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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Sun May 28, 2017, 11:46 PM May 2017

"Left Wing" Sock Puppet Update - The Sane Progressive

If you recall, during the primaries when Hillary was closing in on winning the Democratic nomination, the Sane Progressive began attacking the primaries as rigged in an apparent effort to support Bernie. This was not too big of a surprise. Many Bernie supporters felt the same way. However, when even Bernie conceded the nomination, the Sane Progressive began to viciously attack Bernie for selling out. She has since remove some of her most vicious videos where she shredded Bernie such as in this one reference.

https://caucus99percent.com/content/sane-progressive-takes-apart-justice-democrats-democrats-and-bernie

And last but not least, actually first if you go by the publish date, she shreds Bernie. (16:47) This was the hardest to listen to. She is totally pissed at him, and she makes a damn good case why all of Bernie's supporters should be. In fact, Bernie may be the best example of why reform can't and won't happen.


A few video remain as noted in this one thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/12511816260

However, she continues to attack Democrats from the "left" by now attacking any suggestion that the elections were affected by Russian influence, complaining about the Deepstate investigations of Trump's corruption, while agitating for the creation of a new party from the left head by Bernie Sanders that is free from corporate influence:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpfmCp2Z9VPTO7eWV6ebzQ

Yes, apparently, she has now gotten over her Bernie hate, and is now using him as figure head to attack Democrats from the left while giving Trump and Republicans a free pass. Here she is using Brietbart like language to attack the appointment of Robert Mueller as being a Deepstate operative:



Put another, it must take a lot of effort to somehow avoid making any negative comments about Trump or Republicans while purporting to be a hard left "progressive," yet that is what the Sane Progressive does.

Now, you have to ask, is the Sane Progressive a sock puppet? Or, is she really just a deluded liberal, who somehow has a blind spot for Trump and Republicans who can't decide whether she is Bernie's biggest fan or critic?
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"Left Wing" Sock Puppet Update - The Sane Progressive (Original Post) TomCADem May 2017 OP
Russian sock... FarPoint May 2017 #1
Mother Jones - Inside Marine Le Pen's "Foreign Legion" of American Alt-Right Trolls TomCADem May 2017 #2
I'm really sick of folks who think they are radical for this kind of talk. welivetotreadonkings May 2017 #3
Don't Waste Your Time Leith May 2017 #4
I wonder about the objectivity of someone who has to declare herself as sane. TexasTowelie May 2017 #5

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
1. Russian sock...
Sun May 28, 2017, 11:52 PM
May 2017

We we're polluted during Primaries and the Election...ending in a complete crash and burn of DU on Election night....

TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
2. Mother Jones - Inside Marine Le Pen's "Foreign Legion" of American Alt-Right Trolls
Sun May 28, 2017, 11:57 PM
May 2017

I guess Putin has inspired admirers of his tactics among the alt-right here in the U.S. Going into the 2018 and 2020 elections, we should be cautious about concerted efforts to take down leading Democrats from the "left."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/marine-le-pen-alt-right-american-trolls

Vladimir Putin isn't the only one trying to attack the French presidential election. Far-right trolls and meme warriors like the kind who helped elect Donald Trump have found a new calling: "The Battle of France." There's no way of telling what real-world impact it's having, but with the vote just a few days away, activity in support of right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen has reached a fever pitch on Reddit, 4chan/pol/, and other online forums popular with the American alt-right.

"All shitposting units are required to man their battle stations," declared a recent 4chan post. "Meme war recruits: prove your worth. Veterans, lead the charge…MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN." The post urged 4channers to join a Discord forum dubbed "Operation: Marine Le Kek," where at any given moment up to about 450 participants are conducting meme "raids" to hype their candidate and attack her centrist rival, Emmanuel Macron. Using fake French identities and sock puppet social-media accounts, they've hijacked Twitter hashtags, social-media posts, and comments sections on news sites with memes portraying Macron as a stooge of Jewish financiers who will sell out the working class and capitulate to Muslim terrorists.

* * *

The group has pursued a different strategy on other social-media platforms. Here's a how-to manual for Facebook trolling that was circulating last week (by then, Facebook had already banned 30,000 French accounts that violated its terms of service):



The meme warriors of 4chan have been careful to conceal their American identities. A number of posts on Discord urge users to adopt French-sounding social-media identities and avoid using Google Translate to convert English phrases into French. Instead, they've collaborated with the French equivalent of 4chan and a related French-language forum on Discord called La Taverne des Patriotes. English-speaking visitors to the French site hang out in a sub-forum known as #Foreign_Legion, where they often solicit help in translating their anti-Macron memes into French.
3. I'm really sick of folks who think they are radical for this kind of talk.
Mon May 29, 2017, 12:05 AM
May 2017

I'm pretty far left, but I happily voted for Secretary Clinton. These people are basically defending Trump. They're not edgy, they're dummies.

TexasTowelie

(111,300 posts)
5. I wonder about the objectivity of someone who has to declare herself as sane.
Mon May 29, 2017, 12:15 AM
May 2017

Her choice of "Sane Progressive" is also insulting because she implies that other progressives are insane.

I listened to one of her shorter videos once and questioned her sanity so I know better than to listen to one of her rants again. I have better things to do than listen to her for 35 minutes.

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