nWhen some folks say they're \"Taxed Enough Already,\" they're absolutely right; they just don't realize that, over the last three decades, the tax burden was shifted onto them. \n\nAnd that poor person down the street who seems to refuse to get a job isn't the \"welfare queen;\" it's the multi-national banks and corporations who have made tax avoidance an art form, and public-private \"partnerships\" the norm. \n\nI apologize for the wall-o-text. Too much coffee I guess. ;)\n",
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"content": "> I call on the Democratic Party to now unite behind Bernie Sanders \n\nI'm not uniting behind a man who has no interest in uniting the party. I the primary is not over. I'll only vote for Sanders if there's a gun to my head.",
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"content": "I feel the same about Hillary in fact a lot of people do. If the choice is Hillary or Trump I am voting for Jill Stein and secretly hoping for a Trump win. Rather 4 years of Drumph than 8 years of the Shillary-fem-bot.\n\nhttp://wontvotehillary.com/",
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"content": "Good choice, Ralph Nader is an excellent candidate for president and definitely won't draw votes from Al Gore.",
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"content": "> I am voting for Jill Stein\n\nIf the election came down to Trump v. Sanders I'd probably vote for Jill Stein too. \n\n>8 years of the Shillary-fem-bot.\n\nIt was kind for you to imply that she'd get two terms. But you're still a disgusting BernieBro. ",
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"content": "Then you are a fool who doesn't care about the policies you clamor for. A phony. ",
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"content": "> I'm not uniting behind a man who has no interest in uniting the party. I the primary is not over. I'll only vote for Sanders if there's a gun to my head.\n\nConsidering that the last time we talked, you said you'd vote for Trump before Sanders. So that's progress!\n\nAt this rate, by November, you'll be getting a *Not Me. US!* tattoo! ;)",
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"content": "I would have never voted for Trump, I'm too much of a liberal democrat to do that. That was just hyperbole. ",
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"content": "Looking at the exit polls, it seems Hillary got 60-40 with registered Democrats which was basically the expected results. Did pollsters not talk to any Independents in an Open Primary state? I suspect the oddness in Michigan in 2008 led to filtering in the polls being off. ",
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"content": "That part about Clinton is debatable...\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html",
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"content": "What part about Hillary?",
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"content": "Super delegates are not locked in yet. ",
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"content": "Yea I am afraid they are. Not technically, but realistically.",
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"content": "Yeah Clinton was gonna win MI too...",
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"content": "Three superdelegates just jumped to Bernie today.... so no\n\nhttp://digital.vpr.net/post/bernie-sanders-picks-3-more-vermont-superdelegates",
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"content": "Yes. Three from his home state of Vermont.",
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"content": "Showing that a superdelegate's current commitment is not ironclad.",
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"content": "That goes without saying.",
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"content": ">Showing that a superdelegate's current commitment is not ironclad.\n\nThey didn't switch from Clinton to Sanders. They were uncommitted until today.\n\nNo matter how many superdelegates Sanders picks up from here on out, Clinton already has a majority of superdelegates in her fold.",
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"content": "Jumped? They didn't jump from Clinton. They were not committed.\n\nHow many superdelegates did Clinton pick up so far this week? Hint: it's a number greater than three.",
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"content": "You're not lying, but you're being disingenuous by counting superdelegates as guaranteed points for Hillary. Several superdelegates just hopped to Bernie today (from Vermont). And none of them are forced to vote the way they're pointing currently. \n\n\nSad that a moderator of this sub has to resort to obfuscation - but your bias is clear, so I'm not exactly surprised.",
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"content": "I could be wrong but if I was betting any money, I would bet the bank. I am just stating what I see. Not what I want.",
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"content": "Here's the problem with that. Super delegates will shift their vote if Hillary loses the pledged delegate race. That's what happened in 08. However, by saying she has some gaudy lead over Bernie, you reduce Bernie's support among undecided voters--that is why \"momentum\" is a thing: undecideds like to vote for the leader. As a result, taken in the aggregate, statements like the one you made become a self fulfilling prophecy. ",
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"content": "That's the intent of some - I don't necessarily ascribe malice in this case. It's just somewhat disingenuous.",
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"content": "Oh I agree. I don't think /u/backpackwayne was being even a little bit malicious. I just hope he will exercise greater caution in the future. ",
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"content": "I am just telling you what I see. In this election nothing is iron clad. I am just giving my view, just like anyone else. I am allowed to do that here. Just so none of it affects how I mod. I will tell you it is extremely to difficult to mod this place right now. No one is happy regardless of what I do. That usually means I am doing it right. :D",
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"content": ">if Hillary loses the pledged delegate race.\n\nThe chances of that are close to nonexistent. He has to win more than 60 percent of the vote *in every state remaining*, which isn't going to happen.\n\n> That's what happened in 08.\n\nOnly a small percentage did -- 50 of 823.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_superdelegates,_2008\n\n>she has some gaudy lead over Bernie\n\nHer lead is real, not gaudy. She widened the distance tonight between herself and Sanders. She is now more than 200 delegates ahead of him (not counting the superdelegates). Last night she was less than 200 delegates ahead of him.\n\nSanders barely won in MI but lost a landslide in MS. Added together, Clinton took more delegates out of the two states tonight than he did.\n",
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"content": "I know that here in WA, all of the superdelegates are currently in Clinton's camp. On March 26th, Sanders will defeat Clinton here by double digits. And if our superdelegates still side with Clinton afterwards, some Establishment Dems are going to be in real trouble, e.g. primary challenges against Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell from Progressives.\n\nAnd that should be true of every state ... the superdelegates go to whoever won the state, or some political careers get ended.",
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"content": "> then they'll switch over,\n\nHistorically superdelegates have never switched sides, other than a handful.",
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"content": "> Several superdelegates just hopped to Bernie today\n\nAnd several superdelegates just hopped to Hillary today.\n\n>And none of them are forced to vote\n\nThey **want** to vote for Hillary. Most superdelegates are downballot candidates and want to run under her.\n\nClinton continues to widen her lead over Sanders in delegates, as she did tonight, given MI was close and MS was a blowout. She is at roughly 115 percent of where she needs to be in delegate count for the nomination, not including superdelegates, and Sanders is at roughly 85 percent of where he needs to be. She's strongly favored in all the 3/15 primaries, but even if they're closer than the polls are saying today, she will still widen her lead over Sanders at that point.\n\nThe superdelegates are **not going to buck her widening lead** and throw their votes behind Sanders. They do not want to run on his tax-increasing platform.",
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"content": "Sure, but if the popular vote and pledged delegate count favors Bernie by more than single digits, they'll have no choice but to back him. Just like Obama in '08.",
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"content": "You're right. The OP is quite disingenuous, either they don't understand that the super delegates are extremely unlikely to have say in the final result, or they're being biased on purpose. Disconcerting either way, especially for a mod. \n\nDefinitely not \"Just giving his view\" or \"just stating what he sees\".",
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"content": "Did You Know, Bill freaking Clinton changed his vote for Obama as a Super delegate in 2008 ???\n\nstop bullshitting yourself with the Superdelegate lead...",
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"content": "You're gonna need to clarify that a bit more buddy. Centrism is not progressive, no matter how much Clinton tries to wish it into reality. Pushing a few progressive issues doesn't transform one into the other just because Clinton tries to muddy the waters by painting herself as a \"pragmatic progressive\". Just as recently as a week or so ago there was an article on her spokesman saying pre-debate how she was different than Sanders on having Rick Snyder resign and during the debate she agreed with Sanders on the issue. She came out with the statement regarding punishing outsourcing close to when the Michigan primary was coming up for a vote and will likely drop it now or by the time the nomination rolls up. Do some comparing and contrasting between the two and show your position rather than the idiotically biased thread title.",
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"content": "[Maybe this will help](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hillary-clinton-was-liberal-hillary-clinton-is-liberal/)\n\nDo you not remember her running to the left of Obama in 2008? GOP was like \"She is the most liberal senator of all!\" Which was an exaggeration, but still...",
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"content": "You're going to have to do better than that. I see problems with that article, including her recent position shifts on some issues in that article alone(gay marriage). Even if it does make her a progressive, that doesn't clarify how she is a \"warrior\" while he is a \"worrier\". Do the legwork and prove your point, I'm not going to prove it for you.",
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"content": "It is hard for young people to understand the evolution of perspective. What counted as progressive in the 90's is different than what counts today. The important realization is that people like Clinton are responsible for that shift.\n\nSanders has been in office for decades - but he was not making headlines.\n\nGo on - try to find a national news item celebrating Sanders progressive successes that predates his candidacy. Clinton has been the face of the progressive movement for decades. Sanders has been a sideline troll with his fist in the air.\n\nHis ideas have been consistent. So has his inability to compromise and work with others in order to accomplish his agenda. Clinton is the opposite. She works in the real world with real people and accomplishes real progress. It is an irony that Sanders could not stand where he is today without Clinton.",
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"content": "Dismissing \"the other side\" as being too young is sloppy and is an Ad hominem attack. \nI realize the Sanders side has many young people, but it's not all of them. ",
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"content": "Other way around. Sanders actions show him fighting for progressive values, Clinton worries and talks about them, doing nothing all the while.",
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"content": "That is just counter-factual. Maybe you could post evidence of some of those Sanders initiatives?",
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"content": "Maybe you should've backed up your position with more evidence. Also, as for Clinton being a progressive or liberal of any kind:\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/politics/hillary-clinton-democrat-progressive/",
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"content": "My point was predicated on concrete evidence, like voting record, etc. This is campaigning. Clinton needs to push towards the center in order to win in the general. Luckily, Sanders serves as a foil in this effort. He demonstrates the lunatic fringe - something for Clinton to balance herself against. \n\nWe WANT Clinton to look centrist. But that doesn't undermine her credentials in any way.",
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"content": "How is noted progressive and close personal friend to the Clintons, Henry Kissinger doing?",
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"content": "Guessing you ran out of good points? Find any of those Sanders initiatives I was asking for?",
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"content": "Where's your points? I don't have to prove anything because you're the one that started the debate with a ridiculously biased title and no further proof. You saying something is counter-factual and posting one article that is an editorial at best is still not proof of what you originally stated in the thread's title. No matter how much you want to force the issue, Clinton is not a progressive. If she is, show me with articles and a clear explanation.",
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"content": "Typical Sanders voter. \"I don't have to prove anything.\" Convenient dodge. But, honestly, I've learned not to expect better.",
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"content": "Don't try to turn your laziness around on me. Claiming things about Clinton doesn't make them right. You made the initial point, now back it up with articles, links, etc. I don't have to prove anything because you are the one that made the initial statement and now appear to be refusing to back it up beyond just saying things about it.",
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"content": "You have provided nothing because you don't have anything. I provided context for a debate. If you are under-qualified, you can simply choose not to participate.",
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"content": "Whether or not they are \"progressive warriors\", they are both many times better than either Trump or Cruz, so I happily pledge to support whichever of them gets our party's nomination, and encourage all of us to begin having this conversation now.",
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"content": "I'm with you on that point. \n\nBut I think there is some value in trying to drum up some debate on the voting records, etc., of the two candidates. It's all fine and good to toss around labels like \"establishment\" and \"progressive,\" but I think Reddit could do a better job promoting substantive debate.\n\nFor example, Sanders has been in public office for 30 years. How is it possible to believe that he has distanced himself from the liberal party (not establishment) and has also been an effective progressive? \n\nWith Clinton, it is easy. She has been a high profile figure for decades - one of the most thoroughly vetted candidates in DNC history. But - try to find an article about Sanders pre-candidacy. He is simply absent on the national level.\n\nSo - maybe Sanders supporters can provide some evidence of his progressive successes? There seems to be a high level of confidence that they exist - but that confidence exists in a vacuum. Where is the data?",
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"content": "To me it is current actions that show who the progressive warrior is. Money in politics is a disaster, Clinton supports it with her actions and her superpacts are going to want something in return, plain and simple. Citizens United will not be reversed, since she is relying on it to be elected.\n\nSanders on the other hand, has not taken corporate money or superpacts and has relied on funding the old fashioned way, the way it is suppose to work. From individual donors. He has real people supporting him, not corporations and wall street bankers. \n\nThat to me is YUUUUGE!\n\nNow to go on secondary points, under Clinton we will have the same obstructive congress as we have with Obama, there will be no chance in uniting the two party's, she is too polarizing, with Sanders and his 30+ years in congress we actually have a chance of changing the way congress works. He is not a polarizing figure. Republican and Democrats might just start working together again and get things done. \n\nAnd that too is YUUUUGE!",
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"content": "For any discussion to proceed, especially one as broad as the topic that you have raised, a framework must be created in which to approach the topic. Considering that you have not truly defined what you mean by the term \"progressive\", the best option is to first define this term. \n\nThe American Values Project released an open manifesto on what it believes the idea of progressive thinking and progressivism is. Their definition in summation is that “everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does his or her fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules.” Having now established a definition that we can use to weigh policies and actions we can continue with the discussion.\n\nUnfortunately your initial sentiment gives us no real evidence or documentation of what “initiatives” you are specifically talking about. If Clinton has truly been a pillar of the progressive community, it would be helpful if we could actually weight some of her progressive policies to determine if she was actually a “warrior”. But lacking concrete evidence from your side, all we can do is fall back on our definition of progressive, to weigh some of Clinton’s decisions.\n\nThe American Values Project makes reference to responsibility as a core aspect of progressivism. This responsibility particularly takes center stage when considering ecological and environmental preservation. Let’s examine Clinton’s record on matters of the environment. Sanders and Clinton both have ratings from the American Conservation League with Clinton at 82% (http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/hillary-rodham-clinton) and Sanders at 95% (http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/bernie-sanders) over their voting lifetime. This is a particularly telling statistic considering how much longer Sanders has been in elected office compared to Clinton (Sanders: 24 years, Clinton 8 years.) \n\nConsidering that your argument is structured around the idea that people can change their opinions on major issues, let’s look at the recent environmental actions of Clinton, most specifically on fracking, something that was a big issue in the recent debate. Clinton has not only supported fracking, but has been a spokesperson around the world for its increased use, despite the enormous negative environmental implications that fracking carries. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-will-ban-fracking-_b_9156182.html) Clinton also voted against banning MTBE a pollutant oil additive that her donors in the oil lobby wished to hold onto. (http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-spotlighting-crisis-flint-michigan-voted-against-measure-prevent)\n\nClinton’s stance as a “progressive warrior” also does not hold water when we look at the idea of everyone getting a fairshot. Clinton and Rubio have taken the most money out of all candidates this election cycle from the private prison lobby. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/marco-rubio-and-hillary-clinton-accepted_b_9191868.html) The issue could also of course be raised that Clinton very publicly, “shunned” private prison money in late 2015. However the question becomes if she was such a progressive why did it take so long for her to stop accepting corporate money from misery producing private prisons? Progressivism doesn’t shine through to me. Sounds like pandering at best.\n\nLet’s also consider the idea of playing by the same rules. American Values further states in their definition that “we believe that everyone should play by the same set of rules with no special privileges for the well-connected or wealthy.” This is perhaps the most telling way in which Clinton can make no claim at progressivism. Her record is fraught with examples of giving more to those with wealth and getting away with more as one of the wealthy. Whether it be the weapons deals she gives to human rights violating countries that donated to her foundation. (http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-193418/) Her pernicious ties to oil and the fossil fuel industry (http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/20/clinton-ties-to-big-oil/). Or her ability to somehow avoid an indictment for her illegal use of a private email server. (http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/12/politics/hillary-clinton-michael-flynn-email-fbi-investigation/) These clear examples don’t tell a story of someone without special privilege, or who is above providing her wealthy friends and benefactors with exclusive support.\n\nThe narrative of Clinton as anything other than a career politician, catapulted into fame by her husband’s presidency, and now a darling of the establishment is clearly inaccurate. The past doesn’t look too good for Clinton. No wonder she always wants to focus on the future.",
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"content": "She's a habitual backpeddler, not a progressive warrior. Who gave up on universal healthcare? Who's in favor of military engagements in the Middle East? Who lobbied for entitlement reform? Who supported DOMA and was late to the game on gay marriage? Who supports fracking and failed to take a clear position on Keystone?\n\nI could keep going, but I won't, because while Clinton may be a progressive, she's neither a progressive LEADER nor a \"progressive warrior,\" whatever that means.",
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"content": "Another fairy story about how Sanders \"won\" last night by losing. He missed his necessary delegate threshold. He lost the total delegate count. He's further behind in delegates today than he was on Monday.",
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"content": "> [According to our final polls-plus forecast, Hillary Clinton had a greater than 99% chance of winning the Michigan primary.](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/primary-forecast/michigan-democratic/)\n\nIt's starting to look like Sanders' campaign might be accurate when they say that Clinton is a regional candidate.",
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"content": "Massachusetts blows your little talking point straight out of the water.",
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"content": "Are you talking about \"Clinton country,\" where she ended up winning by less than two percent?\n\nHillary Clinton has been in the national spotlight for years. So much so that Clinton has always been assumed to be an eventual president by the Democratic party. Winning by anything but an astronomical amount to Sanders has actually got to be really *humiliating* for her.\n\nMy point is, Clinton really only has an advantage in the South. Even a candidate as flawed as Sanders is competitive with her everywhere else.",
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"content": "> Clinton really only has an advantage in the South.\n\nIf you look at the Michigan results you'll see that's flat-out wrong.\n\nSanders only has an advantage with whites. He lost the non-white vote in MI big time.",
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"content": "Cool. So why didn't that advantage with non-white voters carry Clinton to victory in Michigan?",
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"content": "Less QQ.",
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"content": "That's rich. She lost because her supporters were too busy trolling the Republican race. What next? They stayed home to bake victory cookies? ",
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"content": "Seems to me Clinton has an advantage overall. ",
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"content": "Clinton has always had the advantage.",
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"content": "Because she is the preferred choice. ",
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"content": "Or because, as I stated above, she's been in the national spotlight for decades.\n\nThere are a lot of factors at play when voters make their decisions. Your assertion is really an assumption more than anything, and you don't actually have any evidence to support your claim.",
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"content": "Except that she is winning and has a big lead in delegates, you mean. ",
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"content": "That is only evidence of votes. You have no evidence to support your claims of voter motivation.\n\nTo illustrate this point, you expect Sanders' supporters to support Clinton if she is the nominee by voting for her. If they vote for her in the general election, does it mean that they prefer her or that they are afraid of a Republican president? We'll likely never know.",
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"content": "If they vote for her over the Republican, it means they prefer her over the Republican. \n\nIt's not that hard to figure out. ",
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"content": "As I said before, people's decision making process when voting isn't really something that you have any real evidence of. You're making assumptions.\n\nI don't know what's so hard to understand about that.",
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"content": "A vote is an act of preference. I don't know what your disfunction is ",
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"content": "Or because, as I stated above, she's been in the national spotlight for decades.\n\nThere are a lot of factors at play when voters make their decisions. Your assertion is really an assumption more than anything, and you don't actually have any evidence to support your claim.",
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"content": "The idea of the public determined nominee could be voted out by establishment rules is a hell of a lot more terrifying to me than Trump winning. I'm siding with Cruz on this issue and this issue alone, the RNC should not be used to underhand the American voter. ",
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"content": "Of course democrats have even more power to do that than the GOP. ",
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"content": "Yes but currently Bernie is behind in primary delegates as well. If it switches and Bernie has more delegates but loses due to super delegates than I will start to cry about injustices. \n\nCurrently on both sides I feel the primaries are being held fairly, even more obvious after the Michigan upset, though the entire process is rather archaic. \n\nEdit - I love the Bernie butt hurt that Reddit gets if you even imply you're against him. As I've had to correct many times, yes I voted for Bernie, yes I've supported him longer than most of you (other than Vermonters), and yes I hate Clinton. \n\nWhat I'm saying is yes, the primary process is archaic, and fits according to the what the \"establishment\" that has been set up for decades feels is the correct process for assigning a candidate. We can whine and complain and blame Clinton for somehow rigging elections held by independent democratic groups throughout the US (something I did not witness at my polling place, nor did I here about it from others at differing polling places), or we can continue to do what we are doing and prove to them that our vote still counts. \n\nThank you for your time, down vote me if you must, but if you want to talk about real life and not the bias opinion Reddit portrays than I am happy to discuss these topics with you. ",
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"content": "I agree, but neither has happened yet. The Dem system has more capacity to do it, but right now there is more potential in this race for the GOP to do it. With all the different delegate rules the popular vote could get eschewed as well. The system is dumb and we should expect better honestly. \n\nI like the idea of staggered primaries as it does mean more focus on each state and lets us filter out candidates. However it shouldnt be Iowa and NH first every year, it should rotate. And all states should ahve the same rules for delegates. \n\nPeople also do need to understand the election isnt really the will of the people but guidance to the party. The DNC could decide to nominate Jimmy Carter for shits and giggles and it would be their prerogative. Though ignoring the voters guidance is usually a bad way to win those same voters over in November.",
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"content": "Then why is everyone so hell bent on counting HRC's superdelegate pledges when not one of those votes has been cast? Shouldn't we wait to see how the pledged delegate count looks before we hand the race over to the party? Wouldn't that be the fair way to run the race? ",
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"content": "One of two reasons. Either they think they are trying to paint a more accurate \"status\" of the race, or they are trying to advocate for Hillary. I guess its hard to argue that the status of superdelegates is completely irrelevant. ",
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"content": "It's not irrelevant by any means, but if you Google \"Democratic primaries\" the top content includes the unpledged delegates. There's no way to access the pledged delegate count. I feel like this is just blatantly dishonest. ",
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"content": "If you want a fairly accurate source than download the 2016 election app. Keeps track of delegates and is updated daily with news and other interesting information. ",
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"content": "What's the source or official title in Google play store? ",
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"content": "538 has it. ",
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"content": "I'm sure that they do if you're willing to move to the second page of search results and then dig through their content to find it. My point is that it's dishonest for all of these news outlets to include these \"votes\" in their content and that they're dominating the discussion. \n\nI understand that you may be a Clinton supporter, but I hope for the sake of decency that you also support transparency, honesty, and democracy. For the media to take such great efforts to control the narrative is unacceptable. If Hillary is really the dominant candidate, she shouldn't need of of that. ",
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"content": "> I understand that you may be a Clinton supporter\n\nWhy do you think that? In all honesty Im for Sanders, though not because I think he would be the better president (I doubt he would), but because I think he is more electable, less likely to be indicted and less likely to be impeached.\n\nI just gave you the reasons superdelegates are counted, because its more information and it reflects the current \"score\" That said I do think many outlets are doing it as a Hillary bias, though its hard to say since Im not sure what they would do if she werent in the race. I agree pledged delegates is a better measure, but unpledged isnt irrelevant. ",
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"content": ">> I understand that you may be a Clinton supporter\n\n>Why do you think that? In all honesty Im for Sanders, though not because I think he would be the better president (I doubt he would), but because I think he is more electable, less likely to be indicted and less likely to be impeached.\n\n>I just gave you the reasons superdelegates are counted, because its more information and it reflects the current \"score\" That said I do think many outlets are doing it as a Hillary bias, though its hard to say since Im not sure what they would do if she werent in the race. I agree pledged delegates is a better measure, but unpledged isnt irrelevant. \n\nNo, it's not the current score because no super delegate vote has been cast. They could all change their minds at this very moment. To include them without presenting the actual pledged delegate count is dishonest and blatantly favorable to the establishment. I'm fine with presenting that information, but what I can't stand is favoring and censoring the truth. \n\nIf you're actually a Bernie supporter, why would you be okay with this sort of misrepresentation? ",
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"content": "I don't like it but I'm not convinced it's malicious. I think it's just stupidity.",
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"content": "Malice, no. Obvious bias? Yes absolutely. ",
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"content": "Currently, but we're only half way through the race. ",
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"content": "Naw.",
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"content": "As far as I know, the final primary is still scheduled for June 14th.",
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"content": "You have to win more delegates every night than lose to catch up. He failed to do that.",
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"content": "No, the final primary is when he is mathematically out ",
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"content": "He's stated that he will continue to run until the end. \n\nWhy do you hate democracy? ",
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"content": "No he will stop once/if he is eliminated. \n\nIt's not democracy when you are still running and you know it's over. That's called foolishness. Sanders is no fool. ",
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"content": "You're right, Sanders is no fool. \n\nHe's still viable. It was old a month ago when HRC supporters and the media were telling him to drop out of the race. It hasn't gotten any fresher. \n\nIt's disingenuous to claim that this candidate doesn't have a significant amount of support. The primary system is designed to favor establishment candidates early on. We're not going to drop out of the race when we're just getting started. If you value the democratic process and our free and open society, you would keep your arguments on policy and platforms. Arguing that a candidate has no business running when a significant number of people are voting for him is pretty sad. ",
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"content": "Yes, unless he wins 60+% of the remaining delegates. ",
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"content": "If he wins 65% of the delegates between now and next Tuesday, they're tied.",
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"content": "If he sprouts wings, maybe he can fly, too. ",
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"content": "You probably would've said the same thing about him winning Michigan.",
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"content": "Democrats need to stop looking at the polls like the did in Virginia and Michigan and say Clinton has won and go vote against Trump. We now know, 60K Clinton voters in Virginia went and voted against Trump in Virginia. That tells me the number was even higher in Michigan.",
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"content": "After last night I'd say that your probabilities aren't worth much. What was the projected likelihood of Sanders winning in Michigan? <1%? Let's do play this game. ",
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"content": "Clinton won more delegates that Sanders last night. That's what counts. Winning a particular state isn't really relevant. It's all about collecting delegates. Democrats do not have winner take all primaries.",
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"content": "Except that we've just reached the halfway mark and we're not that far behind. That win in Michigan was the greatest political upset in modern polling. Even Nate Silver (the go to guy for Clinton supporters) has admitted this. Yeah, Clinton's ahead even if you're honest and don't count unpledged delegates. But Bernie and his supporters are still in this, and we're in this to win it. Consider that the part of the race that greatly favors Clinton is over. \n\nEdit: just realized exactly which comment thread I was in. How about one hundred to one odds? Do you like them odds? Do you understand why everyone is calling this an \"upset\"? ",
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"content": "> we're not that far behind.\n\nSanders has not gained on Clinton. In fact, he's further behind her with every primary. He was less than 200 behind on Monday. Now he's more than 200 behind.\n\nHe would have to win every remaining state with more than 60 percent to pass her. That ain't gonna happen.",
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"content": "Sanders did gain on Clinton over the weekend. Yeah, it was a measly three delegates , but that was a gain. \n\nHow many Southern states are left? How do you think that this race will go once they're out of the picture? Are you not getting the picture yet? Try standing back. Its difficult to see with your face pressed against the screen. ",
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"content": "Here's a good article for you to read:\n\nhttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/wtf-happened-to-hillary-clinton-in-michigan-explained-20160309\n\n**\"Despite Sanders' big win, his path to the nomination grew even steeper Tuesday night. Mississippi also voted, and Clinton romped as she has elsewhere below the Mason-Dixon line, winning by more than 20 delegates. Her margin in Mississippi outstripped Sanders' delegate victory in Michigan.**\n\n**In plain English: Sanders fell further behind in the only metric that ultimately matters.**",
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"content": "Thank you for posting an article from the Rolling Stone. I would print it out and wipe my ass with it if my Cottonelle wasn't soo much softer. \n\nReally? Do you understand that 538 failed to predict the outcome of the Michigan primary? \n\nDo you *really* think after the last year of that publication's history, that anyone should listen to a word they say? That they should be the predictors of our election outcomes? Frankly, I welcome their demise for the same reasons that I was happy to see Playboy fold. As much as I loved publications that would post articles and short stories from authors like Vonnegut, Thompson, and Hitchens, I can't stand this endless posturing for views. It's unbecoming of these publications and their respective histories, and it's an affront to the idea of journalism itself. ",
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"content": "ah yes, the slave owning south. clinton territory!",
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"content": "The joy of winning states you have no chance of winning in November.",
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"content": "yes. crazy stuff, vote for the new-new deal not a neo-neo con! bernie 2016!",
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"content": "> Except that we've just reached the halfway mark \n\nThis is not true. The halfway point will be after the March 15 balloting.",
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"content": "More so then. Tuesday is going to be a difficult day for HRC supporters. Hang in there. I promise that I won't be as condescending and rude as y'all have been the last couple of months. ",
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"content": "> Consider that the part of the race that greatly favors Clinton is over.\n\nLast night (3/15) nicely proved that little talking point 100% wrong.\n\nSanders is finished. He fought a good fight but the time has come for him to step aside.",
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"content": "My worry is if Sanders can unite Democrats. I doubt it, he doesn't seem interested in the \"Party\"",
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"content": "So, really, the question is if people still believe that the party functions well enough to actually represent them. Hillary Clinton might be able to win votes, but I don't think that she is going to overcome the mistrust even Democrats currently feel for the political establishment.",
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"content": "People say this during every primary season. It was a lot worse in 2008 than it is this year.\n\nPrimaries are like marital squabbles for parties. The general election season is like make-up sex.",
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"content": "I'm confused by your response. I am confused in part because you chose to quote only a portion of a clause.",
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"content": "I edited.",
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"content": "I don't know that you quite get what I'm talking about. I assume that the party will by-and-large support the nominee. That doesn't mean that people will feel any more comfortable with the party itself.",
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"content": "I think Democrats are more united now than Republicans are. We may have disagreements within the party but that always happens. Primaries expose internal rivalries within the party but will still united behind our candidates.\n\nIn contrast, look at what a mess the GOP is right now. The traditionalists and the tea partiers are in open warfare. They're practically having a civil war. Republicans in Congress don't get alone while Democrats in Congress do get along.",
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"content": "Who gives a shit? We just need people to vote Dem. Fuck the party. ",
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"content": "I'm sorry, I'm not following your logic. Are you saying that even if Clinton wins the support of a majority of the party, that a majority of the party won't follow her?",
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"content": "I'm saying that this article conflates two different phenomenon. Support for a candidate or nominee, and support for the party. What I am saying is that the Democratic nominee will likely get party voters, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the voters are satisfied with the party as a whole.\n\nThis is one of the long-term concerns that I have about the Democratic party. We can't build a strong party around our opposition to the Republican party. Part of the reason they are so fractured now is because they pursued a strategy of rallying around opposition instead of policy.",
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"content": "This is also reflected in the fact there is a sizable percentage of supporters of Sanders who are democrats to support their candidate and otherwise independent. The closed primaries will highlight this due to people not being able to change affiliation in time. ",
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"content": "You've publicly announced that you would either vote for a Republican, third party, or sit it out if Bernie wins the nomination. What are you trying to accomplish here? Pot, meet kettle. ",
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"content": "Why'd you comment here? It doesn't make sense in the context of the conversation. ",
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"content": "Actually it does. Your article and this thread are about uniting the democratic electorate, and I think your opinion is the last one anyone should listen to on this particular topic. ",
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"content": "So just because I post an article people shouldn't read what the article says. Now that's an ad hominem fallacy right there.",
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"content": "People should know that you're willing to throw away your vote if you don't get your way. That goes right to the heart of party unity. You haven't a leg to stand on as yours is a position of division. ",
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"content": "> willing to throw away your vote if you don't get your way. \n\nI'm not willing to throw my vote away. I'm not an entitled, elitist, Sanders crybaby. I will just vote for someone else, but I'm still voting.\n\n>That goes right to the heart of party unity. \n\nNo it doesn't. This is for democrats, not the independents. If anything that you and the babies have taught me, I can vote my conscience if I stand my ground like a stubborn jackass. That being said, I could vote for Sanders, but he hasn't earned my vote. Just like Hillary hasn't earned yours. ",
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"content": "The difference is that I will vote for the party instead of giving two SCOTUS appointments to the GOP or worse. ",
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"content": "I think Democrats will be united as best as we can since we've been a collection of different types of Democrats that unify every four years. It may not matter how splintered our party is because the GOP is going to be in even worse shape come November",
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"content": "Not this Democrat but Sanders can offer a vision that the party can rally behind. ",
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"content": "Yes, of course. ",
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"content": "Anyone remember PUMA? When Obama pulled ahead of Clinton in 2008, the PUMA's started coming out. Party Unity My Ass? That how I feel. Will all the crap Clinton has pulled, I'm to the point I'd rather see a Republican in the WH. Then, at least we'd be united to try and minimize the damage they could cause. With her in there, we'd be far to likely to give her the benifit of the doubt, and she'll be just as bad as Trump on Wall Street, foreign policy, and far too much.\n\nWe need to support a progressive candidate, not just one who wears the title of Democrat. ",
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"content": "> We need to support a progressive candidate, not just one who wears the title of Democrat.\n\nSo not Bernie Sanders ",
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"content": "Do you really think Hillary is progressive, or just trolling? ",
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"content": "Of course she's a progressive. ",
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"content": "Are you saying that the socialist is not liberal \nis that what youre saying",
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"content": "Hey now, name calling isn't cool or constructive. \n\nJust yesterday there was a thread on political discussion that was completely saturated with HRC supporters who were very clear that they would never vote for Bernie Sanders in a general election. There are a few users in this sub who have made this exact statement. I know that the media has tried to make it look like this is just a problem with Sanders supporters, but the HRC camp has some like minded individuals who would throw away their votes just to defy the opposition. \n\nEdit:[Read these comments] (https://np.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/49uqf6/sanders_supporters_if_sanders_wins_the_nomination/) ",
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"content": "I have told you before, that you need to make your comments without attacking the user. Please edit your comment to take out attacks on the user and I can reapprove your comment.\n\nThank you.",
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"content": "I've seen the phrase 'true democrat' thrown around a lot in the past year.\n\nLet's make a few things clear: Hillary is a lifelong *adult* democrat. She's married to the most successful living president and probably one of the best presidents in the past 100 years who will be by her side as she is commander in chief. \n\nBernie is a lifelong independent. That's awesome. But he's been a democrat less than a year. That's why a lot of democrats are suspicious of him…to them, he seems like an opportunist using the democratic party to inject his ideals (some that are markedly non-democratic). \n\nSanders has been incapable of capturing demographics beyond white males (just like Donald Trump.)\n\nYou cannot win an election without capturing the black vote, the hispanic vote, the gay vote, the women's vote…the youth vote is not enough, particularly young males. They are the least likely to go to the polls on election day. And that group is finicky and unreliable for the most part. \n\nThe 'bernie or bust' group is made up of the lowest common denominator. Republicans in democratic clothing who try to use obstruction as a tool to get what they want in a system that is supposed to be built on compromise. \n\nBernie supporters have also been uncommonly close with Fox News recently, just reciting Fox News talking points against Hillary, the same shit they were mocking last year. \n\nIf you find yourself on the same side as Fox News, if you're repeating Fox News talking points instead of reciting the pros of a Bernie presidency, you're doing it completely wrong. And that's what I don't get: If Sanders is such a sound candidate, why are his supporters only approach seem to be attacking Hillary for shit like Benghazi? \n\nSeriously? You're trying to get Sanders elected and your strategy is to recite Fox News bullshit? Instead of just trying to spread the word of Sanders? \n\nHillary isn't your enemy and if you had half a brain, you'd realize that. For the Bernie or Bust crowd, it's all about pride and it's mostly from a generation of people who are incapable of compromise because they've been handed everything they've ever wanted, they've won trophies for coming in last place. They're 30 years old and still living with mom and dad and the folks are paying for their cell phone. \n\nI expect nothing less from a crowd like that: \"If I don't get exactly what I want in a process that involves hundreds of millions of people, then I'm going to try to ruin it for everyone *to prove a point.*\"\n\nAnyone who is familiar with the Millennials won't be surprised by this approach at all. That's kinda how they are with everything (wages, jobs, social issues…): \"If you won't give me the job I want at the wage I want, then I'd rather not work at all.\"\n\nThat's the exact same thing you're doing with this election and nobody wants to play your shitty reindeer games. Grow up, quit pretending you can elect someone with a meme and a hashtag. \n\nI love Bernie Sanders and I support him 100%. But I cannot stand a huge chunk of his supporters. ",
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"content": "There are also \"Hillary or bust\" voters. Let's not pretend like this is a new phenomena exclusive to Bernie supporters. That's just not true. \n\nEdit:[Read these comments] (https://np.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/49uqf6/sanders_supporters_if_sanders_wins_the_nomination/) ",
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"content": "**Who is Bruce Rauner, you ask?**\n\n> He is the 42nd and current Governor of Illinois, serving since January 12, 2015. Prior to his election, he was the Chairman of R8 Capital Partners and Chairman of the private equity firm GTCR, based in Chicago. He was the Republican nominee in the 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election and defeated Democratic incumbent Governor Pat Quinn.\n\nIt should be noted that Hillary has since \"blasted\" him for his policies as governor. She has, however, failed to say anything about Chicago Mayor **Rahm Emanuel's** policy failures - including massive police misconduct under his watch. Exhibit A: the LaQuan McDonald shooting.\n\n- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-laquan-mcdonald-shooting-met-20160113-story.html\n\n- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/06/exclusive-lawyers-went-to-rahm-then-quashed-the-laquan-mcdonald-video.html\n\n- http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/revealed-rahm-emanuel-administration-delayed-release-of-laquan-mcdonald-shooting-footage/\n\n\n**And why do speaking fees matter???**\n\nSimple: *she has created a conflict of interest*. It's the appearance of and potential for impropriety that's at issue.\n\nExample: Hillary chooses not to pursue new Department of Treasury regulations recommended by the Treasury Secretary. She says it's because the regs were bad. But those regs would've directly harmed the financial interests of one/some of the people who paid her for speeches. Who's to say what really led her to pulling away from the new regs? No one can say for certain, and it's perfectly acceptable to criticize her for creating this appearance. (Note: this would likely never happen because she will appoint a guy like BlackRock CEO [Larry Fink](https://theintercept.com/2016/03/02/larry-fink-and-his-blackrock-team-poised-to-take-over-hillary-clintons-treasury-department/) as Treasury Secretary).\n\nShe was also already EXTREMELY WEALTHY before she made these speeches, to the tune of ~$100 million. She didn't need to make them in order to remain financially solvent - no, it shows that she was greedy enough to take the money despite the foreseeable harm caused by potential COIs. It's pretty simple really.",
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"content": "As an Illinoisan, screw Rauner. Only benefit about Rauner is that another Republican Governor probably won't get elected for a long while after this mess.",
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"content": "I'm just curious if he's going to follow suit and end up in prison. ",
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"content": "Cool. I care why?",
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"content": "You don't, you support Hillary.",
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"content": "/r/shitondemocrats is over there. ",
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"content": "Except if it's about Bernie, right?\n\nSome links and comment you've posted:\n\n- Bernie Sanders: taking on big corporations. Unless they make guns.\n\n- Bernie supporters, why does Bernie Sanders only appeal to young, White, male voters?\n\n- @BernieSanders endorses book trashing POTUS called Buyer's Remorse. Quite the closing message to Obama supporters!\n\n- \"Yeah if you just ignore that Sanders is the largest beneficiary of outside spending and then claim that super PACs spending on his behalf aren't affiliated with him. You could make that massively naive claim.\"\n\nSome people would like to be informed about the specific details of their candidates, hence why this article is sitting at a +9 voting total as of this moment. You're complaining about a factual matter. If that's your issue, take it up with your candidate, not the person reporting.",
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"content": "It's /r/democrats the whole point of the sub is to support democrats not tear them down. When you sound more like a Republican you should be questioning where you're posting something.",
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"content": "I'm balancing the scales with Clinton articles, there is a flood of Bernie nonsense. Never once has there been a balance on thus sub, it's all Sanderista propaganda. As for myself I don't post anti burning articles, my post Pro Clinton articles. Pro Clinton articles does not equal anti Bernie article. But that's the same kind of backwards logic I would expect from a Bernie Sanders supporter. ",
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"content": "I'm saying anti-Bernie. Because that's what you guys post a lot of.",
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"content": "Lol not even.",
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"content": "Graduate from high school, head to college, take a few political science classes, then come back and try to debate again. You're embarrassing yourself.",
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"content": "Go through my submitted history and find an \"Anti-Bernie\" article I posted on this sub, that wasn't part of my test. Now, when you stop acting silly like regular Sanders supporters and learn to read, then maybe we can debate. But I don't respect shit;therefore, I cannot debate you. ",
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"content": "Nice semicolon, genius.",
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"content": "So I'm guessing that you didn't find anything. ",
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"content": "> /r/shitondemocrats is over there. \n\nThere's a difference between shitting on Democrats and shitting on *one specific* Democrat.",
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"content": "If her economic expertise is really that valuable, that's just one more reason she should be leading the country. ",
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"content": "Yeah, she really knows how to turn proletarians into bourgeoisie profits. Just look at her go! She'll drive this country right over a cliff. ",
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"content": "No, but she will make her friends and herself a whole lotta $$$$.",
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"content": "I read crap like this and I think \"Man, I wish I could give a shitty speech for that amount of money. I could pay off the house, the car, the credit cards and live pretty damn happily with a decent job.\" Instead I am here, barely making enough between myself and my wife to support our 4 kids and afford the food we have in the cupboards. If it weren't for taxes coming in, we'd be in some dire straights.",
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"content": "I hear you man, it's a struggle for a lot of people in this country right now. People shouldn't be going bankrupt for having health problems. I would suggest you vote for the guy who wants to provide more basic services, which will have a major impact - primarily by supporting those on the lower economic rungs in our country. If he loses, you can vote Hillary in the general, but it's clear who wants to raise the standard of living for the people who are struggling in our country.",
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"content": "Feeling the Bern and truly his track record is telling of where he has stood for a long time not just for the moment.",
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"content": "Never discount the value of the placebo effect. It shouldn't replace conventional medicine but it sure can enhance it. ",
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"content": "Unless it kills you.",
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"content": "Neither of you understand how the placebo effect works.",
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"content": "I don't see this as denying science. Perhaps it's suspect that some things are under ACA, but I'm assuming that it was a concession. He's not out there denying scientific health care to people, simply expanding things that are covered. \n\nBoth candidates here are completely in the clear. \n\nIt's the republicans we should worry about. Period. ",
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"content": "We've got a lot of old hippies among our ranks. Like Sanders, they do far more good for the cause than harm.\n\nIf I can overlook the often fundamentalist religious predilections of Southern Democrats, and even work with them to accomplish our similar goals, I can forgive Sanders for thinking stress kills.",
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"content": "He also believes that stress causes cancer. I prefer someone that understand science as my president but I guess for hippy types, any whacko will do?",
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"content": "To be clear, your assertion is that Sanders doesn't understand science?\n\nHillary Clinton claims to be a Christian. Believing there may be some link between stress and death from cancer is hardly on the same level as worshipping a personal deity in the form of a resurrected Jewish rabbi, but you would never assert that Clinton doesn't understand science, would you? Of course not, because it doesn't fit your narrative.\n\nProgressives can work with folks from all kinds of different backgrounds, hippies, humanists, and Christians together, to achieve our common goals. That won't hurt the cause. Your ridiculous hypocrisy will, however.",
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"content": "> Hillary Clinton claims to be a Christian. Believing there may be some link between stress and death from cancer is hardly on the same level as worshipping a personal deity in the form of a resurrected Jewish rabbi, but you would never assert that Clinton doesn't understand science, would you? Of course not, because it doesn't fit your narrative.\n\nSeriously? Your response is that Clinton is a Christian so she does not understand science? Most American scientists are Christian, do they all fail to understand science?\n",
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"content": ">Seriously? Your response is that Clinton is a Christian so she does not understand science?\n\nWrong, and a false dichotomy to boot. The point you're missing is that silly beliefs don't preclude people from understanding science, and that goes equally as well for Clinton's Christianity or Sanders ideas about the harmful effects of stress.",
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"content": "> We all know you're just desperate to find any thing you can to smear Sanders, \n\nI am? You mean like this:\n\n[This is a very poorly presented article. I was prepared to rage against Sanders but the was no case made. A lot of the terms used in these debates are vague and misleading. Integrative care can be homeopathic, it can be considering diet as well as drug. There was no meat here, no way for me to tell what Sanders or Clinton was actually supporting.](https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/49r0c3/bernie_sanders_embraces_alternative_medicine/d0v0pmc)",
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"content": "Thought you were OP for a second.\n\nThe bit about false dichotomy's and missing the point still stands, though.",
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"content": "If you believe that people can be resurrected then, yes, there's something wrong with your understanding of science.",
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"content": "It has nothing to do with science at all.",
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"content": "TIL biochemical processes have nothing to do with science.",
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"content": "No, *miracles* have nothing to do with science. The claim is that it was a *miracle*, not that it was a normal action. You are failing here to understand either science or theology. The claim is not that people generally rise from the dead or that some special natural event occurred. The claim is that it was a distinct separate action by God.\n\nAnd to head off your next error, no science does not show that God does not exist. Science removes the value of \"God did it\" as an explanation for a wide range of events, but that is not the same as showing there is no God. ",
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"content": "I'm sorry, but your statement that biochemical processes have nothing to do with science marks you as very ignorant.",
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"content": "Great because that was not what I said.",
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"content": "That's exactly what you said:\n\n>It has nothing to do with science at all.",
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"content": "Being sarcastic in response to the previous post.",
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"content": "Oh so, you agree that if you believe that people can be resurrected then there's something wrong with your understanding of science?",
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"content": "If you believe that there is a god that acts outside of regular behavior then you can still understand and accept science, yes. Science examines consistencies in the world, regularities. All science can say about a one off instance is \"we don't know\". ",
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"content": "Ah, so we're back to your claim that biochemical processes have nothing to do with science.",
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"content": "I have no idea how you got there from what I wrote. I'm saying that miracles are not subject to scientific conclusions, I'm saying that science looks at regularities in the world. How about you try to provide a valid response to my argument. Argument from bad consequences is a fallacy: if my argument is valid then it is valid. If you don't like the implications too bad. ",
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"content": "How about you stop claiming that biochemical processes have nothing to do with science?",
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"content": "How about you stop lying about what I wrote?\n",
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"content": "I'm not. You said that belief in human resurrection has nothing to do with science, life is a process which irrevocably ends when an organism dies, therefore your claim is that biochemical processes have nothing to do with science.\n\nSo how about you stop spouting anti-science BS?",
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"content": "> life is a process which irrevocably ends when an organism dies, \n\nYou are assuming your conclusion. You are assuming god does not exist and miracles don't happen and then using your assumption as a conclusion. \n\nAgain, deal with what I actually say or don't. But stop with arguments I don't make. Science deals with regularities. The claim about the Resurrection is that it was a special case, it was an action that differed from the regularities. It is not a claim that people generally come back from the dead but that a special event occurred. As such there is no conflict with science. There is a conflict with scientism, there is a conflict with the idea that science has produced absolute truth.\n\n>So how about you stop spouting anti-science BS?\n\nLearn to stop lying about what people say.\n\n",
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"content": "I'm pretty sure that the AMA would agree that stress can be a contributing factor in the development of cancer. I thought this was common knowledge. \n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341916/\n\nhttp://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120619-how-stress-could-cause-illness",
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"content": "Of course since 2008, that one with cancer has been shown to not be repeatable. Oh well.",
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"content": "Except that stress is known to cause inflammation and to weaken the immune system which can both lead to illnesses like cancer. This is pretty simple medicine, man. It's not quackery. ",
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"content": "http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/coping/feelings/stress-fact-sheet\n\nIt is weak, like anyone making the claim.",
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"content": "I'm not sure why you're still arguing about this. It's undeniable that stress has an averse effect on a person's physical and emotional health. People in poor health are more likely to develop serious diseases. ",
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"content": "[Well then jam to this tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDAkmfoAgA)",
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"content": "Has he voted for any legislation that supports it? \n\nIf so I would say that's a huge problem but if not then who cares? Everyone has silly beliefs here and there. ",
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"content": "It mentions his work on veteran's health. So I make that a yes.\n",
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"content": "This is a very poorly presented article. I was prepared to rage against Sanders but the was no case made. A lot of the terms used in these debates are vague and misleading. Integrative care can be homeopathic, it can be considering diet as well as drug. There was no meat here, no way for me to tell what Sanders or Clinton was actually supporting.",
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"content": "what? this is shocking!",
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"content": "Like Bush (mis)Administration officials before her, Hillary Clinton is not a fan of the FOIA. President Obama's promise about transparency in government was doomed as soon as he named Clinton Secretary of State.",
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"content": "well stated. she has often been referred to as nixonian in her paranoia and we all know how well that turned out. vote for the new-new deal not a neo-neo con!",
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"content": "In case you're just reading the title. Here is what was important. \n\n>Clinton said, regarding her State Department email practices, \"my predecessors did the same thing.\"\nThis is a misleading claim chiefly because only one prior secretary of state regularly used email, Colin Powell. Powell did use a personal email address for government business, however he did not use a private server kept at his home, as Clinton did.\n\nThe problem is that only one other predecessor used email. But Hillary Clinton was more secure than Colin Powell cuz she had a private server",
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"content": "hahahahhhaha, that's what is wrong with what she did! state department e-mail servers are way more secure that the hodgepodge shit she came up with. it was hacked!",
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"content": "> it was hacked!\n\nNo it wasn't. Not even according to Republicans. You need to stop watching Newsmax. ",
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"content": "don't even know what that is. look up guccifer and how this came to light in the first place. she did not protect state secrets adequately.",
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"content": "> look up guccifer and how this came to light in the first place.\n\nI did. No one other than third rate news outlets and Russian propaganda say that he hacked Clinton. Not even the ultra-conservative nonsense that is [the New York Post](http://nypost.com/2016/03/04/hacker-guccifer-who-leaked-bush-paintings-racy-powell-emails-to-be-extradited-to-us/) says that the guccifer hacked clinton emails. \n\n>he did not protect state secrets adequately.\n\nNo secrets were on the server. She did not send or receive any documents marked classified on that server. ",
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"content": "At the Democratic debate Wednesday evening, Univision Debate Moderator Jorge Ramos asked Clinton if she would withdraw from the presidential race if faced with criminal charges.\n\n\"That is not going to happen. I'm not even answering that question,\" she responded, adding that nothing she sent or received through her private email and server was marked classified at the time.\n\nHowever, that statement is undercut by the January 2009 classified information non-disclosure agreement signed by then- Secretary of State Clinton. In that NDA, Clinton confirms her understanding that classified material is based on content, not on whether it is marked. ",
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"content": "She committed no crime, and the DOJ already said that they are very unlikely to prosecute, because again she committed no crime. ",
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"content": "i was unaware that that was how due process worked. interesting how things are being telegraphed to your location like this. i thought the DOJ had no comment at the last hearings. I guess if she were a superpredator who was caught with pot (gasp), that this type of treatment would not be afforded to her. but at least the prison industrial complex would be able to make larger campaign donations to her. vote for the new-new deal not another neo-neo con.",
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"content": "> i thought the DOJ had no comment at the last hearings.\n\nThat's depending on the different FBI investigation. But the cost of the controversy surrounding Mrs. Clinton is the deletion of emails. The doj had already said through their findings that she committed no crime:http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/10/justice-department-rules-hillary-clinton-followed-/",
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"content": "really? i thought it was an ongoing investigation for the FBI. learn something new every day!",
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"content": "The FBI investigation is not a criminal probe. It is to see if any documents were marked classified at the time and if those secrets were a stake. So far, they haven't found any classified documents. The FBI and DOJ both believe she had the legal right to delete the emails. But it was whether or not they were market classified. So far, she seems to have broken no law. ",
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"content": "interesting interpretation. if she is shown to have broken the law, will you still support her?",
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"content": "> interesting interpretation.\n\nJust to let you know it's not my interpretation, It's the DOJ's interpretation. \n\n> if she is shown to have broken the law, will you still support her?\n\nWell see if we even get there. But I don't play with \"what if\" games. But it's time for liberals to stop pushing this Republican myth about the emails, it has no place here or in the Party. ",
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"content": "as a lifelong democrat, i find the prospect of a nominee being embroiled in a DOJ investigation frightening. \n\nJust to let you know it's not my interpretation, It's the DOJ's interpretation. \n\nSource?\n\nit is an ongoing investigation by the FBI though no? what if the investigation leads to her doorstep? very worried.",
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"content": "> i find the prospect of a nominee being embroiled in a DOJ investigation frightening.\n\nI'm not because I know that no laws were broken. I don't like to be frightened because some tells me too.\n\n>Source?\n\nIt was not a crime for her to delete the emails or even have a private server. http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/11/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-crumbles-justice-department-laws-broken.html\n\nhttp://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-was-allowed-delete-personal-emails-server-doj \n\n>it is an ongoing investigation by the FBI though no?\n\nYes, but not a criminal one, nor is it centered around her. \n\n>very worried.\n\nI'm not. I trust Hillary and I trust the law and the Justice Department. If we let the GOP or the media tell us that we should be scared then we are weak, spinless jellyfish.\n\nAll liberals and democrats should just say this: http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/10/13/bernie-sanders-democratic-debate-sick-of-hearing-about-hillary-clinton-emails-19.cnn/video/playlists/cnn-democratic-debate/",
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"content": "yeah. i guess i'll just stick with the safe bet of senator sanders as i am not well versed in the law and i don't trust the official stories. what do you think of her position on the trade deals? i have a problem with them.",
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"content": "> what do you think of her position on the trade deals? i have a problem with them.\n\nI am a fan of free trade and most trade deals. In fact, I kinda changed my view on TTP because everyone seemed to hate it. Sometimes you just follow the public. I only had one problem with the TPP, I just didn't think the Environmental Protections were strong enough. But other than that I was for it. I am also in favor of NAFTA. But if you like to see her record, here you go:http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Hillary_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm\n\nI'm not to wild about Sanders' isolationist answers when it comes to free trade.",
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"content": "yeah, i've read her views. i have a bottling company, and while i could do it cheaper overseas using indonesians, i have a soft spot for the united states and her people. what do you think of her taking millions in speech fees? do you think this presents a potential conflict of interest?",
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"content": "> . what do you think of her taking millions in speech fees?\n\nI don't think much of it. I haven't heard a real argument about why the speech are bad. Nor have I heard a solid argument to release the transcripts, besides \"If there is not to hide...\" I don't but that as real argument. I think that's just being cute. Even Bernie's media surrogates have said there is probably nothing of consequence in the speeches. If that's the case, then why release them? \n\n>do you think this presents a potential conflict of interest?\n\nNo and here's why. The New York times editorial board that said that Bernie had the best immigration plan also said the Hillary had the best plan to tackle Wall Street, that opinion was also shared by NPR. I don't think it creates a conflict of interest. In 2008, Obama took in more Wall Street money that any other Presidental candidate in history, even more than Hillary now. But Obama still passed and sign the Dodd-Frank Act. So if it wasn't a problem for hi it not going to be a problem for her. Bernie is running a subtle political sabotage, via Jeff Weaver, that Hillary is somehow morally less than Obama. I find that kind of character assignating emotional baiting politics to be beneath the party. ",
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"content": "i don't really like your appeal to authority, i find dodd frank a good piece, but it does little t break up investment banks from regular banks and is open to interpretation and enforcement issues as we are currently seeing (they are bigger than ever). i was asking what YOU thought about the potential conflict of interest, i personally take issue with it. i am originally from new jersey though, and money NEVER comes without strings attached. i was also wondering what you thought of the clinton global initiative, specifically the funds which were supposed to go to haiti, and the release of uranium mining contracts to people who gave to the CGI? ",
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"content": "> i don't really like your appeal to authority,\n\nHow so?\n\n>i find dodd frank a good piece, but it does little t break up investment banks from regular banks and is open to interpretation and enforcement issues as we are currently seeing (they are bigger than ever). \n\nI don't believe you can't just break up a bank because it's big. You need to break it up when they commit a crime. Just being a bank is not a crime. They need to also be punished when they collude and play a massive fraud of money. The enforcement of it is clear and the rule of how to break up a bank, if needed, are clear. \n\n> i personally take issue with it. \n\nThat's fine, as long as that feeling is based off facts and not emotion. \n\n> i was also wondering what you thought of the clinton global initiative\n\nI like it, it does lots of good work. \n\n>specifically the funds which were supposed to go to haiti, and the release of uranium mining contracts to people who gave to the CGI?\n\nNever heard of any of that. ",
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"content": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-clintons-haiti-development-plans-succeed--and-disappoint/2015/03/20/0ebae25e-cbe9-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0\n\nthings like this. wapo and nyt, which you accept as credible sources.",
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"content": "No, her private server did not make her more secure. What it did accomplish was to hide her communications from FOIA requests which was the intention. The state department already offers secure email servers for employees to access. There's no legitimate reason for an official to set up their own private server. ",
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"content": "> There's no legitimate reason for an official to set up their own private server.\n\nConvenience \n\n>What it did accomplish was to hide her communications from FOIA requests which was the intention. \n\nExcept that's not true. But I love how you make shit up. It really entertains me. ",
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"content": "No, it is true. If her emails had been on a government server there would have been records of all of them and we would know exactly how many there were and what they contained. Now we have to take her word on all of it. ",
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"content": "Still no. For work-related emails on the private server were already turned in to the state department to be archived and ready for Freedom of Information requests. The controversy is over the wall she deleted. Conservatives wanted to know how can we trust her to delete only the personal lives. Because under the law department heads are able to remove documents that are personal in nature. Bud's, conservatives and Republicans couldn't trust hillaryclinton to remove the personal emails. Therefore they led a conspiracy Witch Hunt to retrieve deleted emails. The FBI found the deleted emails and found nothing of note.",
