Is anyone getting crap elsewhere on the internet from Bernie supporters? I'm dying here.

[Hamlette]

I hang out on facebook a bit mostly with others who share my hobby (glass working). Crap. Bernie got cheated and I must be corrupt and hate the poor and minorities because I don't support him.

Any advice how to get them off my back?

[msongs]

1. when the world collapses around them, people lash out. a simple bless your heart oughta do it

or the ever popular thanks for sharing

[Cha]

2. Good Luck! GO BIDEN!

[randr]

3. Quit facebook?

[pnwmom]

4. The person is using FB to talk to people about his hobby. Those people are probably

scattered all over the country.

[ibegurpard]

5. Unfriend?

Or use the Facebook features to not see what those contacts say? Kind of like ignoring people on DU

[ecdab]

6. A couple of things

If they are talking to you about politics, make the discussion about a mutual desire to beat Trump. Find common ground if you can and let them see Joe in the light that you see Joe, as opposed to casting Bernie in the light that perhaps you see Bernie in.

Also, I know a lot of Bernie supports in my day to day life, every one of them is a fine person. I always keep in mind, when I'm on-line, that there really is an effort by the GOP and the Russians to magnify the voice of any Sanders supports that feel aggrieved and to sew division among us. Don't let them. If somebody is being negative ad nauseum, don't talk to them, and certainly don't jump into the pig pin with them.

[safeinOhio]

7. Here is my reply

No matter who
Vote Blue

And leave it at that. They all seem to agree. That’s my plan too.

[ihaveaquestion]

8. Assume they are Russian trolls.

Report them to FB and your group(s) moderators, then block em with an announcement to the group(s).

[TexasProgresive]

10. I'm beginning to think some BernieBro buisness is orchestrated from the Kremlin.

I am not bashing Sanders or his supporters. It is in the interest of Putin to sow discourse in the members of our party if they want to keep their puppet king in the White House. The following quote is from the book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

“Every guest in this Hall,” said Dumbledore, and his eyes lingered upon the Durmstrang students, “will be welcomed back here at any time, should they wish to come. I say to you all, once again – in the light of Lord Voldemort’s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Modified to be more specific to us.
“Every person in this party, is welcome at any time. in the light of Putin's desire to return Russia to power, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. The Kremlin's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

[treestar]

15. The Russians help create the divide by

posing as Bernie/Dump supporters and having them say obnoxious things.

[wyldwolf]

9. Years from now, sociologists will study the internet's role in toxic fandom

On Facebook, simply blocking someone will render you and that person invisible to each other.

But as someone who has a bad habit / hobby of feeding trolls, here's how I deal with them.

Find the one thing that really triggers them and keep hammering it in each reply. You can even cut and paste it. Their replies will get increasingly off topic, heated, and insulting because you won't follow them on their off-topic tangents, but don't be baited. Keep hammering that triggering reply.

You'll know the conversation is nearing the end when they start saying things like "I don't have time to sit here all day and debate."

Believe me, I catch it from not only Sanders supporters and their type, but also Depp heads, conservative comic book fans, and those who think if Italy could just put Amanda Knox on trial ONE MORE FUCKING TIME, they'd definitely find her guilty of something.

[eilen]

12. I am impressed.

I actually quit FB for Lent but I'll give that tip to my husband who's fraternity alumni group has some members who are absolute MAGATS.

[Dorian Gray]

11. Ignore...

Ignore ignore ignore ignore. Hide the worst offenders (on FB).

[BluNoMatterHu]

13. Get off Facebook

Just remove yourself from it all. I did and I’m much happier person.

[MrModerate]

14. This is why I've never found Facebook a very appealing way to communicate. n/t

[pampango]

16. Unfortunately it is a two-way street.

"Democrats fall in love; republicans fall in line." We ain't republicans.

[OnDoutside]

17. Give them this comment from The Root

This is the article

An Open Letter to White Liberals Blaming 'Low Information' Black Voters for Not Cleaning Up White Folks' Mess

https://www.theroot.com/an-open-letter-to-white-liberals-blaming-low-informatio-1842100419?utm_source=theroot_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR3ikYLfm3nR53ptMWvCtjqqY9kItcawrTHTRWuK1ZsC07HlNlNvgOM1pnI


Michael Harriot
Today 3:00PM

Dear Sir or White Man,

I’m writing this letter, lurking outside the threshold to equality, peering through the same peephole through which we watched you enjoy 401 years of unfettered, glorious freedom while black people presented themselves as a living sacrifice, offering their necks to nooses, their skulls to batons and their children’s bodies to firebombs.

A few days ago, I was informed that some of you may have a problem with black voters who actually went to voting booths and exercised their right to vote for whomever the fuck they wanted. Apparently, anyone who didn’t vote the way outraged, left-leaning white liberals wanted must have been an uninformed heathen, a moderate or, even worse, a “centrist.”

