2016 Postmortem

bettyellen

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61. They both reduce me to a body part, and as I said, even if you quote someone else...

Reply to passiveporcupine (Reply #60)

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 04:47 PM

Feb 2016

you (Big Mike) are promoting that statement. And it's ignorant and insulting where ever it comes from.

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The �Bernie Bro� is a Media Myth. It Needs to Die [View all] passiveporcupine Feb 2016 OP

And a harmful one to Democrats. False attacks like this lose us future voters. nt Live and Learn Feb 2016 #1

It's a meme being pushed by camp weathervane. Obvious trolls are obvious. nt Electric Monk Feb 2016 #2

Actually it's a David Brock HRC campaign meme. So no, it won't die. n/t delrem Feb 2016 #3

Nasty person. 840high Feb 2016 #37

The whole meme seems kind of idiotic, doesn't it. PatrickforO Feb 2016 #4

the only way to kill it is to show it for the fallacy it is azurnoir Feb 2016 #5

Kick and R BeanMusical Feb 2016 #6

Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #7

Sanders Bests Clinton by 42 Points in 20/20 Presidential Forum Drum Poll Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #8

Thank you for your addition passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #14

While I think the term Bernie Bro is stupid and childish mythology Feb 2016 #9

The article is about the Sanders campaign. "Bernie Bros" is about the Sanders campaign. RiverLover Feb 2016 #10

Author is Nathan Wellman oberliner Feb 2016 #11

A couple of my best friends act like Bernie Bros, and for one, it is screwing up his marriage... bettyellen Feb 2016 #15

You mean like posters on internet sites who claim to support Sanders, but offer zappaman Feb 2016 #19

More like he will not STFU with the same lecture over and over again, then slip in a reference to bettyellen Feb 2016 #43

While I agree there is a group of people doing this on social media passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #17

Agreed oberliner Feb 2016 #18

The subset probably exists for Hillary supporters too, passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #21

Yeah - the PUMAs oberliner Feb 2016 #40

Hmmm... quickesst Feb 2016 #12

The Establishment is pushing the "populists are racist and sexist" meme very hard. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #13

Once again the Clintonians misfired. jillan Feb 2016 #16

DU Sanders supporters originally embraced the term. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #20

+1,000 NastyRiffraff Feb 2016 #22

They are reminding me of another group who embraced a term until its full meaning was revealed. eom MohRokTah Feb 2016 #23

That's pretty low. No one on this site will ever remind me of a teabagger. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2016 #24

I NEVER used the term you just did. eom MohRokTah Feb 2016 #27

Sure you didn't. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2016 #28

Thank you passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #55

The term used to describe us isn't an issue. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2016 #25

I've only seen Bernie supporters use it here jokingly. passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #31

Ain't that the truth, Moh! George II Feb 2016 #42

So you're turning a positive into a negative... scscholar Feb 2016 #26

I don't know about the white male... LAS14 Feb 2016 #29

Honestly, the sides are about even when it comes to mean. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2016 #30

I agree with you passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #32

How about when HRC supporters nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #34

Yeah, I'm sorry that happened to you. passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #35

From where I sit nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #36

My real life personal experience is with HRC supporters nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #33

I've said it once, I'll say it again. Shandris Feb 2016 #38

Good connection with gamer gate passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #39

I asked questions about gamergate, and nobody gave me any shit. In fact, I learned MADem Feb 2016 #46

+1 Starry Messenger Feb 2016 #47

Bernie has asked them to knock it off passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #56

"Bernie Bro" - or just "bro" - is a term used by online bullies to provoke and harass senz Feb 2016 #41

I'd like to believe it is a myth. However... stevenleser Feb 2016 #44

It's not. Even the spokesman for the Sanders campaign has acknowledged it. MADem Feb 2016 #48

In twitter land one guy has taken to assigning people to lists Historic NY Feb 2016 #49

Good link. It's a thing, whether some supporters acknowledge it or not. Nt stevenleser Feb 2016 #74

The point is, it's not Bernie supporters who are doing this passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #57

Sure it is. See the link I posted. It's Sanders supporters. Nt stevenleser Feb 2016 #73

Yeah, like I'm going to read that whole thread passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #75

It's not going to die. Let them push it. It's all they have and it's not influencing anybody frylock Feb 2016 #45

It needs to die because its a lazy way to deflect mass criticism. Kentonio Feb 2016 #50

Killer Mike was right when he said young women are getting bullied on this issue. Nyan Feb 2016 #51

Telling people they are voting with their vaginas or uterus is rude and insulting. bettyellen Feb 2016 #52

The one time I saw that happen here passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #58

I appreciate you calling the poster out for that. Perhaps I have come across it here and bettyellen Feb 2016 #59

Big Mike was repeating a quote from a woman passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #60

They both reduce me to a body part, and as I said, even if you quote someone else... bettyellen Feb 2016 #61

Not reduced to a body part passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #62

Literally making smug assumptions and reducing me to reproductive organs to bolster that stupid bettyellen Feb 2016 #63

Certainly, MOST women are not doing that passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #64

it;s kind of like the people who keep repeating "the 1%" without actually knowing how govt can be bettyellen Feb 2016 #65

I guess this has evovled to a whole different fight and I'm not playing passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #66

I don't like any of the name calling- so I don't do it. Saying "he did it first" is for for children bettyellen Feb 2016 #67

Who did it first? passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #68

By that standard, one idiot says something inflammatory and all bets are off. Which sucks. bettyellen Feb 2016 #69

Who am I hiding behind? passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #70

I belive we were discussing some one else's post? No need to put words in my mouth or take it bettyellen Feb 2016 #71

Well, thanks because I'm done too passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #72

What we really have is Hillary's BrockBros out driving the swiftboat... n/t backscatter712 Feb 2016 #53

I'm not sure at what age "controversies" like this began to seem closeupready Feb 2016 #54