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"content": "I keep reading that the FBI found numerous emails that were classified as confidential and that the investigation is still underway. Regardless of whether she's indicted or not, this whole debacle says to me that she has difficulty following instructions, is unwilling to adhere to federal law, and uses poor judgment. ",
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"content": "> I keep reading that the FBI found numerous emails that were classified\n\nRetroactively. \n\n>confidential and that the investigation is still underway. \n\nIf it's market Confidential, it did not pose a risk high enough to warrant a federal crime or misdemeanour. \n\n>she has difficulty following instructions\n\nShe did. She was allowed. She only needed approval from herself. \n\n>unwilling to adhere to federal law\n\nShe did. \n\n>poor judgment\n\nPoor *political* judgment. \n",
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"content": "It's still under investigation. The extent of the security compromise is yet to be seen. \n\nIf she had followed the law, there would be no need for an investigation. This is a good indication of poor judgment. ",
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"content": "> It's still under investigation.\n\nIt's almost over: \nhttp://thehill.com/policy/national-security/271194-final-batch-of-clinton-emails-released\n\nhttp://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-10-months-thousands-pages-final-clinton-emails-be-released-n528286\n\n>If she had followed the law\n\nShe did follow the law. No law have been broken... yet. But we'll see what the final report says. But so far so good. Just because you don't like someone doesn't make them a criminal. \n",
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"content": "tiger's got to hunt,\n\nbird's got to fly,\n\nman's got to ask himself why,why, why?\n\ntiger's got to sleep,\n\nbird's got to land,\n\nman's got to tell himself he understand.",
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"content": "that, and it happened. clinton claims fog of war, but these families learned of the death of a family member, i would suggest that their recollection of events is far more acute than hillary's being that it was arguably the single most important moment in their lives.",
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"content": "I was suggest your facts are so far off base that you need to delete so people don't laugh at you years from now. Like everything else you comment on, you just don't have a clue as to what you are even talking about. It isn't a matter of opinion, your comment has nothing to do with the story itself.",
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"content": "so the four families are lying? this is what you are saying? just to be clear.",
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"content": "This is an unbelievably ironic comment coming from you. And the fact that it's been left up by backpackwayne after he's deleted any comments calling you out for making less-than-truthful claims proves his bias.\n\nDo you see now why you shouldn't work so hard on having a reputation of being dishonest?",
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"content": "Your comments were removed for attacking users. I told you how to fix it but you don't seem willing.",
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"content": "Yes, I get it: Confoy can call other people liars, but I can't, because he's on your side; heck he can even call other people stupid and you let it fly. You've made no secret of the fact that you fully intend to abuse your mod powers to support those who share your position.\n\nI'm starting to wonder if you and Confoy are the same person. You both have use the same false claims and use the same tactic of completely ignoring all requests for evidence of those claims.",
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"content": "Yes you are right. This is all part of the mass conspiracy to elect Hillary. I am getting paid thousands of dollars to put people like you down. /s\n\nDude it's time to grow up. Stop yelling insults at users. If they yell them at you, report it. It could not get any simpler than that. \n\n",
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"content": "> I am getting paid thousands of dollars to put people like you down. \n\nThat is not at all what I claimed.\n\n> If they yell them at you, report it. \n\nCan I report constantly-repeatedly lies as well, or do you intend on continuing to use them?",
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"content": "We do not judge what content is true or not. That would be biased. Just stop attacking the users. I am through discussing this.",
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"content": "Maybe you *should* judge whether your claims are true before you make them.",
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"content": "https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/49u3f2/trump_supporter_punches_protester_in_face_at/d0vgzyo?context=1",
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"content": ">i would suggest that their recollection of events is far more acute than hillary's being that it was arguably the single most important moment in their lives.\n\nMemory does not work that way.",
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"content": "This was clearly done so people couldn't claim they were going harder after Sanders. Because in Florida when you next hit him up with the Castro video, everybody forgot about Clinton and emails. Sanders did not expect it and he had a choice to make things better or worse in Florida. As they said, he had his David Duke moment instead.",
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"content": "\"The reality is a bit more complicated than the sound bite. Sanders supported a non-binding Senate resolution that called on Gaddafi to resign his post in a peaceful, democratic transition of power. While the Senate passed the resolution by unanimous consent -- meaning no one actually voted on it -- Sanders was one of 10 cosponsors.\n\nAt the time, Sanders told the media he wanted Gaddafi out of power, but it might not be worth it if it required sustained U.S. military involvement.\"\n\nNuance is tough. But how about some more Politifact checks from last night?\n\n- [Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders wants to delay the Clean Power Plan. Rating? **FALSE**](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/10/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-wants-delay-cl/)\n\n- [Hillary Clinton said 'my predecessors did the same thing' with email. Rating? **Mostly False**](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/09/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-said-my-predecessors-did-same-thin/)\n\n- [When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to \"provide driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said don’t do it.\" Rating? **Mostly True**](http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/mar/09/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-says-hillary-clinton-opposed-driver/)\n\n- [Sanders claims that Clinton wanted to send back Honduran children. Rating? **Mostly True**](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/09/bernie-s/sanders-said-clinton-backed-return-undocumented-ki/)\n\n",
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"content": "Did you even read those before posting? ",
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"content": "I did. And there can be a nuanced response to each of them as well. But providing nuance wasn't your goal in posting this - your goal was to communicate that Bernie supported regime change in Libya, which isn't true.",
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"content": "Yes. Yes, it is true. ",
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"content": "I'll take a source on that, other than the vote here that didn't authorize use of military force.",
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"content": "Supporting regime is not supporting military force. One is different than the other. \n\nSanders supported regime change according to his vote. ",
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"content": "\"I no longer want this dictator to be in power\" vs. \"We're going to forcefully remove this dictator so that he is no longer in power.\" There's a difference.",
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"content": "They are both statements in support of regime change, however. ",
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"content": "Regime change - popular definition: \"The transition from one political regime to another, especially through concerted political **or** military action.\"\n\n> The term has been popularized by recent US presidents. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush regularly used the term in reference to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. Ronald Reagan had previously called for regime change in Libya, directing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to work towards that goal.\n\nDesiring a change in government does not equal regime change as popularized by the US government. And there is a difference between using political means to achieve regime change and using military means.\n\n> **The term regime change is sometimes erroneously used to describe a change in the government of the day.**\n\nBernie supported \"a change in the government of the day,\" not military-based regime change.",
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"content": "Again, same thing. Notice the \"or\" in front of military and after political. \n\nGeez. He supported regime change, but not military intervention. That's the fact. ",
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"content": "You're choosing to debate this in bad faith, so I'm done. You know the difference, and when Hillary says he supported regime change, she's referencing regime change by military force, not political or economic means.",
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"content": "The vote was the vote. Those are the facts. That's not bad faith debating. Sorry. ",
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"content": "> But providing nuance wasn't your goal in posting this\n\nProviding nuance is one of the only reasons I post anything.\n\n> which isn't true\n\nBut it totally is true. Just because it's nuanced doesn't mean it's false. \n",
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"content": "I think that the majority of Sanders' supporters feel this way: That I'll donate, phonebank, and/or canvass, if not more, for Sanders. For Clinton, I would vote at most.",
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"content": "I think it's safe to say the majority of Clinton supporters feel the same way. Every candidates' volunteers are like this in every election.",
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"content": "I think the real issue here is the difference in scale. We'll need a motivated party for the general election, and although Hillary Clinton's grassroots efforts are impressive, Sanders has so far managed to outshine her.\n\nOf course, no one really knows what is going to happen on the Republican side, so it might or might not be a problem.",
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"content": "I agree with you. I want to do everything I can to help him win, but I don't feel the same sense of devotion to Hillary. However, if she gets the nomination, I believe she would be the better choice no matter who the Republican nominee is.",
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"content": "> I think that the majority of Sanders' supporters feel this way: That I'll donate, phonebank, and/or canvass, if not more, for Sanders. For Clinton, I would vote at most.\n\nThis.\n\nHopefully Clinton will make decent Supreme Court nominations while America's middle class continues to disappear.",
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"content": "I don't think there would be a lot of light between a Sanders nominee and a Clinton nominee.\n\nSometimes it's difficult in the middle of primary season to remember that the front-running candidates are much more alike than they are different policy-wise.",
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"content": "I've been a registered Democrat since 1975 and have voted in every presidential election since then. During every primary season, a percentage of supporters of one Democratic candidate say they will not vote for another Democrat if he/she is the nominee. By the time election day rolls around in November, that threat is gone with the wind. Half of Clinton supporters in 2008 said they would not vote for Obama. November came, they voted for Obama.\n\nI was a Clinton supporter, donor, and volunteer in 2008 but happily supported Barack Obama in the general and volunteered for him, particularly with GOTV efforts because I've done that many times before. I am a Clinton supporter, donor, and volunteer again this year but will happily support Bernie Sanders in the general and will volunteer for him, particularly with GOTV efforts because that's what I do.\n\nGOTV is helpful for more than just the top name on the ticket because it helps down-ballot candidates. I live in a purple congressional district in a swing state so GOTV is absolutely critical.",
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"content": "Thank you for your input. I like the way you think! It's realistic rather than sensationalist. I'm very jealous that you live in a purple district in a swing state... I imagine it would be somewhat exciting to participate in a close race. \n\nI live in Texas, a very red state. Luckily the district I live in is Democratic. However, I don't have much faith that the state of Texas will go blue in 2016. I think by 2020, there's a large chance Texas will become blue. I expect that to completely change the political situation for the Republican Party when it does finally happen",
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"content": "When you live in a red or blue state, it's a lot different. I lived in California for a long time, so GOTV there was all about supporting the down-ballot candidates because we knew the state would go blue.",
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"content": "Let me be clear. I won't be voting for Hillary. I will be voting against a republican. Those two things are different.",
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"content": "If you vote for someone who isn't a Democrat, even if they are independent, you are by definition helping the Republican Party secure the election, which is not voting against a Republican. I don't understand your logic here, but I thank you for bringing up the issue that I stated in my post. However, you didn't explain your reasoning at all. Rather, you reiterated what I said in my post: Many Bernie supporters won't vote for Hillary if she gets nominated, which will harm the liberal agenda by allowing a Republican to take office.",
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"content": "My vote would be cast to a Democrat, but it's a vote against a Republican, not for Hillary. Logistically it would count toward Hillary, but for me it's just voting against a Republican like I have in all the other elections...",
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"content": "Oh sorry I completely misread/misunderstood what you said! I totally see what you mean now. I hope that didn't come across as rude. ",
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"content": "I honestly doubt it. It depends on if you view the primary as a battle for the presidency, or a battle for the soul of the democratic party. If progressive economic voices can be safely ignored because they'll vote for center-right economic policies, we will continue to receive that option. When Sanders supporters say Clinton isn't a liberal, I specifically read that as meaning she's not very far left economically.\n\nMany Sanders supporters are tired of two pro-corporation parties. That is, in my opinion, the loudest and most vocal of his and his supporters concerns. The democratic party used to be the \"labor\" party, but continues to drift further from that history and will continue that drift until it reaches a point where it loses to much support to win. We can debate whether it's drifted to far or not, whether this election is the time or not to make that point or not; but I think it's apparent many Sanders supporters believe it is. \n\nThe previous is also flat out ignoring other issues with Clinton, as I think this is the biggest for most progressives.",
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"content": "The thing being overlooked here is that everyone is thinking of their own vote - people who are interested enough in politics to subscribe to the /r/democrats subreddit. The thing about Bernie is that he actively pursues people that have been disengaged from politics. He seeks out youth and low voter turnout areas and tries to convert them into active participants. He also tries to capture independents who feel disenfranchised with the parties and want nothing to do with them. If you take people who were interested because someone reached out to them and caught their attention, and then you take away the candidate that got them involved, odds are that many of them will disengage again. The key word being \"odds\", because votes are a statistical game.\n\nOn a sidenote, I expect that askreddit probably just wants to avoid politics and /r/SandersForPresident is strictly focused on the goal of Bernie winning, not contingencies.",
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"content": "I believe disengaged voters are dangerous for this country. Doing something is almost always better than doing nothing, imho. If Bernie has given them faith in the Democratic Party again, they shouldn't be so bitter as to completely not vote if he isn't nominated.\n\nRegarding your sidenote: The fact that the posts were removed isn't what upset me the most. It's that I sent a message to the moderators of both subreddits, and I never received a response or explanation. I think you're right about their reasoning. However, I find it distasteful to simply ignore my message to them. Askreddit has had a week to respond. Berniesandersforpresident has had a few hours. That doesn't seem like very much time, but when you consider they removed my post within FIVE MINUTES, it seems a little fishy.",
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"content": "How many times will a person let themselves be convinced by a politician that they can offer a real solution to things that are bigger than any of us only to feel let down? Bernie is asking them to put faith in him, and he can *barely* get them to do it. Insert a bait-and-switch in there and they're gone.",
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"content": "I always vote, and I always vote for the candidate I would most like to see win. I don't play send-a-message games with 3rd party candidates just because I'm a blue voter living in a winner-take-all state that is super-duper red. So, I'll caucus for Bernie, and then I'll vote for the democrat in November. ",
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"content": "Any idea on how we can persuade the Bernie supporters who say they won't vote for Hillary to vote for her if she is nominated? If that were to happen, I'm sure Bernie would plea to them to vote for the nominee, but still... Seeing what some of them post on here, it doesn't seem like there's any convincing them.",
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"content": "It's happening naturally. I was undecided but Trump's recent comments on the EPA and Snowden convinced me that I can't vote for him. I thought his early xenophobic rhetoric was all for show, but his continued antics prove that he was genuine. This overrides the positive aspects of his campaign: namely, universal single payer healthcare and no TPP.",
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"content": "Somebody needs to get this through to the mods at /r/politics, who won't allow posts about this trend because it's \"not politics\".",
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"content": "Those 'mods' are the biggest fools and buffoons reddit has to offer. I'm not being hyperbolic. I've gone a few rounds with them and I'm convinced that out of the whole lot, there is only one guy who has any education beyond high school. \n\nAnd I'm guessing most of them are very short and living with mom based on how they address problems. \n\nBut the subreddit itself tells the whole story: It was once the most popular sub on reddit and they managed to clear it out. They banned the most active users (who were, incidentally, liberals) and regularly delete stories that become popular 'too fast' (in their estimation). \n\nI'm not even going to say it's a conservative conspiracy, I'm just saying their dumb as rocks and all have control issues. And none are particularly of even average intelligence from what I can tell. \n\nWhat was once the most popular subreddit they've turned into a ghost town. And maybe that was their plan all along. It was kind of a destination of sorts for liberals and democrats for years (go figure, reddit tended to attract young, educated adults and educations tend to = liberal viewpoints) and they put a stop to that really quick once they were able to take over the mod posts. ",
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"content": ">ghost town\n\nover 3 million subscribers. r/democrats has 17k. \n",
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"content": "/r/politics was extremely active 9 damn years ago when I stumbled across this website. It is a ghost town in comparison to its old self.",
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"content": "Yeah, I was deeply involved in the fight over domain bans a few years ago, when they were removing posts from the Associated Press home page as \"rehosted content\" because they didn't know what AP is and banning *Mother Jones* because reasons. That was when [/u/TheRedditPope was running amok](https://www.reddit.com/search?q=%2Fu%2FTheRedditPope) with his beloved \"banhammer\". The only thing that made the slightest difference was taking the fight to outside news orgs via Twitter.\n\nThe problem still is that the name of the sub inevitably makes it seem to new users like THE politics sub. It's the gateway to everything else political, and it needs a good cleaning out by competent redditors.",
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"content": "I can tell you as a former mod, the amount of dysfunction over there is insane. You have a couple of active mods, and everyone else does the bare minimum to keep their active status.\n\nJust like government, there is so much red tape to jump through due to the rules they've made, that it is nearly impossible for anything to get done.",
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"content": "Wow, the video shows several cops watching (within a few feet) as a white guy sucker punches a black guy in the face. The cops proceed to pounce on the black guy and take him away in hand cuffs.\n\nNorth Carolina. ",
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"content": "\"Pounce.\" Get over yourself. They continue to escort him out. By no means is it justified, but let's not say things that don't happen.",
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"content": "Threw him to the ground and wrestled him. I guess if you want to come up with some pedantic definition for pounce you could and declare yourself the winner, but it seems petty.",
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"content": "You are a chump.\n\nIf you're going to go around reddit being rudely pedantic, at least try to be correct about it. ",
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"content": "Pretty words.",
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"content": "Hell that will get him elected.",
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"content": "[Inside edition interviewed the guy. He said he enjoyed it and the next time he sees him, he might have to kill him](http://bcove.me/w5m1iftz)\n\nAccording to the video, he was charged with assault. Good.",
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"content": "A lynching at a Trump rally would only solidify his support. Some of us haven't evolved too much from the apes.",
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"content": "> Is it Going to Take a Goddamned Lynching at a Someone With Tiny Hands Rally to Wake People Up?\n\nI gotta tell you, I am loving this new add-on. ",
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"content": "Thanks Obama. ",
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"content": "I feel like when he leaves office this will be mocked up in about 1 million Web comics ",
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"content": "I thought it already had. ",
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"content": "Decades of the \"Southern Strategy\" created Trump. You reap what you sow. ",
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"content": "What I don't understand are Republicans who deny the Southern Strategy happened despite millions of Dixiecrat voters leaving the Democratic Party specifically due to the GOP's outreach to their bloc.",
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"content": "There's always revisionist history a generation or two after the fact in part because the actual Dixiecrat defectors and their supporters such as Strom Thurmond have all passed away. \n\n The same goes for this great mythologizing of Reagan as well within the Republican Party when they ignore his trademark policies like the last large-scale immigrant amnesty, repealing his own historic tax cut almost entirely, deregulation of savings & loans (which led to a major crisis), indirectly or directly sanctioning the Iran-Contra effort, aiding the Afghani mujhadeen (not the Taliban or al-Qaeda though), trying to recklessly broaden defense spending, and preservation of entitlement programs.",
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"content": "Yes Dr. Frankenstein...this is your creation. ",
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"content": "You know, if I was Obama, at this point, I'd be like *fuck it*... \"Yeah, that's right. I wrecked the Republican party. They pissed me off and I got even. What are you going to do about it? I am absolutely responsible for all the problems they are dealing with, and you better remember that.\"",
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"content": "If I was Obama I'd stop bombing people abroad and calling them militants but that's just me.\n\n",
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"content": "Newt Gingrich credits Fox News for creating Trump. I tend to agree, but I think other networks have also seized the chance to air the train wreck waiting to happen every time he's on air. He gets tons of free press, and I think his celebrity and style appeals to the low information voters. ",
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"content": "The internet created him because the wingnutosphere arose out of the brain diarrhea on their sites. ",
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"content": "I agree. Fox News was definitely the ignition but the GOP is just as responsible for this mess. They put Palin out there to ramp up the hate and then they failed to put it down while they still had a chance. \n\nAnd I'm going to go a little farther than 'low-information' voters. Studies show that bigotry is associated with low IQ, so I'm going to call them 'low intellect' voters.",
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"content": "I used to find the Trump thing funny but now I'm just spending two evenings a week at the range. \n\nHis current rhetoric and philosophy is \"interesting.\"",
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"content": "Warren: Senate GOP 'paying the price for their own extremism'\n\n> Senator Elizabeth Warren talks with Rachel Maddow about how the past seven years of Republican anti-Obama extremism in the Senate has brought about the extremism in the 2016 Republican presidential campaign that now has Senate Republicans in a panic. Duration: 10:41 \n\nhttp://on.msnbc.com/1pbXxTE",
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"content": "Let's be real. Trump is a creation of the establishment that allows a right-moderate (by US standards, far-right by Euro standards) politician like Hilary to look like a progressive savior by contrast. Contrasting her with Trump is how you get the American left to willfully vote for a pro-war, pro-Wall St, pro-big business, pro-1%, bankrolled by the same people as the GOP, politician... \"at least she's not that fascist guy!\" If you can't see that, then you don't understand the good cop/bad cop game of party politics.",
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"content": "The Washington Times.\n\nThe Sanders campaign has picked some curious bedfellows.",
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"content": "the points made by a constitutional attorney are no less salient disregarding the source. i found it an interesting read.",
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"content": "Andrew Napolitano is a 911 revisionist who peddles theories about how the World Trade Center buildings were brought down by controlled demolitions. He's been a guest on the Alex Jones show.\n\nLike I said, the Sanders campaign certainly has some curious bedfellows. What's next? Bernie Sanders on the Alex Jones show?",
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"content": "hillary indicted?",
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"content": "Bernie have a stroke?\n\nTwo can play that game.",
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"content": "breitbart and wnd",
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"content": "A Republican rag. Nice.",
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"content": "i thought it was a newspaper that has won many journalism awards.",
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"content": "You're confusing it with the Washington Post. The Washington Times is a conservative apologist rag funded by the Unification Church aka \"The Moonies.\"",
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"content": "You're correct. It's won lots of awards from hard-core conservative groups.",
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"content": "It was nominated this year for \"Most Likely to Line the Bottom of a Birdcage\" but lost out to The Daily Caller. Breitbart and Drudge were furious about the whole thing.",
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"content": "Where does Sanders support for brutal Latin American regimes fit into his economic policies? ",
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"content": "I don't know, I would ask the same thing about Clinton's support for a brutal South American coup. ",
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"content": "Yeah, [responding to a coup by encouraging a free election](http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/24/hillary-clinton-emails-and-honduras-coup) is pretty brutal, definitely on par with the fascist Castro regime Bernie so admires. ",
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"content": ">The released emails provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes view of how Clinton pursued a contradictory policy of appearing to back the restoration of democracy in Honduras while actually undermining efforts to get Zelaya back into power. \n\nOh, so she supported \"democracy\" in Honduras just as long as the people of Honduras elected *her officials*. Thanks for clearing that up for us. \n\nEdit: This is an informative article. Thanks for posting it. You should read it. \n\n>The “hard choices” taken by Clinton and her team didn’t just damage U.S. relations with Latin America. They contributed to the enormous damage done to Honduras. In the years following the coup, economic growth has stalled, while poverty and income inequality have risen significantly. Violence has spiraled out of control. Meanwhile, the U.S. government has increased military assistance to Honduras, despite alarming reports of killings and human rights abuses by increasingly militarized Honduran security forces. Many Congressional Democrats have asked for a complete suspension of security assistance while human rights violations continue with impunity. But neither the Clinton nor Kerry State Departments have heeded their call.",
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"content": "What's HRC's excuse for supporting a brutal coup by a undemocratic regime in Honduras? ",
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"content": "Why is name calling so pervasive with HRC supporters? \n\n[Check out this interesting article.](http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/24/hillary-clinton-emails-and-honduras-coup)",
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"content": "Nice baseless accusation. Stop with the name calling. ",
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"content": "Man, I gave you a piece of my mind *in private* after you've *repeatedly* called me vulgar names *in public*. If you don't like it, and you don't like having your comments removed, stop with the name calling. ",
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"content": "Thank you so much. The comment is reapproved and I am going to delete my message. ",
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"content": "Have you found any evidence yet for your claim that gambling behavior is predictive of election results?",
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"content": "So is trump. ",
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"content": "That's what the \"too\" means. Lol did you read the article ",
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"content": ">reading the article\n\n\nIt is like you don't know the average redditor comes directly to the comments.",
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"content": "Anyone else rather have trump than Cruz as president if you had to pick one? Trump says some awful things, but given his history, I think he just says that shit to get a rise out of people. I really don't believe he has sincere political convictions.\n\nCruz on the other hand is an arch conservative ideologue and he has been his whole life.",
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"content": "I absolutely agree. Trump frightens me far less than Cruz.",
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"content": "I sometimes think that way, and then I think about the genuine disaster that Trump could wreak on our relationships with other countries because of his stupid bravado and total lack of filter. But then again, Cruz's SCOTUS nominations would almost certainly be worse than Trump's. I really can't decide who would be worse.",
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"content": "Trump is actually the moderate in this race all things considered.",
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"content": "Hillary Clinton is the moderate. ",
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"content": "Trump is the hillary clinton of the right, except with xenophobia. \n\nLook at trump's policy positions and then look at cruz, rubio, and kasich. Trump is way less extreme overall than the tea party nuts hes running against. ",
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"content": "They scare me for different reasons. I can predict the terrible things Cruz would try, I can't predict the terrible results of what Trump would do.",
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"content": "Ted Cruz is worse than Trump. They are basically the same but Ted doesn't believe in the separation of church and state and wants to cut welfare and social security. At least Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich and doesn't want to touch social security while also supporting planned parenthood.",
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"content": "I wish I could have the Ted Cruz work schedule.",
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"content": "Agreed. Greg Abbott was on FoxNews this morning (I was at a gas station getting coffee) blabbing about how Cruz is the \"candidate who best represents conservative values\" and all this other horseshit. Ignoring that Cruz says the same nothingness that Trump does but more eloquently. And far higher pitched.",
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"content": "Abbot is a monster ",
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"content": "Oh, I haven't forgotten.",
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"content": "and his wife is a huge player at goldman sachs. yes, that goldman sachs.",
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"content": "I like Bernie/Hillary better.",
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"content": "Hillary Clinton has 1,625,000 more popular votes than Bernie Sanders and 40 percent more delegates (not counting superdelegates). She/he who has the most votes tops the ticket and picks the veep.",
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"content": "You're right. But now that primary season is nearly done in the CSA, I believe that Sanders will narrow that margin significantly. Enough to surpass Clinton in votes and delegates before the convention? I don't know. \n\nMarch 15th will be very interesting; but I'd suggest that the primaries and caucuses afterwards will be even more interesting.",
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"content": "The delegate math really doesn't add up. For that to happen he would need to start winning states with many delegates by large margins. The states that favor him don't have as many delegates. Even when he won Michigan, he still missed his delegate goal, and Hillary exceeded hers because of Mississippi. An upset on Tuesday could change things, but if Michigan is an outlier like most of the analysts are saying, then Bernie is in for a crushing loss. Also, having two old white people on the ticket is not a great idea, especially when one of them has a bunch of socialist skeletons in his closet, which won't play well in the general. Hillary will likely choose a young male minority (Julian Castro) as a running mate, though I feel like Bernie will play some role in her campaign because she wants his base.",
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"content": "> For that to happen he would need to start winning states with many delegates by large margins.\n\nAnd that will start happening. For instance, Sanders will win my state (Washington) by about 20% (could be even more). IIRC correctly, he's leading in polls in Wisconsin, West Virginia, Hawaii, Oregon, Alaska, and close in Utah, Idaho, and California.\n\nI'm not saying it will be enough; just that we should keep some popcorn on hand.",
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"content": "> And that will start happening.\n\nSanders has only won more than 50 percent in three states and, in two out of three of those states, just barely more than 50 percent.\n\nNow, he needs to win *every* state by 60 percent to catch up to Clinton.\n\nConsidering he's only won over 50 percent in three states, how and why is he suddenly going to start winning by larger margins?\n\nMagic?\n\nClinton has lapped Sanders. It's very hard to catch a runner who has lapped you. In fact, it's close to impossible.",
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"content": "Sure, she owns the conservative south. Congrats.",
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"content": "> In fact, it's close to impossible.\n\nYou are incorrect about Sanders having to win \"every state by 60%.\" But regardless, we'll see.\n\nI've bookmarked your post so that we can revisit this after the primaries. So far, I've offered two people here on /r/Democrats a chance to bet their Reddit handle if Sanders won, and I've had zero takers. Maybe that was too steep a price. Considering how \"Clinton has lapped Sanders,\" I didn't think it was too steep. But oh well.\n\nSo how about you ending this trend of Clinton supporters being all talk and putting some Reddit Gold on the line? Sure seems like an easy way for you (or the Redditor of your choice) to get Reddit Gold perks. :)",
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"content": "I don't gamble.\n\n>You are incorrect about Sanders having to win \"every state by 60%.\"\n\nIt's not my analysis. The NYT, the WashPo, and many others have reported this fact -- he's too far behind to catch up. Sanders had such a huge vote deficit in the South that he's deep in the hole. He's underperformed in every state save two. It's now become almost mathematically impossible for him to catch up.\n\nNo candidate in Sanders' position at this point in the race has come from behind to catch up and pass the front-runner.",
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"content": "Well, some wouldn't call it \"Two old white people \", some would call it a woman and a minority (jewish, that is). Having said that, you may be right about a more ethnic minority. ",
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"content": "We'll remind you of that when Bernie has more popular votes in a couple months :)",
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"content": "See my reply here:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/49z5gh/a_hillary_clintonbernie_sanders_ticket_with/d0wqtkj",
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"content": "> most of the states have been caucuses \n\nNo.\n\nEight states have had caucuses.\n\nFifteen states have had primaries, including the largest states to vote so far.\n\n",
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"content": "At this point the vice presidency is beneath Hillary Clinton. That's a feminist, I know other people will take this the wrong way as a woman having to wait her turn.",
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"content": "Ignore the fact that they are opposed on many issues( and yes they agree on many), the reason many people are choosing Sanders over Clinton is the trust issue (like it or not, every opinion poll shows it), trust is earned, you can't buy trust by association.\n\nI believe Sanders could win and then do his best to achieve the things he has promised, I can't say the same of Clinton, I think if she wins, she will go back on her promises whenever first convenient, her track record demonstrates as much.\n\nVP is not an office with much power, having Sanders take that position would in no way whatsoever change my opinion of Hillary Clinton, it would change my opinion of Sanders. In such a circumstance my support would go to Jill Stein.",
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"content": "What a selfish, privileged position to take. ",
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"content": "Selfish for not choosing the DNC's presumptive candidate?, privileged for thinking a person has a right to vote their conscience? why bother having elections at all? Every cycle the DNC can chose for everyone, and do away with the charade. ",
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"content": "Yes, it's the DNC's fault that most people are voting for Clinton. \n\nIt must be nice to be you. You can afford to vote for someone who won't defeat the Republican nominee in the general election. ",
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"content": "few points here,\n\n1.) You know the DNC have been strongly favoring Clinton since day one, despite that Sanders may still win the nomination.\n\n2.) If you have an internet connection you know Sanders polls better against all GOP candidates.\n\n3.) As with many independents and democrats, I find Clinton to be a no more desirable prospect than any of the GOP candidates, they are proxy candidates, she is a proxy candidate, either way the public loses, don't kid yourself that either scenario leads to anything but a proxy president serving at the behest of their sponsors.\n",
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"content": "- Nobody has ever come back from such a huge deficit in delegates and won the nomination. He'd have to win states that he's currently trailing in by a landslide. Whenever Bernie has pulled an upset so far, it's been a very close race. It's incredibly improbable that he'll win the nomination. That isn't because of the DNC, that's because more people are voting for Hillary. \n\n- Head to head polls are meaningless considering we're not even halfway through the primaries yet. \n\n- This cannot be proven. This is simply an oversimplification, and a cynical theory. \n\n",
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"content": "I see, point one \"look at the polls\", point two \"ignore the polls\", point three \"ignore the facts\". \n\nLook, we disagree, there will be no point at which that changes, I did not ask you to respond to my comment, and your response was both disrespectful and belittling, if that's how you attempt to garner support for your preferred candidate, you might want to rethink your tactics. ",
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"content": "Polls regarding imminent races are relevant. Polls regarding hypothetical match ups several months down the line are not. I'm not sure what facts you're talking about that I'm ignoring. \n\nI've seen numerous comments from you that are disrespectful and belittling, not to mention conspiracy theory gems like \n\n> \"HRC gets the white house and its a countdown to the first generation of kids legally required to have a barcode on their neck. Bernie or bust, no compromise.\"\n\nI'm not trying to garner support from people who make such ridiculous comments. ",
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"content": "So go brighten someone else's day.",
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"content": "Knowledge is power. ",
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"content": "another hillary supporter showing unbelievable divisiveness. aaaand the berners are going to walk away from your candidate because of it if she gets the nomination. congratulations! you are destroying the democratic party.",
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"content": "Yes, I'm sure *my* comment had any effect. Bernie supporters were definitely on the fence until just now! I've singlehandedly wiped out Clinton's 200-delegate lead by making a comment on here!",
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"content": "every little bit you do to destroy the real democratic party isn't appreciated.",
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"content": "I'm not the one who is refusing to support the democratic nominee, no matter who, to prevent a republican presidency. Don't lecture me about my party. ",
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"content": "principles transcend party.",
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"content": "You go on ahead and hand the election to the republicans, then. That's on your conscience, not mine. ",
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"content": "be positive, and treat people with respect and compassion, it helps with party unity.",
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"content": "> yes, interesting timing, after hillary took a boatload of cash from an old NRA lobbyist. welcome to the establishment where principles don't matter.\n\n",
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"content": "http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/12/sanders-accepts-challenge-kill-tpp-if-elected-nothing-clinton-so-far",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "don't see anything here",
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"content": "Thanks for editing your comment. How brave of you. Your attitude towards women is disgusting. You have as much integrity as a Trump supporter. ",
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"content": "or as much as hillary. i loved her nancy reagan thing by the way, very brave.",
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"content": "You mean the statement she retracted after owning up to her mistake? There's a difference between being able to admit a mistake and being a misogynist who lacks the integrity to either stand by their comments or retract them. \n\n",
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"content": "how about an apology for this? \n\nhttp://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Hillary-Clinton-Forgot-That-She-Supported-a-Coup-in-Honduras-20160309-0047.html\n\nhttp://usuncut.com/politics/top-10-henry-kissinger-quotes-hillary-clinton-friend/\n\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html\n\nyou got to be in deep to forget that you supported a coup. apparently you are a part of the neo-neo con club. good luck and have a good life, i'm done here.",
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"content": "Just because I support Hillary doesn't mean I support literally everything she's ever said and done. \n\nI hope your position on women evolves. ",
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"content": "look friend, in actual reality, where i live, i have no issues. i should have said politician, poor choice of words. good day, good night, good life.",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/48v6zh/nightside_voter_fraud_in_massachusetts/d0n405h\n\nTell me again about how you don't have issues. ",
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"content": "my issues are with hillary and the apparent fact that she exploited MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR HER!!!!! ok, you have made the top 10 trolls i have ever experienced on reddit, please leave me alone. thank you.",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/430qth/the_democrats_worst_nightmare_is_that_bernies/czeomth\n\nOh, and tell me about how 9/11 was an inside job and how you'll vote for Trump when Hillary gets the nomination. \n\nYou said you were \"done\" like ten comments ago, yet you call other people liars?",
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"content": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/12/sanders-accepts-challenge-kill-tpp-if-elected-nothing-clinton-so-far",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "don't see anything here",
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"content": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "> I have to think he could come up with a better running mate though.\n\nYou misunderstand the headline and the article.\n\nClinton has more delegates and popular vote. Sanders chances of catching up are extremely slim.\n\nShe will head the ticket. She's the one who extends the invite.",
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"content": "I hate that idea. Neither of them should take each other as the VP pick. Bernie can't be trusted to be Clinton's VP.",
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"content": "Sweet! ",
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"content": "I realize this is the actual headline from the story but it's *not* a victory for Bernie Sanders in Ohio, unfortunately. How many 17 year olds do you think are eligible to vote and how many do you think will actually get off their asses to go cast a ballot? \nThe decision is being contested anyway and Ohio's attorney general (asshole) can still block it. \n\nI just don't see it as any kind of game changer. By all means, let those people vote. They have a right to and should be legally allowed to cast a vote. I just don't see many of them doing it and certainly not enough to make Ohio within reach of Sanders.",
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"content": "> how many do you think will actually get off their asses to go cast a ballot? \n\nIn order to do so, they would have had to register by February 15. How many of them actually did? Arguably a very small number.",
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"content": "Its not a victory for Bernie. Its a victory for americans to be able to vote",
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"content": "Almost every victory of Bernie is a victory for almost all americans and vice versa.",
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"content": "It's a victory for Bernie Sanders and a victory for all Americans because it was a successful block of a voter suppression policy. ",
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"content": "It's considered his victory because [he filed the lawsuit](http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/08/bernie-sanders-files-federal-suit-republicans-stop-voter-suppression-ohio.html)...",
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"content": "It is telling that one candidate feels that the child vote is best for him. When I was a child, I did childish things. Did you? Glad I wasn't old enough to drink.",
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"content": "Those young adults will be allowed to vote in the general whether you like it or not. They may as well have a say in what candidates they support. \n\nYou know, voter suppression isn't supposed to be a Democratic thing. We're supposed to be the party that includes everyone and fights for everyone. ",
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"content": "Best hope the appeals court doesn't overturn it there. I have no idea what the courts in Ohio are like.",
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"content": ">\"Our job is to encourage people to participate in the political process, not make it difficult for them to do so,\" Sanders said.",
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"content": "Please avoid personal attacks. Address the issues, not other Redditors.",
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"content": "Really liberal and developed European countries literally have child parlament even for underteens, and their voice and opinions are taken seriously in the adult parlament. But this might be hard to gasp for not so liberal \"democrats\". Also, the line between child and adult can't be seriously consideres a few weeks only! They were allowed to vote in primaries for many years, until it was banned by pro Hillary people. Bernie rightly contested this insane and undemocratic decision and won. I am happy that democracy won against dictatorial practices.",
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"content": "It's pretty telling that one candidate and her supporters seem to think voter suppression will benefit them, at any rate.",
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"content": "In victory for *17 years olds*.\n\nVoter suppression is bad, regardless of who they end up voting for.",
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"content": "Is this what he means about making America great again?",
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"content": "He's angry because people keep making fun of his lady hands.",
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"content": "I heard Hitler was angry because they were comparing him to Donald Trump.",
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"content": "Yep, in a few short months Trump has successfully made Godwin's Law obsolete.",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/3pemk1/guys_with_small_hands_how_did_you_overcome/",
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"content": "lol, starting a fascist movement is another way to go...",
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"content": "#Make America Grate Again",
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"content": "http://ryanmorrisonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/simpsons-mob-torches.jpg",
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"content": "Please tell me this wasn't you:\n\n> However, 19-year-old Rusty Shackleford of Lombard, in line to attend the Trump rally, said he was there to “support the man who wants to make America great again.”\n\nFrom the following article:\n\n* http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/11/trump-cancels-chicago-rally-due-to-security-concerns/\n",
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"content": "*Here's the Urban Dictionary definition of* [***Rusty Shackleford***](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rusty+shackleford) : \n\n---\n\n>Alias used by the government paranoid Dale Gribble, Hank Hill's friend on the animated series 'King of the Hill'. He also claims to own Shackleford's birth certificate.\n\n\n---\n\n_\"No, wait! Rusty Shackleford wants a pizza!\" - Dale Gribble_\n\n\n---\n\n[^(about)](http://www.reddit.com/r/autourbanbot/wiki/index) ^| [^(flag for glitch)](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/autourbanbot&subject=bot%20glitch&message=%0Acontext:https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/4a20s8/violence_erupts_as_trump_postpones_chicago_rally/d0wr57b) ^| ^(**Summon**: urbanbot, what is something?)",
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"content": "Me-\"Which candidate had a riot break out at his rally?\" Other me-\"The one talking about how big his dick was on a nationally televised debate\" me-\"shocking\". ",
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"content": "The Supreme Court replacement will be the single most important thing that shapes our country in the next decade. If Trump wins, a conservative will tip the court. And most likely a second one during his term as well. It won't matter what any Bernie Sanders or like candidate does in the future. It will be struck down.\n\nThis is extremely serious stuff.",
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"content": "It will only last four years and he won't be able to really do much of what he says. It will send a message. We are done with frauds owned by special interests. Id rather have a wild card goofball who says what he means than a shape shifting crook. Plus if Trump ruins everything, out of the ashes something beautiful could arise ",
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"content": "Two Supreme Court nominees at the very least. This will assure a conservative court for at least a decade. Maybe more. ",
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"content": "Yea. Guess you better vote for Bernie",
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"content": "I will vote for whoever wins the democratic nomination. I suggest you do the same.",
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"content": "Campaign finance reform is priority number one for me. I'd prefer the candidate be a democrat, but that's really up to everyone else",
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"content": "Campaign finance reform is important to me too. But I don't give up just because I don't get my way.",
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"content": "Your condescension aside, just because we had differing priorities doesn't mean I'm giving up. Don't be a dismissive dick",
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"content": "Then why do you say it's up to everyone else?",
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"content": "If Hillary is the nominee I will not vote for a democrat. And I'm not gonna be guilt tripped into voting for a fraud ",
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"content": "So you will vote for Trump then?",
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"content": "If I am forced to yet again choose between the lesser of two evils, I will do just that",
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"content": "So then if you don't get your way, you will vote for someone who will rig the Supreme Court for years to come. Virtually wiping out any chance that a future Bernie will ever be able to succeed. That is what I mean by giving up. ",
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"content": "I consider it giving up to concede and vote for someone I don't trust. I think allowing corrupt campaign financing does far more damage to a future Bernie. Sorry. You can try to paint me however you want to feel self righteous. I'm not compromising my beliefs ",
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"content": "So voting for Trump is not compromising your beliefs? Or not voting at all. We have three choices.\n\nAn awesome one (in your eyes)\n\nAnother who is for the same things at a different level\n\nA horrible one \n\nSo voting for the horrible is your answer?\n\nDon't worry, we will make sure the horrible one isn't elected. We''ll take care of America, even though you gave up.\n",
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"content": "Gee, the condescending insults are REALLY changing my mind",
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"content": "There are third party candidates.",
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"content": "> Campaign finance reform is priority number one for me.\n\nAnd you think a corrupt billionaire in the White House will do anything about that? Are you not aware that a President has very little power enacting campaign finance reform?\n\nThe power to change our campaign finance system rests with either Congress or the Supreme Court, should the latter reverse *Citizens United* et al.\n\nDo you think a corrupt billionaire in the White House will nominate Supreme Court justices who will reverse *Citizens United*?\n\nIf you believe that, I have a beautiful bridge to sell you.",
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"content": "There is no republican that supports campaign finance reform. ",
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"content": "Assuming that Trump chooses conservative judges. Beyond the crazy rhetoric, his conservative credentials are slim and a few of his policies seem even more progressive than Clinton's.",
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"content": "You have no idea what you are talking about. It would cause irreparable harm to this country and the world. ",
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"content": "Insulting people is the worst possible way to convince people of your opinion. Not all of us are loyal to either party. I may not vote for trump but I sure as hell won't vote for Hillary. I will vote for the candidate I trust and no one else. It will be Bernie or Jill Stein. No compromises here. ",
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"content": "It's the truth. By taking your ball and going home, you are admitting it's really about your ego and not about these issues you supposedly care about. You would rather make the SCOTUS a permanent conservative majority for a generation than swallow some pride and vote for the lesser evil in your eyes. \n\nThe last petulant move like that gave us eight years of Bush. No thanks. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> The last petulant move like that gave us eight years of Bush\n\nYou don't know what you're talking about: confirmed. Lol. Thanks for that. Now I can ignore you in peace. ",
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"content": "Uh... People not coming out for Gore or foolishly voting for Nader gave us Trump. \n\nMaybe you were still a toddler at the time. ",
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"content": "So maybe you have a short memory?",
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"content": "Be fair, most people have said they will vote Jill Stein, can we show some respect for people's right to vote for the candidate they want, not the candidate others feel they should vote for?\n\nDemocracy is a simple, but beautiful idea, one person, one vote. \n\nThe DNC has failed to understand that, and here we are seeing regular posts trying to guilt Sander's supporters into voting for Clinton under various headings that amount to \"OR ELSE\", does anyone actually think this will draw support to Clinton? yet more strong arm tactics?",
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"content": "> can we show some respect for people's right to vote for the candidate they want\n\nAbsolutely, but can we show consideration for the ideals -- the goals to which we are all aligned with? Sometimes achieving a particular goal requires sacrifices to be made. That may mean that we don't get a President like Bernie right here and now. Maybe there's too much opposition, maybe America isn't quite ready, maybe he succeeds, but honestly the odds aren't exactly in his favor.\n\n> yet more strong arm tactics?\n\nIt's not strong arm tactics. It's realism. \n\nIf the primaries ended today it would be a Clinton choice. Jill Stein has no chance of winning. She can't win the Independents, has no name recognition, and either Cruz or Trump will blow her away.\n\nBernie may or may not still be in the game, but regardless of the outcome we SHOULD consider how important our votes are and the weight they carry, especially in this election.\n\nI'm suggesting that you continue to strive for Bernie, but if he doesn't win I'm urging people to consider the next step, the long term strategy and what that vote will mean.\n\nAnd this isn't a Democracy, this is a Republic. We're choosing our Representative in the Executive Branch of the government. Past that vote we'll get no more say for the next 4 years for that office and it may be decades before any damage can be reversed on the Supreme Court.",
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"content": "I don't give a shit about the party's long term goals. You know why third party candidates have no chance to win? Because of this shitty strong-arming into falling in line for \"long term goals.\" You want to make change? Vote outside the party lines. ",
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"content": "3rd parties win when ome of the other parties dies. Currently it looks more likely that the GOP will fracture and die before the Dems.",
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"content": "Or when people demand an alternative to corrupt two party system.",
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"content": "Voting 3p will only hand the election to Trump. ",
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"content": "It's not a democratic election? ",
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"content": "I'll quit donating and stay home. I will not support Hillary Clinton. This isn't about the presidency to me, it's about the soul of the democratic process. There needs to be a party representing labor and middle class issues when it comes to economic policy. That party used to be the democrats. If the democrats don't want to be that party, I'll keep searching for a party that does. \n\nHillary Clinton certainly is not the person to run if you want to demonstrate sincere support for labor issues. The only time she seems to support those issues is when they poll well at that exact moment she says them. She is, at best, the definition of insincere. If you want those votes, put forward a candidate who honestly holds those beliefs.\n\nScaring people into voting to increase turnout is a Republican strategy. I hope it doesn't begin working for Democrats also. This primary tests that old saying for me that Republicans fall in line, while democrats fall in love. These people, these highly motivated economic progressives, they aren't republicans, and they won't just fall in line behind Clinton if that saying holds true. They will stay home if the message is not something they support. ",
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"content": "Can I ask? When did being a moderate start being a bad thing? ",
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"content": "Rekt. Good work.",
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"content": "i love c-span",
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"content": "How people don't understand the difference between this and giving paid private speeches directly to Goldman Sachs I'll never know. \n\n",
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"content": "> How people don't understand the difference between this and giving paid private speeches directly to Goldman Sachs I'll never know.\n\nI believe they understand the difference. Deep down.\n\nBut having to change your mind and admitting that you were wrong is scary. And I'm not being condescending; I know first hand. Hint: 15 or so years ago, Ted Cruz would've been my candidate.\n\nA rational mind **must** develop new opinions when the facts no longer support the old opinions. Don't fight it. And don't be ashamed. It's what rational people do.",
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"content": "I'm right with you. I used to love Rush back in the day a true ditto head. My beliefs changed as I learned and grew. Now I'm left as can be. ",
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"content": "> I used to love Rush back in the day a true ditto head.\n\nLOL. Me too!\n\nI had several Rush Limbaugh Signature ties, books, and the Bill Clinton backwards-running watch which had the digital inset counting down to the \"end\" of the Clinton Administration (January whatever, 1997). \n\nAnd, even living in Texas at the time, I knew who that \"socialist\" Bernie Sanders was. I absolutely despised him back then!",
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"content": "I also used to belive in Santa Claus. We grow up. ",
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"content": "So we have to care when Hillary Clinton gives a speech but not when Bernie gives a speech. That doesn't make sense to me. Honestly this whole speech business has never made sense to me. Because when accounting speech was released, no one seems to care. Do you know why? Because it didn't matter.",
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"content": "Bernie:\n **unpaid** speech.\n\nBOA sponsored the event,at which there were many speakers,it was for New Hampshire Institute of Politics and here's the full video of that speech:\n\n http://www.c-span.org/video/?404257-1/politics-eggs-breakfast-bernie-sanders\n\nHillary:\n gives a series of **paid** speeches worth millions of dollars to an industry she promises to be tough on, where's the transcripts?: mind your own business America.\n\nBy the way, it's worth watching Bernie's speech, it was a pretty good one.\n",
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"content": "> Hillary: gives a series of paid speeches\n\nThat doesn't matter to me. The Sanders campaign has failed to explain why I should care. \n\n>By the way, it's worth watching Bernie's speech, it was a pretty good one.\n\nI'll watch it if you watch the Hillary one, deal?\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lKlJ3Ed4fQ",
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"content": "Absolutely a deal, we on?\n\nbtw, as always thanks for the downvote, very mature.",
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"content": "I didn't downvote you, we just made a deal.",
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"content": "agreed",
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"content": "I want receipts. You should both post a general outline of what was said in the respective videos and confirm that you both did in fact watch them. :)",
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"content": "No problem, I'm game.",
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"content": "> That doesn't matter to me. The Sanders campaign has failed to explain why I should care. \n\nNot true. The Sanders campaign has explained why you should care many, many times. It's perhaps the central theme of the entire campaign. However, you obstinately refuse to acknowledge that explanation.",
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"content": "> That doesn't matter **to me**.\n\nHere's the problem with your arguments a lot of the times. You mistake something that isn't important to you for something that isn't important in general, or isn't important to anyone.\n",
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"content": "The mistake with your argument is assuming that everyone should care. Bernie Sanders nor the affirmative has proven the case that anyone should care about the paid speeches.",
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"content": "The race between President Obama and Mitt Romney was a close one. One of the main reasons Obama had a second term was because [people cared about the sort of things Romney said in his speeches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gvY2wqI7M) to private interests seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us.\n\nThere's ongoing collusion between Wall Street, the 1%, business interests, and many, many people in our government. It should concern us what messages our representatives are delivering to these morally bankrupt, profit-seeking institutions, who we know as a matter of historical fact have conspired against our best interests; *especially* when that message is delivered behind closed doors, deliberately hidden from public knowledge, and *especially* when these organizations are bankrolling said representative's campaign.\n\n",
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"content": "Hillary Clinton's speeches have been about opening up opportunities for women, about promoting business with the Third World, and about business investing in educational and public health initiatives. That's why most of her speaking fees are donated to the Clinton Foundation, because those are the types of projects in which the foundation is involved.\n\nThere is utterly no comparison to campaign speeches Romney gave to his contributors.",
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"content": "If this is true, she has no reason not to release the transcripts.",
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"content": "Down goes Frasier",
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"content": "How do you know that? ",
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"content": "No, I believe that they have made a solid argument (as evidenced by the fact that people continue to ask that she release the transcripts). You simply don't find it convincing enough. Again, this is back to confirmation bias and your own personal opinions.",
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"content": "> You simply don't find it convincing enough\n\nIt's not convincing. Why does she need to release them? Why are they important? How does this effect the election? Why is there purging of liberals? \n\n> Again, this is back to confirmation bias and your own personal opinions. \n\nMy opinion can change when presented facts, logic, and a sound argument. Bernie has provided any of that, all his brought is emotion. ",
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"content": "Now can he release his speeches to alt-med whackos? I want to know more about how cancer is psychosomatic. ",
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"content": "Do you believe even a word of that? provide evidence if you have it.",
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"content": "[Here ya go](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi2tIm90rvLAhVX42MKHRCIBA0QFggvMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F4249034%2Fbernie-sanders-alternative-medicine-cancer%2F&usg=AFQjCNECuj5mVnCL1_cdXfo2_k7eYeiugA&sig2=BlmkRK-K5LAo2iTmOjgmzw). \n\nEDIT: And you can keep your one default upvote, too. ",
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"content": "I love the idea that you can site an article with no situations as a source.\n\nEdit: arrival to article (mistyped cus I've been drinking)",
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"content": "What?",
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"content": "He never said cancer was psychosomatic. And while alternative medicine can be dangerous when people believe in it zealously there are a lot of alternative medicines that are not scientifically researched because they cannot be profitized by pharmaceutical companies yet, I.e. Marijuana. ",
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"content": "[\"I have my own thoughts... on the psychosomatic causes of cancer](http://time.com/4249034/bernie-sanders-alternative-medicine-cancer/). :((((",
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"content": "Dat frowny face.",
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"content": "lol.",
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"content": "So he is proud that a group of people are attacking other groups of people who don't believe the same way they do? ",
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"content": "Yea those vicious maulers! Evil murderers!",
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"content": "That's a jump to a conclusion, since nearly everyone weren't attacking anyone. \n\n",
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"content": "I'm pretty sure that Trump supporters drew first blood, and second blood, and third blood... And Trump himself has announced that young black people who speak their minds are emphatically \"not the people who made America great\". \n\n",
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"content": "Oohhh I want to see the source on that.",
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"content": "There are several videos floating around of Trump supporters beating up protesters. \n\n[Here's this.] (https://youtu.be/qceor5k3TfM) Which wasn't the first incident by any means. This has been going on for months. \n\n[And this] (https://youtu.be/qIDELUc0VQI) Which illustrates perfectly Trump's attitude about black Americans. ",
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"content": "Yeah I've seen the first one but not the second.",
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"content": "I wouldn't be proud of the childlike behavior those protestors exhibited. Why my fellow Bernie supporters are propagating hate towards anyone I cannot understand. I hope that everyone can see what's wrong with this, they've never assaulted Bernie at one of his rallies, why would we lower ourselves past the republicans standards, w're supposed to be the moral party... ",
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"content": "It's a bad thing, but sometimes is necessary. ",
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"content": "You honestly feel inciting violence against fellow countrymen is needed? If that's true than I won't even bother to keep this discussion going; if, however, you are able to identify that violence is not the answer than I'll be happy to provide you with the many other parts of this scenario that are wrong, and should never have happened in US politics. ",
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"content": "That didn't even make sense. \n\nTrump and his supporters have been the ones inciting violence. You don't see this occurring at any other rallies, Dem or GOP.\n\n",
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"content": "As I said in my previous statement, if you feel violence is the correct path in this situation than before we can have this discussion, you're going to have to get through your freshman year bravado phase first. ",
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"content": "Haven't been in college since the 90s, son. \n\nJust speaking the truth. It's a bad thing,, but protests are sometimes necessary. Look at history. ",
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"content": "I was referring more to your mind set than age. Well non-violent protests are necessary, and this country is in dire need of more public outcry, the difference between this situation and what I believe you are advocating is night and day. ",
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"content": "I am not advocating it, I am saying it's a reality. ",
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"content": "Well, nonviolent protesters have consistently been beaten up, arrested, and charged with crimes at Trump rallies. So you can excuse us if we try something different. ",
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"content": "You understand that it's Trump and his hateful, violent rhetoric that has lead to violence, right? ",
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"content": "I'm not sure how protesting equates to hate. I can see how assaulting people who peacefully protest could be considered hateful. ",
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"content": "Protesting is totally fine, this is what democracy looks like.\n\nThey're not denying Trump the right to speak, they're speaking out themselves about what they don't want and denying propoganda the big stage.\n\nThis is what engaged politics looks like and it's been hushed too long in our country, which is why everyone is so complacent and things have gotten so bad.",
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"content": "Grow up, they aren't Bernie supporters, where did you make that shit up? Because \"Frumph\" said so? Hahhahaha lol",
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"content": "I'm a Bernie supporter and so are the people videoed at the event. Unfortunately even Bernie does not deny it. However, as Bernie says, he does not condone the actions of the few, but also does not let it define the campaign. \n\nI just hope the behavior stops, two wrongs never make a right. ",
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"content": "Obama is too smart and mature to condone the behavior of the protsesters. This is not a good day for us, the left, or this country ",
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"content": "This is fine. It shows speech has consequences. This was a mild incident. ",
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"content": "I agree. ",
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"content": "However, it is still a bad thing. A dark thing. ",
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"content": "Obama is actually very disappointed in what is happening to this country. He has repeatedly mentioned that his biggest regret is the polarization he has caused between Democrats and Republicans and Whites and Blacks. Also he just spoke about how silencing an opposing viewpoint is awful.\n\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-college-political-correctness_us_55f8431ee4b00e2cd5e80198",
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"content": "He hasn't caused this polarization. That's bullocks. Racists are racist. You can't blame a black man for being a black president. The blame lies solely on the hateful for their hate. It's simple. ",
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"content": "I blame Obama for blaming Republicans and whites for all of America's problems. Obama has yet to give a speech about changing black culture.",
