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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo the Haters it's going right---to the supporters it's moving forward.
Look, fact of the matter is---no matter which way the arrow pointed, haters gonna be haters.
Left: Ha Ha---look---Hillary is saying she goes left-yeah right!
Up: Look, Hillary is pointing to the one percenters on Wall Street!
Down: Yeah, that's where Hillary will take the Middle Class!
Yo haters---cut the shit with the arrow--- manufactured outrage is best left for the intellectually dishonest gang at Fox News.
nuff said!
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)Except when it comes to HC.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)No visceral emotion involved.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)that find fault with *everything* about HC and can be nasty about it. Based on what I've seen you are definitely not one of those people. What you wrote was just an honest assessment of the logo, how you felt about Hillary wasn't involved. There's the difference. imo.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I am troubled by the red arrow pointing to the right. When the words are added (Hillary for President), it looks much better.
As much as I like trumad as a person, I see these kinds of posts as attempts to frame a conversation or lump all in as "with us or against us." That's not fair, and it's a pretty low thing to do.
When I see things like "haters" (regardless of the intent), it displays a closed mind. That's a bad thing...across the board. That's the point I'm trying to make to trumad and the others who are doing this.
There are 5 or 6 Big Mouths on both sides of this logo/Hillary thing, and I am quite certain they don't speak for most of us.
It's like another post someone wrote today, talking about the "literally 100s" of new posters who signed up and are hating on Hillary/talking about paid operatives.
I've been here quite a bit since Sunday (when the platform is up ), and I've seen maybe 3. That's what I don't like.
You can't comment without being hated. Just sad.
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)you can get to the point where you can have a respectful dialogue with those who disagree with you, without resorting to rage-driven name-calling.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I learned today from one Op that the H symbolized the twin towers---and shame on Hillary for that.
Ya see---that's the shit I hate.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)delusional conspiracy theorist baloney, so don't lump everyone not so enamored of your candidate in with that. Thank you.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I'm not lumping shit. It was an Op on DU...I was simply pointing out how irrational it was.
treestar
(82,383 posts)which posters will dislike the video announcement, or the arrow. No way to pretend they were going to be objective.
And the same posters will be defending it. I'm one, as I will defend the only Democrat running.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)been able to do that.
There's maybe 5 people here that I could say I know who they support full force and what their beliefs are on a any given political thing, but that's really it.
I think we blow things out of proportion as a group because of the boisterousness.
840high
(17,196 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)joshcryer
(62,277 posts)The funny thing is that there was a mild twitter outrage over it and it's over. The logo is here to stay. No big pickup by the MSM because it's literally a non-issue.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Let them have their childish fun, and create a permanent record of their pique so that we'll know them in the decade ahead--once primary season is over, they'll be in the cooler. They can migrate to that other board to carp and spew during election season.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Freedom Is Slavery...Ignorance Is Strength. No amount of hopeful pontificating will change fact that the Bushes and Clintons are so in bed with each other that it's scandalous.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)You apparently mistake essential professional civility for being "so in bed with each other."
In fact, when heart patient Bill went with elderly GHW to Indonesia or someplace on a humanitarian mission, the heart patient slept on the floor of the aircraft....Bush had the bed all to himself.
Time for that Taylor Swift tune, I guess.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)It's a shortcut to thinking.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6494761
Am I a "hater," trumad?
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)HRC campaign and support Wall Street's pick and Henry Kissinger's best bud.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)What's not to like?
City Lights
(25,171 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)You barefooted Barbecuing fool you!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)String him up
treestar
(82,383 posts)but when one's position is consistent, it's worth using rather than writing a novel. There are people clearly anti-Hillary even in face of no other declared candidate. If we type out anti-Hillary is that OK?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Therefore, if Clinton is not one's ideal candidate, then they are irrational people who want a republican to win.
Makes perfect sense!
