Yeah, Bijou, you’re here with me in North Carolina, right? We’ve been a swing state before, and we have the chance to be one again.
Please look at this trolley hurtling toward destruction, and help me push it away from the precipice. You know as well as I do that the Green path–which is of course the best path–ain’t the path this train is going down. It’s either going on the Biden track or the Trump track. And one of those is way better than the other.
I wish it could go on the Sanders track or the Green track, but it won’t. And I need your help pushing it on the least destructive track it might go onto, which is the Biden track.
All hands needed here, Bijou. Put a clothespin on your nose and help me push.
Not so sure, I don’t remember the Bernie talk dying down much after the 2016 elections. There are 3 or 4 subreddits dedicated to him that I regularly see pop up.
One thousand voters. 499 support Trump, 498 support Biden, 3 support Greens most but think Biden is marginally better than Trump.
If everyone votes for their favorite candidate, Trump wins.
If everyone votes for their favorite candidate that has more than 400 votes, Biden wins.
The closer the contest, the more important it is that Greens support the better of the candidates who stands a chance. If they don’t, they’re taking the action that helps Trump.
This ain’t opinion. This is the math of first-past-the-post voting.
This time he’s doing it the second week in April instead of waiting until the second week of July. That’s three more months without bullshit that I refuse to relive right now but is all on the record. And three more months that Biden can spend without dealing with Weekend at Bernie’s.
I’m genuinely shocked that you’re asking what’s inflammatory about “all the Bernie Bros who hung on every word as if they were ordained by a loving God who sends birds to perch on his podiums”. Characterizing political opponents as credulous cultists and idol-worshippers is a time-honored method of holding them in contempt (Republicans used it to great effect during Obama’s campaign and presidency). It destroys communication and undermines your own ability to understand the perspective of others.
You’re helping Trump. And I’m highly supportive of the Green agenda. Voting Green in a competitive election is one of the worst things someone who supports the environment can do aside from voting Republican.
Wow, saying “Bernie supporters listen to everything else he says, hopefully they’ll listen to this too” is inflammatory? You probably need to relax because that is fucking mild.
Also, if any Bernie supporter decides that they won’t vote for Biden because their feelings are hurt, I doubt there’s anything I can do to change their mind either way.
Now, Bernie? He might be able to change their mind (which was my only point above).
What an odd thing to do, to put your own words in quotation marks, only it’s not what you actually wrote. Had you written that, that would’ve meant you’d written something different.
I’m not under the impression that you’re fairly evaluating your own words, though, so I won’t throw good effort after bad.
I’m no Bernie bro but it is quite full of crap paraphrasing what you actually said into something less obnoxious and then pretending what you actually said is therefore less obnoxious.
Or it could just mean the 0.1%ers have way too much money and nowhere better to stash it, so they drive up the price of the shares.
And are there in fact more jobs for more people right now? The Dow going up hundreds of points today means nothing from an economic perspective. All it means is Bernie pulling out of the race put a bunch of plutocrats in a buying mood, is all.