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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, Interesting) by srobert on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:42PM
"...but is there that much intra-party animosity within the Democratic Party?"
Yes.
I was a delegate to the county democratic convention. The Hillary people kept trying to emphasize that "we're all democrats and the most important thing is that we defeat the Republicans in November" ... blah, blah, party loyalty, you owe it to us to support the lesser evil, type stuff. Many of the Sander delegates, myself included, would have no part of it. e.g. If you are, or were, a union member, or a tradesman, a factory worker whose job has been outsourced, it's pretty disheartening to see union leadership endorsing the Dems responsible for disastrous trade agreements. The attitude of the party toward us was epitomized by Rahm Emanuel, "F* 'em, what are they going to do, vote Republican?". Incidentally, the Clinton delegates were so lacking in enthusiasm for their choice that huge numbers of them didn't show up. Hence, the results of the caucus that was held in February were overturned in Nevada's largest two counties.
Our view is that party loyalty is a two-way street, and that the "third way", which has become the establishment within the party leadership, has been throwing many of us under the bus in one election after another for three decades, in order to defeat "the greater evil". We are done with it. I cannot "write in" Bernie Sanders in Nevada. But if he isn't on the ballot, Jill Stein probably will be and I don't feel I owe Mrs Clinton a vote.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:01PM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings