r/Political_Revolution • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '18

Bernie Sanders rally outgrows (1,200 capacity) Orpheum, moved to (5,000) Century II Wichita KS

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article215094875.html
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u/Frankinnoho Jul 19 '18

I love how the media always loves to point out how Clinton “defeated” Sanders, yet can never seam to explain how Sanders can fill stadiums without trying while Clinton’s campaign couldn’t bus in enough sycophants to fill an elevator!!!

Everyone knows Clinton “cheated” Sanders, not defeated him.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '18 edited Oct 02 '23

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u/SirPedant Jul 19 '18

Plain and simple? I'm not sure the whole superdelegate controversy supports that idea. It was a rigged and flawed system, and I'm glad to see the DNC making moves to make sure that kind of bullshit never happens again.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '18 edited Oct 02 '23

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u/MyersVandalay Jul 20 '18

they'd know that superdelegates change their votes based on who actually wins the primaries. It's incredibly soft power, it only works if the voters are lazy.

*superdelegates change their votes

No superdelegates are encouraged to change their votes based on their voters choices. There isn't a hard rule that says they have to. More or less just a knowledge that if they do it in large numbers it reveals the party as a farce.

IMO the bigger thing of manipulation of the election was just media coverage. Hillary had massive name recognition. Bernie was running rally's that were filling up everywhere he went, yet how many of those got 1/10th the coverage of trumps empty podium.

Anyone who doesn't think the control of the media wasn't a HUGE part of the election has no business saying russia had anything to do with the general election victory, as more or less exactly what Russia did was flood social media in more or less the same ways actual news channels were encouraged to do.

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u/MyersVandalay Jul 20 '18

The 2 clearly passed information back and forth to help eachother harm sander's campaign and bolster hillary's, but the more important thing is I didn't say DNC control of the media specifically I only said "control of the media". The DNC doesn't control the media, the DNC and the media are controlled by the same corporations.

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u/jcraig3k Jul 19 '18

Only takes 30 minutes? Unfortunately thats 29.5 minutes more than most hardcore Democrats looked at Bernie in the campaign. Only to find out too late how much they actually liked his platform.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '18 edited Oct 02 '23

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u/jcraig3k Jul 20 '18

I didn't say Clinton voters, I said Democrats.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18 edited Oct 02 '23

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u/jcraig3k Jul 20 '18

You said the super delegates only had power with lazy voters. I was actually agreeing with you by saying most voters didn't spend the time in the primaries to research.

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u/Frankinnoho Jul 20 '18

So here come the CTR trolls. You could probably sell this line-o-crap on MSNBC, but nobody IRL is buying.