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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 180 points 10 months ago

Please for the love of country. Make it real

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

I feel it. I forgot what it was like. I feel.. The Bern.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

donald trump does have experience with the WWE. hes in their hall of fame actually

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

i sometimes wonder if he wishes he had stayed more of a celebrity than a politician.

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[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 138 points 10 months ago

I would genuinely cry. He is older than both of them and could literally run circles around them, both mentally and physically. I would 100% vote for Bernie and be fine with it. The vote for Biden is because the armpit of hell that I live in doesn't do ranked voting and Trump will wreck the planet. A rotting potato powering a computer core running ChatGPT left ignored on the resolute desk for 4 years would be a better alternative to these two fuckwits.

Seriously, why did they have to run Joe? If they had run someone in their 50's or 60's they would win on "well, he isn't as old as Trump" alone. If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them. The only reason "he's fucking old" doesn't stick to Trump is because he behaves like a horny 15 year old jacked up on cocaine and Twitter.

Just... FML.

[+] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

But at least they don't automatically get effectively all the power after winning a simple majority. That's... something, at least. I want to cry.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

after winning a simple majority

don't listen to them; our systems beats theirs because you don't even need a majority to win over here thanks to the electoral college and gerrymandering. lol

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago

It is a pendulum, here in Sweden I know many people feeling disillusioned by the social democrats, combine that with ineffectual meassures against gang violence (often perpetuated by second generation migrant), where the perpetrators don't care about punnishment as it is quite mild.

Add to that that we have seen gangs and clans infiltrating the government at different levels, a few months ago two big news broke, one was that an employee at a court had let her criminal boyfriend sit at her computer using her access to go through classified documents, the other was that a student at the police academy had very close ties to gangs, to the point that it is assumed that they were tasked by the gang to join the police force and be a man on the inside.

Then we recently had a soldier who left his Ak5 complete with all parts in his car, against all regulations, when he was eating lunch, the car just happened to be burgled and the Ak5 rifle as well as a set of body armor was stolen.

It is assumed by most people that this was organized ahead of time, military vehicles have special number plates and are easily recognized, so he probably got paid to do this by a gang.

Then we have the dad who got shot a killed after asking a group of what was gabg members to behave as he was taking his son to the public pool, snd an altercation started, the dad was shot in the head and his 12 year old son called the police.

We also have some less recent major issues that had contributed to the rise of the right.

Incidents where young men from migrant families have been harrasing and even feeling up women, commonly at public pools.

Combine that with severe religious differences and some public pools have experimented with women only bathing hours.

Most of if not all of the above points have been related to migrants.

So it isn't that odd that when the left offer what is seen as weak policies and pushes for understanding of the perpetrator and the right just says "fuck them, we gave them food, a place to live, security, healthcare and what do we get back? Gang violence, disrespect and harrasment!", that people choose the right.

In my mind we need heavier punnishment, we need containment punnishments, way longer punnishments for those who are not interested in rehab which our justice system focuses on, after two times caught they need to get an automatic 10x the time normally given. If people are not interested in being part of a working society, then I'd rather they stay locked up.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

In my mind we need heavier punnishment, we need containment punnishments, way longer punnishments for those who are not interested in rehab which our justice system focuses on, after two times caught they need to get an automatic 10x the time normally given. If people are not interested in being part of a working society, then I’d rather they stay locked up.

we do that here; not only does it both not work well and allows people to profit from exacerbating it; it fixes a lot less and costs a lot more than treating it like a societal issue; changing policy; and aggressive outreach.

we've also had recidivism rates drop when convicts were given alternatives viable to their situation instead of focusing on the punishment.

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[-] Kampfkrapfen_Backup@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

While I don't agree with your conclusion/personal opinion of more repressive politics as the solution to this, I still want to thank and upvote you for explaining the situation and the resulting political climate in Sweden in a bit of detail.

IMHO, none of that justifies voting for far-right or even fascist parties (like the AfD over here in Germany), but I can absolutely understand the reasons why people do it.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

Thank you, to be honest I have no idea if this would work, but it would keep these guy off the streets for far longer.

We give people a lot of chances here, but in the end, why keep doing it if they are not interested in rehabilitating themselves?

