#vote bernie sanders

[sordidamok]

#alexandria ocasio cortez #bernie sanders #green new deal #vote blue #vote democrat #housing is a human right #vote biden #democrats #vote blue to save democracy #democracy #social democracy #democratic socialism #democrats now socialism later #vote blue 2024 #vote biden/harris #biden/harris 2024

[carsonjonesfiance]

On the subject of Bernie though, he really is a master of political theater because he knew his resolution to stop all foreign aid (all funding meaning including humanitarian aid) to Israel contingent on the kind of investigation that takes months being done within 30 days was going to be impossible to pass but it would make a good pair of headlines when it was introduced and immediately died.

He is not playing politics; he’s playing PR and that’s why he’ll never ever win a vote but he will keep showing up in your feed.

#Bernie sanders #he set up that resolution to fail to prove a point and that’s incredibly cynical of him #I just hope he had a reason for doing it that wasn’t just Raising Awareness #because there is actually a bill being put forward to limit arms to Israel #and this vote takes attention away from that

[spennythespoon]

Georgia Senate race really be like

Edit 12/07/2022: Hell Yeah Warnock won

#in all seriousness I'm glad the democrats did better than expected last night #the gop will probably take the house but hopefully not too big of a majority #and Pennsylvania voted blue for the senate!!! #also super happy that the state measures for abortion were pro choice - even in a state like Kentucky holy shit #also the night went bad for trump but went great for desantis #i hate them both though #its too close to call for Arizona and Nevada but hopefully the dems can get those seats and keep the senate #because id rather have incompetent dems than a gop that's literally a death cult and wants to murder lgbt people #us politics #bernie sanders #2022 midterm elections #Georgia #raphael warnock #herschel walker #republican copium #no red wave #kung pow penis #runoff elections

[plethoraworldatlas]

Jewish U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement Thursday pushing back against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's characterization of burgeoning protests on American university campuses as "antisemitic," declaring, "It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions."

"No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months, your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000—70% of whom are women and children," said Sanders (I-Vt.). "It is not antisemitic to point out that your bombing has completely destroyed more than 221,000 housing units in Gaza, leaving more than one million people homeless—almost half the population."

"Antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to many millions of people," continued Sanders, who lost family members to the Nazi Holocaust. "But, please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government. Do not use antisemitism to deflect attention from the criminal indictment you are facing in the Israeli courts."

#israel #us politics #palestine #biden administration #joe biden #vote uncommitted #antisemitism #bernie sanders

[kaneseatheadrest]

Every conservative accusation is a confession.

Take notes. 📝

#politics #the left #lefties #progressive politics #anti conservative #every accusation is a confession #anti trump #tim pool #left wing #socialist revolution #liberals #centerist #us politics #woke culture #stay woke #anarchism #breadtube #you are not immune to propaganda #right wing bullshit #right wing extremism #abolish capitalism #vote blue #bernie sanders #maga morons #fuck maga #confession #confessions #social justice #hippie #truth

[sage-nebula]

The fact that all these judges keep finding bullshit reasons to delay Trump's trials so he can pardon himself when he's reelected because "leftists" have their heads so far up their asses they can't see the big picture and are willing to let the entire world (including Palestine) burn by voting 3rd party has me 💥

#trump is so gung-ho abt being pro-Israel and anti-Muslim he's going to carpet bomb Gaza himself #and those who refused to vote for Biden & also refused to answer what they thought would happen to Palestine when they lost #will be like '':O oh no!!! this is terrible!!! who could have foreseen this!!!'' #meanwhile we'll have Project 2025 pushing the Insurrection Act thru #jailing Trump's critics #locking in the 6 - 3 SC for another 20 years #revoking civil liberties for queer people and women and people of color #making birth control illegal #but at least they got to look morally superior on twitter and tumblr right #fucksake #and like for what it's worth if i could singlehandedly put someone in charge it would be Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders #(probably Warren tbh Sanders is too old) #Biden wasn't my first pick even in 2020! #but he's who we've got. i don't like it either. but these are the choices. #being an adult means playing the hand you're dealt and this is the hand and we have to play it #if you don't vote Biden you ARE voting Trump. period. and trust when i say he will gleefully carpet bomb Palestine #which is why Netanyahu wants him reelected so very VERY badly

