• @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Bernie Sanders did not vote on an amendment to the Patriot Act that would have forbidden the government from secretly collecting information about internet browsing and search history data without a warrant. The amendment failed by one vote, and Sanders was one of four senators who did not vote on it.

    He also is a supporter of the F-35 program, which has a price tag of 1 trillion dollars.

    AOC is still new, and the day will come when she has to do something unpopular for the sake of her political career or some longer term goal.

    All I’m saying is, don’t put people on pedestals.

    • @givesomefucks
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      11 year ago

      Bernie Sanders did not vote on an amendment to the Patriot Act

      Can you be specific?

      https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/sanders-votes-against-patriot-act-extension/

      “I voted against extending the Patriot Act today for the same reason I voted against enacting it in 2001: it gives the government far too much power to spy on innocent United States citizens and provides for very little oversight or disclosure. While we must aggressively pursue international terrorists and all of those who would do us harm, we must do it in a way that protects the Constitution and the civil liberties which make us proud to be Americans.”

      That’s the only result I’m seeing… Maybe if you could give me the year if you can’t find an article?

      And the F35 stuff seems to be he got a base and manufacturing in Vermont… That was going to some east coast state, you’re making it sound like he pushed for the F35 to exist in the first place…