2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"Fuckery." Not Ratfucking.
Yep.
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
5/17/2016
In Brief: No, Bernie Sanders. That's a Bad Bernie Sanders.
SNIP...
And, hey, Bernie supporters, don't fucking respond to this with "Oh, the rules are too complicated" or "They shut down the process" or "Shillary is Killary" or whatever the fuck you want to respond with. Honestly, the uprising at the convention itself is the kind of shit we expect when passions run deep. The Sanders campaign conspiracy theorists will have fuel for weeks now, even though most of their complaints boil down to "rules suck, man." Tim Robbins has probably worn out his thumbs tweeting about it.
But we're talking about the kind of fucked-up barrage of death threats that internet culture fosters, whether it's for a dentist who shot a lion or someone tweeting a stupid joke. Sanders didn't acknowledge that, in and of themselves, separate from whatever unconnected violence happened months ago, the violent, sexist language and explicit threats ("someone will hurt you" are fucked up. That's goddamned disheartening and, really, a missed opportunity to talk about the meaning of non-violence. Instead of strong condemnation, Sanders gave his worst voters a pass.
For fuck's sake, Sanders followers, this was over losing out on 4 fucking delegates.
And while the Rude Pundit has ignored much of the fuckery done by those followers to show how passionately they support Bernie, Sanders himself, through this response, may just have lost him this voter.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2016/05/in-brief-no-bernie-sanders-thats-bad.html?m=1
mcar
(42,278 posts)And welcome under the bus, Rude One!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Victims may function better in their close personal worlds, with some problems, but when they look out at the big world?
Andy823
(11,495 posts)I am sure the Rude Pundit is going under!
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Who needed to hear/see again how he is the lone voice for the doomed?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)MineralMan
(146,255 posts)Normally, but he nails this one.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)DU must be having a corrupting influence because I think that's the first time I've ever recced a Rude Pundit post
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)the million dollar trolls doing it.
sheshe2
(83,654 posts)It is time to go GreyHound. Rude just went under da bus!
Rude Pundit quote...
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)Wonder if the hilariously and pointlessly stupid "Brock sock puppet" trope that's been tossed around this web site like a salad over the past few months will get tossed at the Rude One too?
eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)Dem2
(8,166 posts)Heh, I made this point earlier, no wonder I like the rude pundit.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)That's gonna leave a mark.