• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    primaries

    Those are funny things. Wasn't Biden one of the least supported candidate in the last primaries with Bernie leading and multiple people between them? Then all of them suddenly supported Biden, and Bernie supported Biden too eventually. Weird how that democracy works.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      You know what the saddest part is? I didn't even expect Bernie to be not-fascist (at least in terms of foreign policy), I just wanted to see how the system would handle him. We certainly got our answer, primaries that would have been called election fraud if they had occured in any under-developed country.

      • GinAndJuche
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        8 months ago

        If Americas guy got treated like Bernie did there would have been drone strikes and sanctions by the end of the week (probably on Friday to give the media time to spin it while people are tuned out).

    • GinAndJuche
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      8 months ago

      Biden won red state primaries. The system working as intended.

        • GinAndJuche
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          8 months ago

          3 presidential runs and it was his first primary win.

          The shit was rigged, but by giving southern states a say at all (especially that early) is part of how it was rigged. If they’d done swing states first, then strongholds, and then states they are guaranteed to lose the math would have been very different.

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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            8 months ago

            but by giving southern states a say at all (especially that early) is part of how it was rigged

            Now South Carolina is the first primary for dems. Its the new Iowa for them

            • cosecantphi [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              Damn, that's such a fuck you blatant move at preventing another Bernie. Once again, the Dems only get their claws out and seriously play politics when it's to stop all movement leftward.

              • silent_water [she/her]
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                8 months ago

                and this, kids, is how we got to the present, in which Biden isn't on the ballot in New Hampshire and needs to run a write-in campaign.