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"content": "As a gay man who knows quite a few HIV/AIDS activists from that era, and who's well known for saying dumb things in public, I would like to second this.\n\nBesides, every minute we spend bashing Hillary or Bernie is a minute we can't be talking about the violent protests outside Trump's rallies or the violent fascism inside them.",
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"content": "As another gay man, I would like to third this. Stop using words in a Eulogy for your political gain. You think Hillary even wanted to be there? She did this out of respect for an historic figure. ",
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"content": "When you are in a campaign, you sleep little, have things thrown at you constantly, live on coffee, etc. Remember Obama's number of state's gaffe? It happens. It is when you don't apologize for your mistakes that it becomes a problem. ",
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"content": "Very true. Amazing that some of these same people who are trying to use this as a political tool, are the same ones who say they will vote for a man that is as vile as Donald Trump if they don't get their way. The hypocrisy is rampant.",
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"content": "That's not true. I feel that this was a very disappointing gaffe worth being discussed and I don't feel like Hillary Clinton truly cares about the LGBT community, but I won't vote for Donald Trump.\n\nThe first step to elevating the level of discourse in this sub is by focusing on the people who aren't being crazy. I know that's harder to do, but it's worth it.",
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"content": ">The first step to elevating the level of discourse in this sub is by focusing on the people who aren't being crazy. \n\nThat almost impossible to find. Especially when people are being pushed further to the fringes. ",
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"content": "Double standard much? ",
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"content": "[This is the national conversation the Reagan administration started about AIDS.] (http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/reagan-administration-response-to-aids-crisis#2) ",
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"content": "[Here is one that the Sanders' campaign had on their official site.](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fgo.berniesanders.com%2Fpage%2Fevent%2Fdetail%2Fdebatewatchpartiesoctober13%2F4vd94)",
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"content": "What does this have to do with that? So some Sanders supporters come up with a funny but childish name for a political get together and he's somehow responsible for their actions? It's worth pointing out that you're posting qn archive because that event was obviously removed from the site the instant it was noticed. I'm sure the silly name calling isn't bothering you, because name calling is what you do. ",
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"content": "Agree or not, I don't see that being gay gives someone the right to decide if people should be angry about this or not, but if that is the case, here's some contrasting opinion (from a gay man if that is more of a qualification)\nhttps://np.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4a1l4e/im_a_44_year_old_gay_man_i_am_kind_of_losing_my/",
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"content": "Bullshit. Mispoke my ass. That's flat out giving huge credit for something they actively fought against. The inaction which was the hallmark of the Reagan administration in the AIDS fight, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of LGBT people. ",
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"content": "hillary is a neo-neo con who loves the military and prison idustrial complexes. vote for the new-new deal, not a neo-neo con. she is a conservative by any world standard and a corporatist to boot. she has never seen a shitty trade deal that offshores u.s. jobs that she didn't like. i wish she would release the transcripts of her speeches to wall street.",
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"content": "Way to miss the point. Vote for Bernie all you want. Maher didn't say you shouldn't. \n\nHe is saying that the people saying they won't support the other nominee are going to hurt liberalism if they help Trump win in the end. ",
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"content": "sometimes it's gotta be burnt to ground before you can rebuild.",
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"content": "I swear you guys sound like the League of Shadows every time you say something like that. That might as well be a direct quote from Ra's Al Ghul. It makes you sound like a crazed super villain. ",
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"content": "the crazed super villain is hillary clinton. she is unelectable and should drop out for the good of the country.",
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"content": "No, I'm going to stick with the one advocating burning the country down if people don't vote for his/her preferred candidate. ",
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"content": "ummmm, i didn't advocate burning the country down, as a firefighter that would be irresponsible. if hillary gets the nomination, she won't get my vote, unless cruz is nominated, because he is the only one on the rethuglican side who is clearly worse than hillary IMO. i am a lifelong contributing democrat.",
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"content": "And thus the point of this post. If you don't think Trump would be worse than Hillary, you're part of the problem Maher is talking about. \n\nAnd yes, your comment above and your comment history repeatedly talk about hurting the country if you don't get your way. ",
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"content": "your words are hurtful. so then you agree that hillary should drop out for the good of the country, at least we have that in common.",
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"content": "I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but I'm done here. Good luck with your plans to punish the country for not voting for the person you support. ",
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"content": "and good luck getting your boy trump into the whitehouse.",
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"content": "Has it occurred to you that this sentiment is just as pervasive among HRC supporters? ",
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"content": "If it is, I'll make the same argument to them. I just happen to see far more Bernie supporters on Reddit making that argument. ",
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"content": "You should look around some more. I've seen a lot of Clinton supporters saying that they would never vote for Sanders. [Read these comments] (https://np.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/49uqf6/sanders_supporters_if_sanders_wins_the_nomination/) ",
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"content": "I'm sure they exist, but that's a small post with most of the upvoted comments being that they'll support Bernie and some even saying they'll campaign for him, like I would.\n\nCompare that to [this post](https://np.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/49ojhl/poll_33_of_sanders_supporters_wouldnt_vote_for/) where the top comment is at nearly 3000 and planning on voting for Jill Stein, with many others supporting that point of view.\n\nRegardless, if Bernie somehow manages to win the nomination, I'll work hard to make sure no stupid Clinton people help Trump win too. Whichever direction it's going in, it's idiotic.",
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"content": "I don't disagree. I just hate to see it painted out as a Bernie Sanders problem only. ",
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"content": "Does anyone else consider this a little ironic considering the OP?",
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"content": "Do that matter? Look at the article, not who's posting it.",
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"content": "It wasn't a criticism of the article. It was a criticism of the poster.",
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"content": "Whatever. I frankly don't believe you. I think you're trying to discredit the article by discrediting the poster. ",
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"content": "Can you point to anything that I have written in this thread that suggests that?",
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"content": "I'll play your game. Bill Maher is a hack and a sleazeball. ",
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"content": "The automod removed this because of language. Could you please remove the word in question so i can reapprove this.\n\nThank you.",
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"content": "I'm sorry I can't. I'll live with my comment being removed. ",
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"content": "That'll teach 'em!",
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"content": "Teach them what?",
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"content": "If it is possible to work together that will come after the primary, that has been the way through politics for decades. Did Maher say this when it was Obama and Hillary? No different today than back then.",
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"content": "So what? Explain to me the significance if anything other than \"look at this dumb bitch\"",
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"content": "It reveals a profound disconnect between her and the history and legacy of the LGBT community and highlights some of the problems with the \"gradual change\" that she represents.\n\nWhile it would have certainly been a radical move on the part of Nancy Reagan to make HIV/AIDS a national issue when it was primarily a problem for the LGBT community and other \"less desirable\" communities, it was a real problem that those communities faced. Our nations leadership chose to ignore an issue that was devastating our own people. That shouldn't be forgotten by anyone.",
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"content": "Nah, I think it's just a standard \"tried to say something nice about somebody, picked the wrong thing\" type of deal. Hillary is pro-LGBT. ",
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"content": "You can be pro-LGBT and still not have a deep connection to the LGBT community or its history. I believe Clinton is pro-LGBT, but I don't think she is as much of an advocate as she would like to be perceived as.",
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"content": "Fair enough, but every issue can't be your strongest issue. It's probably true that gay rights isn't #1 for Hillary (or Bernie for that matter), but I guarantee that both of them are on the right side of the issue and would back the right policies, and strongly. I just wish people would direct their outrage at people who deserve it, i.e. the lunatics running for the Republican nomination. Those guys really are against gay rights.",
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"content": "I didn't say that it had to be their strongest issue. I said that it was significant and worth discussion, and that I don't think Hillary Clinton has the connection to the LGBT community that she likes to portray.\n\nAlso, the \"direct your outrage at the outrageous\" argument is a little bit disingenuous. The outrage isn't about Hillary Clinton, the outrage is about the history of the LGBT community. When someone this public and this powerful who pays us lip service makes this mistake, we need to be vocal about correcting them. If for no other reason than our history deserves to be recognized and 100 gay rights activists still wouldn't have as much influence as Hillary Clinton.",
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"content": "Fair enough, but she's the likely democratic nominee who will likely go up against Trump, who is a far far worse option who would make people like you or me want to leave the country. Give her shit, sure, but eventually let it go and stay focused on actions, not poorly chosen words. Hell she apologized an hour later. Trump would tell you to f your politically correct self.",
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"content": "It's literally less than 24 hours after it happened. It's not like I'm clinging to it 6 weeks from now. Criticizing Clinton is not the same thing as advocating for Donald Trump, and it is simply idiotic to suggest that.\n\nPeople in r/Democrats need to get past the knee jerk reaction that any criticism of a candidate (more specifically of Clinton) will lead to a Trump victory.",
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"content": "> I believe Clinton is pro-LGBT, but I don't think she is as much of an advocate as she would like to be perceived as.\n\nThat's very true. Because people tend to focus on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1-r1YgK9I\n They don't or they refuse to look at this:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RP9pbKMJ7c\n\nor this\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIqynW5EbIQ\n\nAll at the same time, it seems that far to many people forget this:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ONvxJOcus4\n\nand this:\n\nhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/10/05/bernie_sanders_on_marriage_equality_he_s_no_longtime_champion.html\n\nIt's true that she's Pro-LGBT, and I think she deeply cares for people when barriars are in their way. I'm you're right, I don't think she should be look at as a \"super\" LGBT advocate. ",
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"content": "Are you talking about this comment? If so, then yes, I caught it. And, again, I will say that the issue I have with Clinton isn't that she's not pro-LGBT. My issue is that often she likes to say that she was at the forefront of the political movement that was (an still is) leading the way for the LGBT community. As I said, you can be pro-LGBT but still not have much of a connection to that community or its history.",
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"content": "Agreed.\n\nWe live in culture that always blindly praises people after they die, particularly politicians and their wives. This is a situation where everyone in the country is guilty of the exact same thing at times but people coming down on her irrationally hard for just trying to be too nice. \nShe can't win. If she would've said anything truthful about her, people would've come down on her just as hard. \n\nWelcome to American culture where it's OK to tell white lies about the deceased unless you're being hyperscrutinized by fanatical pundits.",
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"content": ">Hillary is pro-LGBT. \n\nShe is now that it's politically expedient.\n\n",
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"content": "Better late than never?",
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"content": "I just totally disagree with you here. I'm not in the mode to attack dead women. Did Clinton misspeak? Yes. Did she apologize? Yes. But that doesn't show the betrayal that you want it to be. Yes, the community was ignored by the nations leaders. And fighter like Harvey Milk in the 70s pushed the true narrative and fought the good fight. It's upsetting and sad that people like him and the countless and sometimes forgotten martyrs of the movement lost their lives in the fight for equality and the fight on aids. It's true that the Reagans weren't there publicly or possibly privately in the fight against AIDS. But to to take this off the cuff comments as Hillary as an insinuation that HRC or Bill don't care about the fight against this awful disease, then that is a lapse thinking and confirms bias. \n\nhttp://www.c-span.org/video/?52639-1/world-aids-day-address&start=1028\n\nhttp://www.c-span.org/video/?115912-1/world-aids-day-event\n\nhttp://www.c-span.org/video/?307198-2/secretary-clinton-remarks-international-aids-conference\n\n",
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"content": "I didn't say that Bill or Hillary Clinton don't care about the LGBT community or HIV/AIDS. I said that I don't think that Hillary's history with the community is as rich as she would like to say.",
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"content": "Funny you should mention Alzheimers...",
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"content": "Alzheimers diesease, HIV/AIDs. Same difference. Right?",
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"content": "Any one who cares one bit about LGBT people and their history in the US should know better than to suggest that the Reagan's were anything other than a complete disaster when it came to the AIDS crisis. This isn't an easy mistake to make. ",
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"content": "And what does that have to do with mischaracterizing the Reagan administration and it's mishandling of the AIDS epidemic? \n\nThe Clinton foundation is hardly a point of pride in my eyes. They take money from violent, oppressive regimes and have been used as leverage for arms trading with such dictatorships. ",
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"content": "The Clinton foundation has accepted more than $150 million from despotic nations who were then in turn granted huge arms deals by the Clinton state department. \n\nClinton has personally traded billions of dollars worth of lethal machinery to evil dictatorships. (What have you done? Lol) Tell me, how many people will be oppressed and murdered with those arms? ",
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"content": "The NRA does no such thing. We've been over this again and again. \n\nHillary Clinton supported a bloody coup in Honduras that ousted a Democratically elected leader and replaced him with a despotic regime. \n\nI thought you wanted me to leave you alone. ",
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"content": "This is like the sixth name that you've called me in the last ten minutes. ",
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"content": "> Seems Hillary got confused about stuff decades ago.\n\nShe also tried to say something nice about a dead person. I don't like the Reagan, but we don't have to shit on them. ",
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"content": "She was obviously trying to step to the right by appealing to Reagan supporters. This is problematic for a few reasons. 1) She supposed to be a liberal Democrat not a neo-con. 2)[This is the national conversation the Reagan administration started about the AIDS crisis.] (http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/reagan-administration-response-to-aids-crisis#2) ",
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"content": "No, she was trying to speak kindly about the deceased and a fellow first-lady. It's that simple. America has created a culture where it's acceptable to say false things about people in an effort to honor them whenever there isn't much real good things you can say.\nIt's acceptable 99% of the time, this is just one of those times when the fanatics went apeshit over it because she is beating Bernie in the polls and the Bernie fans are on the same side as the Fox News Trump hounds and they're all reciting the same talking points. \n\nHonestly, it's ignorance and nothing more. \n\nI've seen people who are more upset with this 3 second remark than they are with Reagan's mishandling of the AIDS crisis for his entire administration and that's absolutely laughable to me.\n\nIt's like they're trying to ascribe Reagan's apathy toward AIDS to Clinton simply because she tried to suggest that Nancy Reagan gave a shit about people who suffered from AIDS.",
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"content": "I think it was a politically motivated and callous comment. Reagan's failures are not her own, but she *is* responsible for the things that she says. ",
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"content": "Speaking nicely of a deceased person doesn't have to involve a revisionist history of the decedent's legacy. In fact, that's a dangerous path to go down.",
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"content": "Saying Nancy Reagan was pro LGBT is more likely to alienate conservative voters than attract them. The GOP still isn't on board with the LGBT movement as a whole. ",
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"content": "When the top comment on r/democrats is that we should vote third party because the leading democratic candidate misspoke while trying to find nice things to say about a dead lady (and very quickly and publicly apologized), I think that it's time for me to leave this sub. This isn't about democrats, it's a further circle jerk for the guy who has done nothing but bad mouth us his whole life. ",
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"content": "So when someone disagrees with you they're* a \"troll\"? It reflects poorly on your candidate and your platform that your go-to strategies are name calling and personal attacks. ",
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"content": "> I think that it's time for me to leave this sub. \n\nI feel your pain. :(\n\nI hope you find the pro-Clinton echo chamber that you're seeking.\n\n> This isn't about democrats, it's a further circle jerk for the guy who has done nothing but bad mouth us his whole life. \n\nSpoken like someone whose children didn't go to a war sold to the American people under false pretenses by Bill and Hillary Clinton and the GOP neo-cons.\n\nFor some of us, being a Democrat isn't just a goddamned \"D\" after the name.",
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"content": "Oh, so Bill and Hillary are now the ones actually responsible for the Iraq war? You people are nothing more than a tea party of the left. Facts don't matter, policy doesn't matter, only how you feel about it matters. Anyone who says otherwise is an establishment shill. The self-righteous ignorance is so real on Reddit. ",
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"content": "I agree. I removed that post and a whole lot more.\n\nPlease read:\n\n* https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/4a5d8a/it_is_time_for_rdemocrats_to_stop_behaving_like/",
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"content": "So what? \n\nEdit - All we know is Trump is rich, it does not matter how rich. (P.S. I am a Democrat - Feel the Bern)",
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"content": "He's running in part on his wealth and business savvy. If that proves to be a yuge exaggeration, it should call into question the rest of his braggadocious rhetoric and promises. ",
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"content": "Is his braggadacious rhetoric already not in question? All I hear is that he is an ego maniac. Lets move on and focus on the issues and his policy proposals, like whether free trade is good for the country or not.",
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"content": "His rhetoric is the issue. It's impossible to separate the braggadocio from what he actually wants to do. He won't keep his story straight.",
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"content": "That is the most classiest, luxuriant braggadocious rhetoric you are going to find anywhere. No question.",
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"content": "Turns out it's the braggadocious rhetoric you find at the supermarket or gas station, but with a Trump label stuck on.",
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"content": "The Trump label is the most valuablest guarantee of quality in the history of this universe that's going to be, or we will.",
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"content": "It's a pride and ego thing, which are his strongest traits. ",
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"content": "I don't care if he is a little rich or a lot but It would prove he's a lying sack of shit.\n\nEdit: misworded ",
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"content": "But do we really need to know that to determine if he's a lying sack of shit? He's given us so much data to make that determination. ",
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"content": "PCLOAD_LETTER!? What the fuck!? ",
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"content": "From what I understand, he puts a lot of value on the Trump name. He values the name alone at several million dollars and includes that in his total wealth figures. His actual dollar amount isn't near what he says his total worth is. ",
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"content": "From what I know, he actually values his name at several billion. His actual wealth is not quite as large as he says, some even estimate it at below 1 billion if I'm remembering that correctly, even though it is still a large amount of money.",
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"content": "His tax returns have nothing to do with his worth. He claims to be worth over 10 billion, meaning he owns real estate worth that much, not that his money is liquid. He sold his 800 million boat to a saudi prince for 200 million, probably because he needed liquid cash.",
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"content": "Real estate is taxable property. Even if he is eligible for exemptions and what not, he would still have to declare that property. ",
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"content": "Not on the same tax returns.",
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"content": "Afaik, property taxes are usually public domain and can be used for deductions on federal and state taxes, though I'm not an accountant. ",
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"content": "He maintains he is a tres commas guy but he may only have two commas",
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"content": "Fortune has him pegged at 4.5 billion. I'm not sure how they got there. How Trump gets to over 10 billions in his estimate is kinda hilarious. He claims his brand (i.e.- the Trump name) is worth 3.5 billion. And then since Hell, you're already over 8 billion at that point why not round to ten? ",
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"content": "That's a part of it. The other part is that he's afraid that the ignorant and uneducated who support him might get a little antsy when the realize Mr. Perfect Wealth is paying a much, much lower tax rate than they are.\n\nNot that I think any of them are smart enough to let it make them angry. I think he is way overestimating the intelligence level of his base.",
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"content": "For as much as people complain about Sanders' supporters, at least they're getting involved. You'll never see a Clinton contingent at a Trump rally.",
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"content": "[or doing something as classless as this on their official campaign site and not apologizing for it](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fgo.berniesanders.com%2Fpage%2Fevent%2Fdetail%2Fdebatewatchpartiesoctober13%2F4vd94)",
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"content": "Congratulations, you found a troll event that the official campaign site shut down. \n\nDon't you ever feel like playing this kind of dirty politics is beneath you?",
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"content": "Like using a thread about Sanders and Trump to smear Clinton supporters?",
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"content": "I've not smeared anyone, Veggie, there is no need to exaggerate.",
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"content": "You just said we \"never\" see a Clinton contingent protesting. You have no proof of that, and it's therefore a smear. ",
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"content": "You said it doesn't exist. So prove it. I never insisted it existed. \n\n",
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"content": "No, it's an observation. ",
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"content": "A convenient one. \n\nAnd this type of protesting, while hilarious, is not productive. ",
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"content": "I think it's pretty damn productive. Trump supporters now know that they don't have a monopoly on violence and that Americans will not stand by and idly watch racist fascism rise to power in the US. ",
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"content": "Then get out and vote. \n\nWhat exactly did this protest accomplish besides preventing the rally? \n\nWhat ground have we gained? ",
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"content": ">Then get out and vote. \n\nI've voted Democratic in every available contest of at least the last ten years. The only difference this year is that I'm terribly ashamed of my party and it's behavior. \n\n>What exactly did this protest accomplish besides preventing the rally? \n\n\"Trump supporters now know that they don't have a monopoly on violence and that Americans will not stand by and idly watch racist fascism rise to power in the US.\" \n\n>What ground have we gained? \n\n\"Trump supporters now know that they don't have a monopoly on violence and that Americans will not stand by and idly watch racist fascism rise to power in the US.\"",
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"content": "What gives you the idea they know that? What proof can you provide of that? Nothing. \n\nAgain, you are making broad conclusions without a shred of evidence in an attempt to deflect from the fact that this protest accomplished ZERO except entertainment value. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "They know that because they were forced to face that reality. Trump has repeatedly called for violence in his campaign and at his rallies. Somehow Trump supporters got the idea that liberals and progressives were professional victims who would never stand up for themselves and could pose no threat to them or their movement. They're now forced to face reality. This also bodes well for Bernie's chances in Chicago and the rest of Illinois. ",
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"content": "How does this bode well for Bernie? \n\nYou like to jump to conclusions. This stuff does nothing for Bernie and nothing to stop Trump (except entertain us). ",
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"content": "We'll see. ",
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"content": "You just asserted that above now you are hedging? \n\nYou have to realize that most people in the country don't relate to this type of action. I understand it and did it twenty years ago,\n\nBur the most effective thing is organizing and bringing more people in. You don't need more young people sympathizing. ",
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"content": "Hedging? What are you on about? ",
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"content": "You said it \"bodes well\" then said \"we'll see\".\n\nThat's hedging. ",
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"content": "I'm trying to avoid dragging myself down to your level by discussing anything with you. So, we'll just have to wait and see. ",
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"content": "As long as you are retreating from your discredited assertion, we're good. ",
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"content": "I'm not. I'm just not going to waste my time discussing anything with *you*. ",
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"content": "Why is it that this kind of crap never happens with the Clinton campaign? Why is it that her digital campaign media manager doesn't have to ever come to reddit and apologize for and reign in the Bernie Bros? Why is it always the Sanders people always doing this over the top crap?",
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"content": "An event organized by one guy, and attended by 22 people, user generated content, hosted by Sanders support site, who do you expect to apologize? and to whom would they apologize, the American Council of Witches? ",
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"content": "I know some Pagans who would think that event name is hilarious. ",
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"content": "I seem to recall a very famous Clinton supporter announcing that there was \"a special place in hell for women who did not vote for her\". ",
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"content": "Aw, were your fweelings hurt? ",
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"content": "No. Were yours hurt by the event created by a teenage Bernie supporter? ",
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"content": "What event was that?\n\nThe one where they didn't show up at the polls when it mattered?\n\nOr the one where they harassed Liz Warren acting on a rumor that she didn't tow their line? \n\n\n",
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"content": "No, the one that convoy was whining about in this thread and everywhere else on this sub. ",
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"content": "Oh, you mean the event that didn't do anything. ",
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"content": "Pretty much. You're kind of walking into a conversation that occurred hours ago, has had comments deleted, and doesn't have anything to do with you. ",
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"content": "So you admit the protests did nothing?\n\nWell that's progress. ",
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"content": "No, I admit that you have no idea what you're talking about. Have a nice night. ",
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"content": "So some Sanders supporters come up with a funny but childish name for a political get together and he's somehow responsible for their actions? It's worth pointing out that you're posting an archive because that event was obviously removed from the site the instant it was noticed. I'm sure the silly name calling isn't bothering you, because name calling is what you do. ",
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"content": "Why is it that this kind of crap never happens with the Clinton campaign? Why is it that her digital campaign media manager doesn't have to ever come to reddit and apologize for and reign in the Bernie Bros? Why is it always the Sanders people always doing this over the top crap?",
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"content": "Man, I've been called names like ten times just today by HRC supporters on this subreddit. Don't give me that crap. ",
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"content": "I'm sorry, but you ever see this on her campaign website? Does anyone from her campaign ever have to come to reddit to chill things? Does Jack Trapper have to interview her about Clinton Bros?",
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"content": "They would never admit wrong doing on behalf of her supporters. Her campaign is guilty of plenty of shady behavior but they'll never own up to or apologize for any of it. Don't pretend like she and her supporters are on some moral high ground and can do no wrong. ",
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"content": "You still find a way to criticize Clinton supporters? \n\nYou have no idea who are these protesters were, and considering this did not go too well, it's not a standard you want to compare. \n\n",
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"content": "Not my fault that Clinton is a really unappealing candidate to the psychographic or demographic groups that are most prone to protesting Trump.",
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"content": "It is your fault that you just made that up. \n\nConsidering Clinton has gotten more votes than anyone else running. \n\nThe only demo where Sanders leads is 18-25 year olds. Most people in the country find Trump abhorrent. Including most conservatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "The dig at Clinton supporters is unnecessary. I'm a strong Sanders supporter in this primary, but [we need to be promoting unity when it comes to Trump](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-calls-for-unity-after-trump-violence-642732611921), not sowing divisions amongst ourselves.",
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"content": "It's not a dig, it's a call to action. They have just as much opportunity to step the fuck up as anyone else does.",
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"content": "We would rather step up at the polls. \n\nYou know, where it really matters. ",
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"content": "OK, that is better than I read it initially, but there's more than one way to step up, and if we'd like support for this way we need to ask nicely. I personally think non-violent disruption is a perfectly legitimate tactic when dealing with explicitly racist/xenophobic and implicitly violent speakers, but I can also understand that it's an escalation that will make some people uncomfortable and we've got to meet them where they're at if we're going to build effective coalitions. ",
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"content": "Seriously I don't think this is a good thing. Let Trump be the one providing chaos. He will pay the price. Joining in only makes democrats look bad. ",
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"content": "They bought tickets and held a non violent protest, police say that at no time did they ask trump to cancel.\n\ntrump tried to create a situation he could dramatize for his own cause, and ended up looking like a thug. Good result overall I would think.",
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"content": "Just like Trump claims he is not responsible for the violence we know he is. But if you go to a KKK rally and join in the crowd, you have to know it won't end well.\n\nTrump seems to be unstoppable. The more outrageous he gets, the better he does. But this violence inducing rallies will be the death of his presidential bid. Let him shoot himself. Stay out of the fray or you will play right into their hands.\n\nYes you have the right to protest and I encourage you to do it. But don't do it in a way that you aren't part of the problem",
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"content": "People have a right to dissent, they were holding up signs, not throwing punches.",
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"content": "Yes you have the right to protest and I encourage you to do it. But don't do it in a way that you end up part of the problem. Be smart about it and watch them self-destruct. I mean all of this was predictable.\n\n",
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"content": "I read this as self destruct, kids held up signs, trump threw all his toys of the crib, his supportors looked like thugs.\n\nNothing will detract support from his main following, but I think this coverage would distance his more moderate \"maybe\" supporters.\n\nLet's not forget, he chose a university as his venue, these people for the most part were students of that university.\n\nI dread the day when university students don't speak out against a guy like trump on their own campus. ",
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"content": "I agree with you. The point I am trying to drive home is not sink to their level doing it. Yes they were at fault. But all of this was predictable. Be smarter and they will suffer. Join in and it will just bring chaos.",
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"content": "Well if Sanders gets the nomination, I am sure the Republicans will be gracious enough not to use this CNN video from the event:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZ67cc7-d4",
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"content": "I'm amazed at how many Dems don't seem to grasp what a BFD this is. It's not something that can be wiped away with a tweet saying \"I misspoke and I'm sorry\". ",
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"content": "She's evolved since yesterday.",
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"content": "At this rate she'll be up to speed in 2046.",
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"content": "At which point she'll be making casual slurs against transhumanists.",
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"content": "you wipe it away with a cloth...",
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"content": "[Well instead of deleting this from the official campaign site, pretending it didn't happen and not apologizing, at least she did. Real classy stuff here if you are a teenager](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fgo.berniesanders.com%2Fpage%2Fevent%2Fdetail%2Fdebatewatchpartiesoctober13%2F4vd94)",
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"content": "> if you are a teenager\n\nWhich that poster was. This can't happen if the campaign doesn't allow individual initiative, which Clinton does not. \n\nConflating a candidate's lethal policy position with a volunteer's disrespectful whim *should* be beneath you.",
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"content": "Why is it that this kind of crap never happens with the Clinton campaign? Why is it that her digital campaign media manager doesn't have to ever come to reddit and apologize for and reign in the Bernie Bros? Why is it always the Sanders people always doing this over the top crap?",
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"content": "> Well instead of deleting this from the official campaign site, pretending it didn't happen and not apologizing, at least she did. Real classy stuff here if you are a teenager \n\nDIVERT! DIVERT! THESE ARE NOT THE DROIDS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!\n\n/u/michaelconfoy ... I hope that Clinton's campaign is paying you (and your alts) very well for spamming /r/Democrats and Reddit with your cherry-picked propaganda, inability to address specific thread topics, and lack of worthwhile discussion. Because if you're NOT getting paid ... you need help!\n\nAnd as /u/AngelaMotorman said, this was the work of a teenager.",
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"content": "Why is it that this kind of crap never happens with the Clinton campaign? Why is it that her digital campaign media manager doesn't have to ever come to reddit and apologize for and reign in the Bernie Bros? Why is it always the Sanders people always doing this over the top crap?",
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"content": "Concern troll say what?",
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"content": "I seem to recall a very famous Clinton supporter announcing that there is \"a special place in hell reserved for women who do not vote for her\". ",
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"content": "Larry Kramer wasn't going to support Hillary anyway. This just makes him look bad…suggesting what she said was an attack on gay people or the culture of LGBT is laughable. \n\nI'll just say this: I lived through Reagan's administration. And Nancy Reagan's stint as First Lady. \n\nAnd I've seen democrats WAY more pissed off by Clinton misspeaking than they **ever** were at the Reagans for their ignoring the entire AIDS epidemic in the 80s. Hell, they're more mad about Clinton saying one thing (that wasn't even offensive) than they are about Reagan destroying the middle class by busting unions and destroying worker's rights. \n\nThat's called hypersensitivity and it's laughable from where I'm sitting. \n\nNobody gave a fuck about AIDS patients in the 80s or Reagan's response to them (or lack thereof) until Clinton suggested that Nancy supported that cause. \n\nAnd if you're ignorant enough to be more angry (when you didn't give a shit about Reagan's mishandling/non-handling of the AIDS epidemic) then you're a fucking idiot. \n\nPeriod. And that describes most of the pseudo-anger from the left who really have been proven to be way too hypersensitive, exactly how many republicans describe liberals…\n\nWonder how many of the crocodile tears will still be around in a few days? Wonder how many of these stooges ever did *anything* to support LGBT rights and I can guaran-fuckingtee you that almost **none** of these assholes ever did anything to support the cause of AIDS or HIV, ever.",
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"content": "The 'My Chosen One IS The Chosen One - Your Chosen One is from the slime pits of Hell' is destroying Democrat, Liberal Progressives groups and friendships all over the place, on reddit, facebook and almost every groups site I'm aware of. \n\nIf this goes on we will self destruct before the GOP does.\n",
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"content": "I could not agree more.\n\nLet the republicans fight in the streets. Stop stooping to their level.",
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"content": "I'm sorry for my behavior. I know that I have defiantly been acting this way. I think it would be best if I took a break. ",
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"content": "No you have great things to say. Both sides do. We just have to do it without demeaning ourselves and sinking down to the level of Trump rallies.\n\nWe are better than this.",
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"content": "> We are better than this.\n\nI absolutely agree. But I have defiantly been acting very childishly and sinking down to name-calling. ",
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"content": "Sure, everyone has. That's why I made this post. We don't need to stop talking. We just need to start talking civil. \n\nThank you so much for understanding. I hope others will follow suit. ",
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"content": "Hey, I'm all for political discussion. I just think we could do with out the personal attacks and name calling. ",
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"content": "#Absolutely!",
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"content": "So this post that was deleted ...\n\n*This is more Hillary Clinton trying to be all things to all people. In this case, Clinton was trying begin her inevitable move rightward by appealing to Reagan fans who aren't happy with either Trump or Cruz.*\n\n*Sanders has previously stated that he would not run as an independent should Clinton win the party's nomination.*\n\n*I hope Bernie changes his mind.*\n\n... now violates these terms?\n",
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"content": "Yes. Encouraging people to leave the democratic party is no longer allowed here.\n\nIf you are not happy with democrats go elsewhere.",
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"content": "I can only hope that the same goes for comments calling on and threatening third party or GOP votes in the case of a Sanders nomination. ",
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"content": "Absolutely!",
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"content": "Thank you. As much as I disagree with with the opposition, I'm not willing to hand the oval office over to the right to prove a point. I'm not interested in shaming anyone into voting for someone they disagree with, but I refuse to be strong armed either. This is the democratic sub. We shouldn't be tanking the party's chances here. There are plenty of other subs if that's what someone chooses to do. ",
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"content": "Amen to that. I will support whatever candidate is nominated with all my abilities. The stakes are too high! And I certainly hope that the candidate that doesn't win has a major role to play in the other candidate''s administration.\n\nThe difference between democrats and republicans is we have two great candidates to offer. They have none. If we stick together we can achieve a lot. If we don't, they will win.",
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"content": "I agree, but I fear that HRC would offer no such consolations to Sanders if she receives the nomination. I feel like that would be a mistake on behalf of her campaign. Bernie has been a real motivation for millions of young voters and working Americans. We need him in our party and as part of our government. ",
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"content": "I doubt she will offer him the VP spot, but I think it would be a grave mistake not to offer him a key cabinet position. I agree we need him in our party. And the same thing goes if the outcome is the other way around.",
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"content": "There's little doubt that Clinton would be included in a Sanders administration. He's expressed his respect for her on more than one occasion. We just honestly disagree with her and we have the right and the responsibility to fight for our positions. ",
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"content": "I think Clinton will do the same. Kind of like what Obama did to her. I wish she would be more vocal about having these intentions though. These two need each other. There is no doubt.",
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"content": "Good for you, bokono. I will also lighten up, ",
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"content": "> If you are not happy with democrats go elsewhere.\n\nAs I said in another thread, being a Democrat is more than just sticking a goddamned \"D\" after the name.\n\nI'll see myself out.",
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"content": "I agree that the DNC has mistreated democrats this cycle, the way to fight that is not to turn the other cheek, you have as much of a right to this sub as anyone else, mods included, if they will not broach criticism of the party, than that party has no right to claim the title \"Democrats\", and this sub would have lost any reasonable right to claim the title also. keep speaking out, as the rest of us appreciate it.",
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"content": "I appreciate the sentiment, but ultimately it's /u/backpackwaye and company's sub and thus their rules. And Reddit, Inc. will absolutely back them up.\n\n(Nothing against the mods here. I've enjoyed the conversations I've had /u/backpackwayne and I haven't had any issues with the rest. I had a post linking to an article that was more than 30 days old removed. But that was my fault for not reading the rules.)\n\nThat said, if my removed post is going to be interpreted as *... Encouraging people to leave the democratic party ...*, __as if Bernie Sanders himself is here lurking on /r/Democrats__, then other pro-Sanders posts are certainly going to be removed.\n\n(If Sanders does leave the Democratic Party, I hope that my post here wasn't the only reason for it.)\n\nThe mods don't have an easy job maintaining civility right now. I definitely understand that. But allowing their own personal opinions and emotions affect how and who they moderate is sure-fire way to turn /r/Democrats into a dull echo chamber.",
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"content": "Civility is not the same as echo chamber.\n",
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"content": "There is a difference between personal attacks and stating \"here is my limit, if the party crosses it they've left me, I haven't left it\".\n\nIf they, the mods, chose to uphold this policy, I'm gone as well. I started a thread trying to state my reasoning. I hope it goes somewhere.",
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"content": "This will not be anywhere near as bad as you are making out to be. And by the way, we can talk about this to make it a little more clear. You have the ability to vent your frustration in a logical, civil manner. Something many people here could stand to learn from.",
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"content": "Sanders is a member of the Democratic party, beyond that is hypothetical.\n\n I see much of these arguments start with threads on the theme \"Why you should vote for X even if you support Y\", perhaps the more even route would be to ban threads that serve no other purpose than to try to guilt people to vote one way to avoid a trump presidency?\n\nThis is a very different thing to \"I support X because.. (list of merits)\"\n\nAnd frankly those threads always end with people at arms anyway.(more than we usually end up at arms.)",
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"content": "\"If you post things about leaving the democratic party, it will be removed.\"\n\nI strongly agree with your all of your points except this one, and I cannot disagree more. If the democratic party is going to lose votes over a particular issue/stance, I think that is information that is valid to relay. Politics isn't always a win/win, and by gaining some voters by advocating an issue, you will often lose others. I think knowing how much a particular issue or candidate will cost the party *is* information that is appropriate to be posted here.\n\nI think that an independent who has made their way to this party can legitimately state \"this is why I'm here, if this particular policy isn't a priority anymore then I will leave\". I think that a progressive has that same right, and I believe a centrist has that same right. Both parties are coalitions of varied interests by nature, if a party decision causes members of those coalitions to feel strongly enough that they'll walk from the party, imo that is valid and valuable to state. \n\nStifling dissent is not the same as maintaining decorum and civility.",
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"content": "Both the HRC and Sanders campaigns have a minority who has stated that they would not vote for the other. Either side would be completely wrong in doing so. I don't like HRC at all, but Bernie has been clear about this and allowing the GOP to win because of sour grapes would be a mistake. ",
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"content": "Then Bernie is allowed to cast his vote for Clinton. I think this sub is underestimating how many independents Bernie is bringing in with him, because of the primary issue he's raised. This sub is assuming everyone is loyal to the Democratic Party, and not the issue that the Democratic Primary has brought to the forefront. If these voters feel like those issues are only given lip service, they will walk - and I think they have a right to voice that opinion.\n\nAgain, there's a difference, in my opinion, between \"Clinton Sux, Bernie 4EVA!\" and \"Clinton is not reliable on these issues, which are the most important to me. She has changed her position multiple times, and I don't trust her to honor her commitments. I cannot, in good conscience, vote for her.\"\n\nIf I'm outranked/outvoted, so be it; but I will never support censoring civil and rationally stated political opinions that I happen to disagree with.",
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"content": "I agree that you have a right to your position and I wouldn't try to invalidate it, although I completely disagree. But, I can see why the moderator /u/backpackwayne doesn't want people campaigning against the DNC here. ",
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"content": "I believe this is where we see it differently, and respect your right to disagree.\n\nYou seem to view it as actively campaigning against the DNC. I view it as offering support (votes) if the DNC desires to support/renew their support of these economic positions. If they (the DNC) choose not to, that's their right, and these alienated voters will walk elsewhere.\n\nTo perhaps more easily illustrate my point in the extreme. If the DNC primary had a candidate running who advocated the nomination of USSC justices solely on the basis that they would overturn the recent Gay marriage ruling, I would fully expect the LGBT community to walk out, and voice their displeasure at such a candidate while warning that they would do so. The rest of the party could evaluate those potential consequences as a result of their input. Again, this is an obviously extreme example (not a direct comparison to HRC), but I believe it illustrates why I believe these voices of dissent have their place.",
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"content": "You're not wrong. I just don't want to see Trump in the oval office because progressives, liberals, and other like minded people couldn't get their shit together. ",
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"content": "Someday, when your opinion is in the minority, I hope your voice is not threated with censorship. \n",
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"content": "My opinion is almost always the minority. The rules of subreddits do not constitute censorship. ",
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"content": "cen·sor·ship\nˈsensərˌSHip/Submit\nnoun\nthe practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.\n\n\nRemoving someone's comment because you disagree with the idea is definitely suppressing it.",
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"content": "Except that reddit is a privately owned company. It's not official or part of the government. It could also be argued that forcing reddit to post your opinion is a violation of free speech. ",
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"content": "A moderator is an official. Never said illegal censorship or government censorship, just that I do not agree with censorship of political views within a political forum.",
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"content": "Bokono I agree with most everything you have written in this sub, but surely you agree that the point of a democratic process is the freedom to vote your conscience?\n\nWe all come to democrats for individual reasons, you and I both often speak in support of Sanders, but maybe not even then for exactly the same reasons. When you say \"A minority\", some polls suggest that number could be as high as 33% on Sanders side, and disagree or not, people have legitimate reasons for that.\n\nFor you, if I read this right, the number one logic is to keep Trump out of the white house, I agree a Trump presidency would be my greatest nightmare also, but for many others, the greatest issue is money in politics.\n\nI would not vote for Trump, but I could not in good conscience add my small part to legitimize the Clinton campaign by voting for her either.",
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"content": "I'm also saying these things in support of Bernie Sanders. I still believe that he will win the nomination. I will not give up on that until the last ballot is cast. But he's made his position very clear. We're in this to win it, for the American people and the Democratic party. Whatever happens, we cannot afford to allow that fascist the highest office in the country and the most powerful position in the world. ",
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"content": "Well I accept Bernie's position, as I do most all his positions, but he may only advise his support base, he does not vote for us. I imagine he would say as much himself.\n\nIn any event, it's all hypothetical, I responded to backpackwayne's comment suggesting that often the cause of these angry threads is when people post a submission like the one from yesterday,\"Even is you support X, you should suck it up and vote Y\" (paraphrasing).\n\nThese threads often bear the taste of a guilt trip, and can feel a little condescending, I suggested perhaps a moratorium on those submissions until the nominee process is decided, right now we are all democrats and better to be in the same tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in ;-)",
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"content": "I don't disagree. Maybe we should just avoid that kind of conversation altogether on this sub. ",
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"content": "Yep, there will be a time later, btw I have enjoyed many of your posts here.",
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"content": "Thanks. Yours too. ",
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"content": ">If you are going to vote for Trump if Hillary wins, fine. Go do it.\n\nDon't actually do it, though.",
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"content": "The voice of reason^",
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"content": "Thank you u/backpackwayne. I couldn't stand to see this disunion devolve further into perfunctory bitching and name-calling.\n\nWhat we really need to do is stop the in-fighting and look to our left. The protests in Chicago should have every democrat worried. Republicans just got a clear \"enemy\" to use to rally their supporters against. As a Bernie supporter, I was dissapointed Bernie didn't disavow the shit I saw. Hillary has received a lot of criticism for a response that was much more presidential. This is a huge problem for us in rhetoric, philosophy, and substance. The illiberal left, in all it's forms, needs to be addressed and swiftly. Intolerance, over-reliance on feelings, and antipathy towards facts were once just the hallmarks of the right, but now they have found a home among us. 15 years of Fox News spouting its propaganda hasn't just given us this horrid field of Republicans, its also stoked a response on the far left that mirrors the right in tactics and rhetoric. ",
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"content": "Exactly. To let ourselves be consumed by the insanity of the republican party is the worst thing we could do. Using their tactics makes just as insane. Please do not fall into the trap.",
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"content": "I think I will. ",
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"content": "I don't care who they supported, but I Blame the protesters... They just happen to be mostly Bernie supprters...\n\nI was torn between Cruz and Trump, this shit show is a definite strong point for Trump in my book...\n\n\"The far left don't vote, they protest\"...",
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"content": "Why are you in r/democrats? I mean if you're voting rep?",
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"content": "I'm neither but sub to both because I like to see other's perspective",
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"content": "An open minded individual? Explains why someone downvoted you.\n\nEDIT: Yes I did upvote you",
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"content": "I am as well and was open about it. Was banned from /r/conservative because of it, but still on board here. \n\nThe point is that I hate the question, \"If you aren't democrat, why are you here?\"\n\nTalk about living in a giant bubble. ",
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"content": "I subscribe to all political/religious ideologies for a more holistic information feed...\n\nI personally am an Athiest libertarian leaning fiscal conservative, with socially liberal views...\n\nBut I can't stand Bernie, or far left Millinials...",
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"content": "Isn't this just a Cruz dirty trick? ",
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"content": "I doubt it.... Cruz plays dirty (I admire it, but that's different) but he is smart... He knows this won't phase his supporters... ",
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"content": "[If that is true, then why did you post this?](https://np.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/4a497a/how_bernie_sanders_supporters_shut_down_a_donald/)",
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"content": "Yeah especially the part where he says \"use violence\" and then the protestors did. Oh wait neither of those happened",
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"content": "Well if Sanders gets the nomination, I am sure the Republicans will be gracious enough not to use this CNN video from the event:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZ67cc7-d4",
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"content": "You see Bernie Sanders in that crowd?, I didn't.",
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"content": "Sigh,...okay I've got 5 minutes.\n\n> \"Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, no other lawmaker – not Tom DeLay, not Nancy Pelosi – has passed more roll-call amendments (amendments that actually went to a vote on the floor) than Bernie Sanders. He accomplishes this on the one hand by being relentlessly active, and on the other by using his status as an Independent to form left-right coalitions.\"\n\nWant proof? sure no problem..\n\n114th Congress — 2015-2016 --- Running for president.\n\n113th Congress — 2013-2014\n\nVA reform bill expands health care facilities, allows veterans to go outside the VA system to private health care providers when wait times are too long or if a veteran lives more than 40 miles away from a VA facility, and makes it easier to fire VA officials. S.2450 (Veterans’ Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014) enacted as H.R.3230 (Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014)\nDirects the Secretary of the VA to increase, as of December 1, 2013, the rates of veterans’ disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date. S.893 (Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013)\nModify the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs or Secretary of the Army over interring the remains and honoring the memory of a person in a national cemetery. S.Amdt.2146 to S.1471 (Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for National Cemeteries Act)\n\n111th Congress — 2009-2010\n\nRequire the Comptroller General of the United States to report to Congress on financial assistance for child care available to deployed members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces. S.Amdt.1658 to S.1390 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010)\nIncrease funds for the school community garden pilot program by $2.5 million, with an offset. S.Amdt.2271 to H.R.2997 (Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010)\nMake available $20 million for veteran outreach and reintegration services under the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program from the from Overseas Contingency Operations budget. S.Amdt.2601 to H.R.3326 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010)\nRequire the non-partisan Government Accountability Office to conduct an independent audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that does not interfere with monetary policy, to let the American people know the names of the recipients of over $2 trillion in taxpayer assistance from the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes. S.Amdt.3738 to S.3217 (Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010)\nRequire recipients of TARP funding to meet strict H-1B worker hiring standard to ensure non-displacement of U.S. workers. S.Amdt.306 to H.R.1 (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009)\nRequire the Comptroller General of the United States to report to Congress on financial assistance for child care available to deployed members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces. S.Amdt.1658 to S.1390 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010)\nRequire the Administrator of the General Services to make publicly available the contractor integrity performance database established under the Clean Contracting Act of 2008. S.Amdt.4280 to H.R.4899 (Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010)\n",
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"content": "\n110th Congress — 2007-2008\n\nProvide $242 million for the weatherization assistance program. S.Amdt.737 to H.R.1591 (U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007)\nEstablish an energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program. S.Amdt.1515 to H.R.6 (Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007)\nRequire that not less than 30% of the hot water demand for certain new or substantially modified Federal buildings be met through the installation and use of solar hot water heaters. S.Amdt.1525 to H.R.6 (Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007)\nIncrease specially adapted housing benefits for disabled veterans. S.Amdt.4384 to H.R.3221 (Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008)\n108th Congress — 2003-2004\n\nIncrease funding for weatherization assistance grants by $15 million with offsets from other energy conservation activities. H.Amdt.255 to H.R.2691 (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004)\nProhibit the use of funds in the bill to implement any policy prohibiting the Directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new veterans within their respective networks. H.Amdt.336 to H.R.2861 (Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004) enacted as H.R.2673 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004)\n\n",
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"content": "105th Congress — 1997-1998\n\nCongress declares that Ngawang Choephel and other prisoners of conscience in Tibet, as well as in China, should be released immediately, and that the U.S. government should seek access for internationally recognized human rights groups to monitor human rights in Tibet. H.Amdt.174 to H.R.1757 (Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998)\nIncrease funding for the Meals on Wheels program by $5 million and reduce funding for the Food and Drug Administration by $5.5 million. H.Amdt.267 to H.R.2160 (Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998)\nAmendment increases funding for the National Guard Starbase program by $2 million. Funding for the increase would be offset by reducing funds comensurately from the NATO Joint Stars program. H.Amdt.289 to H.R.2266 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1998)\nProhibit funds for the U.S. Customs Office from being used to allow the importation into the U.S. any material mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor. H.Amdt.368 to H.R.2378 (Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1998)\nIncrease funding for the office of the U.S. Trade Representative by $1 million and reduce funding for general administrative expenses within the Department of Commerce commensurately. H.Amdt.388 to H.R.2267 (Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998)\nEncourage lower higher education costs by giving the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education — which administers a competitive grant program for higher education institutions — a broader mission and allow it to make competitive grants available to institutions that cooperate and reduce costs through the joint purchase of goods and services. H.Amdt.569 to H.R.6 (Higher Education Amendments of 1998)\nReduce the intelligence budget for fiscal year 1999 by 5% with an exemption for the CIA Retirement and Disability Fund. H.Amdt.614 to H.R.3694 (Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999)\nRequire the Comptroller General to report to Congress regarding the efficacy and benefits of uniformly limiting any commissions, fees, markups, or other costs incurred by customers in the acquisition of financial products. H.Amdt.626 to H.R.10 (Financial Services Act of 1998)\nIncrease funding for nutrition programs for senior citizens by $10 million. H.Amdt.706 to H.R.4101 (Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999)\nProhibit funding to be used to enter into or renew a contract with any company owned, or partially owned, by the People’s Republic of China or the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China. H.Amdt.708 to H.R.4103 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999)\n$2 million appropriated to the National Archives and Records Administration for the National Personnel Records Center for modernization of its records management system. H.Amdt.724 to H.R.4104 (Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999) enacted as H.R. 2490 (Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000)",
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"content": "104th Congress — 1995-1996\n\nRequire offenders who are convicted of fraud and other white collar crime to give appropriate notice to victims and other persons in cases where there are multiple victims eligible to receive restitution. H.Amdt. 98 to H.R. 665 (Victims of Justice Act of 1995)\nThe Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs should emphasize minimizing the burden on small businesses with 50 or fewer employees. H.Amdt. 210 to H.R. 830 (Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995)\nIncrease funding for the Court of Veterans Appeals by $1.4 million and reduce funding for Housing and Urban Development salaries and expenses by $1.4 million. H.Amdt. 1203 to H.R. 3666 Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997\nCongress consents to the Vermont-New Hampshire Interstate Public Water Supply Compact to erect and maintain joint public water supply facilities. H.J.Res.129 enacted as S.J.Res.38 (A joint resolution granting the consent of Congress to the Vermont-New Hampshire Interstate Public Water Supply Compact)\n\n102nd Congress — 1991-1992\n\nAuthorize grants or contracts to operate population-based, statewide cancer registries in order to collect certain data for each form of in-situ and invasive cancer except basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. Authorizes grants for planning the registries. Mandates a study on factors contributing to elevated rates of breast cancer mortality in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, directly or through grants and contracts, or both, to provide technical assistance to the States in the establishment and operation of statewide registries. H.R.4206 (Cancer Registries Amendment Act) enacted as S. 3312 (Cancer Registries Amendment Act).\n",
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"content": "But data: http://www.thelugarcenter.org/ourwork-Bipartisan-Index.html even worse than Ted Cruz in 2015!\n\nLifetime scores: http://www.thelugarcenter.org/ourwork-Bipartisan-Index.html Well let's see who is worse --\n\nRand Paul\n\nRon Johnson\n\nTed Cruz\n\nMike Lee\n\nTim Scott\n\nJim DeMint\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "One year out of a career of more than 40, the year in which he was running for president, this article maliciously interpreted the data of the study to suit a purpose, it takes pretty basic math to see that the man's career is not in any way accurately represented by one year in which he was busy running for president, but then you already know this.",
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"content": "Year before, 90 out 98 http://www.thelugarcenter.org/ourwork-Bipartisan-Index.html\n\nYear before that, 93 out of 98, http://www.thelugarcenter.org/ourwork-Bipartisan-Index.html#Twelfth\n\nYear before that, 91 out of 98, http://www.thelugarcenter.org/ourwork-Bipartisan-Index.html#Eleventh\n\n",
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"content": "So he didn't rename as many post offices as every one else? Is that a criticism? Lincoln Chaffee scored first on the list, maybe you should just write his name on the ballot?\n\nCorporate Crime Accountability (February 1995): A Sanders amendment to the Victims Justice Act of 1995 required “offenders who are convicted of fraud and other white-collar crimes to give notice to victims and other persons in cases where there are multiple victims eligible to receive restitution.”\n\nSaving Money, for Colleges and Taxpayers (April 1998): In an amendment to H.R. 6, the Higher Education Amendments of 1998, Sanders made a change to the law that allowed the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to make competitive grants available to colleges and universities that cooperated to reduce costs through joint purchases of goods and services.\n\nHolding IRS Accountable, Protecting Pensions (July 2002): Sanders' amendment to the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act of 2003 stopped the IRS from being able to use funds that “violate current pension age discrimination laws.” Although he faced stiff GOP opposition, his amendment still succeeded along a 308 to 121 vote.\n\nExpanding Free Health Care (November 2001): You wouldn't think Republicans would agree to an expansion of funds for community health centers, which provide some free services. But Sanders was able to win a $100 million increase in funding with an amendment.\n\nGetting Tough On Child Labor (July 2001): A Sanders amendment to the general appropriations bill prohibited the importation of goods made with child labor.\n\nIncreasing Funding for Heating for the Poor (September 2004): Sanders won a $22 million increase for the low-income home energy assistance program and related weatherization assistance program.\n\nFighting Corporate Welfare and Protecting Against Nuclear Disasters (June 2005): A Sanders amendment brought together a bipartisan coalition that outnumbered a bipartisan coalition on the other side to successfully prohibit the Export-Import Bank from providing loans for nuclear projects in China.\n\nGreening the U.S. Government (June 2007): A Sanders amendment made a change to the law so at least 30 percent of the hot water demand in newer federal buildings is provided through solar water heaters.\n\nProtecting Our Troops (October 2007): Sanders used an amendment to win $10 million for operation and maintenance of the Army National Guard, which had been stretched thin and overextended by the war in Iraq.\n\nRestricting the Bailout to Protect U.S. Workers (Feburary 2009): A Sanders amendment required the banking bailout to utilize stricter H-1B hiring standards to ensure bailout funds weren't used to displace American workers.\n\nHelping Veterans' Kids (July 2009): A Sanders amendment required the Comptroller General to put together comprehensive reporting on financial assistance for child care available to parents in the Armed Forces.\n\nExposing Corruption in the Military-Industrial Complex (November 2012): A Sanders amendment required “public availability of the database of senior Department officials seeking employment with defense contractors” – an important step toward transparency that revealed the corruption of the revolving door in action.\n\nSupport for Treating Autism in Military Health Care: Sanders worked with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to pass an amendment by a vote of 66-29 ensuring that the military's TRICARE system would be able to treat autism.\n\n",
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"content": "you sir are an animal!!! keep up administering the truth serum",
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"content": "hillary clinton, the most bought person running.\n\nhttps://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&cycle=Career",
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"content": "Some intern just lost Twitter privileges. ",
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"content": "It's not like she just forgot, either. She deliberately lied to the public about the fact they were working together, expecting that her supporters wouldn't bother to look into it.",
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"content": "which members of congress were not in the picture? that's a more important question. vote for the new-new deal not a neo-neo con",
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"content": "another clinton supporter is a liar. it leads from the top.\n\nhttps://theintercept.com/2016/01/16/in-1993-meeting-hillary-clinton-acknowledged-convincing-case-for-single-payer/\n\na vote for hillary=trump in the whitehouse\n\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/12/sanders-accepts-challenge-kill-tpp-if-elected-nothing-clinton-so-far",
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"content": "oh shit. it's vega",
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"content": "hahahahaha. you do know that i am a lifelong democrat. my favorite of all times was patrick moynihan who wouldn't take lobbyists money. gave to my ability to obama in 08 and 12. had \"lick bush 88'\" painted on my volvo during bush1 and earned the name c-span for advocating our party in amongst friends. this is why i am so adamantly opposed to hillary btw. HRC2016DWS must end for the good of our nation.",
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"content": "No, the GOP needs to be stopped first. Then we can reform the party. \n\nThrowing a tantrum and therefore the election only hurts the very policies you supposedly support. Same thing happened in 2000, which you should remember then. \n\nVote with your heart in the primaries and then with your head in the election. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "i will be active in my local elections, but unfortunately third way democrats reek of the red stench of the rethuglican party. too much inside baseball and \"sold to the highest bidder\" going on for my stomach. i cannot vote for hillary, i realize that you think this is ill conceived, but i have to vote my principles, period. from a dyed in blue progressive true democrat. there used to be a wing of the republicans, dd eisenhower, teddy roosevelt, and lincoln who also embody my progressive values, but i long for FDR, JFK, jimmy carter, BHO (at his truth), and Truman. i am so sick and tired of accepting second rate shit, when the real deal is running for potus right now.",
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"content": "> i cannot vote for hillary, i realize that you think this is ill conceived, but i have to vote my principles, period. \n\n**PREACH**",
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"content": "i really feel bad about it too.",
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"content": "Disgusting. ",
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"content": "Me too. But I'm tired of accepting third way Democrats because the GOP have told us that's all we can get. I'll destroy this town to save it. ",
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"content": "yes. writing and pushing. so dumb, this is why so many bern supporters will not support hillary in the general should she get nominated. because outright lies are championed by her and her supporters. have a great day.",
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"content": "nope. i employ 40 people, am a firefighter/paramedic, and actively bring about positive change in the world on a daily basis. i am not the problem, corruption in politics is. i am part of the solution, not the problem and will not turn my vision from the truth as i see it.",
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"content": "hillary has caused the death of more people than anyone running for president. actually i effect positive change in the world, and it is because i am driven by a sincere desire to be of service, the purest method of service in this cycle is not to play a losing hand. you have attacked me personally and your words are hurtful. do you have borderline personality disorder? your outbursts are inappropriate.",
