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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: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:45PM
Actually, no, feminism doesn't play all that big of a role.
Sanders' biggest problems were, in no particular order:
- Starting too late. He recently reached the point where he has majority support within the party. 4 months ago, that would mean he would have won easily. Instead, it means he'll still probably lose.
- A well-documented mainstream media blackout, to the point where pollsters were still getting essentially a response of "Sanders? Who's that?" from about 1 in 5 voters when the primary voting actually started. In the most recent polls, 10% still give that response.
- A completely fabricated perception that he was some kind of racist against black people. It was kind of impressive, actually: A guy who was marching in the streets in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's and stumped for Jesse Jackson in the 1980's and has consistently supported pro-black efforts in his political career was successfully turned into the white man's candidate in the minds of black voters, particularly older black voters. That's a real testament to the power of illusion-weaving. I'm of the opinion that certain elements of the very decentralized BlackLivesMatter movement were paid by the Clinton campaign to stage protests against Sanders and O'Malley to reinforce those perceptions, which is why when other elements of the same movement started protesting Clinton she assumed they were doing so on behalf of the Sanders campaign.
- The word "socialism", which in the minds of people over about 70 years old still conjures up images of the Cuban Missile Crisis and hiding under school desks. Sanders' proposed policies have a lot more in common with Franklin Roosevelt than Nikita Khruschev.
- There's substantial evidence of fraud going on in multiple state primaries. From 125,000 voters who intended to vote for Sanders mysteriously switched from "Democrat" to "No Party" in New York City, to large numbers of "proxy" or "surrogate" votes in a number of caucuses that all just happened to go to Clinton, to the 7-8 hour lines in Arizona in areas that were heavily pro-Sanders. This is enough of a pattern that I have to conclude that there's some Nixon-style "ratfucking" tactics in play here.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @06:07PM
there's some Nixon-style "ratfucking" tactics in play here. Remember Nixon did not invent it. He learned it the hard way from his previous opponents. He was just better at it (or you could argue worse).