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #2022 #twitter #tweet #sen. bernie sanders #2022 midterms #2022 elections #vote #vote blue #gen z #millennials #working class #workers #workers unite #election day

[red-dragon-archfiend]

Honestly based on my understanding of the US government and electoral politics I think the reason voting is ineffective is because even if you get a progressive into some office or another, that's only one progressive. Republicans don't suppress votes because all it takes is one good guy to fix the country, they suppress votes because you need a lot of good guys to make meaningful change, and without voter suppression that's actually a feasible thing to do over a long enough period of time

#musings #voting can make a difference but you need a LOT of votes to do that #you need several progressive voices in every branch of the government for them to have the power to actually change anything #if you only vote in presidential elections you're not really contributing to change #because genuine progressives are opposed by both the dnc and rnc #and even if they win and you get somebody like bernie sanders into office #they'd have to get the rest of the government to play ball #if you want a progressive president you need enough of their supporters to also be in government positions that the president can do stuff #also as a side note your local government will likely have more direct impact on your life than the federal government does #voting in local elections and getting involved in local politics is the best way for electoral politics to actually help you #voting alone is absolutely not enough but it's a start and a good supplement to more direct action

[outlawssweetheart]

My mother is so brainwashed by the Left that when I tell her about their trash takes, she believes it's coming from Trump-supporting Republicans. 🤦🏽‍♀️

I'll literally mention some horrific antisemitism I read or heard, and she's like "Trump supporters." NO, unfortunately, they're NOT Trump supporters or even just Right-wings! It ain't that easy anymore because we're living in the fucking Twilight Zone!!

#Though she refuses to vote. #I refuse to vote because #I'm not risking jury duty (which I'm TERRIFIED of) when literally everyone sucks #and if someone doesn't suck (like Bernie Sanders) they always have 0 chance of winning. BECAUSE THEY DON'T SUCK! #anti leftist #anti right wing #fuck both parties #fuck maga #fuck democrats #fuck republicans #both parties suck #antisemitism #rant #txt

[philosopherking1887]

Just saw Neil Gaiman had reblogged a political post by Cory Doctorow with an unironic guillotine picture at the top in which he advocated for "left populism," and I made the mistake of clicking on a link to one of his blog posts in which he lamented that Jeremy Corbyn had been "smeared by Labour's right." I am now profoundly disappointed in both of them. Corbyn and the Labour Party he fostered were antisemitic in the bad old model of Stalin, and populism, Left or Right, is always bad for the Jews. If you encourage bloodthirsty vengeance against a small minority who are not considered a true part of "The People" and can be blamed for all of society's ills and purged, it will not stay confined to billionaires. You can advocate for more egalitarian economic policies without resorting to dangerous populist rhetoric. We agree that there should not be billionaires, but that can and should be achieved with confiscatory taxes, not summary executions that open the door to arbitrary purges led by those who claim to speak for "The People."

I am proudly and always will be a liberal, in the sense that I believe individual rights to life, basic liberties, and due process must be considered sacrosanct. This does not entail the kind of "economic liberalism" that Leftists think necessarily goes along with it; property and financial rights do not have to be included among the basic ones.

#just venting about my feelings i guess #probably should've kept it too myself but i was too pissed off #and right after i'd reblogged the funny word of the year post too #i probably should have known about cd #he was just a vague tumblr presence with what seemed like reasonable views about the internet #istg jewish populists in the diaspora are like people voting for the leopards eating faces party #i love elizabeth warren but i hate bernie sanders #you know the difference? #she talks about policy he talks about individuals to blame

[muncedes]

living in the US has to be a simulation because the spokesperson of the white house on national television said, verbatim, which nation has done more to alleviate the suffering of civilians in gaza than the US? we have been sending BILLIONS.. not millions but billions of dollars and weaponry to israel and are the only !! nation voting no to a ceasefire. do they think we aren’t privy to this information and haven’t seen the mass annihilation of palestinians in real time through our phone screens or do they genuinely believe the lies that are coming out of their mouth? this cannot be a real gov’t system

#i hate!!!! it here #he is committing genocide alongside nazi netanyahu they are no different they are one in the same #then you have white liberals telling us we need to vote for biden next year bc no vote for genocide joe is a vote for trump #a vote for trump is me walking into the voting booth and coloring in the bubble under his name #free palestine #free gaza #fuck the united states fuck congress fuck the senate fuck bernie sanders fuck AOC they’re all complicit

