• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    13 hours ago

    Since they’re still beating the dead horse I’ve got something different to say:

    Bernie Sanders lost the primaries by Millions of votes. Not Thousands, Not Hundreds of Thousands, but Millions.

    He wasn’t even a DNC member and he got invited in the first place.

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      11 hours ago

      Sure, but he was already losing by an overwhelming majority before anyone voted. Hillary had something like 40 delegates already.

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        3 hours ago

        And if all the Bernie supporters had actually registered and voted in the primary they could have changed that, but they didn’t. Bernie supporters not voting for Bernie in the primary are the main cause of Bernie losing.

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        11 hours ago

        So you’re saying that if Bernie started with 40 more delegates that MILLIONS more people would have voted for him instead? Fat chance, pal.

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            What fuckin fair? It may be bullshit but it’s a private party, literally, and they didn’t need to let Bernie run at all, but they did. Quit moving the goalposts. The facts remain no matter what the DNC did or didn’t do Bernie lost the primary, overwhelmingly, because nobody voted for him.

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            11 hours ago

            If you want me to come up with a reason why the person who receives millions more votes should become the representative then clearly you oppose democracy and idgaf about your opinion on anything.

            Being chosen by the people is what is fair.

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                11 hours ago

                Popular vote: HRC: 16,917,853 Bernie: 13,210,550
                Percentage: 55.2%, 43.1%

                We’ve been discussing how Bernie lost the popular vote this entire time. It was a brutal defeat where he was 2 digit percent margin. Even worse, in 2020 he lost to Joseph Biden when Biden literally doubled his vote.

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                    11 hours ago

                    There is a concerted effort to keep everyone in the dark about this, including Americans, so it’s totally understandable.

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              9 hours ago

              Indeed. Considering her performance in the primary, I was certain she was going to win the general. I was so sure, in fact, that I did a little oopsie and forget to vote. Happens to us all, right?

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                8 hours ago

                You’re the one who sat out voting against a guy who was pretty much a known rapist, so that’s your call.

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                    7 hours ago

                    An accident?

                    You chose to sit out and didn’t care if Mr. Grab Her by the Pussy got elected.

                    Sitting out means you didn’t fucking care he got elected.

                    What a position of privilege you must sit in to not care about such things.