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Even freepers don't exhibit so much Hillary-hate and cheering of Republicans ....
Warning: Some names may appear familiar to those on DU
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/fbi-director-james-comey-hearing/#post-28532
** NOTE: This was locked in GD:2016 as not having anything to do with elections. Reposted here by popular demand **
pnwmom
(109,035 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 8, 2016, 04:12 PM - Edit history (2)
Edit to add:
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)because they beg for it
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)You my dear, you insult us all.
I find it hard to believe Skinner is standing behind this
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)with a manic devotion.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 9, 2016, 08:13 PM - Edit history (1)
THIS Jackshit Delusionals post
Hekate
(91,286 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)How far back shall we go? Never mind, not worth the time or trouble.
Our name has changed a couple of times. We have been here since 2001.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)You think I'm still pals after that crap?
I notice there's a bunch of folks who have not returned to DU because they didn't want to sign the new TOS. Guess DU doesn't suit them any longer. Guess they are now in the warm embrace of fellow thinkers. It's okay. It's a big, big internet.
Meanwhile, I went downtown yesterday evening to sign up for the local Hillary for President committee, and it was well-attended.
I'm with Her.
JURY: I am not bashing members. Note they have removed themselves.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)at a woman. I know, my ex used it all the time. I don't stand for it, I do not condone it.
While you did your deal, we dealt with living in Dallas and the hell that started last night.
Peace, dear.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)I've had the grandkid here for several days, and have assiduously kept the tv off most of the time. But I've seen and heard enough this week to break my heart.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are perfectly safe, Hekate, and know as much as everyone else watching on TV does. I totally agree with your wishing people who behave like that well on a forum that suits their temperaments.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)And yet you exposed so much.
Tsk tsk.
BlueMTexpat
(15,381 posts)And thanks for signing up to support the next President of the US!
And I agree with you 100% about the use of any of those words towards any woman and especially towards the Dem nominee!
George II
(67,782 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)That is what is so very sad
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)JPR wasn't started by leftists. It was started by people booted out of the AA group for being racist. Then kicked off DU for right wing trolling.
Tighten your game.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)-Posters at both sites say she is a lesbian, not there's anything wrong with that.
-Posters at both sites make fun of her looks.
-Posters at both sites use sexist and misogynistic image to describe her.
-Posters at both sites suggest she is a criminal.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 9, 2016, 08:10 PM - Edit history (2)
well, I'll let you read it.
pnwmom
(109,035 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)BainsBane
(53,142 posts)and got banned as a result.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)about the sexist language there. She's a feminist trying to explain why their degrading language is offensive .
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)above all, responsible citizens from barn-burners and clueless conspiracists. Nevertheless, imo coarse and insulting language is the least of what is expressed there.
And, no, it's not Freepers 2 because, although no doubt some conservatives are there, mostly especially extremist tea-partier types, this is predominately a LEFT-wing radical site. Large numbers are/have become anti-Democrat leftists with extremist traits.
I can drop in now for bemusement and amusement, but that's only because their numbers are so relatively small. I also drop in to see what they're up to and if I need to start worrying. God forbid they ever successfully allied with their ideological cousins on the far right with whom they have so much in common.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Another one of her posts clarifies her position:
In this thread:
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/this-has-probably-already-been-addressed/#post-33155
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"15. No. I do not use words that are meant to degrade and demean
a class of people based on their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender. Thus, I will not be calling Hillary or any woman cunt or bitch (as I have seen used on this board and given a pass) and I am uncomfortable being a member on a discussion board that believes sexists slurs are A-OK."
That, in my opinion is uncivilized.
But you are right. I wont be worrying about the limits to your policy because I will not be participating here anymore. I dont want to be part of a community that demeans and denigrates women with misogynist language.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)I admire her even more now, for having been a lone voice in that wilderness.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)I didn't like it at all.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)who actually does mean to use that word. Because they are certainly there.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)They really are going to create a Free Republic 2.0. I've disagreed very much with Luminous Animal in the past (and I am certain she has a low opinion of me), but holy shit. Getting rid of the smart people = making a site for idiots.
stonecutter357
(12,701 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)that would explain some things.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Like how creepy and personal some of those folks were when they were here. Not liberal at all. Much more like right wing trolls. Bullying posters here with their overly personal posts. Continually bleating their 'more progressive than thou' song and dance act. Most with common sense here knew they were right wingers masquerading as liberals. A hint to me was how they treated civil rights - like it doesn't or shouldn't exist.
Here's a definition of 'keylogger' that I found via google. "A keylogger is a type of surveillance software (considered to be either software or spyware) that has the capability to record every keystroke you make to a log file, usually encrypted. A keylogger recorder can record instant messages, e-mail, and any information you type at any time using your keyboard. The log file created by the keylogger can then be sent to a specified receiver. Some keylogger programs will also record any e-mail addresses you use and Web site URLsyou visit. Keyloggers, as a surveillance tool, are often used by employers to ensure employees use work computers for business purposes only. Unfortunately, keyloggers can also be embedded in spyware allowing your information to be transmitted to an unknown third party."
I'm not surprised they use key logging over there. Grotesque. I'm not sure what's more sad there: the right wing trolls who started the site, or the peeps who are so oblivious they still haven't figured it out.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Or merely click on it for its evil to work?
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I just googled the term.
Hopefully someone who knows more about it will reply.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I don't know the answer.
Hopefully someone who knows more will comment.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Go have a look. See what you find. It's a hell of a lot different from JPR.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)no. Actually Jackass Delusionals make Freepers look rather witty, educated and well-bred.
Response to Maru Kitteh (Reply #10)
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Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)a bunch of knuckle-dragging, hypocritical cheeto-eaters Freepers are. Not very complimentary to the Jackass Delusionals, I'll give you that. But the Jackass Delusionals made their own stinky bed, and now they lie in it.
Here they are supporting Trump. REALLY PROGRESSIVE.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)as if immersion in these views has washed many of these people right around the bend. The notion that Hillary is a right-wing fascist bent on turning Americans into peasants is "out there" even for JPR, but not uncommon. The dominant attitude there is that she is and always has been conservative and serves the very wealthy, one of her most successful methods of wealth transfer being war and mass murder in other nations.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Response to stevenleser (Reply #148)
Maru Kitteh This message was self-deleted by its author.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)The forum and threads on the Clinton e-mail are very amusing and are on par with the discussions of these topics on FR. The two lawsuits being followed by or participated in by the JPR people are hilarious. Exit polls are not a good basis to sue and the group who filed that lawsuit were laughed out of federal court in a related lawsuit. As to the lawsuit against the DNC, the concept that people who never gave money to the DNC have standing to sue the DNC as consumers under the District of Columbia version of the Deceptive Trade Practices act are so bad that they appear to designed to be jokes. The DNC lawsuit was discussed on DK and some of the comments about the lawyers who filed that lawsuit were both accurate and amusing
I really loved the thread attacking the analysis of a real lawyer on the mens rea issue that the fact that the JPR posters were sending their views to a real lawyer who was on law review and who clerked for a federal circuit court. I would love to see the response of the author of the article to these comments.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)They are not allowing anyone to trash other forums or members from other forums. In other words, no matter how nasty people are here toward them, they cannot respond in kind.
Too bad that rule doesn't apply here.
And if that thread was supposed to be a comparison to FR, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't agree with some of the things I read over there, but then I don't agree with some of what I read here either. Seems there is no place for someone like me.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)though I am quite sure, it burns them so.
No quarter for sites that promote Trump, trash Democrats and praise Republicans like Gowdy - let alone the praise for killing cops that popped up today.
That kind of filth deserves what it gets.
Response to Maru Kitteh (Reply #117)
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Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)PERFECT.
Kingofalldems
(38,555 posts)What the hell else do you need to know?
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)And while he may be backed by a lot of republican voters, I would not say he is backed by the party. I think a lot of them are madly scrambling to find a way to get him off their ticket.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)maybe he's "not that bad."
His supporters seem to understand quite well that he's a racist piece of shit. They love it. I'm thinking it's not really everyone, but rather you that's been played.
rockfordfile
(8,715 posts)BainsBane
(53,142 posts)and he just raised $50 million from Republican donors. That stunt in congress this week about Clinton was designed to put Trump in the White House. While there is dissent in the party, they are backing him because he is their nominee.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)So much of JPR was filled long threads all about DU, and every subject was turned to trashing of DU, that the owner had to essentially ban trashing of DU to save the site.
DU3 hatred had tied with Hillary hate dominant emotion there until it was oppressed out of existence.
Hillary hatred is the dominant emotion there.
Democratic Party opposition is the third.
Way down the list is everything else. Bernie's forum gets less than half the activity the Hillary forum does, although the tone is infinitely nicer and more hopeful (they still think he can be president, and he has such a "sweet face" etc.) Progressive issues get remarkably little attention for themselves--they're mostly just emotional vehicles to ride into battle with the Democratic Party.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)expose that site for the worthless vomit volcano that it is.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)on their free speech. It's kind of hilarious.
Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)I'm not entirely sure I place much faith in what you claim to be censorship when it comes to anything else...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027991329#post319
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Democrats, on Democratic Underground calling someone out for attempting to shut down discussion of a misogynistic, Trump enabling, anti-Democratic bullshit website is
JUST LIKE a site that bans people for even suggesting they will vote for the Democratic nominee
But then holds this policy
Whilst claiming to be "progressive"
Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)It's just I was talking about censorship and the strange way the poster I was replying to defines it. You've come along and posted something weird.
Just for the record, I'd have to be Blind Freddy to have not noticed that you hate Jackpine Radicals and all who post there with the fury of a thousand burning suns. I post there, and don't find it to be what you insist it is unless I want to try judging everyone by the posts of a few individuals. And if i did that, then I'd have to judge DU by the posts of a few individuals. So instead of that, I'm going to continue to post at Jackpine Radicals and I'll leave only if I find that it's a site full of RW types. Both sites unfortunately have a few of them, but the vast majority of people aren't like that...
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)RiverHawk
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)behind anonymity to reveal, but it arose as, and is, a satellite to DU itself, a home for people who wanted to express resentment against DU and posts on DU that couldn't be expressed there.
What I read on JPR is above all amusing and entertaining, at least I choose it to be, because at the other end of the spectrum what it reveals also ranges from pathetic to horrifying. And even tragic because, from what I've read about the development of extremism and conspiracism, some of those members who have become badly unhitched from reality may not have always been so irrational.
Fwiw, I do know that JPR is dominated by the radical left, not conservatives, although in all likelihood some tea-party types have found a home there also, given the strong personality similarities between those on the far left and far right.
George II
(67,782 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)mods only shut it down because they realized how bad it made their site look. It was like Fox shutting down the comments on the story about Malia getting into Harvard.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)They're so hush-hush stealthy-like!!!!
tblue37
(65,661 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 9, 2016, 01:26 PM - Edit history (1)
It would be like pointing to Stalin's excesses and not to Hitler's.
synergie
(1,901 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)YabaDabaNoDINONo (51 posts)
July 8, 2016 at 9:59 am
Profile photo of YabaDabaNoDINONo
Sorry but I just don't give a flying f
about dead cops at all, period.
I would not even care if 1000 cops were killed in a single night.
Should people be shooting cops, generally no, but the cops in America stopped acting like cops a long time ago and choose to be thugs with badges instead, so when they end up dead, I do not give a shit.
Perhaps I am the only one who feels this way, perhaps not.
jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/sorry-but-i-just-dont-give-a-flying-f/
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Hope Agent Mike pays attention
Fla Dem
(24,003 posts)That's a big difference.
SCantiGOP
(13,881 posts)I am so glad they are gone from here. Several of them were a constant presence here disrupting civil discourse.
And now they are worse, freed from the restrictions that would have had them
Deleted and Banned here.
Let them wallow in their spite and irrelevance.
Fla Dem
(24,003 posts)who I respected. Who showed wisdom, humor, and civility and now have revealed an ugly side of themselves. I'm saddened. I thought we as Democrats, Progressives. Liberals were better than that.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Left-wing extremists generally feel contempt for liberals and particularly for the Democratic Party tha that for most exceeds their negative feelings toward conservatives adn the Republican Party. Some may have have started out as liberals and become more extremist over time, but they are not the same.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Those cops were just doing their job.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Freepers are not so obsessed with one issue -- defeating Hillary at any cost. They do have other interests such as 2nd amendment, anti-choice etc.
Freepers frequently dissent and such dissent is tolerated in the conservative echo chamber.
On the other hand, JPR has only one purpose -- hatred for Hillary with no dissent allowed.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Are you sure that you're not accidentally lookign at a DU'er-created "satire" site, jackass radicals? You know, the one with the antisemtic avatars glued to "parodies" of Jewish DU members' names?
Response to Scootaloo (Reply #23)
MohRokTah This message was self-deleted by its author.
You have to be joking.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)no longer defend the use of his good name against the FIDIOTS that now reside there.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)Apparently you did not know JPR...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/~Jackpine%20Radical
Get back to me with reality.
Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)And unlike the people using his name on that website, he rejected the idea of Bernie pulling a Nader.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Over and over and over. Self awareness is a good thing. So is thick skin.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)We both know, I'm insulting a website hosting some of the most ridiculous fidiots on the internet. It may hurt their fee fees. Not my problem.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)to move past. Weeks on, and here we still are. So helpful for the coming together. Not.
synergie
(1,901 posts)in the nastiest ways possible and which unabashedly promote Republicans, sadly done cannot seem to let go of the bitterness and hate that the primary season fomented.
Defending such filth really does not facilitate the coming together.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)See ya,
Love and peace,
RiverHawk.
synergie
(1,901 posts)to be in conflict with what is celebrated there. The site being discussed is the mudogynistic one, that harbors some rank racism as seen in the content and texts of the posts themselves. The parade site you speak of does not boast the hate found at the site it parodies. JPR embodies the hate it is being accused of, it is rather toxic to many groups, perhaps you should read a bit more of it so that you can see more clearly just what it is that is celebrated there.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)with no dissent allowed.
Please try to be realistic in your comparison. It's not FR you should be comparing anyone with.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)for a whole year. That included posting of articles from worldnutdaily, faux news and others.
Under site's purpose and TOS, now that she is the nominee, unfair attacks on her were prohibited. However, criticism to make Hillary a better candidate is still allowed.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)It's not DU. they have a right to dis Hillary if they want to. They are not a Hillary support group.
And yes some people go to extremes there about how awful they think Hillary is. Why does that bother you? Some people go to extremes here about how wonderful she is. You have this forum to get all the Hillary support and love you want. Why can't there be an honest and open forum for people who don't like Hillary?
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)We are all here to support Hillary in every way to get her into the WH. The people on that site are extremely anti-Hillary. In fact, hating Hillary seems to be the exclusive purpose of the site, since OPs about Bernie get little response, yet OPs expressing Hillary hate are barraged.
Just as we would discuss Republican opposition or Free Republic, as often happens on DU, it is appropriate to discuss a Hillary hate site, especially one with so many former members of DU who just went through the primary season here in contentious opposition to our presumptive nominee.
LonePirate
(13,473 posts)All of the most commented on recent threads there are anti-Hillary posts. Not the pro-Bernie threads. Not the threads that pertain to anything in Bernie's agenda wish list. Think about that foe a second. Threads there about almost everything besides Hillary hatred are met with crickets. That tells even casual observers what truly motivates the people posting there. It certainly is not anything positive.
I do have to laugh at a post a few above yours saying that people cannot speak ill of Hillary here. That is a complete falsehood. People are free to offer constructive criticism of Hillary here at DU. People can also praise Bernie all they want here. However at that other place, if you offer constructive criticism of Bernie or if you praise Hillary, you are subject to a ban. The two sites are polar opposites in that regard.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That site is dominated by an anti-Democrat, anti-Hillary derangement that warps most viewpoints.
I will add that Jackpines is actually one of a number of "satellite" sites that have discussing Democratic Underground itself as either their main reason for being, or a strong factor that helps keep them going.
Until speaking of DU was banned at that site, threads and posts trashing DU competed for dominance with nasty and paranoid comments about HRC.
Now that speaking of DU is banned there and trashing Hillary is banned here, JPR may seem almost entirely energized by antagonism to her and the party, but the anti-DU passion and purpose for being are still extremely strong.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)Democratwho view progressives as 'the opposition'. We aren't the opposition, but you consider us your enemies. Your statement is no more helpful now than when Rahim called us 'retards'.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I will never forgive him for calling us that.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)Someone progressives hate, yes. But he is a darling of the Obama and Clinton administrations. And there were plenty of DUers back in 2010 defending Rahim and calling universal healthcare supporters idiots. I lived through all the abuse so don't tell me Democrats are united against Rahim. He is someone we are probably not even allowed to criticize on DU anymore given that he is nominally a Democrat.
Rex
(65,616 posts)a hide for saying it, but Rahm is garbage and proved it many times over.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)against him on this site also
Squinch
(51,127 posts)candidate ARE the opposition.
JPR is by no means a Progressive site.
