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Women Banned From Tinder After Trying to Get Their Matches to Vote Bernie
New York Magazine ^ | 2/5 | Jay Hathaway

Posted on 02/05/2016 2:36:05 PM PST by nickcarraway

The internet this month feels like nothing but a great big shouting match between the Bernie Bros and the Hillary Stans, a furious, overheated debate among people who basically agree about most issues. It’s even spilled over into the world of online dating, where Tinder has started banning users who were feeling the Bern a little too enthusiastically.

Two women, who’d sent pro–Bernie Sanders messages to hundreds of men between them, told Reuters they’d had their accounts deactivated. Robyn Gedrich, 23, said she sent this campaign message to 60 men a day for two weeks: "'Do you feel the bern?' her message to other Tinder users read, parroting a Sanders campaign slogan, 'Please text WORK to 82623 for me. Thanks.'"

Sending that text message signs you up for Sanders’s campaign updates. Tinder shut Gedrich down on Thursday. She said that none of her matches ended in a date. Obviously.

Haley Lent, who is 22 and married, also wasn’t on Tinder seeking love and hookups. She told Reuters she contacted 50 to 100 people on the app, trying to convince people to vote for Sanders in their states’ primaries.

"If they said no or were on the fence, I would try to talk to them and persuade them to vote,” she said.

Lent, who lives in Iowa, even paid for Tinder Plus so she could change her location to New Hampshire, the site of the next Democratic primary and a crucial state for the Sanders campaign.

Tinder hasn’t commented, but it’s probably safe to assume the women's accounts were shut down automatically after too many people reported them as spam.

Aside from Bernie Babes acting like Bernie Bots, there’s apparently been a lot of casual Tinder chat about Sanders. There’s an entire Facebook group dedicated to “Bernie Sanders’ Dank Tinder Conversations,” featuring tons of screenshots of people asking their matches whether they’ve accepted “our lord and savior, Bernie Sanders.”

I guess you could call it a kind of “ideological purity test” for potential hookups.

There’s almost a year left in this election, during which people will saturate our every online interaction with their Strong Political Opinions. Even on Tinder! It’s important, but it’s also exhausting. I hope that, at the very least, someone is getting laid as part of the deal.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: joydivision

1 posted on 02/05/2016 2:36:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I’m so glad I’m off those stupid dating sites.


2 posted on 02/05/2016 2:37:18 PM PST by SWAMP-C1PHER (HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
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To: SWAMP-C1PHER

How long were you on?


3 posted on 02/05/2016 2:38:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

wow, pity she didn’t find a match before they gave her the boot.


4 posted on 02/05/2016 2:40:10 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: nickcarraway


5 posted on 02/05/2016 2:44:08 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Face shrapnel. Barf


6 posted on 02/05/2016 2:47:05 PM PST by enraged
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To: nascarnation

That’s attractive.


7 posted on 02/05/2016 2:48:57 PM PST by windsorknot
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Free Republic Caucus 2016 02/05

8 posted on 02/05/2016 3:22:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: nickcarraway

Feel the bern sounds like an std aftermath. Who was the genius that thought that one up?


9 posted on 02/05/2016 3:24:25 PM PST by Trillian
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To: nickcarraway

"Do you feel the Bern?"
"Why, do you have Chlamydia?"


10 posted on 02/05/2016 3:39:06 PM PST by struggle
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To: nickcarraway
Haley Lent, who is 22 and married, also wasn't on Tinder seeking love and hookups.

Riiight.

11 posted on 02/05/2016 3:57:44 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: struggle

LOL!!!!


12 posted on 02/05/2016 4:29:38 PM PST by BBell
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To: nickcarraway

Well that was the worst headline ever...


13 posted on 02/05/2016 5:01:04 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Ha!


14 posted on 02/05/2016 5:01:42 PM PST by Pelham (Mullah Barack Obama and the Jihad against America)
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To: windsorknot

to a magnet maybe.


15 posted on 02/05/2016 5:02:34 PM PST by Pelham (Mullah Barack Obama and the Jihad against America)
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To: struggle; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Lil Flower
Or gonorrhea.


16 posted on 02/05/2016 5:05:38 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
"Matches. Long matches."


17 posted on 02/05/2016 5:06:53 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: nickcarraway

I thought it was the Bernie Bros who were a problem. Who are these, the Bernie Hoes?


18 posted on 02/05/2016 5:34:14 PM PST by jocon307
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To: enraged; nascarnation

Asymmetric face shrapnel....how appealing.


19 posted on 02/05/2016 5:43:18 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: nascarnation

Why all the electrodes on her face?


20 posted on 02/05/2016 6:42:33 PM PST by Disambiguator
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