“Bernie’s supporters have been very, very damaging to him, and it’s really frustrating to see and experience. They don’t realize how influential they are. It’s frustrating to feel like they are hurting him,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the midst of the 2020 primary, according to the book. “I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate.”
She also worried that the behavior of Sanders’s supporters were “forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis” through their “behavior, not so much policy.”
Ocasio-Cortez made those comments as she mulled whether to endorse Sanders’s 2020 campaign, even though she had worked as an organizer on his 2016 campaign.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-bernie-bros-reactionary-left-wing-book-2023-12
It’s socialism or barbarism dawg
All the exit polling I saw said otherwise, Bernie won all groups(but especially poc and queer people) below 55, while biden swooped up the Olds both black and white, and Warren was left scraping by on a fraction of the college cracker professional set.
Yes, because the “BernieBro” thing was mostly an online thing. In other words, that was just very online Hillary/Biden/Warren people crying because young people cared more about another candidate. But it was made into this huge issue by the mainstream media, I am betting that it received more TV time in 2016 and 2020 than the Iraq war and climate change combined.
Is the Bernie Bro in the room with you right now, Hillary?
Just a made up demographic to discredit as a proxy for discrediting all Bernie supporters.
Rember when she tried the same thing in 2008 with Obama boys but the reaction was correctly an immediate “what the fuck is wrong with you you racist old hag?”
Black people ain’t having no Bernie
Thanks for bringing the mental image of this photo back to my memory.
this fucking potemkin barbershop kills me
Just everything is so odd:
Jerseys hung up on wall via plastic hangers
Could they not afford a cheap poster frame?
Spiderman and Pan movie posters
Not my first choice, but sure
DVD cases hung on the wall
What the actual fuck. Let’s see what’s here: capeshit, sure; random action slop (Meg, Hobbs & Shaw, Equalizer 2), uhhh alright; PETER RABBIT, wot.
MLM poster on the wall (It Works)
Busted old couches
One guy who’s getting a haircut just randomly near the exit
I was gonna say, every barbershop I’ve been in has had the barber chairs lined up, facing a wall with a mirror on it. Not in the middle of the room, on a rug, surrounded by sofas.
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The guy getting his haircut has dreads and the barber is holding just a comb. What is going on.
you re-twist locs with a comb. that part is correct. looks like the wrong kind of comb though.
Ah gotcha, I knew they were treated differently but didn’t know how
Maybe beard cut? But that still doesn’t explain why he doesn’t have any clippers or scissors
and he’s sitting in an office chair.
What was this?
A fake barbershop, put together for a pro-Warren photo-op, to attempt to convince people that POC liked Warren
I’m fucking dead hahahiasdofhio sd;do kaaghg
I love when people do blackface on social media. It’s so cool and not at all weird to roleplay as a minority to try and own other white people.
Mayo Pete’s campaign manager (Liz something) got caught literally pretending to be a black man on twitter who kept hyping up Pete.
I’m still a Chinedu truther
Lis Smith
electon season 2020 would’ve gone bat shit if covid never happened, im convinced
Warren really was the high water mark for ‘Twitter is not real life’
I winced from the secondhand cringe reading this. It was probably him saying that and everybody telling him to shut the fuck up.
They got challenged on it, so the warren campaign seems to have staged a fake barber shop to prove it wasn’t made up https://nitter.net/STEFisDOPE/status/1231425884063764480
the barber is wearing a tie! couches! what?!
That barber’s name? Albert Einstein.
Didn’t Warren get like third place in her home state?
Yes. And it was at that point only a three person race
yep, AOC is just a warren-ite college cracker professional set-type so she doesn’t see this pattern
She just “feels” like everyone else should agree with white college cracker professional set.
Her 6month bartending gig is stilen valor
Working a bit during college doesn’t making someone working class either, nor does being “poor” during college and eating ramen make one poor. These are basically just mini-poverty tourisms and a hazing period for the middle class, not legitimate class differences. The precarity doesn’t exist, they have safety nets to fall back on (drop out and live with their parents at their huge house).
God damn does it ever wind me up hearing people talk about how they “struggled” in uni cause they had to eat ramen in their dorm or something. Mf you have rich parents and no student loan debt, there was no struggle. These people have zero concept of how it feels to be on the precipice of destitution with no one to fall back on.
Poverty is when I’m afraid to ask my parents for a couple thousand dollars, because they’ll ask me what I’m spending it on and I don’t want to admit that half The money they give me goes to alcohol and drugs.
