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US Uncut reports:
Some of the biggest pro-Bernie Sanders groups on Facebook were briefly taken down Monday evening in a targeted attack by Hillary Clinton supporters.
The groups Bernie Sanders Activists, Bernie Believers, BERNIE OR BUST, Bernie Sanders Revolutionaries, Bay Area for Bernie, Bernie Sanders 2016 — Ideas Welcome, Bernie Sanders is my HERO, and Bernie Sanders for President 2016 were all taken down in the attack. The pages in question were reported to be down for about three hours, from 9 p.m. to midnight Monday night.
Collectively, these groups are home to more than a quarter million Bernie Sanders supporters, and some have been in existence for nearly a year, having been launched shortly after the Vermont senator declared his intent to run for president in 2015.
The groups were targeted by online trolls, who posted pornographic images and reported the groups to Facebook admins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:44PM
I know how you feel, but can I make a better (IMO better) suggestion? Vote Gary Johnson (Libertarian). If he's not on your ballot, write him in. Doesn't matter if you like, or even respect Libertarians, and/or the Libertarian party. What's important is to bet Johnson a large enough segment of the vote to rattle cages in Washington. That, and to get the Libertarian party federal funds for their campaigns.
Hell, if Communists had a shot at upsetting the current status quo, I'd vote for them!
https://www.lp.org/candidates/presidential-candidates-2016 [lp.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:52PM
Yes, to the Runaway you listen. I'm a Sanders supporter. I will vote for Trump if he's on my ballot in November. Hell, if some independent Trump/Sanders ticket gets started up, I could support that, and it will definitely get my vote.
However, my fallback is to do as usual and vote Libertarian for president. Voting for the Libertarian candidate may not sit well with everyone. Don't forget about Jill Stein [wikipedia.org] of the Green party. Bonus points if one votes Stein, because one gets to say, "Hey, I voted to unlock the female head of state achievement!" without needing to vote for a lizard person like Clinton.
Both she and Johnson started a combined initiative last year to get "third" parties into the presidential debates. Johnson reached out to Libertarians like me, and Stein reached out to Greens. It's criminal the way that the Libertarian and Green parties get systematically shut out of the democratic process. Every election year, they need to gather enough signatures in each state to get Johnson and Stein on the ballot. (Well, not just Johnson, but Harry Brown and Bob Barr as well for the Libertarians but the Greens are pretty consistent about Jill Stein.) Sometimes the lizard people party (R+D) successfully prevents one or the other from being on the November ballot in this state or that state, so that means that even voting a straight Green or Libertarian ticket will not give Johnson or Stein a vote. Even if they get on the ballot, the lizard person media always pretends they don't exist.
I think the only exception I've ever seen from the lizard person media was in 2012 when both Colbert and O'Reilly gave a nod to Johnson. But then again, I was really only watching comedy news then, and Colbert is the only person I can still watch (even then just in small doses) now that the Daily Show and John Oliver have gone full SJW retard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @09:55PM
If she's not near the 5 percent I am voting Barr '16 because I voted Stein in '12.
I don't care as much who gets the 5 percent, but the current Libertarians strike me as too Republican rather than Libertarian, and without multiple 5 percenter parties it will just continue being an oligopoly thanks to the wealth at the top.
(Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Thursday April 28 2016, @12:53AM
I never understood how he ever ended up on a Libertarian Party ticket in the first place. This is the same guy who trued to outlaw the practice of neo-pagan religions (Wicca in particular) on US military bases. And he was a rabid "reefer madness" type as far as the War on Drugs, only coming around to some semblance of sanity on medical marijuana when he decided to run for president...
"Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you end up with a lot of scum on the top!"--Edward Abbey
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @10:55PM
What's important is to bet Johnson a large enough segment
So, a larger Johnson? With Runaway, it's always about . . . . . etc., etc..
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday April 28 2016, @12:23AM
Gary Johnson is a huge step up from the GOP candidates. But, I think that Jill Stein is more in keeping with Bernie's platform.
That being said, I'd probably vote for Johnson over Stein if the Trump backers defect to Johnson if Trump isn't nominated. For the most part Johnson is likely to be far better for the country than anybody that the GOP is going to put forward.