It's going to be a long 18 months.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)My only criticism in the "LOGO thread" was that if people thought a right arrow meant to go forward then perhaps they were among those that hired drivers when they commuted (and would cause many accidents if they drove themselves and followed arrows so incorrectly)
Regarding her much discussed video, I posted in one thread that it was very well done, quite professional, but that I didn't trust her sincerity regarding my class (lower), A point I further explained in a different thread about the video where I pointed out that only well to do and middle class people that were not struggling were featured, as if in Hillary's world, the working poor and anyone that looked like they might be found in neighborhoods such as mine simply didn't exist, even tho in the real world we are in fact the majority.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6494814
I still wonder how we are so many and yet completely invisible to politicians like Ms. Clinton (she is the rule rather than the exception among her peers regarding the invisibility of most Americans on this point)
I do not see my comments or criticisms as "hating" nor do I believe I am a "hater" (the type of phrase generally used by teenagers in areas like mine 'haters gonna' hate' eg) and such references and phrases sound juvenile to me coming from upper middle class or wealthy adult supporters of hers here on this site.
The way they use the phrase reminds me of how I had an uncle in his late fifties that liked to show off words like 'groovy' and 'hip' when taking to us youngsters at the time not realizing it just made him sound silly.
My observations still stand, Hillary talks about the middle class and appears to acknowledge their existence in her coming out video, but I found it odd that at a time when poverty is increasing rapidly and the lower class has not made up such a large percentage of the population since the gilded age she should ignore their very existence in her video.
I find the lack of representation most glaring and disturbing and feel it is a valid observation to make since I am among those that appear to be invisible apparently to her, I think people that do not appear to even be acknowledged by her have a right to criticize that we are are non entities as far as she and her campaign is concerned, we are Americans as well even if poor and the choice of representatives does effect us and so we should have a right to make such observations without being called "haters" by adults trying to sound 'hip' and 'fresh'.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I don't think you understand the genesis of that term.
It didn't come from white people, it sure as the hell didn't originate at DU, and it doesn't really matter.
Lighten up, Francis.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But it's okay, homes, people rip off my material all the time. I'm used to it.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)the color of conservatism. And pointing right.
So either HRC is telling us her plans, or she has the stupidest people on her team, herself included, for failing to see the obvious symbolism.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The Backdrop is, of course, White.
I simply can't fathom why a United States Presidential Candidate would choose that, particular, color scheme!
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)since they allowed Clarence Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall. A red arrow pointing right sends a clear message.
Now, if it is your contention that this isn't so, then the HRC camp are the stupidest people since the folks who came up with the "Total Information Awareness" logo:
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Come on, you think Intelligence people don't have a sense of humor, or read Robert Anton Wilson?
Beyond that, I've been saying pretty much the same thing as Trumad, oddly enough. Whatever noise that would be generated by people complaining about a right-pointing arrow, would have been absolutely dwarfed by the neverending GOP media freakout-thunderstorm, which would have come with one pointing LEFT.
Would it have been better for her campaign to be forced to talk about nothing except "the socialist logo" for the next 18 months?
treestar
(82,383 posts)who tell you there is symbolism in the gold fringe on the flag and it means we are really under a dictatorship!
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)This is indicative of either a deliberate slight or incompetence on the part of the HRC campaign. Anyone paying remote attention for the last 15 years could have told her the logo was problematic.
Thanks for comparing you me to the barking mad fringe though.
treestar
(82,383 posts)reading all that into the logo.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
treestar
(82,383 posts)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1296633/posts (sorry for linking to that site - it does explain and shows you what type of people get into this lunacy).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_conspiracy_arguments
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)I would say hope you are kidding but you arent
Autumn
(45,120 posts)brooklynite
(94,792 posts)Blue and Red are arbitrary conventions developed by the media.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)For the last 15 years the political symbolism has been red versus blue.
Again, if this isn't a deliberate slap in the face of the liberal wing, it is gross incompetence. So your choices are malice or stupidity.
brooklynite
(94,792 posts)(except for a small number of political bloggers)
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)doesn't care. With that I agree. They obviously have all the votes they need and can afford to alienate the liberal wing.
brooklynite
(94,792 posts)Last polling I saw gave her 69% support among liberal identified Democrats. Perhaps they've changed their minds now that they've seen her logo...
