And most importantly
Is Bernie a controlled opposition?
Brandon Butler
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Isaac Howard
he's just a standard succdem, those are normal activities for them
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Justin Davis
And what did he get in return?
"The socialist trumpets his antiwar record," the article said. "But he doesn't mind expensive war machines — if they're based in his home state."
"The F-35 accounts for over 1,400 direct and indirect jobs, with an economic impact of over $124 million in Vermont," said Eric Schnaible, F-35 International Communications Manager for Lockheed Martin. This figure accounts not only for 1,100 jobs with the Vermont Air National Guard, but with jobs within the aerospace sector and other local businesses. While 45 states and Puerto Rico are involved in the production of the aircraft, Vermont specifically is home to three supplier locations, and according to Business Insider, the plane's bay doors and GAU-22/A gun system are both produced there.
The 1,400 jobs may not sound like a lot, but Chittenden County, where Burlington is located, has a population of only 161,382 people. It would have an enormous negative impact on the local economy if 1,400 of those people all simultaneously become unemployed.
The jets will also play a role in the state's economy in 2019, when 18 are scheduled to be stationed at Burlington International Airport as part of the Vermont National Guard program to grow its active-duty maintenance force. Gene Richards, the airport's director of aviation, said that those F-35s represent the future of the Guard's relationship with Vermont. The program extends the financial contribution of the Guard well into the future by picking up where the widely used — and soon to be replaced — F-16 will soon leave off.
Connor Young
Were these votes even crucial?
Sometimes politicians vote for dumb things to get a vote on another thing they're sponsoring or some shit like that.
During the campaign, I split with the Chomsky vote-as-far-left-as-you-can camp. There is no political solution and getting a Sanders or even radical far lefty in the White House will do shit all.
Though I would take one that could sneak in under the guise of a "Dem-soc", everyone assuming they're soc-dem, and on some state of the union address announce a bunch of libertarian-socialist ideas. They'd either get assassinated or some emergency law will remove them. Ahh, I can dream.
Jason Morales
Fucking based Sweden.
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Lucas Rogers
don't forget Bernie voted for Albright's sanctions on Iraq that killed a million people.
Andrew Scott
What was the alternative after the invasion?
(This question is to serve as a prompt for others to answer, it should not be read as support for the occupation but as soliciting views.)
If the F-35 was going to be built anyway (and it was), why not pork barrel it? If your options are the F-35 being built and a republican or establishment democrat controlling your state, or the F-35 and someone who at the very least mentions universal healthcare, why pick the former unless you've got some big accelerationist scheme?
William Harris
to fucking leave, holy shit, socdems get the wall
Aaron Hughes
So the coalition goes into Iraq, destroys the Iraqi state and then leaves in 2004?(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)