• Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    All these sources of intentional corruption against someone running to improve the lives of all Americans and not just a select few, and you just go “Hmm, but he was losing according to the media that lied to us, so he lost fair and square.”

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      6 days ago

      I see how many people didnt vote for him. How is the media lying about that?

      You could argue that media was against him, but the truth is that people in america just aren’t that progressive. I mean hell, look at how terrible the dem turnout was this year compared to last election.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 days ago
        • Refuses to cover his campaign ads
        • Refuses to cover his victories
        • Intentionally leaving him off of nationwide polls when data allow him to be counted (CNN infamous called Sanders “Other Candidate” instead of showing him, but counted Andrew Yang)
        • Slander about him being sexist when he encouraged women to run for office and only started going in 2016 when he asked Warren to run and she declined.
        • Mass media campaign about calling the Jewish senator antisemitic for not being “pro killing children”

        So when the media is against you, people see it as a bad candidate, and don’t vote. Even when he was never a monster, but Trump got more air time saying “Mexicans bring rape”.

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        5 days ago

        Democrats aren’t progressives. Maybe if they were, they wouldn’t lose all the time.