We spoke to Bernie Sanders about alleged health insurance CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the crisis of for-profit health care in America, why only a mass movement can win Medicare for All, and how to fight the growing share of working-class votes for the Right.

  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    30 minutes ago

    probably could have been built over the last 4 to 8 years if he hadn’t capitulated to the democratic party and had broken away from them to form a workers party at the height of his popularity

    Could have, Bernie

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      26 minutes ago

      Even the peasant bean counters and pencil pushers of the health insurance industry are a parasitic leech on society and need to be reassigned to socially useful work

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    edit-2
    2 hours ago

    No guys dont do things that could actually force change! Just remember to go vote vote vote! And if you get sick and die due to lack of healthcare in the meantime ill be sure to vote in your honor! Im rich so i dont have to worry about that you see thats why im 1000 years old.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    edit-2
    2 hours ago

    And you’re standing in the way of it old man, sit down and shut up

    Let me just say this: it goes without saying that killing anybody — this guy happened to be a father of two kids. You don’t kill people. It’s abhorrent. I condemn it wholeheartedly. It was a terrible act.

    Yeah that’s what I thought you media trained dog, keep playing teacher’s pet

    • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      36 minutes ago

      Kosovo War, 1999. Sanders voted yes on this measure to authorize the war

      Post-9/11 authorization for the use of military force, 2001: Sanders voted in favor.

      A Sanders White House, according to his campaign, would be open to launching a military strike against Iran or nuclear-armed North Korea to prevent (not respond to) not even a threatened missile or nuclear strike against the United States, but a mere weapons test.

      Question: President Trump’s national security strategy calls for shifting the focus of American foreign policy away from the Middle East and Afghanistan, and back to what it refers to as the ‘revisionist’ superpowers, Russia and China. Do you agree? Why or why not?

      Answer: Despite its stated strategy, the Trump administration has never followed a coherent national security strategy. In fact, Trump has escalated tensions in the Middle East and put us on the brink of war with Iran, refused to hold Russia accountable for its interference in our elections and human rights abuses, has done nothing to address our unfair trade agreement with China that only benefits wealthy corporations, and has ignored China’s mass internment of Uighurs and its brutal repression of protesters in Hong Kong. Clearly, Trump is not a president we should be taking notes from.