Precisely! My brother and his friends did stuff like this in high school all the time and it was legitimately funny and no one ever got hurt. They pulled stuff on their water polo coach all the time, so it wasn’t even a power imbalance thing where they were picking on someone with low social capital. Pranks and…

Fuck off, every statement he makes about this stuff is followed by a “but...” and as far as the disfigured circumstance of the Nevada convention.... they were protesting the fact that they fucking lost. It was less a protest a more a tantrum. For Sanders to act like their was any legitimacy to their cries that it was…

No. He said people have a right to be angry and a right to protest. He legitimized the behavior by basically agreeing that the vote was rigged against him. He broadly condemns violence out of one side of his mouth and out of the other fans the flames... though for the most part he leaves that last bit to Weaver.

The difference is that the ferguson protestors were protesting something real. The supposed voter suppression at the Nevada convention didn't happen and this 'protest' is nothing more than a tantrum because Sanders is losing.

Watched Black Swan at the movie theater sitting right next to my dad. Super fun times all around.

HOW COULD IT SKIP ALAN TUDYK

I dunno someone please talk me out of this probably completely irrational stance, but I really really don’t like taking something that alters my hormones so much that I just don’t have periods at all. I don’t like the pill and I’m totally freaked out by other methods. I’m torn on this because on the one hand omg birth…

Maybe commenter hasn’t emailed her, maybe she’s busy trying to reach out to other people who were there to get full accounts from multiple people, maybe she’s writing it, maybe it’s being edited.... maybe it just isn’t gonna happen. Either way, you said she refused to interview someone who was there, when in the very…

Sure, that's basically always going to be true. Your comment that I replied to seemed to imply that Clinton is pro-drone strikes while Sanders is against that policy. They're both decidedly pro, and since much of the criticism of Clinton centers on her foreign policy I just think it's worthwhile to point that out.

Nope. “Temporary” rules were sent out weeks in advance - these rules are called “temporary” because everything in a convention is "temporary" until it is formally adopted on the floor. The vote in which the rules were formally adopted happened at that time.

Had this conversation just a couple days ago. I praised Clinton and stated that Sanders can’t win (AND that he’s not a perfect candidate anyway). Guy said it’s sad that I’ve “given up” on progressivism and idealism. I was like nope, I haven’t given up - I just don’t think progressivism lives and dies on the success of…

Not quite accurate. Mirrick Garland did his job as a judge and interpreted the law as written and voted based on the merits of the case. This has sometimes meant that he has voted in ways that frustrated liberals on campaign finance, and sometimes in ways that cheered them. The case that comes up in which he was part…

No, see, Sanders and his campaign new the rules for the states well ahead of time and it was therefor their responsibility to ensure that they developed a strong ground game to reach out to potential pockets of support and educate people on a) his message and b) what they'd need to do in order to actively participate…

This is EXACTLY like a two year old throwing a temper tantrum because they realized they're losing the board game. Except the two year old has an excuse to not know the rules, because they're TWO.

I read the transcript, and the subsequent explanations of the misunderstandings that happened in that interview... but here's the thing, he wasn't taken out of context or misquoted. And it was on him to explain and clarify if/when the reporter had stuff wrong. He didn't do that and it's no one's fault but his own. He…

Probably based on some highly inaccurate article claiming that it’s ALSO impossible for Clinton to hit the magic number (without superdelegates) and so there’s going to be a contested convention and when that happens the supers will flip to Bernie because reasons.

My friends keep posting some variation of this on fb,…

Then it should be very easy and simple for him to explicitly say to his supporters “I do not support or condone this, do not engage in this behavior, death threats are never acceptable.” WITHOUT the “but” afterwards. And yet...

His public stances don't mean jack if he won't act on it and call out shit like this.

This is why it drives me crazy when people get all pissy that “Bernie had a huge rally with thousands of people and the media is SILENT it’s a BLACKOUT!”

...Sorry, big attendance at a rally isn't actually news. Big show at the polls is news.

You're aware that Bernie has explicitly said he'll continue the use of drones, right?

I volunteered at Sanders first rally in Seattle back in August, and we were explicitly told to make sure that all the seats and floor space close to the stage were full so that on camera it looked like a packed arena. Now, that one actually WAS packed and there was overflow. But yeah, this kind of manipulation is…