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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 130: Playing the Victims
xp1337 09/05/17 1:38:24 AM #384:	CelesMyUserName posted... I don't know why we keep getting into these same stupid ass argument on the primaries I can't help myself. It irritates me quite a bit personally. Like I said, if you were to go back to topics from over a year ago, you can watch as I grow more unsettled by this. It's probably not constructive to re-litigate the primaries but I just can't help myself from thinking that, in theory, it's a subset of people who I think can be won over or reasoned with. I mean, this is going to sound super condescending and I feel terrible about that, but the vibe I got during the primaries (and I don't mean to say this about anyone in this topic or anything, just a general public type of deal) was that Sanders was kind of an intro to politics for a lot of people who never paid attention to it before. But when they found that, hey, not everyone agrees with their way of thinking and that Sanders lost via the mechanisms that were in place and known by both sides all along, they threw a tantrum and wanted to tear the whole thing down or engage in conspiracies theories or what-not. If I wanted to get all hipster about it it irritates me because I'm willing to bet I've supported Sanders for years, if not a decade, before a lot of these people even heard of him, but I recognize that for better or worse these systems are in place and you have to work within them. And their attacks on them, even when they have a point, haven't been constructive at all. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:886044630] in Politics C... [t:75727949]...</cite> <quote><cite>CelesMyUserName posted...</cite> <quote>I don't know why we keep getting into these same stupid ass argument on the primaries</quote> I can't help myself. It irritates me quite a bit personally. Like I said, if you were to go back to topics from over a year ago, you can watch as I grow more unsettled by this. It's probably not constructive to re-litigate the primaries but I just can't help myself from thinking that, in theory, it's a subset of people who I think can be won over or reasoned with. I mean, this is going to sound super condescending and I feel terrible about that, but the vibe I got during the primaries (and I don't mean to say this about anyone in this topic or anything, just a general public type of deal) was that Sanders was kind of an intro to politics for a lot of people who never paid attention to it before. But when they found that, hey, not everyone agrees with their way of thinking and that Sanders lost via the mechanisms that were in place and known by both sides all along, they threw a tantrum and wanted to tear the whole thing down or engage in conspiracies theories or what-not. If I wanted to get all hipster about it it irritates me because I'm willing to bet I've supported Sanders for years, if not a decade, before a lot of these people even heard of him, but I recognize that for better or worse these systems are in place and you have to work within them. And their attacks on them, even when they have a point, haven't been constructive at all. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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