That’s my president

God willing, my man’s got an upcoming date in Central Park

Bernie’s not a communist. I wish he were, though. 

Hah believe me I get you — tough to stop myself as someone in the US from grading on a curve

I don’t really think I’d describe AMLO as hard left — he’s more a left-liberal socdem type, and he’s been distressingly amenable to working with Trump and trampling on Indigenous rights.

Equally entertaining is when people pearlclutch and decry “foreign meddling” in our elections when it’s like...literally have you ever read anything about the US’ attitude towards the sanctity of other countries’ systems in your entire life?

I mean only if you count the votes 

Sanders brands his movement as a “political revolution” so as to differentiate it from an actual revolution, so let’s be clear about that. It still kinda sticks in my craw, tbh, as does the fact that his “democratic socialism” is social democracy, not democratic socialism, or his formulation that we already have social…

Barbara Smith and the Combahee River Collective (and folks like Fanon, Du Bois, Walter Rodney, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis etc.) were hugely helpful for me to read when I was first interfacing w/socialist theory; they really helped steer me away from the crude class reductionism that can be so alienating to…

When someone calls Sanders a radical, all they’re doing is showing they have less than zero familiarity with radical politics or political history. It’s the kind of historical ignorance that’s also blind to the fact that radicals on the left became radicals not because of some abstract fetishization of being As Left…

Reminder: when you voice support for a brokered convention, you’re really supporting this guy’s efforts to buy off the Dem party apparatus and install him as the nominee. That’s not hyperbole, it’s his actual strategy.

The funny thing about people knocking “class warfare” while trumpeting their myopic version of intersectionality (a version that completely excludes class dynamics) is that class solidarity seems to be the most powerful intersection of all.

So, you’re saying that in the Senate, if 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats and 3 Independents are voted in, the Republicans should be able to run the show since technically, they hold the greatest number of seats?

Yeah I mean I think Super Tuesday will be a big winnower here; I would hope most of the no-chancers would drop after that if not before, and Bernie beats every candidate in the race in a head to head. I wonder if some of them will even make it that far — like is Warren really going to let herself get embarrassed…

Well if we find ourselves in that position that’s a conversation to have, but it’s really unlikely based on current standings, which have Bernie as likely to end up with twice the support of his next closest rival. Regardless, if someone wins the overwhelming majority of states (as he’s projected to) and the party…

I’m very much in favor of ranked choice; I’m merely saying that if the party gives the nomination to someone who isn’t the clear vote leader, and the clear choice of all but the oldest, richest, and whitest slices of the Dem electorate, they’ll get annihilated and they’ll absolutely deserve it.

Nah, the vote winner should be the winner, whether it’s a primary or a general election; anything else is further mockery of an already debased democratic process. Felt that way in 2016 (when it wasn’t Bernie even prior to the supers), feel that way now. And the scenario that rankles is the one that’s actually likely…

Oh man they’d call a Dem nominee a socialist*? Wow, that’s certainly a novel play and not something that’s characterized literally every election since the Cold War, and will absolutely crater him with the Cuban expat population in Florida, who (checks notes) have consistently voted Republican for decades?

The “oppo research” has been out for years and uh pretty much no one gives a shit because it’s literally all lame stuff like your Castro pearlclutching above. Aside from that though — do you seriously envision a scenario where the person with a clear plurality of votes and the (often overwhelming) majority support of…

“Why should the person the most people voted for get the nomination?” Liberals are a trip. Also shush, that’s gusano talk.