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Bernie Sanders drops out of Presidential Race

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Shame about Bernie. When every media source is against you then you really have no chance. Obviously the DNC has learned no lessons at all from 2016 and history will repeat itself, oh but maybe that isn't so bad as their precious donors can still keep their sweet sweet tax breaks with a Trump presidency so everybody wins... Well everybody within the top 10% tax bracket... The only people who matter obviously
 
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Good job DNC, looks like we've got 4 more years. At least Bernie's still on the ballots even if he's not campaigning anymore.
Yeah I have a feeling that dropping out now was mostly influenced by the shitshow in Wisconsin and his desire to make sure people stay safe. Meanwhile, both Biden and Trump have no problem telling people to go wait in line for hours to vote in person. They're the human equivalents of Gamestop.
 
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Warren hired a bunch of ex-Hillary staffers and then failed to win her own home state. She's done some positive things in the Senate, but her political instincts are garbage when it comes to running a larger campaign. Along with her ridiculous attempt to smear Bernie and endear herself to the establishment, trying to be the "compromise" candidate between progressivism and neoliberalism instead just made everybody in both camps dislike her.

Nah.

Man, bernie extremists are almost as bad as maga bois.
 

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Well I'm convinced, this is such a compelling counterpoint. :rolleyes:

Man, bernie extremists are almost as bad as maga bois.
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Well I'm convinced, this is such a compelling counterpoint. :rolleyes:


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I wouldn't try and convince any kind of extremist, maga or bernie. They can't be convinced, that's one of the things that makes them extremists.

Love the lack of self awareness too. Bernie extremists are actually known for being abrasive and unlikeable. Much like their candidate!

He had no place continuing to run after the heart attack too.
 

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I wouldn't try and convince any kind of extremist, maga or bernie. They can't be convinced, that's one of the things that makes them extremists.
It's a moronic and inaccurate comparison to make, sorry. Socialists are not a cult of personality, and when Bernie tells them to vote for Biden they'll all flip him the bird in unison.

Love the lack of self awareness too. Bernie extremists are actually known for being abrasive and unlikeable. Much like their candidate!
Oh yeah, and people are really loving the shrill and incoherent third wave feminist neoliberals who made up the bulk of Warren's support, right? You can't win an election when your morals and values are entirely malleable and based on political expediency. Bernie has been fighting for the same things his entire life, Warren was a Republican until the mid-90s.

He had no place continuing to run after the heart attack too.
The voters clearly disagreed with that sentiment. Warren should've dropped before Super Tuesday, the results were a complete and utter embarrassment for her entire campaign staff.
 
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To everybody who donated to this socialist, just remember:

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His campaign raised millions of dollars for charities and medical supplies in the fight against COVID-19. For my part I say it was money well spent. Meanwhile you're stupid enough to give away money to a billionaire who is already siphoning your tax dollars into his pockets, rofl.

To anybody who thinks that "Democratic socialist" is really a thing or that Bernie was anything but a true socialist, look at this:

Bernie’s Press Secretary: ‘Now I Can Drop ‘Democratic’ From ‘Democratic Socialism’
And? Stephen Miller is an unapologetic Nazi fuck, and he's a high-ranking part of the Trump administration. People are free to have their own individual viewpoints separate from their bosses, not that I'm convinced Trump is all that different to Miller in practice.
 
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His campaign raised millions of dollars for charities and medical supplies in the fight against COVID-19. For my part I say it was money well spent. Meanwhile you're stupid enough to give away money to a billionaire who is already siphoning your tax dollars into his pockets, rofl.
No, I'm sure all that money is going towards his forth home just as the donations from the last time helped him buy his third one.

And? Stephen Miller is an unapologetic Nazi fuck, and he's a high-ranking part of the Trump administration. People are free to have their own individual viewpoints separate from their bosses, not that I'm convinced Trump is all that different to Miller in practice.
You're projecting here to distract yourself from the real issue. Your boy was on top of the socialist ladder (not some lackey like Miller) and wanted to be a socialist dictator, and the Bernie Bro's were going to be his enforcers. Plus when has Miller ever come out and promoted Nazism like Ol 'Bernie promoted Cuba/China/Russia?
 

