• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak

    The leaks resulted in allegations of bias against Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, in apparent contradiction with the DNC leadership’s publicly stated neutrality,[8] as several DNC operatives openly derided Sanders’s campaign and discussed ways to advance Hillary Clinton’s nomination. Later reveals included controversial DNC–Clinton agreements dated before the primary, regarding financial arrangements and control over policy and hiring decisions

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      6 months ago

      Oh man, I was there and none of this is news to me. I’m not saying DNC did things right, im not saying they didn’t try to corninate her. Beyond that, they were insulting about it, especially Debbie Whatsherbitch Schultz, who openly scored us Bernie supporter…the irony is i was an lefty independent before Bernie and he’s what brought me to the Democratic party, but everyone “schools me” on 2016 because I also realize more democrats writ large preferred her to Bernie. Do all you perpetually online lefties talk to real world democrats and black democrats? Alot of them didn’t love and don’t love Bernie.

      I’m do agree the fuckery was very dumb because she actually had more supporters than Bernie the whole time. The person who quietly got fucked over in my opinion in 2016 was Biden, who might have run as younger (but still old) version of himself except he could tell the Clinton camp had already thumbed the scale the process pre-emptively.

      Above all, i don’t hating Hillary in 2024 is useful politically. The “Clinton Machine” being dead might be the only good thing to come out of Trumpism.