The Bannon-Bernie Bromance over AI and Oligarchs

5 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by smnthermes
(theatlantic.com)

14 Comments

gabrielsroka

6 hours ago

Actual title "The Only Thing Capable of Uniting Bernie and Bannon"

ecshafer

9 hours ago

Bannon is a populist, and America-first nationalist. Bannon is NOT a free-market reagonomics Republican. Remember, one of his criticisms of Obama was that he didn't bail out the auto-industry enough. This shouldn't be surprising who actually pays attention. There is also a large amount of Obama - Bernie - Trump voters, people need to get rid of simple Left vs Right thinking, there are multiple dimensions to politics.

bigbadfeline

3 hours ago

> Bannon is a populist, and America-first nationalist.

In the European political tradition, nationalists and communists differ only in their excuses for murder, everything else is the same. A fact known also as the Horseshoe theory of far-right and far-left merging in shared love for dictatorship.

So, it shouldn't be surprising that Bannon and Bernie have very similar views behind their, seemingly different, populist demagogy.

verdverm

7 hours ago

The reason it is still red v blue, despite the more nuanced politics, is that in the end, those smaller groups majority, reliably vote for one party.

It is good to see independents growing as a group and the parties shrinking, it's trending towards 50% last I saw

user

8 hours ago

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cyanydeez

9 hours ago

Not a bromance.

Bannon for 10 years continues his plant left, pivot alt right. He wants far right nationalism, and AI to bootlick.

Liberals still falling and giving the racists destroying America false equivwlents.

tonyedgecombe

9 hours ago

The extreme left don’t look much different from the extreme right.

hellon3wheels

9 hours ago

Do you consider Sanders "extreme left?"

verdverm

7 hours ago

bernie is is own thing, way left, but not "extreme" in the colloquial sense of complete domination over the other side at any cost

cyanydeez

7 hours ago

name a genocide the extreme left is currently funding.

dumberwa

6 hours ago

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dfgknionio

4 hours ago

"Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group" "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" is part of the definition of genocide. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted in 1951, so it is strange to claim this idea comes from modern leftists.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

You can look over the commission's report here:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies...

The commission mentions the attack only briefly, does not seem to rely on the notion that embryos have rights, and finds that the IDF deliberately targeted the clinic. This event is irrelevant to discussion of abortion in the USA and the commission did not say what you claim it said.