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"content": "i care deeply, i too am donating, and talking up our party. have a good day!",
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"content": "yes, interesting timing, after hillary took a boatload of cash from an old NRA lobbyist. welcome to the establishment where principles don't matter.",
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"content": "http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/12/sanders-accepts-challenge-kill-tpp-if-elected-nothing-clinton-so-far",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "don't see anything here",
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"content": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "What name did he call Hillary? ",
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"content": "http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/12/sanders-accepts-challenge-kill-tpp-if-elected-nothing-clinton-so-far",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "don't see anything here",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4a5wk7/nra_praises_bernie_sanders_for_stance_on_not/d0xoto9\n\nYour language towards women is disgusting. You call yourself a progressive and a democrat and then turn around and make comments like this? Comments like these come from Trump supporters. You're not a democrat. You're not even a progressive. Liberals don't call women names like that. So stop the charade. ",
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"content": "Annnnnnnd reported. ",
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"content": ">I thought it was because many Sanders supporters are evil and don't actually care about people or the country.\n\nWow, way to try to win is over. \n\n>I'm voting my ego.\n\nEgo, conscience, tomato, tomato ",
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"content": "According to Clinton at the time, he was part of the team. She's only saying this now because she knows her supporters won't bother to verify if it's true or not.\n\nI wonder what gave her the impression you guys are so bad sourcing basic information.",
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"content": "Proof she valued his commitment at the time. Proof it was more than just a \"photo op\". Proof she knew he was working with her. Proof she thinks so little of your capacity to discover the truth that she'll blatantly lie to you and the rest of the public.",
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"content": "You're clearly missing the point, which apparently flew right over your head. He supported her. She claimed he didn't. Your girl's a liar and she thinks you're a sucker. Deal with it.",
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"content": "> And not proof that he voted for it or simply showed up but that he was a major player.\n\nThis wasn't Clinton's claim when she lied to you. She said she had no idea where Sanders was when she was \"fighting for healthcare\". She didn't say \"Oh he was there but he wasn't a major player.\" She said he wasn't there. Which was a lie. To you. Because she thinks you're stupid.\n\n",
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"content": "\nSo you're backpedaling even further. First it was \"he wasn't there\". Then it was \"he wasn't a major player\". Now it's \"he was there, and he supported it, but did he *fight*?\"\n\nWhat a joke.\n\n[As a matter of fact, Clinton praised Sanders for being part of the \"leadership\" involved in the fight for healthcare.](http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4536221/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-1993) In that \"photo op\" you mentioned earlier, there are two other people on the stage with Clinton. Just two. One of them is Sanders.\n\nYou're clutching at straws.\n\n> So you engage in personal attacks. \n\nI haven't attacked anyone. I repeated the objective fact that Clinton lied about something we can prove, and pointed out that she must think you're stupid. *I* didn't call you stupid. You shouldn't be upset with me. Be upset with Clinton for taking your for granted.",
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"content": "A freshman in Congress couldn't be a major player. And moreover, this wasn't his vision. He has wanted single payer. ",
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"content": "I wonder how much the Republican Super Pacs had to pay this right-wing rag to publish this?",
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"content": "Haha bern!",
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"content": "Sanders can't win the primary, so he can't win the general. \n\nIf that's \"electable\" I'd hate to see unelectable. ",
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"content": "Actually Sanders polls much better with independents (about 40%) of the country, and people disenfranchised with the republican party, add that to his support base in the democratic party and you have higher numbers than Hillary or Trump, in an actual presidential run.",
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"content": "Sanders polls better with independents because they don't know what he stands for. Very, very few people over the age of 40 (i.e. People who vote) are going to vote for a dude with communist sympathies, I promise. \n\nArguing that a dude who can't get the majority of votes within his own party would somehow get a majority of the total votes is so silly. ",
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"content": "It's against this subs rules to point out that Sanders is sympathetic to communists? He said so himself at the Florida debate.\n\nI didn't say he is a communist, just that he has communist sympathies. \n\nAnd anyway, maybe supporters can carefully parse the difference, but most people wouldn't bother, and we're talking strictly about electability here, not ideology. \n\nI don't think younger people actually understand how people feel about the Cold War or fully grasp why it matters.",
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"content": "Like I said, if there's a point in there somewhere, back it up, so far you've just offer opinion in now way supported by the stats.",
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"content": "more opinions, no facts, have fun buddy, I'm out.",
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"content": "About what I expect. When confronted with political reality, Sanders supporters run away and post some memes instead of entering into a discussion. ",
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"content": "What discussion?, you gave your personal opinion with no numbers to back it up, you think reality is whatever you pronounce it to be?, how ridiculously arrogant, I provided a sound argument to support the piece I posted, 70% of voters are not democrats, therefore the voting pool outside the democratic party is three times that within the party(including democrats).\n\nSanders has about 40-45% of democrat voters, and polls much better with independents and disenfranchised republicans(of which there are many right now)\n\nSanders v Trump RCP poll averages:\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html\n\nClinton V Trump RCP poll averages:\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html\n\nTherefore, Sanders is more electable in a presidential election.\n\nSee? an argument supported by statistics vs. one guy's opinions about \"Commie sympathizers\" and the \"cold-war\", grow up dude.\n\nI won't be responding to any more of this childish crap.\n\n\n",
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"content": "Why would I want it to work? College should be free for people who can't afford it, not for people who can. I want a progressive plan, not regressive taxation to pay for bad ideas. ",
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"content": "If a rich person pays enough in taxes for 25 kids to go to public college, why shouldn't they be able to send their kid for free as well?\n\nThe point is moot though - hyper rich kids go to private universities anyway.",
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"content": "Because they can afford it. ",
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"content": "You're not getting it. They're the ones paying most heavily into the system.\n\nHere's an hypothetical: Say you've got (1) a freeway that everyone in society pays a portion of their taxes to help build. Rich people pay more to build those roads than anyone else, but everyone gets to use the roads for the same price (free). (2) Now instead, let's say that there's a freeway that has a toll on it, but again, everyone chips in via taxes to build it (and everyone pays the same amount for the toll). Low income individuals get a break in paying for the toll because they don't have enough money to pay for tolling no matter what. Finally, (3) imagine a third situation, wherein there is a freeway, but it doesn't need tolls because additional taxes have been levied on the richest citizens to cover additional costs - but, we still make the wealthiest people pay the tolls, in essence raising their taxes twice (for three total tax hits) when everyone else pays just once.\n\n- The first situation is an example of what I'm describing - the potential future system under Bernie. Everyone has paid for the roads, and everyone gets equal use of them.\n\n- The second situation is akin to what we have in place today. Everyone pays some amount to subsidize public universities, and everyone (other than the lowest income earners) has to also chip in to cover some of the tuition costs.\n\n- The third scenario is what you're describing. Here, despite already having paid more than the normal amount so that the road doesn't need tolls, you're saying they should pay yet again. But this shouldn't happen, because the wealthy people here have already paid a heightened tax for access to the roads, thus funding is provided for in full.",
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"content": "Inapplicable analogy. The salient difference is you're imagining tolls that pay for a highway, when you should be thinking about tolls that pay for tolls. ",
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"content": "The tolls pay for access. Feel free to explain the difference that you're seeing.",
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"content": "A toll covers the cost of a highway. Schools cover the costs of schools. Schools are a business - they are a going concern, even public schools. Furthermore, the whole point of a public subsidy is to *expand access* - should the wealthy get food stamps, medicaid, discounts on certain costs and preferential buying power when selling products made by the blind? ",
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"content": "Ethically I have no issue with making it free for everyone. I'm not sure why Clinton and her supporters see it as such a bad thing. If I'm 18 and my parents are wealthy, under Clinton's plan I might not be able to go to college if I don't kiss my parents' asses. Free college for everyone gives young people their independence back - I, for one, think it's better when legal adults don't have to rely on their parents financially. ",
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"content": "Great point, legally you are an adult, so why not be extended the respect due an adult?, education is a right, not a privilege.",
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"content": "If what you're referring to are wealthy people, most of them likely aren't going to want to attend public colleges anyway, which are the only schools Bernie's proposal applies to.",
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"content": "Do you feel same way about public schools? Should Warren Buffett have paid for his kids to attend public school? ",
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"content": "No, K-12 education is a right. Secondary education is not. ",
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"content": "In today's economy a college education should be a right. Times have changed.",
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"content": "People a lot of people get by on trade school educations and by just working their way through and up a company. There are many people working a job or two and living decently by having more income than expenses. \n\nPeople who think a college degree should go to everyone will cause a job problem. Already since college attendance has gone up we have a market that is being flooded by bachelor degrees and many majors and college graduates NOW are taking months to find a job in their field after completing college. \n\nIt's rough now for people with majors how bad do you expect to be if we have 100,000 engineering majors competing for barely 2,000-5,000 jobs? ",
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"content": "A lot of people do, yes, but many more cannot support their families and have no way of affording higher education. It really is the equivalent of a diploma not all that long ago.",
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"content": "Then you make college more affordable by lowering tuition or giving more federal grants and college scholarships. Not just say fuck it and make everything free. \n\nThat would be a fucking insult to me personally considering I put 6,200 of my own money into paying my way last semester alone. ",
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"content": "To be honest I really don't care if you'd be mad that others get a better opportunity than you, the goal should be to improve our country and the lives of others, and it isn't free it's paid by taxes, an actual good use for them.",
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"content": "So raise taxes? The thing that people are always against? I seriously hope Bernie loses this race, so I can stop reading this kind of nonsense on Reddit. ",
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"content": "You're entitled to your opinion, but taxes aren't always a bad thing I would gladly pay an extra couple percent so my kids and other less fortunate kids can advance their lives. It really is an investment as a nation.",
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"content": "You say that while there are many people who are opposed to taxes and think they are high enough. I think the issue is how current tax money is spent not take even more money out of people paychecks. ",
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"content": "People can be opposed, I think there are more of us who want these programs and would like our tax money to go to other things than the military, we will know how the country feels in November. I do think it's odd that you're arguing for tax cuts and weaker social programs in the Democrat subreddit, seems like you may be happier with a Republican platform.",
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"content": "> People who think a college degree should go to everyone will cause a job problem.\n\nWe've already got a job problem. There are no real blue-collar jobs in our country. In 20 years, technological unemployment will mean there will be even fewer. For America to remain competitive, we're going to have to start creating white collar jobs, and that means preparing workers with higher education.",
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"content": "Then we should include trade school when discussing what the government will pay for.",
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"content": "Then you can stop pretending to be a progressive and stop calling us regressives, because progressives want to make it a right.",
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"content": "New employment taxes that apply across the spectrum of earners are regressive by definition. ",
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"content": "\"...Sanders is proposing a tax on Wall Street trading of stocks and bonds.\"\n\nWhere do you get the information about this being an employment tax?",
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"content": "His healthcare proposal. ",
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"content": "So nothing at all to do with free tuition. A progressive initiative, paid for by taxing stock trades at a fraction of a percent. So to be clear, you're recanting your assertion that it is regressive?\n\nNow, as per his healthcare plan, the tax rates are progressive (as in literally) just like all other tax plans. Are you saying other tax plans are also regressive? Are you saying *all* taxation is regressive? (I think some is, like a sales tax, but that's because it's a flat tax.)\n\nAnd what do you have to say to the fact that despite the fact taxes will go up across the board, the savings in healthcare more than makes up for it? Or to the fact that healthcare spending disproportionately *benefits* the poor?",
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"content": "No source, but this is most likely the same report that has been blasted out of the water as being completely wrong based on productivity assumptions that are unattainable. Note this article points to nothing. No report, no author, nothing, yet all these upvotes for vapor. Just like Sanders' proposals. Vapor.",
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"content": "http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/73719726ffadd0cd22d52981724e90f5/publication/698/",
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"content": "Ah, a new one. Give us some time to shred it too.",
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"content": "So you're confirmation bias is at work before you even see the content? \n\nI understand it's probably working on both sides but it doesn't make you any less of the problem.",
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"content": "You mean give right wing think tanks an opportunity to apply unproven rightist economics principles, so you can start spamming them in this sub?",
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"content": "> ...blasted out of the water as being completely wrong based on productivity assumptions that are unattainable. \n\nAre you referring to the arguments being made by right-wing think tanks which assert that the increased taxation necessary to implement the plan would result in decreased productivity?\n\nAre you aware that progressives don't accept the presuppositions of trickle-down economics? You're aware this is basically the opposite of everything our side is fighting for? That argument requires an audience sympathetic to concepts that haven't met their burden of proof, and you're not likely to find that here. Frankly I'm surprised to find you espousing such right-wing nonsense.",
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"content": "You may have missed this from u/backpackwayne earlier, I suggest you think before speaking in future.\n\n> \"I awoke this morning to a slew of name-calling and downright childish behavior. I am getting tired of being a baby-sitter instead of a moderator.\n\n\n> I have spent this last couple months trying to bring civility back to this subreddit. I understand that you are passionate about your candidate. But that is no excuse to behave like 10 year olds.\n\n\n> My entire approach up to now, is to allow debate with as little mod intervention as possible. As long as it remains civil.\n\n\n> But this morning all I read is your are stupid, you are a liar, basically you are a poo poo face. It is ridiculous.\n\n\n> Rather than sift through this school yard brawl, I just removed it all. Seriously, I am tired of being a baby sitter. It's time to grow up and talk like adults.\n\n\n> If you want to incite rage, smears and and even violence, you are not welcome here anymore. If you want to post about Hillary's emails. I'm sorry we have heard enough. We'll wait for the FBI report and see what they have to say. If you want to accuse Bernie Sanders of being a racist or a commie, just stop. We all know this isn't true. If you are going to vote for Trump if Hillary wins, fine. Go do it. But you are no longer welcome to spread that vitriol here. If you post things about leaving the democratic party, it will be removed. Just leave already.\n\n\n> You are all doing the republican's job for them. If you want to continue to do this, go ahead. But do it elsewhere.\n\n\n> We as democrats need to unite. Leave the the dividing to the republicans. They most certainly will pay unless we allow them to divide us too.\"",
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"content": "Yeah, I don't play nice with misogynists. If you do, that's on your conscience. I understand Bernie needs all the \"Bern the witch\" and \"Black men for Bernie\" hate groups he can get, but having people like that in my party and turning this sub into yet another anti-Clinton echo chamber doesn't sit well with me. ",
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"content": "you know very well that these stories are trolls, if you want to name call go hang out at r/politics .",
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"content": "/u/cspan1 would like a word with you. ",
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"content": "Articles sources are Tweets from people making unbacked claims and one to a Buzzfeed article which itself has no sources, scraping the barrel it seems.",
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"content": "So you are challenging what \"Evan McMorris-Santoro is the White House correspondent for BuzzFeed News\" is writing? Unlike the Salon clowns, he has his email address. Why don't you email him and post the response here as a self-post? Nope you'll just dv this because you know you just get more proof to what he is saying. \n\nI see there is a link to a Washington Times article there. Since you post from that right-wing rag, unlike me, why don't you post that one too?\n\nHere is some Bernie fan twitters that the black vote image is own from a google search. The first one also had this cute image:\n\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdXTFKoUkAAY7Cd.jpg \n\nGreat stuff from a berniebros, right? Here is the account: https://twitter.com/scalaiss\n\nPosted here: http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Steven%20Payne\n\nNeed more?\n\n",
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"content": "You can't verify a single piece of this as coming from a Sanders supporter, as such it is a cheap attempt at mud slinging, one in a long list that you have tried that never seem to stick.\n\n",
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"content": "Gave you one twitter link, follow his postings. Google search on the graphics. You can make new Bernie Bro friends that way.",
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"content": "You may want to drop the \"Bernie Bro\" /sexism/racism/communism thing if you intend to continue posting here.\n\n> I awoke this morning to a slew of **name-calling** and downright childish behavior. I am getting tired of being a baby-sitter instead of a moderator.\n\n> I have spent this last couple months trying to bring civility back to this subreddit. I understand that you are passionate about your candidate. But that is no excuse to behave like 10 year olds.\n\n> My entire approach up to now, is to allow debate with as little mod intervention as possible. As long as it remains civil.\n\n> But this morning all I read is your are stupid, you are a liar, basically you are a poo poo face. It is ridiculous.\n\n> Rather than sift through this school yard brawl, I just removed it all. Seriously, I am tired of being a baby sitter. It's time to grow up and talk like adults.\n\n> If you want to incite rage, smears and and even violence, you are not welcome here anymore. If you want to post about Hillary's emails. I'm sorry we have heard enough. We'll wait for the FBI report and see what they have to say. **If you want to accuse Bernie Sanders of being a racist or a commie, just stop**. **We all know this isn't true**. If you are going to vote for Trump if Hillary wins, fine. Go do it. But you are no longer welcome to spread that vitriol here. If you post things about leaving the democratic party, it will be removed. Just leave already.\nYou are all doing the republican's job for them. If you want to continue to do this, go ahead. But do it elsewhere.\n\n> We as democrats need to unite. Leave the the dividing to the republicans. They most certainly will pay unless we allow them to divide us too.",
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"content": "Maybe Bernie supporters should denounce things like \"Bern the witch\" and \"Black Men for Bernie\" groups who call women derogatory names and tell black men to \"stop making it rain\". These people are calling themselves democrats and threatening to vote for Trump. These people are not democrats and ought to be banned from this subreddit. ",
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"content": "provide me one shred of proof that those groups exist?",
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"content": "You're able to use a search engine, right?",
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"content": "I'm done here, enjoy spreading the hate.",
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"content": "Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. Here. I did your homework for you. \n\nnp.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/4a17kn/rsandersforpresident_upvotes_a_link_to_black_men/",
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"content": "Well a sub with 208k subscribers upvote to support a link often without reading the site, we boost many sites/links every few hours.\n\n A few thousand upvotes is a pretty small percentage, if you actually care to find out how the community felt about the content of the site, take five minutes to read the top comments posted, or stay uninformed and angry, your choice.\n\nEDIT: note the poster was banned, as were several commenters from r/thedonald, maybe direct some of the vitriol over at them.",
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"content": "Just like Trump.",
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"content": "What exactly are you trying to imply?",
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"content": "He can't say, new rules. we get it.yawn.",
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"content": "That Bernie is best positioned to take would-be Republican voters in the general and is the more electable candidate, clearly.",
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"content": "> and is the more electable candidate, clearly.\n\nIf Bernie Sanders was the more electable candidate, he would be winning all the Democratic primaries. He's not.\n\nHillary Clinton has won the most primary votes this year, beating every Republican and Democrat. Trump has the second-most votes. Cruz the third-most votes. Bernie Sanders is in fourth place.\n\nSo how is someone in fourth place \"more electable\"? That's just wishful thinking, because we all know head-to-head polls in the middle of primary season are worthless:\n\nhttp://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11158110/bernie-sanders-electability-clinton",
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"content": "Sanders is winning independents, working class would-be Trump voters, and young people. Hillary is winning Democratic loyalists who will vote for a Democrat in the general election.\n\nUnfortunately the timidity among the Democratic establishment hurts Bernie.",
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"content": "I am implying nothing. It is what it is. It reminds me of a clash of two parties for the same group in the early 1930s in Europe though. Hope it turns out the opposite here on the winner.",
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"content": "by people pinched by the economy",
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"content": "Agreed, the article focused too much on the one demo, but it had some good info so I posted.",
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"content": "thank you my friend",
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"content": "I thought I just read this article about Trump",
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"content": "I'd show up at a Bernie event to stand against Trump supporters. ",
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"content": "At least bernie will get some news time from this",
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"content": "And probably come off as a good guy because his reaction won't be beat them up. Also if he thinks Bernie is sending people over personally on his orders he is a narcissist who can't see why people don't like him.",
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"content": "Trump acting like a 5 year old child again. I don't want a mentally 5 year old leader.",
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"content": "That's tantamount to an incitement to violence. That should be criminally prosecutable. If anything happens to any attendee of any Bernie rally subsequent to this, Drumpf should be arrested and charged with complicity. It's a fucking disgrace. And America thinks its a civilised country! Ridiculous",
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"content": "They just need to do one of those rope mazes like they do at movie theaters. That will hold off the Trumpers for hours. /s",
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"content": "This really worries me. Some Trump supporters verge on the fanatic and many have guns. ",
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"content": "Most probably have guns and concealed carry permits.",
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"content": "No real Sanders supporter would ever actually vote for Trump. I've even asked a few of these people and most of them either take it back, or they were never sanders supporters to begin with... Surprise surprise, they were trump supporters trolling the sanders supporters.",
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"content": "Of all the scary inciting shit he's said, this scares me the most. Are we going to have physical clashes at political rallies now? What's going to happen on Election Day? Christ. ",
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"content": "sned em on over 5 deferment Don, Im sure we'll convert some of them to the light side of the force ",
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"content": "Blame is the cornerstone of Trump's campaign: blame Hispanics, blame immigrants, blame Muslims, blame Asians, blame Obama, blame Democrats, blame liberals, blame Bernie Sanders, blame Hillary Clinton, blame women...\n\n#FeelTheBlame",
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"content": "Like any other wannabe Hitler ... Trump blames a socialist Jew.",
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"content": "That's good.",
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"content": "Well, he just offered to pay the legal fees for the man who assaulted a peaceful protestor so he's completed the circle: ask supporters to carry out violent acts, reward them by paying their fees and trying to make them into heroes for his campaign. \n\nHow can anyone else be blamed whenever he is asking them to carry out violent acts and then rewarding them afterward? 100% blame on Trump, 99% of the blame on his supporters, who are certainly too stupid to realize how dumb they are.",
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"content": "Call me old-fashioned but I believe that the person who commits the act is responsible for it.\n\nSure, trump incited it, and that's wrong. I'm not denying that, but are we really so retarded that a guy standing up and talking can make us go out and do something illegal, immoral or dangerous?",
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"content": "Unfortunately yes. Some of the people out there are that retarded.",
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"content": "So who's responsible for the holocaust in your opinion? ",
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"content": "That's actually pretty well established under international law.\n\nEveryone from hitler on down to the bus boys.\n\nThe people who gave orders that were wrong shouldn't have given the wrong orders.\n\nThe people who were given the wrong orders shouldn't have followed them.\n\nBoth actions were war crimes, and that has been well established.",
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"content": "Actually, incitement is a thing that can be called a cause. ",
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"content": "Incitement is not a criminal defense though. Incitement of others to commit a crime is in and of itself a crime, but the person who committed a crime doesn't get to go free because they were incited. They still did the deed.",
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"content": "Who ever said they should go free? ",
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"content": "No one buys it....",
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"content": "Yet we're supposed to buy Bernie Sanders' flip flops.\n\nhttp://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/sanders-fights-off-flip-flop-charges-218211\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/17/hillary-clinton/fact-checking-gun-manufacturer-liability-bernie/\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/19/bernie-sanderss-flip-flop-on-the-democratic-party-and-what-it-says/",
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"content": "Gun mf'er liability and his affiliation with dems.... pretty damning stuff you got there.",
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"content": "Wow so it's no longer the \"gold standard\" now that people are checking her longtime pro-corporate, pro-TPP, pro-NAFTA record?",
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"content": "> pro-corporate, pro-TPP, pro-NAFTA\n\nThere is nothing wrong with any of that. The only thing wrong with TPP is that it didn't enough environmental protections. \n\n",
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"content": "Or labor protections... or democratic overrides... or Internet protections... etc.",
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"content": "> or democratic overrides..\n\nThe fast track authority is separate from the deal.",
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"content": "She should stick with that viewpoint going into Ohio - it'll be as good as it was for her in Michigan.",
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"content": "Well, she won about the same amount of delegates in Michigan. ",
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"content": "Oh, so you're going to gloss over the fact that she was supposed to have a decisive victory in Michigan? Quite a bit of difference between that & getting *almost as many* delegates.",
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"content": "Yes I'm gonna gloss over that because I'm focusing on delegate math.\n\n>Quite a bit of difference between that & getting almost as many delegates.\n\nBernie got 67 delegates from MI, Hillary got 60 delegates. Don't forget how close it was and how proportional allocation works. \n ",
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"content": "The \"delegate math\" going into Michigan had her increasing her lead. Then she defended NAFTA and the TPP in a state that lost a lot of jobs after NAFTA. So how is that delegate math going to work if her and her supporters keep defending these pipelines to send jobs overseas?\n",
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"content": "> Then she defended NAFTA and the TPP in a state that lost a lot of jobs after NAFTA. So how is that delegate math going to work if her and her supporters keep defending these pipelines to send jobs overseas?\n\nShe did very well. Sanders only one seven more delegates than Clinton in MI",
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"content": "Too bad about that whole 22nd amendment :/",
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"content": "An article suggesting the 22nd amendment be removed to allow a president an indefinite number of terms? They already do that in some countries, no thanks.",
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"content": "Not necessarily an indefinite amount of terms. But at least make it lawful to go more than two 4-year terms. If the people are engaged in the process and want to keep a successful administration then they should be allowed to do it.\n\nObviously this wasn't something of huge importance to the Founding Fathers as it was ratified in 1951.\n\nI've always thought with increasing lifespans the Amendment should be replaced rather then repealed outright. Something like \"limit of three *consecutive* terms and no more than 18 years total whether it be elected or succeeded, no exemptions.\"",
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"content": "They might get GW Bu$h back !",
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"content": "Hell they could get HW Bush back.",
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"content": "No thanks. I liked Candidate 2008 Obama, but that's not what we got. I guess I should have did a little more digging. I thought I was getting the next FDR. I had no idea one of his heroes was Ronald Reagan. \n\nHAVING to vote for him in 2012 was a bitter pill to swallow. By that time it was clear that he was indeed owned by his corporate sponsors. I'm not impressed with him as a President. \n\n",
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"content": "*snort*",
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"content": "Snort all you want. I don't like Mr. Citibank/Goldman Sachs. He is proof that all those donations, do buy a President. I think half the reason why Dems can never call Obama out on his policies is that \"he is the first black President\". Lord, he would look so bad if Bernie is the next President. \n\nBernie, getting the Universal Healthcare that Candidate Obama Promised. After President Obama worked with Republicans and Insurance Companies for Dole/Romney/Obamacare. Wow... that will be one for the History Books.\n\nNot holding Wall Street accountable even after the bailout. History will not judge as favorably as the current Dems do.",
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"content": "Wait you think Bernie will get anything done? All republicans have to say is socialism and the american public will be against it. I don't even think he can be elected president.\n\nI was always under the impression that Obamacare will eventually be turned into a single payer system.",
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"content": "Bernie seems to be doing pretty good for a near media black-out and when his name is mentioned it is only saying how he can't win. I guess we will see on that one. \n\nThere are these things called executive orders. I am pretty sure that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders would be using them to get radical things done, who ever wins.\n\nWhy on Earth would you think that a sweet-heart deal for the Insurance companies would ever be turned in to a single payer system? It is about as opposite of a single payer system as anything can get. \n\nSingle payer is typically Government sponsored. Dole/Romney/Obamacare is totally still a corporate for profit system with private health insurance groups. They will never want to give up their billions. That's why after Obamacare passed health insurance stocks exploded and have been 4x's higher than any other stock group in general. It's not a coincidence. It was a great deal for health insurance.",
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"content": "> a near media black-out\n\nThat blackout has been horrible. \"Bernie Sanders\" garners only 70 million hits on Google's newsfeed:\n\nhttps://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=sanders&oq=sanders&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0l9j43i53.2986.3944.0.4440.7.6.0.1.1.0.160.702.1j5.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.VJIwFRMeHAY#hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&tbm=nws&q=bernie+sanders",
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"content": "If you look at his tv coverage time I believe SOS Clinton has nearly 140% more network news coverage. ",
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"content": "Obama never promised universal healthcare. \n\nAnd please don't project your racism onto others. ",
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"content": "Please avoid personal attacks. Address the issues, not other Redditors.",
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"content": "It's rude to talk with your mouth full.",
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"content": "> POLITIFACTS:\n> \n> \n> \n> \"I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president ... .\"\n> \n> \n> \n> Sources:\n> \n> \n> \n> Speech, \"A Politics of Conscience,\" June 23, 2007 Subjects: Health Care, PolitiFact's Top Promises\n\nI guess you should STFU if you don't know what you are talking about.\n\n\n",
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"content": "Ok, if we're trusting the math of an article attributed to the author \"Weatherdude\", I have not read much of his work if I'm honest.\n\n> \"The Math That Shows Why Bernie Sanders Has Virtually No Path to the Nomination\"\n\n> \"By weatherdude \" ",
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"content": "So rather than address the issue -- how Sanders has consistently underperformed and continues to do so -- you attempt to distract people with irrelevant *ad hominem* chatter. If you'd bothered to read the article, which you obviously didn't, you'd know the first and last name of the person who wrote the article.\n\nYour attempts at obfuscation aside, the article underscores the reality that Sanders' supporters continue to face: Bernie Sanders has consistently under-performed in this race, and that has given him an almost insurmountable delegate deficit.\n\nSanders has only cracked 50 percent of the votes in *three* primaries and just barely in two of them. In order for him to win the nomination, because of his enormous delegate deficit, he must win some races by as much as 70 or 80 percent. In most other states, he must win at least 65 percent.\n\nMichigan was a Pyrrhic victory on a night where he was the delegate loser, a night that put him *further* in the hole. He may win one or several races on Tuesday, but his losses will be like before, and dig him even further into the hole.\n\nMath is hard. But it cannot be ignored.\n\n",
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"content": "The math is speculative, \"Weatherdude\" can no more predict the future than you or I, the only math that comes close to accuracy is Nate Silver's and by his own admission that got blown out in Michigan, you can't poll if you can't call the demographic that will turn out on the day, you really want to go down this road we'll see how the predictions hold in a few short days.\n\nUntil then the math is attempted prediction, of human nature based on polls reliant on no longer applicable demographic attendance, i.e. in Michigan the under 30s showed in twice the number expected by any poll, they gave Sanders 81% of their vote, and nearly out-matched the over 65 turnout ( a historic feat), under 50's were also way beyond turnout expectations, how do you run math on that? It overturned every prediction and beat a 21.5 point spread for the win.\n\nThink that was a fluke?, well we're going to find out soon enough, but the latest polls are showing a heavy swing to Sanders(bucking even the established trend of the last few weeks), so my money says the 538 predictions eat the dirt after the next five.\n\nPresumably that is where \"Weatherdude\" pulled his \"math\" from.",
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"content": "> The math is speculative\n\nThe total number of delegates up for grabs is a fixed number; ergo, it is not speculative.\n\nThe total number of delegates needed to win is a fixed number; ergo, it is not speculative.\n\nThe total number of delegates each candidate has won to date are fixed numbers; ergo, they are not speculative.\n\nThe percentage of delegate wins that Bernie Sanders needs through the end of the race based on his winnings so far is a fixed number; ergo, it is not speculative.\n\nNo one has ever come from behind in a primary race from the point where Bernie Sanders lags today and passed the front-runner; those are fixed numbers; ergo, they are not speculative.\n\nWhether or not you understand basic mathematics and statistics, however, is entirely a matter for speculation.\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I understand the math just fine so watch the tone, I say it is speculative because the polls are speculative, you have no idea who is going to take however many delegates in the next few days, let alone the next few months, hence it is speculation.\n\nIf you want to make a forecast, feel free, then we can see how the math works out for you in a few days.",
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"content": "> so watch the tone\n\nYou're a moderator here?\n\n> I say it is speculative because the polls are speculative\n\n/u/xraycatz never even mentioned polls. I never mentioned polls.\n\nPolls are not the issue here; the issue is mathematics. The title of the linked article is **\"The Math** That Shows Why Bernie Sanders Has Virtually No Path to the Nomination.\"",
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"content": "No I'm not a mod, but the mods said just yesterday that personal attacks in posts are no longer acceptable, you can disagree with my statement without questioning my ability to understand \"basic math\".\n\nHow can you say he has \"no path\" to the nomination?, you can't make that assertion without claiming to have some kind of knowledge of which way the votes will flow, if Nate Silver can't figure it out, how can you or the author of this piece mr. \"Weatherdude\"? Math based on biased assumptions is just speculation.i.e. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.\n\n\n\nLike I said, if you claim to know which way the votes are going to fall enlighten us with some numbers for Tuesday?",
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"content": "Sanders does fuzzy math like Bush or is it Voodoo math like Reagan?",
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"content": "You can check the math yourself, all of these numbers are public. As of right now Sanders needs 54% of the remaining delegates. If the polls average correct after Tuesday he will need 60% of the remaining delegates. If we give NY and CA a tie then he needs 65% of what is left.\n\n",
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"content": "The polls are already revising predictions for Tuesday, let's talk then.\n",
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"content": "Of course they are revising, polls change frequently. I just updated my spreadsheet before I posted. ",
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"content": "What spreadsheet?",
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"content": "My spreadsheet, the one I used to calculate the % Sanders needs. It is pretty easy to build something like this. All of the figures you need are available. \n\n2026 delegates needed to win. Clinton has 767, Sander 552. 2732 delegates remaining to be chosen. Pump those in and it means that Sanders *needs* 54% of the remaining delegates, Clinton only 46%. Grab the polling numbers from RCP and you can make a reasonable guess about Tuesday. It could be off by a dozen delegates but it is likely going to be something like Clinton 1210, Sanders 820. (Clinton picking up 415, Sanders picking up 275.) With that result Sanders will need 60% of the then remaining delegates.\n\nSo lets talk on Wednesday. \n\nRemindme! 2 days \"how did it go?\"\n\n ",
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"content": "How did that work out?",
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"content": "Yeah I'm game.\n\n>\"Clinton 1210, Sanders 820. (Clinton picking up 415, Sanders picking up 275.)\"\n\nRemindme! 2 days \"How did it go?\"",
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"content": "I'm reminding you. Went well. ",
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"content": "Don't forget to remind him. I sure did. It went so well. Update your spreadsheet. Let him know that Tell him how it is now #feelthebernt",
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"content": "Think he's ready to talk now?",
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"content": "OK, let's talk. ",
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"content": "Great, want to talk? Sanders went 0 for 5 and was blown out in FL and OH and NC.\n\n",
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"content": "Hands up she creamed him, no denying it. Still back him 100% till the race is over.",
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"content": "Bernie has a chance, but it can't be one point wins like in Michigan. If the revolution actually happens, he will win. If it doesn't, he won't and we as democrats should be glad that he doesn't. If he can't turn out the vote and win in the Democrat Primary he would have no hope in the general anyways. \n\nIf he DOES finish strong and get overwhelming margins from this Tuesday hopefully until November the the revolution will have happened and it will be a very good time to be a progressive democrat. ",
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"content": "It's ironic the author calls Trump's party the party of fascism. When it's contemporary progressivism that aims to censor anything it disagrees with, pulls fire alarms at debates, redacts historical literature, infantilizes college students with safe spaces and trigger warnings, and thinks mayonnaise can be a gender. --Yeah, the new left is a disempowering joke of its former self. ",
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"content": "It's a shame no one will create a safe space for Trump and his delicate snowflake supporters. One where they won't be triggered by opposing views.",
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"content": "What are you talking about? There isn't a single Trump supporter who gets PTSD from micro aggressions-- the new left does...because they're weak. ",
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"content": "Some of them were so traumatized, they had no choice but to violently attack protesters out of fear for their country. The trauma emotional these PATRIOTS have endured is no laughing matter.",
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"content": "You're describing an insignificant, although admittedly vocal, minority. If this group bothers you, stay away from tumblr, and you'll never have contact with them.\n\nCompare their numbers to the number of racists who support the Republican party, who the Republicans nonetheless seek to disavow, and you'll see why this is a non-issue.",
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"content": "The idea in question was fascism. It may be a minority, but their influence is enormous, affecting public discourse at every level. ",
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"content": "As I said in response to another of your comments, it isn't about silencing or controlling anyone. You have a right to be as microaggressive or problematic as you want. And when you're called out for being problematic (I have a feeling that you don't often hit microaggressive, opting instead for simply aggressive), it's their right to call you out for it. You don't have a right to be taken seriously, or to even be treated respectfully (of course, no one has the right to threaten or cause harm). If you don't like the way that feels, then you have a right to curate your life in such a way that you avoid that type of behavior. This isn't fascism.\n",
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"content": ">...but their influence is enormous...\n\nNo, it simply isn't, unless you live on tumblr.\n\nI don't see their influence anywhere. I think you're severely overstating the problem.",
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"content": "Their argument is inherently flawed in that it falsely equates social awareness with fascism. There is a humongous difference between being vocally critical of concepts that an individual might find \"problematic\" and legislating to prevent concepts that an individual might find \"problematic\" from being discussed freely by those who might want to do so.",
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"content": "I think there's a *lot* of flawed logic in this particular case.",
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"content": "Bless your heart. :)",
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"content": "You don't think that there is a single Trump supporter who is against comprehensive sex education because they believe that their children need to remain \"pure\" and \"protected from the details\"?\n\nYou don't think that there is a single Trump supporter who is against teaching the science behind evolution or climate change because \"it contradicts God's word\"?\n\nYou don't think that there is a single Trump supporter who is against LGBT representation in advertising campaigns because they \"feel uncomfortable\" and \"don't want to see that\"?\n\nYou don't think that there is a single Trump supporter who has threatened to boycott Beyonce because of her Super Bowl performance and and the song Formation?\n\nYou don't think that there is a single Trump supporter who \"just wants everyone to speak Goddamn English in my country\"?\n\nYou don't think that there is a single Trump supporter who calls the Trans-Atlantic *Slave* Trade \"forced migration\"?\n\nYou don't think that there is a single Trump supporter who thinks that \"this is a Christian nation and our legal system is based on the Ten Commandments, so these secular voices just need to deal with it\"?\n\nYou're right, there are some people on the left who want to isolate themselves from concepts and ideas that they don't agree with or feel threatened by in some way. But that kind of mindset has been a mainstay of the right since the founding of our nation. And at least on the left we don't take it the extra step and try to push for legislation supporting our \"safe zones\".",
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"content": "You raise very good criticisms of the Right. And by no means, if I've given the impression, am I a representative or advocate of neo-conservative policy. Quite the contrary. I am a registered Democrat that feels the Bern. I no longer consider myself a member of any party anymore, though, primarily because of the radicalization of the Left by neo feminists and social justice warriors. And there are many like me: economically progressive social libertarians. I'm telling you this because too often people like me are boxed into defending people and policies they don't agree with. I'm not a neo-con, so when I criticize the Left, that doesn't mean I'm endorsing the Right. \n\nAny time a criticism is levied against an ideology, the immediate reaction is to assume that that person participates in the opposite ideology. \n\nIt's not a competition. It seems that our only real disagreement is one of priority: I view the actions of the new Left to be more egregious and pertinent right now-- at this present time. \n\nDo I think that moronic schools who fail to teach proper science are a problem-- absofuckinglutely. And I call that bullshit out every chance I have. The problem with what the Left is doing to academia is that it's happening to universities--not elementary schools. Both age groups are equally important for different reasons, but it was at the university level where the bullshit stopped. It was in a university that pursued truth independent of sensitive feelings. \n\nYou mentioned carving out one's own life (I forget the specific verb). I totally support that too. However, the new Left's actions don't stop at the individual person. They're institutional changes that have negative consequences. I've already listed some of my complaints with what's happening, so I won't repeat them. But to remark on trigger warnings: if you can't handle new ideas, then that person doesn't belong in a university. These sort of things create a climate that is antithetical to creativity and learning--when every fact or opinion must be first subjected to the litmus test of a subjective, and recently invented ethic, how could it not? ",
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"content": "> ... It was in a university that pursued truth independent of sensitive feelings.\n\n> You mentioned carving out one's own life (I forget the specific verb). I totally support that too. However, the new Left's actions don't stop at the individual person. They're institutional changes that have negative consequences. I've already listed some of my complaints with what's happening, so I won't repeat them. But to remark on trigger warnings: if you can't handle new ideas, then that person doesn't belong in a university. These sort of things create a climate that is antithetical to creativity and learning--when every fact or opinion must be first subjected to the litmus test of a subjective, and recently invented ethic, how could it not?\n\nThere are a few glaring flaws in your logic, and frankly I question whether or not you have taken the time to critically consider the issue or you have based your opinion on whatever article you have that glosses over the basics of the issue.\n\nFirst, the trigger warnings themselves aren't actually preventing any courses from being taught or any concepts from being discussed. Thus, institutional implementation of trigger warnings doesn't have any real effect on what is taught. People are still free to explore concepts independent of the way others feel about them. In other words, your assertion of a litmus test is inherently flawed in that it is an exaggerated and false comparison to trigger warnings.\n\n(Here I will have to add that as students explore concepts they are also generally refining their worldview and exploring their personal feelings, so the notion of education independent of emotions seems naive at best. I might also interject that your notion of \"truth\" doesn't fit very well with the concept explored at the University level, in which you learn that reality isn't black and white, that there is a difference between truth and Truth, and that facts can be interpreted differently.)\n\nAnother flaw in your logic is that our academic institutions have a long history of promoting specific schools of thought. That is why academic lineage is so important in some fields. Unless you mean to suggest that students who are mentored by important academics aren't worth more than students who aren't, all other things considered. If that is the case, then you are woefully mistaken.\n\nAdditionally, it is ridiculous to that someone who chooses one class over another because of their own personal preference doesn't belong at a university. Literally all students do that at some point, and higher education is full of opportunity costs. That's why one student might major in engineering while another might major in business management. It's ridiculous to suggest that an engineer is incapable of critical analysis or performing professionally simply because they haven't chosen to take a business management course.\n\nI would again have to point out that there are many institutions that are private and religious that maintain a moral code of conduct. Many of them are even fine schools in the sense that the produce productive, intelligent and creative students. Again, it is simply ridiculous to suggest that these people aren't capable for the sole reason that they attended a school lacking in opposing views (a campus-wide safe zone if you will).\n\nWith all of these points taken into consideration, it hardly seems like the issues you seem to have a problem with would have any real impact at all. In fact, it would almost seem as if your complaints are a poorly thought out, gross exaggeration and mischaracterization of the reality of the situation.",
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"content": "> What are you talking about? There isn't a single Trump supporter who gets PTSD from micro aggressions-- the new left does...because they're weak.\n\nAnd then ...\n\n> You raise very good criticisms of the Right. And by no means, if I've given the impression, am I a representative or advocate of neo-conservative policy.\n\nNo. My outline on the parallel issues (not really parallel, as on the right you have legislation that limits discussion of certain concepts, while the policies advocated for by the SJW's still allow those concepts to be discussed AND the concept of adults making decisions about what to expose themselves to is vastly different from the concept of adult making decisions about what to expose *everyone's children* to) at play on the right was a direct repudiation of your assertion that Trump's supporters don't get offended when someone steps outside of their collective definitions of acceptable behavior. That assertion was deeply flawed and over-wrought with hyperbole, just like many of your illogical claims and assumptions about trigger warnings.",
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"content": "Yeah, that guy who sucker punched a protester wasn't triggered.\n\nOr the Nazis showing black girls. \n\nOr Nazis spitting on people.\n\nNo, those people were just acting normal. \n\nIt's the left who is victimizing the wingnuts with their free speech. ",
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"content": "Cool story bro.\n\n(On a side note, you need to look at your grammar and syntax. Your second sentence is incomplete.)",
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"content": "Thanks for moderating u/amsxk6's \"problematic\" comments. [Have an upvote!](http://gfycat.com/DifferentActualHornshark) ;)",
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"content": "Let me know if you see any more like this immediately. Sorry that happened to you.",
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"content": "No worries. I've been called worse by better. I relish the chance to call out the inconsistency of their thesis and the self confirmation bias behind their ideas.\n\nTo be honest, I commented so that I could tag them while simultaneously using they and their as gender neutral prounous, the word \"problematic\" and a gif of a drag queen shooting an upvote out of her booty.",
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"content": "That's the spirit. :D",
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"content": "There are elements on both sides who do this. Elements on both who don't.\n\nTo be clear, however, despite the fact both sides have them, only on the right are these elements a part of the institution rather than the fringe. \"Liberal\" loonies might dominate the pages of tumblr, but right-wing psychopaths are in power and active within the Republican party. See Trump's desire to institute a religious test for immigrants, or Cruz's Christian Dominionist movement, who rewrites American history and insists ours is a Nation for Christians, by Christians.\n\nThe argument can be made that Cruz and Trump *aren't* a part of the institution, and are in fact rather examples of the lunatics taking over the asylum, but I would argue that they're the product of the very methods rightists use to operate; through demagoguery and misinformation, saying whatever they think the masses wish to hear, as a means to achieving their true goal (which more often than not is merely economic).\n\n>...and thinks mayonnaise can be a gender.\n\nI don't see what this part has to do with fascism. Letting people be who they want to be, even if you disagree, is the opposite of authoritarianism, don't you think?",
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"content": "Letting people be who they want is totally fine. It's when those people blackmail, coerce, or force others to recognize their absurdities as legitimate that I take issue with. \n\nI'm with you on Cruz, he's a total psychopath. \n\nHowever, regarding the Left: the vocal minority that another user referred to, is the minority that has been affecting the most change within society. Therefore, they act as a representative(s) of the Left. That being the case, it's the Left which has, like I said before, tried to redact historical works of literature in an absurd attempt to include more people of color. It's the left that pulls fire alarms when there are speakers they disagree with. It's the left that championed title IX--a platform that reduces masculinity to a rape impulse. It's the left that censors with words like \"problematic\" and \"micro-aggression\" and championing the ban of \"insensitive\" Halloween costumes. And it's the Left that infantilizes adults with trigger warnings in academia. \n\nDoes the Right have problems? Of course. However, the most immediate threat comes from the Left today. \n\n",
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"content": "What you aren't getting is that people have the right to edit their lives. When something is labeled problematic or a behavior is identified as microaggressive, people have a right to edit it out of their lives. No one, however, has the right to receive attention or be taken seriously. And that tends to be the real reason why people become uncomfortable with the concept of microaggressions or the word \"problematic.\" They don't want their beliefs or views or behavior to be relegated to a joke or dismissed. This isn't coercive at all.\n\nWith regards to \"trigger warnings\" don't you think it is disingenuous to pin that solely on the left? I mean, look at all of the conservative educational institutions that maintain a specific moral code of conduct. Why do you think that is? I'll tell you why: Because they don't want their students exposed to the full spectrum of belief and thought. When you choose to take a different class because of a trigger warning, you're the one that misses out. Attending a conservative school with a specific moral code of conduct is the exact same thing, except on a much larger scale. It's almost like conservatives had created a \"safe space\" for themselves.",
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"content": ">It's when those people blackmail, coerce, or force others to recognize their absurdities...\n\nYou're referring to transgender people being recognized as an absurdity?\n\n> It's the left that championed title IX...\n\nTitle IX prohibits descrimination based on sex. How is that a bad thing?\n\n> It's the left that censors with words like \"problematic\" and \"micro-aggression\"...\n\nNo one is censored by the opinions of a handful of college girls on tumblr. Let them bitch and moan. No one pays them any credence. In no case are these terms or notions part of official public policy.\n\n>...championing the ban of \"insensitive\" Halloween costumes.\n\nWhich are and always will be protected by free speech.\n\nIt sounds to me like you want to be protected from being criticized. Even if they're wrong, they have the right to criticize you. Your response should either be to ignore them, or find the right ways to challenge their positions.\n\n>And it's the Left that infantilizes adults with trigger warnings in academia.\n\nOnce again, this is an extremely slim minority.\n\n>However, the most immediate threat comes from the Left today.\n\nRidiculous. Not only are you way out of bounds characterizing the entire left according to the actions of a few college girls on tumblr, even their nonsense pales in comparison to the religious discrimination and economic policies on the right.\n\nIf you're more worried about twats on tumblr getting their feelings hurt and some college professor pussyfooting around pc terminology than you are with the violations of church and state and authoritarianism on the right, you need to get your priorities in order.",
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"content": "It is the party if fascism. If you know anything about the history, the similarities are eery. ",
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"content": "Echo chambers abound in Reddit. Go to school children, learn something. ",
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"content": "Oh look, you tried to get the last word but didn't go to the trouble of addressing any of the comments that refute your ideas or point out glaring flaws in your argument. It's almost as if you're calling us an \"echo chamber\" to be dismissive of ideas that you inherently disagree with but can't intellectually refute.",
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"content": "Hey, u/amsxk6, why haven't you responded to any of these. Your beliefs and personal opinions must be backed up by some solid logic, right?",
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"content": "I've made my points. They're as easy to understand as I can write them, yet this brilliant collection of rhetoricians including yourself has failed to grasp anything I've said. So, when you graduate high school, track me down, and maybe then you've grown out of your echo chamber we can talk. But I'm not going to waste or get frustrated trying to convince you of anything. Your simply, clear as day, factually wrong. You've skirted every point I've made. There's no point in arguing with children that have zero life experience or formal education. You go do your thing. Be happy, umm...what else, catch you on the flip side. ",
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"content": "If I'm factually wrong, it shouldn't be hard for you to point out the errors in my logic and the issues with my facts (with sources, talk is cheap and google exists). Why don't you then?\n\nAnd gurl, while you're at it you can stop pretending that you made any arguments whatsoever. You made a bunch of assertions of fact and put forth your personal opinion without backing any of it up with a legitimate source. It's one thing to say that trigger warning are corrupting higher education, and a completely different thing to make an argument and prove it.\n\nYou can be as condescending (and, frankly, presumptive) as you want, but again it seems like a very transparent attempt to dismiss what I said because you don't have a solid or thoughtful response.",
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"content": "Great ad, I hope when this is all over and Trump is laughed out of the race, that people will remember this, any company would have to be out of their minds to go in to business with him after the flak he has drawn this year.",
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"content": "Does anyone know who paid for this? ",
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"content": "Oh its a republican PAC hit, but the quotes are verified.\n\n\nEDIT: Not tying themselves to one candidate, and finding it hard to source the cash, but has the feel of Rep establishment trying to reign in his numbers a bit and give Cruz/Rubio a shot.\n\n> \"This commercial is part of an existing investment into television advertising in Florida and national cable networks. The group has spent $3.5 million alone in Florida in the last two weeks.\n\n> \"The culture of a campaign is instilled at the top,\" said Tim Miller, a spokesperson for Our Principles PAC. > > \"Donald's reckless attitude and thuggish yes-men would be a disaster for our party in the general election and a danger in the White House.\"\n\nTim Miller's LinkedIn:\n\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/timmillergop\n\nEDIT 2: Former Deputy Comms director for the DNC, lol suspicions confirmed.",
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"content": "Interesting. Both sides of this race are incredibly interesting and they're both having an effect on our political system. Let's hope that Trump's campaign doesn't cancel out any good that has occurred at this point. At least people are starting to care again. That's something. ",
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"content": "Right?, How epic is a Trump V. Sanders run looking right now?",
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"content": "I'm convinced that Sanders is the only option against Trump. I think that HRC would just empower Trump supporters. I know these people. In fact, I've spent my whole life around them. \n\nIt's a scary situation. I don't want it to be so, but I'm sure that HRC will lose. ",
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"content": "Certainly seems the riskier prospect if the polls are right, I honestly think Sanders will take the nomination though, I haven't tried to argue it here, I think it will be more clear in a few days, HRC's best states are done, Sanders are yet to come, the next 5 states he just needed to make sure she didn't expand to much on the delegates lead, and I think he will do that and more.\n\nI think we are going to see at least three states turn into upsets as big as Michigan, then the conversation will change.",
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"content": "I agree. My wife and I are looking forward to finally voting tomorrow. ",
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"content": "Great!, every vote counts in this one.",
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"content": ">I think we are going to see at least three states turn into upsets as big as Michigan, then the conversation will change.\n\nNo it won't. Clinton has a larger lead than Obama ever did in 2008. After big wins in NC and FL, Berine would have to win well over 55% of the votes in the remaining states. Even close wins (1-3%) in IL, OH and MO will increase his needed margin of victory.\n\nHis campaign is done. ",
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"content": "That is very odd. I tried just now to do it myself and it worked for me.",
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"content": "I am asking the backroom to see if anyone has any input on this. Anyone out there have any suggestions on why this is happening to the OP?",
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"content": "Maybe OP had some sort of multi feature engaged or activated. ",
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"content": "That's what I am thinking. But I have little knowledge about those features. Hopefully someone here knows more about it. (actually anyone here knows more about it than I do)",
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"content": "Yeah, I'm at a loss myself. I'm mostly a mobile user, and even then I don't use the multi feature at all. The video made it look like that may have been the source of the problem. ",
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"content": "You do everything do from mobile? Damn I'm impressed. :D",
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"content": "Thanks. Yeah, I'm rarely on the desktop. I'd say it's been two months or more since I've bothered with it for reddit. ",
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"content": "I finally got it but it was tricky",
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"content": "What was the problem? ",
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"content": "Our CSS person found a problem. very complicated to explain. It should work normally now. Can you tell us if this fixed the problem please?",
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"content": "works perfectly.",
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"content": "Well it doesn't do much good if he nominates a rightist or a Republican. ",
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"content": "I doubt that. Probably someone without many or any political decisions that they confirmed 97-0 or so.",
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"content": "If you're talking about \"Sri\" Srinivasan, I see no reason why he shouldn't be appointed, but I see no reason why the GOP would approve him either. \n\nI think what's most important here, is the pressure that Trump is putting on the GOP. If they want to play the same old games with the American people, they're going to find themselves controlled by a small handed Hitler-type who is even now mobilizing his brown-shirted thugs. \n\nThis is an interesting situation that some people fear could lead to a civil war scenario. I think that's a bunch of bullshit. But who knows? \n\nI'm looking forward to finally voting for Bernie tomorrow. I think there are a lot of us. ",
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"content": "It's going to make the GOP look like assholes, given his unanimous appointment to his current judgeship, for them not to at least grant him hearings, should he be Obama's pick.",
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"content": "You're right. But I'm not convinced that those known assholes care. They're always assholes. They're not afraid of being called out for being the assholes that they are. You'll have to do* better than that.",
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"content": "Unfortunately, you're probably right, but it will be interesting to hear how such assholes attempt to justify themselves, at the very least.",
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"content": "Obama is republics. Another Scalia. ",
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"content": "Obama is republican lite ",
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"content": "Do you always reply to yourself? Do you at least have tissue ready? ",
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"content": "Scalia's son for shits and giggles?",
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"content": "He hasn't before so why would he now? ",
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"content": "Jane Kelly or Sri Srinavasan. A moderate slightly to the right centrist that has recently been confirmed by a huge margin. No way anyone with even a sniff of liberalism gets nominated. ",
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"content": ">Sri Srinavasan\n\nI don't know as much as I'd like to about this prospective nominee. Why do you consider him to be a moderate? ",
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"content": "My feeling is he'd be similar to Elena Kagan's appointment. Someone who at first glance seems center-left but without enough of a record for anyone to mount a very strong case against (though I'll be shocked if there isn't a counter-productive delay-till-the-next-president campaign mounted from the Left). It will be up to the President's vetting, meetings with, and personal knowledge of the candidate to try and divine how Srinivasan would rule on the cases Obama cares the most about.",
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"content": "Once someone gets on the big court, that is a bad assumption. Ask the first Bush about his moderate from New Hampshire.",
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"content": "Another Scalia. Asshole move. ",
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"content": "I actually think the republicans might be bluffing. fIf they fight the nominee they will likely look bad and most seats up for re-election are red. With Trump as a nominee it could spell disaster and who knows even a democratic Senate. But if they just threaten, and Obama takes the bait and nominates a moderate it might give them the best reasonable outcome.",
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"content": "Obama will call their bluff soon enough. Seriously, with Trump in the race and them scrambling to stop his fascist madness, I'm considering that they might even be trying to win the liberal/progressive vote before this is all over. Trump is the fattest sack of shit so of course all of the flies are swarming. ",
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"content": "Wow, was about to ask why you didn't post the article, good spot, this is just sickening, a British author, Owen Jones(also a political journalist) wrote a fantastic book on media control, \"The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It.\" ...He relates experiences of reporters being manipulated by their own editors and in some cases even being physical threatened in their own homes when refusing to drop certain stories.\n\n\n\n In the UK the phone hacking scandal uncovered incredible accounts of Rupert Murdoch's tactics, one reporter received threatening phone calls every night for weeks from a guy that turned out to be working for his own editor.\n\n\n\nOf course not to say this is in that league, but it seems common practice to manipulate stories now, with most mainstream media worldwide being owned by a few dozen people.",
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"content": "Read my comment. It is called editing, not manipulation.",
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"content": "You should fix your links. If you copied and pasted them directly, go back and use your app or whatever to copy the whole link. ",
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"content": "Here are working links of what you posted:\n\n* http://i.imgur.com/B1SAd8C.jpg\n\n* http://i.imgur.com/3ZpKw8g.png\n",
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"content": "Why aren't you posting about how The Inquisitor, Salon, and The Huffington Post are letting their true colors show with their constant stream of Clinton-bashing/Bernie-loving content?",
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"content": "No need, because it wasn't manipulation but simple editing. This whole post is nonsense.",
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"content": "Please stick to debating the argument instead of attacking the user.",
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"content": "That's crap, they have an officially stated policy that what goes on the web has not been passed through the print editor and may be changed. I have seen article titles changed 3 or 4 times a day and in subedits that require the exact title like /r/politics, had them pulled because the NY Times changed the title later in the day. You are being paranoid. There is a hard wall of separation between editorial and reporting and as I have asked before and only gotten DVs, prove there is not. Do you think a paper owned by a Jewish family is going to let this happen? You are questioning the integrity of the paper that has won, does win and will win more Pulitzer Prizes than any other paper in the country. Your scoop is garbage and if you think it isn't, take it up with their public editor and see how far you get. The new title actually reads better. This is /r/conspiracy nonsense. Let us know how it goes with the public editor. Post your email in here and if you get a response, that too.",