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)as anyone who doesn't idolize Henry Kissinger. When you write fawning praise of America's own version of Adolph Eichmann, your liberal cred comes into question.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)From the H's own perspective, the H is going to move left if it follows the arrow.
See? Isn't that better, now?
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)or sending a message to the people who vote?
Again, some political consultant got paid six or seven figures to come up with that moronic logo.
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)But it never made sense because in the not-so-distant past, Communists were called "Reds."
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)If only there were a reason for that color scheme...
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)points right.
An insult or incompetence.
Anybody outside the DC bubble could have told HRC that this was NOT a good idea and the symbolism would cause PRECISELY the questions now being asked. The fact that it was adopted tell me what I need to know about the campaign.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)a creature of Wall Street and a gushing admirer of Kissinger will be moving forward with the Wall Street financial agenda and the Kissinger foreign policy of eternal war.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)I truly love that some people are deciding to plant their flag on this hill.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)The intent of it and the perception are two different things.
People are telling you what they see and you are saying they are seeing wrong?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Therefore, Hillary was responsible for 9/11.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Or something you dreamed up to ridicule those who see a right red arrow in political context as having meaning?
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Do you have any proof of this?
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...and an arrow pointing rightward.
I do see a correlation between an arrow pointing to the right and moving rightward.
emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)<-- Show the previous screen/page
Show the next screen/page -->
That convention has been around quite a while
I don't think one can read as much into the logo as some here want to do.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Because it's going over like a lead balloon.
emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)because you will be hitting the < rewind button rather than the > forward one
At any rate I think people who aren't on DU don't give a shit about the logo.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Or a web browser? lol
emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)here are some examples:
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)lol
Yesterday someone said that it is actually pointing left, from Hillary's perspective.
The arrow points to the right. There is no denying it.
emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)http://mediamatters.org/video#watch/203269/page/1
Etc
Look at those arrows, they point right there is no denying it. And none of them are playing on VCR's
No more interest in discussing DU's near psychotic obsession with finding 'secret meanings' in logos.
If I want that, I'll go directly to a conspiracy theorist site
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Was, "Moving to the right"
It's a screw up and they need to abandon it.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)See as the graph goes to the right, the time goes further into the future (or closer to the present).
Our language is based on reading and writing left-to-right. Whether you know it or not, you perceive moving spatially to the right as advancing.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)To the left or right is sideways, not forwardd.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)This logo is two dimensional.
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)pnwmom
(109,009 posts)People will see whatever they want to see.
This is beyond ridiculous.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Red has been the color of the GOP and its extremist agenda. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
But again, my vote (and those like me) are unneeded and unwanted, so none of this matters.
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)Small minds and all with it.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)If she meant to be "inclusive" the logo was very poorly thought out, and a massive waste of the six/seven figures she paid to the designer and focus group that came up with it.
To people such as myself (and there are a few of us here at DU) this us a major middle finger every time we see it.
And again, that is perfectly okay as long as she doesn't want, or need, our votes and as long as the majority here feels the same way so that they are comfortable heaping abuse and ridicule on people who have serious problems with her as the candidate.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)This is getting embarrassing. Lol.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)As I have stated in other posts it is her collusion with Wall Street and fawning admiration of Henry Kissinger that are the deal killer for me. Her logo design is just the latest in arrogance or stupidity, take your pick.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)That's interesting!
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)on ethical and moral grounds is not the same as "hating them". Finding her campaign efforts poorly thought out to the point of offensiveness isn't "hating" either.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Is bullshit. It's almost as lame as hair and cankles talk.
You usually don't bother making hay out of whole cloth. Disappointing for sure.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and counts America's worst war criminal as her "friend".
The logo is just icing displaying her arrogance or ineptitude.
tavernier
(12,410 posts)Very clever to use red, white and blue in an American election. Obviously there is a covert reason. Possibly she revealed it in those deleted emails.
treestar
(82,383 posts)which is how the right wing will interpret that color.
