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[+] -89 points 2 days ago (34 children)

Bernie is a liberal zionist and a shill for the gipity. This manπŸ‘ is πŸ‘ a πŸ‘ turd. Yo yo yo unemployment nearing 25% in U.S. enough with the toxic positive optimism and libturd apologetics.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    Bernie is a liberal zionist

    Where on Earth did you get this notion? Bernie clearly states on a fairly regular basis that he does not support the current Israeli government and that he is not a zionist.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    If you fail a purity test you're a lib.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    that he is not a zionist.

    Please show a single time Sanders has claimed not to be a Zionist. His position has consistently been that Netanyahu is an outlier who is sullying the otherwise noble nation of Israel, aka the liberal Zionist position.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Ah it seems you're right. While he has harshly criticized the Likud and the IDF he has said in the past that he believes Israel should exist as a Jewish state.

    I'd love to see him answer Finkelstein's best question(IMO), "How can you have a Jewish state that is not a Jewish Supremacy state?"

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Didn't stop this com and their Bernie Sanders personality cult from overwhelmingly upvoting your factually incorrect statement.

    And go answer your remark about Finkelstein's statement: Sanders would do what all liberal Zionists do, play word games to get around the problem and gesture to the hypothetical idea of future Palestinian state you justify continuing to support apartheid colonialism.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 days ago (12 children)

    Why are you communicating like a 15 year old?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    My dude, I get you don't like that specifically, but can we please be chill with language policing? As long as we understand them, who cares how they communicate?

    I'm not saying you're that far, but there's a reason we have my entire life called them grammar Nazis. It's kind of unwelcoming though and the fediverse is better when we're all having friendly days.

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  • [+] -33 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    Ageism, in my progpolβ€½ More like who cares capis. It's labour day, πŸ–• capis.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    And you seem like you’re having a stroke

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  • [+] -20 points 2 days ago

    Oh yeah, they don't teach space colonists United Earth Sphere Alliance literature.
    Leaders of the United Earth Sphere Alliance are capitalists. The abbreviation is β€œcapis” You're in the c/ProgressivePolitics@lemmy.world, abbreviated β€œprogpol.”
    Everytime you say ageist shit, you lose space colony social credits. Soon you’ll be broke ass hell Amuro.
    Labor day is something you have never experienced, so keep slaving!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (9 children)

    Yo yo yo unemployment nearing 25% in U.S.

    Where do you people get this stuff?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    The nation's unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in July, well within the range economists consider healthy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Yet that measure, which reflects the percentage of people 16 and older who don't have a job and who are looking for work, is an imprecise metric that fails to offer a full picture of the health of the job sector

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    You use the "people of working age looking for employment" metric because lumping in people who aren't of working age and aren't looking for employment gives you a population that isn't actually employable.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Right, but the larger point being made in the article is that the metric has become less useful over time. I was continuing to quote because you were taking it out of context.

    As workforce participation ahas gone down. Many people are checking entirely out of the economy (no longer looking for work) or don't make enough to afford basic things like housing and healthcare. We literally have a class of working homeless people in this country. Those people are technically "employed".

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  • Many people are checking entirely out of the economy (no longer looking for work)

    Sure, they're called Retirees. And they're moving into retirement due to their advanced age. And we're seeing a glut of them due to the lopsided Boomer age cohort. But, among Millennials and Zoomers, workforce participation is above the historical average. Two-income housesholds are the modern norm. We are not in any kind of unemployment crisis. If anything, we're experiencing a labor shortage.

    We literally have a class of working homeless people in this country.

    That's got nothing to do with workforce participation, either as a useful metric or a share of the population. Far more indicative of our abysmal housing policies and our atrocious criminal justice system.

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