I'd like to build on this hypothetical even if its not targeted at me. Aside from foreign policy, as sphagnum mentioned, Bernie would have energizing effects on the youth left in America and continue the leftward momentum that started with OWS and found one of its outlets in AOC. I want more movements like OWS and leaders like AOC and I think a Bernie presidency would deliver both those things. A Biden presidency would have the exact opposite effect of dampening young leftism. A Pete presidency would totally derail it and send it down the track to respectability politics.
What foreign policy am I pushing for? 'Someday At Christmas' version of there'll be no wars and men won't be boys?
You know as a millennial, what will destroy that energy? Pragmatism that at the end the movement did not cause a political revolution and he was essentially a generic D presidency.
So in line with most Democratic candidates foreign policy agendas.
Nah. My hourly wage is 44/hr. When I was non union I actually made more money. Because I did prevailing wage work mostly. In Sacramento where I live prevailing wage is 85/hr right now. But non union private I made 34/hr.
I'm sorry your life is hard. Imagine how much harder it would be if you were working multiple jobs that still weren't enough to support your family and you had people arguing that it was justified!
Excellent Comrade! The Glorious Mother Russia will soon sound out across the Americas!
Actual picture of Comrade Sanders storming Washington, D.C., January, 2021.
Less pointless interventions and extrajudicial killings for one. Palestinians being recognized as human beings deserving of human rights as another.
California isn't the entire country, and it's still less than $15 an hour.
FYI, I didn't bash you. The short version of what I said, and several others did, is that on several issues, you agree with the Democratic candidates. Check https://www.ontheissues.org and look when you have the chance.
You deserve to get bashed for that load of drivel you posted. Maybe you should self-reflect on WHY people are taking issue with what you said.
To be fair, you make shit arguments.
You know as a millennial, what will destroy that energy? Pragmatism that at the end the movement did not cause a political revolution and he was essentially a generic D presidency.
? Not in the least. It was a better than expected showing for Biden.
And are you the one that we should look to to determine whether or not someone is "boring?" Liberals would've found both Clinton and Obama as "boring moderates" since they weren't advocating radical changes to the country overnight. Besides, "boring moderates" represent about 99% of the Democrats in congress and they've pushed through some decent policies in the last 20 years.
Thank you.
I am an assistant manager but I also serve still. On the whole the service industry is a slog and vastly unfair for most of the people in it but it is possible to make good money doing it. I average between $25-$60 an hour most nights and you can do that pretty easily if you've made a career out of it and know your shit. It's taken me a long time to have the food and wine knowledge necessary to be able to work at a nice enough place where that's possible though. It's also city dependent. No one in the middle of nowhere Idaho is making $60 an hour working at even the areas nicest restaurant. It's places like the hotels, and chains that really drive down the wages. Support staff (dish, bussers, hosts, etc) gets paid garbage and usually doesn't have a chance to move on to the floor and of course kitchen staff gets worked to death for $12-20 an hour
Not even close. He still has the delegate lead despite the SC result and he's got pretty comfortable leads in CA and TX. Biden has spent practically zero dollars in the ST states. I think he has only one campaign office in all of California.
Where did I say that? Absolutely bizarre that's where you go when I was highlighting that most candidates do not run on a desire to wage war.
Your only metric of political success seems to be voting turn out and in that sense it has not been as efficacious as I would've liked, but there does seem to be a qualitative difference in Dem politics in '08, '16, and '20 and I attribute some part of it to my perceived cultural left-shift. Sanders is both a product of this left-shift and also a catalyst for it. There are more avenues of societal change than just electoral politics.
How?
Not really.
There's a fucking lot to unpack here, but I want to hit on these 3 points:
What do you define as a "free handout"? My Republican family members use this to describe anything from food stamps to free/subsidized healthcare, despite the fact that some of them themselves would end up benefiting from things like SNAP or subsidized insurance from the ACA, but are too proud (stupid) to take them and would rather struggle than take accept any help.
I don't get what you're trying to say here. You want to be able to use incorrect pronouns in regards to a person, but you won't do it if they ask you not to? Does them asking you not to misgender them somehow not make it forced in your mind? Or do you see it as them forcing you to do it, and resent them for asking you to respect then as another human being?
The US is still number 2 in regards to carbon emissions. Of course that's going to seem small in comparison to the rest of the world, but then you could say the same in regards to China's emissions, who looks small when you compare them to the emissions from the rest of the world. And why does it have to be mutually exclusive? Why can't we work towards both zero emissions and carbon capture?
Your right. And at the end of the day I'm union. But it's not perfect. That's all I was saying.
