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[–] 1 point 1 hour ago

The saddest thing: he's still better than Trump.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 hours ago

    I heard kill the billionaires ... and ban future tax evasion. anyone else hear that?

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  • [–] 21 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    This guy is auditioning for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago

    dont think he needs it, the DNC likely determined already. hes just giving himself more exposure so that people vote on him based on recognizability alone. thats also how trump won too, being in MEDIA alot helped him.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Let's all be clear, this is him campaigning for president.

    What, the, fuck. What goddamn idiots are advising Democratic candidates?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago

    Not idiots, or well not just idiots. Representing the interests of the rich is his job with everything else being secondary. This is the default state of a neoliberal regardless of intelligence. The target of this message is American billionaires, not you.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 hours ago

    I already had no respect for him, but, somehow, I have even less now. You fucking turd.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago*

    he was always there to serve the rich nothing more. even his own father was defending rich people as a lawyer. and thats why he had no influence out of moteray, when he was still in the state congress for a while.

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    He married Kim guilfoil, really says all you need to know about him

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  • [–] 41 points 8 hours ago

    Shocking, the guy who was caught at a 2020 dinner party at French Laundry during the pandemic when he had asked Californians to avoid group gatherings for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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  • [–] 74 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (26 children)

    People like him, HRC and DWS are the reason Bernie wasn't the DNC candidate in 2016...and are why we're in the mess we're in right now.

    Trump didn't win in 2016, HRC lost.

    They were too scared Bernie would expose their crimes and corruption, and now we're living in the Turd Reich.

    EDIT: DWC should have been DWS

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  • [–] 16 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Social democratic policies were also just not as popular in 2016 as they are now. In just a few weeks, a full decade will have passed since 2016.

    In 2016, people more or less took American democracy for granted. The voters never knew about the danger that Trump's ideology posed to the republic. This was following eight years of Obama, so right-wingers were thought of as fundamentally just people with bad policy ideas and not people intent on destroying democracy.

    Only since then have people really started coming around to social democracy, democratic socialism, and other left-wing ideas. Over time, people have begun to realise, Bernie was right.

    It really is too bad that Bernie is so old. He deserves a good retirement, but given the current political climate, he's going to keep fighting for the working class until the bitter end.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    they were blinded by culture war issues, thats why.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    Traditionally, when times are good economically are when people find time to advance social policies. That's why the Civil Rights movement found success in the 1960s. I'm sure had King marched across the South in 1929, the voters and political class would have had no appetite for it. Democrats through the economy was fixed forever once Obama was elected, but they were evidently wrong.

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    [–] 9 points 7 hours ago

    Had me in the first half

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  • [–] 10 points 7 hours ago

    As long as there are different socio-economic classes, it will always be class warfare. Everything will be done to veer the fight away from class warfare. Legitimate causes like feminism and equal rights will be used as distractions to veer away from class warfare. It will always be the mega rich vs everyone else.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 hours ago*

    Gavin realizing he will never be president, so he is trying to secure his future as a Silicon Valley lobbyist.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Newsom is a fine example of the kind of democrat that needs to go.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 hours ago

    This dude will let you down every time, trust me.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 hours ago

    The one good thing here is he's made it clear who's his boss (and it isn't the people)

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago

    Taxes need to be raised for the wealthy at the Federal level. Prop 40 is a one time, performative scheme that will spend years in court being struck down. But if it gets you guys to vote, fine.

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