when will elizabeth warren denounce her 30+ year run as a reagan republican? when will she apologize for masquerading as a POC for years in order to boost her own career? when will nancy pelosi apologize for signing a massive defense bill? when will mikedawg apologize for JAQing off about bestiality?
bernie sanders, like every other politician, has made mistakes in his career. perhaps his strange satirical writings about 1970s feminism were steeped in problematic language, and maybe his votes (or lack off) in his long senate career reflect imperfections. i would like to point out how unbelievably stupid it is to claim something like "bernie sanders likes child-porn;" it is such an obvious deflection based in crude absurdity to dilute the subject at hand. maybe the local village idiots will use that vote as a sort of "gotcha!" moment to call bernie's humanity into question (read: you), but i think even your lowest common denominator would find something fishy about the claim that bernie sanders endorses pedophilia. unless they don't understand how legislation works, which in this case is probably the audience you're attempting to court with a post like that. why would a candidate sign a bill like that? perhaps because it had unconstitutional or unethical aspects -- if you can support mandatory sentencing establishment for crimes like murder, manslaughter, fraud, etc. then it should logically follow the same precedent here. in the same vein, i wonder if the legislation he did vote for are also full of a greater context. bills are more than just their name you know...
regarding joe rogan, i cannot say i am personally a fan of the man. however, joe rogan does not strike me as a hateful individual unable to see the bigger picture. i think of him as a sort of naive guy whose job is an entertainer. yes, he has given platforms to alt-right figures in the most deplorable form, but he has also invited characters like cornel west onto his show. i suppose because of west's affiliation we should also expunge one of the most prominent intellectuals of the past century by association. denounce? the people that joe rogan attracts are exactly the type of people that need to start associating with a more compassionate politics. there exist many lost allies under capitalism, and the working class disenfranchised by it cannot be united in full unless you try to reconcile differences. people like you on the "left" (read: center-right) make me sick, because you're so unwilling to engage in anything intellectually and resort to simple denouncements even of potential allies. there are things, and people, who we cannot compromise with, but the "denouncement" of millions of americans who have had their lives victimized by capitalism are not the ones. i suppose bernie sanders should explicitly ask for only the most pure people to vote for him, if that is the standard we are going to begin to invoke from now on. mikedawg, for somebody who is such a strong neoliberal, why are you out here imitating the bolsheviks and instilling absurd purity tests? it is very easy to find contradictions in legislating during a 20 year long career when you forget just how complex legislation can be. alas, people like you survive on simple 'gotcha' questions because you are a husk devoid of any meaningful policy or substance. you favor symbolism over anything structural -- no wonder you're a neoliberal!