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		danaris 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven... They did—but their purpose was 100% to lend support to the American right wing. I think it's fairly disingenuous to characterize that as "fanning the flames on both sides of the political spectrum."

marginalia_nu 5 days ago [–]

They actually simultaneously were promoting the Bernie Sanders campaign. Seems likely these candidates were chosen as the ostensibly most divisive and disruptive elements in American politics.

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