Their "purity" has sent them right around the bend to where their behavior is indistinguishable from that of tea baggers: vote for Trump, refuse to vote for the Democrat, believe every asinine conspiracy theory that comes along, behave in the most racist and sexist way possible and act as if that is a funny thing and not a big deal, work for the detriment of the Democratic party.
I see now that their new meme over there is that they want to "Trash her Legacy."
If that isn't the opposition, I don't know what is.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)+1
Squinch
(51,127 posts)a site that does nothing but denigrate the Democratic candidate, and that now has a meme floating around of "We must tarnish her legacy," how do those people NOT consider themselves part of the opposition?
The disconnect is amazing!
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)I never said "progressives are voting for Trump." Please find and quote before making shit up.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)I don't consider the extremists on that site progressive in any way. If you support Trump, you are not a progressive. If you don't support Trump, then you are not my enemy.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)No one has advocated for Trump. But since we have not fallen inline behind whatever today's purity test is, we are voting for Trump in your mind. Um, OK. You do know this type of vilification is the weakest form of argument, right? It's insulting.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)their intentions to vote for Trump. I will not link them here because I'm not giving these people a bigger platform than the tiny one they have there, but you can look for yourself.
No one on DU has advocated for Trump because it's against the TOS and they'd be banned. But at that site, they have. That's who I was talking about, that's what this thread is about.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)I've been on that site and it is not a pro-Trump site. But keep repeating it. That will make it true.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)That requires a completely upside down definition of a progressive.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)Again , this is why I am so sick of the seige mentality here. It is so offensive to democracy. Just because someone doesn't agree with you 100%, YOU say they are advocating a vote for Trump. This accusation is 100% false and 100% offensive.
What is this, the Menshevik purge?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)DU has been founded and maintained to support democratic candidates and democratic causes.
Hillary Clinton is the democratic nominee and thus, the goal of this site is to get her elected.
Yes, I personally like this site because it is 100% for getting Hillary elected. Not 99.99% but 100%. I don't agree with Hillary's positions 100% but do NOT let that confuse you with my 100% effort to get her elected.
This is not a site designed to sow discord, instill fear or propagate doubt about the democratic nominee. It is ok if you don't agree with a candidate 100%. No one does except with a candidate that you see in the mirror.
As you already know, some people may not find it "fun" and perhaps we don't have an "independent thought." But them's the rules. If by "fun" one means hatred for Hillary, Trump-humping or promoting Jill Stein, one may have already found a new home!
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)Or the word vote? Or the word election? How and why are you making such leaps of logic?
Typical bullshit in which anyone who disagrees with anything you believe must be your enemy and must be advocating for votes for Trump. This is why DU is no fun anymore: people like yourself who attempt to demonize and ostracize anyone who dares to have a .01% of independent thought, despite the fact that that thought has 0.00% to do with advocating for Trump. You do know who requires such hive mind thinking, don't you? Study history. You are not aligning yourself with the forces of progressivism to require such 100% agreement with your beliefs at all times.
This is rude and demonizing and, what's more it is incorrect. Thank you however for your insults.
pnwmom
(109,035 posts)That's where they show their real stripes.
They pretend to like Bernie, but when he endorses Hillary they are prepared to smear him, too.
Fla Dem
(24,003 posts)here. But many for sure have found a new home at JPR where they can spew all the hate they want without fear of their comments being moderated, and in fact they are exalted.
Spazito
(50,786 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Fla Dem
(24,003 posts)See that's the difference. There was never any attempt here at DU to have a forum DEDICATED to hate mongering against ANY DEMOCRAT.
Even in the protected groups, there was a mostly successful effort by Mods and Juries to keep hate posts, and posts demeaning either Bernie or Hillary off the boards.
JPR promotes hate speech, misogyny, sexism and ugliness.
The original JPR was a ardent Bernie supporter. But not sure he would be proud of what's being done in his name.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)Go back into the archives and read a little.
Anything said recently here is fluff.
Then come back to me
Oh and just count the unavailable posts that where really dissenting.
Curious.
I am just amazed at the about face at this site.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and fact-based and presented without overt hostility. We have one person who starts OPs against HRC a few times every day, but he's careful to keep it to what are considered legitimate issues and statements by mainstream media, which of course can be counted on to provide lots of unfriendly material.
Where anti-HRC posters go wrong is when they love the lies too much to discipline themselves against posting them here. Or, of course, are too far down the rabbit hole to realize they are lies. Lots of those drawn to political forums.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)stopbush
(24,405 posts)not love for her.
And, yes, dissent from said support is not tolerated after the end of the primary season.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Don't know what your point is. It doesn't change a thing about what I said or the purpose of the other group...who has a right to be whatever they want to be.
Why bring them up here to bash them? What are you all afraid of?
stopbush
(24,405 posts)Please stop.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)How about please stop bashing another forum that has nothing to do with DU except that it is an offshoot of people who are not pro Hillary. And we can't have that, now can we? Even if they take if offsite?
I think it's pretty silly to make an issue of it here, especially after some of the things said at Hillary offshoot forums about other members here.
stopbush
(24,405 posts)Like you're not welcome at DU unless you express a love for Hillary, or that DUers are somehow "afraid of free speech" because they call out the hatred and paranoia expressed at Jackass Idiots for what it is.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)sheshe2
(84,224 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)on this discussion board. It's so WEIRD that someone on Democratic Underground would defend a website full of Trump supporters, misogynists and anti-Democratic malcontents.
Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)Because if 'please stop' is it, it's not censorship but expressing an opinion. Same as the post they were replying to which also said 'please stop'
For the record, I'm a member here and at Jackpine radicals. Both sites contain posts from individuals that I strongly disagree with, and in some cases when it comes to bigotry I find appalling. But I'd hate to think that I'm being lumped in some group called 'them' and just because I post at both sites I'm being judged on what anyone else says. Also, the OPs incredibly clumsy claim about free republic? I wouldn't last 5 seconds there or any other right wing forum and with the exception of discussionist haven't tried posting at right wing forums in the past few years.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Just make it all about Clintons and conspiracies.
Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)I was kind of hoping for a reply that had something to do with what I posted. Oh, well...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)right wing. However, you have to admit there is a great deal of similarity between postings at the two sites on certain subjects of shared enmity. And for some posters there are also some shared goals, if for different reasons.
Such as the many posts at JPR on the desirability of defeating Democratic candidates in 2016 and oversetting the Democratic Party, which is seen as the primary enemy on both forums.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)My last two hides came within twenty minutes of one another, attacking the indictment fluffers.
I have as much in common with Piners as I do with Freepers: nothing...
George II
(67,782 posts)....that the administrators had to change the rules about which forums' posts make their way to the "Trending Now" section.
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)Lolololol
they have purged 3/4 of their base
try posting ANY event truthful critique of Shitgibbon over there.
They are a galaxy beyond JPR when it comes to scumfuckery. I don't know what the obsession with so many on this board is with JPR.
It's not healthy and appears to be an "all leftists MUST submit and bow down" group herding vibe. It's mental.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)over pro-life positions, gun control etc. They are not purged.
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)That site makes me wish for bad things to happen to those fuckers, and that's not healthy nor moral for me. It's the epitome of all that's bad about America. A pack of racist, sexist, homophobic, violent troglodytic goons who are too cowardly to just admit they are full on Klanners. Trump exposes them for the frauds they are. He is so not a traditional conservative in the way they always have historically ranted about. He is a bigot, a bullshit bully and a racist, and THAT is their true core belief set. They set aside most of their professed issues just to jump on the klanwagon.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)They are required to pretend Bernie will be the nominee, unless they preface it by saying the DNC stole the nomination for Clinton.
To claim that is more free that what is permitted on DU is absurd. Both have a clear bias, but the TOS of DU is at least reality-based.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)until I read Jackass Laughingstocks.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)for the simple reason that the JPR people call themselves liberals (sorry, "progressives," but I prefer the term liberal).
There's absolutely no way to justify voting for Trump if you're a liberal/progressive. None. Not "strategically" or any other way. Please don't claim that nobody there has said they'd vote for Trump; we've seen that toxic sludge.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Hortensis
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that claim. Liberal is a personality type before it is a political orientation, and the more extreme people on the left become the less they are like liberals. Call them radicals perhaps.
They gave radicalism a bad name and now avoid that label, but that is what most of them are: The radical left. The anti-Democrat left. The far left. The extreme left.
One can understand why they're looking for a less generic, more descriptive name they can rally behind, but I don't want them sullying "progressive" either, which they are well on the way to doing.
Liberalism and progressivism are important ideologies that we need to protect from those who would bring them down.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I hate that they've hijacked both terms, liberal and progressive. Come to think of it, the right wing has done the same thing.
Jemmons
(711 posts)Lakoff have sketched out a set of progressive values, but that is different.
Im curious as to what that makes them radicals or extremists to your mind.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)whether a person is liberal or conservative, the 2 main types definitively identified last time I read about it, can often be surmised by viewing the brain on CT scan. Liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain more. They also process information in different orders/"directions."
Enjoy checking this out. Lots of fascinating findings, with more, and more complex understandings, layers upon layers, developing all the time. Peoples in more challenging climates tend to have evolved somewhat more conservative, with notably large numbers of those in hotter climates, something that can be verified by looking at any political world map. (I've always been a big geography fan and enjoy its immense influence being rediscovered in multiple disciplines after a long period of eclipse.)
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)touch with reality.
And, frankly, the use of the "c" word to describe women on JPR ranks it on par with CC.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I was over there for the first week, then drifted away. I got the feeling that many of them wouldn't vote for Hillary if she were the nominee.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)malaise
(269,713 posts)Maru Kitteh
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Cary
(11,746 posts)Looking at the posts cited in this thread, FreeRepubloc is pro-Trump and so is this Jackpineradicals crew. FR hates HRC and so does JPR.
Both sites are great examples of how bathing human brains in hate degrades cognition.
I see no difference. Fortunately both groups are marginal, fringe lunatics.
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niyad
(114,324 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)So hard to discern why.
Dr. Strange
(25,933 posts)But they do have a cooking forum!
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)and they approve.
Dr. Strange
(25,933 posts)Damn, that's fucked.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)The thread was locked, but there was a surprising amount of agreement.
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/sorry-but-i-just-dont-give-a-flying-f/
There was also a heartening amount of disagreement. The posters there are not a monolith, although some of the most vitriolic are also the most prolific. Those names will be familiar.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)So, it really does NOT support what you are saying.
You are just looking for an excuse to hate those liberals who disagree with you.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Did you actually read the thread? There was both agreement and disagreement, just as I said in my post.
I don't hate anyone. But people who support Trump are my enemy, and the enemy to democracy.
lapucelle
(18,438 posts)niyad
(114,324 posts)lapucelle
(18,438 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)It is highly likely to taste awful
Squinch
(51,127 posts)They actually run people off who object to the use of sexist language!
Its the birthplace of the neo-teabagger.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Is because Hillary is a woman, correct?
I reckon they might not like PBO either.
So they down with the n word too?
Squinch
(51,127 posts)I suspect the ones who have gone over there were on the losing end of that argument. It seems as if their reasoning is, "libertee," and "they say it all the time in England!"
Also because they hate Hillary, and like to impotently gnash their teeth over her, using really really objectionable terms about her.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of expression
No rules, no regulations,
Am curious though, if, by chance, one of their members would object to sexist language what would happen?
And on the extreme off chance that one of their members said a kind word about HRC, what would happen?
Back to tyranny& censorship I would guess
Hypocrites
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)they are accused openly of being secret Hillary lovers and more or less hounded off the site. So it wouldn't even take a "kind word", just an intimation that a whackjob Republican pathological narcissist could possibly be as bad as Satan Herself.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)that BS lost the primary. No kidding. Still. This is explicitly stated by their moderators.
I think there is no fear of kind words about Hillary. And if any poster says something that doesn't toe their line, they are swarmed and told that they are espousing censorship (which ironically they seem to think is a great sin), and often invited to leave.
I do look in there from time to time. It's fascinating, in a car wreck sort of way. It makes me think of Somalia.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)And not nearly as many members as DU...And you expect them to be as fully developed as DU?
Yes they've been around for awhile, but they are still a very small group compared to DU. Until you have the members to sustain special groups, they probably won't be formed.
Seems to me some people here are entirely too wrapped up in what is happening on another forum. A group that was started as a support group for Bernie and his supporters, because he was being bashed so liberally here. And still is. And now that Hillary has won the presumed nomination...what do you have to fear of another forum that does not support her?
Are you really that afraid of people who don't like Hillary? Why does everyone have to like Hillary?
Isn't that a bit paranoid?
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Otherwise they'd just ignore it.
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)We'll have to agree to disagree. Have a great evening.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)I don't always ignore them either. Both are working to defeat the Democratic nominee in mostly futile ways. Sometimes it's entertaining, sometimes there's more of a "can you believe that crap!" element to it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)element to it.
There are some fairly sensible people at JPR, who just dislike the dems and whomever too much to fit well at Democratic Underground, trying to make it a valid political discussion site. But they are overwhelmed by the numbers of those who share their feelings to the Nth degree and have no boundaries to their negativism, profound dishonesty, and willingness to abandon all principles for the "revolution" or whatever sparks their enthusiasm.
And, I'll add, in some cases no boundaries to their ignorance, astonishing displays of which are constantly being posted. Bernie enthusiasts usually who apparently never, ever google for information, just soak up vibes from the revolution.
I'd feel more sympathy for the more sensible ones if I didn't know that they are running with these people because they have more in common with them ideologically and temperamentally than they do with liberals. The lying down with dogs and knowing people by their friends things.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)-The Man who is no longer to be trusted.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Constant confirmation of suspicions going in, plus just plain terminal aversion therapy from pulling up information they don't want to find.
niyad
(114,324 posts)no women's rights or feminist groups. nothing more.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)give them time! Someone asked me if I wanted to start an Asian group, told them it was a waste of space, because the one that is here, is mostly me posting to myself, with little response. It would make less sense there since its new.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)post there, but its mostly me. The group hardly gets a look at all.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Just an interest in Civil Rights.
yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)just not the person to start such a group.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)my point was ... if Civil Rights was a priority for the message board members, someone would, or would have, started a group.
yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)I am sure it will probably happen, how long did it take for DU to get their group? How about I suggest it?
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Of course being a religious minority makes one sensitive to these issues also
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)DU was comprised of 85% BS supporters throughout the primaries, which meant that 85% of the jury pool were Bernie supporters. Anti-Bernie posts were alerted and hidden, while anti-HRC posts were left to stand regardless of how utterly vile they were.
So let's stop with the pretense that Bernie and his supporters were the ones being bashed. We all know what went on here; we all lived with it for a year.
If you want "fear" and "paranoia", JPR is the appropriate site. Posters there are constantly railing about how the entire country will be devastated by an HRC presidency, and are convinced that everyone who doesn't support Bernie is part of a vast conspiracy that stole the election for Hillary.
Andy823
(11,496 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)85% ? Doubtful. There were many Sanders supporters just as there were many Clinton supporters. What I saw repeatedly were posters claiming that the other camp got all the breaks, that the juries were stacked against them, etc.
Neither of us has access to the data on alerts and jury outcomes. Admin has the raw data but I doubt that they have either the inclination or tools to analyze it.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)links. Just not that interested nor am I good at searching and spend way too much time.
Skinners says 85% and changed the rules because HRC posters were getting hides over nothing.
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)I don't remember in what context it came up - I think it might have been in response to a question in Ask the Admins.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Maru Kitteh
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GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)We are making fun of them and calling them out as Trump supporters.
And it justifies the suspicion that many here had that some members here were not really liberals but socialist, who are very capable of and often are racist and/or misogyist. JPR proves that many of our 'former' members hid their real beliefs while here.
It is pretty much to the point that if you admit you will vote for Clinton over Trump or Stein you are run off.
I politely suggest you rethink defending them.
Have a nice evening.
glowing
(12,233 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)If I have stated something untrue I will retract my statement. But there is no doubt they now support trump.
And Cali is being run off for supporting Clinton over Trump.
And there is no limit to the sexist misogynist comments.
And the refer to the president with the same terms you see on FR.
So tell me. Where am I incorrect?
glowing
(12,233 posts)And I'm saying this in a manner that I hope will be looked at as discussion and not a means to try and alert on my post:
My general sense of the site, which is very similar in many ways to DU, pre-2016 primary. Yeah, there may be a few assholes who want to swear and use potty mouth (almost in a flagrant FU to DU, even though most probably don't bother to use those words anyway, and some are just trolls in an on-line world)... So, don't click on those threads, they don't interest me.
I think, for many, they are overly progressive. They, we are the one's who were actively marching against the Iraq War because we knew it was all lies and bullshit. Many were fighting against the trade deals before they were shoved down America's throat. What I see, in particular, is a struggle for the heart of what is a "Democrat"? Corporate triangulation or progressive people's party... That is a real struggle and we see it on the committee votes on platform alone... The other MAJOR issue I see as an issue no one can escape from, is climate change. The fact that the USA isn't leading on this like we are racing to the moon is a disaster world wide over. We are nearly past the tipping point now. We need to policy and change
NOW. "Fracking" should be a 4-letter word for anyone who is liberal or progressive.
