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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Thank you Bernie for having both sense and moral courage. I mean it'll fail to pass because almost everyone else are bastards, but thank you anyway.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

I think it helps to force a vote on unpopular things they might not otherwise admit.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I like taxes. I want them to fund things in my community. I don't want them paying for the deaths of an entire people.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's not a 'sale'. It's a handout to the welfare apartheid state, while Americans are wondering why their roads are falling apart, their education sucks and no universal health care.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Tell that to the arms companies that are supplying about 5 bil worth of stuff for 20 bil of taxpayer's money

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

Bernie should have been president.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Bernie on the right side of history as usual

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If Hillary's primary team hasn't taken over the DNC, we'd be coming out of term 2 of Bernie with one of the most progressive Supreme Courts in modern history...

Like just stop for a second and think about how much shit would be different if we took the slam dunk of Bernie against trump in 2016, instead of trying to cram Hillary Clinton down America's throats.

We were this fucking close to a functional society

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But instead the corporate side of the party would rather lose an election and blame Sanders and the Greens for losing. Same thing in 2000. Nader gave Gore a list of policies and said he'd drop out and endorse him if he just promised to implement just 2 of those policies. Instead of doing that, he chose to lose, and then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened, setting off an unprecedented loss of civil liberties and law enforcement abuses under Bush (and I would still say that Bush Jr was probably worse than Trump in terms of body counts and terrible policies that are still in place).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

If there is one thing you can accuse Bernie of, it is definitely not being a good human.

Edit: Welp I totally fucked up and said that wrong and then went to sleep. I intended that to be a double negative and missed the double part. I caucused for Bernie and I think he is one of the most amazing people to ever live. Sorry guys, I goofed big time and I deserve the downvotes for my fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ooof, this is why I don't play with grammatical structure before bedtime.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Think you're missing a "nt" or have an extra "not" there..

Edit: don't worry too much about it, happens to the best of us 😁

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

He would rather be on the left side though.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Give it all to Ukraine instead.

Fuck Israel. Fuck putin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Convince Israel that the Palestinians have resettled in Russia.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bernie is a national treasure. His qualities as a politician and as a human being are going be recognized by the generations to come.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we don't elect more people like him quick, I'm afraid future generations will see us as all the same.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There’s an alternate timeline where Bernie won in 2016 and restored the middle class in America. Living wages, affordable housing, affordable everything, universal healthcare, and a common sense foreign policy.

I’m not saying he’s perfect. He would have made mistakes. But he would have been the best president since FDR.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (9 children)

There’s an alternate timeline where he wins and can’t get anything through because there aren’t enough progressive Dems in the senate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So the same as if any other Democrat won but unlike the other Democrats, at least he would have still tried?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Being in a position where the entire country hears his very reasonable, very easy to understand words over and over again would eventually have an effect. Even the die-hards would eventually be asking themselves if it is in fact reasonable that corporations are assfucking each and every one of us every single day. Some of them would vote in a more progressive representative.

Would he get everything passed? Absolutely not. But he would get some good stuff through.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Or where upon it seems he'll be blocked, he goes individually to each of the blocking members states or districts, and campaigns his ideas directly to those who will be most affected, both upsetting precedent and dra international attention to individuals blocking the legislation.

You act like there wasn't a plan. I assure you , there was a plan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If i remember right, he said if he won he would go to places like WV and hold rallies demanding senators help his agenda or he’d back their primary challengers. That’s the kind of guts I’d like to have seen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And yet it's a better timeline than what happened when Clinton was too bad at being a politician to beat Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

The Jew Bernie Sanders is ANTISEMITIC!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy has a consistent habit of being on the right side of history.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Politicians hate him for his one simple trick

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wish Bernie would weaponize the filibuster the way Rand Paul does to block these things. I'm glad his heart is in the right place and I'm glad he does these things, but he doesn't want to play dirty and it's 2024, you need to play dirty when they're willing to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The problem with using the filibuster is that it only works when you know the other side doesn't have 67% in the senate. With both the democratic and republican parties being in the pocket of AIPAC, I suspect they could easily get the votes to break Bernie's filibuster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It'll at least get them on the record so they can be the bad guys in the documentary later.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

If anything could get the Democrats to actually get rid of the filibuster, it would be blocking weapons for genocide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My dude, Bernie did a 8.5 hour filibuster and was coherent and on point the whole time, no phone book reading https://youtu.be/pm6qy_9E0rY

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Lets go Bernieee

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How very antisemiti...oh, hang on...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Aipac fuming

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

But please think about the shareholders!

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

How much can he hold up the sale if the rest of the senators are on board?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

With more weapoms shipments being sent since Oct 7th, than days have passed since Oct 7th, it's absolutely time for prompt action. I admire Mr. Sanders and his resolve. With this resolution, maybe we can prevent another 30k deaths in nearly 10 mons time. This is a bold undertaking, reflecting the collective will of most other countries that condemn the Palestinian genocide. Well done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you, Senator Bernard Sanders. You rock and you're my hero.

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