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[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

You can’t change the system if your goal is to work within it, and if Joe Biden is the best the system has to offer then that’s what you have to support. The lesson should be that working within the system is, at most, a means to an end. Bernie is either a true believer, or he’s lost the plot, but either way he’s decided that he’d rather validate the system than properly criticize it.

I’m glad he never made it to the White House, he’d have been more disappointing than Obama. Say what you will about Biden, but he told everyone from the beginning that nothing was going to change, and boy did he ever deliver.

[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

last-bit-of-hope

He's just a sheep dog nowadays

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

He was always a mostly good teamplayer for the Dem party, he just wasn't as extreme as some of the other Dems (like Biden) on issues like the Iraq war and so on. That is why it is amazing how hostile the Democrats were towards him, the only huge change would be that campaign consultants would receive less money from his campaign, since he mostly had his own people (who also didn't take 15% for every single ad run). But that was more than enough, direct $$$ for consultants is a huge part of the Dem grift.

[–] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Can I change my past votes to Ernst Thalmann?

[–] flan@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

we live in a crazy world and our first priority must be to focus most of our energy on something that will do nothing to change any of that.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks a lot tankies. Now everytime I hear someone complain about authoritarianism I instantly think they dont know what the fuck theyre talking about when it comes to politics, or at the very least are just using it as a reactionary buzzword.

[–] Finger@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: