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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Stop. Letting. Them. Frame. The. Fucking. Narrative. [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)68. Social justice warriors - as a pejorative... a lot of libertarian and RWers mock us w it....
And I'm seeing some of their thoughts repackaged here.
The group that split off to form JPR were a good example.
They thought any discussion of social issues took away from their more important issue of economic justice to the extent that it should be silences or squashed. They mocked and staked AAs here all primary season and when they couldn't stay here because all they did was attack Dems, they started their own site where the only requirement was to hate Hillary.
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Likewise, thank you. Show them this chart, 11 states with 2.3 million Trump votes:
Coyotl
Nov 2016
#50
"Rights of the majority?" The thing that allowed a large part of the country to enslave the rest?
MadDAsHell
Nov 2016
#98
Confused: Fox News is a shit "news" station, but we're mad more stations don't act the same way??
MadDAsHell
Nov 2016
#97
Whatever it takes to approach the one man - one vote theory of democracy is what should be done
world wide wally
Nov 2016
#54
You cannot gerrymander the federal election for president because no party can alter state lines.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2016
#3
The overlap is the corrupt RW congress has been opening bogus "investigations" on Dems non stop ....
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#41
Am saying he gerrymandering helped lead to this - in a direct and large way.
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#57
Gerrymandering certainly has been in a factor in geographic and partisan polarization
YoungDemCA
Nov 2016
#91
Yes, it's dirty trickery, something the pukes love. It may be annoying but i am a
dionysus
Jan 2017
#160
ok, the economy is way better than it was, and the poorest, economically destitute
LaydeeBug
Nov 2016
#12
Chicago? LA? NYC? Detroit? Outside of celebrities these areas are incredibly poor.
MadDAsHell
Nov 2016
#99
We had idiots on here guaranteeing a bloodbath Democratic victory, probably resulting...
MadDAsHell
Nov 2016
#101
So your proposed fix for 4 brutal elections in a row is...nothing? Cause "we was robbed?"
MadDAsHell
Nov 2016
#100
Then please explain why Republicans keep,winning in Kansas, Mississippi, and so forth
world wide wally
Nov 2016
#59
Even with all the media bullcrap and Comey interference, Trump still couldn't win.
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#27
this actual FACT runs counter to the "drumpfy has a mandate" nonsense, and needs to be
niyad
Nov 2016
#38
Our side could have won the election -- and would have won it if not for Comey, together with voter
Akamai
Nov 2016
#28
Yup! Patriarchal/fundamentalist/etc. misogyny. I could have gone on for a while more, but my far
Akamai
Nov 2016
#64
The corporate media has aided and allowed the GOP to frame the narrative since the 1980s.
guillaumeb
Nov 2016
#29
And civil rights and reproductive freedoms are called "identity politics"-by straight white men....
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#55
"Economic progressives" can split off because they are not using us for their own ends.
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#58
I've seen that label a few times and it appears some are wanting to abandon "SJWs" as they call us..
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#62
Social justice warriors - as a pejorative... a lot of libertarian and RWers mock us w it....
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#68
Someone here said that we'd all be wealthier and the. Women could fly to other states for abortion
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#75
To add to your list of narrative framing... Medicare and Social Security became Entitlements. n/t
Hugin
Nov 2016
#105
Bullshit II Honey. Turnout was already higher than 2012. But don't let the facts betray
LaydeeBug
Nov 2016
#86
Aaaah so you admit that you're wrong by trying to project on me...Nice try. No dice
LaydeeBug
Nov 2016
#109
Why can't progressive billionaires create a news channel like a Fox did during the Clinton admin?
world wide wally
Nov 2016
#66
Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Joy Reid, Bill Mahr, for starters
world wide wally
Nov 2016
#123
Olberman and Mahr aren't on MSNBC and MSNBC always tried to hide being liberal.
world wide wally
Nov 2016
#128
That's how they do. We can't stop them, but we can definitely fight all the rhetoric and
ancianita
Nov 2016
#78
Hell yeah! They talk about everything else but the strange way voting machines work
UCmeNdc
Nov 2016
#139