For me personally, I see a whole picture of interconnected issues that are emerging at a head all at once... And now is the time we can address those issues. I quite frankly don't give a rats ass who it is that takes this all on, and quite honestly, it's congress that actually writes laws and passes budgets, so push for a progressive legislative branch, and send the bills to Clinton's desk for all I care.
Ok, so what is emerging all at once is an environmental disaster on a world wide stage, a change in human need for manual labor to machine, computer, and robots doing the work, and a world that for better or worse has been forced into "globalization" at the same time that "capitlaism" is essentially "dead" (otherwise it wouldn't have to be propped up by govt tax monies every 10'yrs or so- we are a out to hit a recession from stagnation mainly because "main st"/ 99% never emerged out of the last recession in a manner that can keep a "consumer economy" flush with real labor money).
It's really time to be addressing on a global scale how to really deal with climate change effects and begin to do the work. (We can't frack our way into a future, the methane release is worse than burning coal powered plants). And we need a model of "living". What is a "good" life that allows everyone a decency to fundamentals of living a healthy, happy life? And as the "work labor" can decrease, what can we do with our "free time" to make our life experiences even more fulfilling? We need a new economic model that values wealth in an entirely different manner.
And who will lead? Even Bernie, as much as I love him, was only speaking to FDR terms of labor, work, value... And that's still very much based on a capitalistic model and supply/ demand economy that is unsustainable for our future on this planet. As it is now, I can have hope, but pessimism is beginning to weigh on me...
And I think, the deal with Bernie is that it was almost (or as some see it "stolen" , regardless, reality of the human mindset sees that the two presidential candidates are Trump and Clinton. And many of us can't hang on much longer piecemealing together an existence of barely squeezing by. It's really been quite awful for many people since the 2000's after the dot com crash. And now add on top of that the automation production wiping out even the cheap Chinese labor, and we are going to enter an extremely volatile environmental crisis with many people living already in "dire extremes" from the global economy and endless wars in the ME.
So, people react differently to the stress. People want to be critical. People want to be heard. And they need and outlet to do so... The tone will translation after the convention... Just give people time to adjust their "fight strategy" because progressive's are normally fighting against the machine; and we almost toppled that machine over... So, let people find their footing in a new political reality and how they keep that idea of "revolution" continuing in a way that brings about positive, meaningful changes that help everyone.
i think some of the blowback backwards and picking on another discussion board has a bit to do with people not falling in line. As they always say, it's nearly impossible to heard cats... And that's why we aren't Republicans.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And nowhere do you deny you or many on JPR are voting for Trump. Just a huge word salad.
Have a nice evening.
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GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)To converse with people who support the Democratic Party and their candidates.
Since you obviously do not I am surprised you are still here. And it is obvious that few members at your new favorite site will vote for Clinton.
And you are correct, I have no interest in you thoughts or feelings.
However, keep one thing in mind. Since you will not vote for Hillary and participate in a site that routinely denigrates her in the most crude manner, you now have much more in common with the members of FR than you do with members here st DU.
Have a nice day.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)We all need a bit of mirth and merriment, and they certainly provide it.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)niyad
(114,324 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)I look, I'll definitely tell you.
niyad
(114,324 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)niyad
(114,324 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I spit out my drink!!!
R B Garr
(17,051 posts)there is plenty of "outrage" and pretend misunderstandings about a single post from a Hillary supporter musing about Sanders on another site over a year ago. Hmmm.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)we can't be misogynists": http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/two-out-of-three-jpr-admins-are-women/
This is fright along the lines of a guy who says "I can't be racist, I have a black friend"
niyad
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manny would have owed me a keyboard.
I think it is hysterically funny that they felt the need to post that on their site. someone obviously went over there and qvetched about my comment.
and, so what if two of the admins are women? what does that prove? palin and ernst are women. doesn't make them progressives or feminists or women's rights advocates.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It's like the last century over there. Those poor women being leered at like they are part of his harem. So regressive and sucky. Ick.
Sort of shows Steinem was right about some women wanting to hang with the guys. It's an ugly truth about human nature I think we have all seen before. But being leered at by WillieT and Manny, wow! Reminds me of when I got fan mail from an admin from the Conservative Cave. Actually tat was less grotesque- and private. Can't imagine being desperate enough for a mans attention.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)The two morons on the couch drooling over the woman as they discounted her, and thinking they were witty and the woman should be flattered.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)That shit. Seems they just stayed silent in that thread- just the way the sides hoped they would.
Reminds me of TOS very conservative religious groups flea market I stumbled on to in a beach town a few weeks ago. I thought I saw one vendor selling cool Sarongs and cover ups... They were aprons and market totes. Lol. The truth comes out, those mods are looked upon as there to serve and service the dudes. What a shitty way to treat women.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Saw a lot of names I recognized. Interesting. I couldn't read thru the thread though. My computer locked up. Lol. Wow Bettyellen, that is sad.
I wish women didn't allow the good ole boy and stood up for themselves, to help all of us out. Women and more, our girls.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Fucking creepy shit, cannot fathom how women would want to be around that sexist crap on a political site.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)expect it to carry over to self. They can't hardly accept denigrating women on the one hand and then stand up to it on the other. They helped to create that.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Respectful. They gotta be free to creep on women because it's a fee country, and that's what women are for! Ick.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)misogynist. That simple.
Once misogynist slurs get the head up by the woman, the issue of sexism is out the door. They have lost the argument, they know they have, they have to submit to get along. To go up against the sexism now is just too hard and too much work. Hence, boards with clear rules are the only ones I will participate on. I am not wallowing in the filth and I am not doing the battle for those women that allow it to get to here.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Kind of sad to see a few people there waking up and realizing what a bunch of paranoid bigots they threw in with. Ironic seeing them attack those who admit Sanders lost too. The sites gotta find a new reason to be by end of year or those folks are going to feel awfully silly. Maybe they'll hold out till Inauguration Day, that's going to be sad for them.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)long.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)Unless Skinner really keeps up with enforcing the new TOS after the election this time around, the pattern will repeat itself. I sincerely hope that this time, now that the Obama-bashers who morphed into Hillary-bashers have so nakedly revealed who they really are over at JPR, that the TOS at DU will keep us on an even keel.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Women who, before they became ex-DUers, spent a great deal of time reccing and commenting on threads by men with varying agendas.
When those men were banned from this site for sexism, racism, trolling, and just being a rather unpleasant lot.....these women gladly followed.
Those women retain their moral agency. Maybe they like it.
Lazy Daisy
(928 posts)You have, in your effort to show how bad JPR is, slut shamed the 2 female admins there. Maybe editing your post is in order.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Immediately joking they must be fucking Manny. They are treating those women like they are some sort of harem, and you're pointing fingers at me for noticing it. Lol, nope.
Lazy Daisy
(928 posts)since you want to deny it. Then I'm done.
It's like the last century over there. Those poor women being leered at like they are part of his harem. So regressive and sucky. Ick.
Sort of shows Steinem was right about some women wanting to hang with the guys. It's an ugly truth about human nature I think we have all seen before. But being leered at by WillieT and Manny, wow! Reminds me of when I got fan mail from an admin from the Conservative Cave. Actually tat was less grotesque- and private. Can't imagine being desperate enough for a mans attention.
You are making one hell of a inference. How very feminist of you.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)The way the women on that hate site suck up to the (obviously) Republican site admin .......
Lazy Daisy
(928 posts)So.... It's OK to demean a woman if she's not in agreement with you?
Gotcha.
No wonder I spend less and less time here.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)That isn't sexual -that's on them. We're just bystanders to the sad little show. That a republican rat fucker is behind it is just icing on that shit cake.
The fact that the have always demeaned the opinions of women and people of color should have been a tip off.....
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)With "slut shaming" is exactly nothing. They go along to get along like little lambs while men they have never met salivate and make sexual innuendos like its the first season of Mad Men. its creepy and sad and pretending calling it out is the problem is bullshit.
But these are the same people who dismissed any input from women or black people on Sanders campaign. Am not shocked they refuse to ban words like ni**er and c*nt, not shocked when they actually imagine the will find an acceptable "context" for those words either.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)sheshe2
(84,224 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)recommending the thread. Of course they allow vulgar sexist slang to degrade, humiliate and shame, dismiss women. That was their thing here, defending it for all they had.
sheshe2
(84,224 posts)if someone said some of that filth to their wife or mother, sister or daughter. Would they still find it okay? I am horrified, seabeyond.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)wysi
(1,512 posts)... and seem to feel the need to work them out in public.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I think some decided to let the mask slip and we see they were never what they claimed to be.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)It looks much more to me like the birth of a cult. If you can build a fanatical religious entity around the hatred of one human being, these folks are working REALLY HARD on it.
It has nothing to do with "love" for Senator Sanders, they've already preemptively thrown him under his own bus for endorsing Hillary on Tuesday. No, for them the "revolution" is about one thing and one thing only; hate, and hating her. They desperately seek approval from each other by hating with a greater zeal than their neighbor, thereby proving their revolutionary devotion and creds.
It's more like birth of a really minuscule online North Korea, except their devotion is to hate of a central figure, and hate of anyone who would support or merely even accept her.
It's just wall-to-wall hate. They love nothing else.
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Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)If somebody saw it before it was zapped, PM me? I'm crushed! Lol.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)I've spent a lot of time on this thread talking to "post removed." We're besties now.
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Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)You seem thoroughly concerned on this thread with defending Donald Trump, defending Trump apologists, defending a vile site rife with misogynists and people advocating against Democrats and the Democratic party.
Pardon me if I discard your opinion in this matter along with your "concerns."
Kingofalldems
(38,555 posts)Photographer
(1,142 posts)Purrfessor
(1,188 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)You should have read what they said about me on discussionist, talk about bigoted! I have never posted there and yet there was an entire post just about me. You can't compare JPR to discussionist because at the Big D are a ton of racists.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)there so didn't realize. Pew identified a group of conservatives who are looking to "progressive" economic solutions to their personal problems, and perhaps that may be how some found their way to DU, then to Discussionist. JPR, of course, is mainly radical left, but some might be there too.
yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)at JPR has posted anything bigoted towards me, in fact the opposite.. I have been welcomed with open arms and love.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Glad to hear it, Yui.
Btw, I've been saying that imo JPR is a left-wing site, not right-wing as some imagine because of the pervasive hostility to Democrats, and this is further evidence of that.
yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)sensation of bigotry and xenophobia here as well, but not anything like what I have seen and read at discussionist.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)some genuine strong conservatives who live in regions traditionally conservative Democrat. Of course. Fwiw, even though they always vote for a Republican president, every election we still lose more of them officially to the GOP.
One nice thing about nominating Hillary is that we should lose as many this time around as we lost with Obama.
yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)if a trend like that continues in time, who will be left around to vote Democratic...
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)It doesn't just affect the one woman being attacked, but all women. Love you tons, but I can't get on board with that. I too have been pulled to other boards to be discussed in the most disgusting way. I know how you feel. I stay away from them. I have no interest to see what other denigrating, humiliating language they use to shame women and girls.
BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)They sure do have an obsession with DU.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)lapucelle
(18,438 posts)In which they're praising Chaffetz and Gowdey for trying to save the country from Evil Hillary. The site seems to have been coopted (I mean "redesigned" by a right wing faction and certain former Democrats are too dim to realize it.
Senator Sanders must be so proud.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that many on the far left despise the Democrats and their liberal base far more than they do those on the right? It's important to recognize that we have real enemies on the far left, not just the right.
JPR is basically radical left in orientation. Anyone who doubts this should read the posts of the more thoughtful and earnest members who want the site to succeed. They are not conservative, they are radical or far left, AND, yes, most of their time is spent in various degrees of opposition to the Democrats.
A psychologist once described the main difference between the far right and the far left as: "The far right hates everyone else. The far left hates itself." They typically focus their "hate" resentfully on that part of the left wing that is dominant and out of their control, and thus responsible for all that is wrong with America. The Democratic Party and its liberals.
So of course the stronger extremists over there can see that even Trump is preferable, especially if Hillary's inevitable loss to him finally precipitates the (desirable) destruction of the Democratic Party--so they can take over and start purging. It's all perfectly clear to those talking this way.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)who espouse the idea. They're not in real good company there.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)The narcissism of minor differences.
They can tolerate loss to any team, except the one so close to their own door. That team, they hate the most.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the people who talk this way think, but I suspect they have to be jealous on top of their basic hostility toward the dominant liberal blocs. A dominant success they just can't understand except by ascribing it to corruption.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I have heard they openly describe women the b word and the c word, and are proud about it.
Is this true? I find it hard to believe.
But I really don't want to see that
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Squinch
(51,127 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Response to Maru Kitteh (Reply #84)
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Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)I confess to ignorance! I am just a big dumb hick!
(I still don't like those words though)
Someone we know saw post 18
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Deserve each other.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Listed as blocked sites in my browsers just to ensure I don't accidentally click a link that takes me there.
k8conant
(3,030 posts)That link must be incorrect. There's nothing there about "Hillary-hate".
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)or stating that the FBI got it wrong by not indicting her is HIllary hate.
Or this SHIT http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/does-bill-clinton-have-aids/
LOL
Kali
(55,052 posts)I see quite a few familiar names objecting to that crap and it was locked as well.
Brother Buzz
(36,527 posts)Funny that!
Kali
(55,052 posts)it was the broadbrush approach to this whole thread that even induced me to look at a link. both sides have created websites that include members bent on trashing each other and their candidates (not to mention the shit that went on here during the primaries - and obviously still going on despite the new rules).
I wonder if anybody is self-aware enough to realize how lame it is to behave that way?
Brother Buzz
(36,527 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,801 posts)And it was just locked.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Kali
(55,052 posts)I was corrected above, my reply: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7991818
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)whatthehey
(3,660 posts)radical noodle
(8,032 posts)Glowing admiration of Gowdy, of all people. Praising Republicans while trashing Cummings... all Hillary related.
annavictorious
(934 posts)Or maybe it's just that some people feel more comfortable in an echo chamber.
http://jackpineradicals.com/members/k8conant/activity/
Phony and sneaky. What a winning combination!
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/silliness-could-this-be-the-birth-of-free-republic-2-0/
Is this what the Lord requires of you?
Ace Rothstein
(3,206 posts)I didn't think that was possible.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)The main one is everyone's favorite "copy and paste guy" who unfortunately used one of my favorite musicians as his avatar.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)vote for Clinton but jpr may have started around sanders and to me there were plenty vile Clinton voters in the GD Pri
But the tone of those kind is not what Sanders himself was about again IMO
In fact I has the whole GD primary on ignore ! But all of these names I do not remember one for primary issues at all. I will have to check out the fake site, but the name jackass sounds about right for some of the people on the site . I saw names that I viewed neutral and ones I remember pleasantly posting with or reading . So can't say it's all bad but the ones IMO that were really really nasty all went there so
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)What a "progressive" stalwart!
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Wow.
After reading the whole thread I'm happy to see some folks saw right through the bullshit.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)From their "Hillary nicknames" thread:
http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?10687-Hillary-nicknames
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)frequently and insulted anyone who voiced an objection.
How does that work?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)At least that's what I overheard at the local pub.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)revmclaren
(2,593 posts)Seems a few DUers still here frequent that establishment or are in the process of making it their permanent safe haven from reality.
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)BooScout
(10,406 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Fla Dem
(24,003 posts)see who approved and thanked Dorkzilla for posting that disgusting crap. They've lost all sense of decency, it's become hive behavior.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)sheshe2
(84,224 posts)Mutual support for Obama. I do not know her anymore.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)with calling Barack Obama "Blacky McBlackface" for supporting her.
Glad to know my impression of TM99 as a first rate douchenozzle was right on target.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Last post was yesterday.
Just FTR.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)skepticscott
(13,029 posts)since I handed his head to him so many times, but he can still go fuck himself.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)fidiots.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But the common FR term of Obummer is very common.
Good riddance. After Hillary destroys trump the site will fizzle to nothing. And not long after that DU will suddenly get a flurry of new members who somehow sound fimiliar.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)they seem to be spending an awful lot of energy that could go towards that effort on trying to outdo each other in insulting Hillary Clinton.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)This town got its enema when the biggest trolls decamped for JPR.
Sid
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)... The day they started to leave.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)years in the making
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Around November 20th after they come off their bender when Hillary destroys Trump.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)still_one
(92,617 posts)Response to cosmicone (Original post)
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La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.html
I'm very much looking forward to welcoming Senator Sanders on board the Hillary train!
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Why so much hate, man?
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Why bring it here?
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)since so many of the posters there came from here.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)We are all here to support Hillary in every way to get her into the WH. The people on that site are extremely anti-Hillary. In fact, hating Hillary seems to be the exclusive purpose of the site, since OPs about Bernie get little response, yet OPs expressing Hillary hate are barraged.
