• Chronicon [they/them]
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      it’s stopped stinging by now but yeah, it did the first time

      definitely wasn’t the only thing that radicalized me but it was that era

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      2623 days 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

    • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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      2423 days 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

    • vegeta1 [he/him]
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      1223 days 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.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1223 days 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.

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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    2823 days ago

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

  • PurrLure [she/her]
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    2823 days 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.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      3723 days 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

    • catonkatonk [none/use name]
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      3023 days 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.

      • edge [he/him]
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        2423 days ago

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

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    2223 days 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.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    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

    • SubstantialNothingness [comrade/them]
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      1123 days ago

      Honestly at this point I think Bernie’s currently vocal “supporters” are actually conservative Dems using him like a cudgel to guilt-trip and exploit progressive voters into moving to the right. Bernie doesn’t seem to mind playing right into their strategy - maybe he doesn’t know, maybe he doesn’t care.

      At the same time I don’t think progressives are even a functional political bloc anymore which makes it all kind of funny. It’s like the conservatives crossed the finish line and won the race 4 years ago, but they didn’t realize it so they’re still out there running all by themselves.

    • @goferking0
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      Don’t go on world politics comm cause they’re so excited to see him saying trump will be worse everywhere

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1723 days 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.

  • isthecumsafe [they/them]
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    1723 days ago

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

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]
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    1623 days 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

  • catonkatonk [none/use name]
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    1523 days ago

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

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1023 days 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.

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        1023 days 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)?