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- videos@hexbear.net
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- videos@hexbear.net
I’m not the biggest fan of BE, i think his online persona can be grating at times, and his takes on China are very half-baked and borderline ignorant, but on this issue he is 100% right. Everyone needs to hear this. If you invite liberal Zionists and Zionist apologist socdem politicians on your stream and don’t call them out as the supporters and enablers of genocide that they are, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-Palestinian”.
I refuse to discount Bernie (and to a lesser degree AOC) on one major thing, Bernie has been a “gateway drug” for many actual leftists, myself included… even if he himself is a mushy socdem.
Same. I also still have my placenta and even though my umbilical cord has long ago withered and fallen off, I keep it with me just in case.
I don’t see how you can’t discount Bernie. Bernie was my gateway into socialism/leftism/eventual communism as well, but he isn’t the be-all-end-all figure, and you lose nothing by discounting him. It’s like training wheels on a bike. Eventually, you have to let go, because you don’t need them or they become a hindrance.
I used to think Bernie was awesome, but that’s because he is a capitalist stooge and a horrible fucking racist prick. He MIGHT have been good up until the 1990’s, but it’s not the 90’s anymore.
Yeah Parenti was right to end their friendship when Bernie voted to bomb Yugoslavia.