• Awoo [she/her]
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    421 year ago

    Ash Sarkar can be pretty lib on certain elements surrounding the ussr but she’s quick on her feet. Good interview.

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      291 year ago

      I’ve never quite been able to get a read on Sarkar or Novara Media in general.

      This is based on nothing but hunch (I’ve never read Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism or anything) but they feel kinda trot to me.

      Sarkar isn’t afraid of saying they’re a communist but then the lib takes on the USSR and stuff, it’s either an attempt to build a viewerbase of the progressive left or it’s trot but idk which.

        • ReadFanon [any, any]
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          81 year ago

          Yeah, by the looks of it even Tony Benn was cosy with the Trotskyists.

          This just reinforces the case for an unlimited Brexit.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        I’ve never quite been able to get a read on Sarkar or Novara Media in general.

        Novara are trots. Sarkar possibly isn’t but doesn’t strike me as having read much theory. Pretty sure that she’s soaked up what she does know from the people she’s been around her whole life, a socially produced communist that was likely surrounded by trots.

        Corbyn, John Mcdonnell and Dianne Abbott have better positions than her, and come across as genuinely well read communists. Corbyn and Dianne feel like MLs doing pragmatic electoralism. Dianne in particular defended Mao on national television. John has literally called for violent insurrection and property destruction at rallies I’ve been at. All of them are significantly better than Ash and we’d be so much worse off without them.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    211 year ago

    Don’t call it genocide, I been here for years
    Not rocking my peers, democrat suckas no fear
    Making my tears rain down like a monsoon
    Listen to the bomb go boom
    Explosions, overpowering
    Under the competition, I’m cowering
    Wrecking shop when they drop
    These words won’t make 'em call the cops
    Could you not stare, you better move
    Please don’t compare
    Me to the rest - won’t all get sliced and diced
    Competition’s paying no price

    Music

  • Vampire [any]
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    (around 2m25s) Taking strong action against people = “maybe maybe” not sending those people a $10 billion cheque

    I sure wish someone would take strong action against me eating a whole tub of ice-cream.

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    What if I told you his next words were “…being enough to destroy the Zionist entity and liberate Palestine.”

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    The fuck is this post and comments? Bernie is the realest G in US congress for decades and counting. There aren’t even any statements against him here, just memes, did the boomers set up a shame bot network?

    • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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      461 year ago

      Bernie told us who he was decades ago when he went along with bombing Serbia for months because the “adults in the room” were demanding it. Now when a different occupation is indescriminantly killing civilians he’s still going along with it! Bernie the bomber strikes again.

    • RustyVenture [he/him]
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      181 year ago

      Everything that doesn’t present the American fascists as absolute sweethearts who are totally concerned for human suffering but aww shucks we just can’t stop exporting it because reasons must be perpetuated by bots. I am very smart.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      111 year ago

      I agree, Bernie Sanders is the realest G in the worst 100 people in the world club

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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      371 year ago

      Bernie is the realest G in US congress

      the realest G in congress needs to give me back my $27 and then stand in front of the heart attack gun again

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Idk who tf that is but the song you posted directly contradicts how Bernie voted on foreign aid policy in the last couple of weeks, so get fucked I guess

        • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          Oh that’s cute he did a safety vote but it took the ICJ ruling for him to move.

          So that means he understands the ICJ ruling and it’s implication. Yet he continues to deny there is an ongoing genocide. He speaks of how terrible things are, but he won’t say permanent ceasefire and he won’t say genocide. He says a “pause in the fighting” and there are “really horrible things” going on. He won’t call it a genocide.

          He says, correctly so, we are all complicit with funding and arming what is going on. Speeches he should have made months ago, but could only make with the cover of the ICJ ruling. Why did it take that?

          He is still unable to call out Bibi and the Likud for being textbook genocidal ethnofascists. He soft gloves them as “far right”. He uses harsher language against Trump.

          He continues to parrot “Israel has a right to defend” and “Hamas bad” tirade where “defense” means wholesale leveling of residential areas with a side of taking pop shots at kids getting water and ladies in churches. Everything the song laments about liberals Bernie parrots.

          Put yourself in Bernie’s place in that interview. Would you answer the same? Would you willfully refuse to call it a genocide?

      • @[email protected]
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        Bernie was willing to vote down the bipartisan funding bill recently because it included additional military funding to Israel. He stood on the Senate Floor and put up giant printout images of women and children starving and begging to receive water from behind a metal barricade. Bernie is the realest person you’ve never met. Despite being Jewish, he is the single person who speaks out the most against this atrocity in all of Congress.

        • @[email protected]
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          631 year ago

          Despite being Jewish

          I know you didn’t mean any harm by this but it is antisemitic to assume that all Jews do, or should, or would be expected to, support Israel. It’s not true, it has never been true, and the only people who claim it is true are racists.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            That’s exactly why I said it, though? Bernie is an example of a high standard we should hold all people to. Calling me antisemitic for that makes you seem like an Israeli apologist.

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                All I’m saying is, due to his self identified ethnicity and as a democratically elected politician, he has more to lose as a Jewish Person than almost any other democrat in congress. That matters. We’re allowed to talk about that.

        • huf [he/him]
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          381 year ago

          yes yes, i know he cant do more than write a strongly worded letter and then vote on partylines later…

          the parliamentarian wont let him

  • Well… Guess I’ve lived long enough for Bernie to be declared a fascist, that didn’t take long. But the idea was that he’d be thrown in the gulag because the revolution would have already taken place.

    😔

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    441 year ago

    This vid is like the Patrick Star wallet meme. Bernie being Patrick and absolutely unable to say genocide despite acknowledging all the evidence.

    I also take issue with Bern not able to go further than call Likud (Bibi and his government) more than “far-right” when it’s painfully obviously an enthno-fascist party.

    But if this is how Bern wants to be remembered as…shrug-outta-hecks