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Plus when has Miller ever come out and promoted Nazism?
Every single time he opens his mouth and/or throws a bunch of dogwhistles into the speeches he writes for Trump.

It's not, of course, you just don't like what you're hearing
This type of "enlightened centrism" is exactly why your candidate failed to win a single state in the primary. Just keep on thinking the people who want a second bill of rights enacted for the benefit of the working class are exactly the same as white nationalists and neo-nazis. That's a good way to quickly find yourself with zero allies in any given political struggle.
 

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@Darth Meteos Since this site doesn't have any moderators anymore, I guess I'll reply to your offtopic post......

It's so funny how you think because a person had his own show, that disqualifies him from office. What jobs are allowed to make someone a good president in your mind? SMH
Why do you have to fatshame anybody and make fun of his skin color? That's not very tolerant of a very obvious liberal. Shame on you and your hatred.
He may talk shit, but I'd rather have a crass president that makes my country better than a lying piece of shit that stabs their citizens in the back like the democrats that keep promising "free stuff" like Bernie but never come through.
As for him getting little done, what have you, your family, or your PM done? That is an opinion that is way off from the truth.
Check this out - https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/
You can take that "gets little done" opinion of yours and shove it up your "do nothing" behind. Maybe, you should stop listening to your liberal leaders and opinion tv people.


Obama doesn't compare to Trump in anyway. Obama made promises to end wars but started more. Trump has ended wars. He has helped the US citizens way more than the corporations have benefited. Not sure where you get this "laughingstock"? If you're anti-america, anti-freedom, etc, then that's on you. Just don't spread lies and keep your liberal lies to yourself, please.

Your countries healthcare is better than most socialist healthcare according to some sources, but don't go acting like it's better. The only reason it could be said to be better than the US' is due to the fact that you can also get good private healthcare when the public healthcare fails you. Who would want to wait up to 3 months to see a doctor of the government's choosing to get a procedure for a "non-life threatening" condition when it could become fatal by the time you see them. I'd prefer the private option that I pay for where I see a doctor quicker.
I can even go further to say that our healthcare system provides most of the innovation and advances in the healthcare industry. This can only be accomplished in a capitalist system such as ours. It must be nice to live in a country that sucks off the teets of our advancements and gives them away for "free" that you laugh at. It's also not free at the point of service if you pay higher taxes for it unless you are unemployed.


We are rich because our citizens are rich. People have options to get healthcare, either through government assistance or from an employer. If you are in your 50's and work at McDonald's, don't go crying to me because your job doesn't provide you healthcare. Just because your puny country/continent has so few people, you can't compare the numbers of deaths each year. Eighteen thousand people is barely 0.05% of our population.
I have no idea about that Nuremberg nonsense. I guess that would make more sense if I lived in a British prison colony.

As I said before, your opinion are obviously not your own as it is full of liberal bias that you must have read/heard on Tv or on leftist websites. Please go and learn something for yourself instead of being a sheep for the left.
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Every single time he opens his mouth and/or throws a bunch of dogwhistles into the speeches he writes for Trump.

This type of "enlightened centrism" is exactly why your candidate failed to win a single state in the primary. Just keep on thinking the people who want a second bill of rights enacted for the benefit of the working class are exactly the same as white nationalists and neo-nazis. That's a good way to quickly find yourself with zero allies in any given political struggle.
To be fair, your kind of abrasive attitude is precisely why your movement has been failing to gain any traction in the United States. Since its inception in the early 20th century up until now the only method of implementing any socialist policy has been through the back door, by marketing it as not socialist or by bundling it with something actually palatable. The "Democratic Socialism" movement, which you must admit has less to do with democracy and more to do with just plain old socialism, has a tendency to overplay their hand. Now that effectively everyone you don't like is a neo-nazi, the word is devalued and doesn't mean anything anymore, you took the bite out of it. It's even funnier when your crowd calls the opposition "authoritarian" considering the fact that you're the people suggesting massive government overreach. You *say* that you're Liberal, but when it's all said and done you're big fans of the police state, in so far as collecting taxes and bringing them back to whoever's the Robin Hood of the day is concerned. As for who the voters agreed with, they clearly picked Biden - Sanders just wasn't electable enough and continuing the farce would've been both a waste of everyone's time and an unnecessary risk, especially during a pandemic.
 

