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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @06:28PM
It looks like they are the ones who have handed her the nomination. Bernie seems the least objectionable of the entire slate of choices to me.
(Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Wednesday April 27 2016, @07:13PM
Being a white guy, I can only speculate here, but a large factor would seem to be the fact that, particularly in the deep south where Clinton built her lead in early primaries, the black democrats tend to be a lot less liberal on social issues and more religious than white democrats. Sanders did better with the black community (especially younger blacks) in other parts of the country. An apparent lack of early outreach to the black community by the Sanders campaign didn't help, either...
Still, the overwhelming support for a woman who referred to young urban blacks as "superpredators" who need to be "brought to heel" while stumping for her husband's crime bill boggles the mind...
"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: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 27 2016, @09:50PM
This all sounds right on the money. Seriously, southern black voters would do better voting for Cruz, because he really represents their interests better, because they're so ultra-religious; the only reason they don't is because the Republican party has traditionally been the party of racists for quite a while now (esp. after all the racist Southern Democrats switched to the GOP). But the (esp. over-30) southern blacks are just as religious as the most wacky of religious white people, and they're definitely not interested in any kind of social liberalism like gay marriage.
This is going to be a very interesting election, if the DOJ doesn't indict Hillary and we wind up with Hillary vs. Trump, or even Hillary vs. Cruz. Unlike Obama in 2008 where he energized the youth vote and won largely because of that, Hillary is not going to get the youth vote at all, so we'll probably see a Republican president. When the Dems can't get the young people to show up at the polls, they lose. (And with Hillary as their candidate, they deserve to lose.)
(Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Wednesday April 27 2016, @10:52PM
An indictment coming down (or somebody in the FBI leaking damaging info from the investigation), is about the only way Bernie makes it into the general as a Democrat as far as I can see. Hoping to see Bernie and his supporters stir up a good shitstorm at the convention, anyway.
Now if the RNC somehow denies Trump their nomination, and Trump ends up running as an independent, It would be great to see Sanders and Stein team up and make it a 4 way race. With the craziness of this whole election, something like that seems downright possible.
"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: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 28 2016, @05:12PM
I'd love to see a 4-way race, but I think the problem there is that it's very unlikely that any one candidate would then win enough electoral votes to win the election, and then the House of Representatives would choose a President. At least, that's my understanding of our horribly broken process.
Trump recently remarked that Bernie should run as an independent because the DNC has treated him "horribly". Trump is right on the money on that, as usual. Despite my disagreement with his positions on many things and some of his outright wacky ideas (which are probably just bluster to gain favor with the conservative voters) plus his flip-flopping, he makes a lot of comments like that which are complete bulls-eyes. The other one recently was his commentary about the NC bathroom law.
What we really need before this place blows up is some kind of mini-"revolution" where the people force the States to hold a very fast Constitutional Convention to enact a new Amendment, one which eliminates the idiotic Electoral College and which instead implements a new, national election system for the Presidency which uses something like Approval voting or IRV or the Borla voting system, and which implements it NOW, so that we use it for the November election. What we have obviously is not working at all.