Just as we would discuss Republican opposition or Free Republic, as often happens on DU, it is appropriate to discuss a Hillary hate site, especially one with so many former members of DU who just went through the primary season here in contentious opposition to our presumptive nominee.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)the confirmation that they likely were not progressive or Dems is quite cathartic.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)posts and think that they just MUST be closet tea-baggers.
This lets us know we were right all along.
Though some of those names are surprising.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)DUers and ones who left after we went to GE mode over there saying and agreeing with really shocking things they apparently kept bottled up here.
Any tolerance I've ever been able to work up for radicals has always been soon depleted. Honesty and what I see as basic principles are as quickly discarded by them in pursuit of winning as they are by the tea-baggers.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)some are even hosts of forums
My good intention is for them to see to what level their zeal has gone and hopefully they will support the democratic nominee and democrats in all elections.
Democrats should not fall prey to republican/libertarian dirty tricks to damage our nominee.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I'm sure that every true democrat will find that site nauseating in the end.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)jack_krass
(1,009 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)There, those say what they really think. The contrast is really very interesting.
jack_krass
(1,009 posts)And he was a legend.
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Squinch
(51,127 posts)emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)on a site created to carry on his legacy.
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)That being said, he had no say in naming the site.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)The sunlight, it burns them. Just look in this thread.
No quarter should be given here for Trump supporters. None.
here they are supporting Trump
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)It's a huge improvement that will attract much nicer people to participate. But it is an important time in the history of DU and looking over at JPR and seeing the kind of nonsense that we now dont have to deal with is important to note in terms of was the decision made by the admins a good one or not.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)perfect, but it is a vast improvement.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Not all of it, though.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)When they come slinking back after the election.
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stevenleser
(32,886 posts)quickesst
(6,286 posts)I used to work at an aluminum smelting plant. During the process for each batch we would skim the slag off the top. That was the nasty, worthless material that served no purpose. We turned out aluminum that was 99.9% pure, and the slag went into the trash heap. Our aluminum was only 99.9% pure, but we just didn't seem to be able to get rid of that 1/10th of 1%. It did not affect the quality of our product, and was barely a minor nuisance.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)is their friend,hence the embrace of the right wing.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)for republican/libertarian dirty tricks.
No matter how much I disagree with a democrat, I'd still vote for that person. I'd have gladly voted for Sen. Sanders if he had won the nomination.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)that this is nothing new and will end up going where all these groups go,into obscurity.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)like minds around to associate with and mostly went quiet for long years between waves of radicalism, permanently if their local society didn't tolerate it.
Now they'll always collect on some obscure site or other, but between those waves signaling their response to insecure times, that's where they will be. Waiting for a chance to be heard.
Gene Debs
(582 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I've not had the misfortune of voting for someone I vehemently disagreed with. I have disagreed with Diane Feinstein but she is still better than a repuke -- so I voted for her.
Gene Debs
(582 posts)have to assume that spectrum could run to vehemence. Are there no deal-breakers whatsoever for you as long as the candidate is a Democrat? I'm not trying to provoke, I'm just asking.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)I hate chopped liver, The site of it makes me nauseous. However if the choice was eating chopped liver or starving to death I would get over my nausea.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Yukari Yakumo
(3,013 posts)...
Dear lord, that place is still up? And active?!?
...
Surprise, surprise. It's an anti-Obama, pro-Trump rag.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)sakabatou
(42,247 posts)enid602
(8,710 posts)The Jackpiners will feel orphaned if Bernie endorses Hill.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)pine sap is the worst.
I could not resist.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)that their infamous anti Semitic labeling of DU members (I was not the only recipient of such a slur), and that labeling of other boards as anti Semitic, is now a moot point?
They sure loved to try and make hay out of that one topic.....I'd call them hypocrites but term is too good for them.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)DU had people banned for rank antisemitic comments and links. Some survived and some lasted far too long prior to being banned. One of the worst also smeared LGBT savagely and habitually and it went on for over a year before that person got banned. That poster had said LGBT were to blame for our election loss because we 'blatantly flaunted' our rights. Then that poster bashed away at Bernie, then LGBT and eventually the Paris shootings caused that poster to cross lines all could see. A year of hate aimed at LGBT and Jews, right here on DU. That's just one example, Kelliekat44. DU can't both allow that for a year and then claim it did not happen. We as a community have to deal with reality or we are not a community at all.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)This thread is about the disturbing and ugly content of Jackass Delusionals.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Skinner and EarlG have banned those fuckers, but they had to do it because those fuckers were welcomed by others here for ages.
Here is one of the anti gay quotes: "The openness and brazenness of the LBGT agenda and the media flaunting of gay marriages all across the country cost Dems dearly and threatens to do so in the future."
I'm not going to sit quietly while bigots do as they please. You can defend such hate mongers if you want to, I won't.
I don't use that other site, I use this site. I know what I see here. Denial of such things is toxic.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)And if I'd seen it, I would have alerted on it, and if I were on a jury, I would have voted to remove it. I'm sorry that happened here.
We didn't support the same person in the primaries, but I stand with you in solidarity against bigotry.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)by bigotry, and that matters, but this particular post states that supporting LGBT equality cost us, and it did. It cost us immense political capital we might have expended in other ways, and it has generated new intense opposition for decades to come, just as abortion legalization has.
That most of us think it was way, way, way past time to secure the blessings of liberty for yet another group and worth every bit of a cost we really had to incur doesn't mean there isn't truth to this unpleasantly worded statement. Perhaps that's why it was left.
Yup!
Squinch
(51,127 posts)defense of such hate mongers, or bigots doing as they please. That seems like hate mongers being banned. Bigots being banned.
What am I missing?
stranger81
(2,345 posts)started by HRC loyalists who post here at DU, with the aim of mocking JPR. Those labels have never been used at JPR itself.
The projection here is so thick it's crazy.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)stranger81
(2,345 posts)So it's not surprising that the very people who started that vile parody site are the ones trying to hang it around JPR's neck.
Do carry on.
Loki
(3,825 posts)Care to give a link or is it just something you don't actually have proof of?
stranger81
(2,345 posts)Though the worst of the anti-Semitic stuff may have been scrubbed by now, just like the offshoot HRC fan site tried to scrub its most venomous posts against DU members.
http://jackassradicals.com/main
Careful, though -- you'll need hip waders there, unless you're one of those folks that thinks no insult is too low to chuck at someone politically to your left. In that case, this website might be just your thing.
Loki
(3,825 posts)And would have never participated in something like that to begin with. That's not the Hillary supporters I know, we have more dignity and respect for ourselves and our candidate and frankly for the Democratic process. Remember there are quite a few who had to become gracious losers in the past. Perhaps those who couldn't went on to that, but if you remember, the majority gave their support to President Obama. Ugly is ugly no matter who or where it comes from.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)You brought it here, though, for everyone to learn about, so I think you sort of "own" it, for this thread anyway. Whatever. Those who enjoy that sort of thing probably knew about it before.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Looks like a bunch of CC folks, they love to make fun of DU.
PoutrageFatigue
(416 posts)....
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)Wonder if they let their children talk like that?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)never have children at all.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)That's pretty funny because everytime they have defended bigoted speech they pretend there is no historical context. Remember the watermelon and fried chicken crap- using bigoted stereotypes and then pretending they had no idea they were bigoted. I guess there will be loads of playing along with playing stupid over there. Regressive assholes always do.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)The worst form of racism was political correctness against white people.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)R B Garr
(17,051 posts)There is an obvious dearth of criticism for Trump's blatant anti-Semitism, so it makes their pretend umbrage about what Hillary supporters posted on another site rather phony and opportunistic. I saw that same attack used here against Hillary supporters just last week, which made me go take a look at the anti-Hillary site. Not a peep about real world anti-Semitism. Hmmm.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Imagine, I got a hide by pointing out there was no difference between JPR and Dump supporters.
frankieallen
(583 posts)copycatters.....
Politicub
(12,165 posts)What a cesspool.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Lotsa authoritarians.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)and this idiot said he would vote for Trump over Hillary.
Not one person over there slapped him down, said he was wrong....nothing.
Not one!
So yes as far as I'm concerned they are a republican support site. And we all know where most of those 'progressive' voters came from.
I'm so damn glad they left and took their support for Trump to Rimjob/JPR Freeper site!
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)That place is just messed up man.
IgelJames4
(50 posts)The dolts at FreeRepublic at the end of the day will NEVER support a Democratic candidate. Many will be holding their noses as they vote for Trump. Frankly, this is all quite amusing.
sheshe2
(84,224 posts)is so progressively used and rec'ed.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)sheshe2
(84,224 posts)Yes, I am appalled at what they said, misanthrope.
niyad
(114,324 posts)have you ever read this:
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence is a 1998 feminist book by Inga Muscio that called for a breakdown in the boundaries between women and sexuality. In it, the writer hopes to reverse the negative connotations behind female pejoratives. The books traverses such subjects as menstruation, rape, and competition between women.
The book was placed at number six on a list of "Best-Selling Lesbian Books" in May 2000 by Curve magazine. The magazine gave the work a positive review and recommended it to their readers. off our backs praised the book, and noted its importance for women and feminists. Herizons called the book an enjoyable read and one of the best within the field of feminism and the female body since Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. The book received a critical review from Publishers Weekly.
Cunt inspired a movement called Cuntfest, a celebration of women, and Cuntfest events were held with multiple artists in different cities in the United States after the book's publication. The book became an important piece of the movement Third-wave feminism, and was required reading in a course about women's health at the University of Virginia.
. . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt:_A_Declaration_of_Independence
and this:
. . .
Cunt (Kunda): Derived from the Oriental Great Goddess Cunti, also known as The Yoni (vulva) of the Uni-verse. Other words coming from the same source are "cunabula", a cradle or first abode, "Cunina," a Roman Goddess who protected children in the cradle, "cuntipotent, having all powerful cunt-magic, "cunicle", a hole or passage, "cundy"; a culvert; also cunning, kenning and ken meaning knowledge, learning, insight, remembrance and wisdom. In ancient writings the meaning of the word was synonymous with "woman". Kunda : Saharan, Goddess of the Kuntahs a tribe who traced their beginnings to "the cleft of the Goddess". Kundas were children begotten out of wedlock and were considered divine gifts of the Goddess Kunda.
. . .
http://thejourneyofalotus.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-goddess.html
it is helpful to know that many of the word men use to denigrate and insult women were originally titles and words referring to goddesses. the patriarchy flipped them. some of us reclaim the words by refusing to see them as insults.
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niyad
(114,324 posts)sexist jerks (waving!!!)
sheshe2
(84,224 posts)No, I haven't read it but will check it out.
niyad
(114,324 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Fascinating, thank you for the links!
niyad
(114,324 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,699 posts)they will believe what they want to believe
But please tell them Trump is not qualified to run for dog catcher
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Poor dears. Oh well.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)That's when the fun starts.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Many are already demanding their $27 refund if and when he endorses Hillary. Reading that site is like watching the Daily Show in print.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Lots of "computer security" experts as well.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)"Journalist"
"Historian"
"Medical Professional"
"First Responder"
Expert on;
Nuclear accidents
The food chain
Triage milk
International relations
International treaties
International law
I'm leaving out so much, I know but . . .
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)terrorism, military strategies, race relations, wall street, banking, European and Latin American politics and trade.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)How DO WE SURVIVE without her?
surely we will all perish
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)I was continually surprised to hear the person was a journalist, because her writing was terrible - grammar, punctuation, syntax, and even spelling errors. Surely a professional journalist would have basic writing skills?
And now I fear I am veering into incivility, so I will adjourn.
HamiltonSwan
(38 posts)It's non revenue generating and has virtually no web traffic. Anyone with a computer and endless amounts of spare time could do it.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)picked up at a yard sale. The legitimate fire/rescue and LEOs must just LOVE her.
Every town and area seems to have that one crank that sits and listens to their scanner and then chases the firetrucks, pretending to be someone of consequence but generally just creating a hazard and being a pain in the ass.
So. I guess maybe she found her calling after all.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)and overall un-readability of her "expert" analyses left me scratching my head every time.
Her always ready and pat pretext was that English was her second language. I'd hate to see her offerings in her first one.
Yikes! Any editor that would accept that kind of incomprehensible chicken-scratch would have to be very desperate indeed for copy.
betsuni
(25,983 posts)I imagine they prepare by swallowing several aspirin and knocking back a few strong cocktails first, just in case. Oh, and closing and locking all windows they might be tempted to jump out of.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Any credible editor's nightmare, for sure.
That punctuation-less, pseudo-intellectual gibberish reminded me of term papers I used to get from my high school students.
I would cross off whole pages as impossible even to read, let alone correct.
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Many of the JPR supporters are actually plaintiffs in this silly lawsuit. The pleadings are so sad that they are funny
I really love the posts on the e-mail thread about how these experts understand mens rea
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)there is a term for you, and it's not "consumer" ... though I suppose, "consumed" might work.
Do you have a link to the lawsuit?
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Here is a link to this stupid lawsuit jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1-CLASS-ACTION-COMPLAINT-6-28-16.pdf
One of the more amusing claims is the claim that DC deceptive trade practices act applies because the plaintiffs are consumers. That statute cited defines consumers as follows:
This definition of consumer does not fit someone who contributes to a political campaign
This is a really dumb lawsuit that made me smile
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I noticed one issue, though ... the assertion of biased/collusion of Defendant-DNC towards/in favor of HRC is based in the memo (Gucifer Memo) in which a "suggested" operational "strategy" was advanced. (http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1-1-EXHIBIT-1-TO-CLASS-ACTION-COMPLAINT.pdf); however, the Plaintiffs' Attorneys may not have notice (or ignored) that the memo was TO the DNC, not FROM the DNC:
Re: 2016 GOP presidential candidates
Date: May 26, 2015
Below, please find a suggested strategy for positioning and public messaging around the 2016
Republican presidential field.
The difference is:
Versus:
The latter evinces support/collusion (i.e., the alleged bias); whereas, the former shows, at best, an unacknowledged sharing of campaign strategy (again, presumably of the HRC campaign).
In my estimation, there is no there, there ... the claim jumps from A to Z, and fills the breach with unestablish/unasserted speculation (i.e., conspiracy theory) and an Defendant's attorneys fee order is in the near future.
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Some of the posters on the other site are plaintiffs in this lawsuit http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/debbie-wasserman-schultz-served-class-action-lawsuit-for-rigging-primaries/ These legal experts think that this lawsuit has merit
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)It will be fun watching this lawsuit go down the drain. I doubt that the DNC is worried at all about this lawsuit
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Again, this lawsuit has no merit but shows that this other site is indeed the new free republic 2.0
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)It has all the earmarks of a scam ... and I suspect the suit is their network. The first ask will be for litigation funding, then when the suit is dismissed the ask will be from the SuperPAC ... to fight the corruption the dismissal exposed.
I wonder if any of thone signing on to the suit will report out on the asks?
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)smh. A long long time ago I used to have quality discussions with such a person, but something happened....
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Totally non-partisan. Paragon of integrity.
wryter2000
(46,212 posts)Praising Chaffetz and Gowdy. Those folks have gone 'round the bend.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)It's going to be like a nuclear bomb going off over there. It'd be like watching a Christian's horror as Jesus comes back and pledges his loyalty to Satan. It will be a thing of beauty and wonder.
Run Bernie Run! The long knives will be coming for you!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Bernie was just an excuse to overtly express anti-democratic tirades.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)There are some genuine rational Bernie supporters over there who seem just as confused and disgusted by the rampant vitriol and RW conspiracy theories being posted as we are. They seem to be wandering around in the wilderness at the moment - they don't feel welcome here at DU because they can't bring themselves to vote for Hillary, and they don't feel at home there because the level of discourse is so low.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Posts like this leave me shaking my head.
and
AIDS is nothing to play around with by either gossiping or innuendo.
There are so many things we disagree with the Clintons about that we do not need this. It is needlessly slimey and quite frankly none of our business and not important to anyone but his family.
He had heart surgery, started taking care of himself and is a vegan. He is also getting older.
I dont have a clue how this site is going to handle these kinds of posts and I know I can just move on by but when thinking of the seriousness we all hope to have about the issues that Bernie has brought to us I really hate to see this kind of post. It demeans us IMO but then again it is just my opinion.
and
I hope JPR will be better than this.
Unfortunately, for every one of those, there were 10 cheering on the idea that Bill Clinton has AIDS. So I do think they're there, just outnumbered.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They're farther left than even strong-liberal Democrats like me, yet not radical to the point that extremism takes over their thinking. It may be that some are actually just far-left liberal, again like me, but wanting more change than the Democrats will commit to, and not radical in personality at all.
In any case, what they need is a closed, by-invitation site, because the arsonists and lost-down-the-rabbit-hole crowd will show up wherever they are otherwise.
Btw, there is a closed Socialist Democrat, or Democratic Socialist, site that is closed. I tried to join to see who they were and what they believed (genuinely interested), but they wouldn't have me. , but overall that's probably a positive sign. Might be worth checking out for some for whom JPR is not the answer.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I think it is a lot of talk and most will support HRC when the time is right. There was two groups here that knew - KNEW they could not post what they wanted to say to the other group on DU. So they BOTH went out and made websites - so they could talk crap about each other.
