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[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 59 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

i like how it's "Dr. King defeated" and not the hundreds of thousands (millions) of working class people that actually protested, often using "violence," to get idiot congress+LBJ to sign it

it's the same shit with FDR. "oh FDR gave us the New Deal" rather than the whole thing being spearhead, really, by "violent" anarchists and communists.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 10 points 8 hours ago

what?

don't you know about American history where MLK ended racist woke DEI by writing a dream journal?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 39 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

MLK was a main character, so he grabbed the triforce and banished racism to the shadow realm. Somehow, racism returned.

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 10 points 8 hours ago

We let it return because we did not vote blue hard enough.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Same thing with India and Gandhi. Nevermind 400 years of violent struggle against the Brits, the countless lives lost and the great men and women who sacrificed themselves so this literal tool could suppress their battles and attach his feeble name to the entire movement for independence

Edit: this is not meant to completely discredit Gandhi. OTOH this is also not meant to suggest MLK was anywhere near as big of a lib as Gandhi, nor to sully his name

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He's gotten worse ever since Israel I swear.

I don't think he's been bought blatantly, but I do think he's shown himself to be a career politician. Corbyn shook the tree, got kicked out, then re-contested his seat as in independent against a huge Labour campaign. Sanders doesn't have the guts.

I also wonder if it really is that he's just become a doddering old man, and he's fallen fully for the 'Trumpist' thing. Such an individualist take.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago

Israel is that issue that separates leftists and grifters.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 44 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Dr kings daughter posted today basically disputing this stupid narrative. Fuck you Bernie

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 22 points 10 hours ago

The King family constantly has to correct people who misrepresent him, it must be exhausting

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 68 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I still remember the looks I'd get saying "bernie sanders IS the compromise"

Literally the thing liberals try to pull with their fascist candidates, Bernie was the actual lesser evil. Still evil though

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 44 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

i wonder if he realizes that he's part of the evil

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 29 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt it.

Think about the people he is surrounded by. It is easy, it is tempting, to imagine yourself as a saint when you are surrounded by people like Ted Cruz. To think "I am taking meaningful action to protect civilians in Gaza" because he defeated a bill in committee that would have sent a squadron of b52s to carpet bomb a refugee camp.

He is just as guilty as the rest, but while he may have recognized that when he was 25, at this point he is blind to it.

[–] determinism2@hexbear.net 13 points 7 hours ago

He knows.

BERNIE AND ME by Michael Parenti

People have asked me what I think of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Bernie and I used to be close political friends up in Vermont in the early 1970s. We ran together on a third party ticket (the Liberty Union Party). I ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and Bernie ran for the U.S. Senate. (I got 7% of the vote; he got 3 or 4%--but who's counting.)

Bernie stayed in Vermont. I wanted to write rather than run for office in one-sided campaigns. So I spent the years writing books, articles, teaching courses, giving interviews, doing guest lectures all over the country, and marching in demonstrations. But I remained good friends with Bernie. I gave him moral and monetary support in his successful campaigns for Mayor of Burlington, then U.S. House of Representatives.

But I eventually broke with him because of his position on the Yugoslavia war, the "humanitarian war" as Bill Clinton and his national security state people called it. As did many liberals and some Trotskyites and anarchists, Bernie stood shoulder to shoulder with NATO and the CIA and the Clinton White House in the destruction of Yugoslavia, the 78 days of bombing, drenching Serbia in depleted uranium, leaving Serbia with the highest cancer rate in Europe and breaking up Yugoslavia, one of the best social democracies in Europe, though not without its serious blemishes.

Today, I wish Bernie the best. He is a Democrat although he calls himself a socialist and an independent. But he takes very good stands on Social Security, human services, and curbing the banksters. However, he has voiced not a word about what his foreign policy might be. I suspect it has not improved. I will most likely not be voting for him. Probably I will support some third-party candidate who will run a hard hopeless campaign---of the kind we used to do in Vermont years ago. ----MICHAEL PARENTI

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 53 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You were 27 when MLK was assassinated and there was massive rioting, Bernie!

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 36 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Fr, like he was there. He should know that wasn't the case

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He literally got fucking arrested protesting segregation, what is he on

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Old age, maybe? I mean he always sucked but I don't think he used to suck like this?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 8 hours ago

if it wasn't for the earlier shitty stuff with him that Parenti talked about i'd say bernie died of the heart attack and who we have now is an impersonator.

[–] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 52 points 11 hours ago

There's a reason the state embraces peaceful protests: It's because they don't fucking work

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 30 points 10 hours ago

lmaoooooooo ICE has a right to exist

[–] Skye@hexbear.net 20 points 10 hours ago

bernie: The FBI may have murdered MLK, but it falls to all of us to murder the movement

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 57 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Bold of you to say that when Derek Chauvinist got put behind bars because the people gave the state an ultimatum, either you punish him or we burn this mother down, again. Fuck you Bernie you suck old man.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 52 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Or when Luigi Mangione capped a healthcare CEO and the rate of denials dropped because they were too afraid to deny people healthcare. Violence works.

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 36 points 12 hours ago

I'm not advocating for adventurism, but a protracted war against the ruling class is the only option they have given us at this point.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 45 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The most productive way to support a movement is to tell them they're all wrong and in fact are working for the opposition

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 27 points 11 hours ago

In fairness, he is an expert in working for the opposition

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 65 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago

Many people are saying it, folks!

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 54 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 34 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I want my $5 back

I already peeled the sticker off my bumper, I feel I am owed

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 hours ago

Feels like we deserve more back after they sold/gave their lists to the dnc

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Political power grows from, uhhhh, good vibes i guess?

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 11 points 9 hours ago

It's gotta be the ballot or the stern expression

a peaceful protest movement is the language of the unheard

when our turn comes we will not make excuses for the strong language

etc

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

It's such a stupid argument because the majority of protests only become violent once the the-pigs show up

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 9 hours ago

Still seeing someone refuse to say anything other than it's a mutual escalation don't fall for their trap and can't understand why people don't agree it's anything other than ice and lapd starting shit.

just wait for 1% of the population to completely peacefully protest, no I won't acknowledge or plan for when they police make it violent

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 37 points 12 hours ago

yo I'm sick of this dude

[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 32 points 12 hours ago

catgirl-disgust

What a loser

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

does burnie panders get kickbacks from study trips to pisrael by cops or some shit?

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 17 points 11 hours ago

fuck bernie sanders

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 11 hours ago

I am going to become incandescent

[–] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 18 points 11 hours ago
[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 17 points 11 hours ago

Since history is also full of examples of disciplined violent resistance working to defeat government officials and change policy he really should just be calling for more discipline.

[–] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 13 points 10 hours ago

bring back X ffs

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

These fucks deserve to be crushed by fascism. It's too bad it hurts people that don't deserve it or I would advocate for just staying out of the way and letting the trolley hit them

No excuses for the terror and all that...

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody deserves to be crushed by fascism. They deserve revolutionary justice. They invite fascist crushing

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago

Can he at least be drawn and quartered?

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago

Birmaingham Jail, you mean?