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Hawkeye15's avatar

Biden has said he would veto Medicare for All, and the platform committee voted overwhelmingly against it, despite the policy enjoying widespread support from Democrats and the electorate at large.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Dude, this fucking ninny just doesn't stop. The brass balls on such a turbocucked lib calling himself 'punk rock'.

He had a wallet chain and a bowling shirt and frosted tips and listened to ska and rockabilly for four months during 1995 and refers to it as his wild punk years.

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red_li0nz's avatar

This is hilarious considering I'm only on this blog because I know one of the writers through punk rock social circles.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Where. The. Fuck. is your buddy in this? If I had a really real, totally cool, I can't name him though friend who wrote for this site I'd have sent him a text two hours ago, he'd have called the guy I was arguing with a poser and stfu and that would have been the end of it.

It would have taken like, 5 seconds. Are you like this in real life? Do you just constantly spin wild, transparent lies every ten minutes?

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red_li0nz's avatar

I donтАЩt know what to tell you. Most of the things IтАЩve said about myself on this thread is probably confirmable on the internet. In fact, if you just look around other posts you can probably confirm some of this yourself, though IтАЩm not sure because of the subscriber thing. I would not contact a single person in my life in regards a fucking argument on the internet, and in this case, IтАЩm not sure youтАЩd even believe what your eyes saw.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

You know, my canadian girlfriend said the same thing.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Every punk clique has a Beto. Everyone knows from day one who it is. The guy who never has rent money but has a rich dad so he's got 20k in ink on him.

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red_li0nz's avatar

See, now this actually does piss me off a little. Both of my parents grew up on welfare, other government assistance, and "begging from relatives" in their words. My mom, who didn't have much of a childhood, was the oldest of 9 kids with a severely alcoholic father who didn't work the first 20 years of her life. But hey, lucky for me they worked hard, got educated, and I didn't grow up that way. You have no clue what you're talking about. Do you judge everyone this quickly? Or just people with marginally different political views?

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Also cheers on getting welfare and then voting in the guy who destroyed welfare. Keep on burning those ladders fucko.

And keep pretending like there's only a marginal difference between your centrist ass and people on the Actual Left. Because you can't be a conservative, reactionary status quo lib if you're 99.9% a lefty.

Here's some punk, lib.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFvhhCulaw

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red_li0nz's avatar

The funny thing is when I hear this song I actually think of a Phil Ochs cover set I watched in an anarchist infoshop about 15 years ago. Did you just capitalize Actual Left? Is that trademarked?

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

You know, I'm gonna be honest I thought you were a shitty lib based on your open caping for Biden, your refusal to defend that caping, and your incessant sealion reply-guying, but it is inarguable that you keep claiming unverifiably to have -been in- lefty spaces, decades ago, so I guess that makes you King Antfa, and me the Real Racist.

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red_li0nz's avatar

This is really fun. I actually think I have the contact info for the person who did that cover set in my phone still, unless I'm misremembering someone's name, it was a while ago like you mentioned.

Anyway, this has been fun. Thanks for the vigorous mental exercise. I was actually serious though about analyzing your writing with code though. I like technology. Please get in touch if you can provide some more samples.

Oh, btw, I didn't vote for Biden. I think you should take a look at the glowing things Bernie's people have been saying about Biden lately though, in all fairness.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

I just remembered I've been to Monticello, does that make me Thomas Jefferson?

People who like Bernie don't like M4A cause he told them to. People like M4A and like Bernie cause he was for it too. This is gonna come as a shock to you, but there are people out there who have objective morals independent of whatever their chosen twitter team is telling them to believe this week.

Bernie is dead wrong about guns and Bernie is dead wrong about Biden.

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red_li0nz's avatar

DonтАЩt worry, I met many many people working in humanitarian aid who had crystal clear morality. I know they exist and I know they are better people than me. But thereтАЩs a reason none of those people become politicians. Because representative democracy has many nuances (everyone gets a say, even centrists, what a drag) and it involves interacting with others. Everyone observes the way people interact with each other a little differently. ItтАЩs subjectivity. Not everyone is cut out to live in the nuances of the world. ThatтАЩs why we elect who we think is solid and hope for the best.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Whoa, check out the likes piling up on this guys posts! One and only one! The very second he posts! He's kicking my ass in Klout!

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

It doesn't matter, these guys live entirely in a fanfic headcanon that has no reference to any of the very public words and deeds Biden's said and done in full view of TV cameras and on the front page of major newspapers for 50 years.

Rather than deal with the fact that after 4 years of #MeToo and #BLM he's going to be voting for a segregationist dixiecrat who raped at least one woman, he's decided he's voting for the candidate that we'd all actually like to see elected, and therefore he's not compromised, not owned, laughing about it actually. Can't wait for all the progressive reforms like not caging children, like not attacking reproductive rights, like not criminalizing blackness, like not evicting millions on fraudulent pretext for a bank's bottom line, that literally would not exist to be reformed but for a half century of the diligent work of Joseph Robinette Biden.

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red_li0nz's avatar

Wow, all I can think when reading this is that smart progressivism must have gone down in that plane with Paul Wellstone.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Oh shit if you're gonna try to norm-shame did you come to the wrong place.

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red_li0nz's avatar

Medicare for All would never make it to Biden's desk. Medicare for All has never been in focus aside than somewhat in the primary, it has never faced the kind of public well funded beating that would ensue. Today's public opinion is just that, today's public opinion. Bernie ran a 5 year campaign for president and ended up less popular.

Besides, do you really want Joe Biden advocating for Medicare for All? Your spokes person and optics mean a ton. That would be a disaster.

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