END TO END BERNERS: The Official Bernie Sanders 2020 Crew thread

If Bernie is going to be president he is going to need lots of people far worse than Rogan to vote for him. If he's able to do that without changing his message thats great

We may have forgotten to note that the NYT sucks too, post their endorsement of Warren Klobuchar, although search is currently broken for me

I find it hard to believe we could have gone a day without pointing out NYT sucks, but if true it's definitely an oversight.

Yeah as a trans woman, reading the comments on the various Twitter threads just makes me super-excited to have Rogan's fans brought into the fold.

yeah yeah but remember! Separate fans from the candidate!

it's not like by voting for someone else these people will suddenly go away

even the worst people shoud be welcome in supporting the right candidate—not least because they're injuring their own cause

"can you wipe the grime off of the ballot when they hand them in?" is kind of the eternal question of getting votes

FOr me this is no different than the "we have to go after rural diner NYT article voters." No thanks. Let's just get the nonvoters activated and stop vote suppression instead.

even the worst people shoud be welcome in supporting the right candidate—not least because they're injuring their own cause

Alternatively, depending on numbers, they may be injuring MY cause.

only to the extent they influence the candidate

The nonvoters aren't necessarily good people either, I'm afraid.

true

getting bigots on board with Bernie—and inclined to defend him—is more likely to influence their thinking than his

What a bizarre idea

Separate fans from the candidate!

DJT, former big fan of the Clintons and Pelosi

xp sorry I don't have a lot of trust in that

you think Bernie Sanders is going to start adopting the positions of Joe Rogan YT commenters?

Otm. Can’t say I’m enthused about Rogan either - he’s way too much of an enthusiastic mainstreamer of extremists and is laundering a lot of malign ideas by hosting certain guests. But I guess Bernie isn’t fucking around and he’ll take the support where it comes from.

not too concerned about Roganheads influencing Bernie tbh. he never changes, remember?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mayor-bernie-sanders-created-an-80s-trans-mecca-in-burlington

getting bigots on board with Bernie—and inclined to defend him—is more likely to influence their thinking than his

― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII),

I'm not following this.

Rogans audience aren't more or less bigoted than NYT readers

It's not really about 'adopting positions', it's about what policies to focus on and invest political capital in. Bernie can be the greatest person on earth, it's not a comforting idea that he'll rely on transphobes for reelection.

If Warren wins, she will have relied on transphobes for re-election also

I'm not going to apologize for not being thrilled about an influx of "no bIOlogiCAL MEn IN WOmen'S sPOrTS" chowderheads into the Bernie camp, sorry. Lie down with dogs etc.

and she tried to go on Rogan herself

With newfound respect for a political leader comes greater openness to their *other* ideas as well, be it only up to a point. I'm surprised this is controversial.

It's admittedly not much but…

It's not 'controversial' as much as it seems completely wrong

Identifying with a particular group for reason x makes you more receptive to adjacent, initially less appealing reasons y and z.

i dont care if rogan likes bernie, i do care that bernie's camp promotes the endorsement as worthwhile

That's fair.

no president has ever been elected by refusing to lie down with dogs

we can only try to support the candidate least likely to get up with them, too

no dem nominee, for that matter

[Rogan] endorsed Ron Paul in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign[76] and Gary Johnson in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.[77]

Johnson to Bernie in four years?

i dont care if rogan likes bernie, i do care that bernie's camp promotes the endorsement as worthwhile

― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison),

He went on the show so why wouldn't he? Is there an idea here that Warren didn't attempt the same strategy?

With newfound respect for a political leader comes greater openness to their *other* ideas as well, be it only up to a point. I'm surprised this is controversial.

Yeah, idg how this is wrong. What does it even mean for someone to be a leader otherwise?

i'm sorry this tangent is even happening, obv way to go bernie for getting that pretty massive audience, and no i don't believe that this endorsement means we're getting president joe rogan though that's surely not too far down the line. i just hate joe rogan and that he has an audience at all, nothing i can do about that. also liz otm

i dont care if rogan likes bernie, i do care that bernie's camp promotes the endorsement as worthwhile

― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Friday, January 24, 2020 8:21 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk i tuned this out after the "hot girls like bernie" memes started happening the other week

And outside of Bernie, I just can't get with the idea that Rogans giant audience is somehow TooFarGone and irredeemable, or some homogenous mass that can't be engaged with. I don't see how shunning works better than engaging

The problem is that Rogan is also an influential leader for his fans, so unless you're claiming that Rogan's support for Bernie will compel Rogan to rethink his transphobia, it seems overly optimistic to think Bernie's position on this will filter through Rogan to Rogan's fans.

Alright that sentence is a mess--basically this argument can't be settled as determining how and why political views change is notoriously difficult to do empirically.

can’t believe bernie got rogan cooties and now his campaign is 100% transphobic. disgusting

my own experience is that DMT makes a person very impressionable, so there's hiope for sure

not sure what watching MMA does to a brain though

x-post: Hey, you can disagree, but no need to be condescending, it's a legitimate worry.

I'm not suggesting Rogan will rethink anything, I'm also not suggesting that 100% of Rogans audience are transphobic, or that a majority are transphobic, or that his audience is more transphobic than the voting public

can’t believe bernie got rogan cooties and now his campaign is 100% transphobic. disgusting

― uncrut gems (crüt), Friday, January 24, 2020 8:31 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

damn it's almost like no one in this thread who's concerned is saying this

are there Joe Rogan listeners among e.g. those 22,000 WI voters?

if so, yes, this is a good thing

the ends justify the rogans

I immediately regretted posting that. sorry.

I genuinely don't think anyone in this thread believes "it's bad if the wrong voters vote for Bernie" so can we just let that go?

^an xp to Hadrian

He went on the show so why wouldn't he? Is there an idea here that Warren didn't attempt the same strategy?

― anvil, Friday, January 24, 2020 9:23 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i wanna go one day without tu quoque fallacies.

look im all for a big tent and having some of those people being in the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. i just dont think its necessary to elevate the voices of the tent-pissers that target the other people in your tent in word and deed.

Can I just say to anvils point, that if someone listens to a podcast, where the host was yelling 'you're a fucking man' at a trans woman in one episode, my assumption will be that the listener is transphobic as well. Might be wrong. But I don't think it's an unfair assumption.

Is that common knowledge among his casual fans, though?