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Bernie eat your heart out

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I know this isn't the point of your post but fuck Bernie for his atrocious cowardice on Palestine

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, it fits though. Bernie ought to be calling for a pardon

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

that would be awesome. heighten the contradictions, make all the ghoul publications denounce him, get a massive popularity boost. unfortunately he's just not a very good politician

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

He lacks the soul of a warrior.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Trump could. But since FoxNews is crying and shaking (as usual) he wont. But yeah Bernie or any other big healthcare for all person would be wise to use the stage now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How would a pardon even work here? Murder is a state offense, I don't know what the gun charges would be, and crossing state lines makes everything worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think it would. It would be a wild power move to ask for it though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

the older i get the less i understand about anything. in this country bernie is too radical to be pres but everyone loves the ceo murderer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Bernie was too radical for the party to allow to be president, not too radical to get the popular support needed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Bernie's loss was more about the complicated layers of anti-democratic gatekeeping around the Democratic primary and other types of election design flaws in the US than actual approval rating. If there was a ranked choice voting system with Trump, Hillary, Sanders in 2016, he easily would have won as he was the least mutually divisive candidate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

it's the disconnect between actual public opinion, and what the media presents it as

There's a lag so there's a couple of days where people true feeling poke through before they can lock it down and distract

case in point look at front page of reddit for example, yesterday 80% of posts are about The Hero, today none and instead were supposed to care that trump said it's hard to make the prices of good come down

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Finally, someone for Iran to target other than Spongebob

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

wouldn't work tho, as his "hero" credentials are assigned by the average american, and the ruling class grants him the rank of "enemy", so any actions by Iran against this man would have the opposite intended effects.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I wonder if that also makes the snitch the person with the lowest approval rating

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

It's peculiar because he is a lightning rod for rage, but you get the reactionary praise from libs and establishment types. People who do heinous crimes are pretty universally reviled. So by volume of conscious disapproval, yes. But by absolute value of rating regardless of number of impressions no.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the CEO probably has worse numbers, though the general populous seemed to really approve of his dying in the street.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

You're right. Remembering that just made me smile, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Nope. Ted Cruz.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

i have a couple comrades who are already lathing AOC-Luigi 2036

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

jesus fucking christAOC?!?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

they weren't like, fantasizing about it per se, just thinking out loud about luigi's popularity and age

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

spoilerthe bit was supposed to be that Luigi is acceptable while AOC is totally out of bounds but I guess I didn't pull it off

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

oh, i'm dumb, i think it makes sense in context. that's a good bit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I thought it was funny

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

More like Rittenhouse Luigi 2040

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

nah AOC is already Nancy Pelosi's successor at that point.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree, although I'm not sure most US people would even view assassinating a healthcare CEO as "political" (which we need to change).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

The damn tankies are trying to put politics in my politics

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Since we're comparing him to the bern another way they're similar to me is how much more leftist they seemed before i found out who they really were... And also for each, I don't know how much that misunderstanding was their actions or my desperation

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

i think about this sometimes, like try to come up with americans who significantly more than 50% of the country actually like or support. it's difficult. we live in a society or whatever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

People don't care about his politics, they care about his actions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

His actions were political

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you disagree with the actions?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

he was doing what the unions wanted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, more mildly amused and ambivalent