"Bernie's supporters have been very, very damaging to him, and it's really frustrating to see and experience. They don't realize how influential they are. It's frustrating to feel like they are hurting him," Ocasio-Cortez said in the midst of the 2020 primary, according to the book. "I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate."

margot-disgust pickle-liz

She also worried that the behavior of Sanders's supporters were "forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis" through their "behavior, not so much policy."

Ocasio-Cortez made those comments as she mulled whether to endorse Sanders's 2020 campaign, even though she had worked as an organizer on his 2016 campaign.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-bernie-bros-reactionary-left-wing-book-2023-12

It's socialism or barbarism dawg

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    1 year ago

    All the exit polling I saw said otherwise, Bernie won all groups(but especially poc and queer people) below 55, while biden swooped up the Olds both black and white, and Warren was left scraping by on a fraction of the college cracker professional set.

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yes, because the "BernieBro" thing was mostly an online thing. In other words, that was just very online Hillary/Biden/Warren people crying because young people cared more about another candidate. But it was made into this huge issue by the mainstream media, I am betting that it received more TV time in 2016 and 2020 than the Iraq war and climate change combined.

      • davel [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Is the Bernie Bro in the room with you right now, Hillary?

        Just a made up demographic to discredit as a proxy for discrediting all Bernie supporters.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Rember when she tried the same thing in 2008 with Obama boys but the reaction was correctly an immediate "what the fuck is wrong with you you racist old hag?"

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Just everything is so odd:

            Jerseys hung up on wall via plastic hangers

            Could they not afford a cheap poster frame?

            Spiderman and Pan movie posters

            Not my first choice, but sure

            DVD cases hung on the wall

            What the actual fuck. Let's see what's here: capeshit, sure; random action slop (Meg, Hobbs & Shaw, Equalizer 2), uhhh alright; PETER RABBIT, wot.

            MLM poster on the wall (It Works)

            tito-laugh

            Busted old couches

            One guy who's getting a haircut just randomly near the exit

            • AlkaliMarxist
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              1 year ago

              I was gonna say, every barbershop I've been in has had the barber chairs lined up, facing a wall with a mirror on it. Not in the middle of the room, on a rug, surrounded by sofas.

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            • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              The guy getting his haircut has dreads and the barber is holding just a comb. What is going on.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        1 year ago

        I love when people do blackface on social media. It's so cool and not at all weird to roleplay as a minority to try and own other white people.

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Mayo Pete’s campaign manager (Liz something) got caught literally pretending to be a black man on twitter who kept hyping up Pete.

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I winced from the secondhand cringe reading this. It was probably him saying that and everybody telling him to shut the fuck up.

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          They got challenged on it, so the warren campaign seems to have staged a fake barber shop to prove it wasn't made up https://nitter.net/STEFisDOPE/status/1231425884063764480

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            30 days ago

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    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      yep, AOC is just a warren-ite college cracker professional set-type so she doesn't see this pattern

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        She just "feels" like everyone else should agree with white college cracker professional set.

        Her 6month bartending gig is stilen valor

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Working a bit during college doesn't making someone working class either, nor does being "poor" during college and eating ramen make one poor. These are basically just mini-poverty tourisms and a hazing period for the middle class, not legitimate class differences. The precarity doesn’t exist, they have safety nets to fall back on (drop out and live with their parents at their huge house).

          • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            God damn does it ever wind me up hearing people talk about how they “struggled” in uni cause they had to eat ramen in their dorm or something. Mf you have rich parents and no student loan debt, there was no struggle. These people have zero concept of how it feels to be on the precipice of destitution with no one to fall back on.

            • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              Poverty is when I'm afraid to ask my parents for a couple thousand dollars, because they'll ask me what I'm spending it on and I don't want to admit that half The money they give me goes to alcohol and drugs.

          • regul [any]
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            1 year ago

            Pulp - Common People (1995)

    • carpoftruth [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah in the middle of the 2020 primary there was definitely discussion of Warren getting polite Bernie hand-me-downs. I can't blame anyone for "feeling" like that during the midst of 2020 - there was a concentrated media effort to make that case and propaganda/advertising actually do work. It turns out, real people didn't actually behave that way though. If aoc is still concerned about that now or anytime after Warren washed out then she's a dumb ass but who cares if an electoral politician was aware of and in some way responded to electoral political punditry in 2020

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    • mar_k [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Also the difference between his support from men and women was only 5%, but the media always stressed he was specifically "the candidate for young men"