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LeftInTX

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8. Politically she's all over the place..and is probably just an opportuntist troll
Wed May 6, 2020, 06:23 PM
May 2020

She has no compass. She went from left to right.



Fairbanks's activism began with Greenpeace environmentalism, followed by animal rights protests at SeaWorld and circuses. In 2013, she took part in the hacktivist collective Anonymous and helped run a popular Anonymous Twitter account.[8] By then living in Pittsburgh, she traveled to Ohio and helped organize the outcry over the Steubenville High School rape case.[4] In 2015, Fairbanks spent several months with Black Lives Matter in Ferguson, Missouri, amid civil unrest stemming from the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer.[12]


In 2016, Cassandra Fairbanks "underwent something of a political transformation," according to BBC News.[3] Having begun the year as a supporter of Hillary Clinton's main rival within the Democratic Party, Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Fairbanks was by fall rallying her 70K Twitter followers to support Donald Trump.[3] In an October 2016 episode of BBC Television's Panorama, the world's longest-running news television program,[17] Fairbanks said, "I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. I think that Hillary Clinton is a terribly dangerous person."[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Fairbanks

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