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"content": "I'm curious as to why *you* would post this? Would Hillary or Bill meet with those unfortunates? ",
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"content": "> can't understand why the sub isn't restricted to 3 posts per person per day.\n\n#Then maybe you should follow your own advice, considering you posted **sixteen** threads in the last day alone.",
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"content": "I am sure they would. There are plenty of them in Arizona actually.",
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"content": "They would, or they are/have? Hypotheticals are pretty much useless. You're posting an article about an actual event. That's why I'm curious. ",
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"content": "Could it possibly be because Reddit lost its sh!t after a picture was posted of Hillary Clinton hugging George Bush at Nancy Reagan's funeral?\n\nPer Reddit and S4P, it's wrong for Hillary Clinton to be nice to someone at a funeral but it's AOK when Jane Sanders associates with a vile racist at the racist's internment camp.\n\n#It's called a double standard and hypocritical.",
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"content": "Hmm, I wonder if the Islamic crowd likes to go crazy on twitter?",
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"content": "This statement alone is considerably more racist than mistaking someone who asks a question relating to anti-Muslim sentiment, as a Muslim.Good job.",
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"content": "Do you think he's an asshole for considering another's religious affiliations? So he was wrong. Big deal. He didn't intend to insult the guy. \n\nWhen was the last time a Hindu was attacked in the US? Edit: [2012] (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/nyregion/woman-is-held-in-death-of-man-pushed-onto-subway-tracks-in-queens.html) Thanks /u/wenchette. \n\nAmerican rightists attack Muslims and Sikhs and Hindus.* They attack Sikhs and Hindus* because they think that they look like Muslims. ~~Hindus do not have to wear turbans.~~ Apparently, only brownish skin is required.* Consider what we're up against and give the guy a break. Stop this pettiness. You're better than this. Post and comment about how great your candidate is. Stop trying to tear down your opponent. We're all Democrats. You're making a mockery of our party. ",
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"content": "> When was the last time a Hindu was attacked in the US?\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/nyregion/woman-is-held-in-death-of-man-pushed-onto-subway-tracks-in-queens.html",
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"content": "A Hindu killed for \"being a Muslim\". My point stands. \n\nConsider that you're only digging your hole deeper. ",
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"content": "> Consider that you're only digging your hole deeper.\n\n?\n\nThat's the only post I made on this topic.",
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"content": "Sorry, I neglected to pay attention to the user name and just assumed that you were Confoy. It's been a long day, and tomorrow is going to be even longer. My apologies. ",
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"content": "You mean like someone can get tired, too much coffee, traveling, suddenly at a funeral in California, says the wrong thing, twitter goes crazy on them? Oh, we aren't going to do that to you and Sanders though, are we? And that was the point of this entire post and you really helped facilitate it. And we did not conspire to do that. Anyone campaigning can make a mistake and everyone here forgiving pro-Sanders wasn't so forgiving on Clinton. Now were they?",
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"content": "Seriously? ",
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"content": "She was crazy though. Not sure it counts as anything except a call to increase help for the mentally ill.\n",
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"content": "Lol, bit less of a scandal than you might think.\n\n> \"The questioner, Spandan Shah, began by describing such incidents as \"very scary, especially for someone that looks like me.\"\n\nHardly a huge leap to think the guy was Muslim when it was baked into the question?\n\nAn honest mistake, await the deafening silence of non- outrage.",
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"content": "Anything negative goes it seems, can you imagine if we dropped every negative HRC headline on this sub? would hardly be room for anything worth reading.",
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"content": "I'm not sure why we can't focus on the positives. At least with posts. Maybe it's fine to have it out a bit in the comments, but what are we doing here, trashing one another? It doesn't make sense. Anyone on the right can come here and stock up on ammunition to use against either Democratic candidate. What is that? What's the point? ",
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"content": "Yeah right now I believe the rule is if you post a negative article, you also have to post one positive about your candidate, so at least that lends balance, ....but then some articles are both so at a point even positive articles would have a paragraph dumping one the other candidate so would probably create friction.\n\nThis will continue for a few months, but I think the rules that stand now will work if people stick to them in the comments, making reasoned cases for/against a candidate without attacking the supporters (i.e. dropping the \"Commie/racist/sexist berniebro\" crap on one side, and dropping the Emails stuff on the other). \n\nWhen confoy keeps dropping this unvetted stuff it generally gets striped of any logical basis before it goes anywhere , I think the constant name calling and poorly sourced articles actually drive more people to Sanders' camp anyway.",
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"content": "It's /u/Michaelconvoy's tendency toward complete conjecture. It's pretty obvious. There was one site in particular that he kept posting. \"The People's View\", an unabashedly Clinton site. (I would link to it, but no) There is nothing on that site that isn't anti-Bernie/pro-HRC. Even when they attack the GOP and Trump it's always in reference to HRC. Why post crap from there? He knows it's against the rules. He's not even trying to comply. ",
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"content": "Meh. Kind of non-story here.",
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"content": "I agree. ",
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"content": "kind of easy mistake to make. Can't fault him too much. Take it as lesson learned and move on from this one. Not a game changer in any way.",
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"content": "I agree, and it goes right to what is driving the religious hatred in the US. Muslims, Sikhs and as /u/wenchette has pointed out to me, Hindus are being abused and murdered for either their racial appearances or their religious appearances. \n\nAnyone could be a... *Muslim*. Don't look now, but I think that guy is a *Muslim*. \n\nThis is not the USA that I know. This is not what made me decide to serve my country in the armed forces. \n\nWhere I live, it's not Muslims that threaten my way of life, my friends and family, or my future. It's *Christians*. Sure I know that they're not all out to get me, but that's because I'm an adult. I understand nuance. \n\nI have several Muslim friends and they all appreciate secularism. Their parents or they moved here to live as Americans. They still worship the way they choose, but they sure as hell aren't a threat to me. Hell, I live two blocks from the only Islamic place of worship in my town of 37,000. They're good folks. Occasionally, they invite everyone in the community to enjoy their foods and culture. They're not conspiring against us. They're living their lives. \n\nI also live next door to a house full of Hindus. We have Chinese, Japanese, Nepalese, Turkish, Saudis, German, French, English, Indians, and many other nationalities here. This is a college town and there are tons of exchange students and the vast majority of them are good folks. I'm sick of people hating on foreigners, their religions, or any other such xenophobic bullshit. \n\nEdit: Formatting. \n",
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"content": "Just a simple mistake. I have made it myself before.",
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"content": "Yup. ",
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"content": "Yep, you get tired on the campaign, not enough sleep, people handing papers to read all the time, living on coffee, next thing you know you are at a funeral in LA, whoops, wrong mistake. Sorry, got confused there, long day. Different reaction though.",
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"content": "I agree with that. We should let the republicans be the ones jumping on trivial stuff like this. We should be above this.",
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"content": "Wouldn't be great to live in a country where this was one of the bigger stories? This past week has been such a horror show.",
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"content": ">The group touted Clinton’s record of fighting for LGBT rights, from marriage equality to employment nondiscrimination laws.\n\nOf course she also spent nine years fighting marriage equality.",
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"content": "Some of you might not remember but she was a very effective low-key advocate for LGBTQ rights back then.",
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"content": "\n\"Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.\" - HRC in 2000.\n\n\"I believe that marriage was \"a sacred bond between a man and a woman.\" - HRC in 2004\n\nThat's about as \"low-key\" as you can get without being a Republican.",
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"content": "Edit: This fucking sub too, eh? You know this isn't /r/SandersForPresident or /r/progressive, right? Stop downvoting me for talking about a Democrat, good god. \n\nMy parents said the same thing for years yet they attended my wedding last November. This is such a non issue when you look at the bigger picture. \n\nNot like the other Democratic candidate is any better either.\n\n>That same year, Sanders was asked in a debate during his first run for the Senate about a Massachusetts state court decision that legalized gay marriage. The debate moderator wanted to know if Sanders thought the federal government should overturn that decision. He responded by talking about states’ rights, which is an argument often used by politicians who have argued against federal recognition of gay marriage as well.\n\n>“I believe the federal government should not be involved in overturning Massachusetts or any other state because I think the whole issue of marriage is a state issue,” Sanders said in the 2006 debate.\n\n>It wasn’t until 2009 that Sanders publicly voiced support for gay marriage, years after many of his contemporaries in Vermont. The state legislature voted to legalize gay marriage that March and overrode a gubernatorial veto to pass it into law in April. It’s unclear when exactly Sanders took his position. When asked, his campaign provided a news article from July of that year which noted that he had “previously supported” it.\n\nhttp://time.com/4089946/bernie-sanders-gay-marriage/\n\nIf we get to pretend that Clinton's entire LGBT rights history is focused around marriage, Sanders gets the same treatment. ",
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"content": "Bernie was way ahead of the political field. Definitely ahead of Clinton.\n\nIn 1983, as mayor of Burlington, he signed a Gay Pride Day proclamation calling it a civil rights issue. \n\nHe was one of just 67 members in the House of Representatives to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. \n\nSanders opposed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in 1993, another President Bill Clinton-era policy, and supported civil unions in Vermont in 2000.",
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"content": ">In 1983, as mayor of Burlington, he signed a Gay Pride Day proclamation calling it a civil rights issue.\n\nCool. One of the most liberal cities in the nation, that's a cakewalk. \n\n>He was one of just 67 members in the House of Representatives to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act.\n\n>Sanders opposed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in 1993, another President Bill Clinton-era policy, and supported civil unions in Vermont in 2000.\n\nDOMA and DADT were the best options we had at that time. He supported civil unions as a state's issue and didn't advocate for nationwide legalization. Again, super liberal state so he's not exactly breaking down barriers. ",
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"content": "Going with the consensus opinion like Hillary does with every issue isn't going to break down any barriers at all.",
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"content": "Pushing too hard means you won't remain a prominent political figure and nothing you want will get done. You can't just run around DC and demand things, politics is a game and you have to play it. ",
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"content": "I love that the Democrats have taken over the centrist positions and forced the Republicans to far depths of crazy right. That's a win. But my personal views aren't centrist, they are progressive. And I would much rather cast my vote for the progressive candidate.",
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"content": "> But my personal views aren't centrist, they are progressive. And I would much rather cast my vote for the progressive candidate.\n\nOk but that's not what we were discussing. ",
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"content": "Yes it is. Hillary just follows public opinion. She stays dead center on every issue including the gay marriage issue. Just wait until the public supports it.\n\nThat's not leading, that just waiting.",
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"content": "Clinton stays dead center on every issue? I don't even know how to respond to that. [On the Issues rates her as a hard-core liberal](http://www.ontheissues.org/hillary_clinton.htm) so I have no idea what you're basing that opinion on. ",
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"content": "Most of those \"liberal\" decisions are really pretty centrist. A majority of Americans have been pro-choice for a long time. For example, \"Keep abortion safe, legal and rare.\" That's not really progressive anymore, that's centrist.\n\nHillary taking money from private prisons, large banks and Wall Street isn't really a progressive thing to do.\n\nAnd this one \"We need bankruptcy reform, but we need the right kind. (Aug 2014).\"\n\nThough the Senate passed the legislation in 2001, it did not become law. Congress eventually agreed on an overhaul in 2005; **Mrs. Clinton was absent for that vote but expressed disapproval of the legislation.** As a House member, Mr. Sanders voted no on that chamber’s version of the bill in 2001, and he also voted no on the 2005 bill.\n\nUnder such this bankruptcy overhaul, a woman owed child support could lose some of her ability to collect it if the child’s father declared bankruptcy.\n\nAnd she didn't even bother voting against it.",
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"content": "Ssssso?",
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"content": "Then Obama is in the same boat.\n\nMeanwhile, he has been the most pro-gay President. ",
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"content": "Obama is in the same boat. He is very centrist and not that progressive. Recently he stated that all encryption should have a back door. Not only is that not feasible, it denies people a basic right of privacy.\n\n\"You cannot take an absolutist view on this. If your argument is strong encryption no matter what, and we can and should create black boxes, that I think does not strike the kind of balance we have lived with for 200, 300 years, and it’s fetishizing our phones above every other value.\"\n\nSo how exactly is the government going to regulate this? Every cell phone would require a back door. Then every app that the cell phone uses would also require a back door. And apps made outside the United States would be potentially illegal in the US. It makes absolutely no sense.\n\nSo no I don't think Obama is that progressive.",
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"content": "You just moved the goalposts, son. \n\nFrom \"as low key without being Republican\" to \"not that progressive\".\n\nThat means you lose the argument. ",
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"content": ">That means you lose the argument. \n\nYou know it's Clinton supporters like you that have convinced me to stay home on election day if Clinton is nominated.",
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"content": "Yes, blame us for your laziness and not really caring about the issues you supposedly do daily. ",
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"content": "Like I'm arguing with a Trump supporter.",
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"content": "Trump supporters prefer that you stay home and not vote. ",
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"content": "Well then you are helping Trump's cause.",
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"content": "Not me. Don't blame me either. At some point, it's all on you. ",
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"content": "Lol wow. Why are you even on this sub? I feel like you'd be more comfortable in some of the other political echo chambers like /r/SandersForPresident, /r/politics or /r/progressive.",
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"content": ">Why are you even on this sub?\n\nBecause I'm a registered Democrat.",
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"content": "And you won't vote for one of the most influential Democrats in modern history?",
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"content": "Probably not, because she really isn't in my mind a Democrat. She voted us into wars that could have been avoided. She takes money from big banks that caused the last recession. And honestly worst of all takes money from the private prison industry. We have the highest per capita prison population and she's right there taking their money. \n\nHonestly I don't see how anyone would think that she is a progressive. To me she's just another centrist hawk.",
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"content": "> She voted us into wars that could have been avoided. \n\nAnd Bernie voted for the Iraqi Liberation Act. Why does he get a free pass? \n\n> She takes money from big banks that caused the last recession.\n\nPeople who work in that industry donate to her campaign. Citigroup alone has over 300k employees, it's a massive industry. \n\n> And honestly worst of all takes money from the private prison industry.\n\nThis is so overblown. It was a small amount that was coupled with many other industries. Do you seriously think that she knew about that minuscule amount?",
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"content": ">This is so overblown. It was a small amount\n\nClinton campaign continues to benefit handsomely from the fundraising assistance of some closely connected to the private prison business. In another report filed Sunday night, the campaign disclosed that Richard Sullivan of Capitol Counsel—until recently, a Raleigh, N.C.-based federally registered lobbyist for the for-profit prison operator GEO Group—bundled $69,363 in donations for Clinton in the fourth quarter, bringing his total for the year to a whopping $274,891.\n\nThat makes Sullivan the **second-most prolific lobbyist-bundler** for the Clinton campaign, beaten out only by D.C. lobbyist Heather Podesta, who's tallied up $348,581 so far.",
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"content": "They Bitch about Soda and Chips, then they bitch about health.\nThey Just Bitch.\n\nDon't elect assholes.\n",
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"content": "It doesn't matter what people buy with food stamps. It doesn't matter that food stamps are a Keynesian idea. What's important is that poor people are eating and they aren't being whipped enough. Whip 'em harder. They'll work harder. Apparently this is an American tradition. I would hate to be on the wrong side of that stick. ",
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"content": "Organic food isn't healthier than \"non organic\". ",
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"content": "False. ",
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"content": "Nope, it's been proven true with 50+ years of testing. It's a health based myth. ",
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"content": "I'm not going to draw any conclusions based on your comment, but a link to your data would be super-helpful.",
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"content": "There's a stupid amount of articles in journals and blogs about it so I'll just post one and you can look up more if you aren't convinced. \n\nhttp://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/organic-food-no-more-nutritious-than-conventionally-grown-food-201209055264",
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"content": "So many downvotes. For the downvoters who disagree with Bigblackhotdog's comment, [here's some information](http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/organic-food-not-healthier-stanford-researchers-nutrition-organic-meats-produce-dairy-no-better-article-1.1151470).",
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"content": "Thanks, just people that don't know better I suppose. Makes sense given we are on the Democrats sub so maybe some more younger voters? ",
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"content": ">\"People on welfare tend to be seen as undeserving of more expensive options and of wasting taxpayers' hard-earned cash.\"\n\nI'm sorry but what's so crazy about that? It's pretty well known that you get less \"bang for your buck\" when purchasing organic foodstuffs so it shouldn't be a surprise that people frown upon welfare recipients overpaying (in their eyes) for food. ",
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"content": "No. It's just way to whine about welfare recipients. ",
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"content": "Is it really a waste of taxpayer money if the food stamp recipient gets the same amount anyway?\n\nThe goals of food stamps are to provide food for low-income people and to infuse cash into the economy. If both of those things are happening for the same cost, then what difference does it make?",
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"content": "Perception is reality. \n\nThat's what I'm getting at. The average American doesn't/can't spend the extra money on organic food so that will undoubtably create some negative feelings. ",
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"content": "Well, the big part of your comment is that \"If.\" Organic foods cost 30% more. \"If\" they get the same, then no, it shouldn't matter. But the fact of it is, they aren't getting the same amount. That's what makes this whole thing an issue.",
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"content": "I wasn't talking about amounts of food, I was talking about the amount it costs the taxpayer. A food stamp recipient gets the same number of dollars whether they buy chips, steak, GMO rice or organic carrots with it. Therefore the tax bill is exactly the same.\n\nWe've chosen a food stamp system that lets people pick their own foods with the money. If we don't want to do that, then maybe we should just figure out a diet we are willing to let poor people eat and just provide ration cards.\n\nThough I'm sure someone will bitch if they buy DelMonte peaches rather than the generic ones.",
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"content": "The reasoning behind it is that if they can afford to buy food that's a 30% premium, then they're getting 30% too much money.\n\nIf you are walking into Wal-Mart and buying organic stuff or name brand stuff just because you have that amount of money on your card while people not on food stamps are budgeting and buying store brand stuff then there's something wrong with the system.\n\nSNAP is a great program. It helps a lot of people survive and get back on their feet. Making it more efficient is a *good thing* for the program. It means it can help more people at the same price.",
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"content": "> If you are walking into Wal-Mart and buying organic stuff or name brand stuff just because you have that amount of money on your card while people not on food stamps are budgeting and buying store brand stuff then there's something wrong with the system.\n\nYou're right - it does mean there is something wrong with the system! Only, it's not what you think.\n\nIt does not mean that people on food stamps should get less of them. I means that either the people scrimping and budgeting should qualify for food stamps, or better yet, wages should be such that people don't have to scrimp in order to eat.\n\nThe bigger point that you are missing is that the food stamp people have to scrimp the same as everyone else. If you want the organic carrots, you skip something else. You want a nicer cut of meat one night so you eat peanut butter sandwiches another night. It's the same for everyone.\n\nThis is their budget. It's fixed. Sure some of us have to spend less on groceries when the car suddenly needs repairs or the kids come home with a list of crap they need for school. People on food stamps don't even have that luxury. They still get to eat but those expenses now mean they're walking instead of driving or even taking the bus.\n\nThe idea that the poor should have to suffer more than they are because the working class and middle class are suffering is complete bullshit. It's a gimmick to prevent you from seeing who the real problem is - and I can tell you it's not the people who are being saved by the social safety net.\n\nAlso, \"making it more efficient\" is what your words are saying, \"they're getting too much of my tax money\" is what you're thinking.",
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"content": "Exactly, SNAP is a great program. There's absolutely nothing wrong with making it more efficient. If there are lots of people who are buying overpriced items with it, then, of course, stop them.\n\nBut like the article says, there doesn't appear to be a lot of people actually doing that. If enforcement of less-than-efficient practices end up costing more than they actually save (like when they spent millions of dollars to drug test welfare recipients), then they should definitely not do it.",
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"content": "Let's stick to discussing the article guys.\n\nAnd only one person has been banned in the last three months for non-spam related issues.",
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"content": "I bet she would.\n",
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"content": ">I would like to see a little more violence from the innocent Trump supporters set upon by violent leftist hoodlums.\n\nPretty surprising! ",
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"content": "I'd like to see Ann Coulter comforting a child. \n\n",
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"content": "I don't think she's allowed near any.",
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"content": "You're more likely to find a cuddly pit viper.",
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"content": "Someone is desperate to stay wingnutty as the party moves more wingnutty. ",
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"content": "Ann Coulter said women shouldn't have the right to vote so why is she giving her opinion. If I was a sexist idiot id say she should go back to the kitchen and shut up",
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"content": "Ann Coulter would like more people to remember she exists.\n\nShe doesn't even piss me off anymore. She just comes off as sad and needy.",
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"content": "I don't know if I'll \"back\" her so much as begrudgingly cast a vote against Drumpf.",
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"content": "Nope. If Bernie's not the nominee for the Dems, I'm voting Green. I will not participate in \"the lesser of two evils\". ",
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"content": "What, you don't want to pick your own poison? How dare you! You owe it to the DNC.... wait... no you don't! I'll be right there with you. Actually I have pledged not to vote for her. http://wontvotehillary.com/",
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"content": "So you are voting for the worst of two evils. Makes lots of sense. (not)",
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"content": "And I as a Hillary supporter, will vote for Bernie if he wins. Bernie is a good guy. I'd vote for him 20 times before I would vote for Trump.",
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"content": "I'm curious, after all the crap Hillary is involved in. Why would you even vote for her to begin with? I don't get it. ",
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"content": "She has the best chance to not only win, but shove the faces of rightwingers in the dirt. ",
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"content": "\"All the crap\" Hillary is \"involved in\" is right wing smear jobs with no substance.\n\nThat so many so-called progressives have been spreading this slander and actually believing it is depressing.",
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"content": "*disclaimer: downvote button is not for disagreeing, it's for flagging posts that do not contribute to the conversation, etc, I feel like I've put out something honest here, try to be respectful, please.*\n\n----\n\n> \"All the crap\" Hillary is \"involved in\" is right wing smear jobs with no substance.\n>\n> That so many so-called progressives have been spreading this slander and actually believing it is depressing.\n\n\nThat's pretty disingenuous and insulting to people that are not fans of HRC for legitimate reasons.\n\nHRC positions I disagree with:\n\n* pro intervention and aggressive foreign policy\n* pro health insurance, not health care\n* pro wall street\n* pro international trade agreements\n\nThis is not something that has been smeared about her, it's taken straight out of the town halls, debates, and public statements that she has made.\n\nHistorically, while I am glad that she has changed her positions and apologized for her mistakes, I would have preferred a candidate that did not need to evolve or apologize as often as she does (gay rights, trade agreements, Iraq vote, Libya regime change, etc).\n\nThis is not a smear campaign, these are legitimate concerns I have. These are in fact similar to the concerns that Obama had with her when he ran against her.\n\nLastly, her co-opting of the use of the word \"progressive\" to mean \"liberal\" is just marketing and has left a bitter taste.\n\nWhich of the following sounds more like HRC:\n\n* We should work towards objectives that we can actually accomplish, and not hold unrealistic dreams (conservative democrat)\n* We should dream big and push for as much as we can (progressive democrat)\n\nThat said, I feel like democrats will have to support Clinton, no matter what their feelings, for one very simple reason:\n\n* supreme court appointees\n\nNon-democrats that were supporting Sanders might go 3rd party, or for whoever the republican candidate is though.",
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"content": "The problem is that you can't seem to parse nuance. Like, what does \"pro wall street\" even mean? Anyone with a decent understanding of the issues realizes these aren't simply \"for or against\". Not everything is like abortion. These are multifaceted issues. You can support more regulation of investment banking without wanting to burn down wall street.",
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"content": "> The problem is that you can't seem to parse nuance. Like, what does \"pro wall street\" even mean? \n\nI didn't want to get bogged down in the details on just a bullet point.\n\n* pro wall street\n\nI mean here that her overall position is one that favors democratic involvement in wall street. She's clearly in favor of democrats being involved, receiving funding, and an overall policy that encourages the health and well being of wall street.\n\nShe's received millions in speaking fees, personal donations, campaign donations and donations to the Clinton foundation.\n\nShe has claimed to rebuke them \"I told them to cut it out\", but she has also given countless supportive speeches.\n\nIt's not that nuanced really, it's just more information than you can put in a single bullet point. \n\n> You can support more regulation of investment banking without wanting to burn down wall street.\n\nRight. But her overarching position is that wall street is important, needs to be well taken care of, and should continue to provide funding for democrats.\n\nI disagree with her fundamentally here, I feel like there should be no wall street money in politics, elections or the legislative process. Wall street's health should be legislated and regulated by politicians for the safety of the American people without fear of wall street reprisal. The American People should be who the politicians are working for.\n\nYes, you're right, it is more nuanced than just a simple \"pro wall street\", but it *is* fair to say that is the position she has claimed to have.",
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"content": "> her overall position is one that favors democratic involvement in wall street.\n\nWait... you're against the public sector influencing the market so you support *Bernie Sanders?*\n\n>wall street is important, needs to be well taken care of,\n\nSo your position is that \"wall street\" isn't important and shouldn't be taken care of? \n\nAn adversarial relationship between commerce and the public sector doesn't help anyone. Things work best for the greatest number of people when there is cooperation between them. \n\nBusiness succeeds when people are wealthy and happy and ready to spend money. People succeed when companies make profits and can hire workers. \n\nThe idea of \"throwing bankers in jail!\" or taxing stock investments or really soaking \"the 1 percent\" or being \"anti-establishment\" sound good to *say*, but in practice, they're disastrous for anyone with anything invested in \"the establishment.\" And most everyone is part of the hated establishment. \n\nThere's a reason that Sanders supporters are young and poor. If you don't have a 401K, what do you care if it takes a hit when a socialist tries to tax stock transactions? But for everyone else, this is very bad.",
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"content": "I'm actually nearing retirement. I'm not a young supporter with no 401k. =)\n\nI'm not talking about an adversarial relationship, I'm talking about a relationship that puts the power in the government, not in wall street.\n\nSanders position on taxing speculation is unlikely to hurt your 401k. That's just spreading fear.\n\nWhat I'm against is wall street having too much influence on politics. They should not be able to donate a bunch of money in order to cherry pick which candidates will be elected. When you let them donate like that, you will end up with the candidates that are more favorable to them being elected.\n\nThat should be obvious.",
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"content": ">Right. But her overarching position is that wall street is important, needs to be well taken care of, and should continue to provide funding for democrats.\n\nWhy the focus on who is funding who? That seems to serve only as a distraction from the issues. Obama was also funded by various evil spooky banks. As a matter of fact, plenty of bankers hold progressive viewpoints. Very wealthy and powerful progressives, like George Soros or Lloyd Blankfein, are the sort of people you ought to want on your side. \n\nThe implication that having wealthy supporters jeopardizes your credibility is really quite baseless.\n\n\n>I disagree with her fundamentally here, I feel like there should be no wall street money in politics, elections or the legislative process.\n\nWhat is \"wall street money\"? \n\nIt really seems like you're using anti-establishment catch phrases without understanding how the modern economy works. Working americans invest their pensions and retirement savings with wall street, and they make profit when the economy is doing well. So it is rather imprecise to use generalizations like 'wall street money' , or to say she gives \"supportive speeches\". ",
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"content": "> The implication that having wealthy supporters jeopardizes your credibility is really quite baseless\n\nI agree here. This is a failed tactic, and not one to use against her, or anyone that has received money in the past. It certainly does go towards how serious you are about reform, but i don't think it's the real point.\n\nThe actual point is that when you let wall street (and corporate and millionaire donors) pick who they want elected, then the candidates that are most favored by them will typically end up elected.\n\nI don't want people getting elected because they are pro-whoever-donated, I want them elected because they are pro-American people and I don;t think you can really have that until you outright ban the donations.",
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"content": "> The actual point is that when you let wall street (and corporate and millionaire donors) pick who they want elected, then the candidates that are most favored by them will typically end up elected.\n\nBankers on wall street are not a homogeneous group of people, and I think you are treating them like they are, mistakenly.\n\nThe one thing they all want is a strong economy, however. After all, they make money (with the except of short-sellers) when the US economy does well. That is why you don't see them backing Trump.\n\nHillary has a progressive tax plan, quite obviously. But instead of accepting that, Bernie supporters simply call it a lie, and her a liar.",
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"content": "You are right. You don't get it.",
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"content": "Thanks for the explanation. I'd vote for Hillary over trump but not Cruz, which says a lot. She's horrible",
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"content": ">I'm curious, after all the crap Hillary is involved in.\n\nAll of the \"crap\" has no substance. She's a powerhouse in the Democratic party, and has done a lot to push progressive change in the past 30 years, which means she's become a lightning rod to Republicans. \n\nRepublicans have thrown accusation after accusation at her, none of which had any merit. They do that in the hopes that people like you fall victim to the \"where there's smoke there's fire\" fallacy. They don't need to actually get her with something, they just need to accuse her of lots of things so people like you think that she's corrupt.\n\nShe's faced one baseless accusation after another and has been redeemed every single time. It doesn't matter that she's never been found to have done anything wrong, because the fact that certain people think she's bad for what she's \"involved in\" means that what the Republicans are doing is working.",
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"content": "If that is true, how did she become part of the 1%?\n\nWhy does she flip flop so much?\n\nShe copies Bernie Sander's on almost everything now. The very same stuff he's been saying for 40 years. ",
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"content": "I take it back, you're not one of the ones who fell for the right-wing's bullshit tactics, you're one of the ones actively participating in the bullshit tactics.\n\nYou're doing the same thing, you're throwing out baseless accusations to make it look like she's a bad person.\n\n",
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"content": "Are you being serious? You actually believe she isn't corrupt?",
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"content": "Show me some proof. I'm sitting here saying that just because someone's accused of being corrupt doesn't make them corrupt. You really think you're going to convince me just by throwing out another accusation? ",
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"content": "Go Youtube \"13 minutes of Hilary lying\". That'll get you off to a good start.",
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"content": "Next are you going to try and prove chemtrails are real? ",
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"content": "Very intelligent and on-topic response.",
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"content": "Bro,\n\nThere's video footage... Do you even look at the facts? Are you kidding me?\n\nName a topic, ill post you a fucking video as proof. ",
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"content": "Ok, bro, I've got a good one, bro. Recently, Sanders proposed high speed internet for all. Prove to me that Clinton stole that from Sanders, and not the other way around..... Video proof, Bro.",
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"content": "http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/high-speed-internet-investment-democratic-primary/\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjmEGmeZYoI\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYsnfsJ70c0\n\nHE VOTED AGAINST IT in 2001. Hillary DIDN'T.\n\nWay before it was cool,\n\nI love how you say something stupid, why not talk about real issues like healthcare or something?\n\nNext.",
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"content": "BTW, You can make this easy on yourself and simply compare their voting records for the last 40 years. \n\nThere is a reason why Unions Endorse Bernie Sanders and Big Banks/Wall street Endorse Hillary Clinton\n\nThe facts are right in front of you bro... How can you deny hard evidence \n\nhttp://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/politifact%2Fphotos%2FHilberniestarkdifference.jpg\n\nhttp://policydj.com/sandersvshillary.jpg\n\nAlso, how many times has she apologized for her past votes and said \"I am sorry\" and \"People change\"\n\nlol. There's a reason",
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"content": ">HE VOTED AGAINST IT in 2001. Hillary DIDN'T.\n\nWait, what? He voted against high speed internet for all? The two videos you linked don't pertain to providing high speed internet to all. \n\n>I love how you say something stupid\n\nWas it, though? You notice how you weren't able to prove that she stole her plan from Sanders? You posted an article from October of last year and 2 videos that talked about other things that weren't providing high speed internet for all.\n\n>why not talk about real issues like healthcare or something?\n\nBecause they don't have the same plan for healthcare. But if you think you can prove Clinton stole her plan from Sanders, I would LOVE to see that one.",
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"content": "Not voted against high speed internet, voted against laws trying to add data caps and shit and other crap. Someone get the crayons out for this guy.",
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"content": "Yea, that's not what we were talking about. I asked about their infrastructure plans to provide high speed internet to everyone, not ending data caps.\n\nStill waiting on that proof Clinton stole her health care policy from Sanders, though. You're the one that brought it up, not me, now prove it.",
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"content": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCQS--p3JL0\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK0SaUDHYOc\n\n1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWh-wjXz33U",
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"content": "HUGE PLAY LIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBIGaIyLMWJ5UZw0NMPjYEqQjQgdU8vXb",
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"content": "I don't understand why you don't just look at there voting records and than see how many times Hillary has apologized lol. \n\nHave you even seen the photos of the people she mingles and hangs out with? Your BLIND love for Hillary is a HUGE problem. ",
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"content": "And that counts as proof to you, that she stole her healthcare policy from Sanders? ",
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"content": "She took many of her idea's from his, all the shit he has said since 1993.\n\nAre you kidding me?\n\nAgain, LOOK AT THERE GOD DAMN VOTING RECORDS. That should be all the proof you need since you seem to have so much \"Common Sense\".",
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"content": "Didn't you JUST say her health care plan sucks? Did she or did she not steal it from him? If her healthcare plan sucks, does that mean Sanders' does too, since she stole it?\n\nGive me a fucking break. You're literally arguing two different things, here. \n\nYou're not helping Sanders when you do shit like that. As someone who will support Sanders, should he win the nomination, please stop acting like that. You're hurting us all when you do bullshit stuff like that.\n\nYou're not even saying anything. You've resorted to posting random videos in the hopes that i'll give up and move on, so you can beat your chest over some \"moral victory.\" Sure, you never actually proved that Clinton stole her health care plan from Sanders, but I gave up, so that counts as a technical win, right?\n\nI'm done here, but for the love of god, if Sanders wins the nomination, stop being so childish about the whole thing, you and people like you are going to cost him the presidency.",
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"content": "Bro, Sorry ill explain it a better way since you like twisting words just as she does.\n\n\"Her overall healthcare plan sucks\".",
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"content": "Hillary has BIG money, and a ton of recognition. If she is so great, she should be slaughtering Bernie Sanders. Why is it that the poles are so close? Why is it that she accepts money from big parties? You think they do it just because? They wan't nothing in return?\n\nWho are you trying to kid? Yourself or me?",
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"content": "> If she is so great, she should be slaughtering Bernie Sanders.\n\n[Yup, you called it.](https://www.yahoo.com/politics/a-big-night-for-clinton-as-she-wins-ohio-florida-013801150.html)",
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"content": "You obviously don't know your history, at this exact time point in 2008, she was beating Obama by a lot more. So, what this means is... Now all the states that voted for Obama are up next. Also Bernie did a lot better than Obama during these first states. Look who became president for the next 8 years. ",
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"content": "> You obviously don't know your history, at this exact time point in 2008, she was beating Obama by a lot more. \n\nDon't know my history, huh? This is going to be glorious.... Prove it. Show me the delegate count at this point in the '08 election. You're going to be so upset when you look it up.\n\nSo go ahead, back up your insult. Show me which one of us knows their history.",
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"content": "You realize that super delegates don't count until November right? \n\nlord...",
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"content": "I do. I noticed you didn't tell me what the pledged delegate count was in mid march '08. I take it you looked it up and didn't like what you saw.\n\nNow tell me what the pledged delegate count was at this point in 2008. Come on, you're the one that got all pompous and told me I didn't know my history. Don't wimp out now.",
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"content": "Fine, since we both know you're not going to admit you were wrong, I'll tell you. [You're wrong](http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/delegates/). Not only were wrong, you were wrong on BOTH claims!\n\nNot only was Clinton not in the lead at this point in time, she was never beating him by \"a lot more.\" In fact she only held the delegate lead for 4 days, and that was only by 2 delegates (jan 15-jan 19). She was down by 14 delegates at the end of Super Tuesday and never once gained the lead after that.\n\nSo tell me... who doesn't know their history? ",
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"content": "Sorry, was sleeping. Just looked up the information and damn, you are correct. Looks like things may be just as usual, voting for the less of two evils. ",
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"content": "Clinton is holding a victory party tonight in super ritzy West Palm Beach. Bernie Sanders has visited migrant worker camps and rants about the rich exploiting them.",
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"content": "Her healthcare plan sucks. ",
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"content": "Can you name some examples of Hillary taking a position that was unpopular at the time but later proved to be on the right side of history?",
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"content": "Healthcare. ",
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"content": "I miss the 1993 Hillary Clinton. Why couldn't she run for president?",
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"content": "Family leave",
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"content": "> after all the crap Hillary is involved in\n\nsuch as?\n\nall the stuff I've heard is comically insignificant. Yet people talk about it like there are multiple smoking guns against her. Then you ask them to point them out and it's shit like \"she has a personal email account\". Wow what a crime",
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"content": "Don't give a shit about her emails. That's s petty crap. I'm concerned about the type of Donations she recieves and her voting record. I love how she talked about flint only during Michigan, not a word since, she's inconsistent as hell. ",
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"content": "Donations? That is just as petty. People can donate money to who they want. It means nothing. It is simply an asinine implication that she is being \"bought\" by the banks, or some such nonsense. Plenty of wealthy bankers are progressive (Soros, Buffett). It wasn't a problem when Obama was running for president, and yet now it is? ",
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"content": "The fact that you think it means nothing makes you a complete idiot. ",
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"content": "Hey look, a hateful Bernie supporter hurling insult at someone who disagrees with them. Congrats on being part of the problem.",
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"content": "Brain washed much? ",
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"content": "edgy ",
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"content": "Yes, you should see how crazy I'm acting in real life... Slow clap. ",
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"content": "doing ridiculous shit like thinking Sanders is a more viable candidate for President than Hilldog",
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"content": "I'll write in Bernie and barring that I'll vote green. She won't get my vote by default. ",
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"content": "Bernie himself is going to endorse Hillary if she gets the nomination. Likewise Hillary will endorse Bernie if he gets the nomination. \n\nThere will be a small percentage of obstinate voters that vote third party and a slightly larger percentage that just won't vote, but the vast majority of people casting votes in the Democrat primary will vote for the Democrat in November. ",
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"content": ">There will be a small percentage of obstinate voters that vote third party and a slightly larger percentage that just won't vote, but the vast majority of people casting votes in the Democrat primary will vote for the Democrat in November.\n\n[That's exactly what happened in '08](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/06/exit-polls-half-of-clintons-supporters-wont-back-obama/), except back then, a much larger percentage of people said they wouldn't vote for Obama.",
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"content": "I'm pro-Bernie and will be until (or if) he ends his candidacy. \n\nJill Stein is awesome and I would support her if she stands a chance of winning.\n\nI have no qualms about voting third party, and have in the past. But this time around, I can't overcome one problem: The next president will make at least one Supreme Court nomination, and possibly more. And we've seen how important SCOTUS can be in recent years regarding marriage equality and the ACA.\n\nFor all of her faults, I have no reason to believe that Hillary Clinton wouldn't make decent (or even great) nominations for the Supreme Court. \n\nSo I'll vote for Clinton. Not allowing the Republicans to put justices on the Supreme Court becomes my biggest issue, as I see it now, should Bernie Sanders no longer be a candidate. That, and supporting Progressive challengers in Democratic primaries and trying to pull the House and Senate back to the left.\n\nPresident Sanders will need a Progressive Congress that will fight for our values and ideals, and to help bring America into the 21st century. For President Clinton, *America* will need that Progressive Congress.",
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"content": "> So I'll vote for Clinton. Not allowing the Republicans to put justices on the Supreme Court becomes my biggest issue, as I see it now, should Bernie Sanders no longer be a candidate.\n\n**This is so important.** That's why, as a Clinton supporter, I'll vote for Bernie Sanders in a heartbeat if he is the nominee and I will volunteer for his campaign. A Republican in the White House 2017-2021, no matter which Republican, would appoint younger conservatives to the Supreme Court, who would then help turn back the clock on decades of progressive advancements we've made as a country.",
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"content": "Yep. Allowing a Republican to win the White House is how we get another Scalia or Thomas on the Supreme Court. We cannot let that happen.\n\nI attribute a lot of what I expect from Hillary Clinton as President to Bill Clinton's administration. Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer.\n\nAnd for that, I'm very grateful.",
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"content": "Yea, god forbid we get a Republican in the white house. They'll start pushing things like the TPP, nominating Republican SCJs, and cracking down on whistleblowers... oh wait...",
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"content": "> They'll start pushing things like the TPP, nominating Republican SCJs, and cracking down on whistleblowers... oh wait...\n\nWhat makes you think that Hillary Clinton will nominate \"Republican SCJs?\"",
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"content": "I was making an ironic comment about the stuff Obama is doing. This two party game keeps mindless blue shirts so in fear of the GOP that they no longer care that they're voting for neo-cons in blue clothing - just as long as someone with an R next to their name doesn't get elected.",
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"content": "That's not happening. That is only your narrative that you are stating as fact. ",
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"content": "It happened. Obama was elected twice. It's still happening, Hilary is very popular.",
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"content": "Neither one of those people is a neo-con.\n\nDo you even know the meaning of the word? ",
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"content": "From wiki: \"Neoconservatives typically advocate the promotion of democracy and promotion of American national interest in international affairs, including by means of military force, and are known for espousing disdain for communism and for political radicalism.\"\n\nTo a tee.\n\nFrom Webster: \n\n\"1\n: a former liberal espousing political conservatism\n2\n: a conservative who advocates the assertive promotion of democracy and United States national interest in international affairs including through military means\"\n\nTo a tee.\n\n",
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"content": "First of all, wikipedia?\n\nSecondly, Obama does not fit that to a tee when you consider our policies for the 30 years before that, especially the Iraq war. ",
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"content": "What policies for the past 30 years have differed from today? Under Obama we've interfered in Syria, Libya, Egypt, Ukraine, etc. - Iraq and Afghanistan continue. We just use slightly different rhetoric now. Hilary wants more of the same.",
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"content": "Do we have troops in Iraq dying every day? \n\n",
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"content": "Oh, so you're one of those \"boots on the ground\" types, huh? I guess we aren't interfering in the governments in sovereign nations all over the planet as long as we're doing it from the sky and/or with contractors/special ops instead of more typical \"boots on the ground\".\n\nLike I just said, this in the mentality Democrats have fallen into. \"Well... Obama isn't as bad as Bush, so he's a GREAT president and savior of the middle class!\" \"Well, Hilary isn't Trump, so she's a progressive savior of the people!\" Both of them could have run on the GOP ticket 30 (or even 20) years ago, but the average Dem loves them because they don't officially have an R after their name.",
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"content": "Horsecrap. No one ever said they were saviors of anything. \n\nAnd yes, actual invasions and occupations to reshape the middle east are a bit different. How convenient that you conflate them.\n\nNot to mention that 20 - 30 years ago we were supporting Sadam's war against Iran (which included chem warfare), and a cold war was ending which cost millions of lives. \n\nAnd we will be invading Syria, Iraq again and Iran with the GOP. \n\nBut yeah. Same thing. We all know who the mindless one here is. The child with no knowledge of history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "And now we're supporting a neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine that's shelling pro-Russian civilians daily, supporting al queda in Libya because, hey, at least they're not that other guy, supporting a rebel regime in Egypt that since taking power has racked up massive human rights violations, etc. The only one with no knowledge of history is the guy that's so blue-blinded he doesn't realize imperialist US foreign policy hasn't changed since 1812 regardless of who was in office. \n\nYou just stick to the \"boots on the ground\" excuses while Obama continues to dick around in the affairs of nearly every country in the Middle East and northern Africa. Keep saying there's no \"invasion\" while the US drone strike death toll tops 4,000, nearly all of which are innocents. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/15/90-of-people-killed-by-us-drone-strikes-in-afghani/)\n\nYou're right though, we're cool now. No invasions.\n\n",
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"content": "Not neo-conservative though, homey. \n\n",
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"content": "What part of that definition did you have difficulty with? ",
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"content": "That is both a limited and vague definition. ",
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"content": "And your alternative definition would be...? ",
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"content": "Reshaping areas of the world in our image. \n\nNot an alternative. An accurate one. ",
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"content": "What? ",
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"content": "I don't completely disagree with you, /u/awdstylez . **The lesser of two evils is still evil.**\n\nBut Supreme Court justices have lifetime appointments. And, as bad as you and I believe Hillary Clinton is, I can't imagine her nominating someone who is going to strike down marriage equality, the ACA, etc.\n\nI think that we should do all that we can to fight for Bernie now. But should Bernie no longer be a candidate, we should (grudgingly) vote for Clinton and we should direct our energy towards reshaping the Congress, Senate, and (as a result) the Democratic Party itself.\n\nThe \"revolution\" doesn't end if Bernie is no longer running; it merely transitions to winning the legislative branch and this party.",
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"content": "I think more important than anything else is sending a message that the game is over, and nothing does that stronger than shafting Hilary out of the presidency. If Americans aren't awake enough now to snap out of this two party game, let them have Trump. Let them have right-wing justices. Maybe then they'll wake up. This is chess, not checkers.",
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"content": "> If Americans aren't awake enough now to snap out of this two party game, let them have Trump. Let them have right-wing justices.\n\nBut those right-wing justices will be there for decades and they could further entrench the two party system and/or lock the Democratic Party into continuing to be GOP-lite.\n\nAnd NO ONE deserves Trump. Pretty sure inflicting Trump on people violates the Geneva Conventions. ;)",
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"content": "You think the candidate that has most benefited from Citizens United is going to nominate a justice that will overturn it?",
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"content": "Good point. I don't.\n\nBut what about marriage equality and the ACA?",
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"content": "In all honesty, marriage equality is a wedge issue. It's important. It's good we've won it. But at the end of the day, it's WAY down the list of \"issues that will make or break this country\". It's one of those social issues that is used to keep the blue shirts fearful and compliant, same as abortion with the GOP. They've both been won. They aren't going anywhere. The population would never stand for it.\n\nThe ACA? You're fear voting because you're worried we might lose a GOP healthcare plan that's gotten more people covered, but still covered with garbage, high deductible plans, and has destroyed coverage/costs of many in the middle class? I won't lose a wink of sleep over that plan being in danger. ",
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"content": "> ... marriage equality is a wedge issue.\n\nI disagree. This is a basic civil rights issue. A nation of free peoples has no business telling 10%+ of its citizens who they can't marry. Or that a couple can't adopt because they possess the same genitalia. Etc., etc. And marriage equality still seems to currently be an ongoing battle in many states, and a future Supreme Court will have to deal with a marriage equality challenge from Alabama, Kentucky, or some other GOP-occupied state.\n\n> The ACA? You're fear voting because you're worried we might lose a GOP healthcare plan that's gotten more people covered, but still covered with garbage, high deductible plans, and has destroyed coverage/costs of many in the middle class? I'll won't lose a wink of sleep over that plan being in danger. \n\nThe ACA does suck, and one of the (many) reasons that I support Sanders is because I believe America needs to move towards a national healthcare plan. Health care should absolutely be a right and not merely a privilege.\n\nBut the ACA sucks a heck of a lot less than what we had before. For example, I sold insurance in the '90s (one of many things that I'm ashamed of from back then). Few things in life suck harder than having to tell a client that I sent off their health insurance application and the company responded with a policy that was completely unaffordable, or their policy was outright denied because of a pre-existing condition.\n\n*It's so wonderful that you beat cancer! Speaking of which, guess what we're not covering! Besides, whoever heard of cancer re-occurring???*\n\nAdditionally, millions of folks now have a primary care physician and annual checkups, and are less likely to go to the emergency room except for emergency care.\n\nThe GOP got an anti-ACA bill through Congress and President Obama vetoed it, and in the process, made it very clear that the ACA ends if they get the White House. And legal recourses end when that Republican president puts their justices on the Supreme Court.\n\n",
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"content": "They're neoliberals, not neocons.\n\nNeocons are anti-socialist liberals. The term's been pretty much obsolete since the fall of the Soviet Union, although people like the Bushs Sr. and Jr. still identified as such.\n\nNeoliberals are Friedmanites, an ideology similar in practice to neoconservatism but with a distinct economic goal rather than an ideological one. Examples include Reagan, Thatcher, Obama and both Clintons.\n\nIt may be entering tinfoil hat territory, but it's my opinion that both are the same ideology, from the same people, trying to appeal to different audiences. Basically, exactly what you said.",
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"content": "Honestly, it doesn't scare me a bit. Donald Trump is a nut, but you know what? No one knows who he would put in to the Supreme Court. He has been all over the place on his Social Views. I mean... he did donate to the John Kerry and Hillary Clinton campaigns. Honestly, I think a lot of the crazy crap he says is 100% all for show. \n\nI rather have 4 years of Trump than 8 years of Hillary. ",
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"content": "> Honestly, I think a lot of the crazy crap he says is 100% all for show.\n\nWhat kind of crazy crap? Like refusing to disavow David Duke's endorsement? That Mexico is sending drugs, criminals, and rapists? Encouraging violence against protesters? That climate change was invented by the Chinese? That the ACA should be killed?\n\nIf a political candidate thinks THAT is what they can say and still win an election, it will only get worse after they're sworn in.\n\nAnd what view of the1965 Voting Rights Act would a Trump-appointed justice have? SCOTUS had already gutted part of it in 2013, opening the door for GOP efforts to suppress minority voter turnout.\n\nNeither Donald Trump nor Ted Cruz is better than Hillary Clinton. And it is absolutely ridiculous to suggest otherwise.",
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"content": "There is no chance the I, someone who is voting for Sanders in the Ohio primary today, will vote for Hillary in November. Zero chance of that happening. I'll just skip the Presidential election and vote for other stuff on the ballot. ",
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"content": "No, don't do that-- not voting is silence. Then they will just claim \"low voter turn-out\". No, you need to tell them that you are rejecting both candidates by voting for a 3rd party candidate. ",
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"content": "I will never vote hillary. I will put my vote to the Green Rainbow party before I ever vote Hillary.",
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"content": "Hillary cannot win the general election. She's made horrible gaffes in the run against Sanders (who doesn't fight dirty). She'll be ripped to pieces by Trump.\n\nAt this point the DNC establishment is hurting the Democratic cause worse than the RNC is. And as usual, they'll blame the voters for their mistakes.",
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"content": "> She's made horrible gaffes in the run against Sanders\n\nLike what?",
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"content": "Wondering where he was during the 93 fight for Healthcare. For one of many. ",
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"content": "That's what's considered a \"horrible gaffe\" these days? Wow, the bar is really low when it comes to Clinton, isn't it? \n\nMeanwhile Trump does things like say he could murder his own followers and not lose support. I'm dumbfounded that you think something like that could cost her the presidency.\n\nOut of curiosity, how many election cycles have you lived through? ",
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"content": "When outright lying isn't seen as despicable, your party has a problem. \n\nMy first vote was for Bill Clinton so this isn't my first rodeo, BTW.",
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"content": "That wasn't a gaffe. She was reminding him that she was the face of the fight for healthcare for all in the early 90's and that they are on the same side of the fight. Hillarycare was a thing and it started the decades long smear attacks from the GOP against her.\n\nSanders doesn't fight dirty, huh? Why did he accuse her of trying to [steal votes](http://iowainformer.com/politics/2016/03/sanders-alleges-cheating-at-polk-county-convention/)?",
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"content": ">That wasn't a gaffe. She was reminding him that she was the face of the fight for healthcare for all in the early 90's and that they are on the same side of the fight. \n\nNo she wasn't. She was trying to make it look like Bernie wasn't involved in the discussion at all even though it's common knowledge that he was. In fact, she wasn't even for single payer back then. Bernie honestly tried to persuade her that single payer was the right direction and she dismissed him as unrealistic. ",
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"content": "She was **the face of healthcare** in the 90's. It wasn't even single payer, to your point, and she was lambasted and the GOP went apeshit. How do you think single payer would have gone over? The point is, she was leading the charge. Bernie seems to conveniently forget that. ",
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"content": "She did a terrible job of leading. That's my point. The evidence is in her results. Nothing. Not a damn thing. ",
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"content": "What has Bernie done to get single payer passed? [Nothing.](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernies-record-220508) \n\nEven with Obama leading the charge for ACA 20 years later (which is even less than what Hillary wanted passed), he barely got it through. That was on an 80% approval rating and a Democratic majority congress. The GOP is still starting lawsuits against ACA and will be for years.\n\nRegardless, she learned a lot from that and is a better policymaker for it. At least she tried, which is what I constantly hear from the Bernie supporters: \"You have to at least try to make progress in this country.\" Well, she did and you give her zero credit. Bernie does nothing but talk, talk, talk and you want him to be President. Your logic makes no sense to me.",
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"content": "I give her zero credit because she accomplished nothing. I'm not sure what HRC has accomplished with her political career. I've seen a lot of corruption and manipulation, but I haven't seen anything that makes me feel like she gives a good goddamn about her fellow Americans. \n\nBernie at least voted in favor of the Affordable Care Act. He attempted to help her with Universal health care because he was attempting to get a universal system set up in his state. ",
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"content": "He voted for something therefore he deserves to be President? Did you read the article I linked to? You really should. Bernie has no record to draw on to qualify him to be President.\n\nInteresting how you state categorically she hasn't accomplished anything and then say you don't know what she's accomplished. Here's Hillary's list of [accomplishments](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/22/1264826/-Hillary-s-Otstanding-Accomplishments)",
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"content": "http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/02/19/heres-a-long-list-of-bernie-sanders-accomplishments-with-citations/\n\nYou won't see anything about serving on corporate boards for union busting firms, accepting donations from foreign dictatorships in exchange for arms deals, or accepting tens of millions of dollars from financial firms for \"talking\". \n\nEdit: Also, if you're truly interested in people reading the stuff you post, you should seriously consider using some type of formatting. That wall of text looks like it was written by a fourteen year old and it hurts my eyes. ",
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"content": "Yeah, there's that purity argument being trotted out again. \n\nI know about formatting. I showed it like that for the optics to get a point across. You don't seem like you're interested in actually learning anything beyond what you've heard in sound bytes.",
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"content": "Purity argument? No, my argument is that she's a corporatist, elitist and she hasn't the slightest concern for the *people* of this country. I'm not concerned with \"purity\". I'm concerned with honesty and integrity. I'm concerned with the wellbeing of the American people. I'm not worried about the future of the rich. They'll be okay. They're not hurting at all. I'm worried about working families and minorities. I'm worried about our young people and their futures. This woman has done everything in her power to sell off those young people and their futures then turn around and pretend that she was working for us. \n\nI know plenty about HRC. I've been following her career for some twenty years. Thanks for the wall of text, but it's not necessary and it's utterly useless in that form. \n\nBtw, did you read the article that I linked? ",
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"content": "We actually have a lot in common on things we care about. I guess that's why we'e both Dems. I think you are sorely mistaken about Hillary. Again, I would ask you to really look at her list of accomplishments and sincerely say she doesn't care about people. Her whole life, all she's done is work to improve the lives of people around her. All your arguments against her sound like right wing talking points. They make no sense.\n\nI did look at Bernie's list of accomplishments. It was longer than I realized so thanks for that. I learned something. Some of the things listed aren't really things he can lay claim to and listing everything he voted on shouldn't be considered accomplishments. \n\nDid you read what I sent you? \n\nI'll remove the wall of text. 🤓",
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"content": ">She is well aware that Republicans hate anybody that isn’t white, male, conservative and rich.\n\nShe only fails to meet one of those criteria. \n\nShe was an avid supporter of the 1994 crime bill. She has always been a firm supporter of increasing the means tested requirements for welfare and other sorts of assistance. She and the establishment bailed out Wallstreet but ignored the millions of homeowners who went under during the housing crisis. Where were they when lawmakers were turning the higher education industry into a for profit debt trap for our youngest citizens? If she cared at all about Americans she wouldn't be helping her corporate buddies put them in jail, debt, the streets, or foreign wars with no positive outcomes. \n\nSure, she's accomplished a lot for herself. I'm not convinced that she's done anything for anyone less fortunate than her. ",
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"content": "I think you meant to respond to someone else. I didn't say that.",
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"content": "No, that came from your link. ",
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"content": "I missed that. I don't agree with it. The list is good though but I won't link to it anymore because of that comment. \n\nYou don't think she tried to help anyone even though she tried to get healthcare for all Americans? \n\n",
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"content": "She didn't do anything. Nothing resulted from her efforts. \n\nBeyond that, a completely private system is useless to the working poor. In my state there are millions still without access to affordable healthcare. How is this a success? In states that optimized the ACA, people are still overpaying private firms to delegate what their healthcare priorities should be. That's not democracy. That's not freedom. That's corporatism. That's the US's new form of government: Corporatism. And right-wing fascism is soon to follow. The two go hand and hand. Have fun with your \"candidate\". Have a nice night. ",
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"content": "That's such a double standard. Bernie hasn't done anything. He hasn't even tried to get healthcare. All he did was vote for ACA but you think that's fantastic. Hillary Clinton wasn't even in the Senate then but still [lobbied](http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/01/emails-show-hillary-lobbied-democratic-lawmakers-to-vote-for-obamacare/) for it. You continue to fault her for trying and failing but praise Bernie for not even trying. You don't think that sounds odd? \n\nI am having a great night celebrating our new President! Ciao. ",
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"content": "Bernie has done quite a bit. You said so yourself. I'm sure you'll Edit that out, but who cares. \n\nI'm not going to celebrate a Trump presidency. I'm not sure you should either. ",
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"content": "Wow, okay, whatever. I guess you're in a bad mood and I understand why. ",
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"content": "Yeah, I'm concerned about all of the people who are going to end up in prison, on the streets, or dead. You should consider them too. Tata. ",
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"content": "I like how serving in the senate is no longer good enough experience to serve as president. Now if they weren't living in the white house for at least six years beforehand, it's not enough.\n\nHow much experience did Obama have before becoming POTUS?",
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"content": "Expect according to every poll, where Hillary beats Trump by a huge margin across every demographic. (Including the 25% of young Republican voters who say that they'll defect and vote for Hillary if Trump becomes the nominee.)\n\nIt's so amusing that the Trump supporters think that their candidate alienating nonwhites and women by a massive margin is somehow going to win them a general election. The more Trump fights dirty and acts like an ass, the more he drives away moderate Republicans and independent voters, minorities and women. They just can't STAND the fact that elections aren't decided by uneducated white men anymore. ",
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"content": "Wrong. I'll write in my own name before voting for someone as corrupt as Hilary. No more two party games. No more lesser of two evils.",
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"content": "Hope you like Trump",
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"content": "For some perspective, [here's an article from 2008](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/06/exit-polls-half-of-clintons-supporters-wont-back-obama/).\n\nWe all know how that turned out.",
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"content": "This topic keeps coming up and of course the politically active members of political subreddits are inclined to vote for Hillary rather than Trump - they're politically active! It's the people that Bernie himself was *barely* able to get engaged, people from low-voter neighborhoods, young people who are just starting in politics, and Independents that feel no loyalty that you have to worry about.",
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"content": "You act like young people have never voted before and never will again.",
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"content": ">young people have never voted before \n \n\nThe \"young vote\" is a demographic of people who never *have* voted. \nI'm not sure what you are trying to say here. \n",
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"content": "Youth certainly voted for Obama in '08, in fact they were his best demographic and 27% of total voters. Bernie fans have been discounted from the beginning because the \"youth aren't reliable\". So if Bernie will lose because youth don't turnout, and the youth statistically prefer Bernie to Hillary, and the youth are the best demographic for Democrats, how would the problem not be even worse with Hillary?",
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"content": "The truth of course is that it will be. A yuuuge proportion of those voting Sanders have no interest beyond his candidacy. Had Obama not gained the nomination the actual number of voters would have been significantly less. The same would be the case this time. The likelihood of a Trump success in the General is massively increased by a Clinton nomination. He will use the same tactic Clinton does against Sanders. Say it loud in the most public arena even knowingly false, because the repudiation will be heard by significantly fewer. The balance is shifted. If you think Trump will not hammer every tale associated at every opportunity as loudly as possible you are wrong. If you think the American public will see through that as a tactic I refer you to the last few months campaigning.\nHillary will struggle, as she has so far, to energise the non committed voter. Her real problem is that even though Sanders will undoubtedly support her, she has no appeal to the majority of the newly franchised. Those that stay politically motivated will likely vote to the left of the 'Democrats'. \nThe remaining will drift away like so may others before them. Like all those energised Obama supporters that drifted of in 2010 when they realised the promises were lies.",
