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Someone is desperately trying to poison the waters with Warren and Sanders (Original Post) whatchamacallit Mar 2016 OP
Gee I wonder....who has the most to gain from these dirty tricks? n/t Avalux Mar 2016 #1
And gosh, right after DWS's payday loan friendly bill Matariki Mar 2016 #2
Yeah, funny that... whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #3
The coincidences just keep piling up. Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #19
LOL Matariki Mar 2016 #50
Gee I wonder who would want to do that and who has done that in the past Autumn Mar 2016 #4
^^^^ This ^^^ bunnies Mar 2016 #10
yep G_j Mar 2016 #13
The whole Bernie Bros was a dupe of 2008 Clinton strategy against Obama Nanjeanne Mar 2016 #5
Operation Chaos 2016 JaneyVee Mar 2016 #6
We agree whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #8
Get the big roll. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #7
Right, more Bernie supporter genus mythos whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #9
So you deny that Bernie supporters have a history of harrassing people online? Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #11
Do you deny Hillary supporters do the same? whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #15
I'm not denying Hillary supporters may harass people online. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #18
It's been established by Hillary supporters and surrogates whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #20
Facebook is NOT anonymous. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #22
Nah whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #28
It's not hard to create a fake account on facebook. There are tons of them. nt Svafa Mar 2016 #32
And they get flagged all the time. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #35
Was every commenter investigated to make sure that their profiles were old enough? Svafa Mar 2016 #39
Click through them. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #40
Your sources Kip Humphrey Mar 2016 #36
Read the comments on EVERY post. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #37
Ya know, theres an easy way to find out. JaneyVee Mar 2016 #12
If you think that's the way to separate myth from reality... marions ghost Mar 2016 #16
You should be a Biblical Archaeologist. Marr Mar 2016 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author misterhighwasted Mar 2016 #14
I don't buy this narrative whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author misterhighwasted Mar 2016 #23
Sounds like your kind of Chaos and FUD whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author misterhighwasted Mar 2016 #30
Question: how do you know they are from "bernie peeps"? noiretextatique Mar 2016 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author misterhighwasted Mar 2016 #45
You did not answer my question nt noiretextatique Mar 2016 #46
okay. misterhighwasted Mar 2016 #49
No kidding? Really? MineralMan Mar 2016 #21
It's almost like a Presidential campaign or something was going on. What's wrong with these people? randome Mar 2016 #24
I know. Who knew there was a presidential race? MineralMan Mar 2016 #26
Well we know one candidate has an army of fake social media SwampG8r Mar 2016 #27
+1 Svafa Mar 2016 #33
Everyday more and UglyGreed Mar 2016 #29
GOP ops - they want to turn Sanders supporters against Warren. If there's anyone the GOP hates more blm Mar 2016 #31
You can't turn Sanders supporters against Warren whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #34
That's kinda my point. GOP op poseurs wouldn't get that reality the way REAL supporters blm Mar 2016 #47
Ah... I see whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #48
Care to fill us in on who that "someone" might be? Otherwise, what's the point of this OP? George II Mar 2016 #41
You were unable to glean the meaning of this? whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #43
No, and no. But that is an "unfortunate lack of" information. Thanks. Now I can move on. George II Mar 2016 #44
Sanders supporters are not above slamming Warren for not endorsing him. They've slammed Hoyt Mar 2016 #51
I didn't whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #52
 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
19. The coincidences just keep piling up.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:35 PM
Mar 2016

But if you think they form a pattern, you are a complacent millennial key-board warrior with racist and sexist tendencies. So there. Also 9/11 and a gender.

Autumn

(45,046 posts)
4. Gee I wonder who would want to do that and who has done that in the past
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:56 AM
Mar 2016
Because
Really it does seem to be an
Obnoxious ploy by perhaps some one who possibly could be working on the
Clinton campaign
Kick because it seems rather unlikely that Bernie supporters would harass Elizabeth Warren.

Nanjeanne

(4,938 posts)
5. The whole Bernie Bros was a dupe of 2008 Clinton strategy against Obama
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 11:59 AM
Mar 2016

And this is no different. FB and Twitter are all anonymous if you want to be. A great place for smears to take place as long as you have the media prepped to spread it. No surprise. Sounds just a "little bit nutty, a little bit slutty" to me.

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
7. Get the big roll.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:01 PM
Mar 2016


Bernie supporters have been bullying Clinton endorsers online since the Bernie joined the race. Warren had facebook comments turned off on her page BECAUSE of the constant commenting on every post demanding she endorse Bernie (she recently turned comments back on). After Bernie loses MA, they berate her for not endorsing. It's no conspiracy, it's a bunch of childish assholes on the internet who has a sad because EW didn't endorse Bernie.

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
9. Right, more Bernie supporter genus mythos
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:07 PM
Mar 2016

Only Bernie supporters harrass online because they're genetically predisposed to do so. Talk about a wild conspiracy theory...

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
11. So you deny that Bernie supporters have a history of harrassing people online?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:17 PM
Mar 2016

No one said a damn thing about genetic disposition. It's Occam's razor: the simplest answer is usually the correct one.

Not all Bernie supporters are harassing people. But a very vocal segment is. Bernie himself has acknowledged this. Why won't you?

