Oh, I remember it vividly- it’s one of the reasons I don’t believe for a second that these same guys wouldn’t be shitting on her from a height if she were the other candidate in this and not Hillary. She’s their token female friend, which is convenient, since she’s not running, so they can swear up and down that…

I told my boyfriend a few weeks ago that Sanders and Trump are fun-house mirrors of each other, and he looked at me like I was crazy, but it’s what I keep seeing; economic policies that seem dubious to more than a few actual economists....

In fairness, I believe my own state of Maine was the whitest for a while there, but Vermont has indeed surpassed us. Pin a rose on them, I suppose.

It’s super weird how the “political revolution” is almost entirely white men, isn’t it? That just seems like... well. Every Western Civ class I’ve ever taken, for one.

It was never about the politics for them, I don’t think. It was about the Bernie Sanders cult of personality. Ironically, I think the personality cult thing has ultimately hurt his campaign way, way more than it’s helped (as have the supporters who are now claiming they’ll stay home or vote for Trump).

I can only agree completely with everything you’ve said here. This is a really good encapsulation of what ended up moving me to vote for Clinton. Do I think Sanders is deliberately sexist or racist? No, I don’t. Do I think he would try to make things worse for women or POC? No, I don’t. But I do think that a lot of…

And incidentally, that vaunted “America” commercial of his was the whitest thing I have ever seen in my life. Coming from someone who grew up in a small town in rural New England, that’s pretty fucking white.

Honestly, I’m inclined to agree. Every time I see a Sanders supporter saying, “Well, Bernie’s not getting nearly as much coverage! It’s not fair!” I want to ask them if they’re insane. Sanders has received overwhelmingly positive coverage, particularly here on Gawker. Do I think it’s because he’s the flawless saint…

Tulsi Gabbard has basically become Bernie’s de facto female, non-white friend. It’s both irritating in its tokenism and hilarious in its transparency.

I grew up in New England, so I’ve known who he was literally since junior high. Of course, this also made it a bit difficult to take his claims of being a total outsider seriously, since he’s been in Congress since I was about eight. I was actually primed to vote for him, though, until the conduct of some of his…

Except this transparent shilling for Bernie has been going on for months now. They could have endorsed ages ago, but they didn't. I don't understand why, since it's obvious to everyone that they're rabidly pro-Sanders. Just have some intellectual honesty about it, already.

Oh, you had that bizarro conversation, too? Seriously, my sympathies. I have had so many douchebro commenters try to mansplain to me why Sanders is a True Feminist, not like that bitch $hillary that I just dismiss them now. Adios, asshole.

Oh, I have no doubt in my mind that that’s what they would say. Not that I really see Sanders getting the VP offer, anyway, since it would gain Clinton very little (since his hardcore supporters will just refuse to vote for her because then he’s a “sellout”), and the word on the street is that he’s actually not great…

That’s certainly been what I’ve observed on Facebook. Not entirely, but overwhelmingly white (usually straight, but not always) men. And they say shit like, “Well, I’m voting for Trump if Bernie’s not the nominee!” and I just shrug and think, “Well, of course you fucking are. What do you really have to lose in a Trump…

Well, promising a unicorn farting rainbows to white men. The rest of us are supposed to believe that once we have income equality, systemic racism and sexism will just vanish. Or something. I don’t know, I’m not clear on the details- last time I asked, I was told that it’s good enough for Germany and France! and…

I finally put a filter on my FB feed that keeps any post tagged with #feelthebern off of my newsfeed, because at one point it was literally nothing but Bernie memes. It was liberating.

It’s true. Hillary’s just a meanie who won’t let us buy a toy on our way through the supermarket checkout.

No worries. For whatever it’s worth, I don’t have an especially intense dislike of Bernie Sanders or anything- I think his heart is generally in the right place, and I was genuinely shocked when I read that article. But I think he’s shown time and again that women and minorities (and the issues that primarily affect…

Yep. It’s infuriating. Bernie can do whatever the fuck he wants, as far as I can tell, up to and including deliberately excluding women from positions of power in his campaign and completely ignoring Roe v. Wade when asked if he would have a litmus test for Supreme Court appointees, while Hillary Clinton gets to…