And now your fragile brittle hearts are broken into a thousand little pieces because black people have rejected the Buddha of Birkenstock-wearers during his quest for the presidency. And, by not choosing Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden supporters are somehow ruining America.

. . . much more. Really, go have a read.

And this is the comment

This piece deserves a ten minute standing ovation. I mean that Bernie interview last night was peak dude bros. Now to all you so called woke black folks ripping us “establishment low information stuck on the plantation black voters”

I have some questions: After hearing Vermont Jesus last night say “Jim Clyburn and I don’t share the same politics” why in the ever loving fuck would any black person that fought for the right to vote, live and work in this country support that crotchety old fuck?

Also why should anyone support the man that wanted to primary the first black man to hold the office he is so desperate to hold?

Oh Irony alert 50 Stents now has the fucking gall to use Barack in an ad in Florida? I mean there is shameless and then there is Lord Maple From Burlington.

Other questions, why did he not have a job prior to forty?

Why did he leave diverse Brooklyn to take his pasty flat ass to Vermont?

Where is he getting his money from?

If you dumb ass cargo short wearing, white reggae band listening fake ass revolutionaries think your $27 have helped this lazy ass grifter run for office for FOUR YEARS you are a special brand of dumbass.

Oh one other question, where the fuck are Nina Turner’s edges?

[Hamlette]

21. thank you, I needed that

biggly.

Kindly translate "Nina Turner's edges". (I know who she is and hate her about as much as Bernie.)

[OnDoutside]

26. I did see a comment about her, referring to

I’m not saying Turner isn’t allowed to sell us out and run off with her white friends to do Kumbayas while listening to Jill Stein albums with some hemp wearing granolas in the woods of Maine or some shit. She is. But when she gets her struggle edges back within Black Diaspora boundaries, what she cannot ever do again is “speak for us.”

[tishaLA]

28. Edges are the baby hairs

and hairs around the hairline that are often unruly.

[Hamlette]

22. love this line

For some black voters, the rabid toxicity of inflexible white liberals is the one thing that repels them from joining the great aluminum-free deodorant mass movement.

[beachbumbob]

18. I been getting some to and my response is to send them info on 1972 presidential elections when

the leftwing got "their candidate" and the end result of that debacle.

Last time I ever tolerated a leftwing take over of our party

[blueinredohio]

19. Get off Facebook.

[lark]

20. Unfriend them or unfollow them & put them on a list of Acquaintances.

That's what I did with the trumpers I knew in high school and my repug relatives and my stress level went down.

I have 2 Sanders fans on FB who were going crazy yesterday. Both of them originally supported Sanders in 2016 but easily switched to HRC. Yesterday there were some damn crazy posts from them about Biden hates half of Democrats and we'd never win with him. I am giving them a few days to calm down and be reasonable like they usually are, but if they insist of spreading hate for Democrats and won't stop - I will sadly unfriend them next week and hide any hate filled posts in the meantime

[zackymilly]

23. Do like I did years ago: Get off Facebook. n/t

[NCProgressive]

24. Unfriend them!

I have

[democrattotheend]

25. Nah, I'm getting more of it from Biden supporters

I see a lot more anti-Bernie stuff both here and on Twitter than I do anti-Biden stuff, TBH. On Twitter, that may be in part based on who I follow - I unfollowed some of the Bernie or Bust people after the primaries were over.

Especially when Bernie was the frontrunner but even now, I see a lot of anti-Bernie posts/tweets and a lot of people blaming him and his supporters for Hillary losing and demands that he drop out now, followed by proclamations that he won't because his ego is too big. Nevermind that more than half the people haven't voted yet.

[oasis]

27. Cenk's minions should be relentlessly trashing Trump. nt

[zackymilly]

29. Tell them to go to Amazon. They are selling Bernie shirts at 75% off. n/t

[morillon]

30. If it's a group, get the admins to set a no-politics policy

Lots of hobby-oriented groups have policies like that.

I had to block a Bernie-supporting relative the other day who totally out of the blue started posting public rants about my private posts. I wasn't posting anything particularly incendiary -- just that I had supported Warren and was switching to Biden, and that I was troubled by the fact that some Bernie supporters publicly said they voted Stein in 2016 or stayed home. Nothing defamatory, all expressed calmly and factually.

She and her friends were screaming about me in public, calling me a Russian troll, etc. Like, what? But that said, the block wasn't because I disagreed with her, but because she posted about me in public. I couldn't trust her anymore.

In some cases, I just limit the audience for political posts because I have some friends who'll come in and start running people out of the discussion. I've got one Warren-supporting friend who starts fights with my other friends on all my political posts, so I just filter them out. They can't have a civilized discussion about politics.

[Bev54]

31. Yes on another site

they have been reporting me as spam on FB. It has been annoying but it is not stopping me.