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)Even US communists used to be called "Reds."
Maybe you're too young to remember the 1981 movie called "Reds."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reds_%28film%29
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Informed voters - Democratic voters - you know what the stakes are...
for me, staying above the fray is an everyday battle, but - I will not let them win..I find their rhetoric viscious and vile, hateful and of no meaningful substance....the in your face batshit crazy is disgusting...but they do seem to capture a headline...
In a small way, voter registration and phone calls to remind DEM voters to be up to date and vote - I will continue to support the local AZ DEM candidates (the few that we have), and the best Democratic POTUS nominee...
My vote 2016 - YES, Hillary Rodham CLINTON
Let's not forget the SCOTUS - or ACA -
I keep asking myself (retired '98, here in AZ from Massachusetts 20 years) what the hell has McCain done for AZ - I have never understood why AZ keeps voting for the nut..or arpaio - he has cost taxpayers mucho dinaro...the AZ legislature..batshit crazy...but, they get a headline...
ttfn
LWolf
(46,179 posts)or the symbolism in a politician's corporate logo, are not "haters." They are people opposed to the politician and/or the politician's corporate logo.
Opposition is not hate.
tridim
(45,358 posts)The OP is divisive and way off base.
To the non-hater, non-supporter and on-and-off professional graphic designer, it simply looks like a poorly designed logo with zero aesthetic.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Cha
(297,805 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)And they'll both find any excuse to bash her.
Sid
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And publicly labeled them as haters to shame them into shutting up.
And create a new definition for the fringe left...those who oppose HRC and the TPP and corporate dominance.
Nice work Sid.
Sid
...
Zee
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)I am mostly ambivlent about Hill. I am not swooning, but I think she is OK and don't like the nit picking or negatively from democrats at what is likely our candidate in the presidential.
And, yeah, people right and left are going to find anything to nit pick her on.
But, that does not discount how stunningly stupid this logo is.
A red arrow pointing right?
Jesus.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...and that the arrow doesn't point to the right.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)I mean it seems very unlikely that Hilary Clinton will make the slightest effort to regulate and reign in Wall Street, and it's also likely that their greed and arrogance will lead to another 2008 style melt down - that's one place the focus should be, rather than on this logo.
Obviously there are other important issues where HRC is weak as well; I selected Wall Street because it's on the top of my mind. But any one of HRC's political deficiencies is more worthy of discussion than a simple logo.
Bryant
leveymg
(36,418 posts)and are projecting that upon your self-perceived political enemies. You've narrowed the world into black and white. Is that the way you want us to think about you?
trumad
(41,692 posts)So right back at you,,,
leveymg
(36,418 posts)When you project hatred, it doesn't just bounce back at you. People take you less seriously. Is that what you want?
Enrique
(27,461 posts)DrDan
(20,411 posts)Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)Stop whining. Symbols mean nothing, even though we pay tens of thousands of dollars to professional PR firms to develop them and we use them in all media communications. Pay no attention to the message which is streaming directly into your subconscious mind!
Hillary Clinton To Nation: Do Not Fuck This Up For Me
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026494057
DrDan
(20,411 posts)sending us?
trumad
(41,692 posts)A Freudian slip maybe?
cali
(114,904 posts)what do you think happens when you engage in that?
trumad
(41,692 posts)You have an arsenal of flame throwers that you have used here on DU over the years...
Please don't lecture me on decorum.
cali
(114,904 posts)yeah, I snark, but no, I don't refer to people as haters. And I've never insulted Hillary supporters.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)on your screen.
trumad
(41,692 posts)We live in snark with metaphors being a big part of snark.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)Cha
(297,805 posts)and rages on them with talking points taken straight from the rightwingers' playbook.
Or makes up their own rightwing talking points and the wingers steal from them.
And, then they deny deny deny.. "who me? "
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)there's as much vitriol and bullshit here as there is on Fox.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I can't wait until Hillary is the official nominee of the democratic party.
