The (Post-Recession/Obama) Non-Batshit Politics Thread of 2015 & Beyond

[arg]

i eat pretty well but yes im a wage slave to plane tickets, pussy and asshole. at least i earn every cent honorably.

unlike you living off your parents or taxpayers. providing 0 useful output or worse nurturing and exacerbating the problems

 

[CiG]

It's almost as if Mort and Matt don't know that we live in the welfare west.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Hillary and Sanders are fired up tonight on CNN.

 

[CiG]

He apologised for the "corporate whore" thing. Such a fucking coward.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I didn't even hear about this.

It's funny hearing how Hillary going so hardcore neo-con pro-war for the last ten minutes, and then she blames the Libyan people for why her regime change didn't work. Absolute murderous cunt. Sanders' anti-war views are the only thing that make me think he could be a relatively decent candidate.

 

[CiG]

Even just his ideological consistency. Trump and Clinton are whatever they need to be in the moment.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Hitler had a consistent ideology.

 

[CiG]

Another reason why "Trump is like literally Hitler" is bullshit.

 

[Dak]

I don't see much evidence that Sanders is anti-war. Trump might be anti-adventurism just because it's not grand enough. The flip side of that is accelerating tensions with China.

 

[rms]

He apologised for the "corporate whore" thing. Such a fucking coward.

He didn't even say it?

I don't see much evidence that Sanders is anti-war. Trump might be anti-adventurism just because it's not grand enough. The flip side of that is accelerating tensions with China.

He might not be, he's "fuck the middle east (which includes Israel)" so i'm cool with that. And he's for paying for vets/service members which is such a crazy idea in our political system.

 

[CiG]

He didn't even say it?

I know. So?

 

[rms]

Whore was poor word choice. Why wouldn't he apologize? Lackey? Figure head?

 

[CiG]

That's misleading and sleazy of you, "corporate whore" was what was said and that's a well-known phrase used to describe people regardless of gender.
Not to mention it's 100% true.

He apologised because he's an identity politics pandering fuckhead.

 

[Dak]

It's pretty sad when an Australian aborigine knows more about American politics/elections than most Americans.

 

[rms]

That's misleading and sleazy of you, "corporate whore" was what was said and that's a well-known phrase used to describe people regardless of gender.
Not to mention it's 100% true.

He apologised because he's an identity politics pandering fuckhead.

Insinuating that she's a sex worker for the business industry is something non-Politicians should/do say. Try and find me one time a man was called a whore for anything by a politician. Whether you want the word to not have a 'gendered meaning,' it clearly does.

 

[CiG]

That's not what corporate whore means, are you purposely being dense?

It's pretty sad when an Australian aborigine knows more about American politics/elections than most Americans.

If you understood how utterly mind-numbingly boring Australian politics are, it wouldn't be so shocking or whatever.

 

[rms]

It's not what we think it means but words/phrases don't have one strict interpretation. I don't think saying "That's gay" has anything to do with homosexuality, but people think it does. Or retard. Or fag. Should Sanders go out and say "Killer Mike is my nukka?" (censorship is obvious) Because obviously "nukka" isn't offensive it means bro, nah mean?

Pragmatically, Sanders is probably doing terrible in the women vote and no way can he advocate the use of the word 'whore' in trying to gain that vote. You're acting like a 10 year old here who doesn't understand politics and perception.

 

[CiG]

Even 10 year olds understand that corporate whore is not a gendered phrase. It means selling yourself out to corporations.

Whether it was politically strategic or not to denounce the remark, it certainly is just another piece of evidence that the man is a coward. He knows she's a corporate whore, most people do. He wants to defeat Shillary but he's too devoted to pleasing identity politics.

The man is shambolic.

Also I like the way you went from implying that you think corporate whore is gendered to "it doesn't matter what we think" well I'm not that twat's adviser, so I'm obviously talking from my own point of view.

 

[rms]

Why be objective in an argument? - CIG

 

[CiG]

Corporate whore is objectively not a gendered phrase - me.