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Yes, Bernie Sanders is a lifelong and committed communist who spent a long time advocating for government seizure of large parts of the economy.

Your ignorance of his history and views doesn't change that.


Yes, someone who shares views with dictators who have killed 100 million+ in various genocides and destroyed one country after the next during the 20th century should be a pariah, but we live in a reality now where such a person is a leading contender for the Presidency.
And if Democrats choose to nominate such a person, they will have no one to blame but themselves when Trump gets a second term.
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Sonmez did something that deserved criticism. After she received the criticism, she doubled down & played victim. Then she posted screenshots with private inf0 of her critics.

She should not be suspended for posting DB article, but up to WaPo if sharing emails is a violation.
With that said, her then choosing to share an email from her executive editor with a competing publication is incredibly unprofessional and I have no idea why her management would ever trust her again.
Why would a source ever trust her again?

They suspended her for what they viewed as poor judgement, and she confirmed her poor judgement in how she reacted.

Anyways, reporters are going to have to accept that part of pushing your views on social media is criticism.
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Awful. No words. RIP.
It’s not just how great he was, but also how much he still has to contribute. Also thinking about his family.

Life really is short. Every day is precious.
I was wiping the counter with a piece of paper tower earlier. After I was done, I crumpled it up and, like I have done what feels like a million times in my life, shot it into the waste basket while yelling "Kobe!".

Thanks for the memories.
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This hatred is a sickness. An 8 y o child disappears and found drowned after extensive searching throughout the night by Israelis and Palestinians. Instead of mourning, first thought of this news agency run by Hamas & many activists is to baselessly try to blame Jews.
Here is an actual news article on the tragic death. He was found having drowned at a flooded ditch near his house. The footage being passed around supposedly showing a kidnapping is not of the same kid. haaretz.com/israel-news/ei…
Sickening. Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib now spreading false blood libel against Jews.

Are any Democrats going to be asked about this?

What about Bernie Sanders given she’s a surrogate on his campaign?
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Aisha Ahmad
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Bernie's Electability: A Thread

Progressive, centrist, left or liberal: we all want Trump out. If beating Trump is your #1 goal, vote for Bernie Sanders. Here's why:

1.
No. of Primary contests won by Biden: 0 (4 Attempts)
No. of Primary contests won by Sanders: 23 (1 Attempt)
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Number of elections won by Elizabeth Warren: 2
Number of elections won by Amy Klobuchar: 3

Number of elections won by Bernie Sanders: 15

That's 3x Warren and Klobuchar combined
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Every time Bernie ran for Mayor of Burlington, he increased his share of the vote:

1981: 43.4%
1983: 52.1%
1985: 56.1%

One exception is 1987: 55.9%*

*Note: he beat Paul Lafayette, a candidate endorsed, funded & supported by both Democrats and Republicans to boot Bernie out
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Bernie Sanders actually said communist China has done more to eradicate poverty than any civilization in history.

China is known for massive human rights abuses

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Bernie Sanders has never met a racist, communist or socialist that he didn't make excuses for

His entire life has been spent romanticizing socialism to the exclusion of all other societal concerns
Same guy who promoted bloody, brutal, murderous & socialist dictators Fidel Castro & Daniel Ortega who lived lives of unconscionable opulence while their people starved and were murdered for speaking out
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This is a Vermont Castings Vigilant wood burning stove.

The legal battle over this stove would eventually shutter the Franklin stove company, and make Vermont Castings the dominant force in wood burning technology.
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My father came to Vermont Castings as this stove was readying to launch.

I was eight, and after school used to walk to his office in the old plant on Prince Street in Randolph, because my mom still worked at Wheaton College in MA.
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Long, thoughtful, fascinating exploration of #Bernie's history. This narrative makes Bernie immensely more accessible and even likeable. His long financial origin story is quintessentially American in its working-class to riches trajectory.
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I've written about #Sanders over the years and like most leftists, thought his politics were an essential prod to others in Congress. But there are details of his political history here that #Bernie should be pushing instead of hiding: like that he was a Harvard fellow.
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Don't really think it's worth it to dunk on that dumb tweet but if you were paying attention from 2007-2016 you know that saying that you and your policies are not socialist has literally no impact on whether your political enemies claim the opposite.
Going further, my sense is that the right spent a long time characterizing big-government liberalism as "socialism" because they thought it was a good political tactic, and now the left has also started doing that.
The definition of "socialism" is pretty vague in U.S. political discourse! There are no prominent political figures calling for, say, elimination of private property and government control of the entire economy, which is what critics tend to be hinting at.
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Victoria Brownworth
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I have a few things to say about this piece that just dropped...

Why the #Bernie Movement Must Crush #BetoORourke
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The insistence by white male writers that there is a two-white-man race out there between Bernie & Beto is so deeply, stunningly misogynist, it takes my breath away.

How is it POSSIBLE that these folks missed the blue wave which was fundamentally female--driven by women voters?
Not just driven by women voters, but driven by women candidates. Left-leaning women candidates, including WOC who ousted long-time older white male incumbents like....Bernie Sanders.

How is anyone missing this fact?
It's a major reason why Sanders' numbers have plummeted.
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