[sillychillly]

#work reform #work #politics #progressive politics #democratic socialism #income inequality #vote #economy #antiwork #bernie sanders #libertariansocialism #anarchocommunism

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

i think it is well and good to think deeply about politics in a highly theoretical sense but it is very easy to forget about praxis entirely. you do have to have political aims besides “revolution” and unfortunately too many people in online left spaces do not

#so your politics become myopic and unrelatable #and it can create a conundrum where there is a group of people who would otherwise be politically engaged who get stuck #between an all talk ideology and the more cynical aspect of electoral politics #i think progressive politicians do a lot to engage people who would otherwise find change impossible and be demoralized entirely #even if they are inherently limited by the apparatus they work within #bernie sanders and AOC without a doubt have done a lot to encourage political participation even beyond electoral politics #and direct engagement in local politics was a major outcome of the 2020 protests #what a radical contingent must do is provide alternative actions for people when voting and other electoral engagement is not sufficient #in other words…organizing

[kp777]

By Jake Johnson

Common Dreams

Nov. 7, 2022

Rallying for Pennsylvania congressional candidates Summer Lee and John Fetterman in Philadelphia on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders ripped U.S. billionaires for pumping record-breaking sums of cash into the midterm elections in an effort to sway the results in their favor.

"It is not just Trump and his allies who are trying to undermine American democracy," Sanders (I-Vt.) told the crowd gathered at Franklin Music Hall Sunday night. "You are living right now under a corrupt political system which allows billionaires to buy elections."

The senator pointed specifically to the AIPAC-founded, billionaire-funded super PAC spending big to defeat Lee in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. Sanders also noted that billionaire Rick Caruso, a former Republican running to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, has poured $100 million of his own fortune into the California race.

"Billionaires are saying, 'Hey, we own the country, we may as well own the political system, and I'm going to elect you and I'm going to defeat you.' That ain't democracy, that's oligarchy," said Sanders, who argued only a massive surge of voter turnout and transformative legislative action will be enough to counter billionaires' influence.

Read more.

#oligarchy #buying votes #citizens united #republicans cheat #republicans #bernie sanders

[mistprints]

I was watching the news about how LA banned homeless encampments near schools, as well as how Nevada was demolishing tiny homes made for the homeless based on a technicality about square footage allowed..and like. People demonize the homeless and try to make other people see them as immoral and criminal. While the US needs to handle its homeless problem like every other developed nation, with housing and the opportunity to get employed again once back on their feet, demonizing them under the pretense of "think of the poor children" is not going to help anyone. "But why do they deserve to get free help? We are all struggling and it's their own fault they're homeless." So many homeless were veterans and people that had one bad month or one bad disaster that any one of us could have gone through. And to say they aren't deserving of help when we DO have the capacity to do so....well, we are constantly lied to that it would cost too much and that the everyday taxpayer would suffer. It costs us more in taxes when the city builds hostile architecture, and when these people get very sick from being outside and are taken to emergency rooms. We fund and throw money into programs that don't do anything to help people *out* of homelessness, just temporarily slap a bandaid on it. And while that isn't nothing, it is not what the end goal should be. It is a lie that people end up homeless only due to laziness. It's a lie that the majority of homeless people are homeless from laziness. In America, it is so damn expensive to live, that 70% of Americans are one disaster away from living on the streets. Some of these people had to choose between their house and live-saving medical treatment. The way we treat them is disgusting, like untouchables and we pretend they aren't there except when it comes to putting them out of sight. I've known people who were working 9 to 5 jobs while living out of homeless shelters still. The wages weren't enough to get them any sort of rent. The median rent right now is $2,000 here. $15 minimum wage isn't going to cut it. We are being conned and lied to about not getting more pay than that. This is a capitalist hellscape, hostile to working-class (everyone who is not the 1%) human life. It shouldn't and does not have to be like this. Higher taxes for free healthcare would cost less than a monthly premium we would no longer have to pay, but we don't talk about that. We keep getting gaslit by politicians whose motives are not in our best interest. They are bought out [read: bribed] to keep the status quo and make the rich richer while ignoring our crumbling infrastructure, a predatory housing crisis, flagging wages, environmental crisis for the future of humanity, and healthcare. We fail at everything except profits, which get directly funneled to this vague "rich" class and hoarded. And more people will become homeless while the rest have a worse and worse quality of life. This is not sustainable. There are several things that could be done to fix these issues in a decade at most; I could narrow it down to 5 broad ones:

Raising the minimum wage -honestly one of the most effective ways to give the working class more spending money. Wages have not grown with the rest of the economy in decades. We work harder for less.

