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[-] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 212 points 7 months ago

I want to live in the timeline where things Bernie sees actually come true.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 157 points 7 months ago

Bernie can read the room. These other fuckers very much less so.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago

I'd step back onto the streets with Bernie at the head again. A small part of me still holds that hope from 2016.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 35 points 7 months ago

So many fucking years ago. Ended any passion I had towards politics.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah... it's hard. If it wasn't for my student loans I'd only have about $4000 in leftover reoccurring bills outside of the usual living expenses such as rent and utilities today. Back then I donated more to a campaign than I have donated before or since combined for anything I worked hard. Talked to everyone. Helped found a subreddit for election and voting protection through information. I even went to local watch parties.

I think we are ready for that again. Many of us would stand and fight with Bernie, Jon Stewart, AOC. Most of us who were a part of that understand why people chose to not vote for the status quo. But man, fuck, it's tiring feeling so disjointed and at best loosely aligned.

We need a community.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Never forget Bernie's legacy... https://youtu.be/ZlZaVtCT5HI

[-] wiLD0@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The others can read the room too; they’re just in an entirely different room.

[-] girthero@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I feel like they can just choose not to because wheres the money in that?!

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 7 months ago

Yes he can. I am happy he still has a voice.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 54 points 7 months ago

Word is, when Bernie first saw the news of the murder, he said, "Fuck yes."

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Even if he didn’t support the action, it is clearly getting us to talk about what he wants to talk about.

[-] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 47 points 7 months ago

Mass movements can do lots of things, but we can’t even get a majority of people to vote…

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago

We can get a majority of those that do vote to vote for Trump so I am not that hopeful.

[-] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because people don't feel represented in the current FPTP voting-system, which to be fair, was designed by wealthy romans to benefit wealthy romans.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

As it turns out, you only need like around 5% of the population to start a revolution (if even that amount). Revolutions have been started with even fractions of a percent.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 38 points 7 months ago

Yes, it can and that’s why we should keep trying.

But it does seem less likely than in 2016.

I’m not desperate (am Canadian) but I don’t blame desperate people.

The ends don’t justify the means but no one is denying that they do get results.

And that the correct means have been tried for decades.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I feel like we've made more progress in our national discussion regarfing healthcare since the assassination than we have in the previous 10 years.

I don't want to think that violence is the answer, but damn if it ain't a conversation starter.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 10 points 7 months ago

There is no escaping that sometimes violence is the only answer. It took that level of drama for right wingers to acknowledge what they have in common with progressives. It's really hard for right wing populists to resist supporting murder.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I've also seen more people realize that an armed populace can provide a check on oppression witpopulrequiring a revolutionary uprising and defeating the military.

Having more guns than people means that the more people you piss off, the less safe you are.

If ine nutjob with a gun wants a politician or business leader dead, they can be stopped.

If 100,000 nutjobs want to assassinate you, one of them is gonna slip through.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

There's also the fact that the day after many insurance companies were suddenly approving procedures they denied the day before.

In all likelihood the assassination saved lives.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

We've had several mass movements about it over the past 15~20 years, the only thing that has worked so far is lead poisoning.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

certainly if the movement is fast enough, as we've learned.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 months ago

Say a muzzle velocity of roughly 1100 ft per second?

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago

I healthcare insurance companies need to become extinct.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 22 points 7 months ago

You heard it from Bernie. Sharpen those pitchforks.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago

Good interview, good vision. Should have been Bernie.

[-] Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

This country needs to have a mass bowel movement and flush that shit down the drain.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago
[-] spacesatan@leminal.space 13 points 7 months ago

Mass movement, movement of mass, close enough.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

But when I say the same solution I get banned from communities for being a "coward" and "copaganda."

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I think if Bernie suggested murdering all the CEOs he'd get banned from his communities, though.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I don't think such things have ever or will ever stop Bernie Sanders from speaking his mind.

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[-] schizolol9@lemy.lol 12 points 7 months ago

He is not wrong lol

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago

I wish we would see a movement like this in Canada when it comes to grocery giants like Loblaws

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

a mass movement of 3d printed felonies

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago
[-] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 7 months ago

Only if that movement is armed.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Yes, yes it can.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

maybe a mass movement and a few other.. things.. will do it.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

The problem in my country is that most people are complacent and could care less to do anything about it aside from trying to overthrow the government because they had to wear masks and take a vaccine.

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Dont forget that at its core those people are outraged with the hand they were dealt, the GOP is just very good at directing that anger where they want (in that case masks and vaccines). However there is an option where we can stop dem vs gop fighting at a citizen level, and channel our outrage together at the people who are actually ruining our lives, billionaires and their government lackeys. Otherwise its total economic collapse, or WW3

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[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

So he wants us to beat ceos. Got it

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Beating them is another good option, well reminded, Bernie.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah a small mass of lead with a lot of movement behind it would do wonders to the brain of most ceo's

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

~1100 fps for an object about 9x21 mm

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

💩
CEO

Am I reading this right?

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