• @PugJesusOP
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      3529 days ago

      I still have my Bernie sticker on my laptop. Big RIP to the future that could have been.

      • @kinther
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        3729 days ago

        2016 taught me that 3rd party and no voters tilt the scale in the favor of Republicans. I’m getting flashbacks with all the comments on Lemmy here saying as much.

        • Optional
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          1129 days ago

          Funnily enough it worked in the opposite direction in 1992. But in 2000 yeah, it happened then, too. And 2016.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 days ago

            Bill Clinton was in many ways a blue Republican, and he fed the “both sides are the same” brain worm that still haunts american politics.

        • @PugJesusOP
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          929 days ago

          I still legitimately have flashbacks to election night in 2016. Fuck. It’s insane that it’s almost a decade ago. I can remember it like it just happened.

      • @somethingp
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        Long before Bernie there was Al Gore in 2000 who lost because of a supreme court decision saying the majority vote did not matter in the US (not really, but it did decide the election and stop the Florida recounts). Not only changed the narrative on climate change for the future, but also about what matters for federal elections.

      • mozz
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        829 days ago

        I wrote in Bernie in the Democratic primary. IDK if that even gets counted; I don’t know how it works, but fuck man, someone reads it I know, even if from there it goes straight into the “N/A” column.

    • @suction
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      429 days ago

      Nobody wants to make you like it. It’s a duty.

    • FenrirIII
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      227 days ago

      Biden hasn’t been the worst president, but he’s far from what we’d like and streets ahead of Trump. It sucks knowing our government is completely bought by the rich.