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In reply to the discussion: This is going to get a lot of blow back, but it needs to be said! [View all]Sympthsical
(9,034 posts)Mention anything having to do with Sanders, and there's immediately a total pile on. Usually the same dozen or two posters every time. But the threads become completely unreadable, and there's nothing to be gleaned from 80% of the posts in them. Just the other day I saw not one, but two different posts intimating that Sanders is a Russian agent.
Just . . . LOL.
AOC gets it, too. But not as much. Basically, any figure on the Left that says anything even mildly critical of party policy or approach gets the, "Troll, Russian Agent, right-wing plant!" treatment. Also, no Democratic incumbent should be primaried . . . unless it's Sanders, AOC, or anyone that identifies as a democratic socialist. Then we can support right-wingers to get them.
Whatever happened four years age is immaterial. I'm merely observing how the site behaves now. My understanding is the site veers older and more conservative, which is why more leftish policies and public figures get a lot of blowback. In political spaces full of Millennials, for example, this stuff doesn't really happen.
I usually just read a few posts in and move on. Not worth the bother. I posted in this one because I'm laughing at the idea that being anti-Sanders on this site is going to earn anyone any kind of blowback. Post any Sanders thread at random, and lean back to watch the hate pour in. It's like saying, "Unpopular opinion, but Trump is kind of an asshole. Don't flame me!"
Like, surrously though.