Capping Rent universally -can be adjusted for the cost of living in each city, but cannot exceed 30% of the minimum paycheck. ideally for at least 3 years. We also should not allow companies to buy up homes for sale in mass so they can rent them out eternally.

Universal Healthcare -take out the insurance company middle man. it is cheaper for everyone even for those that don't have health insurance (because we pay with higher taxes for high-risk people such as the homeless when they are taken in for dire situations.)

Education Reform -The American school system is deeply flawed. The curriculum has not been updated since the 60s. We fall far behind much of the world. This would include language classes and equitable funding for all departments. Ideally, this would include daycare too.

Environmental Action -Probably the hardest one to tackle and with a time crunch. This goes hand in hand with infrastructure reform; the energy grid wastes a ton of power because of how old and crumbling it is. Water infrastructure is also in danger with the recent droughts part of the country is seeing and the floods in the other. Reducing carbon emissions, using the other better and available energy options...I could make a whole post about this alone because it is what I majored in, but requires a lot more than just switching the lights we use and saving energy. This is bigger than just a consumer-level problem, and the biggest polluters are a handful of companies that ruin the environment, reap the benefits and keep them, then put the environmental costs on all of us. They need to be strictly regulated and required to change wasteful and environmentally harmful practices; and not just with carbon offsets.

our issues are way more complicated and numerous, and I do have more ideas on smaller issues too. But I think handling these would significantly impact the others to raise the quality of life here. We have to divert from the path we are charging down, because not all Americans are the bigoted and ignorant people shown all over the news. A majority of us want the best for each other and to live our lives rather than just survive until we die. Many don't know what to do to begin to change things and can't afford to even leave while a handful of men in powerful offices toy with people's lives all over the world just because they can and have the guns to force the rest of us into thinking we are powerless against them. They keep us divided and uninformed and we often get to choose between a bad and horrible choice for who ends up in charge.

If anyone reads this and wonders what they can do, the biggest impact an individual can do is vote. Vote in people that will make these things happen and who aren't being paid on the side to work for corporate and stock and pharmaceutical and defense industry interests. Vote in your primaries so that when the big decision finally comes, we aren't left with the worst options. Don't let them scare you and don't let them destroy the shreds of democracy we have left.

#homelessness #america #politics #us politics #solarpunk #the machine is dystopian #healthcare is a human right #people before profits #intro to leftism #bernie sanders 2024 #usa #america news #please vote #don't let anyone tell you otherwise #important #government #corporate greed #late stage capitalism

[kaneseatheadrest]

A SIDE NOTE ON PUNK ROCK, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND THE CULTURAL/POLITICAL SHIFT

TW: there's a joke used in a sarcastic context to pose skepticism at the expense of conservatives and in no way intended to be anti lgbtq

Look, if you want to fight the 4chan frogs you have to use humor on their level. Post-ironically. Use their stereotypical jokes against them.

Conservatives be like:

"My pronouns are failed/comedian"

Call them out for making the same dumbass transphobic jokes. Racist jokes. Anti-sjw jokes. They only have like 3 jokes. Make those jokes unfunny to them so they will stop using it to oppress others. That's the cultural Marxist way of winning the artificial 'culture war' of their own creation. Because Conservative are coping with the fact that for the first time in history they are losing their culture. So they have gotten radicalized.

Hypothetically if this sees enough of the people I want to see it. Then this is the type of psy-ops we could use to take away their desire for using these tired bigoted jokes. Gotta make it look uncool. Because it is. But it's only uncool to them if we are embracing it.

That's how they culturally appropriate. They did it to the term 'based' when they connected it to the term 'red pilled'. Practice the term 'based' as a standalone term. The Based God was originally symbolic for presenting progressive values to a modern/post modern age.

