Having a favorite politician is weird, like having a favorite landlord. You should care about the policies and efficacy of your politician, and not really give a fuck beyond that, unless they are a rapist, serial drunk driver, or something like that.
Having a favorite politician seems odd to me
1000% agreed, but fuck if I wasn’t literally smitten listening to Lina Khan talk. Attacking corporate hegemony really gets my engine going.
I get what you’re saying, I like the way Jasmine Crockett speaks sometimes.
Vermin Supreme?
Many Republicans worshipped Reagan decades after his passing.🤷♂️
The people who need to read this cannot read.
I wish that was a joke. There is a direct correlation with the rise of fascism and the decline of American reading scores. Currently nearly a quarter of our adult population is functionally illiterate. Meaning they can identify words, they can send texts, they can reply to messages or read headlines, but are incapable of anything more advanced than that.
We somehow think that there’s a sharp line between “cannot read at all” and “can sit down with a paperback and be whisked away to another world” when actually it’s a spectrum, like everything else.
Really what this means is that a sizeable set of our population, because they suck at reading, also suck at forming language in their heads, and because of this cannot manage and consider complicated, abstract ideas or reframe thoughts into words that can be analyzed. When you live like this, you tend to just go along with whatever other people are doing and you have intense emotional reactions to everything you see.
It’s worse than that, there are Republicans that know he’s morally reprehensible, might destroy the country, know he is incompetent, and still worship him.
Why the fuck would anyone have a favorite politician?
because he smiles like he’s part of your family and makes you feel good while standing firm in his beliefs against untold amounts of racism from all sides of the political stage?
ahem. I mean yeah why would they. I’m not in a cult. shut up.
Brother I’ll be honest with you, I will read 18 pages of whatever bullshit you want to write to me, but I won’t even watch 10 seconds of video.
Joke is that it’s an over the top song praising united nations politician Jen Egeland by the same artists that made “what does the fox say.”
Ahem…. Bernie.
The 2025 Bernie people are definitely a cult, talk about beating a dead horse. It also shows the hypocrisy of all the “we want all the old white wealthy dudes out of politics!” And then demanding Bernie. Also Bernie is great at pointing out the bullshit but never has a plan to replace it. Having said that I love and agree with his views for the most part, but I don’t lip service, when I mean I want old white men out I mean all, not just the ones I dislike.
Edit: kinda proving my point with the downvotes about the Bernie cult
LOL
“Bernie doesn’t have a plan”
Bernie got 200,000+ Americans a living wage simply by getting off his ass and giving speeches at Disney and Amazon, bringing media coverage to their shitty labor practices. This was while Democrats sat on their hands and pretended that they’re powerless.
It’s unreasonable to expect people not to be bitter when Democrats rigged primaries against him and served us up two Donald Trump presidencies.
People aren’t Bernie cultists. It’s just a novelty when there’s a federal legislator who says things and then walks the walk.
Your tone and hurt feelings Kinda proving my point about the cult stuff.
When I say I want old white guys out of politics I mean it
My tone doesn’t prove your point.
My tone demonstrates annoyance at your ill-informed opinion, which I’ve shown by presenting counterexamples.
And a broader annoyance at ill-informed people being confidently incorrect.
How can my opinion be ill informed or not? It’s an opinion, not a universal truth. The cult of Bernie is strong here. If he ends up on the Epstein list y’all are gonna trip over yourselves to defend him
How can my opinion be ill informed or not?
… by basing your opinion on weakly supported assertions or outright misinfo. I didn’t realize this was complex.
It’s MY opinion though, YOUR opinion is wrong to ME. Get it yet?
Anyways why am I arguing with a cultist? It’s like arguing with maga, with left views.
Man, “The world is round” and “The world is flat” are both opinions, that doesn’t mean one can’t be ill-informed and the other well-informed.
If you meant it youd do something about it. When are you running, I look forward to seeing your policies!
Very culty
Also Bernie is great at pointing out the bullshit but never has a plan to replace it.
Is this really the case, or is it that his plans don’t get a lot of analysis and detailed criticism because we all know the rest of the government will never pass it? And I don’t mean this as a Bernie-defending retort — I don’t follow him closely but I thought he’s proposed plenty of legislation and laid out changes in his speeches. His history in defending people that are not white dudes is pretty legit too, of course.
And given that he’s old, rich, and has his heart in the right place, I bet he would instantly jump at the chance to be exiled from washington along with all the other elderly people.
I think Bernie inspired a movement that is quoted because he has many good ideas that can help people. Other “cults” don’t help anyone other than themselves and wreck shop.
Finding a problem is part of being productive. Just because people find the problem doesn’t mean they can have a solid solution. But our government is built on adjusting. It has not been adjusted. The corporations have duped the American people into believing that their guidance is in their best interest in every way possible.
The exit strategy is restructure or complete annihilation and then rebuild. History has proven this many times. See Egypt, Rome, France, England ect.
Bernie is one of the few politicians with a plan.
The fan club can be annoying in peddling conspiracies, but if there’s one thing that I’ve learned over the past decade, it’s that no political alignment absolves people from fucking stupidity.
If you’re an American and you can’t name… let’s say… 10 presidents, then it’s probably a bad sign if you even have a favorite politician.
I disagree with Bernie Sanders about eliminating national-states.
There.
I said it.
Cool, well I disagree with this and vehemently believe that progress will never be achieved until we abolish the concept of the state.
John Brown died (how could he?!) and left America without guidance until Malcolm X came around…
“You should be worshipping ME instead! Nyeh-heh-heh-heh-heh!”
Having a hard time thinking of something bad to say about AOC
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What happened here I wonder
They said something about AOC voting for funding for Israel. Didn’t seem like something worthy of having the comment removed but idk, maybe that didn’t happen? I’m not familiar with whether or not that really happened.
Oh :(
Pham Minh Chinh is banning ICE scooters in the capital in 1 year, and cars 2 years after that.
What could I possibly criticize him for? Not banning vinfast cars blocking traffic with fewer than 3 people?
