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jillan

(39,451 posts)
Sun May 22, 2016, 01:06 AM May 2016

BUSTED: Trump-loving comment trolls pose as Sanders and Clinton supporters to divide Democrats

Before you start going off on supporters of the opposing candidate, maybe things are not as they seem.

An Internet troll who claims to have found deep divisions among factions of the Left on Twitter laid out a plan Saturday for fellow Donald Trump supporters to exploit those fissures.

Posting on the sometimes-dubious message board 4chan, the anonymous poster wrote a post entitled, “Let’s troll Bernie and Hillary supporters systematically,” where the writer says he/she posed as a Democratic voter and trolled supporters of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in an effort to deepen divisions and help Trump secure a victory in November.

“We need to take advantage of this. This is Trump’s gift,” the 4chan troll wrote. “If we’re serious about a Trump presidency we need to start infiltrating their conversations in order to sow more divison (sic). I’m talking systematic and long-term /mischief/, not just a hew minutes trolling dumbass SJW’s. Look at the chaos and damage I was able to make yesterday, just one person, with no real rudeness in my replies. Imagine that writ large: My account is @realJohnMilIer.”

“SJW” stands for “social justice warrior.”

The Twitter account for “real John Miller” indeed seems to show activity celebrating divisions among Clinton and Sanders supporters.


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BUSTED: Trump-loving comment trolls pose as Sanders and Clinton supporters to divide Democrats (Original Post) jillan May 2016 OP
Trump's trolls would have no problem making certain post-convention "death-threat" phone calls 99th_Monkey May 2016 #1
Exactly. They saw the divisions at the convention and ran with it. jillan May 2016 #2
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
1. Trump's trolls would have no problem making certain post-convention "death-threat" phone calls
Sun May 22, 2016, 02:19 AM
May 2016

...to a certain State Democratic Chair person in NV..

This makes perfect sense, for Trump that is.

jillan

(39,451 posts)
2. Exactly. They saw the divisions at the convention and ran with it.
Sun May 22, 2016, 04:12 AM
May 2016

The truth always comes out in the end.

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