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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 09:44 PM Apr 2016

New Yorker - "The Bernie Bro Code"

The Berniebro is someone you may only have encountered if you’re somewhat similar to him: white; well­-educated; middle­-class (or, delicately, “upper middle­-class”); and aware of NPR podcasts and jangly bearded bands.

—The Atlantic.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-bernie-bro-code

1. A Bernie Bro must #FeelTheBern twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. A Bernie Bro’s newsfeed must reflect this.
2. Under no circumstances should a Bernie Bro allow the delegate count to cock-block Bernie Sanders from the White House.
3. Even if a Bernie Bro claims that he is “just gonna leave this here” when posting a Bernie-related Op-Ed on social media, he must also be prepared to reply to all comments that seem to refute its pro-Bernie sentiments in any way.
4. If a Bernie Bro goes two weeks without sharing that picture of Bernie sitting with Martin Luther King, Jr., his Bernie Bro­-ship shall be subject to scrutiny.
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New Yorker - "The Bernie Bro Code" (Original Post) TomCADem Apr 2016 OP
Shades of "Prius driving, iPhone using, Birkenstock wearing Obama supporting elitists" CentralCoaster Apr 2016 #1
it is satire, making fun of those who claim obamabros exist. Viva_La_Revolution Apr 2016 #4
There are Hillary supporters reccing this, btw. Beartracks Apr 2016 #30
let them have a giggle Viva_La_Revolution Apr 2016 #32
not obamabros. it was OBAMA BOYS roguevalley Apr 2016 #40
2005-2006 "Bro" was in vogue (en vogue, if French chic). Why would the word "Boy" been used? TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #42
I dont think "..bro" was as widely used as a snarky suffix like it is, now. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #54
The tumblrina delegation sends their regards. VulgarPoet Apr 2016 #62
U forgot 'Arugula eating' ....... alittlelark Apr 2016 #7
LOL! Arugula from Whole Foods, no less! CentralCoaster Apr 2016 #8
Fist bump! MelungeonWoman Apr 2016 #13
.... alittlelark Apr 2016 #14
Did they really publish that? n/t pantsonfire Apr 2016 #44
Yes, and insulted anyone who complained by saying they weren't intelligent enought to "get it" Zira Apr 2016 #48
how about wine and Starbucks? JustinL Apr 2016 #47
Satire is supposed to be funny. What do we call the HRC supporters? Hill Hags, someone roguevalley Apr 2016 #39
Hillqaeda? The Militant/Corporatist Empire of America? VulgarPoet Apr 2016 #63
now that sounds like a Roy Zimmerman lyric unapatriciated Apr 2016 #57
.. LexVegas Apr 2016 #2
Yes, it's riotously funny. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #11
Is that a picture of Hillary supporters? reformist2 Apr 2016 #15
Haha - I was just going to ask if that was a Hillary rally. jillan Apr 2016 #16
I ad-hommed the ad-hom. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #20
Jeezuz, way to dismiss the POC and women voting for Bernie. riderinthestorm Apr 2016 #3
shhh Viva_La_Revolution Apr 2016 #5
That nails it! greatauntoftriplets Apr 2016 #6
I cannot understand why the Volvos were left out. sadoldgirl Apr 2016 #9
Since folks have moved to Subarus nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #22
Damn it Bjornsdotter Apr 2016 #28
People actually get paid to write this shit? Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #10
Based on experience offline I'd add: lovemydog Apr 2016 #12
yeap uponit7771 Apr 2016 #58
K&R DesertRat Apr 2016 #17
Three New Polls Confirm That Bernie is Winning the Latino Vote Nationwide. w4rma Apr 2016 #18
Which Is Why Bernie Won Florida, Texas, Arizona & Illinois... TomCADem Apr 2016 #31
Are you trying to say that his best states, with the most Bernie support, are coming up? w4rma Apr 2016 #33
Agreed. Bernie Will Continue His Winning Ways TomCADem Apr 2016 #37
really? MFM008 Apr 2016 #36
could you site the exit polls were hes winning blacks under 30 in any large black populous state? uponit7771 Apr 2016 #59
They will cease to exist soon. onehandle Apr 2016 #19
I don't get it TSIAS Apr 2016 #24
The takeaway is: The writer failed, "The Rule of 24 - Put it down 24 hours, Revisit & Rewrite!" TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #41
Really??? Parents basement?? Docreed2003 Apr 2016 #34
See you on 3/2! frylock Apr 2016 #68
"Because breakfast..." yeah, you know the rest. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #21
Love "Broxtop" in the corner. Beartracks Apr 2016 #29
This sums it up perfectly. Thank you! NurseJackie Apr 2016 #23
K&R (and obliviously on they sail...) betsuni Apr 2016 #25
So insulting to all those Americans who support Bernie and do not conform to this cliché. bjo59 Apr 2016 #26
Is it humor? northernsouthern Apr 2016 #27
It is humor nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #35
Lol. northernsouthern Apr 2016 #64
I know. Some folks are truly adorable nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #65
To the members of the Democratic Party... northernsouthern Apr 2016 #66
White; well­-educated; middle­-class; NPR podcasts... In other words, THE NEW YORKER's Readership! TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #38
How nice of them to lecture us about elitism from the humble environs of Lower Manhattan. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #53
Paul Krugman and his Bernie Bros... pantsonfire Apr 2016 #43
Kick. Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #45
Funny........ Beacool Apr 2016 #46
I'm a BernieSis. Go Bernie! Zira Apr 2016 #49
I heard it is SandersSistas Fumesucker Apr 2016 #50
Ah thanks for the correction! I'm a SandersSistah! Zira Apr 2016 #51
Oh, you can call yourself whatever you want Fumesucker Apr 2016 #52
When I'm called a "Bernie Bro" Sky Masterson Apr 2016 #55
I think I saw a Berniebro yesterday... smiley Apr 2016 #56
This is amusing Gothmog Apr 2016 #60
Weird how most of the BernieBros I know are women in their 60's and 70's. Scuba Apr 2016 #61
This is bound to rustle some jimmies... Blue_Tires Apr 2016 #67
 

