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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Bullshit, we never had genuine primaries.

[–] disguy_ovahea 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The primary was genuine. The DNC candidate support was not.

Had they provided Bernie with the same media coverage and platform of support as Hillary, the passively informed wouldn’t have seen him as “the socialist who wants you to pay for other people’s kids to go to college.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be nice if MSNBC didn't go on about Bernie literally executing them using the old Communist tropes too... Between corporate media and the DNC real candidates that aren't just neolib assholes will never get a fair shake.

[–] disguy_ovahea 6 points 5 months ago

Absolutely. Not to mention Cambridge Analytica’s manipulation of Facebook users through psychographic profiling having a huge influence on the boomers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I heard from media how aloof Bernie was. Then I heard him speak and talk to people during events and learned he was much less aloof than they made him out to be. All part of the business as usual party.

[–] demizerone 4 points 5 months ago

Some would say, anti democratic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There never are when an incumbent is running. I agree that that's a bad thing, but it's the normal thing and the same thing that happened this year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I agree and I want that to change after this fucking dumpster fire... but I honestly don't understand the "But we haaad primaries" argument.