That should flush down the toilet all the stealth republicans on this board and they can go back to freakrepublic/redstate/stormfront where they belong!
riqster
(13,986 posts)Because it's how we write sentences- left to right.
Cha
(297,805 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)Unless of course you're anti-Hillary.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But logos are not writing they are pictures like hieroglyphics to convey messages.
You don't write a string of logos into a sentence right to left.
But I am sure the rationalization of it will stand.
riqster
(13,986 posts)We do it with math, for example.
Other examples abound. The word for right-handedness is "dexter", like in "dexterity". The corresponding word for left-handedness is "sinister". And so on.
The US predilection for L/R political designation is an outlier.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But I don't know what math and dexterity has to do with it...it seems like a canard to this discussion.
riqster
(13,986 posts)I am providing alternative interpretations.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)whatthehey
(3,660 posts)so clearly fast forwarding a file or media is a fascist act..
riqster
(13,986 posts)I'm a lost cause by now, I expect.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Good examples.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)And don't bother trying to convince us it's 'common knowledge', because it isn't.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Here are a few sources to get you started. Much of the detail is in textbooks, so if you want details, find some and enjoy reading.
http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/292987.html
http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/Lasa2000/Rosas-Zechmeister.PDF
See also some other entries on this subthread.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)But I firmly believe she is the right candidate at the right time.
Sent in my first contribution of this election cycle.
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)me
next time i see a graphic i guess i will have to wait until someone tells me what i am supposed to see
gordianot
(15,247 posts)To answer my own question: No matter your political belief you have been conditioned to expect branding which also is used to generate profit.
ignore brands.
Caretha
(2,737 posts)"Yo haters?"
What kind of fucking crap is that?
Stop with the shit already.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Why does the OP want to stifle discussion on a discussion board? Unknown.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)and used for the same nefarious purpose, presented as a noble effort.
That's almost Clintonian.
well done
Do all critiques of your role model signify/indicate soul-destroying hate on the part of the critic, or do the lesser ones get the mere "dislike" designation?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...I'm now a "hater"?
It"s getting pretty thick in here. This will be my last comment on the Hillary thing. We all have to suck it until she does something new that is so incredibly 1% that the rest of these folks will allow us to observe and comment on. It's her turn don't we know and we can sit our hating selves down until......well I'm not sure when.
Hillary, Billary, Kock,
We can't express our thoughts.
We march in step or wind up___.
Hillary, Billary, Kock!
The point these folks are missing is that many many Dems have not supported Hill for a very long time. Hence the two glorious elections that President Obama won. There is not a right of passage here. Bring her on and let's see how she stands with the rest of the candidates. Our right to comment or contribute has been denied until further notice.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)doesn't necessarily mean that the pisser is "pissed off", kinda like the way those that critique the thirdway heroes don't necessarily hate them. For example, does the parent need to be "pissed off" to scold the child? No more so than they need to hate them to do so, I'd say.
Why do you suppose it is that so many struggle with such simple concepts?
We probably shouldn't dive into anything more complex than that, like the hypocrisy of Clinton-lover hating on others with phony charges of hating. Takes one to know one, eh?
That's almost rightwingnut-like, ain't it?
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)The crap result of a token effort made because "why bother?" She's "inevitable" so the logo doesn't matter worth spit. You've got no choice, it's either Hillary or the Repubs, so take what you're given and shut up.
onecaliberal
(32,931 posts)I'm not going to get caught up in the back and forth. I'm going to do what I always do. Register local folks and get them to the polls. There are lots of local seats we need to take back.
I damn sure will vote for the dem nominee whomever that is. There is just way too much at stake for protest voting.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,925 posts)Same old lame name-calling without a clue about the content of meaningful, informed discussion.
Same mean-spirited spiteful calling of anyone in doubt a Hater.
Grow up and get real about the issues dude!
Trumad if you cannot discuss them without name calling, you appear to be afraid of the debate.
Which rather begs the question of your position.
Hillary has issues and history and political baggage just as anyone who has held office. If we cannot discuss those issues, and that history, and that baggage then she cannot qualify to run.