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To be fair, your kind of abrasive attitude is precisely why your movement has been failing to gain any traction in the United States. Since its inception in the early 20th century up until now the only method of implementing any socialist policy has been through the back door, by marketing it as not socialist or by bundling it with something actually palatable.
Ever heard of the overton window? How about manufactured consent? This has nothing to do with abrasiveness, otherwise the Republican party never would have found success using the Southern Strategy to win elections. Curious how, dating all the way back to the 40s and 50s, everything the left wing fought for had to be made palatable to the right wing, but the opposite wasn't true. Every Republican administration has been dragging the country rightward, while entirely too many spineless Democratic administrations have caved to centrism and thus been complicit in that rightward drift.

Now that effectively everyone you don't like is a neo-nazi, the word is devalued and doesn't mean anything anymore, you took the bite out of it. It's even funnier when your crowd calls the opposition "authoritarian" considering the fact that you're the people suggesting massive government overreach.
Like I said, ask Miller himself and he won't even deny the label. He's much more likely to embrace it as a badge of honor. And since when is Medicare or basic taxation equivalent to "overreach?" Sounds like you're really reaching yourself with that one.

You *say* that you're Liberal, but when it all is said and done you're big fans of the police state, in so far as collecting taxes and bringing them back to whoever's the Robin Hood of the day.
No, I don't claim to be a liberal, because liberals are indeed big fans of the police state just as conservatives are. The only contrast is that they bow to two different sets of corporations, but obviously all corporations have a number of common interests.

As for who the voters agreed with, they clearly picked Biden - Sanders just wasn't electable enough and continuing the farce would've been a waste of everyone's time and an unnecessary risk, especially during a pandemic.
C'mon now, I'm sure you know as well as I do that the "electability" line pushed by MSNBC and CNN was itself a farce. Biden was soundly defeated in three previous primary runs due to excessive gaffes, and that was back when his mind was still sharp, or at least far sharper than it is now. He didn't suddenly become more electable one day, the Democratic party's standards have simply been lowered in response to Trump's presidency, just as the Republican party's standards have been.

Like I already stated, Bernie's decision to drop out was likely influenced by his desire to see average Americans stay safe. Biden, Trump, and the Supreme Court are all perfectly fine with endangering lives by encouraging people to vote in person, especially if that means helping to suppress some of the opposition's turnout. The pandemic has exposed many of this nation's flaws where capitalism and healthcare are concerned, all the more reason this was another huge missed opportunity. But I suppose at the end of the day, Bernie simply didn't have enough sexual assault allegations levied against him to be considered a real contender for the presidency.
 
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Ever heard of the overton window? How about manufactured consent? This has nothing to do with abrasiveness, otherwise the Republican party never would have found success using the Southern Strategy to win elections. Curious how, dating all the way back to the 40s and 50s, everything the left wing fought for had to be made palatable to the right wing, but the opposite wasn't true. Every Republican administration has been dragging the country rightward, while entirely too many spineless Democratic administrations have caved to centrism and thus been complicit in that rightward drift.

Like I said, ask Miller himself and he won't even deny the label. He's much more likely to embrace it as a badge of honor. And since when is Medicare or basic taxation equivalent to "overreach?" Sounds like you're really reaching yourself with that one.

No, I don't claim to be a liberal, because liberals are indeed big fans of the police state just as conservatives are. The only contrast is that they bow to two different sets of corporations, but obviously all corporations have a number of common interests.

C'mon now, I'm sure you know as well as I do that the "electability" line pushed by MSNBC and CNN was itself a farce. Biden was soundly defeated in three previous primary runs due to excessive gaffes, and that was back when his mind was still sharp, or at least far sharper than it is now. He didn't suddenly become more electable one day, the Democratic party's standards have simply been lowered in response to Trump's presidency, just as the Republican party's standards have been.