CentralCoaster

(1,163 posts)
1. Shades of "Prius driving, iPhone using, Birkenstock wearing Obama supporting elitists"
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 10:02 PM
Apr 2016

Labels, so much fun.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
54. I dont think "..bro" was as widely used as a snarky suffix like it is, now.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 05:36 AM
Apr 2016
http://www.salon.com/2008/04/14/obama_supporters/

We had "dont tase me, bro", that helped turn "bro" into a term of fun and mocking... and then we had the rising popularity of using "dudebro" as an insult on platforms like tumblr..

I dont think it carried the same meaning in the lexicon back then.

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)
62. The tumblrina delegation sends their regards.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 10:09 AM
Apr 2016

So glad I deleted my account, otherwise I'd have started losing hair from the asininity I was subject to on a day to day basis via my dashboard.

 

Zira

(1,054 posts)
48. Yes, and insulted anyone who complained by saying they weren't intelligent enought to "get it"
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 04:34 AM
Apr 2016

We all got it and still thought it was tasteless.

JustinL

(722 posts)
47. how about wine and Starbucks?
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 04:18 AM
Apr 2016

Those were supposedly our effete beverages of choice, while the more authentically American Hillary supporters preferred beer and Dunkin Donuts coffee.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
39. Satire is supposed to be funny. What do we call the HRC supporters? Hill Hags, someone
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 02:29 AM
Apr 2016

suggested on another thread?

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
3. Jeezuz, way to dismiss the POC and women voting for Bernie.
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 10:09 PM
Apr 2016

Guess we're just erased by this guy.

This meme by Hillary supporters of erasing large swaths of Bernie supporters is really offensive.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
12. Based on experience offline I'd add:
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 11:13 PM
Apr 2016

prefers to hear himself talk about the poor and oppressed and women's issues and issues involving people of color more than listening to or hanging out with truly poor or truly oppressed people, or women or people of color who consider themselves liberal and may have slight differences of opinion on how best to effectuate positive social change. Doesn't vote in local elections or state or midterm or general elections for a variety of reasons which may include getting high.