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"content": "You act as though the 37% voter turnout in 2014 wasn't both terrifying and embarrassing. \n\nWhen people vote, and their candidates fail to accomplish the goals they elected them for, they drop out. They stop caring because they feel as though they have no voice. \n\nHRC isn't interested in the voices of average Americans, or working poor families. She's intent on carrying out the wishes of the ruling classes. This makes sense. She's one of them and has been for decades. She has nothing in common with the average American. The same things can be said about every last one of the GOP candidates. ",
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"content": "I mean, it's one thing if your state's a foregone conclusion one way or another.\n\nBut if you're in any state that's contested at all, in any state where either major-party candidate has a realistic shot at winning, and you vote third-party or not at all if Sanders isn't the nominee, you're essentially putting your own vanity over the real lives of millions of people which are going to be affected by the outcome of this election.",
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"content": "Not all of us! \n\nhttp://wontvotehillary.com/",
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"content": "cute site",
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"content": "I changed my party affiliation to Democrat for the primary. Changing that now. ",
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"content": "Bernice's ideals and the heart of his revolution go much deeper than a single election. When the time comes, he will indeed ask his followers to support Hillary Clinton, and those of us who understand and support his values and who honor what he stands for will do just that. \n\nWe'll keep working to support a real progressive agenda and continue to do the work and support candidates who can get us ever closer to reaching our goals, while working within the structure of the party to push for real change; that's how the work gets done, and how change happens. \n\n\"Bernie or bust\" was always a non-starter, and does nothing as a strategy towards furthering the progressive causes that Bernie stands for. \n\n",
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"content": "Do you have a point?",
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"content": "When one family has more wealth than almost half of the US, that's a problem ",
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"content": "Oh, so they don't deserve prosperity? You you know what, we should go take it from them and give it to the head of state, right?",
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"content": "Well, the American government could stop giving them billions in government assistance...that would be cool",
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"content": "Such as?",
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"content": "Such as what? My statement was an example of what we could do about them having that much money. ",
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"content": "So what's the resolution? Take it from them? I don't see your point. ",
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"content": "Our government gives the waltons approximately 6 billion dollars a year. That's our tax money handed to the richest family in world for no justifiable reason. It's like giving a morbidly obese person a cake. My point is that we could stop doing that. ",
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"content": "How are they getting 6 billion?",
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"content": "I'm at work so I can't link you to any sources but they are paid by our government for subsidies (which are artificial ways to keep costs down)",
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"content": "Good thing you can't watch TV at work. Bernie is being positively destroyed. ",
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"content": "Well, I never mentioned my political preference but I never thought he would make it past primaries",
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"content": "Well, for starters - making them pay *all* of their workers enough and requiring them to provide proper medical benefits so that the taxpayers don't have to make up the difference, thereby giving Walmart a subsidy that other businesses don't get.",
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"content": "Those aren't their workers. You understand it's a corporation, right? ",
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"content": "You understand that they own 50% of all Walmart stock, right? They still make money because the workforce of Walmart is subsidized by the rest of the country. ",
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"content": "And their roles are limited to puppets. They sit and live off their dividends. They don't hire a single store employee. Don't like Walmart? Don't shop there. I never do. But this \"spread the wealth\" bullshit that you socialists go after just makes you seem like typical, unsuccessful sanders supporters who live at moms home and work part time at GameStop. ",
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"content": ">Oh, so they don't deserve prosperity? You you know what, we should go take it from them \n\nI mean, it's not like they earned it. They inherited Walmart and the money",
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"content": "So if your parents died, we could just give their estate to the IRS?",
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"content": "If my parents died I wouldn't inherit 40% of the wealth in the US. It's not even comparable ",
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"content": "Do you have a point then? That family started and grew one of the worlds largest retailers, and inherited significant wealth. Why is that my business?",
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"content": "They didn't build that wealth in a vacuum.",
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"content": "Oh, they deserve to have the playing board skewed so they benefit at the expense of 40% of the population?",
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"content": "They benefit from having a successful family. They live off an inheritance. ",
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"content": "They benefit from the system being optimized to their needs at everyone else's expense. Who do you think sees the greatest benefit from NAFTA and TPP?",
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"content": "You want to talk about laws signed and trumpeted by democrats now? ",
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"content": "Bernie will make at least 400% more than I will this year. That's not fair either. I'm also responsible for 100% of my health insurance and anything else I want to pay for, unlike the many extra freebies he gets as a politician.",
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"content": "Bernie Sanders is among the least wealthy members of Congress and IS the least wealthy primary candidate ",
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"content": "Still makes more than me. That's all that matters. I'm supposed to be angry at anyone that makes a lot more money than me.",
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"content": "Bernie Sanders does not own a massive portion of the US economy, the Walton family does. Apples and Oranges ",
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"content": "Did anyone dispute that?",
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"content": "Most of the 1% aren't actively dicks and advocate for good causes donating heavily with their wealth based in land or investments.\n\nThe Waltons on the other hand stand out even more than the Kochs supporting union busting while giving little to charity while their networth grew from wiping out the economies of many small towns.",
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"content": "It wasn't entirely the US state apparatus as it was their leverage over their Chinese supply chain which let them slash manufacturing costs. They also used the size of their retail chain to then strong-arm other manufacturers into selling their goods at far lower costs.\n\nYes, the US made trade easier with China and helped to reduce shipping costs but the Waltons accomplished their scalability actually without many relationships in Washington; WalMart only started lobbying heavily in the late 90's and 00's after it grew and ran into protests from small-town Republicans and progressive Democrats who saw a common enemy.\n\ntl;dr They were dicks even without the state helping them.",
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"content": "[This Fast Company article](http://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart) is a good look at how Walmart does business.",
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"content": "How do you know who said what in Walmart board meetings?",
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"content": "\"Someone else couldn't remember what she said.\" That's a brilliant level of inquiry, 100% solid reporting. ",
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"content": "Someone who once also owned stock in a corporation that Hillary Clinton also owned stock in said something bad. There, Hillary Clinton agreed. That's even better and is 110% better sourcing than you even started with. \n\nHow many of the board meetings that Hillary attended involved discussions about labor unions? \n\nEdit: and you can keep your one default upvote, kiddo. ",
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"content": "#Florida:\n\n* **Winner: Clinton & Trump**\n\n#North Carolina:\n\n* **Winner: Clinton & Trump**\n\n#Ohio:\n\n* **Winner: Clinton & Kasich**\n\n#Illinois:\n\n* **Winner: Clinton & Trump**\n\n#Missouri:\n\n* **Winner: Clinton & Trump**\n\n#Northern Marianas: \n\n* **Winners are Clinton & Trump**",
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"content": "Only comments are deletions? Been in bed sick, but as Ohio goes, so goes the nation. I have the feeling rules are about to be tightened in this subedit again. :-)",
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"content": "Clinton is up 2% in IL with 92% in. Sanders is going to win in MO only, strange state for him to win. Well maybe, he is up by 1% with 94% in. ",
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"content": "Didn't even win in MO. Very tough day for him.",
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"content": "Ah, the Bernie Bros are DVing like crazy. Looks like Clinton is going to win IL too. And votes are coming in from St. Louis and may pull out MO. Give me some of those St. Louis Blues Pops.",
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"content": "CNN has just called Illinois for Clinton:\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/states/il/Dem",
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"content": "Damn! One away from a sweep.",
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"content": "She's pulled into the lead in Missouri:\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/states/mo/Dem",
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"content": "Yes, not called yet though but signs are looking real good.",
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"content": "This one is only psychological now but it would be a painful mental loss for Sanders.",
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"content": "Hillary Clinton is up by 1122 votes in Missouri. She's leading by 0.2%.",
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"content": "NBC has called Missouri for Clinton:\n\nhttp://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/primaries/MO",
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"content": "IL called for Clinton, .4% difference in MO.",
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"content": "Damn it could be a sweep. Doesn't matter about MO except for the psychological beating it would inflict.",
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"content": "Clinton 2100 down in MO with 2% out.",
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"content": "She has taken the lead now.",
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"content": "And the remaining counties are urban.",
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"content": "You mean remaining county. One one hasn't reported in yet.",
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"content": "Partially reported precincts. Hillary Clinton is up by 1122 votes in Missouri. She's leading by 0.2%.",
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"content": "And she has won.",
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"content": "Yes, they are calling it with 99.9% in!",
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"content": "It is weird. They have called her the **\"apparent winner** - instead of the projected winner as they usually do. That means that all the votes are in and she is ahead. Weird that they just don't say winner.",
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"content": "When the delegate count is shaken out, it will probably be more than half way and double.",
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"content": "Clinton now has 1561 of the 2,382 needed to Win\t(super delegates included). Bernie has 800.\n\n",
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"content": "And that still is not final count as they still won't have added all the Congressional District delegates to each though Clinton will get most of those.",
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"content": "Can't really argue these results, Although I am sure many will. Tough night for Sanders and his supporters. Not much happens over the next two weeks either. ",
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"content": "If you're a Clinton supporter, this is about as good a night as you could have asked for. Sweep all five states, and the Republicans, with Kasich winning Ohio, have set themselves up for a brokered convention. ",
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"content": "No one is more surprised than me. ",
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"content": "I'm pretty surprised she squeaked by Sanders in Missouri. What a photo finish . . . ",
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"content": "Here's a direct comparison of the two articles: http://newsdiffs.org/diff/1104528/1105097/www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/bernie-sanders-amendments.html\n\nAnd a Medium piece with some more discussion: https://medium.com/@brokenravioli/proof-that-the-new-york-times-isn-t-feeling-the-bern-c74e1109cdf6#.k349gti18",
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"content": "It's over. ",
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"content": "That doesn't mean we shouldn't hold \"journalists\" to a higher standard.",
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"content": "Is it? Because the way I see it, your candidate and her corporate sponsors have just ensured that a new generation of liberal/progressive voters will be disenfranchised, that the voter turnout will continue to dip as it did in 2014, and that the GOP will continue to be the most relevant party in the United States political system. So yeah, I guess it is over. But not in the way you think it is. In the meanwhile, we have no media group that is worthy of even the most basic trust. Why even read the news? They're changing the content of the article while you're fucking reading it. Yeah, you \"won\". ",
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"content": "Woo hoo! ",
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"content": "I truly feel sorry for you. It's really going to suck hard in November and you'll blame the right. Here's to shooting oneself in the foot!",
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"content": "I know your predictions have such a good track record. \n\n",
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"content": "\"I didn't get my way so I will throw the chicken nuggets on the floor.\"",
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"content": "Comical analogies, while funny, aren't solving any problems. \n\nThere's every reason to believe that Hillary's career and her \"win at all costs\" attitude may have lost the DNC the presidency. What's indisputable is that she's disenfranchised younger and independent voters. Consider that Trump's tactics are often effective on those groups. Hillary isn't getting any of them out of their seats to vote in November. She's more of the same. **Literally.** We've already had a president Clinton. It was her husband. ",
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"content": "Her \"win at all cost\" attitude will make her less likely to win and by winning all these primaries, she's only proving how unelectable she is. ",
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"content": "Wait until there is some coherence within the GOP. Trump can only make it worse. ",
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"content": "She's a ...... HiLIARy !",
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"content": "The NY Times is a family owned, a Jewish family owned, newspaper, that has won, is going to win, and will win in the future, more Pulitzer Prizes than any newspaper. Sanders people questioning their integrity is a joke. When you are dead, you grandchildren will be using it as a source for research. Not the interceptor and all the other crap that I see posted from the Sanders people, Salon, and all that other nonsense. Think about that.",
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"content": "> a Jewish family owned\n\nWhat the hell is this supposed to mean? Even in the context of praise, that is completely irrelevant and thus offensive.",
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"content": "In the context of Corporate owned, it is not true. It is not offensive in that I doubt they would let their editors persecute a clean politician who like them also happens to be Jewish from New York City. I think that is highly relevant.",
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"content": "> I doubt they would let their editors persecute a clean politician who like them also happens to be Jewish from New York City\n\nIt doesn't work like that, and suggesting it does only adds to how offensive it is by adding a slander on journalists. You might get that line of jive past some young people, but not this longtime journo whose partner used to be a reporter for the Times and who has spent 20 years researching the soft edges and coded rhetoric of the hard right. What you said here IS functionally if not intentionally anti-Semitic, as well as [conspiracist](http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/). I strongly urge your better self to accept this criticism and learn more about both aspects of how you misspoke here.",
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"content": "OK, how did I misspeak? As you can tell, I believe that the NY Times is the finest, albeit not perfect, news organization in the United States. I take it very personally that without any evidence that there is a charge that editorial side of the Times is controlling the reporting side. Along with that is the charge of a corporate owned media which is also not true. I have read the NY Times, just about every day since 1985 except when out of the country, etc., formally married to someone half Jewish but won't go there, but the charge of anti-semitism does upset me since, as you can see from all my other postings that there is nothing to indicate that. I'm all ears either as a comment or private message.",
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"content": "> how did I misspeak\n\nThat was me being generous because I know you did not intend to be offensive. \n\nIt's true that the *editorial board* does not control reporters (although of course *editors* direct reporters). \"Corporate\" ownership was never really the issue: the problem is *public corporations*, esp. diversified ones, which made profit margins more important than public service. Family ownership stopped mattering about 15 years ago, when concentration of ownership reached the point that even nominally independent publishers realized they had to survive in a market newly dominated by publicly traded companies that had cut costs by decimating editorial staffs. [The last family owned major paper was sold off last year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Columbus_Dispatch), but [the Times went \"corporate\" years ago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Carlos_Slim_loan_and_investment) in response to those pressures. The family retains formal power, but it is mediated by market forces. \n\nThe Times is one of the best traditional news orgs left, but there's no sense in pretending it's an island of journalistic purity.\n\nIn any case, this argument is now so charged that I'm walking away for now. See you around.",
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"content": "Send me a message and uncharge it then. You know I am not unreasonable.",
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"content": "Have you heard about Rupert Murdouch?\n\nYou wouldn't be bragging about the ownership if you knew who the owner was. ",
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"content": "\"Rupert Murdouch\" has nothing to do with the NY Times.",
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"content": "I apologize. I was thinking of the Wall Street Journal.",
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"content": "Accepted, big difference there pardner. Right-wing nut case from Australia versus liberal, Jewish family from NYC.",
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"content": "To be fair, Murdouch owns a shit ton. I have also heard a rumor once that he hunts people in the same style as *The Most Dangerous Game*.",
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"content": "Oh for god sake. \n\nIf anything, the media has been pretending Sanders is a real candidate in the interest of reporting on the primary even though the outcome was clear weeks ago. ",
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"content": "Same /r/conspiracy bull. Articles go to the web without the print editor having final edit on them. It is published policy. This happens all the time. I have had postings pulled because the name changed after posting them because of this more times than I can count. This is just your paranoia. If you have any evidence that there is a tight wall of separation between editorial and reporting lay it out here because this sure isn't it. And then send it to the public editor, post what you sent and then post his/her reply. I am sure though knowing the Bernie Bros it has already happened 10,000 times, so just post the reply and you'll get the same thing I just put here. DV away now.",
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"content": "\n>It's stridently derisive, essentially saying there's no evidence Bernie's \"small-ball\" approach (I guess Republicans aren't the only ones not above testicular innuendo) could ever succeed on the big stage.\n\nI guess the author isn't a baseball fan?",
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"content": "The Democratic Party is a diverse coalition made up of people with many different points of view. The majority of those people have cast their vote for Hillary.\n\nI'm sorry that your candidate may not win the nomination, but what you are suggesting is a temper tantrum.\n\nAs Democrats, we need to unite our progressive voices behind the nominee and vote for whomever that is in November. That's exactly what it means to be a party.",
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"content": "There's nothing progressive about putting the mentally ill in prison, waging unjust wars, forcing young people into terminal debt, forcing the struggling poor into the streets, or privatizing our national infrastructure. Your candidate is not progressive. What she represents is no different than what the right is offering. Hell, if they give the nom to Kasich, I'll vote for him. ",
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"content": "There are real, substantive differences between the central platfrom of each party. A Republican win in November means the end of the ACA, gutting the EPA, and up to 3 conservative appointments to the Supreme Court. I'm determined to prevent that by voting for the Democratic nominee in November.\n\nI think you need to take a step back and put things in perspective. \n",
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"content": "The EPA has been gutted. Look at Flint and all of the other cities around the country that have contaminated water. The EPA belongs to lobbyists and corporations. \n\nThe ACA isn't anything special. It's just more privatization. In my state it hasn't had a positive effect for working people. There are still 800,000 people without insurance in my state. That's about 13.3%. The SCOTUS appointments sound nice, but I don't trust HRC with anything. She only acts in her own interests. She is just as capable of appointing a bad justice as anyone on the right. Yeah I understand the social issues that you've mentioned. SCOTUS judges don't like to overturn previous rulings. For obvious reasons. \n\nThe issues that concern me aren't social. *A lot* of those have been dealt with. What hasn't even been considered is our changing economy. What concerns me is how the people are going to continue to feed, clothe*, and shelter themselves without being in perpetual slavery. ",
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"content": "Thats how I feel, disappointed. I was not even born in this country and I feel bad that there are no real choices in this stolen land of milk and honey. It has become a land of thieves",
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"content": "This. ",
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"content": "No, you are mistaken. There are some of us that see no difference in the two party system, we really need for Bernie Sanders to run as an independent. Then we could have 4 candidates to choose from. Trump , Hillary, Sanders and Cruz/Kasich. Its time both parties stop selling us short",
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"content": "Im with you bud. I feel disappointed that we have those who would do anything for \"their\" party. I vote for whoever is best for this nation I love. Right now we have no options",
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"content": "No, I just do not want a Corporate sell out oligarchy, and I don't want Trump the idiot , so I can't sell my self out any longer. I am writing in \"Bernie Sanders\" . I am so disappointed",
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"content": "I am not a democrat nor a republican. I want what is best for this nation. If Sanders ran as independent I would vote for him. I will do the next best thing and write his name in. I think many more people will be doing the same. I have convinced my family and I am getting PM's from many other subreddits that they will be doing what I will be doing, or perhaps voting for another party",
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"content": "Those pms are from Trump supporters. Every Sanders voter who writes in or votes 3rd party is a win for them. Read about the effect of Ralph Nader in the 2000 election.\n\nIt's hard when you don't get what you want, but it happens. A tantrum vote is not in the country's best interest.",
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"content": "Call it what you like, but I can't get myself to vote for Hillary - she is icky , really a slick icky willy, and Trump is an ass that I could vote for just to not give hillary the crown. I will write in \"Bernie Sanders\" just to spise you",
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"content": "by the way, most PM's (had to look) are Bernie supporters , or at least comment positively about Bernie on /r/uspolitics and /r/americanpolitics , I think you are fooling yourself if you think [Hillary](http://i.imgur.com/bo1KoDD.jpg) is really going to beat Trump",
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"content": "Yeah, I'm thinking now that I'm going to do the same. HRC's campaign has pushed me over the edge. No matter who wins there are still going to be millions of Americans living in inescapable poverty, going to prison, dying from preventable diseases, and fighting and dying in unnecessary wars. I don't want either of those candidates. They're both garbage and they'll both continue down the corporate path of turning our society into garbage. ",
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"content": "Absolutely. Bernie has and will continue to bring integrity to the democratic party and the nation. He has much to be proud of. I sincerely hope he will serve in the new administration's cabinet. We need him.",
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"content": "Yep he's forced Hillary to become a better candidate ",
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"content": "I agree.",
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"content": "I disagree. I think we need to start unifying as a party. Bernie should drop out and give his supporters time to mull it out a bit before supporting Hillary.",
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"content": "He already said hes in it to the end.",
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"content": "All candidates say this to make sure there is no speculation that they will drop out, causing their votes to decline.\n\nBut I suppose Bernie is better at keeping his word than most.",
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"content": "So has Kasich, even though it's mathematically impossible for him to win at this point. At a certain point, it will be impossible for Sanders to win as well, and at that point I think he should stop running and endorse Clinton.",
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"content": "Bernie needs to do something to get his supporters behind Hillary. Right now it wouldn't shock me if a bunch of them plan on either writing him in or voting for Trump out of spite.",
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"content": "You mean indulge them in a losing cause? \n\n",
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"content": "I don't treat them like they are idiots. If anything, I have been treated like an idiot, a sell-out, a \"mindless blueshirt\", etc. \n\nI don't think they are idiots at all. They are idealists, which is not a stupid thing. \n\nTrump supporters are idiots because they have no idea what they stand for. ",
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"content": "No, they believe they can win. \n\nMathematically, they are correct. \n\nProbability-wise, it's not a good outlook. \n\n",
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"content": "It's pretty much over. Don't live in fantasy land.",
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"content": "This will change *everything.*",
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"content": "I doubt it. Hillary could be caught on camera clubbing baby seals and her supporters would say that she was just petting them with a stick.\n\nMoney, media and the powers that be are pulling out all the stops for \"their girl\". It's just disappointing that so many people are too blind to see it. ",
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"content": "What does this have to do with Hillary and why do you think this would favor her? ",
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"content": "Or they see it, acknowledge it, and still support her. You're probably not the genius you think you are. ",
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"content": "Someone is #PeelingTheFern. ",
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"content": "Did... did you just blame *Hillary?*",
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"content": "Think he thought there was no need to add the /s",
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"content": "ding ding",
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"content": "I live in Polk County: Winter Haven. Voted there also. Very curious where this was.",
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"content": "I had to fight for a Libertarian ballot in rural Missouri. ",
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"content": "Throw any punches?",
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"content": "I use fight loosely haha. More like trying to explain there are other parties besides Democrat and Republican. The large women in a Hilary shirt was having none of my 3rd party bs.",
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"content": "Wait, a poll worker was wearing a Hillary shirt. Isn't that illegal? Or was she just another voter in line?",
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"content": "\"We had to wait for them to find ballots before we could vote.\" Wow what a story. ",
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"content": "I hate her face and voice mostly. ",
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"content": "I an sure she likes yours. ",
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"content": "Wow. A comeback worthy of a second-grader.",
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"content": "I swear, Correct the Record put their lowest-level guys on this subreddit. No one over the age of 21.",
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"content": "I am far older than 21, son. You are the one whining about someone's voice. \n\n",
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"content": "You do realize that different users are different people, right? So u/areyoumydad- wasn't whining about anyone's voice. He was poking fun at your misspelled 2nd grade comeback.",
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"content": "Oh, I have to start taking notes on the meaningless whining comments from reddit users. Thanks!",
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"content": "The answer to a question that no one asked.",
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"content": "(Whoosh)",
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"content": "You're just not very good at being condescending. ",
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"content": "You thought I was being condescending?",
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"content": "So you're not gonna disavow the disgusting comment from the OP? ",
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"content": "u/Simpuhl, I don't think that it's appropriate to hate someone only or primarily because of their face and voice. I'm not sure what the intention behind your comments were, but it comes across as mildly sexist to some. Please do a better job of helping us elevate the discourse of this subreddit by focusing on the issues.",
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"content": "... ",
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"content": "You mean the original comment wasn't second grade level? ",
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"content": "They didn't misspell \"am\" as \"an\" like you did. So, although it was a juvenile comment, it was a slightly higher writing level than yours.",
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"content": "Woo givs a shit? I am on mobile. \n\nFunny how you took the time to whine about spelling. You are grasping. ",
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"content": "Ok, Veggie, whatever you say. :)",
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"content": "Thanks for increasing the maturity ratio on this post.",
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"content": "You're welcome.",
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"content": "Can you get me a cup of coffee, too?",
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"content": "Probably not, because I don't actually know you.",
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"content": "No, it's okay. I trust you to make the coffee. ",
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"content": "Well, if you don't get it for me, how will you ever know for sure? ",
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"content": "Sorry, accidentally deleted my comment which said, \"I don't trust you to drink coffee.\"\n\n>Well, if you don't get it for me, how will you ever know for sure?\n\nTo be honest, I'm not interested in finding out.",
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"content": "You can add half and half, if you want. As long as the coffee is hot. ",
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"content": "And to think, I pictured you as the iced coffee type.",
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"content": "No, it would have to be really humid out for that. I prefer espresso, actually. ",
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"content": "What about one of those single-cup machines?",
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"content": "They are not great. Just passable. You cannot control the strength of the coffee. ",
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"content": "That depends do you like the face? Cause if you do then she's been a supporter of your face her entire career.",
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"content": "What? ",
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"content": "Never mind I have spent my entire career fighting against his face. ",
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"content": "This is a realy silly argument. Hilary isn't losing states because she is a woman. She's losing because she is up against a more progressive candidate and because she has a history of inconsistency. This article is deflecting from that. And trying to paint her as a victim. She is not a victim. She is not an underdog. Her gender does not necessitate her being an underdog. She has more money to run her campaign she has more name recognition her spouse was a president for god sake. \n",
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"content": "If you mean she could run a better campaign, yes. Don't give us this liberal Bush crap. First Obama is for TPP. Second, what war are you afraid of? Are you saying if she had been president and saw intelligence that was mainly bunk, she would have sold it to go to war? She voted for it like most of the Congress based on it being real without that insight. In fact, in most administrations, it never even gets that far because there is no fixation on finishing the job in Iraq. ",
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"content": "No i mean she is super hawkish on foreign policy. As for tpp: i like neither obama nor clintons stance on it. Our government has consistently failed on supporting people when they get affected by trade. Where is the money for retraining?\n\nAlso are you telling me that her receiving money for Goldman Sachs doesn't give you pause? Remember: clinton signed the repeal if glass stegal. Also she wont release transcripts.\n\nSeriously: stop caring about the party and start caring about the issues.",
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"content": "Her husband signed the repeal. And as the majority of most economists have pointed out, it had no impact on the financial crash. In fact, not regulating derivatives and credit swaps, which Sanders voted for, had the biggest impact as we now know. Barack Obama, who received the support of these organizations in 2008 but not 2012, most likely lost their support after putting in place strict financial regulations. Therefore, it makes logical sense that the organizations that previously supported Hillary are moving away from her due to her strong plan to reign in abuses on Wall Street. If she's a corporate shill, she's clearly doing it wrong.\n\nThe price for these speeches was set by Hillary's agent and represents a price tag that organizations like Goldman Sachs are willing to pay to have somebody of Hillary's caliber come in and address employees. In addition, all these speeches were given at a time when Clinton had not declared her candidacy so she not only talked with financial groups but she also spoke to groups involved in the business, medical, trade, and transportation fields. Yes, she received large sums of money to give speeches, but over a seven-year period from 2007-2014 her and her husband donated $15 million to charity, with large amounts of that coming from their paid speeches. \n\nNo candidate in the history of our country has been asked to release their speaking transcripts, so why should Hillary be held accountable to this impossible standard? Why isn't Ted Cruz being asked to release his speeches? After all, his wife works for Goldman Sachs and they have contributed to his presidential campaign. Talk about a conflict of interests. However, since Hillary's integrity has already been questioned, this attack seeks to further damage her reputation without any actual evidence. According to legal experts, there exists the possibility that Hillary Clinton might not even be able to legally release the transcripts due to having signed non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements. Even if she could legally release the transcripts, what kind of bombshell might they contain? Well, according to attendees of one of Hillary's speeches in October of 2013 it involved \"rah-rah stuff\" that was \"basic\" in nature.\n\nAnd when you say super hawkish on foreign policy, what does that exactly mean?",
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"content": "How did Glass-Stegal not have an effect on the recession? The amount of money in CDOs was a product of being able to use money from both investment and retail banking. It allowed for the CDOs to be a systemic risk. Obama took money from Wall St and only one person has been prosecuted: Madoff. Even the first Bush had more prosecutions under the Savings and Loans crisis.\n\nAs for the transcripts: transparency is always good. Are you telling me that she shouldn't be transparent because she's on our team? HRC has a credibility issue, if she's being two-faced about it, she needs to tell us why she's being two-faced. I suspect Bernie has something to do with her new liberal tone.\n\nLegality: prove that to me, then we can talk.\n\nAs for Ted Cruz: fuck that guy. \n\nHawkish: read NYT article on Libya. Not in love with Obama and his drone strike policy but his \"don't do stupid shit\" policy is quite good. Libya was stupid shit. She advocated it. Not saying that it would've been good for the Libyan opposition to be slaughtered but we need to start recognizing that there's only so much any foreign actor can do. I have concerns about her understanding of \"smart\" power.",
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"content": "Glass-Steagall:\n\n http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/19/bill-clinton/bill-clinton-glass-steagall-had-nothing-do-financi/\n\nhttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/14/448685233/fact-check-did-glass-steagall-cause-the-2008-financial-crisis\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/lets-shatter-the-myth-on-glass-steagall/2012/07/27/gJQASaOAGX_story.html\n\nhttp://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/clinton-is-right-glass-steagall-is-debate-democrats-don-t-need\n\nLibya, hindsight is always 20/20. Not good to see the opposition slaughtered, but all things considered, let them get slaughtered? \n\nhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/please-stop\n\nhttp://www.mediaite.com/online/hold-your-benghazm-none-of-those-22-new-emails-were-classified-when-they-were-sent/\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/03/04/clinton-emails-continue-to-be-non-scandal-disappointing-republicans/\n\nhttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-greta-van-susteren-sees-no-legal-liability-in-hillary-emails/\n\nhttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/my-classified-life/\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/politics/agencies-battle-over-what-is-top-secret-in-hillary-clintons-emails.html\n\nhttp://theweek.com/articles/574924/where-nefarious-conspiracy-hidden-hillary-clintons-emails\n\n",
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"content": "You know I could rebutt this all with my own opinions pieces right? \n\nWhy are you so in the tank for hrc anyway?",
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"content": "BTW: I'm not talking about the emails. I'm talking about supporting Libyan transition. Libya is not a safe haven for isis.",
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"content": "Those pieces cite actual facts. ",
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"content": "BTW: I'm not talking about the emails. I'm talking about supporting Libyan transition. Libya is not a safe haven for isis.",
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"content": "You sound like a conservative plant reading robotic oppo. \n\nYou are not fooling anyone. ",
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"content": "Oh great...another pissed off millennial who can't find a job with a liberal arts B.A. Grow up and grow a set or fuck off.",
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"content": "Wow you are such a real man.",
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"content": "That.... and I've been a Democrat since before you were able to wipe your own ass.",
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"content": "can't wait until people like you are dead. ",
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"content": "Can't wait til people like you grow up and become responsible adults capable of leading this country... unfortunately... I doubt it will ever happen.",
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"content": "\"No matter how lofty and inspiring his message, it is deeply unjust – and frankly, reckless – to run a campaign premised on the destruction of Hillary’s character through false innuendo. \"",
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"content": "I don't think it's really fair to say that it's false innuendo.\n\nHer integrity, motivations and potential conflict of interest have been brought up before Sanders and without Sanders. He's voicing things many people are already concerned about for her and politicians in general. I was happy to see what you call \"false innuendo\" because I didn't see it as \"false\", I saw it as genuine questions that she repeatedly brushed off and failed to answer for in a meaningful way.",
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"content": "The Hillary people on reddit (for the most part) and elsewhere really DO NOT CARE about her regularly scheduled lies, conflicts of interest, anything. How about the fact that she became EXTREMELY wealthy from a career in \"public service\"? This doesn't concern them. It's status quo politics and she's playing it well.",
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"content": "Well if you have any specific charges of malfeasance based on some published evidence, you would be correct. Do you?",
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"content": "First, it sounds like you're setting a bar for proof/certainty that rarely exists in any election. I'm not sure what you mean by \"charges\" and \"published\", but I'm assuming you don't allow the general media (which obviously crucifies her). With that logic, I'd imagine many criticisms of any candidate are out the window.\n\nBut also, I think you're misunderstanding that just because some people are saying she is a criminal doesn't mean that's what everybody with these accusations think. Instead, they paint a picture of a woman who says things contradicting action or reality, changes major stances, is endorsed by people we don't support and regularly meets with them which, before we debate about if it manifested into a change in action, is a conflict of interest. So to paint this as \"false innuendo\" is unfair. Obviously, \"proving\" what's only in her head is impossible. But there are many pieces, [some](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12mJ-U76nfg) clearer than others that reinforce this theme against and again. It's not a criminal accusation. It's a forecast, based on a body of words, endorsements and actions that point to a very real possibility that she has biases we don't like, lacks consistency, is untrustworthy, etc. Conflict of interest doesn't have to be a knowing case of corruption, it starts with a disproportionate ear.\n\nI hesitate to name all of the scandals because I imagine you'll be tired of them, but just because everything from lying about being under sniper fire to routinely being paid or supported by people who she says she's going to reign in doesn't suggest anything to you, doesn't mean that a person who questions those things is using \"false innuendo\". They're questioning the implications of known actions. Implications which many people see can be negative. That doesn't mean these things always absolutely prove wrongdoing or bias, but it also doesn't mean that believing that they could is in any way underhanded or anything but one valid prediction based on her past and her conditions.",
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"content": "OK, zero evidence, guilty until proven innocent. Where does it stop?",
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"content": "Most of the money comes from individuals. Are you assuming that everything about Wall Street is bad? Anything that has to do with Wall Street is automatically bad?",
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"content": "Citizen's United, corporate controlled media narratives determining the outcome of elections, and legalized bribery is generally considered \"bad\" by the left, for obvious reasons.\n\nWall Street isn't in and of itself \"bad\", but the people and organizations under its umbrella serve one solitary purpose; the pursuit of profit, and nothing more. It's (kind of) okay for them to pursue that agenda. It's not okay for them to squeeze that agenda into our politics. The American public has much more to worry about than Wall Street's profit margins.\n\nYou can't pretend there isn't a reason they want to influence the democratic process so heavily. You can't pretend their isn't a reason these organizations, who care only about profit, care so much about getting certain people into power.",
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"content": "Kind of OK to pursue profits? Let us tear down everything to do with Wall Street and ship it to the Street in London. Tell me where this country would be? Are you crazy? Why shouldn't they have a say like any other company and individual in government regulation and laws? Are they to be discriminated against? Yes the markets need to be regulated properly. If you think are markets are the best regulated and fair, then companies would go elsewhere if they thought they would be ripped off. They aren't perfect and some bad players are always looking to do bad things, but that is not the majority of the players. Without this, this country would not have the highest GDP in the world and be the leader of startups in the world. We have the biggest markets because people feel we have the safest markets. Not perfect but still the best. I know you find it hard to believe, but most people that work on Wall Street live in NYC and you know what party NYC votes for? ",
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"content": "> Why shouldn't they have a say like any other company and individual in government regulation and laws?\n\nNice. I didn't expect you to cut strait to Republican talking points. The answer of course is *no business* should have a say in the democratic process. Ours is a government *for and by people*, and regardless of what your pals Romney and Bush say, corporations aren't people.\n\nThere are people that constitute those corporations, and they should get a say, the same as anyone else, but they shouldn't get *two* says, one as a citizen concerned about their country, and another as a part of a corporate entity that only cares about profits, country be damned.\n\nThose individuals should have to weigh the costs and benefits of doing business into their vote, rather than being given extra control over our democratic process through Citizen's United.\n\n>...then companies would go elsewhere if they thought they would be ripped off.\n\nAnd would be replaced by more patriotic individuals who valued working in their home more than making exorbitant profits, or better still, this would make room for worker and publicly owned operations. The invisible hand might push some away, but we still have to balance our best interests against their profit margins. As long as there's a demand for goods and services, *someone* will capitalize on it.\n\nBesides, we're not even close to any kind of regulatory level that could force companies to leave the country. We weren't *before* Citzen's United. We won't be after it.\n\n> Without this, this country would not have the highest GDP in the world and be the leader of startups in the world.\n\nGDP has nothing to do with startups, and a high GDP is meaningless if it goes strait to 1% of the population. Or are you going to tell us it's going to start trickling down any day now?\n\nA lower GDP in an economy that works for the people is preferable to a high GDP that doesn't, or worse still, that sacrifices their interests in pursuit of one.\n\n> I know you find it hard to believe...\n\nNo, I'm well aware...\n\n> ...but most people that work on Wall Street live in NYC and you know what party NYC votes for?\n\nWhichever party espouses neoliberal politics, working the hardest for anti-regulation, pro-corporation, big business interests.",
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"content": "Are you saying that companies have no right to lobby the government? Since this has been a right from the beginning of the country, are you suggesting that we amend the Constitution to take this ability away? Is just for profit companies? Evidently not since you say people, so non-profits, any organizations besides individuals shall not have the right to petition the government. Got it. Of course this insanity will never happen, you do realize this? For obvious reasons. You seem to think first that everything is profit related, but it isn't. And even when it is, is it not OK for the government to make sure citizens have the ability to build businesses and accumulate capital? Or is this some kind of sin in your socialist/communist world? It certainly wasn't a sin with the founding fathers. This has nothing to do with Citizen's United. Do you think the government could possibly make the decisions necessary to implement building of infrastructure or naval ships without consulting with the companies that build them? Should regulations be made without understanding the impact of the business environment they will effect? You are pretty naive about how the world works. It doesn't even work this way in your socialist paradise of France, Germany or Denmark.",
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"content": "> Since this has been a right from the beginning of the country...\n\nBefore 2010 it was highly restricted and limited. I'm not saying it should be done away with, but that we should return to the restrictions we used to have that kept it from growing out of hand, before Citizen's United.\n\nYes, this will probably require a Constitutional Amendment, (although there are ways around that.) I think more people support it than you realize.\n\n>Of course this insanity will never happen, you do realize this? For obvious reasons.\n\nLots of people, especially progressives, want corporate money out of politics.\n\n>You seem to think first that everything is profit related, but it isn't\n\nCorporations are obliged to pursue profit at all costs. Don't pretend that isn't the case.\n\n> And even when it is, is it not OK for the government to make sure citizens have the ability to build businesses and accumulate capital?\n\nSure it is. How is that threatened in any way?\n\n>This has nothing to do with Citizen's United. \n\nRight, it doesn't, so I'm curious why you're bringing it up. The ability for businesses to run and for individuals to accumulate capital has nothing to do with Citizen's United. They did it fine before, they'll do it fine after.\n\n>Do you think the government could possibly make the decisions necessary to implement building of infrastructure or naval ships without consulting with the companies that build them?\n\nWhat's this have to do with anything?\n\n>Should regulations be made without understanding the impact of the business environment they will effect?\n\nNo, but we don't need to give corporate interests undue influence over the democratic process in order to understand the impact of regulations on the business environment. The opposite in fact. The businesses will consistently favor whatever is most profitable for them, with no consideration for how it affects the business environment.\n\n> You are pretty naive about how the world works.\n\nYou mean how it worked before 2010? Naivete is assuming something that has worked can't work.\n\nTo be clear though, I know how the world works. Corruption is the name of the game, and neoliberals are winning the race. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be working against it.\n\n>It doesn't even work this way in your socialist paradise of France, Germany or Denmark.\n\nDespite the fact none of those are socialist paradises, this has fuckall to do with socialism, so you can stop blowing that dead horse.",
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"content": "Dude, the only way you remove the \"corruption\" is complete public funding of elections. That and constitutional amendment that says you can limit speech when it comes to politics which I am not even sure how to write but it happens in other countries so I imagine it can be done. Forget any other way of doing it. Nothing else is realistic and there will always be ways around it. Businesses and government need to interact. That is a fact. Now you tell me how you think this is all going to come about and the chances of it happening are? You can get rid of Citizen's United with a new judge but that only limits the amount of money. As we have seen in this election so far, the Koch Brothers' money has been good for helping the economy and not much else. John McCain went there even and got no where. Americans are all for it as long as it will be free.",
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"content": "> ...but that only limits the amount of money.\n\nI would be mostly happy with that, for the time being.",
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"content": "> OK, zero evidence, guilty until proven innocent.\n\nYou don't have to \"prove a person guilty\" in order to not hire them for a job. I think your political leanings are clouding your judgement. Let's put the presidency aside. You're trying to hire somebody to paint your house. There are two candidates:\n\n* Painter 1: You read his reviews and in his related career he had the [highest approval rating](http://theweek.com/speedreads/590697/bernie-sanders-highest-approval-rating-senator).\n* Painter 2: You read reviews of painter 2 online, you see a lot of negative stories. Some are accusations that the painter is dishonest. Some are accusations that the painter is in the pocket of paint companies and tries to upsell you. Some are accusations that the painter has painted poorly in the past.\n\nNow, even though each review by painter 2 isn't proven in a court of law, is it reasonable that a person hiring a painter can use those reviews in their decision making process and choose to hire painter #1? Many observers in many contexts over many years have claimed to observe a similar pattern, so it's reasonable to consider it as an indicator of risk.\n\nIn the case of Clinton, some things are objectively true. I've watched her lie.\n\nOther things, like the review of painter #2 above, aren't damning on their own, but when they repeat again and again, it suggests that there is some chronic issue. While that chronic issue isn't objective proven, its reasonable to believe it exists. It's grounded in explaining trends of behavior. Is it toxic that she changed her mind on a bill? No. But when that starts to be a theme that what she says and does changes on itself so often, a series of suboptimal things starts to reflect a greater issue in judgement, integrity or her ability clearly communicate to the public at the time what her stance is (therefore, my ability to trust her current attempt to convey that). It's just as poor evidence to take her explanation as fact as it is to believe likely explanations (e.g. judgement, integrity, improper communication).\n\nThe conflict of interest is also an objective fact. The proof is that she has had a long term business relationship as well as having been financed by the people who she is trying to reign in. There is nothing subjective about whether a conflict of interest exists. The subjective part is whether you care and whether you think that conflict of interest will materialize into something bad. You can form the judgement you want on that, but it's absolutely groundless to claim that somebody who sees the potential harm is operating in lies. They're operating in caution based on an actual, objectively proven issue. Conflict of interest is factually present and conflict of interest is an indication of risk. It's a straw man argument to say that suggesting a conflict of interest means corruption, active bias, etc. Identifying a conflict of interest is not saying she is corrupt or doing something wrong. Instead, it's an indicator of higher risk that she *will be* biased. It says something about the future, not about what she's done.\n\n> \"The results suggest that judgments are easily influenced by **affiliation** with interested partisans, and that this influence **extends to judgments made with clear incentives for objectivity**. The consistency we observe between public and private judgments indicates that **participants believed their biased assessments**.\" [source](http://search.proquest.com/openview/f4f9655231e8f269c69e6fbf7f7444eb/1?pq-origsite=gscholar)\n\nThe point is, even if she doesn't mean to be corrupt, even if she isn't taking bribes with a goal attached to them and even if she believes she is objective and actively tries to be objective, that doesn't counteract what we know about conflicts of interest and how that represents an ongoing risk.\n\nEither way, innocent until proven guilty is a poor explanation of the decision being made. This isn't a criminal case, it's hiring somebody for a job. When I'm hiring a programmer I don't assuming that they know C++ until it's proven that they don't. The burden is on them to prove their good qualities, and any good hiring board is supposed to be skeptical and challenge claims. A job interview is absolutely not \"innocent until proven guilty\". It's the opposite, it's \"not qualified until proven qualified\".",
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"content": "Well then all I can say if vote for Trump if you think he is free from any issues.",
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"content": "What are you talking about? O.o Where did I say anything about supporting Trump?\n\nI think this kind of response shows that your arguments aren't coming from logic. You just use dismissive allusions to Trump and Sanders as a way to try to convince yourself away from addressing genuine criticism.",
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"content": "Like most propagandists, he consistently severely underestimates his audience.",
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"content": "> I forgot how delicate we're supposed to treat women.\n\nWhere did the article say anything about that?\n\nBernie promised to run a positive campaign and he went negative, period. He hasn't even held his own campaign to the principles that he has advocated for. \n\nEdit: If you are going to make your entire message about having integrity and being different, then you need to stick to your word or you lose credibility. That is what the article is saying. ",
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"content": "When Clinton lies constantly about his plans and what he's done, he's gotta stand up and fight back. It's on her that shit ended up like this. Third Way Dems getting full exposure this election season and it's been good for the party.",
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"content": "First off, I completely disagree that Bernie's behavior has been defensive. In the debates I've watched, he's spent far more time talking about her than the reverse.\n\nSecondly, isn't that the whole point of saying you'll be different? He knows how political campaigns are. Taking the high road means that you can't use someone else's behavior as an excuse to justify your own. He claims that he represents a political revolution. By definition that means being different than the rest. ",
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"content": "That's your perspective. She fired the first shot when she said he wanted to wipe out Obamacare and start from scratch. He wouldn't touch Obamacare until his plan was in place to make the transition. But Hillary lied and lied and kept repeating it and sent out her daughter to repeat the same lie... Eventually you have to sink to her level. She's got David Brock running her messaging after all - and he's one of the more prominent scumbag political advisors in America today. \n\nDon't really want to respond to the rest of what you said because this is all falling on deaf ears. ",
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"content": "She want to build on an existing program. He wants to start a brand new program. I don't recall ever hearing Hillary state that he was going to remove anyone's current coverage before transitioning to something new. No one thinks that's his plan. Her point is that she wants to build on the work that's already been done and he wants to start a completely new program. That's not an attack, that's a fair comparison of their policies.\n\n> Don't really want to respond to the rest of what you said because this is all falling on deaf ears. \n\nYeah, I'm guessing that happens a lot with you.",
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"content": "She wants to build on a program that was tailor made by and for the benefit of insurance companies. That's not a healthcare program. That's a health insurance program. The operative words being HEALTH and CARE. The ACA does more to bolster insurance company earnings than provide affordable care. And Hillary turned away from single payer because of the massive donations she's taken from the insurance industry. She claims she'd push for single payer; that's a load of shit. Public option got railed against by lobbyists during the ACA's development and eventually got shut down in committee. Hillary's not going to make a public option, I promise you that.",
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"content": "He wouldn't touch Obamacare? That is not how policy making works. ",
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"content": "Bernie went negative? If he went negative then HRC and her supporters are indeed delicate flowers that think anything short of singing her praises is negative. \n\nBernie promised to run a campaign on the issues, not attack personal character. He did exactly that.",
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"content": "By implying she is owned by Wall Street? \n\nGet off your fucking high horse. ",
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"content": "She took an enormous about of money from them. That's an issue, it's money in politics. Get off your high horse. Sanders isn't launching Rovian attacks like Clinton and her supporters. Clinton's biggest weakness is her credibility, and for good reason. So her and her supporters try to attack Sanders on it. If you want to play those game the GOP is that way -->",
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"content": "So did Obama. So fucking what? The high horse is some bullshit standard you guys created. \n\nAnd Sanders supporters have attacked Hillary supporters and even harassed Liz Warren over a fucking rumor. So yeah, get off it. \n\n",
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"content": "No the high horse is claiming a demonstrably weak candidate is inevitable, that Sanders is naive for suggesting run of the mill policies the rest of the modern word uses to great success. \n\n> And Sanders supporters have attacked Hillary supporters and even harassed Liz Warren over a fucking rumor. \n\nWhen you can't run against the candidate run against the worst of his supporters you can find, no matter how much of a representative sample it's not. \n\nSo get off your high horse. \n\nThe only thing that's going to save the Dems this year is the GOP has gone off the rails. ",
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"content": "Oh, so those people are not a representative example of Bernie supporters but there you were above indicting Hillary supporters. \n\nWhat a load of garbage. \n\nAnd the naiveté is not in the policy but the magical plan that it all would somehow be magically shoved through Congress. \n\nLastly, how does that inevitability look now?\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n",
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"content": "> Oh, so those people are not a representative example of Bernie supporters but there you were above indicting Hillary supporters.\n\nI was indicting Clinton. But keep deflecting.\n\n> And the naiveté is not in the policy but the magical plan that it all would somehow be magically shoved through Congress.\n\nWhich applies *equally* to Clinton. After 5 years of watching the GOP and Obama, this has got to be the single most dumb, ignorant, or naive point in the entire election. The difference is Sanders isn't going to negotiate with himself like Clinton will. \n\n> Lastly, how does that inevitability look now?\n\nNot even close to where she started with. She massively underperformed against a weak Lazio, lost to Obama, and dramatically underperformed against Sanders after having the red carpet laid out for her in every way. She's a weak candidate, some can be attributed to sexism, but a large portion falls on her. \n\nHere's hoping she doesn't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against the GOP. This time the stakes are too high. ",
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"content": "You said \"Rovian attacks like Clinton and HER FOLLOWERS\". \n\nSo I do believe you did indict supporters. I am keeping up. \n\nAnd the key to getting anything through Congress depends on future elections. Let's see if this enthusiasm for progressive candidates lasts more than a year so the House can be taken back. Or, all these Sanders supporters will do diddly squat in mid terms and nothing moves.\n\nLastly, Hillary is the most effective candidate the Dems could put up this year. How is she weaker than Sanders when he could not even keep it close? And she has more votes than any other person running, Rep or Dem.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> So I do believe you did indict supporters.\n\nWhich isn't really the point, because Clinton is also being attacked. We have a substantive argument against Clinton. The best you can do against Sanders is attack a portion of his supporters.\n\n>Let's see if this enthusiasm for progressive candidates lasts more than a year so the House can be taken back.\n\nThe Democratic leadership has actively discouraged progressive candidates while promoting neoliberal regressives. The leadership itself is neoliberal. That's why no one votes for them. In other words, *your party rarely has any progressive candidates to vote for*. Just Blue Dogs and neoliberals. That's why you're losing elections, and will continue to do so. If you want to change that, you have to change the leadership first.",
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"content": "No one votes for Dems?\n\nHillary has 2.5 million more votes this primary than Sanders, and more than anyone else running, period. \n\nAnd there is plenty to criticize Sanders for, but regular liberals don't hate Bernie. A portion of Sanders supporters hate Clinton so their criticism is driven by that hate. \n\nAnd considering Obama is in the same boat as Clinton, and won two fucking elections soundly, then I think your assessment is overblown. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> Hillary has 2.5 million more votes this primary than Sanders, and more than anyone else running, period.\n\nShe doesn't have as many as the total number of Republican primary votes. After the primary, all of those, plus those who didn't vote in the primary, will go to whoever the Republican candidate is. The Republicans are a lot more divided now, but that'll change going into the general election. The Democrats will still be divided if Clinton wins the nomination.\n\n>...regular liberals don't hate Bernie. A portion of Sanders supporters hate Clinton...\n\nExactly.\n\n>And considering Obama is in the same boat as Clinton, and won two fucking elections soundly...\n\nIt would be unlikely to happen again. People were sick of Bush. They wanted change and he promised it - then utterly failed to deliver, and by many accounts, betrayed our agenda.\n\nA lot's changed since OWS. People have woken up to the neoliberal game. That's when people stopped voting for you. That's when you started losing. It's likely to continue.",
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"content": "A lot of assumptions built in there. \n\nIf people have \"woken up\" since OWS (which was not even majority of liberals, let alone the country) then where the fuck was everyone in 2014? Moreover, where were all these young people in 2012? \n\nThat type of change happens on local levels. When you see liberals and progressives take the state legs and Congress is when you know that type of shift has happened. \n\nSanders has gotten blown out in the primaries, which means it has not. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "And Obama hasn't prosecuted ONE banker for the crash of '08. Iceland's politicians have more gumption on this issue than Obama. ",
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"content": "So Obama is owned, too?",
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"content": "Yes...?\n\nWhat is it about neoliberalism you still haven't managed to wrap your head around?",
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"content": "Sounds like bullshit. A made up standard. \n\nI would guess Sanders is owned by socialists then? ",
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"content": "> Sounds like bullshit.\n\nTop notch rebuttal, as always.\n\n>I would guess Sanders is owned by socialists then?\n\nHe hasn't taken money from PACs, wheras Clinton took $58 million from them. 70% of his donations were from individuals contributing under $200. Nearly 90% of Clintons were from wealthy individuals and corporations contributing *over* $200.\n\nSo if the people contributing to the campaign own a candidate, Sanders is owned by and large by working class Americans. His platform reflects this fact, just as Clinton's reflects her neoliberal politics and relationship with Wall Street.",
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"content": "I am specifically referring to the socialists. Socialist don't have PACs. \n\nIf Clinton and Obama are owned by banks and Wall Street, then Sanders is owned by Socialists. ",
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"content": "Which is a ridiculous assertion, unless you're saying the millions of individuals who donated to Sanders are all socialists.\n\nIf they were, (they're not, we don't have that many among our ranks, although that's changing quickly,) it wouldn't matter. It doesn't change the fact that Sanders belongs to his contributors, the people, and Clinton belongs to hers, Wall Street.",
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"content": "I didn't say all. Notice how you exaggerated what I said. I said a portion. \n\nUnless you are asserting that all of Clinton's supporters are Wall Street and bankers?\n\nI am using your logic. Significant portion, Wall Street, etc. Significant portion, socialists. \n\nYour logic means Sanders is too influenced by socialists. \n\nAnd speaking of assertions, please don't act sanctimonious when all you have offered is assertions about what you think will happen. \n\nThe same way you asserted that Hillary would lose outside of the south. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> Significant portion, Wall Street, etc. Significant portion, socialists.\n\nWe have the numbers for which portion of Clinton's \"support\" is Wall Street and major corporations. In monetary terms, it's something like $100 million.\n\nWhat portion of Sanders supporters do you think are socialists? What proof do you have of any of it?\n\nMost socialists identify with Marxism, and most Marxists *hate* social democrats like Sanders. Frankly I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about.\n\nThere's certainly a significant portion of his supporters who identify as classical socialists, democratic socialists, or social democrats. It's hard to pinpoint how much, but it's pretty immaterial. All of these groups want to make government work for the people. Wall Street wants to make government work for Wall Street. Even if you could prove your frankly stupid assertion, it wouldn't mean much.",
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"content": "Someone is projecting, considering how many sweeping assertions you made. \n\nPhysician, heal thyself. ",
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"content": "What do you think I'm projecting?",
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"content": "Taking money, and most came from individuals does not equate to being owned, unless you have some proof that it does?",
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"content": "Oh stop trying to make it seem like getting paid $250,000 to give a single speech is a totally no strings attached affair. ",
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"content": "You have some evidence of this of course? How much do other people as famous as her get?",
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"content": "Do you have evidence that it's not? The null hypothesis is that it does. This is influence peddling 101. ",
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"content": "Can't prove a negative. Not possible. That is why we have innocent until proven guilty. Can you prove you didn't kill your first wife?",
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"content": "> That is why we have innocent until proven guilty.\n\nIn the court of law. Can't hide behind that when you nor her would grant a discovery process to find out. ",
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"content": "So you did kill your first wife. I knew it.",
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"content": "$15 million into her super PAC. ",
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"content": "So?",
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"content": ">...most came from individuals...\n\nSource please.",
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"content": "http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/contrib.shtml",
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"content": "Which part of this do you think indicates that most of Clinton's Wall Street money came from individuals and not PACs or companies?",
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"content": "\"Positive campaign\" doesn't mean that he can't question major conflicts of interest or policy inconsistencies. It means that he was going to keep it to the issues, which I believe he did. It's as embarrassing as Trump's mishaps, that Clinton was able to write this off as \"false innuendo\" rather than the valid criticism that it is.",
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"content": "Legitimate criticism isn't \"going negative\". He said he wouldn't attack her. He never said he wouldn't address the issues.",
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"content": "How can you attack Hillary's integrity and character when she doesn't have any? And yes, calm down, I'll be voting for her in November.",
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"content": "Bernie has a point with WallStreet money. Don't want the flack for taking their money then return it. Don't want suspicions about your views of wall street let us know what you said to them. She could end all these \"attacks\" easy unless there is truth to them.",
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"content": "Most of the money from Wall Street comes from individuals. What has that got to do with her speeches? And given whom she will be running against, what possible sense does it make? These attacks are only coming from the left.",
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"content": "The money being referred to to is her speaking fees. She personally made lots of money talking on and with Wall Street, and those fees were paid by corporations. The transcripts matter. ",
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"content": "To whom?",
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"content": "To potential voters interested in the matter. ",
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"content": "The ones that support Sanders which is now of no matter. Surely not to Republican voters. And if she does give this information, will it change their votes? I think not.",
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"content": "Then why doesn't she release it. If there is nothing to loose and it doesn't matter, why not just be transparent?",
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"content": "Is Trump going to release everything she is going to want released? No. Who is the audience this is being release for? Who will it sway to vote for or against her in the general election? Whose business is it anyway?",
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"content": "You're suggesting that you need more than just a commitment to the highest standards of ethical and transparent conduct, and that's is frankly more than a little frightening.",
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"content": "You are suggesting that there is inherently something unethical about giving speeches to \"Wall Street\" companies. Why is that?",