Pulp - Common People (1995)
Yeah in the middle of the 2020 primary there was definitely discussion of Warren getting polite Bernie hand-me-downs. I can’t blame anyone for “feeling” like that during the midst of 2020 - there was a concentrated media effort to make that case and propaganda/advertising actually do work. It turns out, real people didn’t actually behave that way though. If aoc is still concerned about that now or anytime after Warren washed out then she’s a dumb ass but who cares if an electoral politician was aware of and in some way responded to electoral political punditry in 2020
there was a concentrated media effort to make that case and propaganda/advertising actually do work.
Bernie can blame himself for that. He ran a dramatically weaker campaign in 2020 and refused to distinguish his policies from the Democratic Party policies. He wanted to have it both ways this time. He wanted a Political Revolution that was somehow going to be more or less the same regardless which Democratic Candidate got picked. What a loser
Also the difference between his support from men and women was only 5%, but the media always stressed he was specifically “the candidate for young men”
I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate.
Did it feel that way??? Cause it definitely was not that way in reality
Got her ass
Thanks God she consolidated all those votersnornshe might do aonething really embaressing like come third in her home state. Then it would be really obvious the only reason she was still in was to split the “left”.
Hey remember when Obama told trans people to shut up so dems could get more right-wing votes?
Naw naw naw naw! Not in my house! I don’t want to hear about it! 
Stop being disrespectful!7 years later…with his VP now president Record number of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced this year
It’s not his fault! He can’t do anything he’s only the president!
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I feel Obama was, on the national level, the final straw in terms of any dispossessed feeling they could get anything going through respectability. Anything after was vain attempts to do something/anything (such as the Trump-to-Biden) but I think we all knew the game was up. Crumbs will be doled out, at best, and the overall state of affairs was going to be a gradual decline. Canada is undergoing that now with Trudeau. You could say this is all part of a longer cycle but I think that neglects the other aspects. The world isn’t blown apart nor does it feel so dire like it will be - there’s only the sense of terminal decline and a refusal by anything in authority to take remotely appropriate action about it.
Since Obama, its been gradually more agreed that anything good isn’t going to come back again without one having to be quite a bit more than just a loud heckler. What we do about it (from clocking out to resignation to terrorism to armed revolt) depends on the individual and sub/culture. All indicators is that the ‘middle’ is tightening hard (and with the fewer remaining being more and more annoying about it; to the point that ‘centrism’ mockery is increasingly happening outside of the Internet) and otherwise radicalism increasing - whether just in passive sentiments or actually extreme actions.
There’s few to no one left to trust and this is what happens when we don’t have that. Trans people feeling betrayed and harmed matters in a society that now allows them to have loud broadcasted grievances and actually have generational allies (currently primarily Gen Z), for example. Shifts that could happen over decades (or earlier, arguably centuries) now happen over years, and its actually a relevant thing that Obama can be quickly looked up and viewed as anti-trans. Now, a needle is moved and someone who might have felt the balm of ‘well at least Obama was good’, can’t even conjure up that idea as easily as otherwise. Some may say this is because everything’s becoming so terribly left - I say its because we’ve been so delusionally conservative its actively cancerous. In this matter and so many others.
I used to support universal healthcare but then someone was mean to me online
We now have no choice but to be racist
So she believed the media hype about Warren during the primaries. AOC’s peak popularity was during the Trump years when being a snarky Twitter reply guy got you attention. Early interviews after her win revealed how big of a lib she was with how she defended Obama and allowed herself to be restrained just by having a fellow Puerto Rican congresswoman talk to her.
She was kind of promising early on with the Green New Deal and fiery speeches, but Pelosi putting the muzzle on and the January 6 insurrection was all it took for her to shut up and sit down. Now she gets ratio’d by Elon on Twitter and continues to have terrible foreign policy takes.
She’s the type of American liberal poc that is all race issues at the most shallow level and will talk a big game about economics while continuing to play the neoliberal game behind the scene.
All race issues except for systemic solutions to race issues or the economic basis of racial oppression.
Didn’t she literally do a show with Hasan?
Like, is there anyone that is more of a Bernie Bro than Hasan was? If I was going to describe a Bernie Bro to anyone back when that election was happening I would have pointed at that himbo.
She was just being a very good politician.
It was good exposure for her brand and she was quick to capitalize on that younger generation audience.
maybe this is a power play to eliminate Bernie as the face of the social democratic movement in the US and become its leader in a machiavellian way
lol, but its probably just her calling for “civility”
I think she’s realised that she won’t go into the next election season as a progressive hero, but as a sell out, so she’s trying to get out in front of it.
