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.
23 comments
6 DukeLeto2 2015-07-03
Videos is private? WTH is going on?
4 [deleted] 2015-07-03
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1 fuzzywumpus1 2015-07-03
shhh...youre bucking the hivemind narrative
5 iCantDieSoWhyDontYou 2015-07-03
I Didn't think of it like that. Bernie is well known and respected and liked on Reddit and now its all going away
2 Pewbee 2015-07-03
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.
1 militantomg 2015-07-03
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.
5 FisherOfMen 2015-07-03
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?
2 darth_elevator 2015-07-03
Can you explain a little more? Is he proposing a 90% tax?
1 FisherOfMen 2015-07-03
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
4 p0st_master 2015-07-03
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.
3 SlySychoGamer 2015-07-03
Its a bit of a stretch.
2 Akimb0Slice 2015-07-03
Yeah there's no way all this is just for Bernie lol
1 SlySychoGamer 2015-07-03
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.
1 Camellia_sinensis 2015-07-03
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.
3 astrozombie222 2015-07-03
Bernie Sanders doesn't scare TPTB one iota. Remember Ron Paul?
1 tehgreatblade 2015-07-03
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.
2 Thegingerbread_man 2015-07-03
Forgive me for asking this as I'm kinda new to the sub, but what's a shill?
3 Marc_Vesper 2015-07-03
I think it is like a promoter faking being a normal user
2 tehgreatblade 2015-07-03
You can be a shill unknowingly as well if you push their agenda (believing it as truth)
0 crazyevilmuffin 2015-07-03
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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2 crazyevilmuffin 2015-07-03
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.
0 redorblu 2015-07-03
nobody with 2 passports should ever run for president.
-3 magic3383 2015-07-03
Bernie Sanders is shit.
3 Marc_Vesper 2015-07-03
You forgot a the
1 fuzzywumpus1 2015-07-03
shhh...youre bucking the hivemind narrative