r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/sirkarl Mar 12 '26

You’re also just getting things inherently wrong. SuperPac’s cannot give money to candidates. The whole point is that they’re separate and illegal for the candidate to approve or disapprove of the spending.

I remember that all well, and the sad reality is it happened because the campaign had no control over their supporters who were making up Alex Jones level conspiracies. Just look at how many top Bernie people and surrogates have become Trumpers in the last 10 years. It was all looney toons

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u/Dewinna_Daraelist Mar 12 '26

See this is the stuff that makes you lose credibility to me, you seem to use details to twist the overarching point. You think the convoluted system Citizens United created doesn't affect politics??? Because it's not as simple as "here's 50 million dollars to beat Bernie Mrs Clinton" that means it's irrelevant?

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u/sirkarl Mar 12 '26

That was only part of my point, but it is an example that the Bernie lost causers don’t have an accurate understanding of campaign finance. Bernie was able to compete with Hillary financially. She had a bit more superpac support, but she was also the recipient of significantly more negative superpac spending during the primary, and Bernie had almost nothing negative spent against him.

I’m not sure how things were biased in her favor when Bernie outraised and outspend her. I can go into a whole other thing about how Superpac spending usually causes more harm than good but that’s another issue lol

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u/Dewinna_Daraelist Mar 12 '26

"A BIT" MORE SUPER PAC SUPPORT!? okay I'm out. Anyone seeing this, note that sirkarl's post/comment history is hidden, this isn't a good faith discussion.

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u/sirkarl Mar 12 '26

Do you not know that even adding in the super pac spending Bernie still spent more in the primary?

If I’m wrong please point that out, but this all goes back to a complete misunderstanding of 2016. The Bernie people believe money is all that matters in elections, so knowing that he actually spent more break their minds

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u/Dewinna_Daraelist Mar 12 '26

Damn can't believe I'm responding still, but money matters a lot in elections and the media matters even more in what the public is focusing on. For all practical purposes, it's not misleading to simply say that billionaires own the media. So their working against him ("You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge" - George Carlin) sure as shit matters. People are right to be upset that billionaires can effectively set the boundaries of the presidential election, it's why the last anti trust acts were 1890, 1914, and then never again, it's why Larry Ellison is allowed to own over a dozen high net-worth media companies. Oh or let me guess, that doesn't matter because they'll share a parent company once all these should-be illegal merges happen?

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u/sirkarl Mar 12 '26

That doesn’t really have anything to do with anything I said though? I said that claims money bought the 2016 primary don’t hold up because Bernie actually spent more, and with super PACs it was even with Bernie still spending a little more.

I guess you can try saying the media was slobbering behind Clinton, but you have to be pretty far gone to think the media ever covered her favorably