The revolution
This again.
A public post by Amanda Marcotte:
Helpful “socialist” sends me friendly messages to persuade me to vote Sanders. (And probably because he friended me.) Edited to add the#NotAllSandersVoters caveat. Just not going to let these guys harass me in private, thinking no one will know what they did.
Charles W. Belser
How diod a stupid counter-revolutionary motherfucker like you get on my “friends” list? Don’t you EVER post anything on any of my pages again, you ignorant cunt.
A comment:
This is what I received from Charles W. Belser last Thu 8:48pm
“Go back to sucking Hillary’s cock, bitch and stay off my pages. What will you do when the revolutionaries come for you? Don’t worry about it–you’re just another dried-up menopausal loser. They’ll have no interest in a nothing like you.”
So that’s what people mean by “Bernie Bros.”
Wow. That’s… umm… revolutionary, all right.
(Forward to the Republic of Gilead, comrades!)
Kinda sad/funny: I’d like to think this goof is just some screwed up outlier, but then again, I used to naively assume if you were broadly anti-theocratic/vocally atheist, it was somehow more likely you might have at least a vaguely progressive and literate sexual politics…
So, y’know, trying not to assume too much, now.
I was honestly expecting, should it become Clinton vs. Trump in the general, and especially whenever the polls aren’t going their boy’s way, that said demagogue and his followers will probably set new lows in this regard (dislike losing, yes, on its own… But losing to a woman? That’s a whole new level of screeching, whiny resentment I expect you’ll hear, and see also how it’s relatively _unskilled_ male gamers who are the biggest shits to women online). But Sanders people? Like I said: guess I shouldn’t assume.
“Counter-revolutionary”, eh? Personally, I would have taken that part as a compliment…
Hillary is definitely a garbage candidate but my god these assholes.
Yep. I spent an unfortunate time at a local meetup of progressive voters recently, which was dominated by older white men saying things exactly like this. Absolutely dripping with misogyny. Bernie Sanders might be a good guy, but far too many of his followers are like this.
Jesus that is so depressing.
I dislike the Clintons, and their sense of entitlement pisses me off, but I can just say that, I don’t have to topple into verbal abuse to get the point across.
Hillarymen can be pretty awful when they want to be, too: http://usuncut.com/politics/prominent-hillary-supporter-deletes-tweet/
*Note that Peter Daou, by his own admission, was a member of a Lebanese Phalangist militia.
Am I the first to notice the avatar the asshole uses? Remember? Patty Hearst, the assassination of Foster?
That’s the Symbionese Liberation Army logo there. As useless a bunch of drunken, self-sabotaging, racist, rapist idiots as anyone could hope to find.
Perfect example of what passes for ‘progressive’ nowadays.
Ohhh. I noticed the avatar but didn’t know what it was.
Yeesh.
@ MrFancyPants:
Anecdata, but on investigation I found that a surprising number of the Bernie Bros in my networks are former Ron Paul supporters.
They’re not young, but man, do those assholes have a history.
What kind of person goes from supporting Ron Paul to Bernie Sanders?
PatrickG #10:
One suspects that they will go back to being Ron Paul supporters once the Democratic Primaries are over.
I’m wondering if this is the same Charles W. Belser who is a published author and who wrote this book:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5980740-larry-the-penguin-searches-for-the-meaning-of-life
@ Rob:
Faux-libertarians who want a “progressive” reason to be assholes to people (they’re hip! they’re transgressive! they’re better than you!). The issues come second to these people. At least, that’s my take on the ones I’ve seen in the wild, and not a claim about supporters of Bernie Sanders in general.
@ justinr:
No doubt.
Hostile to ‘counter-revolutionaries’? Could indeed be some kind of socialist.
National Socialist probably.