Like I already stated, Bernie's decision to drop out was likely influenced by his desire to see average Americans stay safe. Biden, Trump, and the Supreme Court are all perfectly fine with endangering lives by encouraging people to vote in person, especially if that means helping to suppress some of the opposition's turnout. The pandemic has exposed many of this nation's flaws where capitalism and healthcare are concerned, all the more reason this was another huge missed opportunity. But I suppose Bernie simply didn't have enough sexual assault allegations levied against him to be considered a real contender for the presidency.
I wasn't talking specifically about Miller, I was talking about your movement's tendency to call any form of opposition an expression of Nazi sentiment, which makes the word overplayed and meaningless. As far as Miller is concerned, he has some bizarre reading habits which include American Renaissance, but he also reads Shapiro, so you could just say that he's "aligned with the far right" and your comment wouldn't be so giggle worthy. Now, the reason why he can't be a Nazi is rather simple - that particular team wouldn't accept him on the roster, Miller is Jewish. Nazis and the Jews, they don't play along, see. He *might* be a white supremacist, or he might have some racist prejudices, but I don't think he advocates for a National Socialist ethnostate considering the fact that he'd be first in line to be ejected from it. You're confusing Miller with Spencer - get your xenophobia right, @Xzi.
You don't send volunteer workers into a garbage dump to "clean up". That would be a waste of resources and frankly, irresponsible.
That's hilarious, and true. :lol:
 
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Ever heard of the overton window? How about manufactured consent? This has nothing to do with abrasiveness, otherwise the Republican party never would have found success using the Southern Strategy to win elections. Curious how, dating all the way back to the 40s and 50s, everything the left wing fought for had to be made palatable to the right wing, but the opposite wasn't true. Every Republican administration has been dragging the country rightward, while entirely too many spineless Democratic administrations have caved to centrism and thus been complicit in that rightward drift.


Like I said, ask Miller himself and he won't even deny the label. He's much more likely to embrace it as a badge of honor. And since when is Medicare or basic taxation equivalent to "overreach?" Sounds like you're really reaching yourself with that one.


No, I don't claim to be a liberal, because liberals are indeed big fans of the police state just as conservatives are. The only contrast is that they bow to two different sets of corporations, but obviously all corporations have a number of common interests.


C'mon now, I'm sure you know as well as I do that the "electability" line pushed by MSNBC and CNN was itself a farce. Biden was soundly defeated in three previous primary runs due to excessive gaffes, and that was back when his mind was still sharp, or at least far sharper than it is now. He didn't suddenly become more electable one day, the Democratic party's standards have simply been lowered in response to Trump's presidency, just as the Republican party's standards have been.

Like I already stated, Bernie's decision to drop out was likely influenced by his desire to see average Americans stay safe. Biden, Trump, and the Supreme Court are all perfectly fine with endangering lives by encouraging people to vote in person, especially if that means helping to suppress some of the opposition's turnout. The pandemic has exposed many of this nation's flaws where capitalism and healthcare are concerned, all the more reason this was another huge missed opportunity. But I suppose Bernie simply didn't have enough sexual assault allegations levied against him to be considered a real contender for the presidency.
If they don't go out to vote for Bernie wouldn't they still put their lives in danger voting for someone else?

And people can come up with ways to vote online now, so that no one has to go out. Online may be subject to manipulation but considering the fact that were are in a pandemic I'm sure people can make an exception for this election.
 

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If they don't go out to vote for Bernie wouldn't they still put their lives in danger voting for someone else?

And people can come up with ways to vote online now, so that no one has to go out. Online may be subject to manipulation but considering the fact that were are in a pandemic I'm sure people can make an exception for this election.
In the world of making excuses voting by mail or online is not a viable option, stop making sense immediately. It was care that made him drop out, not the fact that he objectively had no chance to win.
 

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In the world of making excuses voting by mail or online is not a viable option, stop making sense immediately. It was care that made him drop out, not the fact that he objectively had no chance to win.
R U Crazy delivering mail to a mail place, going out to the corona virus filled world. Corona virus will eat them alive :P
 

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