When you see something like "3/N" or "4/N" at the bottom of a post, it means "This post is part of a thread. Scroll up to see the beginning."
If you do that, you'll see that further up the themread, I said that what Bernie did, "Is a silly rhetorical device designed to curry favor with people that hate you, but irredeemably loses you trust with people that used to like you. You never need to say it."
I know it's a rhetorical device. It's a bad one, done for bad reasons.