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Personally I think the elections for POTUS are purposely drawn out so that the average person is heavily fatigued by Election Day and almost prone to be indifferent. The news media (on all sides) also profit a lot from the protracted circus, and it gives them more of a raison d'etre for minute-by-minute reporting.It's like the MLB season, it could easily start later and finish sooner, and a lot of people would be perfectly happy with that, but doing that would generate less money for the people at the top.See also: the 5+ day work week, which used to be longer. If people are so busy scrambling to keep their heads above water, they have less agency/autonomy, will think less clearly, and be less prone to "rebel" and reflect on "the big picture." Unless they've managed to find meaningful work, which our economy tends to discourage.

Gramsci wrote:Pete Buttigieg from South Bend would last about three minutes in the UK...People are mean about names.that's why we have a 20-month contest. it gives the media time to make them household names. people said the same thing about "obama."

cneutron wrote:total\_douche wrote:cneutron wrote:SUPER not into the Mayor Pete backlash.I'll go ahead and say it: I'm glad he's running.I appreciate the personal stories from pals from SB too.You just outed yourself as someone who didn't spend their childhood on the verge of eviction. This is literally one of the biggest root causes of our social problems, if not the biggest.Motherfucker, don't you dare think you know a damn thing about me. I moved 23 times before I moved out on my own (at 17!) At top dollar best we were part of the lower working class, for the most part we were part of the working poor.I've been full on homeless before, and have drifted more.How dare you claim to know a thing about me and present it in such a haughty and dismissive manner. I said I was glad he was in the race, not that I was 100% endorsing all of his values and think gentrification is keen. What is fucking wrong with you?You know, you're absolutely right. I have no right to assume what your life has been like because I don't know you. I'm sorry about that.Having said that, from my perspective, this isn't about endorsing all of his values. This is about the fact that people like him, who put on a facade of progressivism while conveniently ignoring the fact that their bright, shiny ideas more often than not make vain, facetious, self-congratulatory cultural elites like him feel good at the expense of the oppressed people they pretend to care about, who, more often than not, end up worse off. People like him not only conceptualized but ran the boarding schools. I am sick and tired of these personality cults taking up space while the people who actually have a shred of empathy or genuine concern or any conception whatsoever of the effects of public policy on the most vulnerable among us fall by the wayside. I am sick and tired of self-congratulatory tumblr liberals (not saying you're one, I'm thinking more about the daily dose of social media) fawning over charismatic aristocrats who have one or two non-standard demographic traits as if they're going to magically save us all (actual politics be damned) while these delightfully charismatic shitbags in the Democratic party haven't done a goddamned thing for brown people in fifty years beyond hollow catchphrases and voter registration drives.My childhood was pretty similar to yours. Nothing but moving while jobs got chased, often cross-country, and the constant threat of eviction, then raising my siblings while the grownups were at work. I imagine you have your reasons for liking Pete, but liberals like him make me sick because people like him are why my childhood was as fucked up as it was.

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seanurban wrote:Gramsci wrote:Pete Buttigieg from South Bend would last about three minutes in the UK...People are mean about names.that's why we have a 20-month contest. it gives the media time to make them household names. people said the same thing about "obama."Yeah and look where the US is now...

Get dog costumes wrote:Mayo Pete and his ieglordsButtheads

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Jeremy B wrote:Gramsci wrote:Okay after a week, living on the other side of the Atlantic and not really caring about this guy, it s now clear he s an asshole.Didn t take long...https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... trump-2020 œThe appeal was sent out after a New York Times report revealed a series of private dinners in which Democratic leaders, strategists, donors “ and even a presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg “ had met to discuss œthe matter of What To Do About Bernie It was clear last week when I posted it too.Clearly you didn't post it hard enough. Sanders was still in your heart. This is how Trump got elected.

Okay after a week, living on the other side of the Atlantic and not really caring about this guy, it s now clear he s an asshole.Didn t take long...https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... trump-2020 œThe appeal was sent out after a New York Times report revealed a series of private dinners in which Democratic leaders, strategists, donors “ and even a presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg “ had met to discuss œthe matter of What To Do About Bernie

Gramsci wrote:Okay after a week, living on the other side of the Atlantic and not really caring about this guy, it s now clear he s an asshole.Didn t take long...https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... trump-2020 œThe appeal was sent out after a New York Times report revealed a series of private dinners in which Democratic leaders, strategists, donors “ and even a presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg “ had met to discuss œthe matter of What To Do About Bernie It was clear last week when I posted it too.