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In reply to the discussion: It's not Bernie's fault his supporters think the system is rigged-the SYSTEM IS RIGGED. [View all]uponit7771
(90,396 posts)43. no, just white, male, privileged whining seeing the long shot black guy won in the system in 08
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It's not Bernie's fault his supporters think the system is rigged-the SYSTEM IS RIGGED. [View all]
Ken Burch
May 2016
OP
Like OWS, like Sanders himself, you want to shout "Change!" from the rooftops w/o specifying what.
randome
May 2016
#2
Horse banure....Many of us have been working within our own spheres for positive change
Armstead
May 2016
#27
+1, shout change and then complain when the one guy who's doing everything isn't fast enough
uponit7771
May 2016
#37
All these phony cries of the white male candidate being oppressed by the system is why
bravenak
May 2016
#3
300 posts/day +/- means you're going to cross paths with some of us more than once
Arazi
May 2016
#82
And women and minorities haven't gained anything from what has happened so far.
Ken Burch
May 2016
#8
He did't FAIL to win AA votes. Those voters were scared away from him by ugly design.
Ken Burch
May 2016
#17
It doesn't help when campaign surrogates say stuff like "Hillary won the Confederacy" and his
TwilightZone
May 2016
#23
We have lots of amnesia. They can only remember shit I say but ignore the millions of crazy shit
bravenak
May 2016
#38
They amnesia is about to end soon, I got all types of their racist shit bookmarked screen printed an
uponit7771
May 2016
#47
Some POC did...he just didn't get the majority(he did get get 50% of AA voters under 30)
Ken Burch
May 2016
#79
Another racially fucked up post with negative connotations towards a minority ethnicity
uponit7771
May 2016
#52
"when you talk about ghettos traditionally, what you're talking about is African-American..."....
uponit7771
May 2016
#59
That was a term used by the freedom movement and the Panthers in the Sixties.
Ken Burch
May 2016
#64
+1. according to Weaver and Diving they didn't even compete in most of the "Southern States"
uponit7771
May 2016
#40
Saying the system is rigged isn't just about Bernie's candidacy. It's much deeper than that.
Ken Burch
May 2016
#14
That was a lot of words typed to say that you agree that Sanders should stop whining no? tia
uponit7771
May 2016
#41
ken...he's whining or he's a little... slow!?... seeing he didn't start talking about the DNC being
uponit7771
May 2016
#62
Wrong. Lots of people have said the system(political and economic)has been rigged for decades.
Ken Burch
May 2016
#11
The references to the system being rigged wer never just about the primary campaign.
Ken Burch
May 2016
#15
Do you think a fucking system where you have to super rich to run isn't rigged?
Armstead
May 2016
#32
So Hillary supporters think that "the system is rigged" is nothing more than a conspiracy theory...
AZ Progressive
May 2016
#18
no, just white, male, privileged whining seeing the long shot black guy won in the system in 08
uponit7771
May 2016
#43
You mean the system the long shot black guy won with in 08? Yeah, it's rigged alright.. privilged
uponit7771
May 2016
#35
How bad is it? Bernie Sanders did the Democratic Party, that DNC, a favor running
Todays_Illusion
May 2016
#78