This primary season has been a real eye opener.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Kudos to the admin
Rex
(65,616 posts)This is actually one of the better discussion threads imo.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)and some never would have voted for the Democratic candidate at all.
Some folks never planned to vote Dem to begin with.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)it's just different degrees of crazy.
kind of like the Republican convention in Cleveland will be.
the only thing that unites them is hate
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)They're there, in my opinion. Just few and far between. And drowned out by the hateful vitriol. I suspect they are quite dismayed - as bad as DU ever got, no one ever posted threads like what we are seeing there now - openly praising Republicans, hoping Democrats are killed, etc.
I'm not defending the site - it's a clear hate site, and if those posters I'm referring to continue posting there, they are implicitly endorsing the hateful rhetoric. But I suspect several will just drift away now the masks are off and the knives are out.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)that's what's going on over there, just different bands of crazy on the spectrum.
they're like the people who act shocked that Donald Trump isn't acting presidential after he got the nomination.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)And are being banned from JPR for it.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)cali
Look, if the admins want to admonish me or kick me off for not supporting Bernie, thats their choice and its fine. But I choose messy reality over a comfortable fantasy that has the slimmest of chances of becoming reality.
_____________________________________
Wonder what this poster's handle was on DU?
mick063
The primary will never stop. Hillary will never receive a reprieve from being exposed, even if elected. Primarily, an effort to stop the next coronation of a corrupt liar. I propose we think of her similarly to how we thought of her adopted brother, Chimp Bush.
So you think I should give a shit if a real Republican is elected instead of a pseudo Republican? I suggest you crawl back into Ground Hog Day while I work to help make a representative party for the working man. like I said, we will work to create our own reality.
No one said this was going to be pretty. We are playing extortion here as we have been extorted for years. We have learned the neo liberal rules well, albeit the hard way. It is very simple really. Represent us or you get the Republican.
_____________________________________
From the same thread, here's a well-known former user name:
tularetom
I will not vote for any senatorial candidate who endorses her.
And I will vote for my crappy republican congress critter because I know he will be a reliable vote to impeach her in the unfortunate event she is elected.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)It's a sty where all of DU's long time trolls are going to be corralled.
.
betsuni
(25,983 posts)Once the disgusting insects step on the sticky glue they stay where they are. "They check in, but they don't check out." If only the trolls would stay on the sticky glue of JPR and stop infesting other places.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)on the workings of DU.
They will all have burned their current identities over there, and will come back as something else.
betsuni
(25,983 posts)A flimsy screen door can't keep them out.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)should ask, "have you ever been a member of DU in the past?" and have them reveal their past sobriquet with a reason why they left and why they want to come back.
Admins can then keep a closer eye on them. If they lie, IP address database would catch them eventually.
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)It seems that being a voice of reason is not welcomed on the new freeper site
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Sad, but predictable. Unfortunately, some of them seemed like reasonable people, but they are now just rats in a barrel.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Where would we be without the GOP? Well, for one thing, Social Security would be gone, for all practical purposes. The GOP managed to stymie that effort twice: during Bill Clintons term and during Obamas. And they did so partly out of concern for their constituents, and partly out of disgust for the man nominally in charge.
And, if we are spared the tyranny of Hillary, it will be due to the GOP.
Hillary thought she would have no competition for the nomination. Bernie proved her wrong, and the ordinary voters, the young, the poor, and the educated, backed him up. That was the democratic population, speaking up. Hillarys Big Money conspiracy and cheating trumped the democrats.
Hillary thought she could wipe the floor with the GOP nominee, Trump. Of course, she thought she could wipe the floor with any Republican who showed up. And if she were a better person, that would be true.
Hillarys mistake was in not remembering (or realizing) that Identity Politics cuts both ways: those who do not identify with you will not support you. So while she was browbeating the Bernistas, the GOP got together like a tidal wave, and Jim Comey opened the floodgates. This is the republicans (small r) our natural allies in this battle for the soul of a great nation, stepping up.
What happens next is entirely up to Bernie. He may not yet realize this, or he may be playing his cards close to the vest, just as Comey is. Perhaps thats the proper defense mechanism against a madwoman and a cheat. But if we are to come out of this election with any pretence to still being a democratic republic, it will take co-ordination between the democrats and the republicans against their putative leaderships.
And a little bird shall lead us to the logical choice.
www.jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/god-bless-our-loyal-opposition
Because, you know, in their upside down antimatter universe, Paul Ryan and Newt Gingrich have been defending Social Security from the Democrats.
Post recommended by dozens of people who pretend to be leftists.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)theme over there. This represents an anti-Democrat/Hillary-hate faction that has become both dominant and more and more bizarre and extreme over time.
And, if we are spared the tyranny of Hillary, it will be due to the GOP.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)people get accused of being pro-Hillary trolls if they say she's better than Trump.
http://www.jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/its-true-i-dont-hate-hillary-clinton-but/
Here's some choice comments from the link:
Trump is a joke and the oligarchs dont like him. Far, far less dangerous than Hildebeast. I truly believe she will try to force us into a war with Russia. She has never passed on armed conflict and murder.
For me, growing up in the cold war, fear of nuclear war pretty much trumps Trump fear.
...
17. Clinton is simply on a whole other level
She will 100% beyond a doubt seek to cause the deaths of millions. She has told us so and its one of the few things we can actually take her at her word about, since she has done so in the past.
Trump is a complete roll of the dice. Nobody really knows what he will do. Therefore it is less than 100% certain he would cause the deaths of millions.
Unless a chance to save the lives of the millions that Clinton will kill is worth nothing in your moral evaluation, there are orders of magnitude of difference in the risk that the two candidates represent.
....
perhaps I can explain
Clinton: immune to the law. Long trail of dead bodies behind her. Responsible for refugee flows of millions of people and destabilizing large parts of the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Wants to invade more countries and isnt shy about saying so. Not only advocates but plays chief negotiator on some of the most outrageously corporatist treaties and other schemes, calling them the gold standard. Has committed crimes that would have put any non-untouchable person away for lifetimes worth of jail time.
Trump: blowhard with bad hair. Thinks NAFTA, TPP, etc. are a bad deal. No body count. Not fond of Mexicans.
Thats basically what were looking at here. If you cant see the difference, something is seriously out of whack with your priorities.
Rex
(65,616 posts)You think she is going through buyers remorse right now? The hyperbole is amazing, hating on HRC like that cannot be healthy. Hoping Big Dawg has AIDS is just out and out disgusting. Just flat out trolling imo.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)she knew she was going to a place teeming with Trump supporters, and she decided that was a better place for her than a pro-Clinton site.
Can't feel sorry for her. Lie down with dogs, get fleas.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Hate is such a strong poison, anyone supporting Trump has some real serious issues. Supporting Trump, out of spite, is about the dumbest fucking thing I can imagine.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)All of it. They've turned off their filters.
HA Goodman could claim Hillary was a werewolf and they'd all urge Bernie to buy silver to protect himself.
They think Hillary wants to enact the Ryan budget but that Ryan is the one preventing that from happening. They think she wants a nuclear war with Russia.
Rex
(65,616 posts)People said the Clinton Foundation was quasi-mafia...that she will start WWIII against Pooter Scooter. People that I know, know better then that. I know they do, they just are too desperate for a BS win. He won't win, I am sorry I like the guy a lot...but reality is a'calling. It appears as if he will have a huge say in the party platform. Not enough for some.
So incredibly juvenile.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)At some point, rightwing crazy becomes indistinguishable from leftwing crazy
Rex
(65,616 posts)I was wrong and right here on DU!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)BainsBane
(53,142 posts)She seemed to have been upset about a hide she got.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/i-dont-want-my-senator-to-play-the-tethered-goat/
she should stay over there. this isn't a place for her anymore
Squinch
(51,127 posts)I hope she feels able to come back here when they start stoning her over there.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)when Sanders endorses Clinton and says she must defeat Trump.
the people who genuinely adore Sanders will have to face off against the pro-Trump types who pimp the Clinton Body Count crap.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)I LOVED that book. Freaked me out, so of course I read it a few times.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)but she won't be able to restrain herself from insulting the Trump humpers over there.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)I have a lot of respect for Cali. Unsure why she put herself in the middle of that.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)thoughtful, rational statements worth reading.
GD-P Cali could be as dishonest and hostile as the worst, if not as genuinely irrational as the rabbit-hole crowd, and easy to see why she joined the crowd there when Hillary won the primary. Strangely, although I haven't read all her posts, my impresion is that place seems to be bringing out more of the better in her. Maybe she just needs all-out combat regardless of which side the opponents are on.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Cali and I had some real big fights, but she stood her ground. I hope a lot of folks come back here after BS throws his support behind HRC (which he said he would do - kinda a done deal) and realize how silly they let things get between the two groups.
I've seen people that pretend to be mortal enemies here, come together in times of seriousness in RL (a family member died etc..) to give condolences to each other.
So I have a hard time buying the act put on. 99% of us want the same thing imo.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)But boy that 1% is freakin NUTS!
To actually believe some of the RWing CT shit about HRC. Anyone that knows me, knows I am NOT one to shy away from CTs and will listen to them objectively...but boy howdy...REALLY? REALLY? Buying into the bullshit that HRC is some kind of mafia don or has control over a secret gaggle of hedge fund managers!?
That shit is wacked!
Squinch
(51,127 posts)waiting for. This is where the tide turns and BS wins the primary."
There were some saying that over there after Comey.
I'm just hoping they are all really high. Because if they aren't, that's disturbing.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Comey wanted to say a lot more bullshit about HRC then he did, you could see it in his eyes.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)And I was glad to see the DOJ scotch that fallacy and say that none of the emails actually were classified.
After those statements and the hearings, there truly wasn't anything left about that story that hadn't been debunked in the public record.
Which is nice.
Rex
(65,616 posts)about her emails. There was nothing there from the beginning, people wasted a lot of time on that. She served honorably as SoS. That is just the way it is.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Most of the names I see there don't surprise me at all.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)If I had an ignore list, most of those names would be on it.
But a few make me sad.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)It's pretty obvious from just a few threads I read where she participated that she doesn't fit in. And for a change, she is the calmest one.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)her.....she's just enabling sexism over there, as is every woman who posts there.
To the jury...No current, actual DUERS were harm in the making of this post.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)had to leave and start their own site. Democrats? Progressives? Liberals? My tush...
FarPoint
(12,511 posts)Validation of my sense of being bullied just a few weeks ago....My suspicions were right.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)missed that.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)why someone would spend time on a political message board with a TOS they completely disagree with, posting cryptic comments that just barely avoid breaking the rules and getting themselves banned. It must be very dull. Why would anyone take their valuable time to do that?
Not talking about anyone in particular, just a thought I've had.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)look smart and mysterious?
That kid always annoyed the shit out of me.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Maybe Ayn Rand.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Now that's just funny.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)You came quite close to a call-out there...a TOS violation.
Seems you're well-poised to answer your own question.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)I don't care for any of the three authors mentioned myself, as I classify them in the genre of Young Man's Lit, and I'm not and never have been.
Just sayin'
Loki
(3,825 posts)Seems you like name calling so let it all out. But then again perhaps not. We don't allow the "c" word or the "b" word or a lot of others that would be allowed at JPR. So it makes me wonder why you stay at a site you have such disdain for the people here and our values of productive discussion. I lived in Texas for a long time, and all I can say is "bless your heart, darlin".
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Generally slandered as corporate third way war mongers, etc.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)tome. I wonder if said poster was stupid enough to pay full price for it, or if they got it as a premium from a website like Newsmax, etc.
At any rate, I refuse to believe that that's an actual DUer. I think it's a parody account. It has to be.
TO THE JURY====note, I am not slamming a DUer....merely some anonymous Internet poster who is admitting to reading a rightwing rag.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)There is not one iota of evidence that it was homicide, he reportedly said. This is nothing at all like Vince Foster.
BREAKING: Official Set to Testify Against Hillary Found Death
Uhm the Vince Foster who shot himself twice ? That Vince Foster ?
I wonder if the barbells fell on Mr. Ashe twice
...
3. Um what?
There is not one iota of evidence that it was homicide, he reportedly said. This is nothing at all like Vince Foster.
Jeremy Schneider better watch his words.
...
tularetom (124 posts) ( Reply to original post ) June 28, 2016 at 8:05 am
Profile photo of tularetom Donor
11. " not at all like Vince Foster."
Hes sort of implying that the Vince Foster suicide story was bogus. And I agree with him, but thats really immaterial.
This is why the country cannot survive another Clinton presidency. This stuff is never, ever going away.
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/disgraced-u-n-leader-john-ashe-died-in-weightlifting-accident-medical-examiner/#post-3892
There is so much fucking smoke, there has to be fairly large fire in there somewhere.
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/disgraced-u-n-leader-john-ashe-died-in-weightlifting-accident-medical-examiner/#post-3892
Bill & Hillarys Body Count Increases!
Fascinating information is going viral about Hillary and Bill Clinton, which exposes just how truly ruthless they are. In many ways they are worse than Obama. One major reason I say this is because the Clintons have a long history of people in their inner-circle dying under mysterious circumstances.
In fact, 46 people who were close to the Clintons have died during their 3 decades of political power. That number should give us all pause. If Hillary Clinton was a Republican, that number would be the question asked by reporters every day.
Now, the latest to be added to the list, maintained by WhatReallyHappened.com, is Walter Scheib. He was hired by the Clinton White House to work as a Chef, and continued to serve the Bush administration. Interestingly, he was reported missing during a hike, and his body was found almost 2 miles away at the bottom of a river. No cause of death has ever been made, but the death date is listed as June 13, 2015.
But the list is far more extensive! For example, Mary Mahoney was a Clinton White House Intern who was executed brutally at a Starbucks she was managing in 1997. As a lesbian, she became close friends with all of the interns of the early Clinton administration, and they would seek her advice after Bills sexual advancements. She would have been a star witness during the Clinton impeachment trials.
And dont forget Clinton White House Council Vince Foster, who was found dead in Ft. Marcy Park in Washington, D.C. He supposedly killed himself with a shotgun, and was found a few days later with a suitcase that contained a shredded suicide note.
Fascinating information is going viral about Hillary and Bill Clinton, which exposes just how truly ruthless they are. In many ways they are worse than Obama. One major reason I say this is because the Clintons have a long history of people in their inner-circle dying under mysterious circumstances.
In fact, 46 people who were close to the Clintons have died during their 3 decades of political power. That number should give us all pause. If Hillary Clinton was a Republican, that number would be the question asked by reporters every day.
Now, the latest to be added to the list, maintained by WhatReallyHappened.com, is Walter Scheib. He was hired by the Clinton White House to work as a Chef, and continued to serve the Bush administration. Interestingly, he was reported missing during a hike, and his body was found almost 2 miles away at the bottom of a river. No cause of death has ever been made, but the death date is listed as June 13, 2015.
But the list is far more extensive! For example, Mary Mahoney was a Clinton White House Intern who was executed brutally at a Starbucks she was managing in 1997. As a lesbian, she became close friends with all of the interns of the early Clinton administration, and they would seek her advice after Bills sexual advancements. She would have been a star witness during the Clinton impeachment trials.
And dont forget Clinton White House Council Vince Foster, who was found dead in Ft. Marcy Park in Washington, D.C. He supposedly killed himself with a shotgun, and was found a few days later with a suitcase that contained a shredded suicide note.
More at link:
Another Clinton Associate Found DEAD, Bill & Hillarys Body Count Increases!
Cha
(298,508 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)nt
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)I've only got about 3 on there now though.
Rex
(65,616 posts)However, I would have never known how bad things were in the UK without your very informative OPs right after the vote. I will never forget the nazi propaganda photos side by side with the photo on that bus. Never. You convinced me it was xenophobia with your proof.
Thanks again for those threads btw.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Thanks for your nice words.
Speaking of the UK, it's 12:30 here and bedtime for me. Night!
Rex
(65,616 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Feron
(2,063 posts)somehow I doubt that they are worse. I did forget about that site, so thanks for the link!
It isn't just the looney left and fringe right that have issues with Hillary. But discussing her flaws, even in a constructive way, is asking to be banned here. So it's not worth my time.
Hillary isn't guaranteed a win and will need all the votes she can get. Perhaps your energies would be better used in more constructive pursuits. Hippie punching isn't going to win disaffected Bernie supporters over to Hillary.
Rex
(65,616 posts)and then build a website using it on a commodore 64. With both eyes closed.
Reminds me of DOS days.
Rex
(65,616 posts)It has to be the crappiest looking site around.
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Nor are any posters here 'punching hippies'.
I don't know any hippies who pushed right-wing memes and right-wing conspiracy theories.
85% of Bernie primary supporters say they will vote for HRC in the GE. I am one of those. Most posters there have said they won't vote for the Dem nominee, either for Stein or Donald Trump.
rockfordfile
(8,715 posts)They have always been that.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Response to cosmicone (Original post)
Renew Deal This message was self-deleted by its author.
