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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the queue-eeoc-audit dept.

The Democratic National Committee is hiring IT people for these positions:

The Daily Wire, a conservative blog, posted an e-mail purportedly from Madeleine Leader, the DNC's Data Services Manager, showing her announcing the openings and writing

I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight while males, since they're already in the majority.

The Daily Wire blogger posted a different screenshot of the e-mail on Twitter.

Also at The Hill


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by fyngyrz on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:51PM (3 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:51PM (#591293) Journal

    In other words, *Surrender, just give up*

    No. Not at all. Things are changing, albeit slowly. It's not a linear curve upwards - in fact we are experiencing a pretty radical slip back on several fronts right now - but there's no reason to expect a monotonic upward trend, and I don't. Sure, I regret the backsliding - but I've been around long enough to see progress on a lot of fronts. So there's no "giving up" implied.

    You are looking at the results of your "lesser evil" game, and the only ones to blame are those that play along.

    No, I'm not. Really. The lesser evil was Clinton, and I voted for her. Along with the plurality of voters, in fact.

    I am not to blame for the sniveling orange tweet-monster. That blame you can lay at the feet of those who voted for him for whatever reason they may have had, and the damaged operation of the electoral college, which did not do the job it was intended to do, which was protect us from unqualified bloviators like Trump.

    As for the R/D party thing, we're stuck with it, IMHO. If you think you can fix it, by all means, give it a try. Run for office, serve as a warm body in a political campaign, vote any way you like. Just keep in mind that if you vote 3rd party, when the election goes to the very worst candidate, as it did with Trump, your 3rd party vote, and all the people who voted 3rd party, might have been able to keep that from happening.

    Me, I'll vote for the better candidate R/D. Because I am sure one of them is going to win. I'm in my 60's, and I haven't been wrong about that yet - and I've voted in every election I was allowed to. Ron Paul was the closest anyone came in my lifetime; and he wasn't all that close.

    If you do manage to field a candidate that can beat the R/D monopoly and is actually the best candidate (just being able to beat them doesn't count, some winning candidates are idiots [cough, Trump]), I might well vote for them, contribute to the war chest, etc.

    But that's the key, you see: no one has done so yet, so I'm not holding my breath.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Gaaark on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:17PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:17PM (#591314) Journal

    " The lesser evil was Clinton, and I voted for her."

    Yet was she the lesser evil or the equal evil?
    She was willing to do whatever it took to win: thoroughly screw Bernie even though HE WAS the better (and leading) candidate. Rewrite history with her book "Wha' happen?" and blame everyone but herself for the loss (certainly not herself, her husband or Wasserman-Schultz).

    She is weak and lame: Bernie was the better candidate but she and the DNC STOLE the election from him.

    She is not a lesser evil: Bernie was the lesser evil. Just think: you COULD have had a good President: instead you had to choose between devils.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:17PM (1 child)

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:17PM (#591350) Journal

      Yet was she the lesser evil or the equal evil?

      Lesser. Far lesser. But still evil.

      I would have preferred Bernie, personally (and he was still evil in my eyes.) But it really doesn't concern me much how she conducted her competition with Sanders as far as what I would expect from her in the presidency. In that role, I evaluate her as a business-as-usual Democrat, which means that in many way she would have carried on the status quo. That would have been far superior to Trump, not that he turned out to have the chops to get any of it done anyway, between that and the incompetent Republicans in congress, it's been even worse than I initially thought when considering Trump.

      So yeah, I think Clinton would have been better. A lot better. Than Trump. Better than Sanders? No way. If Sanders had been the candidate, he definitely would have had my vote. I voted for him in the primary. I still nurse a vague hope he runs next time around, assuming his health holds up. Perhaps he can navigate the shoals of the oligarchy better on a second try.

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 03 2017, @12:49AM

        by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 03 2017, @12:49AM (#591440) Journal

        I'm Canadian and I wanted to vote for Bernie, lol.

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