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Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/politics@lemmy.world

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I hate that this is the debate we’re having now

I also hate that I’m feeding into the NYT’s lazy and transparent attempt to undo their previous partisanship with new opposite partisanship like those two things cancel out and add up to journalism

But what the hell, if that’s where we’re at, this is a relevant data point about the landscape

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[-] enbyecho@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I was curious where you were coming from with this... like if you had an actual point you might care to make or you were just being an asshole because you are Very Angry ™ for reasons.

Definitely the latter. Maybe posting here isn't the best for your mental health.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

I'm coming from a place where he talked one thing and ended up siding with the opposite, the very thing that he claimed to be against

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Hey, quick question:

There are 229 accounts in Lemmy that have used the phrase “Democratic Party” more than once in the last 6 months or so.
There are 188 that have used the phrase “Republican Party” more than once.
There are 25 that have used the phrase “Democrat Party” more than once

So that does kind of make sense… “Democrat Party” is something I pretty much never hear outside of conservative circles. In most of the left it’s un heard of. It always sounds really weird to me and I don’t think it would ever occur to me to use it. It’s not surprising that it’s so rare to hear it on Lemmy.

So what I’m wondering is why there’s so much overlap between the users who do use that very unusual phrasing and the ones who are SUPER left. Like really left. Like so left that they’re mad at Joe Biden and even Bernie SANDERS isn’t left enough for them, and they want people not to support those people. Because of course they’re not left enough.

Any thoughts on it? You’re on that list, both the using that phrase part and the being super left part. Can you remember where in your reading you might have picked up that phrasing and started using it?

[-] enbyecho@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You let your anger own you. I'm sure you can do better.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

I'm not angry. I just call out shit when I see it, and I don't have any form of filters for it

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