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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Faces Feisty Democratic Challenger [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)My judgment from this thread is that:
(a) there are some invalid criticisms of Svitavsky, like his having moved to Vermont, and
(b) there are some perfectly valid criticisms of him, like his Facebook posts.
So yeah, I ignored the examples of category (a) that you posted because their existence doesn't nullify the existence of category (b).
You write, "Anyone can open a social media account." That's true. I know people who have Facebook accounts in their cats' names. I note, however, that you don't go so far as to say that that's what happened in this instance. Did some incredibly farsighted BernieBot realize, years ago, that Svitavsky would mount this challenge, and therefore opened a fake Facebook account in Svitavsky's name and post bad stuff with it? I can't disprove that hypothesis. I also can't disprove the hypothesis that the entity now occupying the Senate seat is a shape-shifting alien from the Gamma Quadrant who came here through a wormhole, assassinated the real Bernie Sanders, and took his place. I'm just gonna go with No on both of those ideas.
Judging from comments on Svitavsky's campaign page, the biggest impact of his candidacy may be that some Democrats from around the country, whose obsession is their hatred of Bernie, may send Svitavsky money that could be used to support Democrats against Republicans in close races elsewhere. That is of course their right, but it's a monumentally bad choice.