Based on experience online I'd add: prefers to lecture people of color who are undecided or emphasize the importance of voting in November over actually reading up on the history of racism as a basis of this country's wealth or examining anything wrong with himself and publicly admitting that perhaps someone else may know more about the situation than himself. Incredibly defensive about posts like this one, to the point of absurdist denial that he may have anything to learn about anything. Perhaps improves after being reminded of it a hundred times (better than a right wing fanatic who never gets it but worse than a liberal who gets it after the first few or ten times). Brags about not voting in general or local or state or mid-term elections because he enjoys claiming moral superiority and actually thinks it will persuade others.

Please note I'm not speaking of any of our fine liberal contributors to this site.

 

w4rma

(31,700 posts)
18. Three New Polls Confirm That Bernie is Winning the Latino Vote Nationwide.
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 11:40 PM
Apr 2016

LOL, remember when everyone tried to unskew the exit polls showing Bernie winning the Latino vote in Nevada? Welp…

Reuters has him up 56-40 among Hispanics.
http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TR131/filters/PD1:1/dates/20160201-20160405/type/overall

PRRI/The Atlantic poll has Sanders up 49-48 among Latinos.

Latinos voters were essentially divided 48 percent for Sanders and 47 percent for Clinton in the poll conducted March 30-April 3 by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with The Atlantic.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/poll-latino-voters-near-evenly-divided-over-clinton-sanders-n552531

And finally, Marist/McClatchy has him up TWO TO ONE among Latinos.

Sanders, an independent, edges Clinton nationally thanks to solid support from several groups. He leads 76-23 percent among those 29 and younger; 63-31 percent among Latinos; 62-32 among independents; 58-38 among the unmarried; and 56-42 among liberals.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article70202867.html

So not only is Bernie winning black voters under 30, but he’s winning ALL Latinos.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/08/1512584/-Three-New-Polls-Confirm-That-Bernie-is-Winning-the-Latino-Vote-Nationwide-Markos-Goes-Into-Hiding

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1702053

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
31. Which Is Why Bernie Won Florida, Texas, Arizona & Illinois...
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:23 AM
Apr 2016

..., which are the States with the largest Latino populations that have already held primaries, and why he is favored to win New York and California by large margins.

 

w4rma

(31,700 posts)
33. Are you trying to say that his best states, with the most Bernie support, are coming up?
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:25 AM
Apr 2016

I agree with you.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
59. could you site the exit polls were hes winning blacks under 30 in any large black populous state?
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:26 AM
Apr 2016

TSIAS

(14,689 posts)
24. I don't get it
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 12:42 AM
Apr 2016

The article says the "Bernie Bro" is middle to upper class, yet you claim they live in their parent's basement. Which one is it, bro?

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
41. The takeaway is: The writer failed, "The Rule of 24 - Put it down 24 hours, Revisit & Rewrite!"
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 02:41 AM
Apr 2016

.


I read it twice. The secondary slower read is quite revealing.


Perhaps a family member or some peers should have glanced at it first.


She might have standing, where she doesn't need get her work scrutinized before going for final approval.


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Docreed2003

(16,863 posts)
34. Really??? Parents basement??
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:43 AM
Apr 2016

As a white male, professional with an advanced degree that fits pretty much every point this satire is making, except that I grew up on a tobacco farm and worked for everything I have...your statement is utter bullshit. I own the fact that I'm a successful white male who happens to support Bernie, but I'm not a sexist/racist/bigot. I try my best to listen first and talk second. So, your cute little comment might play well for some, but it's insulting. Bernie's supporters aren't just white or male or the fictitious nerds who play D&D and live in their mother's basement.

bjo59

(1,166 posts)
26. So insulting to all those Americans who support Bernie and do not conform to this cliché.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:00 AM
Apr 2016

The descriptions sound like they were written by some geeky journalists trying to show how cool they are. (By the way, Is Harry Belafonte a "Bernie Bro"?)

 

northernsouthern

(1,511 posts)
27. Is it humor?
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:05 AM
Apr 2016

If it is exactly what the HRC narrative claims? Even has the white guy in the image and is written by a woman I think?

