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Dissension Grows Inside Anonymous Because Of Political Propaganda (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report on Softpedia: Political tensions relating to the U.S. presidential race are creating turmoil inside the Anonymous hacker collective, muddling waters even more in a group that's known for its lack of leadership and a common goal. The most recent Anonymous infighting relates to the actions of the group's most famous news portal known as AnonHQ, who's been showing downright public support for Bernie Sanders, while being extremely busy at bashing Trump, Cruz, and more recently issuing video threats against Clinton. Ever since Anonymous' official news source has started showing public support for Sanders, many of the group's divisions have publicly disavowed it and have even gone so far as launching constant waves of DDoS attacks at what once used to be the hacker's official news portal. Last month, when a former Anonymous member decided to dox himself, he said in interviews that the group had been infiltrated by government agents.
You dont "muddle" waters, you "muddy" them. The only way to "muddle waters" is to spoil water all over the place while trying to fill your glass.
Supporting Sanders is political, no argument about that. Of the leading 4 candidates, he is the only one who has taken serious positions (though you might not agree with those positions).
Bashing Trump and Cruz isn't political. Neither of those are serious candidates and no matter what your political ideals, no matter how right or left you are, no matter how you would approach the country's problems and opportunities, those are totally horrible candidates and also just plain bad people who shouldn't be in America's government at any level. Gary Johnson and maybe Kasich are the only right(ish) wing candidates that anyone should be seriously considering voting for. Trump and Cruz supporters can't talk in public without immediately outing themselves as 1) utter fuckwits and 2) essentially non-political (i.e. no ideals of any kind, not even conservative).