I know candidates don’t pick their supporters but the sheer nastiness of Sanders supporters on Twitter tonight makes me ill. No one can say anything about St Bernie without being attacked.
I don’t support him because I’m a Republican, and he’s a nut-job who will be dead within a year. Good enough?
WTF?
His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders, was born in a sthetl in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was a second generation immigrant whose parents came from shtetls in the Russian Empire. What language do you suppose they spoke? He grew up in a neighborhood populated largely by other recent Yiddish-speaking Eastern European immigrants, attended Hebrew school and had a bar mitzvah. In what sense is he “not of Yiddish culture”?
(giving into the hijack and accepting that I’m just going to have to start another thread if I want to have a serious discussion about the Sanders campaign)
It’s not quite that simple. “Yid” is just the Yiddish word for “Jew”, so obviously in Yiddish it’s not a perjorative. But it is often used as such by English speaking anti-Semites, so is best avoided by gentiles. And don’t even get me started on the Tottenham Hotspur sense of the word.
Yeah, that’s a whole other can of worms.
Have there been any health updates for Bernie?
Christ. In one of the articles on his health they mentioned that his daughter in law died the day he came out of the hospital. He’s walking back the “change the nature of the campaign” thing but I really don’t see how he can keep up full tilt.
It’s not a word I use, but it’s a word my older relatives used neutrally to talk about other Jews of their generation.
Whereas I’ve never heard “yid” or “yids” used in English except as a perjorative.
Hey, that’s just my experience, and somewhat dated, as the relatives who used “Yiddish” are all dead, now. I’m not super up on what words are used to insult Jews these days. Fortunately, I rarely run into that.
I was wondering that, too. I guess he’s on TV tonight?
Oh - no, he accepted the invitation, but backed out for health reasons:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/politics/how-to-watch-cnn-lgbtq-town-hall/index.html
Pack it in, Bernie.
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When he had the heart attack, he canceled the next week, didn’t he? Is this not something that we should have already known he wasn’t going to?
Super late to the thread… but if he were elected and implemented his version of a financial transaction tax, I’d be out of a job overnight. Last year I would have personally owed $5,591,110.
Well, maybe you should start paying your fair share.
Your money would be well spent to pay for free healthcare for illegals.
And that amount makes the difference between your having a job and not having one? 
I’m a professional trader. That amount of tax far exceeds the amount of money I make. I, along with the rest of Chicago trading firms, would be out of business overnight.
Oops, I read it too quickly—thought it was about $6K.
Mightn’t that suggest this kind of high volume trading could use some friction? “Buy and hold” isn’t good for your job, but it might be better for the country and the world.
Big deal. What’s more important, you having a job or a Mexican illegal having free healthcare?
I don’t see any reason why.
Throw sand in the gears… because?
If you think high-frequency traders have an unfair advantage, buy some stock in Virtu Financial and profit with them.
Ah…what? You can get taxed at an income rate that exceeds 100% of income? Is it like a tax-per-transaction? :dubious:
Sanders is proposing a tax of 0.5% on the value of stock trades. So, in my case, as a professional trader, yes.