Bernie Sanders was always right about the Democratic Party.
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Bernie Sanders "strange honeymoon"ed in Communist Russia specifically because he jerked off to establishing relations with an oppressive communist regime. Whatever retrospective he has for American democracy is in service of an objectively worse solution.


Hey, nobody’s perfect. 😂


Yeah, he really got shafted in 2016. Whether you agree with his politics or not. He was a better contender than Hilary.
I think his days being the democrats lapdog are over.


He ain’t getting any younger.


Bernie is a bunker holdout who never got the message his side lost.


Despite my opposition to his politics, I used to respect Bernie for his authenticity... but he just keeps endorsing puppets of the very oligarchy that he denounces.


Feels like he wants to start a new political party. It should be the orange party. And maybe purple. 🫡


Such great insights but then that bit about health care being a human right. Aside from the implication that health care labor should be "free," the whole thing is built on a terrible model for medicine which incentivizes the use of interventions at the expense of actual health.

But otherwise this is a nice surprise.

It's amazing to watch so many on the left not recognize how dysfunctional and elitist the Dem party has become. Good for Bernie.


Feel the Bern

Feel the Bern


Anything that requires the labor of another person is not a human right. How can people not understand this? Is sickening how entitled people are


I've been saying 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck for alot longer than Bernie.... lol


Sort of. Bernie still doesn’t get it and the  people who advise him don’t get it either. He is unelectable and dems know it, but Bernie doesn’t seem to get that.


I think he would have won 2016.


Seems to me Bernie kept his mouth shut before the election. It's easy to speak truth when nothing's at stake.


Nope. America at its roots won’t tolerate socialist ideas.


Yes.  Bernie ~absolutely~ would’ve won.


I think if Bernie had won the Democratic nomination for the 2016 election, the dynamics of that time were such that he would have won, and Trump would have lost. The Dems only lost 2016 because Hillary was such a terrible candidate.


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i really appreciate you 👍


I totally agree with you. People have very short memories and forget about the political dynamics of that time. Had Bernie been the Democratic nominee, I believe he would have won 2016.


FYI, I'm unable zap you.


I get this error when I try zapping you:

Could not fetch invoice from https://getalby.com/lnurlp/alexgleason/callback


And I you! Love your posts. Plus you once quoted Ivan Illich 🤩


hard not to.

“Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.”


Fantastic ⚡

Fantastic ⚡


Odd fact: Joe Bidet tossed Bernie under the bus by distancing himself from his policy stances in 2022 and Bernie lay down and did nothing. Bernie did nothing (?) when the Railworkers strike which had been under preparation for better part of a decade was crushed by an act of law signed by Bidet.

Why is he speaking up now all of a sudden? You're late old man. Late, after having been a willing accomplice to the Bidet administration for four years.

#us #politics

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Possibly because they get some sort of kickback or meal ticket from their fluffing.


Bernie Sanders was always right about the Democratic Party.
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Bernie talks a good game, but socialism isn't the answer to America's problems.

There are people making 6-figures living paycheck to paycheck. You cannot legislate and "safety net" irresponsible spending. Ironically, the best safety net is no safety net. Humans will actually take care of themselves if they have to. People will be charitable to those in true need, America has always done this.

Relative wealth inequality is irrelevant (other than a political football), so long as absolute wealth rises, which it has. America's poor are more wealthy than the average income person in the world.

Finally, the way you get big money out of national politics is to make federal government less powerful so it isn't worth buying. Reduce the federal government back to it's original intended size. Centralization of power will always lead to corruption/waste. It is inevitable.


Everyone in America currently has a right to healthcare (shouldn't be denied for discriminatory reasons).

No one has the right to slave labor. (also why income taxes are immoral)

America's healthcare industry is an enormous rat's nest. I don't think single-payer is the best answer. I'm not sure what is, but right now I do know insurance companies have WAY too much say in dictating care. Shifting all that to the federal government doesn't seem like the best solution.


Healthcare as a human right doesn’t mean enslavement of doctors. It means that no one should be deprived of basic care if they can’t afford it. The problem of course is that someone has to pay for it. If preventative care is accessible, people get less sick and don’t need to go to the emergency room for basic medical needs, which goes unpaid and drives up hospital costs for everyone else. So we either agree as a country to spread the risk around with a giant insurance pool, like we already do with Medicare, or we spread the cost of emergency care around, which is the more expensive and less efficient option.


he should have refused to endorse.


Bernie lost because the DNC would never let him make it past the primaries.


Yeah but he wouldn’t stand a chance either way


I think you're largely correct. There ws a lot of party pressure to sandbag Bernie's campaign. He had a lot of support and momentum at the grassroots level, but when it came time for the party establishment to vote in the primaries, they didn't let him win. He won my state of Colorado, but you're right, they were never going to let him be the nominee.


Love him or hate him, you gotta admit Bernie is the most consistently on-message politician in contemporary politics. He's almost pathological in his adherence to his message. You can never call the man a flip flopper.


No one is deprived of basic care. We have medicaid.

We have giant insurance pools already (both public and private). They don't work great.

Like I said, I don't have a solution, but centralizing power doesn't seem to be the best option


that too


In 2016 he would have.


Nah.


We really do … how do I meet him


His extreme opinions were never popular with centrists, not then, not now. They would simply stay home.


I think you may be forgetting the political climate, and dynamics at play in 2016. Hillary was an awful candidate, and she only lost the electoral count because of Comey's 11th hour decision to release that letter about potential new evidence related to her emails (which turned out to be a nothingburger). She won the popular vote.

Had Bernie been the candidate, in that moment, I am convinced he would have exceeded her performance and secured the electoral college as well as the popular vote. He had no baggage and was liked by pretty much everyone. In that contest, he would have prevailed.


Nah. But I’m done talking about this. Reminded again why I hate politics 😂

Back to bitcoin.


No but maybe I can do my own spin on it as a middle aged woman who wasn’t rich


Bernie talks the talk.

Sounds good after the election.


Bitcoin is definitely better than politics. 👍


Humans are politics
Bitcoin is the tool
Come on yall

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Bernie has always been based. Just comes at solutions with the wrong ideas.


Yea its ridiculous. Double billing, inflated prices, supersize profits.

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Who’d a thunk, they want more discussions!! Maybe we just need to discuss harder and things will be fixed!!


Kamala and The Democratic Party lost because they ignored all the bitcoin podcasts.


Bernie Sanders was always right about the Democratic Party.
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Well, some part of his opinion might be correct but his solutions definitely are not. I do not endorse people who are 99 / 100 times wrong just because from time to time they happen to say something right. GFY Bernie.