Student protests, Gaza, and the humanitarian disaster - Senator Bernie Sanders

[Goddessartist]

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[Mosby]

1. Could he be more condescending?

Nt.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

5. Did you listen to the whole thing?

It's a very logical lay out of the position. It's a great speech.

[Mosby]

6. No, i couldn't get past the first minute or so.

Maybe I'll watch it later.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

8. It's worth it.

I didn't agree with his choice of introduction, but it gets significantly better.

[Passages]

2. Prem Thakker

Link to tweet

[Voltaire2]

3. But the white customers felt threatened by

those outside agitators occupying stools at the lunch counter!

[uponit7771]

9. THIS !!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[walkingman]

4. Bernie speaks my language - I wish we had 99 more like him in the Senate.

[Warpy]

7. Bernie says it all

as usual. No one will listen to a socialist, the same way they're not going to listen to kids who are paying attention to what's going on and want to do something about it, only they're as powerless as the rest of us are.

At least the thug Netanyahu is getting far less than Ukraine will.

Israel isn't much of a democracy if they can't get rid of Netanyahu, and they've certainly tried over the years. He's just been too good at cobbling coalitions of religious nutcase parties together to keep himself in power. Now he's led that country into becoming a stink in the world's nose. It will take them decades of good behavior to recover, and that process won't start until he is gone.

[uponit7771]

10. +1, the last time kids were this upset about war their reasons for being upset were credible and they were right in

... protesting and causing attention.

[DemocraticPatriot]

15. but not now ????

[myohmy2]

19. strange...

...how many people can deal with trump and magat lies daily but won't go near the truth...

"Bernie says it all"

...

[TheRealNorth]

11. Had the pro-Palestinian protestors thrown that "firework"...

(Which was more of a mortar shell then some firecracker bought at some road-side market), they would be calling it terrorism.

[Ping Tung]

12. Great speech. Thanks Bernie, for speaking out for freedom of speech and assembly.

[AloeVera]

13. Bernie is the voice of conscience.

Love it that he calls out his colleagues, especially in the Democratic party, to listen to the American people. It is not just college kids opposing this "illegal and immoral war".

As he points out:
67% of Americans support ceasefire
60% want and end to sending arms

His "radical idea" is to ask Senators to go to Gaza, with their cameras, and "show us the emaciated kids, those without arms and legs. Take your focus off Columbia and UCLA and show us the real suffering in Gaza!!

Bravo, Bernie!

[ecstatic]

14. I think this is a very important speech and I appreciate Bernie giving it

because a lot of people are genuinely hurt by the name calling, smearing, accusations of being hamas supporters that has occured.

At first, I was hurt too but I quickly realized that there are two types of people who are making the unfair accusations: 1) people who are genuinely hurt/angry/scared OR 2) completely disingenuous assholes who are either shit stirring or trying to shut down dissent.

My conscience is clear. I know what I stand for and I know what's in my own heart. I will not take any implied or stated insults personally because, again, I know myself and I understand that some people are just angry and in a different place emotionally right now.

Anyone arguing that bibi has a blank permission slip to kill as many innocent people as he wants because "hamas..." is on the wrong track. Period. I can't and won't be gaslit into believing otherwise.

My grievance is with bibi and the US for enabling and funding his cruelty (in our names).

[Goddessartist]

21. Perfectly put,

thank you.

[LexVegas]

16. Thank goodness this guy never got close to the oval office. nt

[Nixie]

17. Amen.

[myohmy2]

18. Bernie...

...is right...

...I find it amazing when Bernie speaks the truth how many people only hear what they want to hear, think what they want to think, irrespective of the facts...

...they may consider themselves many things, but I don't buy it...

...I see them for what they are...

...

[Goddessartist]

20. Agree.

I see them too.