Loki
(3,825 posts)To express that much hatred and obsession anonymously. How sad that I see some screen names that I've recognized and respected their opinions for years here on DU, who now only seem to have been wearing a mask to hide the ugliness beneath, and finding a place where their true selves can be realized, have made that cesspool their home.
pnwmom
(109,035 posts)Response to Loki (Reply #278)
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Loki
(3,825 posts)Or is this just something you imagine? I supported Obama in 2008 so I guess I never got asked, but I've actually read the disgusting postings at JPR and the only thing I have to compare it to is Free Republic for its depth of hatred, misogyny and ugly rhetoric. If you support that kind of debate, then I really don't understand where you are coming from.
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)... I see posters who I had no doubt were RW trolls all along many of them long-term DUers who joined here under the guise of being disappointed Dems who somehow never had a positive thing to say about any Democrat, or the Party as a whole.
Most of them then posed as ardent Bernie supporters but rarely if ever posted anything positive about Bernie. Instead they posted one HRC/Dem hit piece after another under cover of being for Bernie.
JPR allows them to finally drop the pretense of ever having been Dems. They extol the virtues of Republicans, the truthfulness of FOX-News, and promote leaving the Dem Party.
Its sadly amusing to watch how easily manipulated the true Bernie supporters are, being led by the nose by oh-so-obvious RWers into the kind of thinking and beliefs reflective of the conservative mindset and Republican values.
When you allow yourself to embrace every paranoid conspiracy theory about HRC and/or the Democratic Party no matter how far-fetched, how utterly ridiculous, how completely impossible to have been executed its apparent that you are incapable of thinking rationally.
Bernie is now being prepped for under-the-bus treatment at the site that was allegedly started to support him, and stand by him no matter what and once he is disposed of, the true intent of the RWers posing as BSers will become increasingly apparent.
Whether the real Bernie supporters will recognize the garden path they are being led down remains to be seen.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)Andy823
(11,496 posts)The same crowd that went after president Obama, then the party as a whole, and any politician that did not agree with them, along with anyone on DU who did not agree with them. The labeled everyone who disagreed as "3rd way", and then they became the "anyone but Hillary crowd.
We all know who their fearless leader was, and now he is in control, he sets the rules, and as one person on that site said when it first opened, "he was like Moses come to lead them", and he loves every minute of it. I think some will come to their senses and leave, but the rest, like you stated, were always right wingers and now they can hate Hillary, Obama, all the Democrats in office, and they can show their true colors. I too think Bernie will be thrown under the bus. Once he endorses Hillary he will no longer be of any use to them.
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)Their "Moses" was a blatant RWer all along, but most of his followers never recognized it.
Now he's a big fish in a very small pond - a latter-day Jim Jones passing out the koolaid.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)... that his adherents thought he was so witty, so astute in his observations, such a genius when it came to political satire.
So I Googled his name - and not so surprisingly, the ONLY sites that published his "writings" were DU and his own blog.
Funny how his political genius was never recognized by anyone other than himself and his DU contingent. I have to assume that among the millions and millions of people who populate the internetz, not a single one of them was capable of seeing what a treasure he was.
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Instead, he projected Republican Policies onto Democrats. Example: all democrats want to pass the Paul Ryan budget. But never criticized Paul Ryan.
Claimed to be a big Warren supporter, but as far as I am concerned his only interest in the great Senator Warren was as a club to beat Obama in the head.
Blatantly obvious troll to anyone paying attention.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)what going to happen.
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)The minute Warren - their beloved first choice before she opted not to run - stood up for HRC, they suddenly decided that she'd been an "establishment" Hill-shill all along.
How many once-revered progressives were thrown under the bus the second they endorsed HRC?
It is classic cult behaviour: Cut all ties with anyone who is not a "believer" lest they lead you astray from the one true path.
We've seen this with religious cults that encourage new recruits to renounce their own family members, and dissolve long-time associations with those who refuse to yield to the new order. Anyone who does not accept the cult's teachings is to be deemed "the enemy" and treated accordingly.
It's no wonder that the JPR folks are so easily led. They are members of a political cult that has encouraged them to adhere to the proscribed "group think", and discouraged from thinking for themselves.
Elizabeth Warren has been declared "the enemy" - and anyone speaking in her defense is also "the enemy". Cult behaviour - cult mindset - cult control.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Do you think they will go full Church Of Scientology on their members and get them to take personal audits so they can reveal things about themselves that can be used against them to keep them from leaving the group?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that has snared many vulnerable but willing believers. Not all, but appallingly many.
Seeing this form last year was one of the first danger signs I had about Sanders. I would never judge a candidate only by his followers, but this phenomenon definitely made me focus on what in him was attracting this type of person.
jack_krass
(1,009 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)Thanks for the !!!!!!!!!
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)...
Hekate
(91,286 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)really, really good trolls.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Casebook example...
WIProgressive88
(314 posts)A recent Pew Poll shows that 85% of us (including myself) are committed to backing Sec. Clinton, even if we may have some disagreements with her. Why use the ranting and ravings of a small a group of self-described Sanders supporters to smear the majority of us?
To me, much of this thread just shows that there are a fair number of Hillary supporters who are just as committed to dragging out the bullying (and, yes, both Hillary and Bernie supporters engaged in this behavior) and animosities of the primary season as some of the more delusional Sanders supporters. I do not see how this helps ensure that we put Sec. Clinton in the White House and not that racist, fascist, xenophobic billionaire, which needs to be priority number one.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)I would not even characterize them as BS supporters. Instead I would characterize them as Hillary haters. From the numbers of their posts on various subjects, it is clear that they actually have little interest in Sanders, as all their posts and energy are dedicated to Hillary hate.
This is not about BS supporters.
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts).... (but apparently not clear enough - sorry) that I am talking about the Bernie supporters on JPR.
I have several RL friends who were staunch BSers, but made the switch to HRC as soon as it became apparent that she would be the nominee. They loved Bernie - but never hated HRC. They always said they'd vote for the (D) whoever it turned out to be.
WIProgressive88
(314 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)... as I could have been.
WIProgressive88
(314 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)be able to jump into this election and have fun. I think GE 2016 is going to be fun times to have and I do not want any Democrat to miss out on it.
Cool for you, able to jump on board.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)These posters were not interested in the Democratic party and I do not miss these posters
KG
(28,754 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I've always hated gang mentality.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Comedy gold.
stranger81
(2,345 posts)is stunning, isn't it?
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)But one has a certain nostalgia for what it once was...
stranger81
(2,345 posts)But everything changes. It's OK. I'll see you at the new place.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)stranger81
(2,345 posts)Straight to ignore.
yuiyoshida
(41,883 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Game, set match.
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)... shall we?
DU has a TOS agreement that must be agreed to in order to post here. That TOS sets out rules for posting that include civility, not engaging in personal attacks, etc. And being this is DemocraticUnderground, it forbids prosteltyzing for Republican candidates, or encouraging fellow Dems to abandon their own party.
The fact that many JPR posters have said that the DU TOS is a "loyalty oath" makes it rather apparent that they don't know the difference between the two.
JPR, on the other hand, clearly states that it will ban members who say that Bernie is NOT the Dem nominee (which he clearly isn't), and/or those who refuse to acknowledge that HRC won the nomination by any means other than having "stolen" it.
If a post on this site is deemed inappropriate, it is judged by other DUers and removed or left alone. If a post is deemed inappropriate on JPR, the site admins simply "edit" the post to say what they want it to say. Censorship? Oh, no, of course not!
DU offers discussion on any number of diverse topics. JPR offers one discussion: How much do you hate Hillary? That single topic is sometimes disguised as being about something else, but it is ALWAYS about hating Hillary.
A DU post calling Hillary - or any woman - a "cunt" is subject to being alerted on and removed. A JPR post calling Hillary a "cunt" is not only lauded, it is actually considered to be the height of intelligent political discourse.
I think the "comedy gold" term belongs, hands down, to JPR's many, many conspiracy theories. They are (I have to admit) wondrous in their scope, amazingly creative, and absolutely award-winning in the Does anyone with a brain believe this shit? category.
CTs posted on DU are assessed on their bat-shit craziness, and are usually laughed at and criticized mercilessly. On JPR, however, there is no CT that is deemed too bat-shit crazy to be accepted as indisputable fact.
I have had my "problems" with DU and the way it is run, and I have posted about that often. But that doesn't change the fact that this site is far and away more progressive in its outlook, more liberal in its attitude, and more tolerant of differing political opinions that JPR is, or will ever be.
There is also the obvious fact that DUers are far more educated about how the political process works, as well as how government works. Many of the posts on JPR demonstrate a complete ignorance of both, and are downright ridiculous in their "interpretations" of same.
Comedy gold? Absolutely. We are all awaiting the "comedy gold" that will manifest itself on JPR when Bernie endorses HRC - and the site allegedly started to support him turns into a "fuck that traitor" site.
It's good times ahead for those of who knew that JPR was being run by RWers all along - not so good for those who will finally realize they got taken in by the flim-flam men.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Jesus, when you spend your life trying to fuck the same woman who turned you down at Cornel.....
Note to jury....no DUers were mentioned or harmed in the making of this post.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Hope some DUer brings examples of the best stuff over here so we can all share in the merriment.
I will not set foot in that swamp of ignorance.
Spazito
(50,786 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)BainsBane
(53,142 posts)This thread is not about DU.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Far be it for me to suggest people find other hobbies than obsessing about what other message board participants (current and ex) are saying. For fuck's sake.
And if you look through this thread, you'll see the names of currently active DU members being thrown around, so in that regard in most certainly IS meta.
I realize that DU talking about DU or what ex-DU members said or who said what on DU or talking about the talking about the people who said that other thing on DU or this opinion was expressed by someone associated with DU or whatnot is an endlessly fascinating activity, but personally I don't really give a shit. And I strongly think it's one of the most fundamentally toxic behaviors that has fucked this place up, over the years.
I'm here to talk politics, not talk about the other people who talk politics. YMMV.
I'm not a member of the other site, but if people have a place to express their opinions that they're more comfortable with, who gives a shit? The primaries are over, anyone who can't support the nominee isn't going to be very comfortable on DU. So they went somewhere else. Isn't that what everyone wanted? Is it really necessary to follow them all over the internet?
Seems sort of childish.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)Including advocating voting for Donald Trump. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7991362
And writing the foulest, misogynistic vulgarities I've ever read. The US Constitution guarantees it. I myself happen to disagree with it strongly. And given that some of them now urging that people vote for Trump have insisted the rest of us don't qualify as real Democrats, one can't help but notice the irony.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)the question is whether it's really any good for this place to act like the people who spend their time monitoring other sites they disagree with.
Personally, I've got better shit to do. Don't you?
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)Given your outrage at DUers who posted at other sites.
I only read that site when someone links to it. My stomach is too weak to devote time to it.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)of you not giving a shit what was posted at other sites just a couple short months ago?
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)should be exposed to the light of day, given that some would seek to impose those same values on the Democratic Party. I don't believe the party should be controlled by elements that insist the worst form of "racism" is faced by white men, who make misogynistic vulgarity the center of their political ideology, and are willing to see SCOTUS make a sharp turn to the right, reimplement torture, nuke Syria, and build a wall along the border. We've seen reactionary ideas championed as "progressive" for far too long. It needs to be exposed for the morally bankrupt bullshit it is.
As for the irony of your directing that meme at me, I couldn't hope to compete with you in that regard. I'll stick to what I actually care about, and that's the party and the election, among other issues.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Can't people "evolve"? Only reason I ever gave a crap about the situation you describe, IIRC, assuming we're talking about the same one-- was that I was being called out by name there. That's how it came to my attention in the first place.
But I learned since then that answering drama with more drama is not only hypocritical, it's counterproductive.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 9, 2016, 12:56 AM - Edit history (1)
in that it's about political viewpoint rather than particular posters, so I suppose in that sense it lacks the usual excitement.
Considering I myself was within the past few months falsely accused of being someone who posted something some interpreted as antisemetic, and was hounded repeatedly for something I neither wrote nor believe, I feel no particular responsibility to protect a site that busies itself promoting a GOP presidential nominee and GOP congressmen.
Seems to me that a genuine concern for the lack of drama would have led you to simply avoid this thread. Yet here you are.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)There are current, active DU members being directly and deliberately called out by name in this very thread.
That to me sounds like it meets the textbook definition.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)There was an OP with a screencap of another site where they were discussing trying to get an alert on a current DU'er (not you). I won't link to it because it's a DU post and it is directly about a current DUer, and that would be inappropriate.
In that matter, because it involved the discussion of a DUer on "your side," your criticism was aimed at the posters on the other website.
We are in General Election mode, and consequently we are all on the same side now. This time, for some reason, your criticism is aimed instead at DUers who have chosen to discuss and expose a rather vile, misogynistic website site that exists mostly to oppose the Democratic nominee and other Democrats, with a blossoming and spreading contingent who are advocating for Trump.
It just seems odd.
Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)And I could swear that a few of the fervent monitors of what a DUer says on another site were among those calling the same thing creepy and stalky a few months ago when another DUer made an incredibly antisemitic post on another forum.
I'm a member at Jackpine radicals and here. I'm comfortable at both even though there's folk at both who post things I find objectionable. I dunno. I can think of a million more productive things to do than complain about the rules at a forum I'm not a member of.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Yeah, I don't have much time for DU, even, these days. I haven't signed up for the other site, I haven't -not- signed up, either. I've said I'm supporting the nominee, so abiding by DU's rules regarding such every 4 years isn't too hard for me.
So yes, to all you say, here.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)Response to Violet_Crumble (Reply #387)
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JTFrog
(14,274 posts)I've seen the majority of folks in this thread, especially those in defense mode, engaged heavily in said toxic behaviors over the years.
And DU has quite the history of bashing extremists on other websites. For whatever that's worth.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)...once posted on Hillaryis44?
I did.
Many of those DUers you are proclaiming "good riddance" to were thoughtful posters here, donors, locally active Democrats. This site is less without them.
I also seem to recall that you wrote one of the most scathing rebukes of Clinton I can recall reading on this site.
Good riddance to you too?
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 9, 2016, 10:08 AM - Edit history (2)
My sig line links discuss not only my early endorsement of Hillary but my past history with articles about her. This has been explained to you and the folks who currently inhabit JPR many times.
JPR folk spent their time being nasty to other DUers when they were here and couldn't deal with being civil so they left. They now spend their time supporting the Republican nominee for President, hawking every imaginable conspiracy against Hillary and other Democrats and generally being completely bonkers.
That doesn't compare to me or other current DUers at all.
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WIProgressive88
(314 posts)The thread's goal seems to be to continue to stir up animosities between Hillary and Bernie supporters, which is not surprising given who started the thread. I am one of the 85% of Bernie supporters who is already committed to making Hillary our next president and I have no interest in the JPR site, but threads like this prove that many Hillary supporters are just as intent on continuing to wage old primary battles as some of the more delusional Sanders supporters who they criticize. Time to move on...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)who were part of their community take off their masks and reveal themselves to be either bizarrely different, or exactly who they were suspected to be but bizarrely more so, on another site. A major gossip thread, yes, but also discussion of a rather shocking wake-up to the fact that people who were hanging with them on a Democratic site and supporting a Cemocratic candidate can really be implacable enemies of the Democratic Party.
Mike Nelson
(10,015 posts)...and a few other threads over there... my opinion is that they include an awful lot of Republicans masquerading as Liberals.
Renew Deal
(81,935 posts)Because they will not be able to stand the disagreement of a primary in 2020. They will turn on each other.
That place is boring as can be. No disagreement and nothing to support at the same time.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Democratic party hate. Now I only have to read their garbage if I visit their site, which I have zero interest in doing.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)and sad to say, it's usually from a friend. I immediately nuke 'em.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Response to leftofcool (Reply #410)
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Loki
(3,825 posts)and we don't call women we don't agree with names like the "c" word or "b" word that seems so readily acceptable over there. I definitely have a problem with that, I would hope that you do too.
Response to cosmicone (Reply #328)
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)If my favorite sports team loses, my life is not severely affected.
If Hillary loses and Trump wins, my life will suffer as will that of millions of others.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)think
(11,641 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)...these days. No exaggeration.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)No exaggeration...
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)the parody of JPR
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Yes, you should hear that in Alan Rickman's Snape voice.
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)No exaggeration!
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Given you think a hate site is the same as DU.
Response to joshcryer (Reply #343)
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Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)You?
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)So I'm tending to write it off as a case of people flinging meta mud in all directions.
My view as a non us DUer is the op and many responses aren't doing anything towards healing the rift in the party.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Those people are not who we need to get on board with healing the rift in the party. They were never on board and they don't intend to be.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)It should be obvious that isn't a difference within the Democratic party.
...
Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)And I don't think a huge meta thread with specific DUers being called out and nasty stuff said about them is good for DU. It's time for people to build a bridge and get over the primaries, and it appears to me that there's a fair few folk who aren't interested in that and can't leave others who have decided to move on alone. This thread sucks and makes DU suck and if it's the way things are going to continue to be, it's going to get very boring very quick, which then leads to folk like me who weren't even involved in the primaries bickering giving up rather than reading repetitive nasty meta crap like all this stuff....