BTW: You don't get to determine the terms of the debate everyone else may use. That's why they call it free speech.
Paladin
(28,277 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)There is no denying that. Does that make me a 'hater'?
ProudProg2u
(133 posts)And I've seen this movie way to many times. The end is very predictable. A dog only gets kicked so many times before it finally leaves.
Warren/Sanders
Sanders/Warren......2016...!!!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)yet she is a 1000 times more Progressive than anything the GOP has to offer!
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)Or would you rather just stoop to name-calling? How about just acknowledging that we have reasons for disagreeing with you? No, it's not real, we have "manufactured" brains that are capable of checking on how Hillary has voted and who she hangs out with, and deciding for ourselves.
trumad, your candidate is running and she may or may not end up being the candidate in 2016, but one thing I know. Your ugly words have precluded any kind of uniting dialogue.
still_one
(92,454 posts)direction. It can also indicate the passage of time, which is a measure of one event to anther
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)Why's everyone saying it's going right??
treestar
(82,383 posts)and it matters so little!
Like the video announcement.
madokie
(51,076 posts)to hate on the Hill
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)Such earnest outrage! Such agita! Over an H and an arrow. Only on Democratic Underground.
Throd
(7,208 posts)I'd like to know how much the designer charged for that.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I don't even like Hillary, will be volunteering for a primary opponent, and I will design them a new logo for nothing if they ask me because I honestly feel embarrassed for them that they paid for that. It's like something out of my Freshman year design portfolio, back when I thought bland was visually-synonymous with compelling before I learned about things like symbolism and subtlety and how these things can transform what seems initially simple into elegant.
I can literally picture a meeting of senior campaign staff where nobody wants to admit that they think it's an abomination because they think everybody else likes it and they don't want to admit they think it's terrible...something akin to The Emperor's New Clothes.
I honestly wonder if some designer recycled a rejected design for the Hartford Transit Authority or something. It looks (and reads) like a transit logo.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)fit in this highly partisan world view?
Now back to work with me...
You just made me laugh hard. Thanks, you owe me a keyboard.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Using 3-D printers.
Pointing out where water may be found!
Enjoy your summer.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)cough, gasp, smokey.
Not that I will bother posting on any of that particular season here either.
There is very little I post here anymore. With good reason.
but the 3D printing sounds like a good idea... not just for water.
It is just that seriously I am laughing hard at this point... this is actually very funny to me.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)The Sierra Nevada mountain range had a total of 3 feet of snow this past winter, a 70-year record low.
I'm very worried about the effects of this drought on all of the people who live in California.
There is very little I post here anymore. With good reason.
Yeah, I know.
But, I don't know why.
I thought you contributed to this forum quite a bit.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)we have been covering the drought in earnest. I actually bothered posting links to a few of the articles we wrote on that at reportingsandiego.com
As to why... there are very good, solid reasons not to.
But back to this kerfunkle over a logo... I will not say whether it is good or bad logo design. Just that the fact that people are arguing about the logo is telling. I am not the only one to make that observation among political observers.
I could not give a shit about the logo, but the vapid discussion over it is hilarious.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)But, it is probably best to just move on at this point in time.
Have a nice summer.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)Any attempt to say otherwise is incorrect and insulting. Thank you.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I mean, regardless what I think of Hillary (I detest her), I saw and see a lot of logos for a Clinton campaign created by people separate from the campaign in advance of the announcement that were better.
It's an ugly logo and not really a great one for conveying the message you'd want in the primary campaign--it's dull, the message of it is muddled for this context, and it's not terribly visually-inspiring...they should scrap it early and replace it with something that wouldn't be better suited for the City of Houston Transit Authority...that was my first thought when I saw it, "that would be an awesome logo for a transit authority for a city whose name begins with H; man, is it awful for a political campaign."
