Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Bernie Sanders" channel.

  1.  @falsificationism  It is a textbook example of whataboutism, trying to distract people from the awful things Trump has done and wants to do. Your username is more accurate than you intend it to be.
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  2.  @Hindukushsailing  Bernie wrote two books that sold over a million copies and has a job that pays six figures. If he hadn't accumulated at least a million dollars by the age of 80, you'd be saying that he's bad with money. You're not fooling anyone.
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  3. That's why we need to index the minimum wage so they can't hold working people hostage.
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  4.  @tropicalstormrain5893  Well, now you know that stereotype is false. If by free stuff, you mean "a set of basic guarantees for a livable life," then that is on you, but I would argue that subsides to people who already have more money than they could possibly spend in 100 lifetimes is far more egregious than making sure people won't die because they can't afford healthcare, people not coming out of college with five or six figure debts, and making sure people have wages they can afford to live on.
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  5.  @LiaMari  So true. To this day, only one person has ever been elected to the US Senate as a Democrat (Leahy) from Vermont. It was one of only two states to vote for Landon.
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  6.  discorperted  The American people did not elect Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. 66 > 63. Saying that democracy has run its course is a sure sign of someone who knows his ideology can't win.
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  7.  @belasgirl6  If you're worried about getting laid off or the warehouse getting closed, it weighs heavily on you.
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  8. Bernie understands that the election is only the beginning. That is why he can break the hold of the Reagan coalition in the way that Obama couldn't. That, and he doesn't accept their fundamental premises.
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  9. A thought that I have had recently: I keep hearing from these Blue Lives Matter people that cops are under fire almost like being in a combat zone every day. If this is really the case, just maybe we should hire more police in certain high crime areas so police officers can be rotated to low stress jobs like desk jobs. In the army, no one is constantly in a combat zone, because that causes serious problems. If they are right about this situation, this idea will reduce stress and police malpractice, and it will mean more dues paying members of the union, so everyone wins.
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  10.  Spok  The way I figure it, you sound like these people who go on and on about how much they love the Bible, but can't name any actual parts of it.
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  11. I'm confused. Did they win the vote, or did they receive sufficient signatures to have a vote? If the latter, they must remain vigilant.
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  12.  @triggered8556  Would child kidnapper be better if that doesn't rise to torture?
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  13.  @jazznjive  Indeed. Bernie wouldn't have gotten a fraction of what Biden did through with this Congress. Not because Bernie is a bad negotiator, but the centrists would have sabotaged him from day one.
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  14.  @miscaccount9438  Actually, when refusing to vote for the lesser evil when there is literally a non-zero chance of anyone but the two major parties winning means that you allow the greater evil in order to pat yourself on the back.
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  15.  @miscaccount9438  If you think that the Democratic Party meets the test for actual fascism, you are either lying to yourself or you are lying to us in order to play the useful idiot.
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  16.  @miscaccount9438  "this is why you organize" And organizing takes years, even decades. What have you actually done to organize?
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  17.  @miscaccount9438  What have you actually done? Give some examples. Commenting on videos online doesn't count.
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  18.  @miscaccount9438  You're trying to change the argument because you know that if you point out the big, fat nothing you've done, you'll be embarrassed. If organizing is the end goal, you should be able to give examples of what you've done. I can.
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  19.  @miscaccount9438  Not supporting a fool's errand of supporting a third party isn't "advocating against organizing."
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  20.  @bafflezbiz  Am I saying it was big bucks? No, I'm saying that prospective applicants probably thought the job paid minimum wage, so that's why nobody applied at first.
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  21.  @Tr4cK17  When did he vote for tax cuts skewed heavily toward the rich? He is not my preferred candidate, but I give credit where credit is due.
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  22.  @bonbon1956sh  15% is the threshold to win delegates. 25% is the threshold to be able to force a minority report. Since the party wants to show a display of unity, that is something they desperately want to avoid, which gives leverage for serious concessions.
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  23.  lost in translation  Oh, so you're a coward. Good to know.
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  24.  lost in translation  So, the True Patriots let other people do their fighting for them?
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  25. @Steven Which candidate defended the assassination of a journalist in Saudi Arabia? Which candidate tried to stop American doing the budding of Saudi Arabia in Yemen, and which one vetoed that bill?
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  26. Because the requirements are written into the Constitution, so it would take an amendment to change it. Also, given the history of things like literacy tests, it is entirely possible that results could be faked to disenfranchise people. It's up to the people to make that judgment.
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  27. "I like Ted Cruz more than most people in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  28.  Ilansini Shoresh  Biden already has sufficient pledged delegates to win the nomination. Even if Biden were to have a stroke tomorrow, his delegates become free agents, and I guarantee that they are not people willing to go for Bernie.
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  29.  @maxsmart645  Sadly, if Biden drops out, those delegates become unpledged. I just don't see how we can convince half of them to vote for Bernie to put him over the top.
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  30.  @maxsmart645  Biden voters, yes, but not Biden delegates. I saw the lists when I got my primary ballot. Every Biden delegate running was a total establishment creature. I'm guessing that isn't an anomaly based on what I have long observed in party politics.
