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  • There was a lot of pressure for the most banal, milquetoast, form of representation ever in the form of having a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic national convention with a vetted speech that involved nothing that would have criticized Israel at all.

    Even that was too far.

    Either the progressives are powerful enough that you have to take them seriously and give them concessions, or they aren’t and you get to ignore them.

    What you don’t get to do is give them nothing and blame them when you lose. Or, I guess you do if you’d prefer to lose the general over letting a progressive win the primary.

    Huh, funny that, who knew there is a lot of levers and controls that a primary winner, even one that lost the general, gets.




  • 20% is a lot less then the amount of PUMA people that didn’t vote for Obama. (The point here is that the left rallies behind the centrist and right of the party far more then the centrists do. And yet you still blame the left.)

    Maybe if the Democratic party wasn’t addicted to feeling self righteous, and it your comment reflected reality (it doesn’t) then the DNC would recognize the left as a voting block they have to appease to, you know, win.

    You know, actually do politics rather then look down their noses at people demanding unreasonable stuff like health care.














  • No, he didn’t. This is 100% factually wrong. He gave them to to the Guardian and to the New York Times, and to Glenn Greenwald., and he gave it to them encrypted and deleted them himself. Part of his requirements was that they vet everything they released before they released it to make sure that no one was hurt as an effect.

    This was part of why the Guardian ended up having it’s higher level employees replaced after MI6 trashed the place (literally).

    You might be thinking of Julian Assange, but even there there was double checking and not one single individual has proven to be hurt by those leaks.

    That’s the enemies Im talking about eg DPRK, Russia, or Iran.

    Let me guess, you’re a liberal of the “Liberals hate every war except the current one” bent, aren’t you? To the point that you’re literally making shit up to slander an actual fucking hero that revealed quite a lot to the public that wasn’t at that point known.

    Get the fuck out of here with your stupid ignorant bullshit that lets you feel smugly superior.

    EDIT: We never got the full leaks because the news organizations he gave them to ended up deleting them from under governmental pressure, and he no longer had copies of them.

    Now, before you smugly utter the next banal lie liberals always do to slander him: He didn’t want to go to Russia. He intended to go to Ecuador, but the Obama Administration broke a bunch of international laws, including forcing aircraft with diplomatic immunity to land in other countries airspace to try and capture him. Turned out, of course, that he wasn’t on board. He went to Russia out of desperation.