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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 99 points 1 year ago

The only time I've ever donated money to a political campaign was bernie and I kind of want to call his senate office and ask how I can get that back since he's been such a fuckin disappointment

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

I bought a Medicare for all sticker a week before his final debate. That night I crossed his name out so it doesn't taint a good policy.

[-] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

i never got my bumper sticker or whatever from all my donations last time smdh, a santos-esque campaign liar

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Walked 30 miles and knocked 165 doors the day before super Tuesday for this fucking loser. Here's my receipt

Imagine ever wasting your time believing in electoralism, I could've just gone hiking

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait, people in USA get randomly and personally harassed in their homes to vote for the libs, jehova witness style?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We do door knocking as part of electoral campaigns here in the UK too. It's called canvassing.

There will be next to no volunteers doing it for Starmer but we had fucking endless supplies of people that wanted to do it for Corbyn.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Oh so that's generally anglo thing.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I've experienced it exactly once in Denmark. Some nobody succdem candidate knocked on my door and gave me a rose and a flyer. It was a very perplexing experience.

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

This is why you should have Enhedslisten Ø sticker on your door. It is a campaign sticker that doubles as international symbol for "do not" (in this case, knock or bother). 10/10 would recommend

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Yes, that was my bad. But I have liberated myself from the cult, now I warn people against ever believing in such things.

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Yes. It is straight up cult behavior in many ways. Especially if you consider the vague contradictory campaign promises and how all of the libs seem like they were gene spliced in the same lab. Burgerlanders actually believe the nonsense "reduce crime, X culture war issue, cut taxes" line from both sides and, critically, fail to recognize that red team and blue team are on the same side.

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

There were parts of the rural western states where the only way to get to people's houses was on horseback.

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

I still think that it was not worthless that you and other people did that, just because it gave some people experience on what it's like to be a soldier rather than an internet communist

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did the same, I don't regret it but I've moved past it.

It got me outside talking to my neighbors, having some really great conversations.

I even got to meet Ilhan Omar.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago
[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

same.. it was the first and last time i ever did dumb shit like that. even got yelled at by some trump fellers sitting out in their driveway gettin smashed on natty light. dunno how many houses my partner and i hit but we knocked out at least 3 neighborhoods

i also gave that fucker the max donation... never ever ever again

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I found out about Chapo from other people on Sander's Slack page, the bloodthirsty centrist is directly responsible for me being here right now.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

John Oliver floats a trial balloon for taking a stand on an undeniable genocide.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

The air force has just shot down that trial balloon, claiming it is Chinese 🎈

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

HBO would never have let him on their channel in the first place if he was any sort of threat to the rich bastards funding them.

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Idk I think it fits his overall stances. He’s not that bad, a lib for sure but one that seems to try, I never took him as cynical

[-] davel@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

What his stance might personally, privately be is beside the point. What matters is the stance he projects on his very public platform.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Watch him talk about any country in the imperial periphery or semi-periphery. Hell, you don't even need to go that far, watch his video on DeSantis, where he says DeSantis would be less bad than Trump.

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago
[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

of White Phosphorus

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Capitalism will destroy this country. If you don't pay people enough to live their lives, why should they slave for you?

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Are they boo'ing?

No, they're saying Booernie! Booernie!

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

“this should be a site tagline” is Hexbear’s “thanks for the gold, kind stranger!” but this would be a good tagline

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

who is now getting roasted by whom?

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Got his ass

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Did anybody watch the full John Oliver segment on Palestine? I'm too scared to click

[-] Xerodin@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

I bit the bullet. tl:dw - he tried to straddle the line for an American audience by saying both sides were bad. He went on to admit he wasn't educated enough on the subject to explain the history and continued by saying that those in power (Hamas and Bibi) don't represent the opinions held by everyone there. Finally, he denounced collective punishment of Palestinians and called for a ceasefire.

IMO, it's an opinion fairly left of the American political center, keeping in mind that America's political center is skewed to the right, and has always been the area John operated to try to widen the Overton window.

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service comrade rat-salute-2

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

He called for a ceasefire, so at the very least there's that.

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

However, fuck John Oliver. He's still unbearable.

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

can we have an emoji of jamie olive oil saying "yayuh!" whyesseff@hexbear.net

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

shit @whyesseff@hexbear.net

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Skill issue

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