• punkcoder@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Try telling that to someone who supported Bernie, but before you do that you might want to go back and refresh youself on what happened. The DNC is a diseased carcass, change isn’t possible.

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      8 hours ago

      Before I consider this complaint, I need you to go back, and get the primary results from the 2016 DNC primary and post them here.

      I know what the results are, but I need to know that you know before we discuss further.

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        8 hours ago

        Do you really think the vote results of a corrupt election somehow make that election not corrupt? How are we still having this stupid ass argument in 2026?

        I guess Putin really does have 88% support in Russia. That’s what the vote says after all, so it must be true.

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          7 hours ago

          Are you saying that Bernie got more votes in the primary than Hillary, and the DNC manipulated the votes to make Hillary win?

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            7 hours ago

            No, I’m saying the election itself was corrupted in order to feed the victory to Hillary. Superdelegates, DNC-run smear campaigns, election rigging by limiting debates to reduce the visibility of the outsider. Accusations of sexism simply for not supporting the candidate with a vagina.

            Manipulating votes is not the only way to rig an election, you can do a lot just by manipulating the voters themselves. The DNC admitted to this, they didn’t have to run a fair election. So stop pretending the end result of a blatantly corrupt process justifies the process.

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              7 hours ago

              Alright, you pretty much posted the same argument I was expecting from the other two, but just taking a little detour through the possibility that you thought the votes were altered.

              Before I consider this complaint, I need you to go back, and get the primary results from the 2016 DNC primary and post them here.

              I need to know that you know before we can discuss further.

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                7 hours ago

                No, you infantilizing asshole. The fact that you’re still pushing this stupid game means you clearly don’t intend to argue in good faith. The fact that even after making me explain a very simple and straightforward statement you still think the vote results are relevant to a discussion about the corruption of the 2016 primaries means you’re just yet another liberal apologetic. If you’re unwilling to grapple with the fact that the DNC is a corrupt organization, we’re done here.

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                  7 hours ago

                  It’s really amazing that out of the many people who want to talk about how Bernie should have won the 2016 primary, none of them are willing to post the results, where he lost by a significant number of votes.

                  It’s almost like they think the less popular candidate should have been democratically selected.

                  Show me an election where the less popular candidate won, and I’ll agree with you that it’s totally bullshit, and the system was rigged, and needs to be reworked.

                  I’m always open to discuss further, but you will need to confirm that you know the results of the 2016 DNC primary.

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                    30 minutes ago

                    Right, the vote from the election where the winning candidate installed a sycophant as head of DNC who eventually had to resign in disgrace because she was actively rigging the election for Clinton. The election where the Clinton campaign siphoned funds from state races for her own campaign. The election where the Control campaign had documented authority over what the DNC could say. The election where the media, working for the same elite class, reported Clinton as insurmountably ahead before a single primary vote had been cast.

                    That’s the election that you think the end vote is even a little bit relevant for when people are talking about how it was a corrupt election? Give me a break, you’re just a standard issue neoliberal apologist.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      but before you do that you might want to go back and refresh youself on what happened.

      He lost? Yeah, fuck primaries forever!