That means we are no longer the counter culture. The left have always been the counter culture side of the two party system. We've always had to fight for more culture, diversity, gender ambiguity, empathy. Punk rock has always been a left and liberal movement. Don't let the libertarians and conservatives try to revise history. They have tried to claim that Punk Rock was an apolitical movement. And that's a load of bullshit and proves how little they even know of Punk rock. It was a way to give a voice to the people. When only the rich and powerful were given a spotlight. The oppressors. The right wing. And I know it started off in England but the spirit of it has always be anti-establishment. They barrier for entry was so low because they embraced the aesthetics of lo-fi homemade charm. And it was never about technical skill. It was made to be contrary to that. High fidelity was the culture. Since Punk rock was always inherently counter culture. And what a force it was. It gave voices to so many who were up against the 'moral majority, Christian fundamentalist' culture that oppressed them and never gave them a chance to be heard.

So, my theory is since the culture is reflecting more and more on the side of the liberals, neo-liberals, and Leftists that we have become the modern majority (my answer to the moral majority since 'moral' is a double speak word that can be inserted for whatever they felt like oppressing.)

Conservatives subconsciously understand this. Some of them consciously do. That why anytime you ever hear about the 'culture wars' it's using coming from the conservatives. And when they say 'woke culture' that's what they mean. It's kind of exposing them for the white nationalists they secretly are. Because 'woke culture' is another term culturally appropriated by the black community, and used to oppress them. Kind of nazi-ish if you ask me. Because they hate woke culture. And don't let them gaslight you cuz they will try. Woke culture means everything that isn't Anglo Saxon Pure White. Once we can acknowledge this we can expose how much they have went past the Overton window of acceptability. They only care about straight white men. And Now that they are the counter culture they are using this 'woke culture ' speak to pretend like they are oppressed. Cuz in cultural Marxism speak, conservatives have been the oppressors since the foundation of America. And for the first time The Left are starting to get the power. We are as close as we've gotten to a DemSoc president, although this late stage capitalism isn't exactly in favor of the left. I feel like the system is sort of rigged against people like Bernie. The president WE deserve. We have gained the culture in spite of capitalism. We need to take advantage of it.

Because the more conservatives become aware of this, the more they will pull from that Punk Rock radicalism and they are way more extreme than the left has ever been. That's why we see Jan 6th incidents, all these anti Trans hate rallies and q anons psychological warfare. It's about as late stage as capitalism can get. And I think the Left aren't radical enough now because we feel a false sense of security where we collectively subconsciously feel that we are culturally winning. But this is why the Trump rallys are so packed and wild. They want to centralize to appear like they are bigger in number than they are. And to express their loyalty to their cult leader Donald Trump. But they are the vocal minority. The left are the majority now. But don't get complacent because it's still too early in this cultural shift. They have displayed how eager for a facistic revolution they are. Again, see Jan. 6th. And they've tried downplaying that. But they were trying to incite a one party dictatorship under their cult leader Donald Trump. Because they are already that desperate to get there 'nuclear family' culture back. "Make America Great Again" that's what that means. Take away everyone who doesn't match the standard for a family. They'll take out any genders, race, LGBTQ allies, anyone who isn't fascist like them. Hitler didn't stop at the Jewish people, he didnt even stop at the ones that looked just like him if they were speaking out against the nazis.

In conclusion, the world ended in 2012. But only for Christian fundamentalist. That's what the mayans predicted. The age of Aquarius. The culture shift. It's not just happening in America. It's all over the world. That's why their is so much war overseas right now. The new world order might actually be coming. But it's not like the fear mongerers like Alex Jones predicted. Well, it is for his audience of Far right and Alt-right conservatives. Because, we are becoming a unified culture. But unlike the last time we became this close to a cultural synthesis, we can't let the fascists take over.

We all want unity.

But unity means diversity and equality for mankind to us

And unity means genetically and through skin color for them.

Counter culture was in much safer hands with the anti- fascists.

#socialist revolution #anti nazi #anti conservative #leftist politics #culture #punk rock #politics #bash the fash #anarchism #anarchocommunism #socialism #bernie sanders #vote blue #please vote #marxism #postmodernism #fuck donald trump #internet #anarchopunk #punk #aesthetic #punk aesthetic #anarchist #protest #change my mind #radical left #diy #journalism #independent journalism #hasanabi