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

These shorthands are just too easy to abuse. Someone days bernie supporters are “bros”—a whole stupid narrative falls into place

that will be my final word on the subject

Bernie supporters are bronies obv

Also, everyone, including ilxors, used "bro" in a positive way for a while about 10 years ago.

You are possibly thinking of 'dude'? 'Bro' naturally exists in tension with 'ho', and ILX has always had a pro-ho constituency.

bro-hos before ho-hos

Captain Save-a-Bro at your service

I am definitely thinking of "bro".

This is quite story:

https://www.elle.com/life-love/a30551979/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all/

I was busy thinking 'bout bros

Josh Bell is a total bro! Totally awesome and friendly (only met him once but he is a friend of a friend).

― HI DERE, lundi 9 avril 2007 19:03 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Edmund Spenser: total noize bro

― remy bean, jeudi 8 novembre 2007 14:55 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Andy from SOTL is a total bro

― Mackro Mackro, lundi 21 avril 2008 18:52 (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Bob Fay is fucking awesome. What a total bro.

― hstencil (hstencil), mercredi 2 mars 2005 13:32 (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

re: the Kate Willett piece in Elle, I'd heard a bit of her podcast, and heard her mention her reasons for supporting M4A, so I'm curious to read that.

"bro" has all kinds of connotations in my circles, all negative, since god knows when. the best-case version of a "bro" is kinda like "basic dude," which even that isn't really my scene. "bernie bros" also certainly exist and are extremely annoying, although i subscribe to the take that their online presence wayyyyy overstates their real-life importance.

but if we're not talking sociology and political demographic punditry, then we're just talking about slang and ways groups define themselves by who's not in them. not sure there's much to say there. i don't hang out with "bros." when someone's demeanor is described as "bro-y" i know what the person is talking about. in turn, i'm sure the bros could have all kinds of words for me and my friends, and so it goes. obviously no one involved thinks men should not have male friends, and i doubt there are any bros out there for whom the word "bro" has shamed them out of enjoying that camaraderie.

20 ALL TIME ULTIMATE BRO RECORDS.

and i doubt there are any bros out there for whom the word "bro" has shamed them out of enjoying that camaraderie.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, February 7, 2020 10:58 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like the term is belittling.

Anyway—of the topic.

Bernie is gonna win

pic.twitter.com/V2bYFFnexD

— law dog, esq. (@ggooooddddoogg) February 7, 2020

The piece I posted earlier is possibly satire (so the bit about Pussy Riot is a giveaway rather than an inaccuracy). It was the reaction to the piece more than anything that got me to post it.

That piece is 100% satire and the response to it is insane.

Does McSweeney's publish anything that is not satire?

I don't think so

i subscribe to the take that their online presence wayyyyy overstates their real-life importance.

uh-oh you'd better tread lightly here, shit is gonna pop

bro rights are human rights

does anyone know a law pro who will rep a bro on a pro bono basis tho

ans?

no

The female equivalent of a bro is a tulsi

women can be bros too it's a state of mind not genitalia

course they can, its like being one of the lads

That piece is 100% satire and the response to it is insane.

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 7 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Enjoying the insanity.

A female bro is a Cool Girl, per the Book of Flynn.

this has been a really dumb conversation but just wanted to say I enjoyed the kate willett essay

I think the bro, as a figure, is a kind of phantasm.

new board motto

I read that in Zizek's voice

zhe brovert’sch guide to ideology *scnhiiiifffff*

fellas is it gay to bro

Where does bruh fit into this?

or bragh

guys pete gives me panic attacks i really need to step tf back from politics on the internet

curious how effectively our "conservative" friends are going to whitewater / swift boat / birth certificate / private email server / benghazi / burisma professor sanders' burlington college tenure

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-trumps-operatives-now-biden-bernie

can’t wait to watch the media bOtH sIdEs this with Trump U

ladies is bros too c'mon brush ya shoulders off

is bros a variant of brose?

atholl bros

And gie my love bros, bros
Gie my love bros and butter
And gie my love bros, bros
Yestreen he wanted his supper

map, come to the office I work in where a guy across the divider told someone thta "Mayor Pete is too moderate for me, but he's got MOMENTUM, so he could be our best chance"

mayomentum

a bro with much mo

mayor pete only has momentum because biden is a failing v-4 engine per usual, warren is a mess and rich people know another ruthless power bottom when they see one and they will speak to all the managers and pull all of the shit they can to keep that other guy the one that smells like poor people from entering their planned community. i just love to see the pundit class pick and choose where and when people of color matter to them, i.e. they have to make more than 40k a year, it's not racist tokenism at all.

this article was shared on fb and i don't get all of it but it makes the argument that as far as winning against trump goes the 2020 candidate doesn't matter. in which case isn't it all the more important to pick the one whose policy commitments could have an actual real effect on poor americans i.e. most of the populace?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/06/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944?fbclid=IwAR1Rr7i_qe9yHEfuNcczZQ-dvXsNL-uAqsAWn6gbQnBriJ3dC_ptx5bAufc

i got into a heated discussion last night with a friend of a friend, a gay man who like a lot of other gay men of his generation from salt lake city are just really conservative at heart and suck up to power and believe the bullshit about progress etc from the bloombergs and the bezoses and i just couldn't do a polite conversation with him... i'm so tired of people who edgelord about "the reality of the world" and accept pure capitalist survival of the fittest like it's gravity and victim-blame poor people. anyway this is working me up too much for my own good lately gotta chilllll

and just for the record katherine is extremely not otm with her concern trolling about people making fun of pete's horrible vacuous politics-speak but there is literally no disagreement anyone can have with katherine that doesn't end with her throwing a massive tantrum so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

whoa chill

somebody with a uterus says something negative about the way Bernie’s opponents are being portrayed in a negative light, well, you know what has to be done, eh? Nothing like living up to a stereotype

(nothing against women who don’t have a uterus btw)