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Thanks for the down votes. You’re not the kind of person I want to speak with anymore. Have a good day

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That’s a circular argument. You’re saying he couldn’t be elected, despite his massive popularity, because he’s a socialist?

Now would the purple party put a socialist in power? No. Would the people? Yes.

If Bernie was the candidate in 2016, or even 2024, I in my heart truly believe he would have won.

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Why wouldn’t he have been able to win the general election?

Perhaps I have stars in my eyes, but I think he would have.

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Take this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population

Intersect it with this list: https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php

And you get

  • Philippines - 70m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $1.44
  • India - 228m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $0.90
  • Nigeria - 125m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $0.66
  • Pakistan - 108m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $0.51

etc, etc

When you want a Entry level online only job, your now competing with the global workforce.

You can get paid more when geography matters (so in person, or for legal reasons), culture matters, language matters (we already narrowed down to English for this example), skills matter (more difficult the skill, higher the remuneration), relationships matter (people know you, so they trust you to work remotely)

What are you offering, able to do, that someone from one of the low cost countries can’t do in order to justify $20/hr? That’s what should be driving your job search.

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Yeah the real problem is the incumbent political power structure. Voting is just a garnish after they have already decided everything. It’s a broken system. First past the post voting is crippling US politics

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Sanders should have president TWICE now, but he got betrayed by his party… He would have won the election in 2016

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Yup, it made him a viable target for continued drama. Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon, just to keep everything moving and not to focus on Nixon.

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