Read. The. Medium. Piece.

Read the fucking Medium piece. There’s so many of you charlatans in these responses who didn’t bother to do the basic standard of research before spewing conspiracy theories.

I don’t know why you’ve turned into a dishonest and abusive asshole, but you were wrong. Have the basic decency to admit it instead of acting like this.

Not like super-delegates. I suggest reading the Medium piece. They address that explicitly. 

You’re a centrist for supporting the second most progressive candidate, who agrees with Sanders on most substantive issues but is a bit more cautious in both presentation and policy details. It’s absurd.

The responses here do not leave me feeling optimistic on that last issue.

For fuck’s sake, thanks for proving my point. This thread is a dumpster fire already.

Yeah, no. I see multiple people trying this bullshit, including one tying this to Russia. These are real people. Some of them are prominent. Jacobin for example has been all in on the “promote conspiracy theories” train.

Also, read the Medium post people. All this bullshit about “leadership controlling the process” and “why won’t they release the vote totals” shows people haven’t actually listened when the WFP explained their process. 

This is a classic example of conspiracy mongering. Note the “just asking questions” bullshit at the end, as well as the attempt to justify the abuse in the structure of the first sentence. There’s no way to say “the abuse is bad, but” without the “but” being the defining part of the sentence.

I’m sympathetic to the perception at the time that Obama would put his administration under serious risk by bucking the Third Way cart. Now most of us have seen the flat out failure of center-right neoliberal Democratic party. There were signs of it in 2008-9 too, but the evidence wasn’t nearly as conclusive. Keeping…

I’ve seen a lot of this on social media lately, attacking people who mostly like Sanders and think he’s an important policy voice. There’s a lot of conspiratorial thinking, a lot of bad-faith attacks on Warren (quite a few of which have been deeply sexist), and extreme vitriol from people who clearly have nothing to…

That’s THE stimulus bill under discussion. I’m not being disengenious. The GOP did not control congress when that was passed. The discussion here is about THAT stimulus bill, and whether it fell short of the goal.

ARRA was passed in 2009. There’s no way for you to salvage the factual error you just made. Just admit it and move on. 

The 2009 Congress was not GOP controlled. 

It’s normal human psychology. Some people, a very small amount, can pull back enough to mostly dispassionately assess their own behavior. But that’s a rare skill. For most of us, most of the time, you just haveto recognize when you’re too close to the issue.

This is problematic logic. If anything, the Obama administration alums have too much of a personal conflict to dispassionately analyze their record. They were too close to it, emotionally involved and attached. I know this is just another one of the vapid anti-Splinter comments that are inundating the site lately, but…

You know, I’ve seen a lot of former Obama alums admit that this is probably the greatest failure of his administration. Whether there was a more progressive alternative that was realistic is debatable, but the way the worst actors in the economy were largely spared from serious consequences and able to continue their…

There’s an abundance of literature available on China’s economy and how the government makes it look much stronger than it is. I’d suggest instead of parroting such oversimplistic tripe you educate yourself.

There’s a steep dive in his approval numbers regardless. Raw approval numbers can be more complicated than partisan ID too, outside of election season people can get higher approval numbers than their vote totals because a lot of people are tuned out and hearing limited news.