Of the ones seen elsewhere...I think this is the best. The head shot may be too much (I'd keep it though as long as it prints well) but carrying forth the modified flag stripe motif or perhaps a sunrise would convey a positive visual message without being muddled. Perhaps bring the blue inside the circle in some way? The use of the lighter red as the circle-frame itself isn't great (I might cut the line-width by half, change it to blue and run a second red circle-frame on the outside matching the flag) but "looking to the horizon (or sunrise)" Sec. Clinton is compelling. Looking to the left conveys an important subtle message; "I recognize that I need to make inroads to that segment of my party. I have to convince them that I listen to their ideas and will be a good candidate for their values."
(I'm such a nerd for this shit.)
William769
(55,148 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)However, I will say your analysis while a neat and tidy dismissal of critics doesn't reflect truth or reality. Other than commenting on the banality of the launch, I doubt anybody seriously gives a crap about the logo.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Later on she will print out t-shirts with her logo on it with the words "I'm with stupid" below the logo, and then wear them on those occasions she poses with Bill for photo ops.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)randr
(12,417 posts)She is pointing to the left.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)My only criticism in the "LOGO thread" was that if people thought a right arrow meant to go forward then perhaps they were among those that hired drivers when they commuted (and would cause many accidents if they drove themselves and followed arrows so incorrectly)
Regarding her much discussed video, I posted in one thread that it was very well done, quite professional, but that I didn't trust her sincerity regarding my class (lower), A point I further explained in a different thread about the video where I pointed out that only well to do and middle class people that were not struggling were featured, as if in Hillary's world, the working poor and anyone that looked like they might be found in neighborhoods such as mine simply didn't exist, even tho in the real world we are in fact the majority.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6494814
I still wonder how we are so many and yet completely invisible to politicians like Ms. Clinton (she is the rule rather than the exception among her peers regarding the invisibility of most Americans on this point)
I do not see my comments or criticisms as "hating" nor do I believe I am a "hater" (the type of phrase generally used by teenagers in areas like mine 'haters gonna' hate' eg) and such references and phrases sound juvenile to me coming from upper middle class or wealthy adult supporters of hers here on this site.
The way they use the phrase reminds me of how I had an uncle in his late fifties that liked to show off words like 'groovy' and 'hip' when taking to us youngsters at the time not realizing it just made him sound silly.
My observations still stand, Hillary talks about the middle class and appears to acknowledge their existence in her coming out video, but I found it odd that at a time when poverty is increasing rapidly and the lower class has not made up such a large percentage of the population since the gilded age she should ignore their very existence in her video.
I find the lack of representation most glaring and disturbing and feel it is a valid observation to make since I am among those that appear to be invisible apparently to her, I think people that do not appear to even be acknowledged by her have a right to criticize that we are are non entities as far as she and her campaign is concerned, we are Americans as well even if poor and the choice of representatives does effect us and so we should have a right to make such observations without being called "haters" by adults trying to sound 'hip' and 'fresh'.
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)... that people are going to see what they want to see, positive or negative as the case may be.
What is more the issue, IMHO, is the fact that this crapola IS an issue deemed worthy of discussion on a political message board.
As I've said elsewhere on the topic, the logo has become the perfect Rorschach test, and has served to draw a clear line between those who want to discuss political issues and those who are more interested in psychoanalyzing campaign logos.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Spouting that someone should be fired for it. That someone had 18 posts and joined a day or two ago.
Believe me... this will happen here more than ever during this election.
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)... I just didn't think it would get this silly.
trumad
(41,692 posts)That Hillary is shamelessly using the H to portray the twin towers.
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)ARGGHL BARRGGGLEEE!!! I can't think of many things more stupid than getting irate about a logo! IT'S A FREAKING LOGO!
WHO. CARES.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Got a neato name like "hater" for us too?
Don't want to feel left out, don'cha know?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Some people gave pointed out the arrow direction would be "forward" on timelines. But then why does it look like a "back thataway" street sign? I tested the other way in photoshop: okay that looks hokey, too. She shoud have gone with a dynamic swoosh - perhaps of a whole flag or flag-patterned fuel exhaust from an UPWARD traveling rocket. As well as stars the fuel could include all the tools that represent industry, business, and innovative (educational, creative...) sectors of America...
