2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSomeone is desperately trying to poison the waters with Warren and Sanders
Bernie supporters sure don't want that, so who does?
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)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.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)Autumn
(45,046 posts)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.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Well done.
Nanjeanne
(4,938 posts)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.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)IMHO
Because I refuse to believe real progressives would act this way.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)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)Only Bernie supporters harrass online because they're genetically predisposed to do so. Talk about a wild conspiracy theory...
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)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)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)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)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)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?
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)you can go ahead and tuck that back up where you pulled it from.
Svafa
(594 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)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.
Svafa
(594 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)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)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)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.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)oh never mind
Marr
(20,317 posts)That's pretty much how they work, too.
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whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)I'm pretty sure Warren is too smart to either.
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noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Is there a some new technology that can determine the poltical affliliation of an email sender?
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noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Later
MineralMan
(146,285 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
MineralMan
(146,285 posts)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)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)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)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)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)get it. We have long held admiration for BOTH Sanders and Warren. Their games really only accomplish the task of outing them.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)you're right.
George II
(67,782 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Hm... an unfortunate lack of reasoning skills.
George II
(67,782 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)some real Democratic icons for endorsing Clinton.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)but those you did seemed to do so because one had a peculiar selective memory, and the other appeared to be lying.