BUSTED: Trump-loving comment trolls pose as Sanders and Clinton supporters to divide Democrats

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BUSTED: Trump-loving comment trolls pose as Sanders and Clinton supporters to divide Democrats

by Bethania Palma Markus at the Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/busted-trump-loving-comment-trolls-pose-as-sanders-and-clinton-supporters-to-divide-democrats/

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An Internet troll who claims to have found deep divisions among factions of the Left on Twitter laid out a plan Saturday for fellow Donald Trump supporters to exploit those fissures.

Posting on the sometimes-dubious message board 4chan, the anonymous poster wrote a post entitled, “Let’s troll Bernie and Hillary supporters systematically,” where the writer says he/she posed as a Democratic voter and trolled supporters of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in an effort to deepen divisions and help Trump secure a victory in November.

“We need to take advantage of this. This is Trump’s gift,” the 4chan troll wrote. “If we’re serious about a Trump presidency we need to start infiltrating their conversations in order to sow more divison (sic). I’m talking systematic and long-term /mischief/, not just a hew minutes trolling dumbass SJW’s. Look at the chaos and damage I was able to make yesterday, just one person, with no real rudeness in my replies. Imagine that writ large: My account is @realJohnMilIer.”

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1.If hundreds of accounts on the Hillary or Bernie/Stein side were saying even worse things it’d make the divisions deeper. 2.If we got people to agree with us the opposing sides would blast each other as dangerous extremists but each would defend horrible tweets. 3. Even if a few or a lot of us were caught, it would increase distrust tremendously among ANYONE on the opposing side.

The user then says he/she was amazed to see the vitriol on the Left.



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[writes3000]

1. It's been pretty damn obvious here.

The relentless attacks on Hillary, Bernie and their supporters have been obnoxious to say the least.

[forest444]

2. I've seen a couple here on DU as well.

And they've gone undetected by MIRT, so they seem to know what they're doing.

[bunnies]

3. I'm glad you thought better of what you originally posted. Nt

[forest444]

6. They know who they are.

One of them even has the distinct honor of being the only one I've ever seen on DU who defends Hiroshima (he also recently posted the only comment in defense of Bush in a discussion).

MIRT seems to be more than a little asleep at the wheel.

[bunnies]

9. There are some that are here way longer than they should be.

Without a doubt.

[forest444]

10. They're good at flying under the radar.

This should have triggered immediate MIRT action though: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141409738#post2

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. It seems even worse than in 2008.

It could be my imagination, but it seems much worse. However, a lot of these posters are long time DUers that have always hated the Clintons.

I wish it were Summer already.

[writes3000]

5. It's worse than I remember in 2008. And frankly...

The glee in some of these posts is downright disgusting. Differences in policy? Differences regarding the direction of the party? I get that. Gleeful reciting of right wing talking points and their candidates? Disgusting.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. The difference is that I don't recall Obama egging

On these people, twisting his campaign around to slam the democrats and Hillary. Obama more or less stuck to to policy.

[writes3000]

15. There were some fierce fights and some intense accusations but nothing like this...

This place has become an echo chamber and it's mostly negative. Really disturbing and disappointing. I remember there being some out of bounds moments during the 2008 primary but, as you said, the candidates kept it above board.

I'm looking forward to the end of this primary. There were be a few tantrum, end of the world posts and then the real fight begins.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. posted 3 times in the last hour... you all on the same mailing list or something?

[rhett o rick]

11. I've been putting Clinton fans with less than 1,000 posts, on ignore immediately upon running into

them. I think I have put 20 - 25 on ignore so far. But they just keep coming like Zombies.

[joshcryer]

12. Idiots aren't even getting paid.

[nc4bo]

13. They are and have been here for a while.

You can smell 'em.

[Joob]

14. Okay nothing any Hillary supporter ever said divided me. It was MSM and the DNC

Oh, and Hillary's campaign

[upaloopa]

16. There are definite patterns they follow. For instance on the week days they show up around

3:30 PM PST. My guess is the got off work back east and popped open a brewski in mom's basement and started posting those long OP's with lot's of pictures and lot's of paragraphs and quotes.

I think those are prepared ahead of time for them to copy and paste. Also several show up at the same time and reply to each other's OP.


Another thing is that their OP's are way over the top. So full of bull shit that they weren't the things regular Bernie folks post. But the get tons of rec's.

[VOX]

17. Not surprised at all.

It's just so obvious. The RW will indulge in all sorts of weird behaviors if they believe it gives them an edge.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Yes and we have to get real on this subject.

When the use of the Internet first began,the Rethugs started using the nets to post false and miss leading posts. Today we call it trolling,and when you read the Rethug Trolls,their spew is pretty much along similiar lines. These trolls work the News Media Commentary boxes as well.