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
15. Do you deny Hillary supporters do the same?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:26 PM
Mar 2016

What's your rationale for this being a Bernie-side-only phenomenon? How is it possible? I guess an alternate theory could be Bernie is just a giant asshole magnet... As far as Occam's razor is concerned, given the long established history of political dirty tricks and use of provocateurs, the razor could just as easily favor that answer.

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
18. I'm not denying Hillary supporters may harass people online.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:33 PM
Mar 2016

But it's been established that a vocal population of Bernie supporters have been harassing Hillary supporters online.

I'm not saying it's all Bernie supporters (it is not) or most (once again, it is not), or even DUers (it is not). But there are quite a few, and Bernie himself asked them to stop once before.

Facebook isn't anonymous. These people are obvious Bernie supporters.

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
20. It's been established by Hillary supporters and surrogates
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:37 PM
Mar 2016

Bernie doesn't really know who those folks are, but he told them to chill because that's how he rolls.

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
22. Facebook is NOT anonymous.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:43 PM
Mar 2016

These are Bernie supporters. People who's pages are LITTERED with pro-Bernie messages. Bernie has acknowledged this, but you would rather believe it's a vast conspiracy involving thousands of people (pretty hard to pull off silently) rather than thousands of people being assholes.

Maybe you need this roll instead?

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
35. And they get flagged all the time.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:00 PM
Mar 2016

They're easy to spot. Usually only a pic or two, no real info, and recent join dates.

Long term facebook accounts are not fakes.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
36. Your sources
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:01 PM
Mar 2016

article quoted in the trash piece:

Peter Daou

Peter Daou is a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and a veteran of two presidential campaigns. He is the CEO of True Blue Media, which owns and operates Blue Nation Review


I have followed this story closely and have read the oft repeated meme that OF COURSE these are Bernie Supporters because FaceBook never lies???

So, Link in the Facebook pages of these Bernie supporters who are trashing E.Warren. Show us your proof. The quoted Hillary camp article certainly does not provide these Facebook pages.

Of course you won't because you can't. Proving in all finality that this is a false-flag operation.
 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
37. Read the comments on EVERY post.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:03 PM
Mar 2016
https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/?ref=br_rs

Click on the names, look at the profiles.

ETA: My source for this was the EW page, where I first saw it. There have been news stories since, but I haven't read them.
 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
12. Ya know, theres an easy way to find out.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:17 PM
Mar 2016

Go to the social media page of anyone who endorses Hillary and read the comments. Then click on their profile and scan through their posts. Shouldnt be hard to separate myth from reality.

Response to whatchamacallit (Original post)

Response to whatchamacallit (Reply #17)

Response to whatchamacallit (Reply #25)

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
42. Question: how do you know they are from "bernie peeps"?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:29 PM
Mar 2016

Is there a some new technology that can determine the poltical affliliation of an email sender?

Response to noiretextatique (Reply #42)

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
24. It's almost like a Presidential campaign or something was going on. What's wrong with these people?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:44 PM
Mar 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

MineralMan

(146,285 posts)
26. I know. Who knew there was a presidential race?
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:47 PM
Mar 2016

I'm shocked, really. And people are attacking Elizabeth Warren for not endorsing someone? Who would do that? She's not required to make an endorsement. Who would be angry about her non-endorsement decision?

'Tis a puzzlement, to be sure.

SwampG8r

(10,287 posts)
27. Well we know one candidate has an army of fake social media
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:47 PM
Mar 2016

I mean we know for a.fact one candidate has spent money to generate fake enthusiasm on social media. Hillary has a history of paying for fake social medis support.
Anyone check to.see if the "bernie bros" arent a bought out fake social media creation?
Be a shame to waste all those fake.accounts and profiles after paying good money.

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
29. Everyday more and
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:50 PM
Mar 2016

more I feel that the Warren endorsement hoax which I fell for (for a moment along with thousands of others) as a calculated maneuver possibly planned by Correct the Record via David Brock. He has no shame and will do whatever he can to get the result he desires. Now day after day we have articles of "BernieBros" attacking Warren, how very convenient.



blm

(113,041 posts)
31. GOP ops - they want to turn Sanders supporters against Warren. If there's anyone the GOP hates more
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:56 PM
Mar 2016

than Sanders politically it would be Warren. I wouldn't trust anyone claiming to be a 'Sanders supporter' who attacks Warren. Period.

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
34. You can't turn Sanders supporters against Warren
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:00 PM
Mar 2016

They love her. While many desire it, most are not expecting Warren's endorsement of Bernie. Intelligent people understand there are meta-political considerations involved in these endorsements.

blm

(113,041 posts)
47. That's kinda my point. GOP op poseurs wouldn't get that reality the way REAL supporters
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:06 PM
Mar 2016

get it. We have long held admiration for BOTH Sanders and Warren. Their games really only accomplish the task of outing them.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
51. Sanders supporters are not above slamming Warren for not endorsing him. They've slammed
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:50 PM
Mar 2016

some real Democratic icons for endorsing Clinton.

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
52. I didn't
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:54 PM
Mar 2016

but those you did seemed to do so because one had a peculiar selective memory, and the other appeared to be lying.

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