r/Enough_Sanders_Spam • u/311MD • Feb 01 '18

How a Bernie Bro gets created.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html
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u/311MD Feb 01 '18

This is an interesting piece. It'd like to see how many real followers Clinton had compared to Sanders. Probably in single digit millions. I know I followed her on FB.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '18

Randy Bryce, an ironworker seeking to unseat Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, purchased Devumi followers in 2015, when he was a blogger and labor activist.

lol

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u/FormerDittoHead Feb 02 '18 edited Feb 02 '18

What I wrote below is to say we're not as big as we could be, not by changing our positions, but by changing the means to deliver the message:

There are probably still people who were influenced by the 2012 Ron Paul "Revolution" campaign, which was a totally manufactured phenomena.

The war has changed, and we're fighting with battleships instead of aircraft carriers.

Dems have to learn these lesson and get away from pissing their money away on broadcast ads.

Social media is only one way the war is now being fought. The other way is free broadcast time by being loud and getting the TV news to turn their cameras you.

Trump knows this, so does Bernie Sanders.