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

among all the millionaires attending the inauguration i will choose this one guy i hate and say he is showing white privilege and class privilege because he doesn't have the right coat on. everyone in the appropriate expensive clothes is just normal. and has many colored educational degrees????

It's all predicated on "Bernie looked grumpy" (instead of: old with RBF when it's not freezing cold) but it's hard to believe anyone takes it seriously without the barest acknowledgement that the star of the day's show was an old white man with multiple sexual misconduct accusations who gave Strom Thurmond's eulogy.

white privilege means you get to dress caz

It almost feels like a bad faith take, but I don't think it is. I think it's more frustration that Bernie disrupted a narcissistic fantasy.

bernie sanders should smile more pic.twitter.com/8EBzbSol1k

— manny (@mannyfidel) January 22, 2021

one of the reasons bernie is inspiring is because he he has privilege, is aware of that privilege, and chooses to use it to fight for others who who don't have it. a choice that is apparently inconsequential or impossible to make purely enough, from this weaponizing idpol perspective.

It almost feels like a bad faith take, but I don't think it is

to use a hated phrase, a distinction without a difference

i think there's a certain craven mindset that is just threatened full-stop by seeing someone use their power to bring more power to people who don't have it. because the side effect of that is that person becomes more powerful. and that makes some people extremely, viscerally mad.

anything to keep my students from using their "inquiry skills" to explore how the fancy clothes people are many times richer than him and have spent their entire careers shitting on poor non-white people and/or throwing them in jail

this is an impressively bad take

not yours harbl's -- the article

there is such a strong current in this country to make throwing people who are less powerful than you away or under the bus a "way of life" that means being successful, beautiful, and good. but the truth is... it isn't any of those things. and some people are so mad about it.

I can only hope all this person's zoomer students answer back with "who care" memes

steeling my self for the "actually..? it's kinda lowkey racist and misogynist to support AOC in her primary attempt against Chuck Schumer" takes. because they are coming and there's nothing you can do about it

Is it not good enough for you for AOC to be a Representative? Why do you demand that she take on the duties of Senator as well? Why do you want to let the old white man off easy?

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JANET👏 YELLEN👏 DOESN'T👏 OWE👏 YOU👏 ANYTHING👏

just going to leave this one here

https://t.co/xl4WhkzxO2 pic.twitter.com/ySixFpN0BR

— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) February 1, 2021

the replies mostly suck, i already regret leaving that one here

there is such a strong current in this country to make throwing people who are less powerful than you away or under the bus a "way of life" that means being successful, beautiful, and good. but the truth is... it isn't any of those things. and some people are so mad about it.

― Joses Chrust (map), Monday, February 1, 2021 12:19 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bingo. people don't like bernie because he uses his platform to draw attention to issues he thinks are important. he seems to care more about the people in america facing eviction than he does about the pomp and circumstance of the presidency, and this is baffling to people.

"monochromatic ensembles of pure power" would get you blocked by a findom for trying too hard

i'm amazed that ppl find dressing for the weather so disrespectful

"monochromatic ensembles of pure power"? has this person never seen how Louis XIV dressed, or just about every monarch or potentate since time began?

"monochromatic ensembles of pure power"

excellent Information Society song

I think there are people who genuinely and earnestly conflate wokeness with having a multiethnic ruling class. Stealing attention from Kamala getting to be a boss in her power outfit (and also the same old white guy we've had for decades getting to be a bigger boss) is a high crime, even if it's not the doing of the person stealing the attention.

Thing is

The hyperattn paid to bernie memes for two days after does seem noteworthy in some ways

Just not in this way

noteworthy in part to the extent that the typical high-church trappings/fanfare of the inauguration this year seemed more obviously putting lipstick on a pig...that image of Bernie p neatly pointed that up

i'm not getting dressed up for this horseshit

Not reading the SF Chronicle op ed. Sounds bad.

That's wise. If you told me it was a parody I'd believe you

he was dressed up though! he had on black pants, socks and shoes. just not a cashmere overcoat or w/e. "it is unfathomably powerful to wear sensible clothing that is not too showy" is just insane and sort of betrays the hand of "i love to do whatever it takes to appear powerful for i will always feel like i never have enough of it."

I don’t feel represented unless someone is wearing Dior Nikes.

Even putting aside the fact that Bernie was arguably the most proactive among Dem leaders in having helped GOTV to beat the republicans in this last election, the last thing we need are think pieces about how he dresses or w/e with everything going on right now.

*among the most proactive

otm, seems especially unnecessarily DIVISIVE (that word the center hates) at a time when Bernie memes are actually BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER and helping us HEAL

these people only understand semiotics, and that barely. anything real--like the fact that people are suffering and they want a shot at a decent life for themselves and their family--just flies over their heads, which is why bernie always mystified them.

i thought the pt of the bernie memes was that he looked cute

agree with that. the first one i saw, with just the original photo and "disdainful rescue greyhound" as the caption, is still my favorite.

a disdainful rescue greyhound pic.twitter.com/UvmMDPaAkN

— Liz Crash (@AsFarce) January 20, 2021

my greyhound does fold his paws exactly like that

How much are op-ed sections just attempting to fund themselves thru hateclicks from promoting the most clueless professional-class courtier-wannabes anybody can find?

a not insignifcant portion for sure. jia tolentino really nails this in her book, mostly talking about bari weiss and other professional trolls but the same can apply to any belief system

bernie is a fucking cop

My amendment to #BackTheBlue and defend, not defund, the police passed the Senate overwhelmingly tonight by vote of 100-0

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) February 5, 2021

how are you going to have a socialist police state without police?

what was the amendment? i can’t find anything about it.

https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-amendment/558

Bernie was making the jerking off motion when he voted aye so it doesn't count.

Left can you explain to us what this means To establish a deficit-neutral fund relating to funding the police.

some right wing bullshit

anyone care to defend this

maybe just read the thread title and take it up somewhere else

He’s not in favor of police abolition. I think this became known during his recent presidential campaign.