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    8 days ago

    Yeah it’s one of those things where of course we’d rather it not be happening, but it’s also not surprising that it is because this is the nature of imperialism, colonization, and the kind of stuff the US and its similars (Britain, France, etc.) have been doing for hundreds of years. US is a more recent form of it, but no less vicious for it. Bernie for whatever reason, belief, fear, or being a fraud, is unwilling to speak out against US imperialism as a whole and so the local movements are moving past him and his messaging ends up sounding hollow. Like I called him a broken record because what he’s saying at the beginning of this clip sounds almost word for word like what he was saying years ago. Which isn’t inherently a bad thing, as it’s still true, but considering he won’t properly address US imperialism and mainly focuses on the lot of US workers, it makes him sound like just another tone deaf party democrat, playing through the same scripts because they worked some in the past.

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      8 days ago

      Exactly. I just put a disclaimer there because it sounded a little distasteful without it, at least for anyone new who didn’t know my beliefs. I just wanted to be clear I’m not relishing in the genocide of a people for sake of radicalizing people.

      When I first listened to the video, I was also thinking about how Bernie just keeps repeating his same old lines, sounding pathetic as the masses, who have further developed class consciousness over the past decade, are not putting up with the censorship and ongoing whitewashing of the genocide. They demand radical change which Bernie is straying away from as he compromises more and more with the far right democrats and republicans while refusing to put up any fight.

      Messages like the rich need to pay for their fair share aren’t enough. The rich systematically maintain a system through violence and austerity to keep their power and wealth, instilling bigotry and reactionary ideas among the masses to keep them competing and working against each other, and dismantling rights fought and won by previous movements. As Parenti said, the people really want to be liberated from the bourgeoisie’s control and domination of their lives. They are tired of struggling for survival. Bernie’s pathetic fight for concessions are not enough. The people want full liberation, to finally dismantle a system which perpetuates horrors that no one should ever have to experience, and they want to replace it with one that will ensure it never returns.