"Bernie's supporters have been very, very damaging to him, and it's really frustrating to see and experience. They don't realize how influential they are. It's frustrating to feel like they are hurting him," Ocasio-Cortez said in the midst of the 2020 primary, according to the book. "I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate."

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She also worried that the behavior of Sanders's supporters were "forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis" through their "behavior, not so much policy."

Ocasio-Cortez made those comments as she mulled whether to endorse Sanders's 2020 campaign, even though she had worked as an organizer on his 2016 campaign.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-bernie-bros-reactionary-left-wing-book-2023-12

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[–] 121 points 2 years ago (6 children)

All the exit polling I saw said otherwise, Bernie won all groups(but especially poc and queer people) below 55, while biden swooped up the Olds both black and white, and Warren was left scraping by on a fraction of the college cracker professional set.

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  • [–] 95 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yes, because the "BernieBro" thing was mostly an online thing. In other words, that was just very online Hillary/Biden/Warren people crying because young people cared more about another candidate. But it was made into this huge issue by the mainstream media, I am betting that it received more TV time in 2016 and 2020 than the Iraq war and climate change combined.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is the Bernie Bro in the room with you right now, Hillary?

    Just a made up demographic to discredit as a proxy for discrediting all Bernie supporters.

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  • [–] [S] 77 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Black people ain't having no Bernie

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thanks for bringing the mental image of this photo back to my memory.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    this fucking potemkin barbershop kills me

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just everything is so odd:

    Jerseys hung up on wall via plastic hangers

    Could they not afford a cheap poster frame?

    Spiderman and Pan movie posters

    Not my first choice, but sure

    DVD cases hung on the wall

    What the actual fuck. Let's see what's here: capeshit, sure; random action slop (Meg, Hobbs & Shaw, Equalizer 2), uhhh alright; PETER RABBIT, wot.

    MLM poster on the wall (It Works)

    tito-laugh

    Busted old couches

    One guy who's getting a haircut just randomly near the exit

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The guy getting his haircut has dreads and the barber is holding just a comb. What is going on.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I love when people do blackface on social media. It's so cool and not at all weird to roleplay as a minority to try and own other white people.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Mayo Pete’s campaign manager (Liz something) got caught literally pretending to be a black man on twitter who kept hyping up Pete.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I winced from the secondhand cringe reading this. It was probably him saying that and everybody telling him to shut the fuck up.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    yep, AOC is just a warren-ite college cracker professional set-type so she doesn't see this pattern

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    She just "feels" like everyone else should agree with white college cracker professional set.

    Her 6month bartending gig is stilen valor

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Working a bit during college doesn't making someone working class either, nor does being "poor" during college and eating ramen make one poor. These are basically just mini-poverty tourisms and a hazing period for the middle class, not legitimate class differences. The precarity doesn’t exist, they have safety nets to fall back on (drop out and live with their parents at their huge house).

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    God damn does it ever wind me up hearing people talk about how they “struggled” in uni cause they had to eat ramen in their dorm or something. Mf you have rich parents and no student loan debt, there was no struggle. These people have zero concept of how it feels to be on the precipice of destitution with no one to fall back on.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah in the middle of the 2020 primary there was definitely discussion of Warren getting polite Bernie hand-me-downs. I can't blame anyone for "feeling" like that during the midst of 2020 - there was a concentrated media effort to make that case and propaganda/advertising actually do work. It turns out, real people didn't actually behave that way though. If aoc is still concerned about that now or anytime after Warren washed out then she's a dumb ass but who cares if an electoral politician was aware of and in some way responded to electoral political punditry in 2020

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Also the difference between his support from men and women was only 5%, but the media always stressed he was specifically "the candidate for young men"

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