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  31.  Ilansini Shoresh  Any political party can only do what its members allow. Far too many have been complacent. Perhaps it was Bernie's role to be a Moses and show people the way. Now, we need to get the reinforcements ready so our Joshua can win.
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  32.  @FertilityTV  This isn't 2000 where you have someone trying to hold back a few hundred votes in one state. We are talking about thousands or tens of thousands of votes in at least four states, and the votes have already been counted. If the Supreme Court gives this election to Trump, democracy is over.
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  33.  @NatuerlicheFruchtbarkeit  English translation: Mail-in votes hurt my chosen candidate, so they can't possibly be fair.
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  34.  @FertilityTV  A million dollars says you're wrong. I'll take installments. And you keep Bernie's name out of your mouth. Your divide and conquer isn't working here.
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  35.  @FertilityTV  This didn't age well :-P
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  36.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  "The result shows that"? Biden actually improved among white men, so that pretty much disproves that theory. And I've never heard "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" leading workers to favor the boss who keeps screwing them over and refusing to pay for their work.
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  37.  @RationalAUS  Nowhere near the United States? When did aborigines start getting included in the census, again? There are a lot of countries that have far more racism than they are prepared to admit. Seeing how Trump actually improved with black and Hispanic men tells me that misogyny also plays a role.
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  38.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  You could say that the first time, but over and over when you see the stories of people who soured on Trump, the basic structure of the conversion was "I thought he was going to stick it to the people I didn't like, and then he stuck it to me." Let the anti-immigrant crowd talk long enough and it becomes obvious that "economic anxiety" is not the reason for their xenophobia.
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  39.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  I agree with both counterfactuals. However, the exit polling clearly shows that economic anxiety was not the main cause for voting for Trump in 2016.
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  40.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  I didn't say it is. My point was that a key portion of that group was motivated by that.
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  41.  @lostmypassword  And that is what we are trying to address.
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  42.  @lostmypassword  Then, when should it be taxed? If they are masking it as Not Income, it won't be taxed until it is sold, and part of the argument is that it should be taxed at the same level as ordinary income when it is sold. If they die and leave shares to their children, it will never be taxed because of perhaps the most obscene loophole of all.
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  43.  @lostmypassword  And one that a lot came up with is the wealth tax. Pretty much all evidence says that all it really does is slow the accumulation of extreme wealth. (One study said that if it was implemented In 1982, when Bill Gates had enough net worth to be subject to it, he would have had a net worth of $13 billion in 2019.) If they don't accept the idea of being taxed enough that they'll never become trillionaires, they might have to face something that makes Share Our Wealth look like supply-side economics.
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  44. Biden already has enough delegates to win the nomination.
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  45.  @rockstar9ism  You mean the other countries that spend a fraction of what we do?
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  46.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Did you just acknowledge your own age? Again, Taliban were not the Middle East. And I must say that I appreciate the irony that people like you can't seem to understand the difference between a monument to traitors and terrorists and buildings that people no longer wanted to be funded and maintained by the general public and buildings that were thousands of years old whose destruction was condemned internationally, including the American Left, while the Bush Administration was originally trying to get the Taliban to work with it. As someone who went to a war that was based on what turned out to be false claims of weapons of mass destruction and connections to 9/11, I for one resent the ridiculous claims that one had anything to do with the other. Oh, just one more thing. Here are what actual American heroes who kept this country together had to say about the Robert E. Lee statue at Gettysburg, as well as the traitor himself: https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/the-lee-controversy-of-1903/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments
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  47.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Probably because, unlike say, Jefferson Davis, Lee recanted his treason. If you don't think that Confederates are traitors, then the word has no meaning.
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  48.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  For someone who claims to understand history, you are the one defending the Confederates. What's next, are you going to say that they didn't really fight for slavery, even though their Vice President referred to slavery as the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy, and every state document of secession either mentioned slavery in the first paragraph if not the first sentence: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/cornerstone-speech https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/caa_missec.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_geosec.asp https://www.civildiscourse-historyblog.com/blog/2018/7/1/secession-documents-Texas And I am not a millennial, I am Generation X.
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  49.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Ethnoc History. Interesting way to peddle what you are selling in defending those whose stated goal was to destroy a country that you claim to love. I, for one, am proud of the fact that my great-great-grandfather fought in the side of America rather than slavery and oppression. And if you notice, I haven't used the word progressive, because it has been used to represent so many vastly different things as to have historical meaning. Quite frankly, I care a lot more about what you are actually proposing. The only time that progressive can serve as a truly accurate descriptor is when describing economic impact of things like taxes.
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  50.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Every soldier ever says things like that. It wasn't rank and file soldiers who decided to secede, and those people who did make the decision clearly did so because they wanted to defend the peculiar institution. To pretend otherwise is to ignore the history that you claim to defend. The KKK was founded by disgruntled Confederates, and Confederate imagery has been used time and time again during resistance to civil rights. Maybe I'll get off my high horse when you stop defending the opposition force that killed more Americans than any other.
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