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In reply to the discussion: How the fuck should I know? I'm just a lilly-white middle aged fat guy. [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)62. I think that Bernie is hitting his stride and his campaign is learning to do better.
I truly believe that he is molding his message and adding our cause to his agenda. I hope that his supporters will support him in that and will assist him. My dream is to have all if the Bernie liberals take up black lives matters as a cause that they care about just as much as smashing the oligarchy. Think it can happen but we need a come to Jesus moment.
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How the fuck should I know? I'm just a lilly-white middle aged fat guy. [View all]
hootinholler
Jul 2015
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NO Bernie is TOO Humble He should say "I have been fighting FOR POC longer than you have been alive
Vincardog
Jul 2015
#99
You assert that a lifetime of fighting for POC counts for nothing. I ask which candidate you
Vincardog
Jul 2015
#231
I am listening you refuse to speak. You reply to me and make assertions. I ask for clarification,
Vincardog
Jul 2015
#249
Bernie has not been fighting for POCs since 1964 which is when he graduated
underthematrix
Jul 2015
#129
"Kiss my ass publicly early and often and MAYBE I'll give you my blessing."
Jester Messiah
Jul 2015
#234
Bernie has been working for 35 years accross party lines to DO things. Your argument for a Diverse
Vincardog
Jul 2015
#232
If you don't know, maybe the best thing is simply not to talk about it.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#2
I agree. But at the same time he has to gain name recognition all across the country with all races.
jwirr
Jul 2015
#22
Not to disappoint you but the necessity for a simple message is for the benefit white people
Ed Suspicious
Jul 2015
#225
I was right there warning you all since the netroots nation dustup to NOT start a battle WITH black
bravenak
Jul 2015
#6
you've made an awful lot of accusations against Bernie supporters. Do you have any links
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#13
If you're going to make accusations, it's a good idea to be able to back them up.
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#34
That post remained and I had to beg the poster to delete it. It is posted by DSB downthread.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#43
I already found it (or its copy) and see that the poster did self-delete it.
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#67
what has hillary done for you that bernie hasn't? this seems very personal to you. on DU hillary has
dionysus
Jul 2015
#175
I hate Hillary. But her fans are super fucking nice to me at all times no matter what.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#176
i feel you, but deciding your vote based on what anonymous assholes (who may not be who they appear
dionysus
Jul 2015
#178
wow. what the hell went on when i wasn't following DU and politics this year....
dionysus
Jul 2015
#183
Go through the last few weeks posts by 'Black Kos' group over on Daily Kos.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#63
Hillary has hired as many people of color as Bernie's core staff, but her staff is 10x the size
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#117
BS supporters attacked you.. and you're telling them why it's not cool. But, some still won't
Cha
Jul 2015
#188
This is like being on a bad acid trip. Everything is just wrong in some way. Bad vibes.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#202
It's a violation of DU rules to call out a fellow poster but I will leave you with this
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#19
Bravenak and I wear your opprobrium and and ad hominems like a badge.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#60
The ironic thing is we responded to a call out... We didn't start this fire...
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#106
I am content to tout my candidate...I don't start bashing threads and I don't proselytize.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#124
I wasn't referring to you...I was referring to the poster who took the rhetorical equivalent ...
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#104
I have put people on "Ignore" but I don't tell them because I know they can't respond...
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#123
JUST FYI: I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS PERSON IS. I'M OKAY WITH HIM IGNORING ME. :)
bravenak
Jul 2015
#82
Yeah, he's the one who is missing out. I would wear it as a badge of honor if he put me on "Ignore"
Cha
Jul 2015
#149
As a campaign tactic it's pretty easy to make all of these smears without proof, while
GoneFishin
Jul 2015
#26
The suggestion that black folks can't do things by themselves and lack agency is appalling
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#29
It's a campaign tactic. Can't stop yourself from shamelessly trying to make it more than that,
GoneFishin
Jul 2015
#48
Really. You did not tar all Bernie supporters based on something written somewhere by
GoneFishin
Jul 2015
#58
He asked for proof of supporters of a certain candidate saying certain things and I provided it.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#71
Uh ... ok. Sure. Missed that post. But the poster sounds like a real asshole if he called someone a
GoneFishin
Jul 2015
#75
It won't stop. They know better than us what we need. Now if only they could shut us up.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#20
I will vote for whoever the Dem nom is but I agree, Sanders supporters have always, ALWAYS been
Number23
Jul 2015
#147
There are always agent provacateurs when there is money and power at stake. The only
GoneFishin
Jul 2015
#40
Sure, Bernie's supporters (including myself) are really evil--that point has been made many times.
Vattel
Jul 2015
#38
I think that Bernie is hitting his stride and his campaign is learning to do better.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#62
I don't tweet. I don't read tweets. This is anecdotal information I'm not involved with.
AtomicKitten
Jul 2015
#68
Black folks tweet. We love twitter. Have multiple accounts. It's a thing we love like instagram.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#80
Some hearts and minds can't be won with sincerity. Hyperbole like that should be mocked.
pa28
Jul 2015
#130
I believe you. Twitter can be like a trip through the sewer in a glass bottomed boat.
pa28
Jul 2015
#162
Exactly. Absolutely no one on DU has said that Bernie is a racist. I have never seen that.
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#223
That's why I said Hillary supporters and not PoC. I don't simply interchange the two.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#233
Maybe because they died for the sin of having a bit more melanin than some
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#32
from the beginning, the movement has been about vigilante killings as well as police killings
JustinL
Jul 2015
#169
I think it's a mistake to see that as "one group's interests", just as it's a mistake
winter is coming
Jul 2015
#55
"the BLM movement is rejecting the candidate that is best equipped to advance their cause"
Triana
Jul 2015
#66
Someone had a race problem and accused someone else who didn't of having one
RufusTFirefly
Jul 2015
#88
it sure sounds like blacks are not included in the class of "hard-working Americans"
JustinL
Jul 2015
#170
Now up to 84.. they don't get it.. that's okay. Sounds like Bernie is getting it and that's what's
Cha
Jul 2015
#199
Hillary's huge gaffe was NOT treated the same way by the SAME PEOPLE. So when
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#182
"I think it could mean that the BLM movement is rejecting the candidate ...
NanceGreggs
Jul 2015
#200
That was the old chestnut, that Martin was in cahoots with the communists.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#241