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[-] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I assume that a significant number of people here became leftists because of a brief ephemeral momentum that Bernie Sanders was the figurehead of. This has to sting a bit.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

What turned me to the left wasn't Bernie per se, but how the DNC was exposed to be cheating in Hil's favor and how the Wikileaks report that exposed it was buried by the media.

There was a clear party interest in opposing leftward movement, and a clear media collusion in that.

This greatly disillusioned me

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The "coin toss" rituals were such an obvious ratfuck during the primaries: ever watch the videos of the "coin tosses?" The loyal ghouls doing them caught the coin, glanced at it, then set it down on the arm. what-the-hell

It doesn't take a math teacher to tell someone that 9 coin tosses out of 10 going to hillgasm on actual fair coin tosses is very, very unlikely.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I watched it happen live, one toss at a time. All my faith in the DNC died that day.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

It definitely pushed me to examine my own chauvinism, even if i had considered myself a radical long before Bernard

Still, it was wild to have a shred of optimism

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

He was at least an amerikkka politician I had some respect for. I'd already lost all respect for him because of his groveling for Biden and finding out that he voted in favor of bombing Serbia, but his neocon and Israel lover arc has made me give me strength to comrade heart attack.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Wonder what the numbers are or how folks here got pushed to it. For me just being from the global south I found it in other ways.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I'm not even from the US, but it was inspiring to see what he was doing out there anyways... ah well, nevertheless

[-] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

Objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Bernard "Genocide Defender" Sanders strikes again

[-] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We thought he was Genosse Sanders, he's actually Genocide Bernard

[-] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Democrats are getting desperate. Even the most casual DSA leftists have stopped trusting every word out of Bernie's mouth for at least a year now.

Does he even use the word "genocide"? As soon as he used the worn down harm reduction argument, I tuned out.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Did he actually say harm reduction?? That would be amazing, like he is admitting that they are doing harm and won't stop.

Like their campaign promise officially is "we aren't as harmful".

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I had to turn it off at about 1:10, the bot below has a safer link.

He basically says yeah it's bad, but Trump and friends are worse. flattened-bernie

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Oh I'm not watching that, thanks though 👍

seriously though there is spineless and then there's spineless while maintaining the illusion of walking upright.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Omg I made the mistake of watching further. He says that if Trump wins "the struggle with climate change is over" LIKE KAMALA ISN'T PRO FRACKING AND PRO INFINITE ECONOMIC GROWTH YOU FUCKING HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK shoulder-grab

Yeah no this video is ragebait for leftists and a circlejerk for libs. Do not recommend. They're out of touch if they really thought this would get them new voters.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

morshupls He has never used the word genocide, except to dismiss the charge of it as it would incrimate the entire US government. Yet is careful to not mention that fact, except he does admit it is wholly complicit in what's going on there.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Depressing. flattened-bernie was greatly influential in pulling liberals leftward, yet also serves as a block against further movement.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

Does bernie support bds? Or only bibi bad politics

[-] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

“While I do not support the BDS movement, we must defend every American’s constitutional right to engage in political activity. It is clear to me that this bill would violate Americans’ First Amendment rights.” - Bernie Sanders, 2019

[-] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

I saw him answer that question by saying that he's against sanctions on principle, look at how much damage they're doing to Cuba etc. Unreal.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Even though he voted for sanctions on official bad guy countries like Russia and Venezuela.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Did he actually? I'm not finding record of this

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

even in this statement

But I believe that these new sanctions could endanger the very important nuclear agreement that was signed between the United States, its partners and Iran in 2015. That is not a risk worth taking, particularly at a time of heightened tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia and its allies.

I'm not finding any evidence that Sanders has ever voted for a sanction in a final bill. It kind of doesn't matter anyway, because the president just unilaterally imposes sanctions, it seems.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Oh fuck off Bernard

[-] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

continues to only disappoint. pathetic

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Damn the democrats are fucking ruthless. Can't believe they're making him film a video telling everybody else to just abandoned anything even resembling a value like he did.

That heart attack gun better be fucking real.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

it's not, he's just a monster like the rest of them.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’d love to know how many people this actually appeals to. Are there really that many “progressives” happy to see someone who once inspired them simping for the establishment that cucked him so bad?

Although based on the YouTube comments people love this shit what-the-hell don’t read them if you don’t want psychic damage

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Don't go on world politics comm cause they're so excited to see him saying trump will be worse everywhere

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

One year ago my brother told me "European politicians are Nazis but at least Britain has Corbyn and America has Bernie." deeper-sadness

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Corbyn at least kept his spine long-corbyn

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

One year ago? Did you just wake up from a coma?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

While it would have been funny if he had announced his unconditional support of the Al-Qassam brigades a week before the election, I guess we live in the real world where this happens instead. There shouldn't be any disappointment. We knew what his position was going to be.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Why even bother trying and add salt to injury? Just ignore this issue and have the decency to tell us sweet lies like Obama did. These fucks are useless, khallas fam, khallas

[-] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, bourgeois politicians should actually tell people to get fucked more often. It builds class consciousness like nothing else.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

seriously, i wish he would go harder to piss more people off

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Did the title of the video change? I swear I saw it say "genocide" instead of "war" when I loaded YouTube this morning...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Bernie has never acnowledged the term genocide wrt to the current situation. He knows it would lead to serious charges against just about every member of the Senate and Congress and he doesn't want to be "that guy" that gave the incriminating soundbite.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Serious charges? In what world? Every member of Senate, and every member of Congress could sign a letter explicitly saying they love genocide and establishing a minimum quota of children killed per week and there would be no charges. Who is going to charge them? The ICC (lol)?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Bernie also became demented grandad. 🤦‍♀️

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

agony-deep Man how much lower can this worm dig? Almost glad he never had a shot to sit on the genocide king’s throne.

Sorry people aren’t as willing to abandon their morals and fall in line for a pyrrhic political ghoul as you, Bernie.

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