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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFounder of anti-Democrat Twitter movement pushed by Russian bots denied service at New York electron
"Conservative and Russian media outlets began amplifying Brandon Strakas #WalkAway campaign after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a pro-LGBT equality restaurant in Virginia. It gained further steam after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was mischaracterized by the right as inducing violence. The campaign was pushed by a series of sketchy Twitter accounts identified by some as bots that have worked to divide Democratic voters apart for the upcoming 2018 election by walking away from the Democratic Party.
But Straka had his own (Sarah) Sanders moment at a large Manhattan electronics store, according to The Epoch Times
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/founder-twitter-movement-pushed-russian-bots-denied-service-new-york-electronics-store/
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)The *my* religion won't let me sell anything to a neo-nazi
radius777
(3,635 posts)Their whole game is pushing alt-right extremism online and on tv etc - then think they can go back to their comfortable lives.. bullshit... they need to be exposed and held accountable for their views in the light of day.
Fascism must be disrupted, otherwise the 'trains run on time' and it becomes the norm ... like a frog slowly boiling in a pot of water.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)who refused service to Straka.
The Adorama Management Team deeply regrets the incident involving an employee in our store. Please know this is not who we are, and does not reflect the position of our owners or other staff members. This is being taken seriously and is being addressed with the highest priority.
Regardless, the clerk is a hero and Straka is the typical emo-Nazi snowflake who loves to advocate for terrible treatment of 'others' but pulls the diva act when the slightest discomfort is aimed at him:
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Will see what the store ends up doing.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)See Brandon, that's really more your personal style than what occurs to the vast majority of people. It's gotta be tough, being a professional asshole, wondering and worrying at every and any moment when someone else is going to be an asshole to you. There's a solution, but it would require some personal growth on your part, and you don't really strike me as the kind of person who learns from his experiences.
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Although, the Hasidic community has been pro trump.
Not good.
Hope the clerk is not fired. This might be a new picket line.
calimary
(81,466 posts)TELL THE MANAGER that youre giving them your business BECAUSE of the principled clerk who courageously refused to help someone who tried to take down our democracy by helping the Russians hack our last election.
Please feel free to use that language or something similar.
OR: you could say I was not going to shop here after I heard that you served that #walkaway dude who was helping the Russians hack our last election. But then I heard you had a sales clerk with principles who didnt want wo serve that collaborator. So in HIS honor, Im shopping here because he was trying to protect our democracy. Hope you dont fire him or anything. Because HE DID THE RIGHT THING.
Reinforce and reward GOOD BEHAVIOR!
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Thats the only way to deal with this kind of situation.
calimary
(81,466 posts)Itd help save his job, assuming they havent already fired him. Hopefully they havent. HES the true patriot here and they need to hear that.
Reinforce and reward GOOD behavior.
Cha
(297,655 posts)bothered to see what it was until now.
So.. a former dem is urging people to walk away from Liberalism which is the life and blood of America.. and now he was denied service in a store by an employee who didn't want to be a part of his dangerous stupidity.
I say bravo to the person who felt that strongly about our Democracy. He Walked Away from BS.
I say #walkaway from Brandon Straka who is a Gaslighting attention seeking idiot.. who wants America to walkaway from the Truth and FACTS and wander into FAKE FECKLESS STUPIDITY.
Thanks, still_one
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)No names, no pics, no proof. Bullshit story from a bullshit source.
peequod
(189 posts)Oh thats it: womp womp, Straka🖕🏼
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)it's not because of WHAT he is, as in other cases. It's because of what he DOES, his behavior.
oasis
(49,408 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)Womp womp.
DFW
(54,436 posts)He only came in third in the "Martin Shkreli lookalike/kick-my-face-in" contest.