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In reply to the discussion: How not to treat your allies [View all]Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)18. Thanks...... n/t
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Since they're not heckling anyone else, I've wondered if there's some manipulation going on
Warpy
Aug 2015
#199
Forget understanding that it is a two-way street - they don't understand what respect looks like
Ms. Toad
Aug 2015
#184
Your analogy is idiotic almost beyond description. I actually flinched when I read it.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#5
Bernie Sanders is nothing less than the physical embodiment of a perfect savior.
AlbertCat
Aug 2015
#133
I remember when this behavior was celebrated. Code Pink, Dreamers, LGBT activists were roundly....
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#7
+1."He addressed it". If you can't take heckling, then get off the national stage. This is not new.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#27
It wasn't 'heckling' - they took over the stage, and refused to let others speak
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2015
#74
No need Comrade. I think they're pretty much done with BS & his supporters, as am I.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#203
Because Bernie's SUCH a racist. Oh, what a racist. Just HATES black people, dontcha know?
senz
Aug 2015
#221
And vice versa. At least until BLM gets its nut bar problem taken care of.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2015
#283
Looking at it from BLM's perspective, there's plenty of "nut bars" on the flipside as well.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#287
Obama has been in office for eight years and I have lost count of the black lives lost
Tipperary
Aug 2015
#98
Are you saying that Bernie should have stood there and "mud wrestled those young woman for the mike
ladjf
Aug 2015
#106
Well I'm glad they voted to leave it, since it was clearly intended as a description of behavior,
senz
Aug 2015
#188
If you can't take heckling, have closed events and charge $3,000 per person for admittance.
arcane1
Aug 2015
#303
You're obviously not paying attention to the response to people opposed to the tactics
Ms. Toad
Aug 2015
#264
If nothing else but for his own safety he'll probably end up with a security team...
raindaddy
Aug 2015
#279
And I stand by those critiques, just as you should stand by yours. Just pointing out that those...
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#14
Well, alrighty then. Not really responsible for what "you remember", but then there's a lot of...
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#22
First of all, where did you hear that? Link? And no, I would not be in support of anyone who...
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#30
Then the poster lied. The charge was that someone called Bernie a racist. Nice try.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#48
So, now BS is a feeble old man? That's twice I've seen a statement like this. If that's the new...
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#75
Go after the president for what? Having the best Dept of Justice in my lifetime? Who do you think
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#87
John Lewis will appreciate your elevation of him, but AFAIK he's still a Congressman, not Senator.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#163
Nope. I sat on a jury for one post, where one of his "supporters", with 13k posts decried BLM....
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#167
The good news is BLM will probably leave BS alone now. Of course, that also dooms his candidacy.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#174
You're laughing at the thought of the demise of the most liberal candidate?
LittleBlue
Aug 2015
#176
What I find laughable is all the hurt feewings suddenly. The hardcore activist community is crying
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#182
Not really a comparison, except I wouldn't vote for either of them for dogcatcher.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#202
Try getting him the nomination without black Democrats. The road to the WH for any "DEMOCRAT"......
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#291
Naw. I have a better idea. Let's have some debates that aren't geared to hide HRC.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Aug 2015
#293
BS has shown now, on two occasions, he's not ready for primetime. Middle aged, middle class...
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#294
You go on now and keep up with that meme. I'm sure some suckers will believe you.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Aug 2015
#295
Exactly. Activism isn't supposed to make us all warm & squishy. In fact, it's supposed to do...
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#52
Excellent statement. "Biases" have to be taken into account. I just want those who cheered on CP..
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#60
Whatever they want? Thank Gawd it's a free country. People can change their minds. BS' supporters
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#77
You did not celebrate it, you have always opposed those tactics and Bernie Sanders. Be honest.
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2015
#103
Ever hear the phrase "a distinction without a difference"? Surely you jest.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#216
Okay. The president is "the administration." Whatever horrible things are being done in our name,
senz
Aug 2015
#219
I always find "speakers" who've been on Capitol Hill for decades, and haven't accomplished shit.....
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#222
Bernie Sanders has been an excellent public servant for 25 years, being reelected easily,
senz
Aug 2015
#226
Thanks, but I'll pass on your links as I'm assuming it's the post & poster I trashed earlier today.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#267
So, in your mind, BLM would have to sanctioned by Dr. King to be a legitimate movement? n/t
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#23
You don't call a man whose father's family was wiped out in the Holocaust a white supremacist.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#16
When you make a libelous statement like the one you made, proof should take "priority". And if you
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#41
Yeah, that's kinda what I thought. You took time away from the "movie set" to make an outrageous..
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#46
You can't have a discussion with someone who makes unsubstantiated claims like...Hillary supporters
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#56
Hey, aren't you busy on the "movie set"? You keep responding, but not a single link to your charge?
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#62
I'm sorry, but where does it say that BS is a white supremacist? Maybe you could zero in on that...
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#68
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to keep you. But as soon you locate "racist"; "white supremacist"..
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#72
Nice try, but that post talks about BS "supporters", and AFAIK, bravenak is not a "Hillary supporter
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#180
Tens of thousands of black families were wiped out in the AMERICAN holocaust.
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2015
#33
But before you demonstrate, you do the basic research that is needed so that your demonstration has
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#51
Thiis is a horrible thought, but could it be that these people pick on him ratheer than otheer
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#40
I understand and strongly sympathize with their fight, but until he is president, Bernie can't
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#233
It's one thing to demonstrate, get your point across and try to get change.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#262
Interesting although as one who remembers the time, Jewish people were at the forefront of
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#70
"If you are Black and you don't like either the Clintons, O'Malley or Bernie..
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2015
#282
I live in California. If Hillary hasn't won by the time California votes, she won't win, period.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#307
We keep being told that black people don't know him yet, but you think they know he's Jewish?
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#81
I'm glad there's still people here looking at things with an emotional detachment.
RichVRichV
Aug 2015
#248
Morons scream at the one candidate who has fought hardest for them over his career
NightWatcher
Aug 2015
#110
True. If some loud-mouthed bully like that grabbed Hillary's mike and started hurling abuse
senz
Aug 2015
#209
I'm not an ally of these useless fucks who stopped Sanders from speaking. I decided that on my own.
DisgustipatedinCA
Aug 2015
#140
Let me storm the next BLM rally to start yelling about Medicaid and social security.
Kurska
Aug 2015
#211