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"content": " Do you think that it would be OK for Barack Obama, as a sitting president, to give a private speech to a Wall Street company for a quarter million dollars?",
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"content": "No, and it won't be for anyone that is in the government as there are laws on that. Private citizens? There are no laws.",
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"content": "So why would we want someone who established a relationship with these organizations during the relatively brief amount of time between when she was an active part of the government and when she began her campaign for office?\n\nAnd again, this isn't about what is legal. It's about what people are comfortable with, and how a presidential candidate can comply with the highest standards of transparency.",
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"content": "Are these organizations bad?",
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"content": "Not any more so than any other organization. They are just as limited, shortsighted and prone to selfishness as any human organization. But it really isn't about them, they aren't running for office.",
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"content": "You have made a stereotypical generalization. That is typically a bad thing to do. Would you call Doctors without Borders the same?",
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"content": "Yes, I would. I would suggest that while their intentions are good, I doubt that that would exempt them from the human failings that any other group falls prone to.\n\nAgain, what does that have to do with Hillary Clinton? You keep making it about this group or that group, or about what is legal and what is illegal, but it's all just a tactic to get people to argue with you on your ground rather than focus on the topic at hand.",
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"content": "Are you fuckin' kiddin'? [It's exactly the kind of thing that determines elections.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/03/04/why-mitt-romneys-47-percent-comment-was-so-bad/)",
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"content": "* Even if Clinton is well meaning, every donation from a wall street individual is another bet that she's not going to reign in on wall street. So, it's a useful indicator of how insiders calculate they'll be affected.\n* Even if Clinton is well meaning, her speeches also mean that the people she is speaking to get her ear for a bit and that they get to get some \"inside\" info from her. This cozy relationship is just the kind of thing that people who don't like her ties to everything we hate about the establishment dislike. Even if she's not a total pawn, she's still focusing huge amounts of her time socializing with the people we think she should be stopping.\n* If there is no bad information in the speeches, it can only help her to release them because it ends a lot of reasonable speculation from her opponents.\n\n> These attacks are only coming from the left.\n\nI don't agree, but the reason why attacks against her would mainly come from the left is because right now we're in the primaries. Since we're in the primaries, she should be responsible to answering criticism from the left in order to earn their vote.",
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"content": "Obama received donations from Wall Street the first go around. Not the second. How is it a bet? Is there something in blood?\n\nThe cozy relationship? How cozy is it? Why don't you describe it to us so we know this information that only you seem to know about.\n\nWhy should she release something that Trump is sure to misuse when he is sure to not release even his taxes? There is only one opponent now and that is Trump. ",
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"content": "> Obama received donations from Wall Street the first go around. Not the second.\n\nAnd the first time was when the government was considering a massive bailout which he went along with. Circumstances and options are different every election.\n\n> How is it a bet?\n\nYou're spending the money on the belief that it will generate a positive outcome for that person to be elected. If it didn't (whether it's because they lost or their policies tended to hurt you), you'd be throwing your money down the drain.\n\n> The cozy relationship? How cozy is it? Why don't you describe it to us so we know this information that only you seem to know about.\n\nI already did. Conflict of interest is rarely, a kiss on the lips. She's routinely traveling to communicate in private with people who have major interests in policy. That's what I mean by cozy, just as I said in my last comment. It's a conflict of interest.\n\n> Why should she release something that Trump is sure to misuse\n\nBecause, just like Obama's birth certificate, withholding actual evidence only fuels a Trump media storm and lets people believe the speculation more easily since there is no evidence to the contrary.\n\n> when he is sure to not release even his taxes? There is only one opponent now and that is Trump. \n\nHillary isn't trying to defeat Trump, she's trying to get voters. And the 30% of Sander supporters who said they wouldn't vote Clinton, the 30% of the Republican party who said they're considering voting independent and the usual independents are all not Trump. They're all people who hear these allegations. Some of them will hate her no matter what, but some of them surely will be more easily convinced of her side if she was willing to show the evidence that she possesses.",
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"content": "Your cozy is innuendo in other words. Do you have any evidence of malfeasance? Trump will claim everything under the sun. The only media storm is with the left. The Republicans won't have a media storm with this because they can't. Any Republican that said they won't vote for Trump could care less either. And tell me, what are these allegations? I am waiting to hear this evidence of malfeasance that Hillary Clinton has engaged in. She gets money from people and companies on Wall Street. She got paid a lot of money to give speeches to companies on Wall Street. Ergo, it must be something bad, something illegal, something wicked. Why must it be? Because Sanders said so. Evidence? None. Guilty until proven innocent. \n\nEdit: The government ended up making money off the bailout btw. Very cozy. It only stopped the collapse from getting worse, but people like to forget that. No matter how much evidence stares them in the face.",
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"content": "You're forgetting a very important part of the bailout called Quantitative Easing. Without that there's no full repayment of TARP.",
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"content": "Source?",
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"content": "http://charlotte.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-05-10/Business_News/A_laymans_guide_to_TARP_and_the_QEs.html",
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"content": "So? That has nothing to do with TARP being paid back with interest being related to QE.",
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"content": "http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2012/03/09/gao-banks-paying-back-tarp-with-federal-money.html",
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"content": "Nice, 2012 with no working links, here knock yourself out: https://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/TARP-Programs/bank-investment-programs/cap/bank-lending/Pages/default.aspx",
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"content": "It does though - they were using some of the QE money to pay it back. And the QE money was 0% interest. It's a simple concept.",
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"content": "> Your cozy is innuendo in other words.\n\nNo. There is no innuendo there. I am saying flat out what my accusation is: conflict of interest. She and her campaign rely on these people for money, therefore, there is a conflict of interest. You keep implying that more evidence is needed to prove a conflict on interest. It is not. A conflict on interest is only a statement about your \"interests\" so we don't have to talk about her actions within that accusation.\n\n> Trump will claim everything under the sun.\n\nI thought you said we don't get to make accusations without published evidence and politicians are innocent until proven guilty?\n\n> I am waiting to hear this evidence of malfeasance that Hillary Clinton has engaged in. \n\nWhy? You're the one who bought up malfeasance, not me.\n\n> She gets money from people and companies on Wall Street. She got paid a lot of money to give speeches to companies on Wall Street. Ergo, it must be something bad, something illegal, something wicked.\n\nThis sums up your inability or unwillingness to address the actual argument. It's a conflict on interest. I didn't say it's illegal or wicked. Just like scientists, business people and government contractors, the mere presence of a conflict of interest is a risk we try to avoid. We don't have to wait for the conflict of interest to materialize into corruption or bias. We are cautious beforehand sometimes to the extent of preventing it from ever occurring. Studies show that a conflict of interest is an increased risk that bias will occur (even unknowingly), therefore, it's worthy to count a conflict of interest against her to some extent or another. By misrepresenting my argument as saying that bias or corruption actually occurred, you're avoiding a valid criticism. My point is, it doesn't matter if it occurred or not because a conflict of interest, even prior to leading to bias, is a cause of concern. It's an indication that bias is more likely.\n\n> Why must it be? Because Sanders said so. \n\nBecause science shows that even well meaning people show bias in situations of conflict on interest.\n\n> The government ended up making money off the bailout btw. Very cozy. It only stopped the collapse from getting worse, but people like to forget that. No matter how much evidence stares them in the face.\n\nIt's irrelevant how good or bad the bailout was. The point was that more money was given to him by wall street in an election where he was favoring a large injection of money into the economy. But even talking about Obama is beside the point.",
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"content": "> Your cozy is innuendo in other words. Do you have any evidence of malfeasance?\n\nIf you're a progressive, corporate money influencing the democratic process *is* malfeasance. Overturning Citizen's United and removing PACs is near the top of the agenda.\n\n>The Republicans won't have a media storm with this because they can't. \n\nIf you don't think Republicans can make a mountain out of a mole-hill you haven't been paying attention. Hell, you haven't been paying attention to *yourself* if that's the case. See the birther movement, or your own insistence that Sanders would reignite Cold War trauma.\n\n>She gets money from people and companies on Wall Street. \n\nWhy do you think these people, who are in the business of extracting as much profit from the American people as possible as a bottom line, want her in power so bad?\n\n>...something illegal...\n\nIt's not illegal. Citizen's United made bribery perfectly legal.\n\n>The government ended up making money off the bailout btw.\n\nSo we have Wall Street profiting from raping our economy, and then profiting again when we bailed them out, and then the government also profits, maybe making back a fraction of a percent of the cost of, say, our \"defense spending\"? You know who still gets fucked? Citizens, homeowners, small business owners, employees, ya know, the rest of us. What good did it do any of us, the real victims of the catastrophe? Are you beginning to see the problem?",
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"content": "\"If you're a progressive, corporate money influencing the democratic process is malfeasance. Overturning Citizen's United and removing PACs is near the top of the agenda.\" Nevertheless, most of the PAC money is still from individuals. You can not stop all donations from corporations as being a progressive does not mean corporate money influencing the democratic process is malfeasance. Being a socialist means that. Are you telling me that Campbell's Soup who is now labelling all their products as GMO free has no right to lobby for standards on GMO labeling? Of course they do. You cannot determine that some lobbying is good and some is bad. \n\n\"Why do you think these people, who are in the business of extracting as much profit from the American people as possible as a bottom line, want her in power so bad?\" I have investments on Wall Street. That is my money too dude. That liquidity allows this nation to have IPOs, startups, and the largest markets in the world. While they are not perfectly regulated and there are some bad players, most aren't bad players and that is why the world comes to our markets. They know they aren't typically going to get ripped off. You want to send everything on \"Wall Street\" the Street in London and see what is left of the country? You like what it looks like in Russia? Most people that work on Wall Street live in NYC. I lived there, knew them, and like most people in NYC, guess which party they voted for?\n\n\"Citizen's United made bribery perfectly legal.\" Hyperbolic nonsense. Source?\n\nNot going to address your rant, says nothing factual.",
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"content": "> Nevertheless, most of the PAC money is still from individuals.\n\nSource please?\n\nNot that it matters. PACs are overwhelmingly set up to protect business interests. It gives them undue influence over the democratic process.\n\n>You can not stop all donations from corporations as being a progressive does not mean corporate money influencing the democratic process is malfeasance. Being a socialist means that.\n\nNo, not only does it not have anything to do with worker owned production, i.e. socialism, (although socialists overwhelmingly tend to support it,) it's a progressive initiative. I'm upvoting your post so other progressives here can see what you're saying. Hopefully some of them will chime in.\n\n>Are you telling me Campbell's...has no right to lobby for standards on GMO labeling?\n\n*Any* individual can already do that. Ours is a government for and by the people. The people who support Campbell's can already lobby all they want. But Campbell's the company isn't a person so there's no need to give the people who support it extra control over the democratic process.\n\n>I have investments on Wall Street. That is my money too dude. \n\nSo vote according to your own interests. You don't need or deserve extra control over the market because you've put up extra money.\n\n>...most aren't bad players and that is why the world comes to our markets.\n\nThen they won't be affected by rules that keep the bad players out.\n\n>You want to send everything on \"Wall Street\" the Street in London and see what is left of the country?\n\nWall Street got along just fine before Citizen's United. They'll do just fine after it as well.\n\n>...guess which party they voted for?\n\nWhichever's more neoliberal.\n\n>\"Citizen's United made bribery perfectly legal.\" Hyperbolic nonsense. Source?\n\nWhat else do you call it when corporations give large sums of money to ~~money~~ powerful individuals to get what they want?\n\n>Not going to address your rant, says nothing factual.\n\nThen you should be able to rebut it, the fact that you're not trying indicates you're just trying to derail the conversation. Either that or you really don't see what the problem is at all. I'll break it down for you.\n\nWall Street profited from raping our economy with unsustainable business practices. This is a fact.\n\nThe public, homeowners, small business owners, etc. were the victims. This is a fact.\n\nThe government bailed out Wall Street. This is a fact.\n\nThe government profited. This is a fact, according to you.\n\nWhat did the people, who were the victims, get out of it? Not a damn thing. A broken economy, a government cozying up with the fuckers who did it, and many of us lost our homes, our jobs, and our savings and investments.\n\nNow, once again, do you see why it's a problem?",
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"content": "How many people has Obama prosecuted for the 2008 crash? Do you know how broad our federal fraud statutes are? ",
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"content": "Do you know how hard it is to prosecute someone for a crime versus a civil offense? People have been prosecuted. A good many have been found not guilty or thrown out on appeal.",
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"content": "I do. Just finished up a class on white collar crime. Professor was a former federal prosecutor. According to him, charges were going to be brought against officials at HSBC for money laundering and a number of firms on Wall Street for their part in the mortgage crisis until the justice department shut them down.",
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"content": "Too bad that had nothing to do with the financial crash in 2008, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-settlement-laundering-idUSBRE9611B220130702",
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"content": "You don't get what I'm saying. The Obama administration has been soft on financial crimes across the board. What that shows is that either the safeguards put in place after 2008 don't have enough teeth to allow for prosecution, the administration is actively ignoring financial crimes, or both.",
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"content": "Do you know why they settled this case in civil court? You really need to keep up on your reading. The deal was that HSBC would give the IRS names of Americans who had accounts overseas in countries that had strict privacy laws like Switzerland and Luxembourg that were used to hide money for tax avoidance. This was a huge deal to get this type of information. Maybe you call it being soft, but besides being the largest fine ever, it gave the IRS the ability to recover large sums of taxable money and prosecute individuals for tax avoidance. ",
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"content": "2L?",
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"content": "3L.",
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"content": "Congratulations! Best of luck as you prepare to graduate!",
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"content": "Much appreciated! How about yourself?",
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"content": "0L ... Wish me luck!",
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"content": "The possibility that a joke in which Hillary Clinton barked like a dog would be used against her didn't stop her from making a joke in which she barked like a dog.\n\nWhy shouldn't she release something that Trump *might* misuse against her but would otherwise be very reassuring to some core constituencies and the general public?",
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"content": "Doesn't matter to me. I don't need reassuring. Why is it even my business? Since when is the work you do as a private citizen that is not illegal that involves your first amendment rights something that you are required to give to the world? When did this become a requirement to run for office? Just now evidently. Well that is a standard that is bogus unless everyone is held to that standard.",
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"content": "> Doesn't matter to me. I don't need reassuring.\n\nAnd here we have it. The heart of so many of your arguments. It doesn't matter to *you* and *you* don't need reassuring. But to me, a random internet stranger, why should what *you* think matter?",
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"content": "Write her a letter.",
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"content": "$15 million in super PAC money??? Hello?",
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"content": "And Obama had how much?",
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"content": "How many bankers did he prosecute for fraud? Oh yeah... None.",
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"content": "And how many of his promises of campaign finance reform did he follow through on?\n\nAnd what steps has he taken while in office to find a solution to the problems caused by the Citizens United decision?",
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"content": "What exactly could he do with either since its a SCOTUS decision and new law would have to be written, if not a Constitutional amendment by the states? \n\nHow exactly would anyone else achieve it?\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "You don't think he could have used his attention to draw attention to the problem? That he could have put pressure on legislators to find a solution? That he could have been more supportive of grassroots efforts to push for a constitutional amendment?\n\nAnd also, happy cake day.",
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"content": "I don't understand why you keep saying this - we obviously don't support him either.",
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"content": "We all know why she wont release them they were not scathing rebukes to those who collapsed our financial systems. At least that is what we must assume I mean if she had do you really think she wouldn't release them? It's an easy distinction to make that follows nicely with Bernie's platform to REALLY reform and shrink the large banks. With his obvious lack of speeches to them and donations from them it would be stupid not to keep pointing it out. When you have the name recognition and air time Bernie does making a clear distinction between him and Hillary when you can is pretty much necessary. No matter how much some may want, Bernie is not running as a message candidate he is running to win!",
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"content": "Can you explain what constitutes a smear. Because I see Clinton supporters throwing that word around a lot, and I almost never see the connection to what they are saying. \n\nBernie Sanders and many others have pointed out that Hillary Clinton received enormous amounts of money giving speeches to large financial institutions. That's true. That's literally right there on her tax returns. Not a smear.\n\nBernie Sanders and many others have asked her to release the transcripts of the speeches she was paid an enormous amount of money to give. Hillary Clinton refuses to behave in a transparent way. She deflects by saying it's an attack on her integrity when it's really a general complain about her total lack of transparency.\n\nCalling this a smear is great for getting people caught up in the emotional rhetoric that energizes them as a Clinton supporter, but on an intellectual level it's a stretch at best and completely intellectually dishonest at worst.",
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"content": "> Smear (n): a false accusation intended to damage someone's reputation\n\nRegarding the word \"smear\", the disagreement you two are having is entirely in whether the accusation is \"false\". As trevor5ever stated, the things we're saying are factually, objectively true which is why we don't see it as a smear. You and other people on your side tend to ignore that and claim that we are saying she is breaking the law or something else far beyond what we are saying. That's a misrepresentation which makes our claim sound as though it's something possibly or definitely \"false\".",
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"content": "> And you have innuendo intended to damage her: She's been \"bought\" by them, is a crook, etc.\n\nThis is were I disagree. By making this jump, Clinton is misrepresenting what is being said. As I said in other comments, identifying a conflict of interest is not and need not be the same as saying that bias has already occurred. It is identifying in a completely objective way that there is an increased chance of a bias emerging.\n\n> That's why it is a dogwhistle.\n\nThese buzzwords are the real \"false innuendo\". By \"dogwhistle\" you mean that for many people, negative judgements result from stated facts and are somehow implying that it is therefore underhanded to state those facts.\n\n> Same can be said of Bernie.\n\nIt's irrelevant to talking about whether this argument is \"false innuendo\" to talk about Sanders, Obama, Trump or anybody else. That's an interesting, but completely unrelated topic to whether these are \"false innuendo\".",
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"content": "Trump's birth certificate allegations were objectively false. Sanders' conflict of interest allegations are objectively true. That is the difference between \"smear\" and not. In both cases, people are drawing subsequent conclusions on their own, but in only one case it's based on lies.",
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"content": "I didn't say that he made \"specific allegations\", so quit patting yourself on the back for disproving a factual hole you conjured up out of your imagination.\n\nThe point was that, regardless of whether it was \"specific\" or explicit, the scandal in the Trump-Obama situation hinged on if the birth certificate existed and what it said. Everything Trump said was speculative and became of no value as soon as the final answer was reached.\n\nMeanwhile, in the Sanders-Clinton disagreement, what he says (1) isn't speculative and (2) is a serious concern even if the implications you perceive are untrue. In other words, he's avoiding mentioning instances bias/corruption not to avoid having to prove/account for them, but because even if they don't exist, the scandal of the conflict of interest still exists. It's a distraction to constantly conflate conflict of interest with inappropriate behavior. The whole disagreement here centers on the distinction between a conflict of interest and bias/corruption. Clinton supporters don't seem to see conflict of interest as an issue in itself, so to them it seems blatantly obvious that that cannot be the whole accusation, so to them it's all some suggestion that she has a history of bias and corruption derived from that conflict of interest. However, to Sanders supporters, the conflict of interest which we can objectively see is a self-contained scandal. We don't need bias or corruption to occur because the conflict of interest is sufficient to cause concern. That's what you don't seem to get.\n\nIf a domestic abuse incident gets called in at the household of a police officer, it's a reasonable precaution that we wouldn't have that officer manage the scene even if that officer had no history of bias or corruption. It's reasonable to recognize potential conflicts of interest and to structure things in a way that avoids them. It doesn't mean that every conflict of interest will turn into corruption and bias, it's just an intelligent way to handle the increased risk that a conflict of interest creates.",
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"content": "David..... Brock........ Seriously? Tad Devine went negative but Hillary didn't? Some of you guys are truly deluded.",
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"content": "It's too early to be counting Bernie's chickens.",
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"content": "I think Bernie needed a sweep of the Rust Belt to maintain the momentum from Michigan and to change the narrative. Now, having failed, he will gain delegates moving forward, and will win a few states, no question, but Hillary, barring an indictment, is the victor. Bernie has done nothing to sway the super-delegates and is unlikely to do so. Clinton's victory in Ohio, especially, was YUGE.",
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"content": "True, but should he not be the party's nominee I believe he has many options and the Executive Branch will be far from his pursuits. Therefore, Hillary should plan accordingly.",
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"content": "Many options? At 74, where does he go? Joe Biden would have ended up talking to himself in a corner if Obama hadn't plucked him from near-senility. Trust me, Biden was borderline in 2008.",
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"content": "What a shame for a guy to be \"near-senility\" at the age of 66. Republicans might remember that when considering raising the Soc. Sec. retirement age.",
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"content": "Unlike Scalia, Sanders looks like he's in good health. I think he could live to be 90 easily. Also I dont feel like a guy running for president is exactly lacking in \"options.\"",
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"content": "She probably doesn't really need him for the kids, against Trump at least, but blue collar male voters, I would say yes. If Castro's the VP it could be a disaster.",
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"content": "It won't be Castro. Look for another woman. Look for Kirsten Gillibrand, or Tammy Duckworth. It won't be Warren, and it DEFINITELY won't be a white man. She has Bill to fill that role. ",
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"content": "Two women? Non-starter methinks. Tim Kaine or Mark Warner. Kaine speaks fluent Spanish. Castro doesn't. Castro is way too green. He really is like having Palin on the ticket. Adds zero gravitas. I do think winning VA is a factor.",
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"content": "Hilary doesnt need anyone else's clout to compliment her own. She's never going to penetrate the Male vote anymore than she already does. the whole job of a VP is to get the presidential candidate elected, so she's going to focus on someone who can leverage demographic blocks on her support periphery. Neither Kaine or Castro really do that. I'd even say look to someone like Corey Booker, or Deval Patrick, if it must be a man. I really do see her going for a woman though. Gillibrand has to be on that short list. ",
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"content": "I doubt Tammy Duckworth would be picked since she's running for the US Senate seat in Illinois, and Kirsten Gillibrand can't be Hillary's running mate since both of them are from the same state.",
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"content": "Thats true. I didn't consider that. ",
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"content": "You really think an all-female ticket can win?",
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"content": "I think it would blow people away. I think that it would be a bold double-down. ",
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"content": "White workers not winnable, but she's poised to lose them by a truly dangerous margin.",
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"content": "In most polls I've seen Clinton is getting 30% -- not good enough. She's also not doing well with independents. She's also polling poorly with white females. Hillary's real advantage is with women of color. Potentially fatal combination here.",
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"content": "You're missing something important, though, I think. The selection of the VP is the first evidence of an executive decision by the nominee --- that's critical. McCain's choice of Palin was a huge negative factor because of what it said about his judgment -- just as Obama's choice of Biden spoke highly of his. The other thing is, VPs now play an important role in administrations and in any event, voters are increasingly concerned about who might step in should the president die or be incapacitated. If they can't envision the VP as president, it makes the choice a negative -- back to the first point. ",
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"content": "> If Castro's the VP it could be a disaster.\n\nHow so?",
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"content": "He's too green. I compare him to Sarah Palin or Dan Quayle. A choice designed to appeal to a single constituency. Nowadays, the VP needs to be seen as a credible stand-in for the president. He's not credible. He's basically just been a small town mayor in a city where the mayor has largely ceremonial responsibilities. I don't doubt that some Latino voters will be immensely excited by the choice -- African-Americans less so, and anyone Hillary wants to pull away from the GOP even less. The ticket will be the gringo abuela and her glorified pool boy. I know that's harsh but he's an overreach. He might make more sense if Rubio had been on the GOP ticket. I think both parties need to stop promoting these under-qualified candidates in a desperate attempt to flaunt their diversity credentials. Castro needs to put more time in, and prove himself. Eight-ten more years.",
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"content": "Somebody like Antonio Villaraigosa has real standing -- but he's too corrupt and has a real woman problem. Maybe he'll run for governor of CA. Hillary has strong enough credentials with Latinos on her own probably. Castro will do zilch to keep working class white voters from defecting. He will alienate them even further. It comes down to what the ticket really needs. I would go with Tim Kaine. I know there are some people who think the Dems can't even put a white male in the ticket? Very foolish thinking. ",
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"content": "I will be absolutely astonished if Bernie becomes Hillary's vp pick. I bet $100 on this, I'm pretty sure she won't, nor would I like to see that happen. ",
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"content": "I'm still a little shocked at all the hardcore hatred towards Trump. It's crazy...I mean, I'm a Democrat and I simply don't have the same set of beliefs as him, but I can understand why people are supporting him. He's saying it how it is..and sometimes, we don't like to hear it. ",
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"content": ">He's saying it how it is\n\nsaying what ppl like to hear some would argue",
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"content": "It's a mix.\n\nJust like every other politician ever.",
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"content": "This is in response to him offering to pay the legal fees of anyone who beats up protesters at his rallies. Sort of a taste of his own medicine type thing. It's an over-the-top request so that people don't *actually* do it. (Unlike him encouraging people to assault protesters, which has already started happening)",
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"content": "which he cancelled events because of the violence, saying that he doesn't want anyone to actually get hurt.",
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"content": "Well, he doesn't want his own people to get hurt. [He's cool with it when his supporters attack others, though](http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/13/donald-trump-john-mcgraw-legal-fees-punch-orig-vstan-dlewis.cnn)",
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"content": "Specifically saying that \"nothing condones that behavior\" and \"i don't condone that\" is what you would call \"being cool with it?\"",
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"content": "He didn't condemn his actions, he did the opposite. *He offered to pay his legal fees.* That's not the actions of someone who doesn't like this violence going on at his rallies. That's encouraging that behavior.",
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"content": "After you start a fire is a little late to tell people don't go in there.\n\nWhat do you think about his latest call to violence?\n\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-riots-nomination_us_56e956fae4b0b25c9183e915\n\n",
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"content": "I agree that it's a little late, after you say you will pay the legal fees of anyone who punches somebody. It's easy to say that kind of stuff before the violence happens. Once it happens, you have to reassess your effect on people.\n\nHe would look a little ridiculous if he backed out of his offer to pay legal fees. He made that offer before the NC incident, but somebody took him up on it. I belive he will make good on his word and pay the court costs. He didn't say \"I will get you *out of trouble*\" though, he just said he would pay legal expenses. I do think Trump is a piece of shit for encouraging that stuff, though. But I also think edgy \"protesters\" that go into his events for the sole purpose of disrupting are pieces of shit, too. Not that it justifies the violence. It doesn't. But they are going there to disrupt a private event they don't belong at, just because they disagree with the ideas that will be expressed at the event. That's shitty too.\n\nAs far as your link, I'm sorry, but that is *not* a \"call to violence\". I read it, and he is speculating that people could riot. People do riot for all kinds of reasons. It happens.\n\nA call to violence would be if he said \"Hey, all my supporters, if I don't win the nomination, I want you to go riot!\"",
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"content": "> I read it, and he is speculating that people could riot. People do riot for all kinds of reasons. It happens.\n\nI hope for your sake you are not that naive...listen to it there is no doubt what he is saying...It is a thinly veiled threat...to his own party. ",
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"content": "Nope. I don't do that \"dog whistle\" BS.\n\nAsking a man if he thinks riots could happen, and then using his answer to say \"he's trying to start a riot!\" is dishonest at best.\n\nI'm not playing that game. Trump's a \"doofus\" (edited), but i'm not just gona subscribe to every little anti-trump bit of nonsense.",
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"content": "Thanks for your cooperation. :D",
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"content": "Thanks for being cool mods and not just completely permanently nuking comments for minor infractions.\n\nIt's a little gesture, but it goes a long way.",
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"content": "\"We got here by deliberate means\"\n\nhttp://on.msnbc.com/1pe7zUq\n\n>Rachel Maddow presents a video timeline of Donald Trump's comments at rallies that have stoked hostility and incited violence by his supporters against protesters, leading to chaos after a canceled rally in Chicago\n\n\nThis threat is in the same vein as the previous ones why do you not see it as threat ? Do you think all of these are dog whistles? Paul Ryan took it seriously.\n\n>Paul Ryan Calls Trump's 'Riots' Comment 'Unacceptable'\n\nhttp://www.nbcnews.com/politics/paul-ryan/paul-ryan-calls-trump-s-riots-comment-unacceptable-n540896\n\n",
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"content": "I don't consider it a threat because it wasn't a threat. Words have definitions, and I try to stick to them as best I can.\n\nHe was asked about riots in the interview, and he did what he does best: he ran his mouth to hear himself talk. I'm not going to read into it any further than that or extrapolate from it. I feel that i would be doing my own intellect a disservice trying to \"decipher\" trump's babbling.\n\nThe point of asking trump about riots is to get him to say something that could be construed as encouraging further riots, so we can all boo and hiss and be mad about it. I'm just bored with playing the \"how evil is donald trump?\" game. He's a dope, a fascist, and i'm not going to vote for him, so I don't feel the need to indulge in masturbatory hate-jerks about him. People give him more attention than he deserves, and he loves it.",
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"content": "> He was asked about riots in the interview\n\nNo he was not.",
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"content": "You sure about that? He just started going off talking about riots without any prompt or context?",
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"content": "They asked him what would he do if there was an open convention.",
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"content": "I'm not doubting you, but do you have a link? The trump quotes i read seem a bit non-sequitor for that question, just curious.",
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"content": "http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/03/16/trump-brokered-convention-intv-cuomo-newday.cnn\n\nThis could get wild here is the best explanation I have heard so far.\n\nhttp://on.msnbc.com/1pKqpmP\n\nThe shit has already started with the convention.\n\n>Political sorcerers battle in the dark art of GOP delegate math\n\n\nRachel Maddow reports on the bizarre backstory of the Republican delegates for the U.S. Virgin Islands in the larger context of the party politics shaping up for the Republican convention and strategies to undercut Donald Trump. \n\nhttp://on.msnbc.com/1pMPxJz",
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"content": "right on, bout to go to lunch so i'll watch it in a sec",
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"content": "Those \"protesters\" go to his rallies deliberately looking to cause problems. They are constantly going to his rallies to be the \"aggressors\". \n\nAnd then, when his supporters get fed up, it's all of a sudden their fault.\n\nNo on talks about how much of a nuisance these protesters are..",
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"content": ">And then, when his supporters get fed up, it's all of a sudden their fault.\n\nYes. Absolutely. If you don't like protesters and you punch them, it is ABSOLUTELY your fault.\n\n>No on talks about how much of a nuisance these protesters are..\n\nThat's because you don't get to beat people up just because you find them to be a nuisance.",
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"content": "Whatever man. If you're at a rally, and there's some Black Lives Matter guy constantly yelling and doesn't want to leave, things will get heated really quickly. Is beating someone up justifiable? No, absolutely not. All I'm saying is that these people go to these rallies specifically looking for trouble. \n\nPeople are getting fed up with the \"I'm the victim\" attitude these demonstrators are playing when attending Trump's rallies looking to stir up problems. \n\nYou don't like Trump, don't attend his rallies. ",
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"content": ">People are getting fed up with the \"I'm the victim\" attitude\n\nThe guy who was sucker punched by that old man WAS a victim. He was assaulted. The fact that people like you exist scare me. There's stadiums full of people like you at rallies that are horrifying. To claim that people deserve to be sucker punched because they're annoying, and that they're not victims of assault is ridiculous. \n\nThis is why we have to have assault laws. Because people like you believe people who get sucker punched in the face aren't victims. Escorting him out isn't good enough for you, you want him physically assaulted for being a nuisance. Jesus fucking Christ, what's wrong with you?",
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"content": "Look man, I consider myself a liberal, and a proud democrat. But even I get fed up with some the antics of these anti-Trump protestors. Hell, I was pissed at that BLM protestor last year that jumped in front of Sanders:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnbwUT7lBg\n\nEnough already...I just get tired of these anti-Trump protestors, Black Lives Matter groups who are trying to play the pity card all the time. Don't go to the damn rallies just to cause problems....voice your opinion by voting and holding your own rallies. \n\nNo one wants to talk about the guy that tried to attack Trump the other day...because hey, that's okay. Or the fact that Trump's comments about immigration were targeted at ILLEGAL immigrants...and my fellow liberals have done a great job morphing the two together. There's a major difference between the two.\n\nSorry man, as much as I love being a Democrat, even I'm fed up with some of these protestors and their hidden agendas. ",
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"content": "You just contradicted yourself by justifying it. ",
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"content": "There weren't such a nuisance when they were protesting Obama from the Tea Party. \n\nYou are excusing violence. A right to it anyone because you are \"fed up\". ",
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"content": "> He's saying it how it is..\n\nHahahahahah\n\nNow this is going to be difficult because Trump very rarely says anything beyond..I'm the Donald i can fix it...but take anything he has said...and show me how it is saying it like it is.\n\nI can show you many where it is obvious he has no clue what \"it\" is...here is the latest.\n\n>Trump on His Foreign Policy Advisers: \"I'm Speaking With Myself\"\n\nThis much akin to Palin being asked what newspaper s do you read...and answering \"all of them\" neither had a clue and made up a lie on the spot....dumb lie.\n\nhttp://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/trump-foreign-policy-advisers-speaking-with-myself\n\n",
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"content": "Elizabeth Warren Sounds Off On Donald Trump | All In | MSNBC\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzI1k7eEc9Q",
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"content": "She said libertarians should speak out against Donald Trump. Apparently she doesn't realize that libertarians are a bulk of his support. Where do you think \"South shall rise again\" Ron Paul supporters like David Duke went? They formed the core of Trumps initial support, which is why Rand Paul floundered. Trump has done wonders exposing the Libertarian/an-cap movement for what it is, racists trying to hide their racism. \n\nFFS, Walter Block, Lew Rockwell, Stephen Molyneux, and many other supposedly rabid anti-authoritarians have lined up behind Trump from the beginning. \n",
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"content": "> Apparently she doesn't realize that libertarians are a bulk of his support\n\nI think she does. Not all Libertarians are so deep into the ideology to be completely blind to all of the over the top aspects to Trump. And White Nationalist are the core of Trumps support. \n\nhttp://gawker.com/pbs-news-story-on-first-time-trump-voters-prominently-f-1765284316",
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"content": "Not all, but in my experience these libertarians are simply ignorant or in denial about where Libertarianism got it's start. White Nationalists started the movement, and it's why they still represent the bulk of the movement. \n\nAll the state's rights crap goes back to the Civil War and Reconstruction and has always been a massive contradiction. The CSA constitution *reduced* state's rights compared to the US constitution when the only significant difference between the two was slavery being mandatory.",
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"content": "Hey this is really interesting stuff, could you give me some links for further reading?",
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"content": "Look, I'm going to get down-voted to oblivion, regardless, but I agree with what he said about Mexico flushing it's worst into the country, the border being out of control, and putting a hold on Muslim countries sending refugees over here while there's still wars going on...I know, we're not suppose to feel that way...",
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"content": "> but I agree with what he said about Mexico flushing it's worst into the country,\n\nA couple of questions. Do you honestly think the Mexican government has anything to do with immigration from Mexico?\n\nAnd are you aware that we are at a net sub zero on illegal immigration...that more people are leaving than coming in? \n\n>the border being out of control,\n\n..\n\n>Since the Bush administration, the DHS has dramatically increased its efforts to lock down the southwest border. The budget for Customs and Border Protection has grown to $10.7 billion in the past decade, a 75 percent increase. The number of Border Patrol agents at the border has nearly doubled over the past decade, to more than 18,000 today.\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/flow-of-illegal-immigration-slows-as-us-mexico-border-dynamics-evolve/2015/05/27/c5caf02c-006b-11e5-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html\n\n> and putting a hold on Muslim countries sending refugees over here while there's still wars going on.\n\nWhere to start?\n\nFirst... there will always be a war in the Middle East and our actions have at least some to do with this one.\n\nThose refugees are the most vetted people on the planet and even though there are several thousand in the US already there has been no problems...at all. \n\n>I know, we're not suppose to feel that way.\n\nYou are if there is a problem...but there is not...you have been lied to and they are trying to scare you.\n\nAnd more imporat Trump has called for a lot more than putting a hold on Muslim countries sending refugees...a lot more.",
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"content": "That's not what he said though. \n\nNotice how you just whitewashed it.\n\n",
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"content": "He wants to pay his supporters to commit felonies against protesters in between calling for war crimes, mass roundups of \"undesirables,\" the end of American trade, and new ground campaigns in the Middle East, and you're shocked that people are worried? ",
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"content": "Fun little game: replace \"Trump\" with \"Hitler\" ",
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"content": "He is more like Mussolini...but ya. ",
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"content": "Very mature. This sort of bullshit isn't what the party needs. We should be inspiring unity and recruiting his supporters, not taking taking middle school potshots.",
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"content": "I have no great love for Donald Trump, but I think using the word gaslighting to describe his behavior is a bit disingenuous. After all, there is nothing he could say that would make me doubt my sanity. On the other hand, there's plenty that he says that makes me doubt his.",
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"content": "> there is nothing he could say that would make me doubt my sanity.\n\nI don't think that's what gaslighting means. Gaslighting is when a conman convinces his victims that his lies are true.",
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"content": "No. It's not.\n\n[What is Gaslighting?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting)",
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"content": ">making victims doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity\n\nYou're both sorta right and sorta wrong, based on your link.",
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"content": "It's more of a distortion of reality. ",
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"content": "I don't have a problem with him. I think some of the things he says are justifiable, we just don't want to admit it. ",
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"content": "The problem is that for every justifiable thing he says, you will also find him saying some unjustifiable thing that's in direct opposition to the first statement. If what he's saying sounds reasonable, he's lying. This isn't even hard anymore. He talks both sides of every issue. \n\nAt this point, I wouldn't be surprised by anything. He could adopt Jill Stein as his running mate, and resign the second he gets into office. Would not surprise me in the least. (He could also start a military coup and round up all the Muslims/Mexicans in concentration camps, and that wouldn't really surprise me either.) He could do both!",
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"content": "You should have a problem with him.",
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"content": "This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-lies-gaslighting_us_56e95d21e4b065e2e3d7ee82) reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)\n*****\n> Trump&#039;s claim was delivered with such gusto that Oliver began to doubt what he knew to be true, even though he knew Trump was lying.\n\n> When faced with their brazen lies, gaslighters deny their own statements, change the subject, lash out with insults, act indignant about the accusation, or turn on the messenger - which, for Trump, is often the national media.\n\n> According to Robin Stern, associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life, Trump is exhibiting textbook gaslighting behavior.\n\n\n*****\n[**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/4atxpq/donald_trump_is_successfully_conning_the_entire/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ \"Version 1.6, ~45207 tl;drs so far.\") | [Theory](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31bfht/theory_autotldr_concept/) | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr \"PMs and comment replies are read by the bot admin, constructive feedback is welcome.\") | *Top* *keywords*: **Gaslight**^#1 **Trump**^#2 **even**^#3 **ask**^#4 **Oliver**^#5\n\n",
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"content": "Wait...I thought gaslighting was slowly convincing your girlfriend that she's actually crazy? ",
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"content": "Let's do it.",
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"content": "Why? So our general election turnout is super low because the party insisted on ensuring as noncompetitive a primary as possible?\n\nThat's not a sure-fire way to lose to Donald Trump at all. /S",
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"content": "I don't owe the democratic party my vote. \nThe onus is on the Democratic party to put up a candidate that motivates me to vote for them. \nHillary doesn't do that for many people. \nIf you (the DNC) put up a candidate that doesn't motivate your base, you (DNC) failed, not the base. ",
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"content": "If you are not in a swing state, it doesn't matter.",
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"content": "I am.",
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"content": "I am though. Ohio Democratic voter here, enrolled in the party, voting in primaries since 2004. And, I feel like the Democratic Party doesn't represent me anymore. They're far too pro-business, free-trade, and globalization for me. I want a progressive party that challenges these things and the GOP. Not one that says we'll take their ideas tweak them a tiny bit, then try and tell me that, well this is \"realistic\" and of course it will help you in the end. Really the Democrats are also hollowing out the middle class just at a slower pace than the GOP is/would.",
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"content": "One of the major tenants of progressivism was to end tariffs and move to free trade as the best way of helping the poor and middle class. The Republican party fought this tooth and nail of course. While free trade requires mechanisms to assure that displaced workers are provided adequate time and training to adjust, any attempt to impose tariffs as Sanders proposes or leaving the WTO as he also proposes his an affront to his supposed hero, FDR. It is also bad economic policy.",
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"content": "This assumes the government does its job of protecting the citizens of their respective nations and not just the corporations and the upper management of said corporations. Huge difference there when your free trade comes through the vehicle of the TPP which is blatantly anti-consumer, and anti-worker.",
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"content": "Anti-worker? It could turn out that way. Anti-consumer? Source?",
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"content": "Gosh, you need motivation to vote?",
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"content": "Nice [Reductio ad absurdum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum).",
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"content": "It was your own words. ",
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"content": "It absolutely was not. \n>If you (the DNC) put up a candidate that doesn't motivate your base, you (DNC) failed, not the base. \n \n\"Your base\" is not one person, me or otherwise.",
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"content": "\"a candidate that motivates me to vote for them\".\n\nIt was indeed. ",
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"content": "That was the universal \"me\". \nMe as the consumer. \nMe as the voter. \nMe as the target audience for your message.",
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"content": "But from your POV. \n\nYou need Clinton to motivate \"you to vote for her? \n\nThe threat posed by the GOP doesn't motivate \"you\" at all? ",
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"content": "Okay, allow me to rephrase so as to cool your semantic demons. \n>The voters don't owe the democratic party their vote.\nThe onus is on the Democratic party to put up a candidate that motivates the voters to vote for them.\nHillary doesn't do that for many people.\nIf you (the DNC) put up a candidate that doesn't motivate your base, you (DNC) failed, not the base. \n \nNow try to read my point instead of trying to find a pedantic thread to pull.",
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"content": "But wait, she motivated enough people to be in the lead of nom 2.5 million votes. \n\nAnd she motivates enough she is a 13 pt favorite over the Orange Fuhrer. ",
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"content": "I'm not finding fault with her inspiring the people she has already obviously inspired. \nGood for her. \nThe subject of this discussion is the people she obviously *hasn't* inspired. \nThus the article saying the party must soon come together. \nFor us/them/voters (whatever pronoun you wont single out) that don't like her to come to her side, some inspiration is needed.",
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"content": "Jill Stein 2016",
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"content": "Are these the same Republicans that will do anything for the unborn, but once born, don't bother them? No surprise there...",
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"content": "How long until some republican figures out how to just make it illegal for the poor to vote?",
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"content": "They used to have poll taxes.",
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"content": "Now it's voter ID requirements.",
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"content": "Voter ID requirements are poll taxes. In many states in the neighborhood of $80 poll taxes.",
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"content": "What's wrong with needing an ID?",
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"content": "It's unnecessary. If you look at the instances of in place voter fraud it's virtually nonexistent. To make the requirement that you need ID to vote produces a loop to jump through that not everyone can afford. Even in the case of some states providing a free I'd, you have to get to a location that may be difficult to get to. Or in the recent case of Alabama, the state closes a bunch of dmv's in poor areas after passing a voter ID requirement.",
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"content": "Additionally, voter ID laws overwhelmingly disenfranchise minority communities that largely vote Democrat. Efforts to push these laws for the sake of a nonexistent boogeyman are pure partisanship at the cost of democracy.",
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"content": "Why would blacks or Hispanics care that they have to show thier drivers license?",
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"content": "Lots of people don't have drivers licenses, not just black and Hispanic. But in terms of total population, the laws disproportionately affect poor minority communities. There is also a massive backlog of requests for voter IDs. In Texas, last I read, about 60,000 people had applied last year, and the amount issued was in the double digits. The practical implication, and pretty clearly the intent, is to disenfranchise black and Hispanic voters.",
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"content": "Ok. But, there are still state ids. I mean, do you realize how much someone cannot do without any form of photo id. You cant cash a check, get a job, buy beer or certain cold medicine.\n\nAre you telling me that having to show photo id to buy beer screws blacks and Hispanics too?",
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"content": "In the case that they provide the ID for free, and someone does not have an id, they should be deemed incapable of voting an thur forfeit that right. \n\nI'm ok with voter ids, but it should be more lax for people that are moving and women that just married within the last 2 months.",
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"content": "It should be made available to everyone for free, or you should at least be allowed to fill out a provisional ballot while registration can be confirmed. ",
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"content": "Democrats need to get it together. too many of them are playing some of the same games and the result is that the people are going to suffer. the latest budget offerings make cuts so deep there is no way social services will be able to keep up with the poor because at the same time politicians are cutting their offerings too.\n\nTwo of our local shelters have been cut more than $100,000, it is a disgrace. ",
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"content": "In the North, we've got a lot of neoliberal Reaganlites in our camp. In the South, a lot of Blue Dogs, remnants of the party's fight *against* Civil Rights. These two caucuses dominate our politics, and the progressives either get shut out, or make asses of themselves supporting candidates who they consider more politically viable because of their \"moderation\".",
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"content": "Whats a disgrace is bringing in guest workers via h2 and 1 million 3rd world legal migrants everyyear while we have so many people in shelters. We need to start taking care of Americans.",
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"content": "My son lives in New York and he goes to work 20 miles away. He is on welfare.",
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"content": "A large percentage of the people receiving benefits today that aren't disabled in some manner or elderly are working. ",
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"content": "Online voting can't come soon enough. Let's go software gurus. Zuckerberg, Google, et al. Trial system in 4 years for the Democratic Primaries.",
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"content": "It would be better in two years for the midterms. Typically smaller turnout, could be more manageable.",
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"content": "You guys are thinking of this backwards. The question is not how will they get to work. This isn't a problem if wages are so low that they can never afford to actually leave work.",
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"content": "And honestly, it's unlikely that someone with the experience and Scalia's somewhat extreme views of the constitution exists.",
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"content": "Sweeeet Jesus, I hope no one like Scalia's out there waiting to get on the bench. Great point! :)",
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"content": "Cruz mentioned the person conservatives would want at one of the debates. ",
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"content": "> Scalia's somewhat extreme views of the constitution exists.\n\nUnfortunately, there are. One of them sits on the Supreme Court: Samuel Alito. ",
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"content": "What does extreme view about the constitution mean?",
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"content": "Well, Scalia was well known for his view that the the Constitution should be viewed as a relatively static document and considered in the context in which it was written. This was (and is) a radical view that wasn't widely shared when he was nominated to the court. It's a little more popular now, but still isn't really taken that seriously (some of the other SCOTUS Justices have even got their digs in).\n\nThis didn't get in the way of some of his more politicized decisions, which is why he could consistently be counted on for conservative decisions. But you will be hard pressed to find someone who is both qualified and shares that particular view of the constitution.",
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"content": "Bingo. I loathe them both but Alito made Scalia look like a hippy, especially in the last few years.\n\nAnd Thomas, although he gets a lot of criticism for just playing follow the leader, is widely hailed as even more conservative than both of them, although I'm not too certain about his stance on whether the Constitution is a static or living document.",
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"content": "Rafael Edward Cruz.",
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"content": "The Hitler clones keep dropping out of law school to pursue a career in art.",
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"content": "I find this headline rather insensitive. ",
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"content": "Uhm what would be better... Scalia has passed to the world beyond?",
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"content": "Scalia = worm food",
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"content": "And a whole lot of it, too.",
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"content": "Who gives a shit",
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"content": "Not when Obama picked the one they wanted for them.",
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"content": "Truth.",
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"content": "False. ",
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"content": "Hilary Clinton is a potential mass murdering dictator like Hitler or Stalin and Mao. ",
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"content": "Now that I think about it, I am a potential murderer too. I'd like to apologize all the potential pain I potentially caused the families of all my potential victims.",
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"content": "I could potentially forgive you, if you weren't potentially lying.",
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"content": "the main, if not only reason I think this is such a big deal, is that people want to replace Scalia with someone who supports their agenda rather than with someone who supports the constitution.",
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"content": "That's the cool thing about the Constitution -- it's whatever we want it to be. As long as we're willing to put in the work.",
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"content": "I don't think you understand the Constitution, then. It's meant to be changed as time goes on, but only to suit the needs of the time, not the desires of a few activists willing to \"put in the work\". The very point of the Constitution is that it cannot be changed except for when it is necessary; it is the document that protects us from democracy.",
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"content": "Nah, I understand it completely. I think it's you who doesn't realize that \"to suit the needs of the time\" and \"desires of a few activists\" is actually the same thing.\n\nSee: women's suffrage, slavery, LGBT rights, etc.",
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"content": "Those are absolutely not the same thing. Women's suffrage was widely supported at the time and had already been enacted in numerous states. Gay marriage was supported by a majority of people at the time of Obergefell v. Hodges. Abolitionism was widely supported too, as evidenced by the fact that the Republican party, an anti-slavery party, won the second presidential election it participated in (and was an extremely contentious issue throughout the country).\n\nSo no, when something is widely supported and a major issue, it is absolutely not the desire of a few activists. ",
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"content": "The activists are the ones actually making the issue a political one. Abolition was widely supported? LOLOLOL. Tell that to the slave states that left and wrote in their letters of secession naming the preservation of slavery as the reason. \n\nSorry, but I think you're grasping here to try to be \"right.\" ",
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"content": ">Tell that to the slave states\n\nThat's like saying gay marriage isn't widely supported because some states didn't legalize it unt they were forced to. Of course some parts of the country were pro-slavery, but a party that was openly against slavery won the very second presidential election it ever participated in. Along with the contentious fights over expansion of slavery in the western territories, and the numerous states that abolished slavery before 1860, it's easy to say that abolitionism was widely-supported, even if slavery was as well.\n\nSure, the activists make the issues big, but they don't change a damn thing, and it\"s a good thing they shouldn't. Once the issues become large they are no longer the desires of a few activists, and the Constitution cannot (and should not) be changed by people \"working hard enough\". ",
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"content": "Hear hear, someone who knows what they're talking about when it comes to the Constitution.",
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"content": "The way most leftists talk about the Constitution kind of scares me, honestly",
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"content": "To me, \"widely supported\" means just about everyone supports it. Both cases you mentioned had large pockets of opposition. ",
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"content": "Then we have different definitions of wide support. The point is that more than a small slice of society supported those actions.",
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"content": "So can you give us an example of something that wasn't widely supported but passed the SCOTUS as merely the desire of a few activists, since this is apparently such a problem?\n\nCan you also explain why the process for appointing judges isn't sufficient enough to distinguish between \"activists\" and \"qualified candidates\", if it's a problem that should be addressed?",
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"content": "I never once said it was a problem. However, the person I was responding to implied that the Constitution can be changed to be \"whatever we want\" if we \"work hard enough\". Implying activism on the part of a certain, narrow group. I was not saying it's a thing that happens; I was saying it's a thing that should not happen, and was saying the person in question does not understand the very purpose of the Constitution.\n\nOne example of such a thing however is gay marriage in South Africa. Only 30% of South Africans approve of such a thing, yet the courts approved it. Decisions like Citizens United, too, are certainly not supported by a majority of people either. \n\nAs well, your last question is part of my point. No matter how hard a few activists work, they cannot change the Constitution. An amendment would require a 2/3rds majority in Congress, something that would likely not happen; this is because the Constitution is meant to be changed only when absolutely necessary.\n\nI think you misunderstood my comments. I was deriding his naivete as well as telling him why he was wrong.\n",
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"content": "> Implying activism on the part of a certain, narrow group. \n\nI think this is where we disagree. It seems to me that when he said we could change it, he meant the broader public in general, rather than a minority.\n\n>One example of such a thing however is gay marriage in South Africa.\n\nI can't speak to situation in South Africa, except to say that it seems mostly irrelevant to any question of how we should handle our own affairs in the US.\n\n>Decisions like Citizens United, too, are certainly not supported by a majority of people either.\n\nWell that's the problem, isn't it? It seems that the Citizen's United ruling comes from interpreting the Constitution from a historical perspective applied to a contemporary context, and it doesn't seem to work.",
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"content": "Don't worry. Well have a pragmatic president soon who will compromise and give them a judge they like. ",
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"content": "Ugh.",
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"content": "Well, votes are needed. \n\nThere is no magical President, no matter what the top post on reddit tell us. ",
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"content": "It's not about that. Well, it's a little bit about that, but it's mostly about winning the Presidency. They know the Republican voter base is energized and could be harnessed. The empty SCOTUS seat is one sure fire way of harnessing and directing that energy.\n\nIf they give Obama what he wants now (which could be just a political move,) then they know they will lose a huge reason to bring their voters out. No way are they going to want to give that up.\n\nAlso, Obama has anticipated that, that's why he went with the noncontroversial candidate that both sides would be happy with. This is his way of getting the public to turn on the Republican establishment.",
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"content": "Yes, because the party never, ever takes its own survival into account...",
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"content": "You apparently are not aware of what happened three days later, on June 7, 2008:\n\nHillary Clinton gracefully bowed out of the race. She did so when it became clear she could not win.\n\nShe also was much closer to Obama in votes and delegates than Bernie Sanders is to her today.\n\n>If i were a Hillary supporter the last thing I'd be doing is trying create the impression that she's not being consistent\n\nShe has no asked him to withdraw. For her supporters to suggest he step down is entirely consistent. She did so in 2008 when it became clear she could not win. He should do so now because it's clear he cannot win.",
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"content": ">This was after Obama reached the delegate goal \n\nOnly if you count the superdelegates. :)",
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"content": "Hillary Clinton has never said anything about Bernie Sanders dropping out. So you're fighting an imaginary opponent here.",
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"content": "You seem to think all things are equal between 2008 and 2016. They're not. Sanders is not Obama. Sanders and Clinton are not running neck and neck. It did not become clear until June 2008 that Clinton had no chance to win. It's much clearer much earlier this time.\n\nAlso, no one said Sanders should drop out, except for you.",
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"content": "> I never said Hillary is calling for Sanders to drop out,\n\nYou just said it was an unnecessary fight for her. Some fight you made up.",
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"content": "> this is an imaginary fight for Hillary\n\nTFTY. \n\n",
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"content": "It depends on what Sanders does and says, not about him dropping out or not. ",
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"content": "Let me explain why: Hillary isn't the best choice. She has gotten this far by way of a corrupt media, multiple broken caucuses and polls, and a DNC that had no intention of letting anyone else in \"her spot\".\n\nSo fuck her. She's going to bring us more war, more corporate rule, more inequality. Anyone who believes her changed rhetoric is so stupid that they are literally putting the future of our society in jeopardy just because they want to believe that change can be as easy as picking a name they recognize.",
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"content": "> a DNC that had no intention of letting anyone else in \"her spot\".\n\nWhat has the DNC actually done that you object to?",
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"content": "1. Limiting the debate schedule, with the few debates at terrible timeslots. In addition to limiting public exposure to Sanders, it has also given the Republicans a massive head start in the news coverage. We had to just watch Trump take over the conversation as the Republican primary turned into a shit show, and we couldn't get a word in for months, all so Hillary doesn't lose her voters.\n\n2. Limiting GOTV efforts when the challenger candidate just *happens* to be leading heavily among young and new voters. Let alone how this heavily hurts the Democratic Party in the general election since the Dems are favored in the youth vote too, which means they're just throwing away votes simply to make the primary favor their chosen candidate.\n\n3. Debbie Wasserman Schultz left behind any suggestion of neutrality months ago. She's turned the DNC into an arm of the Hillary Campaign. Her partisanship should preclude her from her position at the head of the DNC, but she's given no impression of intending to follow ethical standards.\n",
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"content": "> Limiting the debate schedule,\n\nA decision that had nothing to do with Sanders and everything to do with the chaos in 2008. A decision that was changed to accommodate Sanders. \n\n>We had to just watch Trump take over the conversation as the Republican primary turned into a shit show, \n\nDo you really think that more debates would have changed that? Particularly since there are more debate.\n\n>Limiting GOTV efforts\n\nWhere does this come from? The national party never has a GOTV effort during the primaries? Never. If it did you would be screaming your head off that they were getting out the Clinton voters and not the Sanders voters. \n\n>Debbie Wasserman Schultz left behind any suggestion of neutrality months ago.\n\nSorry, I want something they actually did, not how you feel. I asked for specifics, your answer is they did things. What things has the DNC done? So far you have 1, a decision basically made 8 years ago.\n\n",
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"content": "Sounds like you can't be convinced because you already have been.\n\nI won't keep trying.\n\nLook, if you actually think Hillary will be a good president, you're already a lost cause.",
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"content": "I can't be convinced because you have no actual evidence. Nor was this about whether or not Clinton would be a good president. So how about it, where is any evidence that the DNC has ever been involved in a GOTV effort during the primaries? Did they do that in 2008? In 2004? Nope. ",
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"content": "You do know that Sanders was even a member of the party about a year ago? ",
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"content": "You mean she got 2.5 million more votes? ",
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"content": "Written by David Wasserman?\n\nDoes he have any relation to DWS?",
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"content": "Starbucks and Microsoft? Do you have a source? ",
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"content": "Starbucks is in a few locations but here is one example:\n\nhttp://www.trumptaj.com/dining/\n\nMicrosoft is in the Bank of America building in San Fran:\n\nhttps://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/usaoffices/northwest/en/us/sanfrancisco.aspx",
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"content": "You do realize that Trump doesn't even own the Taj Mahal now, right? So you are going after a business that he doesn't even want his name on? Why don't you get your act together first? Delete this nonsense and start over?",
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"content": "You are kidding right? These businesses were there probably longer than his political aspirations, have a lease, or are in a place that he bought. Now they should be punished because of that? I could see if they had some kind of choice and many that are in places with his name are uncomfortable and have gotten out where possible but to expect businesses to remove themselves from a location is a little much. \n\nIs the Apprentice even on since he is running for president?",
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"content": "Doesn't matter, companies can get out of leases and business agreements easily. When Adrian Peterson earned a season long suspension for hitting his son, his sponsors and sponsors of the NFL terminated their sponsorship's and apparel deals in a few short weeks/months. \n\nIf these companies truly wanted to distance themselves from Trump and his companies, they would be able to.\n\nAs for the Apprentice - I'm not sure. I put those sponsors in a separate category because they aren't directly supporting him, they just want the exposure that a show featuring him provides, so it's a little different.",
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"content": "> companies can get out of leases and business agreements easily.\n\nIt's expensive to get out of a commercial lease. You have to continue to pay the rent until a replacement tenant is found that is suitable to the landlord. You also have to indemnify that replacement tenant for any lost rents through the remainder of the lease. Commerical leases are usually long-term in the 10- to 20-year range.\n\n>terminated their sponsorship's and apparel deals\n\nThey weren't real estate leasing agreements. Those contracts included moral turpitude clauses which allow the contract to be voided for bad behavior. Leasing agreements do not include moral turpitude clauses.",
