You know, my plan when Bernie eventually dies, was to not exactly celebrate; but more to reflect that, yeah even though he ended up being a liberal Zionist piece of shit I respect the fact that he started something that got many of us on the pipeline.
But fuck that, now I will be doing crab dances when he dies and piss on his grave.
IDK tbf Bernie didn’t really go in on Sinwar. OK he said he’s dead that’s true.
He does call them “1200 innocent people” ok that’s just false if they’re an occupying military. But also he doesn’t say Sinwar killed them. If ever a time for the passive “died” was called for it would be have been then, considering it seems like most non-military deaths were probably from the IDF themselves. We’ll never know exact numbers. Thankfully doesn’t blame the palestinian deaths on him which is peak lib genocide apologia. At least he’s trying to use it to end the war but naively thinks shit like this will work. Zionists don’t want an offramp bernie they are true believers. this is what zionism is.
History will show Sinwar was a hero. And history will show Bernie had a good heart but was a coward who should’ve broken with the Democratic Party but didn’t have the guts, and always was wrong and had a blind spot about Israel and foreign policy in general.
I’m sorry but this is just wishful thinking and active whitewashing, sure he doesn’t say Sinwar individually killed 1,200 “innocents”, but he says Sinwar masterminded the attack that killed 1,200 “innocents.”
The only way history will show that Bernie had a good heart is if someone donates him a new one, where is the good heart in calling IOF soldiers innocents? He is treating Israelis as ontologically innocent.
Imagine a German in the riechstag who argued “hey we exterminated enough Untermensch now that we killed Kirponos (or if they had killed Medvedev) and avenged all those innocent christan babies the Jews sacrifice and all the people they betrayed in WW1. The Soviets, who are singularly responsible for us losing WW1, are now killed and we are no longer defending ourselves if we keep killing these people who our murder of was totally in response to their evil actions” being remembered as a good hearted person who was a coward and had a blind spot?
Nah fuck him. Hell imagine a self-proclaimed socialist during the Vietnam war celebrating Ho Chi Minh’s death and saying “look the evil man who attacked the innocent south is dead, all of that justified napalm is now not ok”. It is depraved. This is a Holocaust, and that cannot ever be a “blind-spot”, that is just being a fascist genocidaire.
He doesn’t need to make a statement, but he is because he thinks this will convince people to vote Harris, that there is some slowdown to the genocide that will happen. This merely obfuscates and gives cover for extermination. Bernie is actively involved in this slaughter and in laundering it to us. This is who he is and what he believes, he fundamentally does not see Palestinians are equally valuable
NOW, MOTHERFUCKER?
NOW THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION?
Fuck off, Bernie
oh, NOW there’s no justification. before this, totally cool and ok. but now? RED LINE.
“42,000”
Just. Fuck.
so dishonest
42,000 confirmed. Israel has destroyed the civilian infrastructure that does the counting. It’s easily in the hundreds of thousands by now.
120,000 is the low estimate
Easily much higher. They stopped counting very early on when the infrastructure to actually officially recognise deaths crumbled. Lancet published a review a month or two ago that said the real number was likely around 130-180k
The did the same thing in Yemen. They stopped counting a year or two in and the number remained static.
Like what the fuck?
They did that with covid deaths in the US, too
Bold for a US senator to be calling anyone else a war criminal
To reiterate something Felix tweeted months ago, I can’t wait till he fucking dies
Parenti was right about Bernie all along. As well as everything else.
I thought they were friends. What did he say about Bernie?
They used to be at least, Bernie’s support for the bombing of Yugoslavia changed Parenti’s opinion of him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLNQEHbusSA
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
BERNIE AND ME by Michael Parenti
People have asked me what I think of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Bernie and I used to be close political friends up in Vermont in the early 1970s. We ran together on a third party ticket (the Liberty Union Party). I ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and Bernie ran for the U.S. Senate. (I got 7% of the vote; he got 3 or 4%–but who’s counting.)
