A fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office is being investigated as arson, the Burlington Fire Department said Friday.

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    7 months ago

    Who the hell goes after Bernie? He’s one of the few politicians that is actually liked.

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      Because someone is afraid of the fact that

      He’s one of the few politicians that is actually liked.

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        “…, and then saw his knob gobbling support Israel during this conflict.”

        I’m not sure what you mean here. He has been opposing support of Israel for quite some time now.

        I’m not sure if anybody DIDN’T support Israel immediately following Hamas’ terror attack, but Israel’s conduct quickly changed some hearts and minds.

        I don’t know what his stance was at the beginning of the conflict, but I’m not going to fault him him if he was supporting the victim of a terror attack.

        But he has been calling for the U.S. to stop funding Israel’s war for some time now.

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            No. You don’t get frame a statement like that and then walk away from it. You said he gobbled Israel’s knob and now he has to walk back his vile statements.

            And now you just doubled down on it. So tell us, how did he “gobble the knob”, and what was Bernie’s vile statement, that he is now walking back?

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              Was it?

              32,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and almost 75,000 injured, two-thirds of whom are women and children. Some 60% of the housing units have been damaged or destroyed, and almost all medical facilities have been made inoperable. Today, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are facing starvation because Netanyahu won’t let in sufficient humanitarian aid, while thousands of trucks are waiting to get into Gaza. To pretend that Israel is not violating international law or interfering with U.S. humanitarian aid is absurd on its face. The State Department’s position makes a mockery of U.S. law and assurances provided to Congress.

              Cause that doesn’t seem like knob gobbling.

              Maybe it was when he went on Face the Nation and said:

              what we are seeing in Gaza today is literally an unprecedented crisis. It’s not just that 30,000 people, two thirds of them are women and children have already been killed. We are looking at the possibility of hundreds of thousands of children starving to death. The United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children. So it is one thing to talk to Netanyahu to pressure Netanyahu. But here is the bottom line. Year after year, we have provided billions of dollars in military aid to the Government of Israel. Right now, you have a right wing extremist government under Netanyahu. There are plans to provide him with another $10 billion in unfettered military aid. What you can say to Netanyahu, stop the slaughter, allow the massive amounts of humanitarian aid that we need to come in to feed the children. Please, please, please. Oh, but by the way, if you don’t do it, here’s another $10 billion to continue the war. Now we have written a letter to the president, it turns out that Israel is in violation of the law, stopping American humanitarian aid is in violation of the law. That should be clear, no more money to Netanyahu’s war machine to kill Palestinian children.

              Cause that doesn’t seem very vile either.

              Oh maybe the other commenter is just full of shit and doesn’t even listen to any news sources of do even the most basic reading. Maybe they’re just some bitter little troll sitting in a basement somewhere.

              edit: Maybe it was in July of 2023, even before the October 7th attack, when he boycotted Israels Presidential speech to a session of congress, saying:

              It is no great secret that I strongly oppose the policies of Israel’s right wing, anti-Palestinian government. We provide them with $3.8 billion in aid. We have a right to demand they respect human rights.

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                What a strange cherry-picked, contextless quote to pretend to get upset about.

                You claimed he’d said vile things and “gobbled Israels knob” whatever that means, he’s clearly done no such thing.

                Lol, you’re so obvious, little chode load. Go try to waste someone elses time I don’t have time to dunk on you all day.

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        My dude, your passion and zeal for all things truth liberty and justice are being distorted by your use of the medium.

        If one of the most progressive and liberal politicians in one of the highest offices in the land isn’t liberal or progressive enough for you - I get it. But you need to understand you’re not going to get the world you want by commenting. Or making videos. Or marching in the street.

        You’ll hopefully move it in the right direction, yes. But actual change - actual decisions and signatures that make heavy loads move and people get things are all done in boring flourescent-lit office buildings that don’t pay much money at all. And you’re not doing that, we’re guessing.

        Besides, Bernie’s one of The Good Ones. He’s got a whole career you can check out. Attacking his office is So Not Cool, that your defending-the-attack-by-inference is also not cool. That’s why people are mad.

        If that was your point, well, then you did wrong again. But if it wasn’t and you’re just trying to get us there as fast as possible through any means necessary, you might think about re-phrasing or retracting some of that.

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    And just like that, the boundary testing from the American extremists started their next chapter. Let’s see how this labrat does. If he gets away they’ll burn others offices, if those succeed, they’ll start with private residences. Inch by inch, they will become more aggressive. If someone gets caught, they pull back a bit… But it doesn’t stop until they have something larger to point their extremism in the direction of.

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      Self/community defense is the only solution, unfortunately we live in a state* so this is mostly illegal.

      Not state like Iowa, state as in a group of people saying “I feel entitled to your life, resources, and freedom and can call you a criminal and kill or incarcerate you and any self/community defense is criminal too”.

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        And any sort of well regulated militia you try to keep would get raided by a veritable Alphabet Soup of agents. So community defense is even less likely.

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          Yep, this is part of what I mean by state and why unity is key to any real social advancement (not faux advancement like iphones).

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    7 months ago

    Somebody should check where the 3 toed MTG Margibomber was at the time

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    Made me check the email I got from his campaign to see if it was about that (dismissed the notification without reading it). It wasn’t. It was another request for money.