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What's some really unpopular opinion you have? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 year ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Bernie would have won had he not been blatantly cheated in the 2016 DNC primary. We’d be in a MUCH different timeline had he won.

Edit: Corbyn was done dirty in the UK too.

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 8 points 1 year ago

The defeatist in me wants to downvote you. The optimist in me also wants to downvote you. The currently aware bit of me reminds me that this isn't reddit, and downvotes aren't a thing here. The rest of me is upst because there's a non-zero chance you're right, and the entire world would be better off.

[–] Owell1984@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it weird that I support Bernie wholeheartedly, even though I am a Trump supporter (yeah, I can hear them coming)

[–] bermuda 2 points 1 year ago

It's because you're a populist. They're both populist politicians. Trump is right-wing, Bernie is left-wing.

Though, the question of whether either (especially trump) actually believe in their populist positions is debatable.

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bernie sold out and Hillary still lost. I respect his body of work but he wasn't the answer.

I think the closest thing we've had to an amazing presidential candidate in the last 12 years was Andrew Yang.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

ANDREW YANG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] ARg94@lemmy.packitsolutions.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that some election denial I detect?

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not unless you’re a complete fucking shitlib moron that will uncritically swallow whole any anti-Muslim genocide-pushing, imperialist, global death cult capitalist bullshit that CNN or MSNBC feeds you.

[–] gowan@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you bad at math? Im asking because the only source that comes close to "proving" this is filled with bad math.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you an absolute moron?

I'll bet $1 million that you voted for Hillary in the primary then gaslighted all of the Bernie supporters that were absolutely outraged after the convention.

“We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.’”

Bruce Spiva, lawyer for the DNC

[–] gowan@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Considering your claim has already bern disproven mathematically I don't think you should be sitting in judgement of anyone's intelligence.

Spiva's comment is referencing the fact that traditionally the party did choose the candidate. This was the case until the 1950-60s depending on the party. There's no law requiring an open primary and parties can do as they wish. If you had any understanding of US political history this wouldn't have been a surprising quote but here you are.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Mathematically? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

How does math come into play when the party tallying the votes is literally allowed to cheat?
Al Franken disobeyed the will of his constituents as a superdelegate and voted against them. I could go on and on all day about my lived experience in 2016 and people EXACTLY like you, gaslighting me, telling me that my lived experience was false and I somehow misremembered it.

I am not even going to waste any further time on you, shitlib.