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Snarfyguy's avatar

Nope. I just never engaged with anyone or read any debate here or elsewhere whom I recognized as a Bernie Bro.

Not saying this is a fictitious creature like Bigfoot or something, just that I'm more aware of people complaining about the thing than I'm aware of the thing itself.

I'm just not aware of the evidence, is all.

FWIW, I supported Elizabeth Warren.

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malsperanza's avatar

To one specific group of workers, yes. This is like comparing one person's charitable contributions to what government does to help the needy. I'm fine with Sanders's strike fund - I may even contribute to it. But Sanders is running a big chunk of the government. His job is to introduce legislation to support unions, and to do all the wheeling and dealing, negotiating and compromising, to see it through to law. He is absolute shite at wheeling, dealing, negotiating, and compromising, because he's a hard-liner. Which is why his 35 years in a safe seat in the Senate produced fuck-all, and why as chair of the Budget Cmte he has done squat.

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rtpoeman's avatar

I once got an extra $60. I told the bank about it, and they basically told me to keep it.

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Snarfyguy's avatar

Outstanding performance and that's some great writing!

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Catbird's avatar

Employment is a contract, not a life style.

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Secret Agent Super Dragon's avatar

It amuses me to think if OHJB wore a “Fuck Bo Hines” shirt these same people would lose their goddamn minds

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Secret Agent Super Dragon's avatar

I guarantee he doesn’t give a crap what the proles think about him. He’s the most important man in the Senate and the press is waiting on his every utterance.

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Larry Schmitt's avatar

The employees are there to get a paycheck, not because they love their boss.

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sarafina's avatar

Maybe...

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Catbird's avatar

Crap, crap, crap.

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sarafina's avatar

Thor and Loki are brothers??? How cool!

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sarafina's avatar

I was born ready.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Since I cover the food industry for a living, I happen to know that Frito-Lay (PepsiCo), Nabisco (Mondelez) and Kellogg all were making out like bandits during the pandemic, with double-digit increases in sales and profit. It was absolutely stupid for them to play hardball with their workers like this. I hope a few heads roll in the c-suite.

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Nicola Leslie's avatar

Betty White has died. This year really sucks.

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sarafina's avatar

By whom? Wonkers don't like him, but what about West Virginians?

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sarafina's avatar

His colleagues can't vote for him, so what do they matter?

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