GOP must love Sanders supporters. They spread their propaganda against Clinton for them and they blame her for stuff Republicans precipitated. How can you go wrong with that?
GOP must love Sanders supporters. They spread their propaganda against Clinton for them and they blame her for stuff Republicans precipitated. How can you go wrong with that?
The reverse is also true lol. The other day I tweeted at Rich Lowry, who was decrying the state of the GOP, and I basically said that he and people like him caused this mess.
Instantly was retweeted/followed by a FUCKTON of Trump supporters shittalking the "GOPe"
I haven't done shit for any candidate this season besides give some money. I'll do some work this Fall for Angie Craig in MN-2 and maybe take a road trip to Wisconsin to help out Feingold.
Or maybe not many Bernie supporters post here because of assholes posting condescending shitposts.
I've honestly lost a lot of respect for much of poliGAF during this primary. A lot of you have been no better than the shitty nonvoting Sanders supporters you love talking about so much.
This is true. Even as someone who has very openly been telling Sanders supporters that this shit is DOA barring Clinton getting herself indicted; there are definitely Clinton supporters here who are worse than any of the Sanders supporters on reddit, and remind me of the racist asshole Clinton supporters from '08 (btw, the irony that Sanders is getting crucified in GAF for using Clinton's '08 strategy is hilarious and hypocritical as hell). To be fair, the main OT threads (as opposed to community) are even worse.
Sometimes I wonder if establishment has just come to mean any organization that's run and managed better than the Sanders campaign has been. That at least would apply to Planned Parenthood.
Same deal where people who are against me are X. Establishment, racist, sexist, etc. You could switch establishment charges against Clinton and her supporters with racist / sexist charges against Trump and his supporters. There's a lot of it to be sure, but it's pretty disingenuous and intellectually lazy to lump them all together.
Pretty much. I'd argue it 100% applies to Main OT GAF, at least those who post. There's a core group of posters who basically shout down and drive-by pile on people who disagree with progressive orthodoxy, tbh. I don't think there are that many, but those who are tend to be very loud and very asshole-ish.
Well, the central issue is how well the group handles information that contradicts their worldview. GAF does ok, I think, but GAF is also so damn large that the characterization of it in its entirety having any particular mode of groupthink is really oversimplifying. Now the Dreamcast Technical Pages, hoo boy.
Look, I'm just saying, if you wanted to design an experiment that would slowly distill ordinary videogame fans down the most rabid in-denial cult, it's hard to do better than Sega's console business from the Genesis to the cancellation of the DC, sorry not sorry :X
GAF is not big enough. Not nearly. Because we're not a random sample, we're a self-selected sample. Hell, if you took just the american posters, and compared their political views percentage wise versus the general american population, or hell, even gamers, you'd find that you're somewhere in the 1 in a trillion chance of GAF being randomly distributed.
Or maybe not many Bernie supporters post here because of assholes posting condescending shitposts.
I've honestly lost a lot of respect for much of poliGAF during this primary. A lot of you have been no better than the shitty nonvoting Sanders supporters you love talking about so much.
This is true. Even as someone who has very openly been telling Sanders supporters that this shit is DOA barring Clinton getting herself indicted; there are definitely Clinton supporters here who are worse than any of the Sanders supporters on reddit, and remind me of the racist asshole Clinton supporters from '08 (btw, the irony that Sanders is getting crucified in GAF for using Clinton's '08 strategy is hilarious and hypocritical as hell). To be fair, the main OT threads (as opposed to community) are even worse.
I don't think I agree. When Clinton Supporters "go bad" they get condescending or mean. When Sanders supporters "go bad" they become delusional, say things counter to reality and engage in conspiracy theories. I also don't tend to see disparagingly racist/sexist comments from the former group. Like I'm not seeing an equivalence here.
You know, I have to say, the Democrats, by and large, seemingly are okay with the establishment, because while they do have their own agendas, they aren't actively trying to fuck their base over.