flattened-bernie I like frothingfash now. But wish they were a bit more mindful.

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    How does he understand that but not understand that he’s trashing his own reputation by supporting them?

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      He understands plenty. His time as the “progressive” candidate is gone. He’s just trying to get into the old ghoul’s club with the rest of them now. Taking his piece of the pie and coasting on the idea that he used to be “progressive” as a way to deflect criticism.

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        What club? What benefit does he get from it? He’s already a millionaire from selling books, he could retire at any point (and likely will at the end of this term) and be set for life.

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          I just meant the dems in general, not any specific secret club or anything like that. And you could give that same argument against every US politician. They could just all retire and enjoy the riches they’ve siphoned off from the public. But they don’t.

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    Somebody needs to ask him - cough, cough - point blank “Mr. Senator in your opinion what is the ratio? 1 to 100? 1 to 97.3? 1 to 89.4? What is the ratio of dead Gazans that indicates we are at genocide?”

    We’ll be at 1 to 100 surely by January if not this month. But to him it’s the messaging war that’s important.

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    This goes to show that even had he gotten the nomination, beaten Biden, then beaten Trump, we would still be getting roughly the same imperialist colonialist racist capitalist genocidal foreign policy with him in power.

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    Russia also lost the Ukraine war in how it was perceived in the West. It’s not enough that Israel loses by coming out of genocide looking bad. It’s necessary that Israel fails to commit genocide in Gaza and is punished for trying.