Bernie stayed in Vermont. I wanted to write rather than run for office in one-sided campaigns. So I spent the years writing books, articles, teaching courses, giving interviews, doing guest lectures all over the country, and marching in demonstrations. But I remained good friends with Bernie. I gave him moral and monetary support in his successful campaigns for Mayor of Burlington, then U.S. House of Representatives.
But I eventually broke with him because of his position on the Yugoslavia war, the “humanitarian war” as Bill Clinton and his national security state people called it. As did many liberals and some Trotskyites and anarchists, Bernie stood shoulder to shoulder with NATO and the CIA and the Clinton White House in the destruction of Yugoslavia, the 78 days of bombing, drenching Serbia in depleted uranium, leaving Serbia with the highest cancer rate in Europe and breaking up Yugoslavia, one of the best social democracies in Europe, though not without its serious blemishes.
Today, I wish Bernie the best. He is a Democrat although he calls himself a socialist and an independent. But he takes very good stands on Social Security, human services, and curbing the banksters. However, he has voiced not a word about what his foreign policy might be. I suspect it has not improved. I will most likely not be voting for him. Probably I will support some third-party candidate who will run a hard hopeless campaign—of the kind we used to do in Vermont years ago. ----MICHAEL PARENTI
Trotskyists, anarchists and “progressives” supporting the bombing of Serbia. Not much has changed, huh?
You automatically win the war if you kill the enemy king.
A leader is a king; people need to be ruled, it’s human nature. Nothing works unless there’s 1 person in command of literally everything.
Everybody knows this, it’s all common knowledge.
did… did CHESS LIED TO ME?? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ♚♗♞
People upvote my heavy irony, but when I say “leadership is not a rigorously demonstrable reality, it’s an umbrella concept invented by the bourgeoisie to essentialize their right-to-rule and maintain the stratified pyramid structure of society”, people are like “whoa whoa whoa but you need the revolutionary party to have leaders tho”.
Like any ‘left’ zionist, he is
seemingly unable to give a talk or write an article or book review on whatever political subject without injecting some {western chauvinist} side swipe
I cant even muster the strength to be mad anymore. This shit just bounces off me. I’m just like oh, the old man said something Zionist again. Ok.
a few months post Al-Aqsa Flood when it became clear Bernie wasn’t going to use the term “genocide”, I trashed most of the Bernie campaign materials left from 2020. I had boxes of stuff. the only thing I held onto was a nice full-zip Bernie campaign hoodie. It’s one of the few things I haven’t thrown out but now I have the impulse to burn it because there’s no context in which I can imagine wearing it again
You could always stich ‘Fuck’ onto it
hmm maaaaybe, but then people might think it’s a Trump sweatshirt because it says 2020 underneath the Bernie
maybe if I also add “social imperialist and genocide enabler” underneath.
Leftist meme sweater
Do the entire text of Fisher on capitalist realism
I ended up with some free swag for [extremely ghoulish corporation] that I’ve held onto in the hopes that I could find a very funny situation to wear it, so there’s always that angle. I realize that it’s a lot more painful to hold on to something that you once felt proud of, though.
I have a CIA pen in my drawer for that exact reason. Only corpo swag I use are stickers from small places like Goulet pens, and a Hudson River trading sticker that says “code with hrt”.
Same, one depressing but also funny part of going to STEM exclusive job fairs is that I have a lot of swag from military and weapons contractors I try to use ironically.
I remember putting chiquita stickers on a CIA booth at one of those. Good times.
Goulet pens’ owners were recently revealed to be part of a very homophobic church group and did not disavow, kept liking gross stuff on social media.
Sorry lol
Interesting (derogatory)
Yeah I have a similar thing, a shirt from a summer camp that was sponsored by… one of the worst companies. I don’t really know if I’ve had a good opportunity to wear it though.
But fuck that, now I will be doing crab dances when he dies and piss on his grave.
But fuck that, now I will be doing crab dances when he dies and piss on his grave.
