discipline posted:

I voted for john kerry because I was 19. it was a pretty good move for where I was in my political development. bush was doing a campaign stop in jacksonville in october and me and about 10 other people were protesting outside of the football stadium they packed with bloodthirsty fascists. when he was done riling them up the cops unleashed a crowd of about 20,000 on us and it was pretty brutal, I think that's probably what radicalized me on the onset (before the election itself, which radicalized me for sure). I remember people screaming and kicking/punching/spitting on me and other people even a child and thinking jesus, these people might be doctors or teachers or something.

there was this one day I was protesting bush after that election in the rain and this one dude tried to spin a bunch of mud on us with his pickup truck, then he got stuck instead and when he tried to get out (his pal was helping him) he just sprayed mud all over his friend and that was cool. but in jacksonville in those days, if you protested bush, you were treated like the westboro baptist church or something

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getfiscal posted:

the iraq war made me into a liberal and i cheered for john kerry. i also listened a lot to the speech made by state senator barack obama that he made to the DNC because i thought he was the future of liberalism. to be fair though within two or three years after that i was posting for troopdeath and maoism. fortunately i've moderated and become more reasonable as i age, now i'd consider myself conservative on fiscal issues but liberal on social issues. i've got a column on salon.

giving up and accepting the status quo ftw

btw where did this sig banner come from, i just took it, was there a post in a thread about it or did we all just quietly put it in our sigs without comment

animedad posted:

i might be going to Tallahassee for like 3 weeks for work. I'm gonna die lol

This is how i wanna die (big file no 56k)

Goethestein posted:

horse race politics are really funny in retrospect. the most human outrage i've ever seen was back in 2008 when i was caucusing for barry soetoro in nevada and when we walked to our big meeting room there were a bunch of hillary supporters who were screaming slogans and waving signs at us like we were negroes trying to take our white gay dates to the prom in 1967 Tuscaloosa, except that we were all shouting slogans at them too. of course their policies turned out to be absolutely identical and she was hired for the top position in his cabinet, and jesus

remember 2008 election lf when a bunch of hillary supporters were saying they'd vote for mccain over obama and one poster did some statistics analysis or w/e on female democrat voters and the widespread conclusion was FUCKIN WOMEN ARE GOING TO RUIN THIS ELECTION FOR EVERYONE lmao