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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 44 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I assume that a significant number of people here became leftists because of a brief ephemeral momentum that Bernie Sanders was the figurehead of. This has to sting a bit.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 22 points 8 hours ago

What turned me to the left wasn't Bernie per se, but how the DNC was exposed to be cheating in Hil's favor and how the Wikileaks report that exposed it was buried by the media.

There was a clear party interest in opposing leftward movement, and a clear media collusion in that.

This greatly disillusioned me

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The "coin toss" rituals were such an obvious ratfuck during the primaries: ever watch the videos of the "coin tosses?" The loyal ghouls doing them caught the coin, glanced at it, then set it down on the arm. what-the-hell

It doesn't take a math teacher to tell someone that 9 coin tosses out of 10 going to hillgasm on actual fair coin tosses is very, very unlikely.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago
[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago

There was some obscure coin toss thing in Iowa to determine delegate numbers in the primary, Hilary "won" six in a row with a ~1.5 percent probability

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago

I watched it happen live, one toss at a time. All my faith in the DNC died that day.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago

He was at least an amerikkka politician I had some respect for. I'd already lost all respect for him because of his groveling for Biden and finding out that he voted in favor of bombing Serbia, but his neocon and Israel lover arc has made me give me strength to comrade heart attack.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 24 points 9 hours ago

It definitely pushed me to examine my own chauvinism, even if i had considered myself a radical long before Bernard

Still, it was wild to have a shred of optimism

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 11 points 8 hours ago

I'm not even from the US, but it was inspiring to see what he was doing out there anyways... ah well, nevertheless

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 25 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

it's stopped stinging by now but yeah, it did the first time

definitely wasn't the only thing that radicalized me but it was that era

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 12 points 8 hours ago

Wonder what the numbers are or how folks here got pushed to it. For me just being from the global south I found it in other ways.

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