Sweden and Scandinavia as a whole put focus on rehab in prisons, so they get that, prison punnishment is meant to just be the incarseration, not the day to day life, that is supposed to be as normal as possible.

That is great! The problem happens when people just see it as a vacation, and refuse to learn.

Then I don't know what more to do other than making them uncomfortable for longer.

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[-] aviationeast@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago

Once again I would watch this celebrity death match

[-] Snailpope@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

I love celebrity death match, it was so ridiculous! Still have a copy of the game

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There was a game? Could you PM me? I'd like an ~~copy~~ honest review.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This one, and Kai Winn vs Delores Umbridge. I honestly want to see the second scenario more than the first, but that's just because I'm firmly convinced that Kai Winn would, "My Child," Umbridge into defeating herself.

[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 59 points 10 months ago

Every depressing political moment gets healed with a bernie meme.
Wish he had another chance so baaad :'/

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 10 months ago

Oh, I love this idea so much.

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

Technical question: If he would murder both candidates, could he still become president and pardon himself?

[-] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No law prevents a convicted felon from running or winning the office of the presidency. As for the question of self-pardons, that’s something that everyone on both sides would hotly debate as it’s never been tested before. You would think there’s an obvious answer (he can’t) but unfortunately laws get fuzzy at the very top and decisions are usually dictated by historic precedent (which there is none for this scenario in US politics.)

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It depends on if he's charged with a federal or state charge, and even if federal, there's still the question of whether he actually can, which would have to be considered by the courts.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I think legally this situation is called The Air Bud Loophole

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Based on Trumps defenders, it's a legal gray area, so yes.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 17 points 10 months ago

Why does trump the biggest of them not just eat Biden?

[-] Minarble@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago

Is he an idiot?

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 37 points 10 months ago

Don't let this election, or any election, allow us to forget the time back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

[-] SuperEars@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

YEAHHH SHITTYMORPH

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Hahahahaha no way!

[-] thisfro@slrpnk.net 33 points 10 months ago

In contrast to the other two dudes, bernie never gets old

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 10 months ago

He doesn't get older, just more and more apparent he was right this whole time

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

he also has a front seat view to this country's rightward shift and i wonder how frustrating it is to be so close to the levers of power to stop it; but to be blocked both your adversaries and your allies each time you try to reach for them.

[-] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Non-American here, is it too late for him to be the Democrat candidate in the upcoming election?

[-] Furball@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago

I doubt Bernie himself will but technically it’s not too late. The Democratic national convention hasn’t happened yet and after the debate there’s been a renewed push to pick someone else

[-] Liz@midwest.social 24 points 10 months ago

Technically no, but it'll never happen.

The way the parties nominate candidates for president is an absolute mess, but the nominations aren't official until the parties hold a closed convention with delegates who vote for candidates to be the nominee. Back in the day these delegates used to actually be the people who decided who got nominated. These days they're more like a ceremonial role, with a lot of them (I think) being required to vote in line with the way people voted in their state's primary.

Anyway, I'd have to look it up to be 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure enough delegates have some kind of autonomy that it's possible they could nominate someone other than Biden. Who they would end up agreeing on....? Heck if I know.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Yeah. Supreme court ruled that political parties post-2016 are private clubs that can do whatever the fuck they want (Supreme Courts ruling on DNC's ratfucking of Bernie).

Afaict from DNC rules , Biden needs to release his delegates for the first rounds of voting; from there it would proceed like any convention prior to 1976.

Honestly, it would be a great thing for the Democrats to do this. All of a sudden people would really fucking care about the election.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Our Democrats would never let him win, and that's before you even get to the Republicans. Republican heads might actually explode if we elected a progressive who dared to call themselves a Democratic Socialist.

Meanwhile, Democrats are also crushed under the thumb of all the money big business pours into ~~bribery~~ lobbying, and they have already made it clear twice that they won't let him get on the ballot.

We'll never get progressive policies or a progressive president unless the progressives infiltrate D to the extent maga has infiltrated R.

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

I'd give my life savings to see this from Sanders. Of course, then we'd lose him, so it would have to be part of his retirement announcement.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago

Here's how Bernie can still win

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[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Get out of my head!

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[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Holy shit, is that the actual sauce? I had no idea about where this came from!

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