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Bernie Sanders gets fact checked (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

This kind of rhetoric is why peDon won. americans are useless, don't count on any of them to stop fascism.

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 days ago

Yes let's shit on fascist resistance with "uhm actually"

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Congress had to lift a ban on arming neo-Nazis in order to send weapons to Ukraine. And Bernie, a supposed progressive, is arguing the US should continue a brutal proxy war by continuing to arm extremists.

This country has lost its fucking mind.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social -2 points 3 days ago

That feel when my phone only rendered “geneva_convenience@le…” but I still knew it was .ml before checking

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 days ago (10 children)

The world’s dictators aren’t always opposed by people proposing democracy. For example we armed Syria’s dictator at that time because his opponent was DAESH/ISIL/ISIS/IS.

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[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Obama's human rights record is abysmal. Sure he did a lot of good things too, but not closing Guantanamo, ramping up drone strikes etc negate all of that good. I've written him a couple of letters with all of this in detail to which he has yet to respond (no surprise). Instead he's doing voice over work for shitty documentaries on Netflix.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Obama hasn't been president for nearly a decade.

And there are a lot of things to criticize him about, but he legitimately tried to close Guantanamo, and was blocked by Republicans (and possibly some Democrats?) over and over.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (8 children)

You must be so happy that your sitting president is such a humanitarian.

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