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This is just all kinds of horrifying shit.

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MBS also equals Mr. Bone Saw

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“Bernie supporters across the country had been noticing dubious websites and posters linked back to Eastern Europe long before Mattes did”“Pearce added, “Please share this with other Bernie groups so we can put an end to this spam bombing that’s filling up our pages and groups”“ a steady diet of stories fabricated out of thin air can also feed into paranoia and flame wars.”“All of a sudden, they were getting 80 to 100 requests to join each day. She and the other administrators couldn’t vet everyone, and the posts started getting bizarre. “It came in like a wave, like a tsunami,” she said. “It was like a flood of misinformation.””“He soon realized there wasn’t just one Mitov but four. Three had Sanders as their profile picture. Two had the same single Facebook friend, while a third had no Facebook friends. The fourth appeared to be a middle-aged man with 19 Facebook friends, including that one friend the other Mitovs had in common.”Bla bla bla. Etc etc etc

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You can pretend it doesn’t say that if you want.

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In that article it says that there was anti Sanders propaganda and that they could tell it was coming from Eastern Europe.

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Chicken shit

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Lol. Creating a way to back out of this without facing facts. Classic.

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You should read that article I linked to a little more closely. Also, for someone who has dug in as deeply as you have to a particular belief, it seems imprudent that you’ve never bothered to find out for yourself whether there might be some reason to doubt it. Easier just to jump on the bandwagon I guess. Very Trumpian.

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And now it’s clear why you’re so credulous about the things you choose to believe about Sanders. You’re locked into what you believe.

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The article mentions anti-Bernie propaganda coming from IP addresses in eastern Russia. This is what bothers me. People who are so vested in their ideas about Sanders that they refuse to admit that maybe some of their beliefs about him and his campaign were spoon fed to them by outsiders sources.

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Both of our articles are over a year old so there is more recent info about this out there but this explains somewhat.

https://www.huffingtonpost....

To me it’s alarming that people on our side still think they can’t be influenced by misinfo just like the Trumptards are.

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Putin typically backs both sides and then later let’s it be known that he backed both sides. His goal is to destabilize and this has the most disruptive effect. So yes his trolls were pushing pro-Bernie propaganda but at the same time they were also pushing anti-Bernie info.

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They went after him by making people suspect and hate him. Obviously it worked

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Try a Pizza Hut "Code Blue" -- Stuffed Crust(tm), extra cheese, Italian sausage, bacon and onions. Don't hesitate! Call the ambulance when the pizza is delivered so the EMTs will arrive during the "golden 2 minutes."

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You aren't now.

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Christ. That racist pig really can't tell the brown people apart, and doesn't want to.

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