No true Scotsman!
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Explain to me how supporting Biden is in any way progressive
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Have you looked at his record on just about anything? https://theintercept.com/2020/01/13/biden-cuts-social-security/ …
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It is very disheartening to see tech leaders supporting candidates who will continue to actively screw over poor and working people in this country. Being progressive means working to change the rules of an unfair system to make it less unfair. Biden won’t and never has
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Replying to @AlisonBuki @acnetj
Where did you get to me supporting Biden?
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Indicating that excluding him from being considered progressive is somehow unfair or a logical fallacy. Progressives are candidates like the
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We're talking about supporters, not the candidates. Plenty of progressives support Biden because they believe Bernie is certain to lose the election.
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Yes, but they are wrong. Biden is clearly in mental decline and does not engender passionate support, while Bernie has a mobilized base that has a better ground game than any other campaign and is reaching more key demographics https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opinion/bernie-sanders-polls.html …
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Strategies like this are why he is ahead in the polls in delegate-heavy states like TX and CA. This is a team that wants to win and doesn't take any vote for granted https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/what-bernie-sanders-is-doing-differently-to-win-over-latino-voters …
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Replying to @AlisonBuki @Pinboard and
Running a center-left candidate who was a party insider and had lukewarm support at best was a big mistake the party made in 2016, and if they run someone like Biden this time they are doomed to lose again
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Then you can run Bernie in 2024, and see how you do
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