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patsimp

(915 posts)
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:49 AM May 2016

Irony impaired? Take what someone is writing against Hillary or Bernie and swap their names

post the replies in the appropriate forum and see the outrage by the respective supporters.


It would be an interesting experiment in irony impairment

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lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
1. Sanders has rigged the party machinery through money and influence to buy superdelegates.
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:51 AM
May 2016

Doesn't work - it sounds silly, because it is.

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
8. Yes.
Sun May 22, 2016, 12:01 PM
May 2016

Criticisms of Sanders are, without exception, projections of the Clinton campaigns own problems, or a continuation of the predetermined themes that David Brock picked at the outset "Misogyny!" "Racism!" "BernieBros!"

This is not the case with criticisms of Clinton. Weapons manufacturers and rogue nations didn't use Sanders nonprofit to grease the skids for weapons deals. Sanders hasn't recruited personal friends as spies and hidden his conversations with them. Sanders hasn't laundered money through his super pac via the DNC and back to his own campaign.

The truth isn't somewhere in between, nor do "both sides do it".

snort

(2,334 posts)
7. LOL
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:57 AM
May 2016

If only he hadn't taken all of that money from the banksters and corporatists for those speeches he's not willing to share.

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
10. Give him a break! It costs money to grease the skids of weapons deals between his nonprofit donors!
Sun May 22, 2016, 12:03 PM
May 2016
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
2. Bernie is for war and fracking and against single payer and raising the Social Security cap!
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:54 AM
May 2016

No, it sure does not work at all.
Also, the Hillary supporters tend to not talk about issues and policies. For some reason, those have been deemed irrelevant or something.

patsimp

(915 posts)
5. irony impairment. Hillary came out against Coal and lost some rustbelt states in the last few weeks.
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:56 AM
May 2016

Bernie was pro-coal.

Irony and blinders.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
9. I still see war and Wall Street and the TPP and fracking and increased H-1B visas,
Sun May 22, 2016, 12:01 PM
May 2016

to name a few things, when I think of Hillary. Nothing about Bernie can get me on board with that.

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