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Bernie Sanders

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6. I especially hate it when...

Reply to bjo59 (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 07:38 PM

Apr 2016

they say that you must be privileged enough to have these views. I am a minority millennial who's been disadvantaged from the start, but yeah I must have a special privilege I guess.

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When establishment types complain about us having purity tests... [View all] RepubliCON-Watch Apr 2016 OP

I call it Authoritarian Adulation. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #1

^^^THIS RepubliCON-Watch Apr 2016 #2

Well, this time around I will watch and allow others to defend a system that continually Baitball Blogger Apr 2016 #3

neo-liberals are willing to give a little social justice to continue looting the 99%. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #4

Frankly, I think their public purposes come across as a bit scammy. Baitball Blogger Apr 2016 #7

Yeah that whole "purity" business is all about dismissing all us "Luddites" who are so dumb bjo59 Apr 2016 #5

I especially hate it when... RepubliCON-Watch Apr 2016 #6

It's just blaming the victim Hydra Apr 2016 #10

Yah, I'm so privileged... malokvale77 Apr 2016 #11

they're technocrats: 1,000 deaths today means $10,000 total profits per person MisterP Apr 2016 #13

It will never trickle down malokvale77 Apr 2016 #15

The critics have a kind of reverse purity test in that regard eom LiberalElite Apr 2016 #8

Don't they have impurity tests on policies? Depaysement Apr 2016 #9

It's not a purity test. It's a litmus test. And they fail it. hedda_foil Apr 2016 #12

It's not a purity test Half-Century Man Apr 2016 #14

Yes indeed... malokvale77 Apr 2016 #16

I see classic projection felix_numinous Apr 2016 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author felix_numinous Apr 2016 #18

We want *statesmen.* VulgarPoet Apr 2016 #19