I didn’t know about fire dept. unions. They suck, too?

It’s interesting that in a country which hates workers’ unions so much, police unions are so untouchable.

Yeah, I recently saw a video of someone filming a cop beating up someone else, and the cop tells the person filming to “Back the fuck up” and shoves them. People were like “Well, they were disrespectful!” but like, a barista cannot tell someone to “Back the fuck up” and shove them. Any person working customer service…

You can see one of the cops go to help him and immediately get yanked back by another officer. I cannot even. 

“Now, boys, I’m extremely disappointed In you for pulling that fire alarm during the school assembly. Two days detention! But, sure, you can still go to the homecoming game...”

And let’s say that WAS true, that he did trip and fall (HE DID NOT.)

This is what happens when someone has no fear of accountability of any kind.

EXACTLY! At least 20 offices had to agree to say that he tripped after WATCHING HIM GET PUSHED. That’s not 2 bad apples, that’s the whole fucking force - that’s systemic.

You left out a key element of this. The official report first stated that the man “tripped and fell”... that Is, until the video emerged.

Yes. Yes to all of this. Malcolm Gladwell has a great episode of Revisionist History about proof. It’s about CTE but is totally applicable here. Needing “proof” is such a cop out sometimes for just not wanting to change. We’re being confronted with these images daily (all day) now and I still hear the argument of…

“Two officers have been suspended”

On the first point: sure, non-voters COULD turn up in record numbers to support Bernie in the general. But there is absolutely no basis in history, in current polling, or in the track record of Bernie’s electoral history, to suggest that they WOULD - and nor is there any great theoretical reason to think that either…

Well, some people on the Sanders side have certainly said that. It’s sort of hard to believe that they really believe it, though!

The republican strategy of putting up increasingly radical, increasingly hostile politicians each election IS WORKING.

They didn’t show up for Bernie in the primary. You know, the one he just dropped out of.

The Democratic kingmakers are never going to support progressive candidates until we replace THEM with progressives. It took a good decade or two of concerted neoconservative work at local and state levels for them to be in the position of wresting control of the party from the moderate wing. I’ve been an independent…

Look, I’m sorry your guy didn’t win—it really, really sucks when someone you admire loses (hey, ask me how I know!). However, playing a game of tit-for-tat is tiresomely childish, and won’t yield what you want: if the standard Biden needs to hit is to strongly call out this behavior once—as you carefully note Sanders…

Sanders’ and Sanders’s would both be correct. Dropping the s on the possessive form of singular nouns that end in S is a style choice, not a grammatical absolute. It’s likely Garrett missed a key when typing the middle S

I’m convinced that many of then now want Trump to win so that they can say “I told you so.” 

Insignificant point but...