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Comment by justaguyhere | Hacker News Reader

This is hilarious. Would've never guessed Bernie had this sense of humor.

Trust me, it's not like Bernie himself was trying to come up with something funny and smart throughout long nights.

I do understand it was probably a Bernie staffer, thank you for pointing it out :) Bernie still has to agree to put his name on it, no?

Anyway, props to the unnamed Bernie staffer who came up with this. Whoever came up with it, it is just hilarious

You do realize it's probably not actually Bernie who came up with the name? (It's one of his underlings.)

First, you mean one of his staff. Mad scientists have underlings.

Second, you have literally no idea how much input he had into it. He may have come up with the name himself, or he may have directed his staff to come up with something pithy that spells out "Bezos" or he may have sat around with them spitballing ideas until they came up with something good. But in the end, he was the senator who introduced it, and he gets the credit.

>First, you mean one of his staff. Mad scientists have underlings.

In the real world so do politicians and executives...

The point is that calling them "underlings" has a clearly negative connotation, and one would hope that instead of just name-calling you'd give arguments of substance against someone.

If I referred to HRC's staff as "underlings" no one would question I was anti-HRC.

He deserves credit for choosing his staff well, I totally give him that.

You could've left off the "You do realize". How do you know this?

Sanders had to approve it.

Also, he certainly had a sense of humor back when he was mayor of Burlington -- it would be surprising if it disappeared now.

If he accepted the name then that means he found it funny at least.

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