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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison getting thrown under the bus in T-minus 7...6...5... [View all]Bradical79
(4,490 posts)or their propaganda "news" organizations. When I visited that site during the election there was an extreme amount of RT bullshit being directly propagated and supported by their membership. I got pretty pissed off at numerous Clinton supporters here during the primaries, but the Bernie or Bust supporters that made up the Jackpine Radicals community really put them to shame, even long after the primaries had been secided. Their progressiveness really looked like a fraudulent act in the end.
They outed themselves as people who really didn't love Bernie beyond being a useful tool to use against the "establishment". The most active members were more alligned with Bannon's and Putin's philosophies regarding burning it all down and destroying lives in the process. They despised rational discussion even more so than the most fanatical HRC supporters, and turned everything into idiotic paranoid conspiracies.
Hell, despite my longtime support of Bernie Sanders and giving him my vote, as soon as I got tired of his campaign manager's bullshit near the end of the campaign (after it had been practically decided), I got targeted with lies accusing me of being some sort of plant or phony, simply for calling out a few members of the Bernie group once for an explicitly racist statement ( a claim that black people who support Clinton had stockholm syndrome).
That site became the gathering place for some of the most dispicable so called Bernie supporters to ever grace this site with their pressence, and were rightfully driven off for their disgusting behavior.