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[firebush03]

Hiku said:

firebush03 said:

side note, but Sanders is such a communist! Cheerleading on...Kamala Harris? And Biden, even as the DNC was backing away from him? hmmmm....

Socialist ≠ communist.
And not just backing away from him. They teamed up to take him out of the primar in 2020.
But he likely views the DNC as the lesser of two evils, and by quite a margin considering what he thinks of Donald Trump.

The DNC didn't want Sanders in 2020 b/c his rhetoric doesn't sit well with donors. They read the room, and realized that a Sanders nomination would be risky. He never posed a legitimate threat to the establishment. Just another talking head. (Note: This is just my speculation; i.e. I don't have sources confirming nor denying these claims.)

In any case, my comment on Sanders being a "communist" was intended as satire of libs and anyone to the right who pin the fallacious label of "communist" on Sanders/anybody who disagrees with them. Obviously he's not a communist, nor is he even a socialist. He's literally just center left.