214 points

Imagine if we had elected this beautiful bastard back in 2016.

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38 points

Imagine if Gore won.

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*if Gore’s win wasn’t stolen by the supreme court

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27 points

I seethed for months over this. Months.

Boomers wonder why the younger generations seem to ‘hate america’.

Well it’s because of bullshit like this. Repugnicunts have hijacked democracy and its roots are in Nixon and we have been forced to grow up under the lie that we are free and represented by our politicians.

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1 point

My parents tried to explain to me why Bush won instead of Gore, and my little kid brain was like “but he won though”

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33 points

That was my first ever presidential election vote, I was so excited to see someone with legit interest in saving the environment, full of hope for a new future. I remember how giddy it felt to step into the booth.

I lived in florida then, the entire state was thrown out by a legit conspiracy.

And it’s jaded my vision of politics ever since.

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Yeah, it’s a big reason why I think civil disobedience is making a comeback.

People are realizing the government doesn’t exist for them; it exists for the ruling class. That’s not how it should work and we don’t have to play by the rules they make for us.

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1 point

Full of invasive species, Florida man, woman, fucking craziness all around with zero hope. I’m glad i wasn’t born there.

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28 points

Too bad the primary really was rigged

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5 points

I keep seeing people say this. where can I find more information on the subject?

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14 points

In November 2017, Brazile said in her book and related interviews that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had colluded ‘unethically’ by giving the Clinton campaign control over the DNC’s personnel and press releases before the primary in return for funding to eliminate the DNC’s remaining debt from 2012 campaign,

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries#July_2016:_National_Convention_and_email_leaks

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4 points

Fucking tell me about it, I was living in florida at the time

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24 points

One can dream

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9 points

World would be so much better off

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3 points

Bernie is a Zionist.

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He’s a jew who also worked in Israel for a few years when he was younger. He’s also one of the most critical voices of Israel in America. He’s not a Zionist. Being accepting of Israel as a concept (while it’s not ideal how it exists at all) doesn’t make you a Zionist. A Zionist must want to take over the territory and make it a place for Jews exclusively.

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4 points

He is a Zionist and engages in partisan discourse within zionism. He is only critical of who is empowering the Zionist state. He still supports the project, and you agree he does. Being accepting of it absolutely makes him a Zionist. Isreal does not have the right to exist.

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3 points

Or 2020

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Too bad he was vocally pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian liberation up until now. Ready to blindly believe the lies about the 40 babies, and somehow that Israel is allowed continued support every year with our money. Dude has lost all my support ever since bowing to Dems both times and not fighting. He allowed Dems to get what they wanted and all of us are assholes for not fucking around about withholding votes. Bernie got people excited about real change, and then allowed the very establishment we need removed to bring it to a hard stop (like always). Fuck him and his masters that enabled Israel’s decades and decades of planned genocide started with the colonization of Palestine by Zionists! He is just doing what all the Dems do, good quotes/speeches and nothing changed.

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What more do you want him to do? Politics moves on the margins, and Sanders is now and for as long as I can remember been one of the most Israel critical politicians both in terms of rhetoric and voting history. He is not a king; he is 1% of 1 chamber of the legislative branch of a country that has a lot of issues to deal with.

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139 points

He must be an anti-semite

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If you rearrange the letters in “sanders” it actually becomes hamas.

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  1. Sanders

  2. Sanhers

  3. Sanhars

  4. Samhars

  5. amhas

  6. hamas

  7. Hamas

  8. Start with the original name

  9. Remove the bottom of the letter “d”, now it looks like a mirrored “h”, so let’s mirror it back tp a normal “h”

  10. The letter “e” is just an upside down “a” with rounded corners and a tail, so rotate it into an “a”

  11. The letter “n” looks and sound almost like the letter “m”, it is almost too easy, but let’s just swap it.

  12. Remove the extra letters.

  13. Rearange the letters to spell “hamas”

  14. Capitalize the name properly.

Done!

/s

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25 points

No need for /s - this is no less illogical than most of their other arguments.

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3 points

Bulletproof.

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125 points

If only the DNC could get their shit together, if he was the nomination last election, or the one before, or the one before, the world would be in such a better place.

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95 points

We could have had Al Gore instead of Bush if the Supreme Court didn’t toss Bush the crown because… reasons

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Because SCOTUS decided that it was perfectly fair and valid to have the final vote on who got to he president come down to one of the peoples’ brother and there was absolutely nothing wrong about that

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33 points

If only we had AI Gore in the early 00s.

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22 points

We should have! Republicans illegally stole that from us as well

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4 points

Because reasons that cannot be used in future jurisprudence due to the extraordinary nature of the, ahem, decision

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Also, many progressives stayed home or voted for the Green Party. Not that it is more the fault of progressives than SCOTUS, but blame aside, it’s a cautionary tale.

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12 points

How DARE they vote for the candidate they wanted! They should be maligned!

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5 points

I wonder how the Nader voters feel.

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-1 points

I’m missing the part where people are responsible for voting for a bad candidate in the DNC primaries.

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-2 points

That argument goes both ways. “Nader would have won if progressives hadn’t handed the election to the Republicans by throwing their votes away on Gore.” Same is true for 2016 with Bernie and Clinton.

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im confused on this, didnt they do like three recounts??

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Recounts only matter if you’re counting all the ballots instead of just the ballots you want you count because your brother happens to be one of the candidates. They invalidated a bunch of ballots that were hole-punched because the paper that was punched out didn’t completely tear away (see: “hanging chad”).

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He alone wouldn’t have been able to do much. As instead of just having conservatives/Republicans against him, the Democratic party’s members in Congress and in other fed and state level spots would also be against him. Until we get third parties in there to break up the eternal gridlock of never moving forward for real people. We just keep being pulled to the right and the centrists only care about not making the rich happy. Burn them and all of it to the ground.

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113 points

This Jewish man must be an antisemite! It’s the only explanation…

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47 points

There is a hamas tunnel under him /s

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6 points

I love hummus with olive oil flowing in the tunnels!

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I can’t believe how much Larry David hates jews.

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He clearly hates Jews. /s

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To be fair hating the Israeli goverment is a very jewish thing statisticaly

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Probably a majority of Israelis hate the Israeli government.

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The caveat is that they don’t all want a better alternative, and some want a worse alternative, because they’re in a blind trauma spiral.

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Most jews do, near as i can tell

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