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Bernie eat your heart out

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know this isn't the point of your post but fuck Bernie for his atrocious cowardice on Palestine

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, it fits though. Bernie ought to be calling for a pardon

[–] miz@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

that would be awesome. heighten the contradictions, make all the ghoul publications denounce him, get a massive popularity boost. unfortunately he's just not a very good politician

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

He lacks the soul of a warrior.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Trump could. But since FoxNews is crying and shaking (as usual) he wont. But yeah Bernie or any other big healthcare for all person would be wise to use the stage now.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How would a pardon even work here? Murder is a state offense, I don't know what the gun charges would be, and crossing state lines makes everything worse.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think it would. It would be a wild power move to ask for it though.

[–] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

the older i get the less i understand about anything. in this country bernie is too radical to be pres but everyone loves the ceo murderer

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Bernie was too radical for the party to allow to be president, not too radical to get the popular support needed

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Bernie's loss was more about the complicated layers of anti-democratic gatekeeping around the Democratic primary and other types of election design flaws in the US than actual approval rating. If there was a ranked choice voting system with Trump, Hillary, Sanders in 2016, he easily would have won as he was the least mutually divisive candidate.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it's the disconnect between actual public opinion, and what the media presents it as

There's a lag so there's a couple of days where people true feeling poke through before they can lock it down and distract

case in point look at front page of reddit for example, yesterday 80% of posts are about The Hero, today none and instead were supposed to care that trump said it's hard to make the prices of good come down

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Finally, someone for Iran to target other than Spongebob

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

wouldn't work tho, as his "hero" credentials are assigned by the average american, and the ruling class grants him the rank of "enemy", so any actions by Iran against this man would have the opposite intended effects.

[–] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wonder if that also makes the snitch the person with the lowest approval rating

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

It's peculiar because he is a lightning rod for rage, but you get the reactionary praise from libs and establishment types. People who do heinous crimes are pretty universally reviled. So by volume of conscious disapproval, yes. But by absolute value of rating regardless of number of impressions no.

[–] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the CEO probably has worse numbers, though the general populous seemed to really approve of his dying in the street.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Nope. Ted Cruz.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

i have a couple comrades who are already lathing AOC-Luigi 2036

[–] miz@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

jesus fucking christAOC?!?

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they weren't like, fantasizing about it per se, just thinking out loud about luigi's popularity and age

[–] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

spoilerthe bit was supposed to be that Luigi is acceptable while AOC is totally out of bounds but I guess I didn't pull it off

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

oh, i'm dumb, i think it makes sense in context. that's a good bit

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More like Rittenhouse Luigi 2040

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

nah AOC is already Nancy Pelosi's successor at that point.

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree, although I'm not sure most US people would even view assassinating a healthcare CEO as "political" (which we need to change).

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

The damn tankies are trying to put politics in my politics

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

i think about this sometimes, like try to come up with americans who significantly more than 50% of the country actually like or support. it's difficult. we live in a society or whatever

[–] boog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People don't care about his politics, they care about his actions.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

His actions were political

[–] boog@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you disagree with the actions?

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

he was doing what the unions wanted

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Nah, more mildly amused and ambivalent