• TacoSocks
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    4 days ago

    What was ratfucked about 2020? 2020 didn’t feel that different from 2008 or 2004.

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      3 days ago

      In 2020 Bernie and Biden were the front-runners, and then all the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. So it wasn’t ratfucked in an illegal way, but in a “torpedo a popular leftist in favor of a right-of-center establishment neolib” way.

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        3 days ago

        Biden wasn’t even in the top 5 for the first like 4-5 races. He did ok in one, then the whole orchestrated dropout occured to manufacture consent