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Clinton Trolls Shut Down Pro-Sanders Facebook Groups on the Eve of Elections

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:17PM   
from the gotta-love-social-media dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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Original Submission

• Re:Why a fascist or a theocrat? Go for Jill Stein. (Score: 4, Insightful) by Ellis D. Tripp on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:02PM

  by Ellis D. Tripp (3416) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:02PM (#338028)

  I get where you are coming from, with the LP currently being the largest 3rd party in the US. But the GP came awfully close to the 5% FEC threshold when Ralph Nader ran in 2000, in what was one of the most successful 3rd party runs in recent history. Given the size and strength of the Sanders campaign, if he were to hop over to the Greens, they should EASILY exceed the 5% threshold in the general election, qualifying for federal funding in future elections.

  I suggested the GP to the original poster, because they stated that they were a Sanders supporter, and Sanders-style democratic socialism is a much better fit with the Greens than with the Libertarians. While the 2 are pretty compatible as far as most social and foreign policy issues, there remains a fundamental difference in outlook between the 2 in terms of economic inequality, environmental regulation, and the role of government in providing a safety net for the economically disadvantaged.

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  "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

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