I assume that a significant number of people here became leftists because of a brief ephemeral momentum that Bernie Sanders was the figurehead of. This has to sting a bit.
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.
The “coin toss” rituals were such an obvious ratfuck during the primaries: ever watch the videos of the “coin tosses?” The loyal ghouls doing them caught the coin, glanced at it, then set it down on the arm.
It doesn’t take a math teacher to tell someone that 9 coin tosses out of 10 going to on actual fair coin tosses is very, very unlikely.
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.
I assume that a significant number of people here became leftists because of a brief ephemeral momentum that Bernie Sanders was the figurehead of. This has to sting a bit.
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
The “coin toss” rituals were such an obvious ratfuck during the primaries: ever watch the videos of the “coin tosses?” The loyal ghouls doing them caught the coin, glanced at it, then set it down on the arm.
It doesn’t take a math teacher to tell someone that 9 coin tosses out of 10 going to
on actual fair coin tosses is very, very unlikely.
I don’t remember this!
I watched it happen live, one toss at a time. All my faith in the DNC died that day.
There was some obscure coin toss thing in Iowa to determine delegate numbers in the primary, Hilary “won” six in a row with a ~1.5 percent probability
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.
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
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
I’m not even from the US, but it was inspiring to see what he was doing out there anyways… ah well, nevertheless
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.