By selling out harder?
Bold strategy cotton
I mean, yes.
Seriously though, now any challenge from the left can be blamed on Bernie Bros, angry at being called out. It gives her a counter narrative which will probably be good enough for the average liberal.
Ahh fuck you’re totally right.
She also did an Amongus Stream. Little did I know how sus she actually was.
AHHHHHHH THE WHOLE THING WAS A SMEAR, BERNIE SUPPORTERS WERE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO BE THE LEAST RUDE OF ANY OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES’ PRIMARY VOTERS
DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB
REMEMBER PUMAS
REMEBER WHEN 25% OF CLINTONS SUPPORTERS PROUDLY VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE TO SPITE OBAMA FOR BEATING HILLARY
REMBER WHEN THOSE SAME PEOPLE TURNED AROUND AND ACCUSED BERNIE SUPPORTERS OF DOING THE EXACT SAME THING EVEN THOUGH EXIT POLLS EXIST
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project. <<
Hillary supporters are here ∆
I think you’re missing the fourth bullet point, blame literally every single thing in the observeable universe other than yourself.
But then again there isn’t a gopblestitouoty party so it not quiet as pithy.
Also that acronym came out way closer to being prounouncable than I expected.
The whole respectability politics thing makes me actively want what’s worst for the US and Americans at large sometimes. What, everyone else get to be boorish shitheads and i can’t even fling a turd or two back at them?
Respectability politics is when you bomb 8,000 children in Gaza, but clutch your pearls and faint when someone in tictok says that Biden sucks Zionist cock.
Some Bernie Bros made fun of me for voting to fund the Iron Dome so now I no longer believe in social democracy.
She bartended for 6 month for the photo op.
That’s what real stolen valor looks like
Remembering when a bunch of right-wingers ended up boosting that propaganda because they thought “she’s just a bartender!” was some kind of own
I’m remembering a lot of libs hating on Maduro because he used to be a bus driver. American politics is uniquely stupid because it has so little class awareness.
It’s incredibly class aware, it just hates the on professional working class.
AOC is Nancy Pelosi, I’ve been saying it for years. a lauded “”“progressive”“” in her youth, only to become ultimately entrenched in the demonic system, make a lot of money in it, and defend it.
50-60+ year old AOC is going to be so fucking cursed
step 1. she’s going to leave her loser normal husband and marry some Blackrock hedge fund ghoul
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I hope she get her consulting job long before, but yeah I see the turn and it’s not pretty.
Nancy Pelosi with the popularity of Obama with Zoomers.
I just asked this but did Pelosi even get this shotty this fast, AOC is still way too young to already be at where Pelosi was at the end ofnher career.
At least Pelosi was literally openly making millions from insider trading before she sold out her morals, instead of just being criticized on Twitter
Lmao, fraternal order of the Bernard brethren strike again, this time striking fear into the hearts of sellout AOC (an even bigger sellout than cowardly Bernie)
Good news! We’re not his supporters anymore!
through their “behavior, not so much policy.”
ah, you see, the vibes analysis results portray you as a soyjack
It’s either the dirtbag left who donated time, money, sweat, and sanity to get you elected, or the Jan 6 fascist chuds. Which would you rather have breathing down your neck?
It’s really clear she prefers the chuds because they don’t call her out for being a fake progressive.
Also the chuds are the ones who elevated her name by making her a centerpiece opposition figure.
Yea I think she might have actually bought the chuds bulkshit and started believing she was a hard-core progressive since chuds kept calling her a communist.
Meanwhile in reality she was tone policing actual communists to make sure they weren’t rude to fascists because that “makes her movement look bad”
Also her and the sex trafficking pedo Geatz were awfully fucking chummy there for a bit.
Back when AOC first won and was a card carrying DSA, my wife was also doing DSA and reached out to her team/local DSA to ask her to make a statement on anti-imperialism and her team responded back that they won’t give her the message and to not mention ‘anti-imperialism’ to them again.
And that was before Pelosi made AOC fire her most visibly leftist staffers.
The year is 2030. Amidst popular protests against her failure to enact the promised healthcare reform, President Ocasio-Cortez wept on national television as she promised to restore law and order before the protests further divide the country. She then called in the
FreikorpsProud Boys to crush the opposition.The chuds
Fr at least they are not going to bother you with complicated policy ideas that will pit you against the imperialists, the crypto fascists, and the fascists.
“Thanks for the $27, commies!” - Bernie and AOC
