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« Reply #50 on: July 20, 2016, 07:41:51 PM »

What's wrong with white people?  I mean, there aren't many blacks in the photo, but they only make up ~12%~ of the population and are very Democratic.  Who cares?  Are the same people feigning outrage over this upset that the NBA is so massively over represented by blacks?  Or the NFL?
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« Reply #51 on: July 20, 2016, 07:44:17 PM »

What's wrong with white people?  I mean, there aren't many blacks in the photo, but they only make up ~12%~ of the population and are very Democratic.  Who cares?  Are the same people feigning outrage over this upset that the NBA is so massively over represented by blacks?  Or the NFL?

The Democratic intern class is far more representative of what America as a whole looks like than the Republicans' 99% white intern class.
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« Reply #52 on: July 20, 2016, 07:46:26 PM »
« Edited: July 20, 2016, 07:52:05 PM by Brown Line »

What's wrong with white people?  I mean, there aren't many blacks in the photo, but they only make up ~12%~ of the population and are very Democratic.  Who cares?  Are the same people feigning outrage over this upset that the NBA is so massively over represented by blacks?  Or the NFL?

The Democratic intern class is far more representative of what America as a whole looks like than the Republicans' 99% white intern class.

It definitely underrepresents white people and overrepresents blacks based off the photo.  Do I care? No.  Neither are exactly representative, and it doesnt matter.  Just because it's a big group of whites doesnt mean they're any less relevant or deserving of respect

It's strange that you think it's an effective attack to just throw out a picture of white people and say, bad!  If it was the other way around, you would rightly be called a racist.
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« Reply #53 on: July 20, 2016, 07:52:30 PM »

What's wrong with white people?  I mean, there aren't many blacks in the photo, but they only make up ~12%~ of the population and are very Democratic.  Who cares?  Are the same people feigning outrage over this upset that the NBA is so massively over represented by blacks?  Or the NFL?

The Democratic intern class is far more representative of what America as a whole looks like than the Republicans' 99% white intern class.

It definitely underrepresents white people and overrepresents blacks based off the photo.  Do I care? No.  Neither are exactly representative, and it doesnt matter.  Just because it's a big group of whites doesnt mean they're any less relevant or deserving of respect

I didn't say it was perfectly representative. I said it was more representative.

It says a lot about the Republican Party that they are completely lacking in any significant appeal to non-whites and make no effort to do so.
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« Reply #54 on: July 20, 2016, 07:54:43 PM »

How the hell does this asshat keep winning in an R+4 district?

Northwest Iowa is very religiously conservative.  Members of the Dutch Reformed Church are especially numerous; Sioux County may be the most staunchly Calvinist place in the country.
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« Reply #55 on: July 20, 2016, 09:19:51 PM »

Good Lord.  In before Classic Conservative defends this piece of garbage.  If I lived in his district, I'd vote Democrat for the first time in my life in a major election.

Forget my shame he's in my party, he's a disgrace to Americans.
Let me know when you stop being a RINO and come home to the Democratic party where you belong?  Your GOP membership status is literally rino at this point.
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« Reply #56 on: July 20, 2016, 09:55:48 PM »

Good Lord.  In before Classic Conservative defends this piece of garbage.  If I lived in his district, I'd vote Democrat for the first time in my life in a major election.

Forget my shame he's in my party, he's a disgrace to Americans.
Let me know when you stop being a RINO and come home to the Democratic party where you belong?  Your GOP membership status is literally rino at this point.

LOL, GMAFB.  Every time Torie, Shadow or Walter Mitty posts one of their economic views, someone posts an "R-NY/FL/MA" avatar.  Centrists have a comically small amount of power in both parties.  Hillary Clinton is a standard liberal; if you want to see how centrists - or more importantly someone with even more liberal views than I have - gain traction in the Democratic Party, look how Chafee and Webb fared.

I'd go so far as to say there are more elected *moderate* Republicans (especially governors) than *moderate* Democrats.
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« Reply #57 on: July 20, 2016, 10:28:38 PM »

I'd go so far as to say there are more elected *moderate* Republicans (especially governors) than *moderate* Democrats.
We all know that. RINOs are endangered, DINOs are extinct.
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« Reply #58 on: July 20, 2016, 10:33:31 PM »

I'd go so far as to say there are more elected *moderate* Republicans (especially governors) than *moderate* Democrats.
We all know that. RINOs are endangered, DINOs are extinct.

What about John Bel Edwards, Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly, plus a number of reps like Lipinski, Peterson, Cuellar, etc.?
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« Reply #59 on: July 21, 2016, 12:09:32 AM »

I'd go so far as to say there are more elected *moderate* Republicans (especially governors) than *moderate* Democrats.
Sort of misleading because there's only like 5 or so Democratic governors total.
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« Reply #60 on: July 21, 2016, 12:52:25 AM »

Good Lord.  In before Classic Conservative defends this piece of garbage.  If I lived in his district, I'd vote Democrat for the first time in my life in a major election.

Forget my shame he's in my party, he's a disgrace to Americans.
Let me know when you stop being a RINO and come home to the Democratic party where you belong?  Your GOP membership status is literally rino at this point.

LOL, GMAFB.  Every time Torie, Shadow or Walter Mitty posts one of their economic views, someone posts an "R-NY/FL/MA" avatar.  Centrists have a comically small amount of power in both parties.  Hillary Clinton is a standard liberal; if you want to see how centrists - or more importantly someone with even more liberal views than I have - gain traction in the Democratic Party, look how Chafee and Webb fared.

I'd go so far as to say there are more elected *moderate* Republicans (especially governors) than *moderate* Democrats.

Atlas is a strange place, where they want all moderate Democrats to become Republicans, and all moderate Republicans to become Democrats.
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« Reply #61 on: July 21, 2016, 01:42:36 AM »

Eh, I think posting the R-state.jpg or D-state.jpg avatars is more of a joke about how they don't belong in a certain party as opposed to the fact that they should join the other one (with some exceptions, like Santander.) This can be avoided by using I-state.jpg instead. Wink
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« Reply #62 on: July 21, 2016, 12:18:48 PM »

Eh, I think posting the R-state.jpg or D-state.jpg avatars is more of a joke about how they don't belong in a certain party as opposed to the fact that they should join the other one (with some exceptions, like Santander.) This can be avoided by using I-state.jpg instead. Wink

But if everybody is an I, the avatars become meaningless. Tongue
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« Reply #63 on: July 21, 2016, 12:50:49 PM »
« Edited: July 21, 2016, 12:53:27 PM by anvi »

Good grief.  King's initial response about the lack of contributions from other "subgroups" was a response to prodding about the relatively small number of non-white delegates on the convention floor.  When pressed on that, he switched to "Western Civilization."  The first response is racial because the prompt was about race.  The second response, when prodded about "white people," is a sadly familiar bias based on the lack of knowledge about other civilizations in general.  Almost everyone who says "western civilization" has "contributed" more than others in any blanket manner has not bothered to study anyone's history outside of Europe and the U.S.  (Just, you know, by the way, Christianity was a originally a "contribution" of Palestinian Judaic culture. Europe appropriate it.)

To be defensive at all about this matter as a representative of the GOP is, even leaving out explicit or implicit bias, is just stupid.  In order to win national elections, now and in the future, they need to win over more voters of diverse ethnic backgrounds, period.  Why not just say "we have to do better and we will"?  King, please go find a department store blue-light special on "clues" and buy as many as you can.  Good grief.
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