#sandersforpresident

[bustedbernie]

lolol

[datarep]

Word cloud comparison between user comments on /r/The_Donald and /r/SandersForPresident subreddits

[manfrommars2049]

Reaction to Bernie winning Nevada via SandersForPresident

[sufficientproof]

I should get drunk and do political activism more often.  I just got 2 of the 4 DNC members of my state to endorse Keith Ellison as the next Chairman of the DNC.  lololol

[themardlonk]

A very good comment I read on r/SandersForPresident

[blackcatcircles]

To my American friends: You might be able to vote RIGHT NOW with early voting!!

Please do early voting if you have the chance! 

Search for your clerk and pick up an early voting ballot 

Here’s a guide: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/fey1wz/vote_right_now_if_you_live_in_michigan_arizona/  

please actually vote 

[terminalfix]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/f3v99b/how_the_mainstream_media_portrays_the_race_now/

[bustedbernie]

To be blunt, white straight dudes love Bernie because instead of having to acknowledge their privilege they can just blame it all on capitalism and call it a day. This is why Bernie often deflects specific questions about the unique struggles of women and minorities to talk about wealth inequality as a whole.

If you read the NYT Editorial board interview he even states that racism is a product of capitalism (which is false). Of course capitalism can facilitate racism, but people don’t stop being racist just because they get better economic prospects, just like black folks don’t stop being at the receiving end of racism when they have “made it” and moved up the class structure. 

What Bernie is doing is telling his white (male and female, but mostly male) supporters that they are oppressed due to poverty and in turn, they use this to silence minority groups. A woman or PoC may state what some of their experiences with sexism/racism are only to be told by a Bernie bro that these experiences are due to capitalism and they must vote for Bernie to fix it. We’ve also all seen the extortionist messages from the far-left, particularly folks like “chapo trap house” that post shit like “well, we won’t show up to vote for anyone except Bernie, so if you care about black people and women’s issues, you better vote for Bernie,” which also undercuts their message while demonstrating their own privilege within the white supremacist spaces of the far-left. 

No candidate is perfect, particularly on race. Racism is also acted upon, so knowing that, we definitely have better candidates to choose from and we can acknowledge that many of our candidates have been rumbling with these issues and trying to learn, grow and listen to oppressed groups. We should continue to encourage our candidates to have those rumbles with themselves and learn to grow. But I see a lot of posts on tumblr/twitter/reddit by bernie supporters who get super confused as to how Biden has maintained such a large lead with black voters. I think it boils down to all of the above. Take that police violence town hall, when Bernie was asked about a black man being stopped by the cops, he said “respect the officer and do as he says so you don’t get shot.” Biden said “white supremacy and institutional racism is the problem here and it shouldn’t exist.” Then throw in these comments Bernie (and the left) state about “wage-slavery,” making nasty comparisons to APARTHEID, and being reductive about the total genocide that was (and is, unfortunately) slavery... It should be more obvious. 

[cauldroncreations]

i love r/sandersforpresident bc theres so many posts like this where ppl say something and then include a random pic of bernie bc it makes it look like bernie is saying it

[newworldpuck]

Grandpa Joe needs to take responsibility for the way his supporters attack women of color. Biden supporters are so toxic and vicious! (see how it's done?)