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DetlefK

(16,450 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 03:57 AM Mar 2020

I call bullshit on the claim that Bernie-Bros don't exist:






When CNBC lamented that Warren would be bad for Wall Street with all her regulation, the Bernie-Bros flocked to Twitter to correct the record that when CNBC said they were afraid of Warren, they really meant to say they are afraid of Bernie.

When Jill Stein recently wrote a tweet, people told her to just go away. Upon seeing this, a Bernie-Bro commented how he loves watching liberals get triggered.

And here we have Twitter-User David Silverstone,
* who spreads the false republican talking-point that the Democrats are still connected to the KKK, ignoring that this wing of the Democrats switched over to the Republicans in the 1960s when the Republicans went full-on racist with their "Southern Strategy"
* who spreads the false russian talking-point that both political parties of the US are basically identical and that both are evil
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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Hav

(5,969 posts)
1. When people use the term Bernie bros,
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:13 AM
Mar 2020

I think we all have a pretty good understanding about what kind of people we are talking about. The notion that they don't exist is pretty much gaslighting. Another absurd argument used is that they don't exist because BS also has female followers.
But then again, if they could think logically, they wouldn't continue to believe that there is no difference between a Dem and a Repub and that sticking it to the Dem party by getting Trump elected doesn't bring them an inch closer to what they pretend they are about.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

thesquanderer

(12,300 posts)
5. I've never seen anyone say they don't exist.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:56 AM
Mar 2020

That's different from saying they are a very small percentage of Bernie supporters.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Hav

(5,969 posts)
6. Well, I've seen people call them mythical
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:36 AM
Mar 2020

Either in threads particularly on that subject or even in this thread. I understood mythical as a denial of their existence or of them being a problem but I suppose it was meant to be closer to what you expressed.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

trueblue2007

(17,946 posts)
18. THEY DO EXIST. These people hated Hillary in 2016.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:38 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

murielm99

(31,397 posts)
2. I am old enough to remember
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 05:02 AM
Mar 2020

when the mafia tried to claim that they did not exist. There was no such thing as "organized crime."

Does anyone else remember that? That was gaslighting, too.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Magoo48

(5,138 posts)
3. So, the DOJ wants to begin dismantling the Constitution, and your concern is the mythical
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 05:57 AM
Mar 2020

Bernie-Bros?
Priorities please.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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W_HAMILTON

(8,372 posts)
4. They're not mythical -- they certainly exist.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:02 AM
Mar 2020

And their deplorableness in the last election is one of the reason why we have a Trump-overseen DOJ that is wanting to dismantle the Constitution, among other democracy-destroying acts from this administration.

Calling them out on their bullshit and preventing them from ratfucking the Democratic nominee (once again) is helping to put an end to all of that, thank you very much.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

beastie boy

(11,027 posts)
7. That's deflecting. Most people can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:38 AM
Mar 2020

And, arguably, Bernie Bros are doing their part in enabling the DOJ in whatever they do to dismantle the Constitution. At the very least, they are using the same techniques as Barr. Like denying or belittling or deflecting from inconvenient facts.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Magoo48

(5,138 posts)
10. Inconvenient facts, no; hyperbole and distortion, yes.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:47 AM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

beastie boy

(11,027 posts)
11. Calling Bernie Bros "mythical" is certainly a detraction from an inconvenient fact.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:06 AM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

NCProgressive

(1,315 posts)
9. They are equally dangerous to the constitution
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:41 AM
Mar 2020

simply because they facilitate the win of Donald Trump. In the last GE, millions of them voted for Trump or Stein under the leadership of David Sirota, Nina Turner, Brihana Joy Grey and Cornel West.

Have we forgotten?

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Happy Hoosier

(8,302 posts)
13. Distraction? Misdirection?
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 09:55 AM
Mar 2020

Serious people can deal with more than one thing at a time. Seems a nerve has been touched.

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Magoo48

(5,138 posts)
14. Oh, this was for serious people. Well, that leaves me out.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:54 AM
Mar 2020

I’m one of those who believes life is too important to take seriously. Serious or not, I stand by what I said.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

wyldwolf

(43,891 posts)
8. Oh, they're out there. There are nests of them in metro Atlanta
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:39 AM
Mar 2020

and at the risk of attracting all kinds of condemnation here, they're often the stereotypical college townie-type.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Rube Icon

(78 posts)
12. They Absolutely DO Exist, but Who Cares?
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:29 AM
Mar 2020

On voting day, they don't show up!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

zackymilly

(2,375 posts)
16. 1st rule of Bernie Bros: There are no Bernie Bros.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:27 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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