Can’t find a source for the screenshot, but here is the same quote in the hill: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/5209792-sanders-recognizes-trump-effort-on-border-fentanyl-nobody-thinks-illegal-immigration-is-appropriate
And a clip: https://xcancel.com/NewsWire_US/status/1903846182503231861
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Democracy is when 20 million workers are disenfranchised yet critical for the country to exist
those billionaire land owners aren’t going to pick cotton so of course we can’t free the slaves
I mean, they wouldn’t be freed so much as sent to El Salvador mega jail or likely melted after the fascists figure out it’s expensive to concentrate and transport people around the world.
That’s surely not what the commenter above you meant. The problem is using “muh economy” as the main argument against the forceful deportation of millions of people who just wanna have a fucking job.
Oh I understand. I’m just pointing out in this case, advocating for the status quo is more humane despite it being wrong and exploitative.
New tagline
“Look i love to brutalize migrants at the border but we need low wage servants to keep the farms and other industries running”Literally Kelly Osborne’s ‘Who is going to clean your toilets?’ logic, and hilariously she’s probably suffered more consequences for saying that shit than Bernie ever will
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Trump’s billionaire friends are not going to pick the crops
Not with that attitude
jesus christ dude
fucking embarrassed i ever liked this guy
I gave him $27 dollars goddamnit, straight into the sheepdog fund and all I got was act blue texting me nonstop
i was extremely poor at the time and i think gave a total of between 40 and 70 and same just felt like i spent my hard earned money to be spammed for eternity
I worked for his campaign
The one and only politician I ever volunteered for. 2016 seems centuries away.
Jfc man, at least Obama managed to sound progressive on immigration
emphasis on sound
Christ, this man used to defend Cuba and Fidel in the 1970’s. How does one’s brain get so cooked
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I haven’t seen the clip, but with no other context there is no reason to think that Sanders is being positive about the exploitation that undocumented people suffer doing brutal work (in particular in food production). He is just stating something that’s actually true - the exploitation of undocumented people is the foundation of the American food system. And if they were expelled en masse, then this system will be in trouble.
I don’t see pointing this out as implicit support of that system. Unless he says that later, of course.
Now, of course, not providing an alternative or working towards changing that system is the problem.
He could have stopped the legislation that crushed the rail strikes from quickly passing the senate, but refused to
While Sanders did not vote to impose the contract, his support for the vote ensured its rapid passage, as opposition from even a single senator would have been enough to delay a vote under the expedited procedures being used by the Senate.
