• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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    4 months ago

    It doesn’t seem to be completely unfounded, the whole article is that the writer had an impression that this was the case back in 2020, and now two highly placed Dems came out with statements to support that impression.

    IDK how many other layers this has though. That said, there seemed to have been a concerted effort to deny Bernie the nomination when all the dropouts happened at the same time, all endorsing Biden who has not been doing that well before.

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      4 months ago

      One who conflates that something like the title happened (opinion), and Ford who says he chose Biden over Bernie.

      The title and tone of this article make it seem like there was almost a conspiratorial effort to skew the entire party in one direction against Sanders, which is absurd. If Biden entering the ring suddenly gave people a choice they liked better than Sanders, that’s still not the same thing as the former.

      Also, the whole of “DEMOCRATS NOW OPENLY ADMIT…” explicitly implies that an entire group is admitting to some sort of foul play, which is wholely untrue. Because TWO people in the Democratic party said something this author massages into this crap is technically true they won’t get sued for using the plurality, but it’s disingenuous at best, and semantically playing with words to lure readers in.

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        4 months ago

        That’s why I grabbed the actual quotes one comment up. I agree that the headline is a stretch (headlines tend to be), but it’s not nothing either.

        This is newsworthy at least.

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          4 months ago

          What’s the revelation? Did anyone think there weren’t establishment/conservative Democrats who supported Biden because they didn’t want Bernie to win? That’s both not anything that was ever in question and not even anything nefarious.

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            4 months ago

            I think the insinuation is that Biden wasn’t picked by the Dem establishment because he would be great at the general, but because he would be great at foiling Bernie in the primary. The whole thing is that the Dem establishment’s priorities are such that they would rather lose to Trump than Bernie.

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              4 months ago

              The whole thing is that the Dem establishment’s priorities are such that they would rather lose to Trump than Bernie.

              Centrists got their second choice in 2016.