GusBob
(7,286 posts)The primaries are indeed over. The rift now is Hillary or Trump
DU is for her. She will be the next president
Who are you for?
Violet_Crumble
(35,997 posts)I dunno, do you want to take a stab at who I'm for out of those two? I'll give you a few hints to steer you in the right direction. I've been at DU for 14 years, I'm left-wing and not American, which means that I see US politics as the Democratic Party being centrist and the Republicans being batshit crazy dangerous fuckers. Is that enough of a hint as to who I'm for? It's just I don't think I'll be as excited about it all as I was about Obama when he won the first time round.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)The folks at JPR are there now instead of here because they can't handle rules to be civil.
That right there tells you all you need to know about the folks there versus the folks here.
Besides, I've seen already indications that when JPR folks aren't focused on hating Hillary or those of us here, they turn on each other with some frequency. There is a lot of nastiness there.
It's like I said, they can't handle being civil.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)to defend JPR. Look at the nasty and snarky statements made by those folks, the worst you can't read by the way because there are posts removed.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Mosby
(16,464 posts)I guess they felt that was too disruptive somehow.
think
(11,641 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)because it is demeaning to ALL women.
We don't call our black opponents the N word -- not even Clarence Thomas -- because it is demeaning to all people of color.
We support the democratic/progressive candidates even though they may not be 100% in line with our views -- by not letting good be the enemy of perfect.
We appreciate someone's life-long work as a democrat and work promoting progressive causes.
We are acutely aware of what GWB presidency did to millions of people and don't want to risk a Trump presidency in order to feel our purity.
think
(11,641 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)You seem to think he/she is wrong about something.
think
(11,641 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)broad a brush.
What part of cosmicone's post was painted with too broad a brush?
think
(11,641 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)you should say it.
think
(11,641 posts)without actually saying they are speaking of the other.
By stating what DU doesn't do the OP was INSINUATING that those at another site do those things.
Capiche?
Squinch
(51,127 posts)And the OP asked a pretty direct question. There was no insinuation there.
think
(11,641 posts)It's a fairly simple concept.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)things that make little sense, or you can answer the question: what was it about cosmicone's post about DU that you thought was painted with too broad a brush?
think
(11,641 posts)go on....
Squinch
(51,127 posts)about DU was painted with a broad brush.
If you have nothing to say, why pretend that you do?
think
(11,641 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)think
(11,641 posts)I'm sorry if that doesn't make sense to you...
Squinch
(51,127 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)There is no insinuation there. It's pretty direct.
think
(11,641 posts)You're post, #364, is in direct response to my post, #356, which is in response to the OP's post #352 is it not?,
Squinch
(51,127 posts)there is still no insinuation. Someone asked how DU is different from the other site. Cosmicone gave clear examples of how. There is no insinuation there. It was quite direct. And you said he/she was using a broad brush, but you will not say what about his/her post you consider to be broadly brushed.
At any rate, I feel certain after all of this that you have absolutely nothing of interest to say, so I am going to get off here. You will need to have the last word, and I feel certain it will be some cryptic non sequitur, and frankly those cryptic non sequiturs became boring a long time ago.
So have at it. See ya.
think
(11,641 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)about when you said it was painted with too broad a brush?
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Simple calculus. All it takes is reading any given day's worth of threads posted here and compare them to threads posted there. Their threads are clearly about hate. Our threads are about love, supporting Democrats, and beating Trump (though we're not particularly concerned about it, because he's a failure of a candidate, contrast that to the opinion of Trump at that hate site, for a huge discrepancy).
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Response to cosmicone (Reply #352)
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PoutrageFatigue
(416 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)is a hate site. If the shoe fits...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Which is pretty much a litmus test for being an awful human being.
Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, and the membership of Just Plain Republicans. Trump supporters all have one thing in common.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)whole host of reasons why this website is different.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)and got lost in character.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)apcalc
(4,465 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)especially if a member of 'protected' groups.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)That's so sad. No one should be allowed to do that!
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)BainsBane
(53,142 posts)so they did disagree with him.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7991362
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Response to zappaman (Reply #472)
Surya Gayatri This message was self-deleted by its author.
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Caught in the act.....Bwaaahaaaaaaa!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Yes, indeed, a constant source of mirth and merriment they are.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=271787
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)their inner core of hatred for the Democratic Party and our nominee.
Numbers don't lie.
Notice in particular how very concerned they are with down-ticket races.
2x the topics and 3x the replies against the Democratic party and the nominee as there are about Mr. Sanders himself or anything connected to him.
Numbers don't lie.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)I noticed, I noticed. Nothing but one, great big, unhinged hatefest for HRC over there.
Their fig-leaf is "Bernie Supporting", but the post count belies that fiction.
The misogyny and sexism displayed by the worst offenders borders on "certifiably deranged".
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)then the collective denizens of that place are working very hard on it.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)The only thing they care about is making Trump president. And to think these people used to be on DU pretending to be progressives!
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Tell you everything you need to know right there.
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Renew Deal
(81,935 posts)Cha
(298,508 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)It's that site where no one is allowed to disagree with anyone who says that Bernie WILL BE the nominee!!!
It's the site where no one is allowed to acknowledge the bleedin' obvious (that HRC won the nomination) without also acknowledging that she "stole" the election!
It's the site where conspiracy theories are accepted as fact, as long as the "facts" point to tens of thousands of people being "in on the fix"!
JPR: You'll come for the poutrage, you'll stay for the CTs!!!!!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)betsuni
(25,983 posts)I love all your comments!
Renew Deal
(81,935 posts)No criticism of Bernie allowed. No promoting of the Democratoc nominee allowed. But using the c word, cheering on republicans, and supporting Trump is fine. No one has the guts to tell the republicans on that site to get lost.
betsuni
(25,983 posts)Really enjoyed the thread, thank you everybody. I'm so glad all this is out in the open and feeble attempts at defending or pretending that the hateful behavior doesn't exist are easily shut down.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)supporters are good and sane people, and I think DUs Bernie supporters always knew that we are good and sane people.
But conversations between us were always completely hijacked and overwhelmed by people who we KNEW were trolling us, who we KNEW had really nothing to do with Sanders and everything to do with hating Hillary.
Bringing those haters to light allows us to be allies again. It allows us to see that there really were people who were here for no reason other than sabotage and making sure we never had a civil conversation.
I really think shining the light on these people will go very far in showing us our commonality, and showing us that we never actually were enemies even though it often seemed like it during the primaries.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)not some, but a LOT of people I have gotten to know over the years that I really respect, admire, value, appreciate, that were on the other side.
I still respect, admire, value, appreciate, these posters.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)So, that's one good outcome!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)And I agree it is a good outcome. I have enjoyed you the last year and much better for me to get along, than not.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)DU has so much to offer.
mcar
(42,534 posts)So well stated Squinch.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Omg. I cannot believe the hate at that site. Glad to see people like that not posting over here and bothering good democrats.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)damn.... Lol.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)....is necessary. Like part of a house cleaning project after some room mates have moved out?
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)betsuni
(25,983 posts)And for people who can be civil. Why this was a mysterious concept until now I don't know.
BlueMTexpat
(15,381 posts)and the names posted in highlighted responses to this OP, almost all of that site's posters are already on my DU Iggy List.
If I don't want to see them here, I am not willing to venture over there to view their bile.
In a somewhat-related tangent, I made the mistake of responding to a Facebook post by one of my grandsons (19), who happens to be sweet, but fairly clueless politically. His dad was practically an adult before I married into the family and is also sweet but slightly more attuned politically because he is a union member.
My grandson and I know, love and mutually respect each other and he really does want to learn. But he is fighting against an upstream current since he lives in a "red" part of MD. He posted something about Rand Paul and how he was more honest than Hillary. I, of course, had to respond that Hillary was not only NOT dishonest, but had been continuously slandered, smeared and lied about for 25+ years and had not done anything wrong. He took it fairly well and, I know, will think about it. But one of his acquaintances - whom I don't know and who doesn't know me at all and who wasn't even part of the conversation - tore into me very nastily (I don't believe that he realized that I was my grandson's grandmother by marriage) and said that the only reason that I would support (nasty description) Hillary is because I too am a woman. I responded by listing some of Hillary's accomplishments and noted that, as a lawyer myself, I found the trumped-up charges against her without merit. I also mentioned that I would not be answering him again. He responded nonetheless and his response was that because I was a lawyer, I must be wealthy (LOL - comfortable, but hardly wealthy!!) and so anything I said had no credibility.
But I remain amazed and disheartened by what passes for logic among too many - and especially among our millennials. More unfortunately, too many of those on the "other" site discussed here do not even have the excuse of being young and un/misinformed.
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GusBob
(7,286 posts)Word to the wise: they hate Barack Obama too.
For years he has been lambasted on this forum every fucking "third way" day there were posts criticizing him.
Spare me your blind loyalty bullshit, OK?
Squinch
(51,127 posts)free to disagree without trashing, you are free to criticize without trashing. The only thing you are not free to do is shill for Donald Trump. And yes, all the poor dears who WANT to shill for Donald Trump are being stymied in that. But on the bright side, now there is a place where they can go and find friends. So everyone wins.
whathehell
(29,137 posts)Katha Pollitt, writer.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)whathehell
(29,137 posts)and it's good to see you too, Sea...,You're right. We
haven't crossed patths in awhile.
mcar
(42,534 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)was a well respected DU poster.
His ideals live on at JPR.
I'm so honored I was a friend of him
Look at his journal.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/~Jackpine%20Radical
Dare you to condemn any of his ideas.
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Cary
(11,746 posts)He had his life and he will not have to suffer the consequences of a President Trump.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)Your answer is just asinine.
Cary
(11,746 posts)And my post is not assinine. You want to know what's assinine?
Do you support the jackpineradical idea of voting for Jill Stein if one lives in a blue state and Trump if one lives in a swing state?
That's assinine.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)shares none of his values. They defiled his memory by naming that dumpster fire of a website after him.
Jackpine Radical would NEVER advocate voting for Donald Trump for President or cheer on Congressional Republicans, or rely on fucking 4chan for rumors to peddle about Democrats.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)But all open sites have some that defile the main premise of the purpose.
Look at here. Maybe not so much at this exact current date, but I've been here a long time and have seen things, well read things I would never believe.
This is supposed to be a PROGRESSIVE site. Not a corporate loving, groveling damn any democrat but the chosen site.
We used to be able to have a rational discussion about politics, about policies, a real give and take, a learning experience.
Now it's just about bowing down and giving reverence.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)equals "corporate loving, groveling damn any democrat but the chosen."
The reason there is no longer any give and take begins with positions like these.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)In fact, when someone advocated voting for Clinton so as not to let Trump win, she was called a troll and had her posts censored.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)It's painful to see his name used that way.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)That has not stopped people in India from opening "Gandhi Meat and Fish Market" or "Gandhi Liquors"
Just because a name is given to an enterprise doesn't mean anything.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,850 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Spazito
(50,786 posts)after his death is very, very sad.
He was able to disagree without being disagreeable and did so often with harmless humor. I never saw a post of his that was misogynistic or even intimate he would be supportive of the kind of invective found on that site. Maybe I missed them but I don't think so. Do you think he would have been supportive of the kinds of posts we have seen found there?
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)on a site created to carry on his legacy.
At all.
He & I interacted quite a bit here... WI Dems are tight.
Spazito
(50,786 posts)For all the years I read his posts I never saw him being anything but kind and often humorous in his responses to those with whom he disagreed. I quite liked him because of the manner in which he interacted with other DUers, always with respect never with invective or personal attacks.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)He was a builder, not a destroyer.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)His handle has been appropriated for use at a haven of dead-ender cultists, trolls, tinfoil hatters, KGB bootlickers, and people who are so blinded by their hatred of Clinton or so intellectually dishonest they would rather vote for the closest thing America's had to a fascist running on a major party ticket than someone who's not nearly as left-leaning as Sanders.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Replete with cockamamie Bernsplainin as to why voting for Trump is a true progressive thing to do.
Wow. Just wow.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)the most important issue is the supreme court because the next POTUS will shape the country for at least 30 years with 3-4 appointments.
Anyone who supports Trump because of anger at losing to Hillary is cutting their nose to spite theirs and millions of people's faces.
Astonishingly, Bernie's important issue of campaign finance reform (which I support) will become a victim of supporting Trump not to mention women's right to choose, LGBT rights and consumer protections. Bernie is smart enough to realize it -- wish his supporters would be equally wise.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Strip away rhetoric sophistry and that's what's left. It what happens to human brains when bathed in a constwnt stream hate.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)because we weren't pure like them, and now they're all voting for Trump.
It's truly crazy!
Cary
(11,746 posts)Andy823
(11,496 posts)It's the ones who only "claim" to support him, but their real agenda seems to be more of a "right wing" agenda. They are the problem, and they are not really supporting Bernie, or Bernie's ideas.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)for a site used to trash the Democratic Nominee.
Now I am all for them having that site. I think it is a good thing for them to give their opinions and keep friendships online. But I think considering how respected Jackpine Radical was and is here they might consider renaming the site.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)wehatehillary.com
forevertrump.com
or
ineedalaxative.com
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)It won't happen unfortunately, and since the momentum of the site is virtually unchangeable at this point--it will become just another conspiracy theory site, flagged by watch groups and generally despised---that it drags a good mans name into that mess is beyond sad.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)and we all bonded pretty tightly during the uprising. He was always kind, respectful and reasonable. I think he'd be ashamed to be associated with a lot of what's happening on a site which bears his name.
stonecutter357
(12,701 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Authoritarian streak and victim complex can result in paranoia.
MH1
(17,686 posts)(just curious, I believe you. and yeah I could google but you sound like you know what you're talking about)
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Since I am lazy, will refer you to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging
MH1
(17,686 posts)that is to be monitored?
So if you say JPR has a keylogger, isn't that basically like a virus, a bit of code that will install on the pc when you access their web page?
LOL, I have a brand new computer that came with a trial for McAfee so I haven't installed Norton on it yet. McAfee "site report" doesn't show me any threats for JPR.
(I have only peeked there out of curiosity. At this time not planning to sign up for an account. But I will be interested to see how that site evolves after a) Bernie endorses Hillary and b) the November election, which will presumably be won by Hillary.)
herding cats
(19,569 posts)Here's a quick google list of such:
https://www.google.com/search?q=website+script+keylogger&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)There seems to be a lot of Men's Rights Activists at that site.
The promiscuous use of the C word is disturbing.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)In the aftermath of all this, the effect of MRA's and gamergaters and Your general, unapologetic sexist will be a most interesting analysis. Of all the things I was NOT surprised by this primary cycle--the behavior and alliance of those types was number one.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Do you think it emanates from a loss of control or a problem with relationships?
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)I have a friend who was so into conspiracy theory it ended up being his death---he didn't trust cancer treatments, because they were a tool of "big Pharma"--what was worse was watching the devolution of his mental state. Horrible. And fear based
We have a country whose power structure is rapidly changing. Straight white males are falling from their perch as the ultimate power brokers. The unreasoning and quite frankly bizarre reactions to Hillary we see at sites like JPR, are not, as they apparently think, anger at "the system" but fear of loss of power. Plenty of women post there, self-avowed feminists, even, yet aside from a couple small arguments, they accept the misogyny, they are stewing in it because it is ultimately a "known" quality, and therefore quite comfortable.
I have a friend who used to say if you step in fresh dogshit at first it feels warm and soft and you don't noticed the stink until you stir it up. That's not what's happening at JPR--The stink is there, ----remaining becomes a choice.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)It's like watching Men's Rights Activists and the women who love em.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)There are legitimate criticisms of Hillary Clinton--mistakes she's made, things she's said, action she's taken, but none of them, NONE of them should result in the widespread sexist/misogynistic response you see from what claims to be a progressive site. A man would not get the same treatment, how do we know this? History.
Progressive by definition means going forward for the benefit of society-- more or less-- the origin of the term is from the early 1900's--That mean rights for subjugated and the oppressed in real time, not rehashing a 2008 campaign to the detriment of the 2016 one, not using the RW as "sources" when it has a well documented track record of Hillary hatred that is based on the antithesis of every thing a progressive stands for. There are other examples, very easy to find. So when you have women veer away from legitimate criticisms to repeating RW based lies--which is the patriarchy in its purest form IMO, you have women who are simply participating in it without thought or analysis. It's very sad to watch.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)If there were superfunds available for toxic websites it would make an excellent recipient. I see nothing good coming out of it.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Even if it started with a single good intention instead of hate for a single individual, perhaps the momentum could be interrupted. I don't see that happening.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Maybe it will all get better of you call them sexist and racist one more time?
Hating one Democratic politician - because of what she has come to represent to them - is not the same as going full GOP cheerleading squad. Face it: during the primaries, so many untrue things have been said about Sanders' supporters in defense of the now presumptive nominee, that comparing them to GOP cheerleaders is hardly going to register anymore.
