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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 71 points 9 months ago

Please let him succeed this time! 🤞🤞🤞

[-] altec@midwest.social 30 points 9 months ago

But according to Nancy Pelosi, it's just Chinese propaganda!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

With all due respect to her, which is none, Nancy Pelosi needs to go away and never speak to the public about anything again.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Age caps in politics when?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not age caps, periodic mandatory cognitive function tests.

Bernie is only slightly younger than Pelosi chronologically, but at least a couple decades sharper mentally. Trump is YOUNGER than Bernie but as senile as the day is long at the height of summer.

Though most start to decline at or a few years after 70, some people can stay sharp long after and we need people like Bernie just as much as we don't need people like Pelosi.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

This is just the latest example of why I lol so hard when some con whines about Nancy and claims she is some kind of radical leftist.

After I catch my breath, I ask them exactly which policies make her "radical" and be as specific as possible. Not sure I've ever had an answer that involved anything coherent - maybe one of them has complained about her insider trading, but don't seem to realize it's not confined to her or even just Democrats.

I find her exhausting for a lot of reasons, but they just have been told to hate her because she's a women of some prominence who does not have their lips wrapped around the base of tiny d's mushroom and the right wing haaaaaates that.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago

I'm guessing it's because he's anti-Semitic.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago

That might have been too subtle, I feel like a number of people are going to miss the joke there.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Though it makes me sad, you are probably right. Wayyyyy too many people levy this kind of thing at Sanders (and Chomsky, lol) as a supposedly serious charge.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

I'm completely with you, but I have to point out there are plenty antisemitic people of Jewish ancestry (Steve Pieczenick), and many other people who self hate their backgrounds (my father has said very derogatory things about American black people. He grew up in the islands, but still).

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 9 months ago

I'll be honest, almost downvoted them.

[-] TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The USA should not be sending any forms of “aid” to a country that has enough resources and wealth to build and maintain nuclear weapons.

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[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The man who should have elected in 2016 AT THE LATEST.

I'm going to go cry in a corner as Biden gets another country wrapped up in endless war so he can save democracy using... Zionism, guns, and drones.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The man who should have elected in 2016 AT THE LATEST.

...and finishing his second term at roughly the same age as Biden starting his.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 25 points 9 months ago

Bernie's looking wierdly more normal and sane these days. Less of a crazy Doc Brown vibe.

His messaging is, as always, spot on; that hasn't changed.

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Let's organize a write in for Bernie this election

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 10 points 9 months ago

Bernie might not run for reelection at the end of his senate term later this year. I can't blame him for wanting to get away from it all; he will be 83.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 months ago

I love Bernie, but that's how you hand Trump a win. If you live in a swing state you're unfortunately stuck voting for the lesser of two evils.

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I understand where you are coming from, and if you decide to do the 'lesser of two evils approach', I'm not mad at you. It's a much better response than voting for the Dems because you believe they aren't evil.

I'm torn, because I quite obviously do not want any fascist-leaning-anyone to win, but I'm also horrified at the long term impact of a two-evil-party system. I've been paying closer and closer attention every four year cycle and the Manchin-Sinema block was the start of the end for me. The final nail was somewhere between finding out about Pelosi and her finances and the "we have power now, but vote for us next time and we will really do something about women's bodily autonomy".

If I find an independent I agree with I'll vote for them. If not I'll write in Bernie. You may end up on the correct side of history as I stand weeping into a burning creator that was once a hopeful country.

Added context: I'm blue County red state.

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[-] Fish@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago

And if you don't live in a swing state then your vote doesn't really matter.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, because it worked such wonders the last time...

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Conservatives love a good genocide. They are falling over themselves in delight at the innocent families being slaughtered wholesale and are demanding even more weapons be sent.

Conservatives will aggressively fight any bill that seeks to impede genocide. For that reason, I do not think this ammendment can pass.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Yes and meanwhile most of the so called "liberal" democrats are also actively supporting genocide.

I think last time Sanders tried this, which was only a month ago, he only got like 8 senators to sign on.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Yes. Neoliberals are conservatives.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

10, but your point very much stands. Especially since that was just about commissioning an audit of sorts!

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Fuck the conservatives, but there isn't exactly much liberal action on this front either.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 11 points 9 months ago
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