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"content": "While yes, it would be difficult, it's still possible. \n\nAnother, probably more realistic option, is that Trump would be forced out of the ownership group that owns these huge buildings. Places like the BOA building in SF and 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Trump owns only 30% and an REIT company, Vornado, owns the other 70%. With current tenants unhappy and the inability to fill empty leases due to association with Trump, Vornado may take action. ",
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"content": "> Vornado may take action.\n\nA company cannot force someone to sell something.",
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"content": "They can't legally, but there are steps to take to pressure him to sell. They also would have grounds to sue, stating that as the price of the property declines because of trump, they are being affected",
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"content": ">but there are steps to take to pressure him to sell. \n\nIf they can't do it legally, then they can't do it without repercussions. They have to be cautious of duress and other issues. He can simply say \"no\" and that's the end of that.\n\n> They also would have grounds to sue, stating that as the price of the property declines because of trump\n\n\"Grounds to sue\" is not a legal precept. That notwithstanding, unless the REIT agreements include moral turpitude clauses, the other investors' claims would be without legal merit and promptly dismissed. Proving the value (not price) of a property has decline \"because of Trump\" is entirely subjective. The other investors made a conscious decision to go into business with Trump, whose controversies have long been known. There is no remedy in tort or contract law. \n\nI think Trump is a loathsome individual, but what you're suggesting here is not a viable legal remedy.",
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"content": "This is misguided and won't work. \n\nTrump owns far less than he seems to. ",
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"content": "Worth posting on /r/TrueProgressive and /r/stand. You're seeing lots of negativity toward this here because most of those are significant Hillary Clinton supporters too.",
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"content": "No, because the Apprentice isn't even on television anymore and he is listing business that has Trump's name that he doesn't even own anymore like the Taj Mahal. This guy is flapping in the wind. ",
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"content": "Or, because this won't hurt Trump at all. ",
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"content": "> most of those are significant Hillary Clinton supporters too.\n\nWhat does that have to do with anything?",
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"content": "Yeah, I don't think that will work. They can't see past their own self serving career opportunism.\n\nThe only way is to surpass her popular delegates and DEMAND they change, to reflect the will of the people. There will be riots at both conventions if not.",
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"content": "After months of denouncing superdelegates as un-democratic, the Sanders campaign embraces the very strategy they condemned.\n\nHow is this *not* hypocritical? Hillary Clinton has 2,538,372 more popular votes than Bernie Sanders.",
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"content": "He's also denounced the two part duopoly, but is running as Democrat.\n\nI'm totally okay with that. Playing the game to change the rules is the only way.\n\nSuper delegates are undemocratic. It's manipulation, just like pushing Southern states first to block actual progressives.\n\nI'm in Washington State and we will have our say, despite the corporate sabotage of our democracy.",
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"content": "So it's okay for Bernie Sanders to do it but it's not okay for Hillary Clinton to do it?\n\n",
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"content": "Do what, ask for the endorsement of his peers? The idea that she had already secured so many sycophants before the race had even started just shows how corrupting her patronage is.\n\nGolden tickets for everyone! One free favor for everyone!\n\nThat is corruption. Bernie is asking them to do what is right for America, not just their career.\n\nAll three of my reps were among them. I will not vote for any of them if they don't reconsider, and I'll advise all to do the same.\n\nIf Bernie is on the ticket in November you will see voters actually turn out. Congress will flip. Things will get done.\n\nYou're just digging us a hole. Get ready for Fuhrer Trump.",
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"content": "> Bernie is asking them to do what is right for America\n\nAre you actually serious? You're embracing hypocrisy while subverting democracy because it's \"right for America\"? Who died and made Bernie Sanders infallible? If he does it, it's okay because it's \"right for America\" but not if anyone else does it?\n\n>you will see voters actually turn out.\n\nIf Bernie Sanders caused people to \"actually turn out\" he would be winning every state in the Democratic primary. If he can't win the primary, he can't win in the general election.\n\nI seriously suspect you're trolling here. You have a one-month-old account. Hmmm.",
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"content": "Secured sycophants? She ran in 2008 so she had the additional support from her peers, and their constituents. \n\nHow is it corruption when Clinton has more votes? How is it right for America to overrule the leading candidate with the most votes when Sanders hasn't even demonstrated this supposed groundswell of support?? ",
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"content": "Peers in corruption, and no their constituents didn't. That's why Obama won, despite super delegates.\n\nThe DNC is corrupt, and for you to deny it just loses people who would vote against Trump.\n\nSander's hasn't demonstrated it? Look at the number of people contributing, filling stadiums, volunteering, etc.\n\nYou guys are paving the road for Trump with all you Clinton apologisms.",
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"content": "Bullshit. The process worked before just like its working now. \n\nDon't whine just because you didn't get the votes. \n\nThat is what gives the GOP strength. Whiners who give up and don't show up. ",
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"content": "Superdelegate are democratic. It's a party process. They haven't done anything to overrule the votes. Clinton has been crushing it with won states and popular votes.",
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"content": "She crushed it in Southern states that will go to Trump.\n\nSuperdelegates are democratic? That's the most asinine thing I've heard today.\n\nHave fun under Fuhrer Trump.",
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"content": "Ohio and Florida are not blue states in November?\n\n",
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"content": "Not with Hillary on the ticket. Sorry. Just sayin'. People hate her. It will be contest between two liars, and he is just a better, more shameless liar.",
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"content": "Yes, all the Sanders' supporters can see the future.\n\nExcept the times where they have been wrong up to this point about everything. ",
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"content": "Polls are telling, Bernie will get people to show up, Hillary will get people to give up.\n\nIf Sanders is so wrong, why has Clinton so disingenuously stolen his platform, albeit temporarily?\n\nBy November, Trump and Clinton will flip so hard on every issue that you won't be able to tell them apart.",
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"content": "Bernie will get people to show up? \n\nWhen? Because he hasn't gotten them to show up in the primaries. Dem turnout is down from 2012 and Hillary has 2.5 million more votes than Sanders. \n\nThe polls that really matter, votes, are even more telling. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "The polls have demonstrably shown his support from independents, especially with Trump as the opponent. He is more viable, more trusted, more likable, as well as being the better candidate on the issues.\n\nYou're just helping Trump by denying it.",
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"content": "Uh, no. The polls that matter, you know when people actually go out and vote, say otherwise, ",
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"content": "Virtually all of Clinton's supporters would go to Sanders if he won the nomination, plus you wouldn't lose the 8% of voters who say they won't vote for Clinton under any circumstances.\n\nThe Democrats are mostly screwed this election either way, but Sanders has a better chance of uniting them. Clinton doesn't stand much of a chance at all without the 8%.",
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"content": "Yeah, we know how accurate sanders supporters have been. \n\n",
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"content": "Try rebutting with something of substance for a change. You're all fluff with nothing to ever contribute to the discussion.\n",
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"content": "And what do you contribute besides continued predictions of liberal Americans (the majority) not supporting Hillary after the primaries and her losing? \n\nWhat exactly do you contribute besides continued Clinton smears? \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": ">And what do you contribute besides continued predictions of liberal Americans (the majority) not supporting Hillary...\n\nIt's not even a prediction; [*it's a report*](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/33-percent-of-bernie-sanders-not-vote-hillary_b_9475626.html).\n\nThis is a fact pal. Deal with it.\n\n:)",
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"content": "No. What \"report\" shows that she will lose?\n\nAnd I didn't say Sanders supporters, I said liberal Americans. \n\n",
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"content": "How do you think she's going to win after throwing away 8% of the vote?\n\nLook at the primary turnout. Look at 2010 and 2014. Look how many seats you've lost in the past couple years. No one's supporting the Democratic party. No one cares about it anymore. Sanders was almost able to bring it back to life, but it looks like that last best hope is going to be squandered after all.",
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"content": "Sanders couldn't even increase Dem turnout so he wasn't anyone's hope. \n\nPolls (the same polls you cling to) shows Clinton will winx ",
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"content": "> Sanders couldn't even increase Dem turnout...\n\nHe got 8% of the electorate to consider voting for you, who otherwise wouldn't. That's literally an increase in turnout. Many of his supporters wouldn't have been voting at all if it wasn't for him.\n\n>Polls (the same polls you cling to)...\n\nI haven't referred to any election polls, at all. Are you talking about surveys of Sanders supporters? Once again, you have no clue what you're talking about, as usual.\n\n>... shows Clinton will winx\n\nSource please.",
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"content": "http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html\n\nAnd Sanders doesn't own 8% of the electorate. He may own a chunk of his own voters, which are not 8% of the electorate (since most of the electorate has not voted in the primaries). \n\nThat's called math. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": ">And Sanders doesn't own 8% of the electorate.\n\n54% of the electorate are likely Democratic voters, and among those, the numbers are roughly split between Clinton and Sanders; ergo, 33% of his supporters is 1/6 or likely Dem voters, or 8% of the total electorate.\n\nHuhr duhr, *math*.\n\n>(since most of the electorate has not voted in the primaries)\n\nDoesn't have anything to do with the primaries. It's the percentage of total supporters.\n\n>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html\n\n\"Clinton vs. Trump - 48.5\t39.3\tClinton +9.2\"\n\n\"Sanders vs. Trump - 54.2\t37.8\tSanders +16.4\"\n\n*Nice*. Looks like Sanders is the safe bet even according to your own source.\n\nI wonder if they factored in the 8 points Dems will lose if Sanders drops out of the race. That'd be bringing it really close between Clinton and Trump, by less than 1% if you average the polls, and whatayaknow, *according to Rasmussen and Quinnipiac she'll lose*. \n\n",
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"content": "You are desperate.\n\nIf the support was evenly split between Sanders and Clinton, she wouldn't be leading by 2.5 million votes. \n\nAnd you cite two polls, while the AVERAGE of all polls says she wins. \n\nI never contended that Sanders could beat Trump. So that's meaningless. \n\nYou have not proven she would lose. In fact, I have proven the facts show she will win. \n\nHave a nice day. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": ">If the support was evenly split between Sanders and Clinton, she wouldn't be leading by 2.5 million votes.\n\nI didn't say \"evenly split\", I said \"roughly split\". There's about 138 million likely Democratic voters (although only about half of those are likely to turn out for the polls). The difference you're citing, 2.5 million (which I'd like to see a source for please), is less than 2%. So like I said, pretty much roughly split.\n\n>And you cite two polls, while the AVERAGE of all polls says she wins.\n\nYeah, like I said, by some counts, she'll lose. That's what you're staking your bet on.\n\nThe \"average\" (*how scientific* /s) says it'll be within 1%. That's *close*. Too close.\n\n>So that's meaningless.\n\nSeems pretty meaningful to me. If you're worried about Trump, you should support Sanders, as the best bet you have for beating him.\n\n>You have not proven she would lose. In fact, I have proven the facts show she will win.\n\nBy some counts. By others she'll lose. Sanders is the only one who can win by all counts.\n\n1% ahead in polls isn't by any means \"proof\" of a win. If anything, it's reason to start worrying.",
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"content": "And calm down. ",
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"content": "> And calm down.\n\nDonno what you're talking about.",
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"content": "You are shaking a little. I can tell. ",
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"content": "Sorry, if you're trying to troll, you're not very good at it.",
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"content": "No I am serious. It's why I said calm down. ",
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"content": "No one could possibly care enough about anything you have to say for you to ever get a rise out of them. You know you're something of a joke around here, right? No one takes you seriously, least of all me.",
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"content": "And yet you keep responding. ",
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"content": "More fluff.",
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"content": "You got real quiet all of a sudden. ",
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"content": "Got some coffee and took a dump, what's it to you?",
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"content": "Me too. ",
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"content": "I didn't ask, because I don't care.",
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"content": "Doesn't matter. \n\nAgain, as I've said before about Sanders supporters, life does not conform to you. \n\nYou are not entitled to only things you like or want to hear. ",
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"content": "Still don't care, bud. There you go with more fluff no one cares about.",
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"content": "Too bad. Like politics, you have to accept reality. ",
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"content": "Fluff.",
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"content": "One last desperate roll of the die. The super delegates have already been complaining about the Sanders campaign harassing them when the delegate count was closer. I can just imagine how happy this is making them. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Guess it is this and pack it up.",
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"content": "This headline is solid gold. I'm going to look forward to using this phrase in real life. ",
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"content": "It reminds me of \"when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.\"",
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"content": "This reads like a 13 year-old's essay on their summer holiday to Benidorm. There is a grammatical or stylistic mistake in almost every sentence. I could say that I would expect more from the HuffPo but I do not.",
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"content": "When I argue with Clinton supporters (a common occurrence these days), I try to argue the least controversial points possible. For example, Clinton doesn't believe in health care as a right, she believes in *affordable* health care as a right. My point is that, even though single-payer would be difficult to accomplish, we as liberals should be able to at least agree that we want health care for everyone. \n\nNow, you'd expect their response to be something along the lines of \"Well, the ACA and Clinton are a more pragmatic choice.\" Guess what? That's almost never what they say. You know what they say? Something like \"People have a right to their opinion, and you Bernie Bros just don't understand that not every liberal agrees with everything you think.\"\n\nYou know what that is? That is privilege speaking. That's the ignorance of someone who's never had to worry about seeking medical care for themselves or someone they care for.\n\nIf you think Clinton is a more pragmatic choice, fine, but don't tell me that I need to get it through my thick skull that not everyone thinks people should be able to go to the doctor. There's another major party already set up to cater to that ideology...",
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"content": "Whoa whoa whoa, I think there was a misunderstanding somewhere because your characterization of the defense of Hillary's heath reform plan makes no sense.\n\nI don't know who you were talking to and maybe they were being illogical. But you're strawmanning Hillary's side. Single payer is not the only way to achieve universal healthcare, and saying you don't think single payer is the right way to go for the US at least at this point in time is not the same thing as saying health care is not a right.\n\nI am also confused by your distinction that Hillary is for affordable healthcare as a right, but not healthcare as a right. Can she not believe in healthcare as a right, and believe that comprehensive single payer coverage is not affordable at this time, so we need a different approach?",
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"content": "> I am also confused by your distinction that Hillary is for affordable healthcare as a right, but not healthcare as a right. Can she not believe in healthcare as a right, and believe that comprehensive single payer coverage is not affordable at this time, so we need a different approach?\n\nhttps://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/health-care/\n\nThe page is literally headlined as:\n\n>Affordable health care is a basic human right. ",
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"content": "I don't understand the difference you're asserting. Being able to afford healthcare = having access to healthcare. I happen to like adding \"affordable\" because it addresses underinsurance, which is a bigger problem than uninsurance in the US.",
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"content": "So before you saw the difference and thought it was just some pragmatic short term tactic of hers, but now that it's pretty obvious she herself embraces the preceding adjective, you've decided there's no functional difference, or if there is it's nothing but an improvement? ....Really?",
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"content": "No, I'm confused why you think one negates the other. Adding \"affordable\" isn't an improvement as much as a clarification. I'd still like to know why you think the distinction matters.",
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"content": "Can you see the distinction between a public school system, and one where instead everything is a private school but there are some regulations on how much a school can gouge parents on tuition for?",
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"content": "That is a loaded question. Yes of course there is a difference between having one nationalized system and multiple regulated private systems, but both can produce universal healthcare. Do I need to point out that almost all of the countries with universal healthcare have some sort of multipayer system?",
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"content": "So.... You *aren't* confused by the distinction here?",
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"content": "I have been studying universal healthcare and the health reform debate in the US for over 10 years now. I read a lot and I know quite a bit about it. I have never heard anyone make this distinction except for a couple Bernie supporters, so I am lead to believe that this is a distinction that was cooked up by the Bernie campaign. If you want to say Hillary is not for single payer, say Hillary is not for single payer. Don't say she's only for affordable healthcare as a right and not healthcare as a right, because that makes no sense. Single payer is not the only form of universal healthcare.",
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"content": "Would you say an individual mandate / compulsory insurance is a form of universal healthcare? (One assumes yes.) \n\nCan you see how it might be a little sloppy to argue 'Compulsory insurance means healthcare is a right and vice versa'? \n\nCan you therefore see how there is a conceptual distinction between 'that which satisfies universal healthcare' and 'that which fulfills the colloquial spirit of \"healthcare is a right\"'?",
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"content": "I wouldn't because we have compulsory car insurance and obviously not every car on the road is insured. And I'm still confused because Hillary's plan is not the individual mandate. The individual mandate is one component which doesn't work to the fullest extent without the other parts.",
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"content": "Well, then I'm confused. \n\nYou don't see any distinction between 'that which achieves universal coverage' and 'that which satisfies 'healthcare is a right''? *Especially* in light of how you were the first to bring up the under-insured? ",
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"content": "You're changing my words. The comment I was responding to said that Hillary is for affordable healthcare as a right, and concluded from that that she is not for healthcare as a right. That is nonsensical as there is no meaningful distinction there. Now you're talking about coverage which is universally available but is not affordable so in practice it's not really universal, but that's not what Hillary's position is. Please answer my question: what distinction do you make between Hillary's position and healthcare as a right?",
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"content": "I'm not changing your words. You've been using 'it gets us to universal coverage' as the be all litmus test for this. I'm trying to pry you out from that.\n\n>what distinction do you make between Hillary's position and healthcare as a right?\n\nThe same one I brought up with schools. If 'affordable healthcare is a right' is what she's going to pivot around, then anything up to 'don't gouge too badly, gais' is enough to satisfy that. \n\nPeople bear that in mind when weighing her position's wording because we're viewing this in the context of all of her other centrist, anywhere from vaguely- to explicitly-elitist 'meritocracy' positions.",
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"content": "We're having two separate conversations here and it's going in circles.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "If Hillary makes no distinction, why is the word there at all?",
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"content": "For clarification. In order for healthcare to be guaranteed as a right, it must be affordable. How else? What do you think the difference is?",
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"content": "Why is the word there, if there's no distinction? Why are you refusing to answer the question?\n\nI didn't put that word there, I don't need to defend it. If you could defend it, you'd be doing so, instead of trying to gaslight it.",
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"content": "I literally just answered that: for clarification. My question is how do you get from \"Hillary is for affordable healthcare as a right\" to \"Hillary is not for healthcare as a right\"? What type of healthcare can we guarantee which is not affordable?",
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"content": "If Hillary was for healthcare as a right, that's what she would say.",
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"content": ">I have been studying universal healthcare and the health reform debate in the US for over 10 years now. I read a lot and I know quite a bit about it.\n\nYou certainly seem to think you're smart for a guy who doesn't understand the function of adjectives.",
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"content": "The clarification means \"not universal.\" That's why it needs to be clarified, so we won't make the mistake of thinking she means \"universal.\"\n\n\"Universal\" is a pretty unequivocal term...affordable, on the other hand, is very subjective.",
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"content": "\"As a right\" implies universal. Look up \"affordable\" in the dictionary. I assure you the definition is not \"not universal\".\n\nWell no matter how cheap you make healthcare, if it costs anything there will always be people who choose to not pay for it, and it sounds to me like as long as there are people who choose not to access the healthcare system, it's not universal. Of course at present healthcare is not affordable for millions of people, but what I'm talking about is reforming the system so it's actually affordable. Not free, but affordable according to the income level of the individual/family, ie progressive in the sense that those who earn less will pay less.",
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"content": "We're talking about Hillary, not you. The question you refuse to answer is why she has waffled on the right to health care. You keep saying she didn't need to put that word there, and yet she put it there.",
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"content": "I did not say that; go back and reread what I wrote. I have asked you to explain what in her word choice makes you think she's waffling and all you've done is throw out insults.",
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"content": ">Single payer is not the only way to achieve universal healthcare\n\nNever said it was, although I will say that this is clearly language being used in this election cycle to disguise the fact that, at present \"Universal\" healthcare means millions of people don't have access. This is a strange definition of the word...\n\n>saying you don't think single payer is the right way to go for the US at least at this point in time is not the same thing as saying health care is not a right.\n\nSo, in your mind, a right is something that one hopes for at a future date? No. You either stand for human rights or not. You don't get a participation ribbon for feeling bad about leaving millions of people to suffer and die prematurely.\n\n>I am also confused by your distinction that Hillary is for affordable healthcare as a right, but not healthcare as a right. \n\nAre you? It's pretty simple. Buying private insurance is not free. You have to buy it. So, you know, *affordable* for some people, actually millions of people, means they don't get to go to a doctor. \n\nSo, in summation, the ACA is neither affordable nor universal, and hoping it will become either in the future does not, in my thinking, constitute a liberal stance. If denying people access to health care for being poor isn't neoconservatism, I don't know what is.\n\nEDIT: typo\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> at present \"Universal\" healthcare means millions of people don't have access\n\n? No one ever said that. Hillary has repeatedly said the ACA brought the uninsured rate to record lows but we still need to reach the remaining 10%. She's not for the status quo.\n\n> So, in your mind, a right is something that one hopes for at a future date?\n\nRealistically, we need cost controls before single payer will even be feasible, let alone politically possible. So it makes sense to focus on cost controls now and then move towards single payer down the line. That doesn't mean Hillary doesn't believe healthcare is a right, it means she is intelligent enough to realize that she can't wave her hands and magically pass single payer now. And again, almost all of those European countries Bernie loves to point at as an example where healthcare is a right have a multipayer system.\n\nHillary's plan is to reduce out of pocket costs and to push for the pubic option. If we have the public option, insurance companies will have to lower their prices or increase benefits to stay competitive, and if they can't they'll go out of business, and then everyone will be on the public option, and hey guess what, that's single payer!\n\n> So, you know, affordable for some people, actually millions of people, means they don't get to go to a doctor.\n\nThanks for finally answering; this is not an answer to the question I asked but it is at least related. So in your viewpoint, if healthcare costs money, even if it's affordable some people will choose not to seek medical care, and you consider that not to be universal healthcare. Got it. But the subject of this conversation was Hillary's proposal. Now you are talking about the ACA. Hillary's proposal is not to stick with the ACA as is.",
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"content": ">(me)\nat present \"Universal\" healthcare means millions of people don't have access\n\n>(your response) No one ever said that.\n\nI did. Millions of Americans are uninsured and don't have access to healthcare. There, I said it.\n\n>Realistically, we need cost controls before single payer will even be feasible, let alone politically possible. So it makes sense to focus on cost controls now and then move towards single payer down the line.\n\nCost controls? Let's table that, because it's ridiculous propaganda I refuse to entertain (There are orders of magnitude more money available, *under politically tumultuous conditions especially*, than required to make this happen, and people that argue against this are the steel beams/ancient aliens enthusiasts of the right).\n\nMore importantly, the feasibility of single-payer has nothing to do with costs, and everything to do with revenue streams. The insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and so on and so forth. This is old news, my friend. \n\n>Hillary's plan is to reduce out of pocket costs and to push for the pubic option.\n\nLook, believe me, I'm all for the pubic option ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), but the idea that it's more important to \"reduce out of pocket costs\" than to allow people access to healthcare is beyond naive, it's dangerously anti-populist. There is no reason to *pre*-acquiesce. You've been sold a lemon by the new neocon left, and no amount of ideological juggling is going to put you on the right side of history.\n\n>So in your viewpoint, if healthcare costs money, even if it's affordable some people will choose not to seek medical care\n\n\nI'm glad you put it this way. This is precisely the kind of sociopath thinking that makes up the new Republican/Democrat neocon ideology. This is how naive, inexperienced people increasingly perceive society, as a result of poor education and regressive, xenophobic, racist et al base ideology.\n\n*No*, I'm not saying people of sound mind and body willfully avoid medical care, and even if I were, it wouldn't justify your Clintonite rejection of their interests. If you want to embrace long-ago disproved Malthusian fantasies of social Darwinism, more power to you, but I for one am here to advocate for science, reason, and the common good. I think you'll find Clinton's philosophy of pragmatic rejection of the poor is neither pragmatic nor tenable.\n\nEDIT: typo\n",
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"content": "Seems like you are assigning beliefs to a large group of people in order to help your argument. ",
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"content": "I think I took sufficient care in how I phrased my comment. There are undoubtedly many Clinton supporters that would use the pragmatism argument, or others, but this is my personal experience, and I found it pretty shocking, and deserving of criticism.",
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"content": "You guys like quotes? Well how about this one:\n\n\"The truth resists simplicity.\"\n\nBlack lives matters versus all lives matter is is a complex issue. It deserves to be understood complexly not through simplistic narrowminded narratives.\nPeoples rights to deny service to people who are gay (while I Think they should not be allowed to do that) is a complex issue and deserves to be understood complexly.\n\nthis article is not intended to do anything other than reinforce believes already held by people reading it.",
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"content": "As a Spanish guy I don't understand this argument. The reason why my life is so easy is because I work hard, and I stay out of trouble. I do not have any tats, or I do not have any kids like a typical Spanish guy. I really hate this privileged argument, because if you work hard, and think smart life is very easy. Is there racism in this nation of course I have seen it, but I feel that this privilege argument is so ridiculous.",
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"content": "And half the country is willfully ignoring the blatant authoritarian warmongering that comes from Hillary Clinton.",
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"content": "That's not happening. ",
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"content": "anyone else with corporate fascist ties running?",
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"content": "And the other half is wrong.",
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"content": "Well he is a narsacist, what do people expect. ",
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"content": "Lol backroom dealing, Oh this dummy meant like the parties are doing trying to rid themselves of Trump. LOL silly me, the author had me confused...",
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"content": "How are we still at 'undertones' when this man has already expressed a wish to jail and ruin the lives of people that disagree with him?",
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"content": "lolol. Exactly right. I think he has to come out and literally say, \"Let's do fascist shit!\" for people to just call it for what it is...apparently anyway.",
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"content": "This just in, half the country has ears, eyes. What do the other half have? More after the break. ",
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"content": "Easier to talk about Drumpf here in this subreddit. All the Drumpfucks from r/The_Donald are brigading in r/politics.",
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"content": "Yup. Everything I post that's even mildly like \"Trump, SRSLY GUYS?\" gets downvoted into fucking oblivion on r/politics right now.",
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"content": "R/POLITICS HAS A LIBERAL BIAS!!!!\n\n--Says the thousands of conservatives who brigade every freaking thread on that sub",
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"content": "His fascism is a feature, not a bug.",
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"content": "Why is no one in politics or the media talking about this, including Sanders, Clinton, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post?",
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"content": "Clinton. does. She has already said she will enact a tax on businesses for leaving if they ever got any tax break. She calls it an exit tax.",
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"content": "Not enough. The entire current provision must be repealed.",
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"content": "You asked why has no one in politics has done anything. I told you the one person who is doing something.",
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"content": "Clinton's proposed \"exit\" tax, by itself, is extremely weak and will not stop American companies from moving their business operations and \njobs overseas. It will simply be a one-time tax, regarded as a cost of getting the much-greater permanent tax-free profits on overseas operations.\nAs a weak and ineffective measure, it simply distracts, whether\nintentionally or otherwise, from the real reform that is needed, and so plays right into the hands of Wall Street.",
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"content": "Sanders, Clinton, Obama, etc. have all talked about this. ",
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"content": "Very little, if at all. None has specifically called for the complete repeal of\nthe \"no taxation with repatriation\" provision.",
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"content": "You just moved goalposts, son. ",
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"content": "Your goalposts, not mine and those of most Democrats.",
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"content": "You said above \"no one\". \n\nWere you wrong or lying?\n\nAnd change your user name, you phony. \n\nWe all know you are a dummy account, a conservative troll. ",
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"content": "> Were you wrong or lying?\n\nNeither. Who do you claim has specifically called for complete repeal\nof the \"no taxation without repatriation\" provisions?\" You question my statement, but utterly fail to rebut it--very telling. Are you just\nstupid and wrong, or lying and a conservative troll?\n\n> \n> And change your user name, you phony.\n> We all know you are a dummy account, a conservative troll. \n\nNo phony, no conservative troll. A Sanders supporter with over 1900 link Karma, all for progressive posts [which also, of course, elicit\nmany down-votes from right-wingers like you].",
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"content": "You said above no one had said anything about it.",
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"content": "This outrageous and highly destructive provision was enacted in Ronald Reagan's 1986 \"Tax Reform\" Act--the same legislation that abolished the progressive income tax, leading to massively increasing income and wealth inequality over the last 40 years [and that also abolished several important deductions for the middle- and working-classes and the poor, such as the deduction for health care and health insurance costs exceeding 1% of taxable income].\n",
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"content": "Actually Trump is addressing this issue head on. He is going to create a path to repatriate this money.\n",
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"content": "What? Horrible, right-wing non-sense. Sounds like he's talking \nabout a \"repatriation holiday,\" which allows these companies that\nhave moved their operations and job overseas to bring their huge profits back without paying any tax on them at all, even the \nextremely low 5.67% repatriation tax.\nThe only way to stop the heaving flow of business operations and jobs overseas is to repeal completely all aspects of the \"no taxation\nwithout repatriation\" tax law.",
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"content": "I find it interesting that nobody is making this point. Are we missing something? It seems obvious that free trade benefits all eventually, it just takes many years to equalize (if taxes are effective). Corporate profits are at an all time high, and taxes at an all time low. What are we missing here?",
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"content": "The media has far more control over the electoral process than most people, especially in the post-9/11 hardcore neocon era, are willing to admit. \n\nIt's a strange experience o have seen the high water mark of scepticism with regard to corporate media. People seem to think one's talking about steel beams when criticizing media conflicting interests these days.",
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"content": "bernie is hated by media corporations. the united states government is the legislative arm of these corporations. the government and corporatists worldwide want to control the message being disseminated. bernie sanders, if he were to win, would show just how dangerous the internet is to corporate media, which is the propaganda wing of globalists and corporatists who are attempting to legislate a closed/controlled message through the relatively open(now) internet. social media and the free flow of ideas are an existential threat to the propaganda wing of globalists, and there is no greater indication that the services which are being peddled on the open market by the corporate media are less useful, than the campaign of bernie sanders. bernie's campaign is a threat to globalists, corporatists, corporate media outlets, and the legislative entities which serve them.",
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"content": "After a certain point I don't think the media can be blamed for not giving coverage to Bernie saying the exact same things like a broken record\n\nEDIT: I just realized how ironic it is that /r/democrats has become a circle-jerk echochamber for a guy who wasn't even a democrat a year ago",
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"content": "It's called consistency, he has a set of positions one day, and then the next day, he *still* has the same positions, it's a novel new political theory he's trying out, where he just does what he thinks is right, before some focus group, or poll tells him to. ",
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"content": "You're wooshing pretty hard past my point. \n\nYou call it consistency, I call it being an overly simplistic candidate. Regardless, Sanders has given the exact same speech every single time he's given a speech. Sanders' speech on Tuesday night didn't even mention anything about the primaries, he was just giving the exact. same. stump. speech. ",
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"content": "Well when you have an honest message that you have stuck with for 50 years instead of a bunch of bullshit that flip flops with the daily polls I guess you don't have much to say, but indeed he has a lot to say about a lot of issues.",
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"content": "I'll refer you to the comment you just replied to...This thread is becoming more & more unintentionally hilarious",
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"content": "Yeah, we want a candidate who will pivot according to her corporate masters as often as possible. ",
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"content": "Yet CNN absolutely loves showing the \"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\" show on loop. Followed by Mrs. \"I'm a woman, 9/11!\".",
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"content": "> \"I'm a woman, 9/11!\n\nDon't hurt yourself stretching so far",
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"content": "She literally answered \"I'm a woman.\", when asked why she would make a good president. ",
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"content": "Oh, so she said that one time several months ago? What a broken record /s",
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"content": "To be fair to CNN, Bernie was giving a stump speech not a response to the results.",
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"content": "It was an incredibly lively speech and the results were clearly in his mind during it. There is no excuse to air an empty stage while another candidate for President is speaking.",
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"content": "It's not CNN's fault that the campaign didn't plan a response and focused on a stump speech instead (no matter how lively). That's the fault of the campaign manager. Bernie's campaign can't afford to make rookie mistakes like this.",
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"content": "Did you even watch the speech? I felt like it was a clear response and he talked about the upcoming primaries, and got more aggressive in his message. There was nothing in it that was lacking compared to the other candidates that night. Does the media turn away from Trump speeches when he promotes more bigotry and hateful populism, and goes in circles insulting his opponents again like a schoolboy?",
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"content": "I'm not defending Trump and I don't enjoy watching him. I'm questioning how a campaign manager could make a rookie mistake of not scheduling a response on a critical night for the campaign. It was Bernie's staffs own decision to ignore the media by not scheduling a response. They had a perfect opportunity to respond to the narrative that was building, but they chose to ignore it.",
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"content": "I agree 100%. We need a real negotiator with Israel, like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were. Trump would rather have WWIII as opposed to war. However, I think Mrs. Clinton (and Bernie) will still have a hard time with Israel because of Netanyahu. ",
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"content": "I don't give a shit about Netanyahu or what he thinks. I don't see why any American should. Isreal may be our ally, but that doesn't mean that what's good for Isreal is necessarily what's good for the US. It's time we started looking at fixing our own problems and stopped being the \"world police\". ",
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"content": "Israel has used its relationship with the US in an abusive way for a long time, and it's frustrating to the wider international community. While I don't think we shouldn't take Israel's needs into consideration, I certainly don't think that it should be a priority in our international policies.",
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"content": "Exactly. The Middle East is too complex to just blindly take Israel's side on all issues. We're not helping our goals and we're not helping them. We're just prolonging the senseless violence and destroying our reputation abroad. ",
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"content": "> We're just prolonging the senseless violence and destroying our reputation abroad.\n\nWe aren't destroying our reputation as long as we don't go to war. It fact it helps our reputation if we negotiate with people. ",
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"content": "Well, we are in fact. See the Muslim world sees the US as a tool of Isreal. Consider that we might appear to be just that to someone living in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, or Lebanon. \n\nThere are times when I have to consider the notion myself, being an American citizen planted firmly on US soil. ",
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"content": "The radical extremist will still hate us if we drop ties with Israel. That is not the number one or even number ten reason why they hate us. ",
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"content": "Sure, but it's not helping anything. \n\nBut I wasn't exactly talking about them. I was talking about legitimate states. ",
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"content": "> I certainly don't think that it should be a priority in our international policies.\n\nWhy not? ",
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"content": "Because given the complex history of Israel and the general disgust for some of its actions as a nation, I feel that it is a bit of an albatross around our neck when it comes to managing our international relationships. Again, do I think that we should take their needs into consideration? Of course. Does that mean that I feel we should prioritize their needs or their relationship? No.",
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"content": "I totally disagree. Should it be the first priority? No. But is it a major priority? Absolutely. ",
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"content": "You disagree with what exactly?\n\nWhen I state that Israel has a complex history that the international community generally has contempt and disgust for, that's not my personal opinion. That's a documented phenomenon, as evidenced by the over 200 resolutions against the Israeli's actions made by the United Nations.",
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"content": "> I don't give a shit about Netanyahu or what he thinks. I don't see why any American should. \n\nBecause Netanyahu is a threat to peace and peace negotiations. That's why you should care. Because he's a Madman who refuses answer for peace and continues to act illegally. That's why I care. This isn't about being the world's policeman, this is about being a mediator in a war.",
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"content": "That's just it. Netanyahu has absolutely nothing to do with American politics. \n\nI'd love to see Isreal become a peaceful state and afford the opportunity to do the same to the Palestinians. I don't see that happening now or ever and I don't see the US ever having any sort of positive effect on that. But continuing to listen to people like Netanyahu will destroy any chances of us achieving our goals in other parts of the Middle East and the world. ",
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"content": "> I'd love to see Isreal become a peaceful state and afford the opportunity to do the same to the Palestinians.\n\nIt almost happened with the Oslo Accords. \n\n>But continuing to listen to people like Netanyahu will destroy any chances of us achieving our goals in other parts of the Middle East and the world.\n\nNetanyahu is disgusting, but we still need to have him in our dialogues. Then we can pray to have [Isaac Herzog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Herzog) as the new Israeli prime minister. \n\n>. I don't see that happening now or ever and I don't see the US ever having any sort of positive effect on that.\n\nWe can't afford to be too negative. We need to look forward like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. ",
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"content": ">We can't afford to be too negative. We need to look forward like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. \n\nWhy? ",
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"content": "Because we have a record of constructive dialogue and peacemaking with the Israelis and Palisitains. It's true, it not an expansive record. But peace is not impossible. ",
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"content": "It's not impossible, but when does it start becoming our loss to be involved in this conflict? I'd say it's been our problem for decades and we've lost more than we could ever gain at this point. \n\nI would argue that if Isreal isn't willing to consider a two state solution, then we shouldn't be wasting our time and resources on their behalf. This conflict and our involvement is the root of many of our problems in the Muslim world. If they don't want help, why should we keep offering it? ",
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"content": "> but when does it start becoming our loss to be involved in this conflict?\n\nNever. It is our job to promote peace, not spread war and allow innocents to be slaughtered. We cannot stand idle as Israel becomes an apartheid state. \n\n>I'd say it's been our problem for decades and we've lost more than we could ever gain at this point.\n\nHow so? We've successfully negotiated several peace documents and have given aid to both Israel and Palestine. \n\n>I would argue that if Isreal isn't willing to consider a two state solution\n\nIsrael is willing to consider a two-state solution, they have wanted one since 1979 (at the latest). You can see that in the Oslo Accords. However, pessimism and negativity allowed for the right wing Lukid Party to be a blockade for peace. Yes officially, Israel wants a two-state solution, but their PM is being difficult, and the people are being influenced by his right-wing xenophobia. Now can we convince them to change their mind? Yes. But that takes policy and positivity. \n\n>This conflict and our involvement is the root of many of our problems in the Muslim world.\n\nThat's an overly broad and simplistic indictment on the Muslim World and Israel. \n\n> If they don't want help, why should we keep offering it?\n\nYou are misreading reality. They do want help, the road block is the prime minister... and the PLO unity government. \n",
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"content": "> Never. It is our job to promote peace, not spread war and allow innocents to be slaughtered. \n\nWe've allowed Israel to slaughter plenty of Palestinians without much recourse.",
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"content": "That I do not condone. But neither does the US government. But that's just words, not action. We need to be able to have decisive action and not just rhetoric. My point is: we can support the existence of Israel and Palestine, but we must try to end this conflict. An end to the conflict to me looks like recognition of each party and the maintenance of security. ",
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"content": ">> but when does it start becoming our loss to be involved in this conflict?\n\n>Never. It is our job to promote peace, not spread war and allow innocents to be slaughtered. We cannot stand idle as Israel becomes an apartheid state. \n\nYet we continue to do more in military weaponry deals with them than anything else. If you read your post you'll be reminded just how committed your candidate is to arming the Israelis with American equipment. \n\nWhen I was in the Navy, I frequently worked on Israeli equipment that would end up in our supply chain because we're such close comrades at arms. \n\n>>I'd say it's been our problem for decades and we've lost more than we could ever gain at this point.\n\n>How so? We've successfully negotiated several peace documents and have given aid to both Israel and Palestine. \n\nAnd millions of people throughout the Muslim world want to see our demise because we're aiding the rich and powerful oppressors of the Palestinian people. \n\n>Israel is willing to consider a two-state solution, they have wanted one since 1979 (at the latest). You can see that in the Oslo Accords. However, pessimism and negativity allowed for the right wing Lukid Party to be a blockade for peace. Yes officially, Israel wants a two-state solution, but their PM is being difficult, and the people are being influenced by his right-wing xenophobia. Now can we convince them to change their mind? Yes. But that takes policy and positivity. \n\nIf Isreal wanted a two state solution, such a thing would have occurred already. Isreal is the dominant party and a two state solution is the Palestinian goal. \n\n>That's an overly broad and simplistic indictment on the Muslim World and Israel. \n\nIt's an indictment of Isreal, not the Muslim world. And whether you agree or not, our backing of Isreal as they continue to abuse the Palestinian people is a huge plank in our eye. \n\n\n>You are misreading reality. They do want help, the road block is the prime minister... and the PLO unity government. \n\nYou're the one. They keep voting for the party that doesn't want peace. Clearly they do not want peace. \n\n\n",
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"content": "Nice. Democrats turning hawkish, opposing a two-state solution, and attacking the Iran nuclear deal.",
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"content": ">Democrats turning hawkish, opposing a two-state solution, and attacking the Iran nuclear deal.\n\nIn what context? Both candidates support military aid to Israel, both support humanitarian aid to Palestine, both support a two state solution, and both are in favor of the Iran deal. \n",
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"content": "From the article -\n\n\"Mrs. Clinton also declared she would allow no daylight between the United States and Israel on the peace process. In a potential rift with the White House, she said she would oppose a United Nations Security Council resolution that sought to impose the contours of a two-state solution.\"\n\n\"Mrs. Clinton reaffirmed her support for Mr. Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, but she repeated her warning that she would use military force, if necessary, to punish Iran for violating the terms of the agreement.\"\n\nThe language attacking the Iran deal appears to have come from the RNC, however, although Clinton's commitment to Israel, which opposes the deal, and her persistent characterization of Iran as needing to be kept in check, as well as her promises to go to war at the drop of a hat, lead me to believe she \"supports\" the plan only as long as it's politically expedient for her to do so; something we should have learned to expect from her by now (see also: TPP, NAFTA, DOMA, etc.)\n",
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"content": "So you are making an assumption and the claiming it's fact? \n\nTypical. ",
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"content": "> ...lead me to believe...\n\nLearn how to read. I stated an opinion. The rest is fact.",
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"content": "This is another reason why she should not be President.",
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"content": "Yes in a bizzare turn of events the Democratic party has become the protectors of the moderate wealthy middle class. \n\nI have been waiting on the republicans to die off for 20 years so we could finally start passing sensible climate change, economic, drug and foreign policy agendas, it turns out I have to now wait 20 years for the oldest democrats to die too. ",
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"content": "There will be a realignment in the future. With the rise of a new coalition of younger, more secular, and more liberal voters, the Democratic Party will have to shift in policy initiative to claim them, since they're the future of the American Left.\n\nSimultaneously, the future of the American Right can be seen in those younger Republican voters. Far less, to no, emphasis on social conservatism, and a more Third Way-esque economic message.\n\nThe way it's unfolding, today's older centre to centre-right Democrats will be tomorrow's Republicans.",
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"content": "> older centre to centre-right Democrats will be tomorrow's Republicans.\n\nI think you mean are yesterday's Republicans. ",
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"content": "There's been a centre to centre-right contingent in the party for a long time. Third Way developed as part of the realignment in the 80s, and has driven the Democratic Party since, all the way up today. Before that, the Democratic coalition was situated more to the centre-left for its day.\n\nThis will be happening again, but the centre-left of the 21st Century won't look identical to the centre-left of the 20th. The Republicans, however, will just be recalibrating around what the Democrats were in the 90s.",
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"content": "No thanks, boomers have spent the last 40 years wrecking the country and the American dream, fortunately you're nearing the end of your life expectancy and we can start cleaning up your mess once you stop blocking progress at the ballot box. ",
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"content": "I am not a boomer, junior. \n\nAnd Boomers and the following generations are the ones who enabled you to sit at your phone and computer and whine all day. You should be grateful. ",
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"content": "I'm not sure why you titled it as you did. She'd ran in 2008 and was planning on running again. And had been planning to run ever since she married Bill Clinton through a political pairing. Was both a one term Senator and SOS just for the 'electability' as POTUS.",
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"content": "bc people think she's just 'copying' sanders after he spoke about it circa may 2015",
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"content": "No they don't.\n\nPeople don't think she's just 'copying' sanders after he spoke about it. It was a topic back in 2008. People think she is copying Sanders by making it such a large part of her campaign. \n\nHere she is using even similar rhetoric to Sanders.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_pGDwpRF1k\n\nAlso when you say \"after he spoke about it circa may 2015\" it implies that's the first time he mentioned it. \nHere's him on it 1988, not that there's anything special about that.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqNkVcEUtI\n\nWhat I think is funny and actually valid is Hillary Clinton's LGBT record.",
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"content": "i totally believe sanders has been talking about the same stuff for decades. its impressive.\n\nbut i definitely see posts all over the place claiming that clinton \"doesnt give a shit\" about income inequality and \"only talks about it because sanders is making her.\" when i say circa may 2015, i say that because that was when he joined the race. the impression among at least a few vocal sanders supporters is that clinton is only saying the stuff she says now because shes trying to fight off sanders.",
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"content": "Everything Hillary Clinton says is run through a focus group paid for by her Wall Street PACs. ",
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"content": "lol sigh -_-",
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"content": "You think that's funny? I find it terrifying. It's the truth. A lot of powerful people have invested a lot of money into her, her foundation, and her campaign. They're not the American working class, they're not interested in your problems, and they're absolutely looking for a return on their investments. ",
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"content": "no, i just buy the bernie sanders bs\n\n**TRANSCRIPTS!!1!!1!1**",
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"content": "Yeah, it's ridiculous that the American people would want to know what this woman who wants to be president said to her corporate sponsors behind closed doors. \n\nWhat a bunch of bullshit. ",
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"content": "Don't forget the fact that the only reason she was invited to speak was because of her role as a prominent politician. She has made a business out of governing. Well ... Not really governing because she hasn't really done that. She has made a business out of being a public servant and administrator.",
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"content": "And as a I said, corporate lawyer and corporate administrator. ",
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"content": "u/jckgat illustrates why releasing transcripts is a [bad idea, even if the speech is innocuous](https://np.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/4ayd2x/poll_shows_that_67_of_americans_find_hillary_to/d14ik1b)",
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"content": "Oh, because she might have to answer for the words that came out of her mouth? \n\n\"**Honesty: *It's a bad idea*.** This message brought to you by the committee to elect Hillary Clinton.\"",
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"content": "no. its because people take shit out of context lol ",
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"content": "Yeah, because that's taking shit out of context, right? Telling bankers that it's the fault of the mortgage holders that the economy collapsed. And wouldn't you know, bankers were bailed out. Mortgage holders were left out in the cold literally. They got into the mess together but only one walked away unscathed. ",
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"content": "This post was removed because of the personal insult. If you edit that out, the remainder can be reposted.",
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"content": "Done. Modding well done. I should moderate myself better probably.",
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"content": "She *has* adopted some of Bernie's positions and has [*outright mimicked*] (http://www.politifact.com/nbc/statements/2016/mar/21/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-her-campaign-depends-small-do/) some of his talking points, but that's beside the point. \n\nHer record has never been on the right side of income and wealth inequality. She has been a corporate lawyer and corporatist throughout her career. She served on the board of directors for Walmart for six years and was absolutely silent about their union busting efforts. She and her husband personally worked to increase the means tested requirements for welfare recipients kicking millions off assistance and putting them into the streets or worse. She's a representative of the ruling class. When she makes decisions it's on their behalf, not that of the working people of the United States. ",
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"content": "And has since received tens of millions of dollars in personal income from Wallstreet financial institutions. This woman doesn't give a shit about working Americans. She's been a member of the ruling elite for most of her adult life. That's what she understands and those are the people that she'd govern on behalf of. ",
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"content": "lol im not gonna waste my time arguing on the internet anymore. already spent way too long ",
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"content": "Good. I'm sick of hearing excuses anyway. ",
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"content": "no im mostly tired of arguing past each other. transcripts = BS ",
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"content": "(Transcripts = bs) = transparency and honesty are meaningless. These groups have given the Clintons personally, tens of millions of dollars. You're damn right we want to know what she said to them. \n\nDo you remember Mitt Romney and his private dinner where he called half of Americans parasitic? I want to know what she said to the employees of the people she serves. She sure as hell doesn't serve the American public. ",
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"content": "Her supporters online don't seem to mind a lack of transparency, which to someone who values authenticity is worrisome.",
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"content": "I don't trust this source. [This paper has been caught changing the content and tone of their articles without notation, long after they've been read and shared by the public.] (http://newsdiffs.org/browse/nytimes.com) ",
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"content": "And their policy is documented on that. And it was noted by the public editor, and it didn't change any of the facts.",
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"content": "Policy? Could you please provide a source? ",
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"content": "Terms of Service, 5.2",
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"content": "Seriously? 😁",
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"content": "I think bikini is pointing out that it is an untrustworthy policy to have if you are a journalist.",
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"content": "And yet if it were the Intercept or Salon, you would be eating it up?",
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"content": "Which have no policy of quality except innuendo and anonymous sources are OK. ",
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"content": "[No, not at all... /s] (https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4baela/before_her_assassination_berta_cáceres_singled/) ",
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"content": "I have debunked this garbage so many times here, I have lost count. ",
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"content": "[Except that you haven't because it's true.] (http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/24/hillary-clinton-emails-and-honduras-coup) ",
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"content": "You grow so tedious.\n\nIt began when Honduran President Manuel Zelaya planned to hold a poll on a referendum on a constituent assembly to change the constitution. A majority of the government, including the Supreme Court and prominent members of his own party, saw such plans as unconstitutional, as they could lead to presidential re-election, which is permanently outlawed by the Honduran constitution. The Honduran Supreme Court had upheld a lower court injunction against the 28 June poll. However, the constitutional process for dealing with this situation was unclear; there were no clear procedures for removing or prosecuting a sitting president. The crisis culminated in the removal and exile of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by the Honduran military in a coup d'état.\n\nDomestic opinion remains very much divided, and there have been demonstrations for and against Zelaya.\n\nEfforts by Costa Rican President Óscar Arias and the United States to effect a diplomatic solution between Micheletti and Zelaya initially resulted in a proposal by President Arias calling for Zelaya's return to the presidency, albeit with curtailed powers. Arias's proposal also stipulated political amnesty and advanced the Honduran general elections by a month, pushing them to take place in October. In spite of US support for the (dubbed) San José Accord, negotiations ultimately broke down as the two parties were unwilling to come to any lasting agreement. Zelaya also insisted that he would not recognise the elections of 29 November as a precondition to returning to power.\n\nManuel Zelaya, a businessman born into a wealthy Honduran family, was elected in 2005 as the candidate of the country's historically powerful Liberal Party. Since taking office, Zelaya's economic and social policies earned him praise from labour unions and civil society groups, but alienated him from parts of his own party. which were particularly upset by Zelaya's forging a regional alliance with the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), established by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and other leaders in Latin America as a counter to the trade and security policies sponsored by the United States. Zelaya also planned to convert the Soto Cano Air Base (\"Palmerola\"), where one of the three United States Southern Command Task Forces is located, into a civilian airport (it is already in use for many civilian flights because of safety concerns about Toncontín International Airport), partly using financing from ALBA and Petrocaribe. The New York Times reported that much of Zelaya's support was derived from labour unions and the nation's poor, while the middle and upper class feared Zelaya was seeking to establish Hugo Chávez's type of socialist populism with a powerful leader in the country.\nZelaya's government was accused of harassing journalists and also accused by The Organization of American States (OAS) of imposing \"subtle censorship\" in Honduras.\n\nAccording to The Economist, \"Mr. Zelaya's presidency has been marked by a rise in crime, corruption scandals and economic populism.\" By April 2009, a Mitofsky opinion poll showed that, of those consulted, only one in four respondents approved of Zelaya – the lowest approval rating of 18 regional leaders.\n\nThe United States Department of State condemned the ouster of Zelaya and continued to recognise him as the only constitutional president of Honduras. Although US officials characterised the events as a coup, suspended joint military operations on 1 July, suspended all non-emergency, non-immigrant visas, and cut off certain non-humanitarian aid to Honduras, they have held back from formally designating Zelaya's ouster a \"military coup\", which would require them to cut off almost all aid to Honduras. However, on 24 September, the Law Library of Congress issued a report stating that the Honduran Congress had constitutional power to remove Zelaya from office, but indicating that his expatriation was unconstitutional. The State Department warned the Micheletti government that it might not recognise the results of 29 November elections if Zelaya were not allowed to return to power first, but ultimately recognised the elections at the last second, despite Zelaya not having been returned to power.\n\nTake your Bernie, Castro is a great guy, Commie nonsense to /r/conspiracy, because that is what it is. A bunch of out of context nothing emails strung together by conspiracy nuts without any context as to who this clown was in Honduras -- another Chavez wannabee. ",
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"content": ">You grow so tedious.\n\n>Take your Bernie, Castro is a great guy, Commie nonsense to /r/conspiracy, because that is what it is. A bunch of out of context nothing emails strung together by conspiracy nuts without any context as to who this clown was in Honduras -- another Chavez wannabee. \n\nWay to pick a bunch of quotes from a Wikipedia article, place your own words interspersed, and not cite anything. \n\n\nThe term \"conspiracy theory\" is very effective for discrediting someone. ",
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"content": "I can include cited references if you wish.",
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"content": "Now why would that be necessary. They're already available on Wikipedia. I just think it's funny that you would cut and paste text from an encyclopedia article, fail to quote any of it, and fail to cite any of it. It's really indicative of your level of objectivity and maturity. ",
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"content": "Because the article is well-cited already. Unlike this crap being put up by the anti-Clinton crowd that is not cited at all except by innuendo from the pro-Chavez crowd in Honduras. ",
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"content": "A hawk wins the nomination today. ",
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"content": "Don't trust the source. ",
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"content": "I disagree. I've been saying for years Hillary looks like a bird of prey.",
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"content": "> In the field as it stands, we currently have one candidate who is his own foreign policy adviser, another candidate who can't name his foreign policy team, another candidate who wants to carpet bomb the entire Middle East, and a final candidate who contradicts himself constantly. The only candidate left is the one who served as Secretary of State, one who consistently demonstrates a superior knowledge and understanding of foreign policy that none of the other candidates can come close to matching.\n\nExperience isn't automatically a good thing. To me and others, her experience is not an asset, it's evidence that she fundamentally disagrees with me. Her support of the PATRIOT act renewal and statements on encryption shows me that she has a skewed view over the prioritization of security which, on its own, is enough to make me weary of her judgement. Her support for a war in Iraq and her involvement in the middle east and Israel since then indicate to me that she buys into the boundless and consequently unwinnable \"war on terror\" concept in some way or another. So, I wouldn't say her experience impresses me more than it concerns me. At the same time, there isn't any particularly insightful or important accomplishment of hers that counteracts those negatives. Overall, her legacy in national security counts against her.\n\nAt the same time, one could argue that the last thing we want now is somebody who is likely to continue our bias toward external events. For the past 15 years we've had a lot of attention and resources focused outward. Having a Kasich or a Sanders who largely focus on domestic issues in their campaign and experience could be very beneficial. It doesn't mean that they're incapable of making a foreign policy call. Sanders' voting record over the past 25 years from the first gulf war and defense spending in the 90s to the Patriot act and the Iraq war is much more in line with what I find intelligent and appropriate. Meanwhile, rather than trying to police the world and drag on our cold war superpower legacy, instead of buying bombers we could be funding domestic solutions.",
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"content": "> Her support for a war in Iraq and her involvement in the middle east and Israel since then indicate to me that she buys into the boundless and consequently unwinnable \"war on terror\" concept in some way or another. \n\nYour credentials please?\n\nAfter today's events in Brussels, how do you think people feel about Sanders' climate change is the issue? Not that it matters, but I bet some votes are going to be changing today and going forward that he was counting on. Bet he is glad there will be no more debates.\n",
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"content": "> Your credentials please?\n\nI'm confused why you're asking for my credentials rather than addressing the content of my message. The article's author, [who doesn't seem to have special credentials](https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-lafauci-9665b898), subjectively claimed that she \"consistently demonstrates a superior knowledge and understanding of foreign policy\" in order to argue against those who criticize her. I was explaining the other sides of that subjective view which turns around that point and explains why there are genuine aspects of her policy that we can question and dislike compared to even a candidate with no experience.\n\nMy credentials are related to computers and technology which makes me sensitive/informed regarding security and privacy issues. This is why I find her statements and stances on the PATRIOT act and encryption to be frustratingly stupid. These are inseparable from foreign policy, as they essentially show how much a politician allows their foreign policy stances to dictate domestic concessions.\n\nHowever, in terms of the specific line you quoted feel free to explain your actual disagreement. It's a huge issue, so I can't get into everything. I was accusing her of (1) wanting to intervene in international incidents in the middle east, (2) supporting our exceptional relationship with Israel and (3) foreign policy against \"terrorists\" and \"terrorism\". I don't think any of those claims are controversial and I understand how people might like them. However, I think they're a recipe for poor policy. For many decades intervention has led to deteriorated relationships with Iran, Iraq, etc. Our intervention feeds hatred that forms terrorist groups. She hasn't suggested a plan that would reverse this trend. We don't have a plausible root to achieve stability in the middle east and defining our enemies as \"terrorists\" is such a subjective and nebulous word that it (1) can be dangerously stretched to apply to anything and (2) is completely impossible to ever completely, definitively win. So, this whole foreign policy centered around chasing terrorists across the globe seems like a recipe for perpetual war which farther polarizes how we are seen, has huge economic costs and likely hinders our freedom (e.g. PATRIOT act). Additionally, since we aren't controllers of the world, in order to operate in the middle east, we need to utilize alliances to morally questionable governments like Israel or Saudi Arabia and we've \"needed\" to violate the borders of Pakistan to get Bin Laden which she approved. All of this cancels out many of the moral goals we're claiming.\n\nI'm not saying this is objective or that everybody agrees with me, but it's ridiculous to, as the article claimed, say that she has \"exceptional\" foreign policy understanding. Even if she did, it's ridiculous to say that just because somebody understands a thing, they are a good candidate to do that thing in a way you'd approve of. I could believe that, compared to Clinton, Trump has more \"understanding\" of business topics, but that doesn't mean I'd want him to lead the economy. In the end, she seems to support major things lots of people disagree with and hasn't achieved anything that showed me that she had exceptional foreign policy ability. She has experience, but what does that experience tell me? It doesn't tell me she's brilliant. It doesn't tell me she does things the way I'd like them done. So then what's that experience worth?\n\n> After today's events in Brussels, how do you think people feel about Sanders' climate change is the issue?\n\nI actually said a while back that the worst thing that could happen to Sanders would be a national security crisis because it'd shift people's focus to an area that he doesn't speak to much. Personally, I think his platform would help our security more than hers, but yes, I think that people in general can be more easily mobilized by Clinton, Trump and Cruz in the face of violence. I definitely don't think that's a good thing though. In response to these incidents there are often disproportionate responses rather than a cold analysis. People prefer to hear that we traced Bin Laden across the world and shot him in the face. ... Then they complain why we spend so much on the military and people across the world associate us with violent intervention.",
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