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Sanders hits at Cornel West over criticism of Biden
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Everyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill, sure sounds like some rightwing cope.
The centrist liberals pathological inability to tolerate even small amounts valid and reasonable criticism is part of why democrats keep losing elections.
Where's your criticism of Cornel and his unpaid taxes and child support?
Strawmanning your opponents is on page 2 of the rightwing playbook.
Can you at least try to counter Dr. West's arguments? If you can't, then just admit it. There's no shame in admitting weakness.
I'm not strawmanning Cornel, he has nearly half a million dollars in unpaid child support. Also plenty of other folks are taking on that aspect of his candidacy, pretending he's not deeply in debt is not taking his candidacy seriously and I don't think anyone who simply ignores the financial trouble he's in should be regarded as serious.
poisoning the well
that's a lie
Inaccuracy, it's child support and taxes
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/green-party-candidate-cornel-west-owes-half-million/story?id=102293692
you can edit your comments on lemmy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cornel-west-owes-more-than-half-a-million-dollars-in-taxes-and-child-support-records/ar-AA1fsNiV
have you considered reading articles before you link them?
What part of that article says he doesn't owe half a million dollars?
the amount isn't the dispute. it's the source of the debt.
Wait, you're calling it a lie in huge letters because the person said half a million in child support and not half a million in child support and taxes? That seems needlessly nitpicky and also needlessly aggressive.
considering the tax debt is 90% of that amount, i'd say the article itself is being dishonest.
I'm not sure owing tens of thousands in child support is the glowing endorsement of Cornel West you think it is.
his kids are all grown, so i think it's actually moot.
Why is it moot that he neglected his children just because they're adults? I'd say that neglect says a lot about his character.
he didn't neglect his children.
He absolutely did. He didn't pay child support. That's neglect.
you can call it neglect, but i'd look to the people involved, not some court in racist usa to tell me whether they were neglected.
Yeah, you just blamed someone for their son's death. I don't think you get to have this conversation anymore.
no, i didn't, but toodaloo
i don't let fascists tell me what i'm allowed to talk about.
And now you're namecalling. Block time. I do not tolerate Reddit behavior.
i love the lemmy block system
as far as i know none of his kids have died or agreed to be a gun-for-hire for his employers, so west is still a far better father than biden in my opinion.
Whataboutism is also not a good endorsement of a neglectful parent. And blaming Biden for his son's death is sick.
State sanctioned media is always the most trustworthy...right?
cornel west doesn't need to pay taxes or child support until we dismantle the empire.
Racist trope much?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/green-party-candidate-cornel-west-owes-half-million/story?id=102293692
Stop trying to woke snipe legitimate criticisms of Dr. West
what is legitimate about this criticism? it's ineffectual mud slinging: anyone who agrees with what cornel west says will not think this is a meaningful criticism at all.