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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It seems people are upvoting this because they see Bernie and assume that OP has good intentions here.

Op cited a legitimate source below with good context. All that said, the poorly clipped video snippet of Bernie saying something that seems innocuous, but flies in the face of reality without EXTENSIVE discussion and explanation (like in OP's video), is not being shared in good faith. The forum Bernie and AOC shared was not the place for nuanced rhetoric. OP knows this.

OP is doing the old bait and switch here.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Nice four seconds video, I guess? Very smooth how it cuts off mid-sentence, not weird at all.

I like how we can feel completely confident that no valuable context is lost, and that it allows us to quickly reach our conclusions and move on with our lives. Whoever has an attention span greater than four seconds these days anyway.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sir Mixalot salivates at the big but about to drop.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

You were right, he does drop a big BUT right after the clip ends 🤣

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The ACTUAL context is right here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANsreu_RLNo

19:47

“Trump wants over 8 Billion more dollars to go to Netanyahu’s war machine. Israel has a right to defend itself against terrorism, BUT, it does not have a right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people! It does not have the right to kill over 50,000 people, injure over 100,000, and destroy the entire infrastructure. And as bad as that as, Trump wants to expel the over 2.2 million people in Gaza in order to create a playground for his billionaire friends! That is beyond insane and we will never, never let that happen!”

So why did you feel the need to clip a very suspicious 4 second video, buddy?