END TO END BERNERS: The Official Bernie Sanders 2020 Crew thread

Believing in a guy saying bullshit % have decreased by 30%, will keep listening to podcasts and cheering on the new Star Wars, like a fool.

Lol no one 'believed' the red telephone guy twitter to stop canvassing and campaigning.

i would like to point out that i was otm in that thread when i pointed out that the red telephone was an mi5 psyop

i will now be bundled into an unmarked van and wake up in a shipping container somewhere in kabul

Man so good.

This is amazing. Please look at Peter Buttigieg's face when Bernie says he's a competitive guy and wishes him luck on catching up with Joe in the billionaire supporter contest. pic.twitter.com/Gjm4irhX9M

— 𝓜𝓪𝓽𝓽 𝓡𝓾𝓫𝓲𝓷 (@MtthewRubiin) December 20, 2019

that made me laugh so hard

angry squirrel

I was already leaning toward Bernie, but I think I'm there.

God I wish he was in his 60s even.

You should see my face when I look at Matt Rubin's face.

holding a fundraiser for bernie sanders in my jrpg cave. i present before him on one plate a playstation 2 and a copy of xenosaga, on another an xbox and a copy of gears of war. my eyes glisten in the torch light. the senator reaches for the ps2. i nod and sign the check

— leon (@leyawn) December 20, 2019

PBKR, you go to war with the altecocker you have...

the squad

Cornel West giving pregame remarks at #BernieInVenice to an audience including Werner Herzog, Tim Robbins, Anderson Paak, Kim Gordon and Danny Devito is the whole tweet ✊😎 pic.twitter.com/KGo7egZ7yP

— Medicare for All! (@WaywardWinifred) December 21, 2019

I can’t wait for Herzog to make some “ecstatic truth” ads for Bernie that make Glenn Kessler’s head explode.

.@AOC calling out the hypocrisy of the bloated military defense budget. "Budgets are moral documents... this campaign is about a radical realignment of our priorities in the United States." #BernieInVenice pic.twitter.com/apT2DYxNHg

— Trinity Tran (@tran_scends) December 21, 2019

Castro called out CNN for blatantly using old Bernie polling. Must be gunning for that veep slot

he's beeeeeen from jump. he's laid off bernie and liz and come after beto, buttigieg, biden. it's a really canny political pivot bc he could've just as easily gone establishment dem given his background, but once sanders and warren are retired/dead, he's still young enough that he can claim progressive bona fides in future presidential races and/or be a credible vp candidate with one of those two.

Something interesting I didn’t know for the last day of Channukah: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3224239/jewish/Some-More-Info-on-Bernie-Sanders-and-Judaism-blog.htm

There’s a video of him lighting with Chabad last night of fb that if I can figure out how to link I’ll post later

hopefully this works

https://www.facebook.com/100024757552869/videos/578299316338648/

more video here including bernie addressing the crowd briefly

Bernie Sanders is here to light a menorah at a “Chanukah on Ice” event at Des Moines ice rink. It’s been scheduled a while, but it’s less than 24 hours after an intruder stabbed 5 at a rabbi's home in the NYC suburb of Monsey during a Hanukkah celebration late Saturday night. pic.twitter.com/atEe4QpAjC

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) December 30, 2019

Over the past few years, Bernie Sanders supporters have called me the following names: pic.twitter.com/UYiQ2SBf2f

— Jeremy Fassler (@J_fassler) January 2, 2020

relevant

hahahha

I don't know who that is but lol at expecting outrage towards a candidate because his supporters called you "dumb" or "hack" on Twitter.

The vile Berners who are replying to this tweet with further harassment are proof that his supporters care more about "owning" their "enemies" than helping the causes Sanders cares about. At this point, there is little difference between them and MAGA idiots.

— Jeremy Fassler (@J_fassler) January 2, 2020

jeremy fassler is leaving a voicemail with the manager

Fassler rightly notes that supporters of Amy Klochubar have not indulged in such ugly rhetoric against him.

they're more about throwing chairs

Guys, just stop this. You're not helping anyone by making fun of a rando who is angry at being called a 'cunt' or a 'piece of shit'

Things are certainly taking a darker turn but I don't see how we can force better standards of online discourse. We have seen on this very board just how far people can go with their words. At this point, one wonders what the end game is

Guys, just stop this. You're not helping anyone by making fun of a rando who is angry at being called a 'cunt' or a 'piece of shit'

― Frederik B, Friday, 3 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Yes let him be with his terrible opinions.

Been a minute since we had some good Fred pearl clutching.

Guys, come on now

There are people out there being called bedbugs (and probably worse). You can joke about it all you like, but for many its creating a climate of fear. Laugh today, but it could be you tomorrow

It's just unproductive. Being an asshole actually isn't a part of the intersectional class struggle, y'know.

And yeah, comrade alphabet is a great example of what not to do. Don't end up like the corbynists.

Guys, come on now.

what an absolute blooming wally cunt Fred is!

Supporting coups across Latin America, but doing so politely.

No matter how much you say it, still just a lie.

Again. A prime example of not how to be. Anyone thinking this sort of behaviour is not a drag on any movement is simply too partisan. You can't transform the country with people like that, no matter how militant they are on social media.

Transforming the country, one social media post at a time.

Guys, just stop this. You're not helping anyone by making fun of a rando who is angry at being called a 'cunt' or a 'piece of shit'

Fred, I think the deal is that he makes no distinction between things that might be actually demeaning or abusive; things like "centrist hack", "hacky writer", and "gossip columnist", which are totally fair game for someone who writes professionally about politics (you could surely find worse in Pitchfork reviews); and things that are just goofy like "walking jar of mayonnaise". He also provides no context for, or frankly, evidence of any of this, other than the very general statement that they are things that 'Bernie Sanders supporters' have 'called him' over the past few years. (As someone asked, was he writing each insult down in a notepad app as it came in or did he comb through all his last few years of Twitter interactions - if the latter, surely, we could see the receipts?) Since he is not just some rando but a paid political writer with a decided agenda, you might see why we're a little hesitant to open our hearts regarding a public declaration like this.

That said, maybe he actually has been treated appallingly by a mob of Berniebros and is just very bad at expressing it? Tbh, a scan of his Twitter feed and some of his writing mostly seems totally anodyne so idk why it might have happened.

The problem is once online mobs of BernieBros feel emboldened in this way it is only a matter of time before they take their threats off of twitter and into the physical domain. This has happened in the UK where Momentum Thugs have gone unchallenged for years and have graduated from online threats into shouting and pushing, recently shutting down a hospital and forcing a journalist to flee, lucky to escape only with a fractured rib from a fall.

He is probably stupid, but so what? That's not really important. Some of the stuff he has received is shitty, and laughing at people because the way they complain about being attacked is less than perfect, is nagl. Just ignore him. Nothing constructive can come from this.

Agreed, I have stopped laughing now. There has to be a limit

i really love to call dumbasses dumbasses, is my praxis bad

Poll options:

"Since he is not just some rando but a paid political writer with a decided agenda" Vs "He is probably stupid, but so what? That's not really important."

Politeness is fucking entitlement Fred, sometimes unproductive rage comes from a place of powerless despair

And sometimes it comes from being an asshole