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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

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I don’t remember this!

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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

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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

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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.

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He was at least an 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.

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

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Objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

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Bernard “Genocide Defender” Sanders strikes again

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

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

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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