• kandoh@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    That’s literally just politics. Apply the same logic to the recent french elections where competing left-wing candidates dropped out to not split the vote.

    Nothing was stopping Bernie from making a deal with Amy and Pete to stay in the race to keep the centrist vote split

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      1 day ago

      That’s literally just politics.

      This gives the same energy as saying “it’s just business” after doing some heinous shit.

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          13 hours ago

          I’m the one blind to reality? You actually think Bernie had any sway over any one of the moderates who dropped out to give Biden the win? They were loyal to the Democratic Party, not Bernie, and certainly not to their principles, if truly they had any.

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      If it was biden making a deal then that’s one thing. I don’t think that’s what happened. I think the DNC power players or donors said ‘we don’t want Bernie’ and the rest of the group fell in line.

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        2 days ago

        If that was the case then Buttigege would have just been threatend funding wise and wouldn’t have needed to be offered a cabinet position, which only Biden had the power to give.