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    cdwag14Ibn Safir
    3/16/19 12:23pm

    Good maybe he can now find a way to get some black people to attend a rally of his in all black church in South Carolina. Fuck Bernie and his Bros. They are both divisive and encourage abuse towards women and POC.

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      Manitos, The Tiny Hands of Trumpcdwag14
      3/16/19 1:01pm

      Fuck Bernie.

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      filmantopiacdwag14
      3/16/19 3:46pm

      This comment is way more divisive than anything I’ve heard from Bernie supporters this election cycle. Bernie is actually quite popular among women and POC according to recent polling. 

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    BadOmbreIbn Safir
    3/16/19 8:17pm
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      Rooo sez BISH PLZBadOmbre
      3/19/19 8:11pm

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    King BeauregardIbn Safir
    3/16/19 10:48pm

    Personally I don’t respect any union that is adopted only on the basis of a card check. Card checks require people to publicly affirm that they want the union, and I don’t trust any decision where people don’t have the opportunity to cast a secret ballot. This is still America and that means secret ballots.

    Bernie’s organization of course has the right to adopt the union on the basis of the card check. But if it were up to me, I’d add one small proviso: I would accept the union if and only if the pro-union side could win via a secret ballot election too. It’d take maybe an hour to set up: tape a cardboard box shut, cut a slit in it so people can insert ballots, print simple ballots via a printer, hand a ballot to each employee just before voting (and by the way use a difficult-to-duplicate rubber stamp to mark each ballot as “official”), let them mark their ballot and slide it into the box behind a curtain, record them as having voted. Fucking easy. There’s no reason not to do a secret ballot.

    ... well there is one reason not to, care to guess what that reason is? And that reason is, if you’re afraid that the union might not win if people feel safe to vote their consciences, free of coercion. Some unions are good with that; some union supporters are as well. I do not number among them. If a union can’t win fair and square — and prove it via secret ballot — then I consider it illegitimate.

    Then again, isn’t Bernie the guy who loves caucuses, where you vote publicly and his droogs can harass you for not supporting him?  What a guy.

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      BanestarKing Beauregard
      3/17/19 11:46am

      You realize Bernie supporters have been lobbying to allow mail-in votes to caucuses, helping fix that problem right?

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      King BeauregardBanestar
      3/17/19 2:16pm

      Caucuses can’t be fixed, they can only be eliminated in favor of primaries.  Which Bernie is not willing to do.

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    HypestylesIbn Safir
    3/16/19 11:23am

    Well it’s certainly interesting, statistically. Doesn’t mean people have to vote for him over this. He and all the other candidates need to deliberately engage black voters and speak to our issues directly.

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    LolaFalanasLongAssLegsIbn Safir
    3/16/19 2:41pm

    I’d like to see the other campaigns follow his lead.

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    Graby SauceIbn Safir
    3/17/19 4:15am

    And so soon after he instituted a sexual harassment policy 2 years after his presidential campaign.

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      Matthew MarcantonioGraby Sauce
      3/17/19 1:04pm

      I’m not a Bernie guy, but In fairness, Just keep that same energy with Hillary, someone who refused to fire a senior staffer accused of serial-sexual harassment.

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      Graby SauceMatthew Marcantonio
      4/08/19 7:36pm

      She had the guy take sexual harassment training and had no problems from him for the duration of her campaign. The victim was satisfied with how the situation was handled. My same energy informs me that she didn’t ignore the problem until her staff made public protests before her next campaign like Bernie did.

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    VincentPriceLostHisLaughIbn Safir
    3/18/19 1:41pm

    He excels at pushing other candidates to at least match his energy and for that I’m grateful. I really wish he wouldn’t have run again but if it means support for unions becoming a national discussion, like he did with Medicare For All, I don’t see a problem.

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    Cheese Knee IIIbn Safir
    3/16/19 11:27am

    This is amazing news, and really heartening to see.

    While I don’t believe he will win the Democratic nomination, his influence in the race is going to have far-reaching, and positive effects cascading through the party.

    I am particularly pro-labour/pro-union, and for him to lead this change in the face of rampant and targeted labour rights destruction in the USA is fantastic.

    Just this statement alone:

    “We cannot just support unions with words, we must back it up with actions,”

    Excellent. And you could replace the word union with countless others, and have equally positive outcomes. As long as progress is the goal, action tops debate and this is a very strong moral initiative.

    Nice to see some really positive news today. Reading this has me smiling to myself, even as I’m replying.

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      KikomanCheese Knee II
      3/17/19 12:37pm

      Good leaders lead by example

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