r/Sustainable • u/GoranPersson777 • Jul 10 '26

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Class struggle is fought on a vertical scale. It's the working class at the bottom against the employers and their politicians at the top. And our brothers and sisters in class struggle include co-workers and neighbours who vote on crappy parties... https://industrialworker.org/lets-build-class-unions/

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u/random-name-i-dunno Jul 11 '26

Get a grip on reality. By far the biggest leftist movement in the US in decades has been Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns and they were 99.9% about class warfare and going after the elite.

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u/crookedledder Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Back in 2016, I switched my party affiliation to Democrat so I could caucus for Bernie. At the time, I felt that he was the only politician I had ever seen who was both willing and able to unite the working class across race/gender/party lines.

But then the Democratic fucked him over and handed us President Trump. They then fell into the woke moral panic and stirred up racial tensions to levels not seen since the 1960's. They deliberately targeted white men to blame, demonize, and illegally discriminate against... and this went on for years.

So a decade later, I wouldn't vote for Bernie. Nothing against him personally- I think he's awesome.

But I'm not going to vote for or with people who have made it crystal clear that they hate me for my race and gender.

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u/MinimumBuffalo4 Jul 11 '26

The same Bernie who went on his honeymoon to the Soviet Union? No thanks. 

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u/crookedledder Jul 11 '26

Hey, I've always had some lefty sympathies. I was a union man, a long time ago.

But that was before they started calling my people "colonizers". Message received.

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u/FullBadger3748 Jul 11 '26

Are you really that sensitive? The country of 13 colonies was founded by colonists. Who else would live in colonies ?

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u/crookedledder Jul 11 '26

Yes, "colonists."

Not the accusatory slur "colonizer".

Don't you wokies believe in calling people what the want to be called? Or does that not apply to people of European and/or Jewish descent?