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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Hi, we're anarchists, and we're here today with the government to tell you why you should support the government."

Also Ro Khanna is one of the worst people in government. Crazy that all he had to do was call himself a 'Bernie progressive' and everyone accepted it with no receipts. Fuck Bernie too, of course.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What's necessarily wrong with Bernie? I realize he is more of a reformist and chooses to dumb down a lot of his talking points for the average person but other than that I don't know much.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He’s an imperialist and has historically supported the US’s imperial meddling in places such as Yugoslavia (and I think in Afghanistan?)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn fr? Didn't know that

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bernie and Parenti used to be friends. And then America invaded yugoslavia and Bernie showed where his loyalties lied.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Top ten anime betrayals. That must have hurt.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Source that backs up your comment:
https://youtu.be/OLNQEHbusSA?si=_nP8pMiD5DXJ0XMm

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe he also personally wrote about it in Against Empire. I know I read that story from his POV in one of his books.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You are right that he wrote about it, but it was in his book To Kill A Nation, and not Against Empire. Here is the direct quote from the book:

As the war dragged on and NATO officials saw press attention drifting toward the contrary story—namely that the bombing was killing civilians—“NATO stepped up its claims about Serb 'killing fields,'” notes the Wall Street Journal.2 Widely varying but horrendous figures from official sources went largely unchallenged by the media. Support for the bombings remained firm among Clinton supporters in Congress (including the one professed “socialist,” Bernard Sanders [Ind.-Vt.]), and among self-described humanitarian groups such as Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, and Concern Worldwide, along with “peace” groups, and various NGOs—many of whom seem to have convinced themselves that NATO was defending Kosovo from a holocaust.

Just searched through my copy of both Against Empire and To Kill A Nation to make sure party-parenti

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe it was Inventing Reality then? Fuck, I dunno, I know he talked about his friendship with Bernie for maybe a paragraph or two, not just that blurb.

This is really bothering me now, I'll find it soon!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

To add to other posts, there are videos of Bernie speaking in the 70's and 80's, if you watch them you can immediately see that Bernie of today is a vague ghost of what he used to be. Young Bernie would beat contemporary Bernie's ass

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

he's a senator, yea?