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)I hate TPP, Keytone XL, bankster impunity and endless war in the ME. How about you?
trumad
(41,692 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)realFedUp
(25,053 posts)This is a fucking thread"
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...you are a 'hater'?
lol
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)From the DCCC "Accept Doom" email campaign of the midterms, to the relentless stream of deliberately baiting and insulting messaging like this, I don't think we have *ever* seen such a transparent and relentless campaign by corporate politicians and their mouthpieces to depress Democratic enthusiasm for the party and suppress Democratic turnout.
Corporate politicians want a Republican in next time. It is becoming increasingly clear that the plan of corporatists in both parties is for Hillary to lose. This is why:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6229978
...
Corporatists on both sides are working hard to set the stage to elect a Republican next time, because eight years of corporate Democratic rule have opened too many eyes to the fact that the predatory corporate agenda continues no matter which party is elected. That awareness is dangerous for the PTB.
They NEED to alienate the base and get a Republican in office for awhile so that corporate Democrats can pretend to be against corporate/warmongering/police state policies again. They hope that the country will forget all this silly talk about oligarchy and go back to believing that the only thing wrong in Washington is that a Republican is in office and we need to rally to get the Third Way Democrats back in again.
They are TRYING to demoralize and alienate the base. We saw it in the DCCC "Accept Doom" email campaign. We see it in the gratuitous attacks on traditional Democrats every single day by supposed Hillary supporters. Corporatists in both parties are doing everything possible to enable a Republican win....The truth is that we live in a post-partisan, united oligarchy now, not a democracy...
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[font size=3]We misunderstand our corporate politicians in 2015 when we assume that their goal is always to win. That was the old system, democracy. In the new system, oligarchy, the goal is to use the two parties you own in whatever way will best protect and advance the corporate agenda. [/font size]
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Red vs. Blue = Oligarchy Theater for the masses.
Mass spying on Americans? Both parties support it.
Handing the internet to corporations? Both parties support it.
Austerity for the masses? Both parties support it.
Cutting social safety nets? Both parties support it.
Corporatists in the cabinet? Both parties support it.
Tolling our interstate highways? Both parties support it.
Corporate education policy? Both parties support it.
Bank bailouts? Both parties support it.
Ignoring the trillions stashed overseas? Both parties support it.
Trans-Pacific Job/Wage Killing Secret Agreement? Both parties support it.
TISA corporate overlord agreement? Both parties support it.
Drilling and fracking? Both parties support it.
Wars on medical marijuana instead of corrupt banks? Both parties support it.
Deregulation of the food industry? Both parties support it.
GMO's? Both parties support it.
Privatization of the TVA? Both parties support it.
Immunity for telecoms? Both parties support it.
"Looking forward" and letting war criminals off the hook? Both parties support it.
Deciding torturers are patriots? Both parties support it.
Militarized police and assaults on protesters? Both parties support it.
Indefinite detention? Both parties support it.
Drone wars and kill lists? Both parties support it.
Targeting of journalists and whistleblowers? Both parties support it.
Private prisons replacing public prisons? Both parties support it.
Unions? Both parties view them with contempt.
Trillion dollar increase in nuclear weapons. Both parties support it.
New war in Iraq. Both parties support it.
New war in Syria. Both parties support it.
Carpet bombing of captive population in Gaza. Both parties support it.
Selling off swaths of the Gulf of Mexico for drilling? Both parties support it.
Drilling along the Atlantic Coast? Both parties support it.
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)When all else fails, start with the insults and name calling. Pathetic.
trumad
(41,692 posts)No fuck that...double yawn.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)They've been All-star wrestling on our dime , working in concert all the time, or since 2006 when the last chance to Identify what was going was " Not on the table " .
emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)And the 1% and the middle class point in different directions, and so does Hillary, that's not Hate , or are facts a form of hate ?
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Wit us or agin us no tweens!
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)"design".
It also is not too far out of the way of "forward" on to the right.
It might not be a charitable or friendly look at it but it sure is an easy one to see like it or lump it.