Quick links post.

[elisi]

Vox: Watch: Nike’s powerful Colin Kaepernick commercial
(It's a hell of a commercial, yes.)

Came across Button - Best for Britain.
I have done zero research, apologies.

NLBMC - Newfoundland & Labrador Beard & Moustache Club
This cannot be described. Please go have a look.

Basically an ode to stupid ginger cats

Why We Fight
Angel vid

Doctor Who: Another Planet (with Who) Series Trailer
Neat fanmade trailer

A Beginner’s Guide to the “Fuck Bernie” Meme and Why It Still Matters
(If you wonder why some people dislike Bernie, this is a good primer.)

Comments

[owlboy]

All I got from that article was that people don't like Bernie because he wasn't very nice to Hillary

eta: I want to see something that goes in depth on how the Left's rhetoric was surreptitiously hijacked by Russian memes and how Bernie's faction was possibly implicated and what made it vulnerable. The Bernie Bro argument is completely irrelevant at this point.

[elisi]

I'm sure the article you wish for has been written - if I come across something like it, I'll make sure to link you.

The issue with Bernie, generally (still), is that he has a big platform, but he doesn't use it to lift up anyone else.

[owlboy]

...?

[elisi]

He is great at enthusing people, and fighting for a minimum wage etc.

But he utterly fails to understand that politics need to be intersectional.

[owlboy]

(blank stare)

alright

[elisi]

'The assumption that Bernie is universally liked necessitates the dismissal of the concerns of people who don’t like him. These people often fall into certain demographic categories — some combination of people of color, female, or LGBTQ. So the assumption that Bernie is universally liked is reliant upon ignoring (usually not with purposefully malicious intent) female, POC, and LGBTQ voices. And one of the recurring problems with Bernie that many of these people tried to voice was that he ignored the concerns of women, POC and LGBTQ.'

F.ex. a minimum wage is great. But if you don't at the same time look at childcare costs and the wage gap and people on zero hour contracts (just the main issues off the top of my head), you're only helping a certain portion of the working people (mostly white men). Ditto with every other issue.

[owlboy]

Plenty of female/poc/lgbtq people don't like Hillary either, dude, or the neo-liberal wing of the democratic party in general.

And like, you're telling me a dude that was an active organizer during the Civil Rights movement doesn't get intersectional politics. That's just. I don't even have the energy to argue, especially when they're both politically irrelevant now anyway.

[elisi]

Not really anything to do with Hillary, plenty of people hate her.

The article just reflected complaints I have seen repeatedly, of people who feel like he doesn't listen. However, considering how old he is... They should just all make way for the younger generation. (Including Hillary.)

ETA: I guess the interesting thing is that if people *like* Hillary, they have to explain why. If people *dislike* Bernie, they have to explain why.

Anyway, I don't feel strongly enough about any of this to argue.