Reddit has been a huge web presence for Bernie Sanders and it's being actively dismantled

119  2015-07-03 by [deleted]

I looked at some of the posts on this sub referring to u/chooter as a shill. Shill or not, she was important to many of the subs on this site that still had some substance.

Now subs like /r/science, /r/books, /r/videos, and a whole host of others have gone private. I, probably like many people today, made a voat account. I won't drop reddit all together, but I can see it's a dying animal (yes, I know that's been said for years). I can see the day it's a place people's parents go to for their pics of cute cats and advice animals aligning with their political leanings. In other words, no different than the swarms of other click-bait sites.

I know of no other major site that throws such support behind Sanders. This also happened on the day Jim Webb announced his candidacy. It was through this site, specifically a post on Sanders, that I discovered opensecrets.org, which lists top contributors for politicians, both current and running. Just a thought.

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Videos is private? WTH is going on?

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shhh...youre bucking the hivemind narrative

I Didn't think of it like that. Bernie is well known and respected and liked on Reddit and now its all going away

A few years ago a presidential candidate with two first names seemed pretty popular here. Maybe they've learned where true grassroots populism had been originating from and then sent in Pao to castrate it just in time for the 2016 elections brought to you with limited commercial interruptions by Barnum and Bailey. This video has been formatted to fit your screen and run in the alloted time.

You say that like they wouldnt just rig the elections. It's been explicitly well documented that digital voting machines are basically open for manipulation to anyone with a clue. The only way around it would be serialized paper ballots which are read and recorded publicly.

I love how a subreddit that knows the government is power mad is all gung-ho for the biggest government guy there is. The guy who is so power-mad he believes he should get 90% of your labor.

Why this dissonance?

Can you explain a little more? Is he proposing a 90% tax?

He did.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/26/3662773/sanders-90-percent-tax/

Note, of course, that in true deceiver fashion, he's going to tax them and give all the candy and cream pies to you

This post is why we can't go private. I think people should be able to discuss what they think may be really going on.

Its a bit of a stretch.

Yeah there's no way all this is just for Bernie lol

Unless. The people runnig the world are from the future where they know of certain events that could interfere with their plans.

So go nuclear whenever one occurs.

Maybe. But it is very curious that this is all happening a day or two after he pulled 10,000 people at a rally in Wisconsin.

Bernie Sanders doesn't scare TPTB one iota. Remember Ron Paul?

Your constant distrust in your own government doesn't scare them either.

Our country is in ruins because they want to destroy us; If all you do is complain it will just continue. They don't care even if we knew them by name. They are laughing at our entire society because we're blind as bats.

Forgive me for asking this as I'm kinda new to the sub, but what's a shill?

I think it is like a promoter faking being a normal user

You can be a shill unknowingly as well if you push their agenda (believing it as truth)

Eh I feel like the internet in general supports Sanders, I mean there's really not much to be said against him. Anyway us redditors aren't gonna disappear from the internet even if there is in fact a mass exodus. Most will probably migrate to voat, where we'll still show our support for Sanders, except we won't have to deal with the same level of censorship that has been plaguing reddit lately.

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Yeah that's a fair point, but I'm confident that a large scale move to voat would be possible given a few month's time. With all the censorship going on here I'm willing to bet lots of people would be happy to provide funding for voat to get more servers. It won't be overnight, but I think it'll be faster than many expect.

nobody with 2 passports should ever run for president.

Bernie Sanders is shit.

You forgot a the

shhh...youre bucking the hivemind narrative