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Why isn’t there a dedicated “Dope Animals” Gawker site

this is the best kinja

lol

True Love is no gag

Nerd Alert

Great sportz blog, or greatest sportz blog?

I think its more correct to say that sports is dumb and easy, therefore appropriate to the skill level of the average male blogger

Why is Jezebel so much better at Deadspining than Deadspin is at Jezebeling?

I have literally no idea, from this article, what is wrong with this trunk

To be fair to Buzzfeed and Fox, she is a woman.

Fine. You think those are the important issues. I don’t agree with your reading of history, or on the importance of these issues, but so what, people disagree. I think those are way less important than other issues that Republicans and Democrats disagree on. Fine. I don’t see why that makes me or Hillary a Nazi.

If you think that GWB and Al Gore are the same, GWM and John Kerry are the same, Obama and McCain are the Same, Obama and Romney are the same,

What I’m saying is that for any platform designed to appeal to lots of people, there will be people who are nearly indifferent between the two parties. That’s just a fact. I don’t hold it against Candidates (of either party) when they pick platforms they think will win. If you’re trying to win you have to pick a

Well, I guess I’m just not willing to show so much contempt for the reasons people have for the things they do

hmm, you make an extremely coherent and reasonable point.

Well, now we’re not arguing about whether this is a good or bad strategy, but whether she has correctly calculated voter blocs to effectively carry it out - whether she will in fact attract more people with this platform than she would with another (closer to Bernie’s).

In fact, I would strongly prefer a platform like the above to one that was closer to my “Ideal” platform but had a smaller chance of winning the general election. But I’m risk averse; for me electing the other party would be such a bad outcome that I’m happy to compromise on my party’s platform.

Yeah, and I guess I’m saying I don’t see anything gross about a candidate picking a policy platform and saying “you should vote for me, this platform will win an election and is better than the other guy’s”

Well, you’re supposing a pretty strange set of circumstance- a candidate whose views you find repugnant, but whose views you find better than the other party’s views. If here views are really that repugnant, vote for the other guy? If they aren’t, then why shouldn’t you vote for her?