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Diceheist posted...

That said, that poor sportsmanship in 2019 doesn't justify Warren's in 2020. She publicly accused Bernie of saying a woman couldn't win and went scorched earth against Bernie and Buttigieg out of spite, basically letting Biden coast, and only went back after him post-SC when it was way too late, when realistically the only pro-progressive play at that point was to just drop out and endorse the one actually managing to win states.

I mean is it "poor sportsmanship" or is it "you're trying to gain the advantage over your opponents in an election"?

this is where you guys usually lose me.

so much of relitigating the 2016 and 2020 primaries hinges on two points:

• that Bernie would have won a general election
• and that Bernie could have won the primary if the media and all his opponents were less mean and unfair to him

like, if Sanders can't win in a primary and the majority of voters don't care for him and the media is too mean to him, then he would also be a fucking disastrous general election candidate if he's incapable of overcoming either of those things

Diceheist posted...

Again Biden lost two primaries then won a third, he probably would've been strong in a general but just could not get the primary to work until the Obama association earned him trust with the party.

Bernie will just never get that trust, so he's permanently stuck in 2008 Biden's predicament.

Plenty of other politicians have won primaries and the presidency without having been vice president and even disliked by their own parties beforehand

Trump, Obama, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Kennedy, Eisenhower, FDR, etc.

Has it occurred to you that Bernie is just maybe not great at running campaigns and actually putting together and mobilizing a coalition?

Diceheist posted...

He did fine in general election polls. Just not primary polls. He's half-electable.

He lost both primaries he was in

In 2016 and 2020 considering how off the polls were, I would doubt that he performs well

Why is the argument always that Warren siphoned votes from Bernie and not that Bernie siphoned votes from Warren?

Maybe he should've dropped out if their policies and voters are so similar?

I mean I have my doubts about Bernie's strength as a national candidate anyway

McMarbles posted...

A lot of Bernie stans seem to run on Underpants Gnome logic.

1. Implement ranked choice
2. ?????????
3. Profit!

The point in the first half of his post undercut the point he made in the second half lol

"Bernie had 40% of the vote locked up and 60% was spread among moderates so with ranked choice voting Bernie wins"

Like wtf

VRX3000 posted...

basically, if we had ranked choice voting instead of winner takes all, wed probably be looking at Bernie vs Trump in 2020.

How would Bernie win under ranked choice lol

God I want her

Why don't people like Biden? Are they stupid?

Messiah is a pretty natural stopping point

IdiotMachine posted...

In what world is winning 83.5% of the vote suffers huge loss?

When you're the presumptive nominee and there's no one actively running against you it's not great

Fuck squatters

Also Vault Tec stole the research for cold fusion and 200ish years later the Enclave happens to have it?

It wasn't Vault Tec it was The Enclave

What we saw in that meeting room was The Enclave beginning to pull the strings of corporate power in the US.

Before Walter Goggins' wife suggests dropping the bombs we see a silhouetted figure observing the meeting. There's an implication the she broaches the idea of dropping the bombs themselves at the suggestion of this figure.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/589818f5.png
As a fellow Dukakis fan, this dude might be alright lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_gang_rapes

allegedly he participated in these

fuck gavi and i hope he rots in prison

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He's still relatively normal on Humble's but I feel like that's a matter of time.

I still think the Discords should be combined. Most people are in both anyway

cool cool

I was living in a giant house with two very close friends when lockdowns hit.

For me, in those couple months we basically just hung out, watched series, or played games together. It was a super fun time in my life.

Basically like being a kid again tbh

GiftedACIII posted...

Yeah, I don't get the new discord angle. There were already a bunch of various discords before. I don't really think the chat room style is too comparable to the message board style here.

There is also a forum site that is connected to the Discord

Or you could just join the new forum without joining the Discord

Anyone in touch with Asherlee?

boomgetchopped3 posted...

I wish discord had topics. Then Id be all over it

There's also a forum that's been set up and is connected to the discord

Sneasel posted...

first for consider Thread Zone

https://ce.thread.zone/user/new?key=refugee

I can vouch for this place. It's about as close to GameFAQs boards as you can get.

IIRC someone mentioned that the code is based off of the GameFAQs site code from like 2004 (with modern additions obviously)

It feels pretty nice. Obviously it's slow atm since not many people have moved over yet, but it's a good foundation

KanWan posted...

Keep one discord for threads and the other as a fast moving chat?

I really think the discords should be smushed together and we have the threadszone place for slower threads

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/043550b7.jpg

Reminder: If Trump wins this dude is your new CIA Director

Vegy posted...

Can sites like gamefaqs message boards be made anymore

https://ce.thread.zone/user/new?key=gBzJj0-wmMPmZKj4O0htA5RxhbC1u7gVBCuO MukbDDDu9axVwsTylIBnS1UD_lRGsNMWLBW56dVpa69tUBhuooJVNV1w

remove the space

dude in another thread was talking about this and I got an invite. Apparently the site code is based on 2004 GameFAQs with a bunch of modern QoL stuff grafted on to it.

I like the vibe lol

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80747480

I like the look of the thing in here. Plus I also joined the big discord in the general topic

There's several posts throughout threads I'm seeing where it's just blank.

Like a post with no text in it.

Is that a problem on my end?

I like the look of Thread Zone so far

Some adjustments and additions I would make, but it's a good start

I don't know about letting literally every person make their own sub forum through it, I feel like that would just fragment the community and stuff

DivideByZer00 posted...

There are currently technical difficulties with the link please stand by

Was gonna say, I tried to register an account and got an error

It sounds silly but I like this community

Been here almost half my life

Maybe I shouldn't have jabbed my Thomas voodoo doll quite so hard

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/063cd1f4.jpg

Ah CE, I come for the video games but stay for the brilliant insights on foreign policy lol

LonelyStoner posted...

Can I root against Israel here without being moderated?

Rooting against Israel in a conflict with Iran is some primo brainrot

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/faea4d2d.png
Interesting

falayyou01 posted...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oFBsw1AYtgo&pp=ygUQSmltbXkgZG9yZSBiaWRlbg%3D%3D

Jimmy Dore?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e86a1089.png

This dude?

Heineken14 posted...

https://imgur.com/KiL29Ta.jpeg

gEn0cIdE jOe

falayyou01 posted...

No he wouldnt have. Both are idiots.

b o t h s i d e s

WingsOfGood posted...

have Asmon on too

should I turn Destiny on ?

he is offline

Are you seriously getting updates on this story from fucking streamers?

Seriously dude?

He was obsessed with Ice Poseidon

And people would say "_____, take your meds."

I can't for the life of me remember his username

WingsOfGood posted...

Hasan

lol

FortuneCookie posted...

And Palestine.

The article this topic was about was about Iran

FortuneCookie posted...

Why can't he just call for a ceasefire? -_-

A ceasefire between Israel and Iran, you mean?

Notti posted...

He really fell far from the tree

Dude's really turned out so different from his dad it's nuts

Gritty posted...

Has he responded?

Honestly the smartest thing he could do is just not say anything

The Conservative Party in Canada tried something similar with a push to make honour killing illegal

There was a lot of backlash because most people realized that it was a blatant dogwhistle and that murder is already illegal under the criminal code of Canada

lolife67 posted...

So is this actually going to happen this time or just putting it out before the election and it'll go away like last time?

Learn how to read the news, man