BY REBECCA CAPLAN


It would be more humorous if it actually questioned it, I know it is very outlandish, and is so stupid, but those are the narratives I have heard...
trying to accomplish and that is to give women and minorities access to a political revolution


Maybe this election has gotten to grim for me to see humor anymore, but that line just bugged me as to reek of "only the white man can help the women and minorities". The classist cr@p the Brits did to the other nations and we did to our native population. I give this article one Queen...

v
 

northernsouthern

(1,511 posts)
64. Lol.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:31 AM
Apr 2016

Yes, I am more commenting on how I am less amused because of how this season has basically made us all short fused to any thing since everything has been used as an attack. My favorite example was the story about, sure Trade deals have hurt us, but does Bernie not know that moving jobs back to the US would hurt the worlds poorest and least powerful? Really a f@cking sweatshop argument? You ant to help the world's poorest, arrest the Bangladeshie owners and managers that allowed all of their workers to burn to death, and arrest the inspectors, the people in the US that approved it, and hold them all accountable for murder. Oh and while you are at it, pay them a living wage and put them in safe and fair working conditions.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
65. I know. Some folks are truly adorable
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:35 AM
Apr 2016

The Panama Papers are just starting to unravel. We got email server. It is hysterical...how weak of a candidate the Donkeys are about to ram down on the voters.

 

northernsouthern

(1,511 posts)
66. To the members of the Democratic Party...
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:47 AM
Apr 2016

Shut up and take your feckn medicine!

They are like...



then when the DNC collapses we can say...

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
38. White; well­-educated; middle­-class; NPR podcasts... In other words, THE NEW YORKER's Readership!
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 02:15 AM
Apr 2016

.


If I remember correctly, they are also Fart-Sniffing... and cause SMUG ALERTS!






(Note: 50 posts will follow saying, "I subscribe to The New Yorker and I'm not Blah! Blah! Blah!" I know it's coming!)


.

Beacool

(30,250 posts)
46. Funny........
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 04:07 AM
Apr 2016

10. See, a Bernie Bro knows that it’s because of just this type of anti­-Bernie propaganda, perpetuated by the mainstream media, that Bernie is constantly getting grilled on his lack of foreign-policy experience even though, as every Bernie Bro knows, BERNIE WAS THE ONE WHO DIDN’T VOTE FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ!!! I mean, a Bernie Bro doesn’t get why, just cuz he’s a “white” “man,” we’re supposed to bar Bernie from being a part of our political system. Bernie Bros understand what Bernie and his Bros are trying to accomplish and that is to give women and minorities access to a political revolution and a Bernie Bro is SORRY NOT SORRY FOR REFUSING TO APOLOGIZE FOR IT.



Let's clarify that not all Sanders' supporters are "Bernie Bros".

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
52. Oh, you can call yourself whatever you want
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 04:50 AM
Apr 2016

I just like the alliteration of SandersSistas it fits with BernieBros... I've also heard BernieBabes too...

The best way to defuse an insult is to embrace it, leaves the insulter swinging wildly off balance.

Sky Masterson

(5,240 posts)
55. When I'm called a "Bernie Bro"
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 06:48 AM
Apr 2016

It is an insult.
It paints me as some kind of Sexist pig whose only reason for NOT liking Hillary is because she is a Woman.
Never mind that casting a vote for Elisabeth Warren would be a dream to me.
Never mind the fact I was all for Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act , and am a strong supporter of a woman's reproductive rights.
Never mind that my Best friends are Women.
Never mind everything I've ever thought and done.
I am a Bro,Bro.
I'm this mythical frat-boy who has zero respect for women and I have an extensive library of "Bro's before Hos" , and "Who Farted" shirts. I am against Hillary because she uses the potty differently than I.
It has nothing to do with her Horrible voting record and Hawkishness.

I had a post hidden in a thread that I feel was totally undeserved.
and Now if I wanted to I couldn't post a thread right now.

Watch this one get hidden too. Even if there is not one damn thing wrong with it. Democracy...

smiley

(1,432 posts)
56. I think I saw a Berniebro yesterday...
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 06:57 AM
Apr 2016

He was riding down the street on a unicorn, chasing a Hillbully, waving a stack of results from the last 9 primaries.

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