• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    6 months ago

    primaries

    Those are funny things. Wasn’t Biden one of the least supported candidate in the last primaries with Bernie leading and multiple people between them? Then all of them suddenly supported Biden, and Bernie supported Biden too eventually. Weird how that democracy works.

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      6 months ago

      You know what the saddest part is? I didn’t even expect Bernie to be not-fascist (at least in terms of foreign policy), I just wanted to see how the system would handle him. We certainly got our answer, primaries that would have been called election fraud if they had occured in any under-developed country.

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        If Americas guy got treated like Bernie did there would have been drone strikes and sanctions by the end of the week (probably on Friday to give the media time to spin it while people are tuned out).

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          3 presidential runs and it was his first primary win.

          The shit was rigged, but by giving southern states a say at all (especially that early) is part of how it was rigged. If they’d done swing states first, then strongholds, and then states they are guaranteed to lose the math would have been very different.