A better title for your OP would have been: we have done our nominee a great disservice by connecting her to all the vitriol we spewed during the primaries. And here are the fruits of our labours: mostly poisonous. Do you guys have an idea on how to mend the bridges we have been burning? Because we need those votes, and what is more: we need that wing of our party.
Fair enough?
Squinch
(51,127 posts)And, once again, the Democratic party is very nicely united behind Hillary, so it would appear we have already mended the bridges.
The lunatic fringe that site represents was never going to vote for the Democrat anyhow. They really like that GOP, judging from their own words.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Cary
(11,746 posts)Who are you crapping? The people at issue have no intention of being accommodated or mollified.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)"Hating one Democratic politician" your exact words, tells me all I need to know. I can still talk about Bernie here and do it in a way that is not derogatory or hateful and I feel perfectly comfortable doing so. There is nothing hateful that I want to say about him, but at JPR, hatred is all they have and you're telling me I need to allow that ignorance to be an acceptable way to discuss what we bring to the table or I'm going to lose your support? I don't need that kind of support and don't know anyone who would want it.
DemocratSinceBirth
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PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)But I know another site that is definitely on the path to FR 2.0.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)First a predicate. I scored -7s on the Political Compass so I consider myself a man of the left. I also consider myself moored to reality and aware of how much change can reasonably be achieved.
I had a close friend on this board, Cassandra, who was well to the left of me, and started her own board;Progressive Independent. We were so close that we used to talk on the phone. Despite having different political orientations we were able to see issues through the lens of one another. That was impossible with many of the Piners.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)deathrind
(1,786 posts)Creepy...
chknltl
(10,558 posts)....which would a non-partisan student of political sistems attribute to current DU, Free Republic and Jackpine Radical? Which would the majority posters on each attribute to their own and to the other two. I have little doubt that these answers would be quite illuminating.
On a related note, I am currently a fan of Free Speech TV.
Back in the days when Kieth Olberman was popular around here I was a fan of MSNBC. I was also a fan of the radio version of Rachel Maddow back then. Then things changed. Kieth lost his job, Rachel decided it was a good idea to let big money decide what she could and could not say.
I no longer watch MSNBC. Sadly the very reasons I can no longer support MSNBC with my viewership has drifted over to Free Speech TV. IMO The Stephanie Miller Show is likely following in the footsteps of Rachel Maddow. There are still quite a few good shows to learn from on FSTV like Thom Hartmann, David Packman, Ring of Fire, and of course Amy Goodman's Democracy Now but if they follow Rachel Maddow's lead i will be done with FSTV as well. I am just not all that into propaganda.
My point is that my principles are not the things which have changed over these years, what changed was where i get my information from. You see, I DO believe in democracy. I know the difference between a dictatorship an oligarchy and a democracy.
I may not have the most refined bullshit sniffer at DU but as long as i let my knowledge of those three forms of governance be my guide, i think i will be ok in finding the places to avoid and the places to get my news and enlightenment.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)like most people,
You should have no problem supporting Hillary Clinton. She won more states, more delegates, more votes and more super delegates (who themselves are ELECTED by people).
Secondly, if so many radio and TV programs are leaving your "favorite" list, could it be that the problem is not them but it is you? Ideals are great but inflexibility is not. We never get anything ideal. We compromise when we buy a house, a car, take a job --- none of those give us 100% of what we want. Why should it be any different when millions more of our like-minded brethren have chosen a less than perfect candidate?
Amirite?
deepcover
(76 posts)It only took me 4 posts to get kicked out of such a free speech site. Just a bad word about their idol and off you go. Ugly replies ugly people who seem lost..
I can usually get in 6 at FR before the ZOT comes. No real discussions just ad homs
sad
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)PatSeg
(47,914 posts)Peacetrain
(22,902 posts)I looked through the areas.. read some of the posts.. and the sexism was so rampant.. it made my skin crawl.. I understand they do not like HRC.. but the inability to see that attacking someone using gender slang.. is an attack on all women is apparently not obvious to some..
And I saw names of people I truly enjoyed chatting with.. arguing with.. no we do not know each other in RL.. but they had good points of view that we could debate back and forth.. and for the most part agreed on most things of substance.. we disagreed on candidates but not philosophy..
And to see them there.. made me really sad, and wish I had not followed the link..
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)but to give them credit, they may hate Hillary too but I've never seen them flinging the c-word around on those sites.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)but at the same time I am glad to have learned who those people really are.
Until a few days ago, there was an entire forum at JPR dedicated to trashing DU and DUers. Many of those posters I had liked were in that forum, trashing people here in a way that was pretty stunning to me.
I am glad to have had my eyes opened. What I am really sorry about is that I was taken in by trolls.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)If there's so much interest here on this topic, why not post about it?
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)I could get a thread up that high by talking shit about people we all kind of know. Gossip sells, doesn't mean it isn't bullshit.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)I didn't realize it was petty drama.
And hate site? you should be ashamed of yourself. Seriously.
Rex
(65,616 posts)We weren't even allowed to bring up the name on DU2! That place has the biggest lowlife scum on the planet. Anyone that would post there is hopeless.
portlander23
(2,078 posts)We will be surrounded by enemies.
How about we care about this board instead?
xocet
(3,877 posts)Extending quote-mining to post-mining only constructs a false image of the object of the behavior - especially when the mined posts are used to form a stereotype.
It is unclear how much overlap exists between DU and JPR, but this sort of unthinking, gloating derision directed at posters whose company one has kept for years is at best not useful.
Good luck to the Democratic Party if this exemplifies its future.
And what exactly are the good members of Jackpineradicals doing over there?
Pfeh.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Because that's my bar for reprehensible posts.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,480 posts)When you look at the topics they post on, you find, by number of replies:
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/forum/main/
GD 6,996
Hillary Clinton & the Third Way 3,218
News 3,175
"Bar & Grill" 2,870
Clinton Email Investigation and Timeline 2,536
Help & Q&A 1,631
All Things Bernie 1,220
And if you look in their GD, you find the popular threads are about Hillary. But Hillary herself is wildly unpopular there:
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/anybody-here-planning-to-vote-for-hrc-in-november/
The answer to "anybody planning to vote for HRC in November?" is "no". That is a website founded on loathing of the Democratic party. Of course a site founded on supporting the Democratic party is going to have bad things to say about it. It's not 'quote-mining'; it's looking at that site's fundamental ideology.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Well said
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)a website where they can gloat about their trollery here. Nothing wrong with discussing that, being that we are on the receiving end of said trollery.
On the bright side, they HAVE suddenly disappeared their forum that was dedicated to trashing DU and DUers. So I guess there's that.
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rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)over a website he created in support of Hillary Clinton and nowhere on that site is anything misogynist, or in support of Republicans of any stripe. I think Bill deserves an apology. He had some of the nastiest homophobic shit thrown at him. He supports Democrats 24/7.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)He's a loyal Democrat and a good man. He is also deeply concerned about bigotry of all kinds.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)toward BS supporters.
They had, up until a few days ago, an entire forum dedicated to trashing DU and people who post on DU. It was one long hate fest about all of us.
But, you know, it's totally different. Because they are pure and we are oligarchs and banksters.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)was the most vicious and vitriolic towards a DU member I have ever seen. It was designed to hurt his feelings for no other reason than a political disagreement.
Shame that that attack was allowed to stand. I am happy that the admins have improved the site so such attacks will not be possible and civility will reign.
George II
(67,782 posts)mcar
(42,534 posts)We Shouldn't hold our breath, though. Bill's site is great and he has been treated horribly by some.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)What made it even worse, was that jurors let that stand.
That sicko still has it displayed in his journal.
Spazito
(50,786 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)One of the things I see when JPR people are defending the shit that is posted--'not everyone agrees with that' 'some of us don't like that word' 'not all are voting for trump' etc.
When that shit with Bill's site went down EVERY person that supported Hillary (cept maybe a few) were blamed for every single 'bad' thing that may/may not have been said there. EVERY ONE. There's a member of JPR that went out of HER way to say if you're posting there then you condone it. You are the company you keep, etc. Another one that also wanted to shit on every Hillary supporter that posted there. The list goes on.
At the time those epic threadS (yes plural) were up most of the people that are complaining about 'not everyone' didn't want to hear that shit when it was Bill's site. And that shit went on for days. Active DU members called out repeatedly. Some didn't even know what was going on.
Hell, people still bring up that site up and hate all over it.
I've never been a member there so I can't comment on what's posted there.
What I can comment on is rank stinking hypocrisy of the people that attacked Bill & Hillary supporters.
They created a site where they could go. Y'all wouldn't leave them alone. You had to know what was being said then drag it here for epic flame wars. Making DU suck for everyone else. I barely posted here it got so badand I was an O'Malley supporter.
Seems like the karma bus is making it's round and no one want's to take their well deserved ride.
as a note: I remember those threads so well because I was a host at the time. I don't post much, but I see a lot.
BooScout
(10,406 posts)Bill and other Hillary supporters have been accused of every vile thing that folks can think of this past year....with no thought given as to whether any of the allegations and charges were true. The intent was to wound and smear, truth be damned.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)betsuni
(25,983 posts)Response to seabeyond (Reply #1030)
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ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)I keep being tempted to say, "Oh, yes. He's over there too."
Jury: this is not about a current DU member.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)#notsurprised
MADem
(135,425 posts)Cha
(298,508 posts)nominee for President, Hillary Clinton!
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)is evidence of the control BS supporters had over this board. There is absolutely no excuse for the fact that the person who spewed such filth is still a member of this site.
Bill always has and always will stand head and shoulders above that disturbingly hate filled individual.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)uncalled for ugly ass bs
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Not in the least. Bill is a great Guy.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I find it sad that people went there and left here with a gbcw. Anybody who dislikes the full on sexism should run away from there as fast as they can and delete their account. Can't believe they had the gall to harass Bill for a full year. Glad they took the masks off.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)If you know what I mean
greatauntoftriplets
(175,801 posts)Response to cosmicone (Original post)
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(71,265 posts)Response to hrmjustin (Reply #697)
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Praising Trey Gowdy and the other progressive House Republicans like him is very progressive as well.
No one fights harder for progressive policy than Rep Chaffetz of Utah. No wonder he is a hero there.
Banning female members who object to calling women "cunts" also is extremely progressive.
Everyone knows you can't be a real progressive unless you actively call women bitches, cunts, and whores while praising Republicans and praying for a Trump presidency.
I could go on and on about how progressive that site is.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)Praise Gowdy, Mitch McConnell and Chaffetz, while conservatives vote for Democrats.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)and are voting for Trump
Squinch
(51,127 posts)hatred for the Democratic candidate, conspiracy theories that no sane person would credit...
...Son, I think you've been had.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 9, 2016, 05:23 PM - Edit history (2)
Not much as far as I can tell.
I see Cali pushing back on some of the worst disinformation disseminated there, and for that she gets smeared as an HRC troll. There's even a thread where she defends our primary candidate Bernie Sanders against some stupid attacks made by other posters there, and for that she's smeared as a HRC troll as well.
Do you push back on the more egregious disinformation/misinformation there? Do you educate those who praise regressive Republicans by showing their voting records? Did you educate those trashing Elijah Cummings about his voting record and history? How amazing he was during the gun sit in?
Do you point out that no one murdered Vince Foster? Argue against baseless conspiracy theory and taking Fox 'News' at face value?
Do you point out that Trump's positions are egregious and go against everything Bernie and the progressive moment stands for?
Defend posters like Luminous Animal who are uncomfortable with calling women cunts? Get mad and speak out when they get banned for expressing that discomfort?
Were you uncomfortable when posters suggested in a leering manner that the female mods are having sex with the site founder?
If so good on you! Unfortunately it will probably eventually get you banned.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)And no one is trying to dissuade those people from voting for him.
And no one is calling out any of the insane conspiracy theories.
And no one is calling out any of the crap right wing sources.
The only things that are being called out are those posters who request that the virulent sexism be toned down. Those people get yelled at but good.
Bleacher Creature
(11,259 posts)Some are open about it by virtue of planning to vote for him. The problem is that EVERYONE ELSE on that site will either vote Green, Libertarian, stay home, or write in another candidate.
Make no mistake, anyone who doesn't vote against Trump by voting for the Democratic candidate is improving his chances, which in my book constitutes support.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)That's not a Dem/Liberal conversation, there--it sounds like Fox News!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Real progressives wouldn't be there!
MADem
(135,425 posts)denigrate people? I know I'm sometimes slow on the uptake and am the last to get the joke, but if that is for real, there's some major unhappiness happening over in that end of the web-isphere.
smDh!!!
There's a lot of anger and rage and bitterness on that page. It's unreasonable, too. That kind of stuff is bad for anyone's health!
emulatorloo
(44,303 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Who knew?
revmclaren
(2,593 posts)The light needs to be kept shinning on JPR and sites like it so that if someone says "hey, check out JPR. They let you say what you want there." the response can be "Heard all about it, not interested in a right-wing pro-trump hate site."
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)stay over there from here on out and leave us alone. I don't want DU or the party itself to ever be associated with a hateful, tinfoil-wearing crowd like that.
SunSeeker
(51,953 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)So, I am NOW a Secretary Clinton supporter, and will do my best (since I've been doing since 1972) to get the Democratic nominee elected.
YOUR POST sucks so hard, and only HURTS your support for the Secretary's candidacy, that you should self-delete NOW!
SHAME SHAME SHAME as you scurry off...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)They are every bit our enemies as are the denizens of Free Republic. It is beyond impossible to find common ground with people like that. I am sure they feel the same way about us.
-On that site Hillary is called the C word
-There are prayers she will die
-Bill Clinton is said to be suffering from AIDS
-House Republicans are applauded for their e-mail indictment incitement
The seminal poster deserves a medal for shining a light on their perfidy.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...because my candidate did not prevail. As Mom always said, it is what it is.
But, the time has come for unity. This is much like the summer of 1968. Social issues are at the forefront. I really don't care what takes place at a fringe website. But, I hope all here at DU, my home page for 15 years, understands that we need to stop the candidacy of someone who is the BIGGEST danger to our Democracy since the Civil War. No melodrama here, "it is what it is."
But this OP only serves to divide, NOT to understand and to unify.
Mine is a simple plea.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)In 1968 Michael Harrignton, a democrat socialist and prolific author, pleaded with SDS members to support Humphrey over Nixon. They demurred. The SDS believed in maximizing the contradictions; that things would get so bad under Nixon the masses would turn to them. How did that work out? Nixon won in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972 with the largest popular vote/Electoral College landslide in the history of the republic.
Those people are gone.They hate us. They will never vote for Clinton.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)But the fact is, I see this as part of that effort.
For a year, those now posting on JPR have been diluting the Democratic message and the support for the Democrats.
Now we have a good resource in JPR: it is a list of all the people who were NEVER, NEVER EVER going to vote for Hillary. They are the ones on whom we should not waste time trying to convince. They are the ones who are completely irrelevant to us, or they are the ones in our own ranks who are actively working against us.
We suspected but we did not know before exactly who they were, but now we actually have the names of that radical fringe.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)on both forums for what they really are when it might be a positive move in DU, this sort of thing gives JPR and its wingnuttery an importance well beyond what they deserve. They're not a big threat but rather more of a curiosity. It's a little satellite site of DU, created in response to DU, that performs a real service by concentrating some of the worst hostility and dingdongery over there where no one notices. Usually.
Notably, there are also a few thoughtful people over there. How they tolerate what is currently predominantly a hate site I don't know, and that is suspicious, but they obviously want a site where anti- Democratic Party ideology is mainstream. Good luck to them in creating a viable one with these others following them around.
Whatever, for all their input is badly outweighed by the all the irrational nastiness, a very few things like this are also posted by people who apparently manage to not be too affected by what is seems to be a potentially infectious exposure to uncontrolled hostility:
My reason for not voting Green is that I dont want to encourage them. Given the current structure of American political system, third-party politics is a thoroughly noodle-brained enterprise. If there are enough progressive voters to elect the Green Party candidate, then there are enough of them to nominate and elect a progressive Democrat, without having to overcome all the advantages that the system gives to the two major parties.
Anecdote time (proves nothing but might be interesting): Some years ago, a leader of the Green Party in Germany was traveling through the US and wanted to meet with like-minded people here. I was then chairing the New York City Group of the Sierra Club, so the German embassy, which was coordinating his trip, got in touch with me to set up a meeting when the visitor was in New York. We naturally talked about politics. His very strong view was that, as long as we have the single-member-district-plurality-election system (instead of Germanys proportional representation), it would be a mistake to work outside the two major parties.
That last should not be mistaken for an endorsement of our party from this person, but it's also not the typical scurrilous lie.
Bleacher Creature
(11,259 posts)People sometimes assume that the type of shortsightedness inherent in the BOB mentality is something new.
It's not, and it's resulted in some pretty awful people being elected to some pretty important offices.
Thank you for reminding people of that point.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)The story of Michael Harrington's split with SDS ... Harrington and LID supported Hubert Humphrey in 1968 as the more benign of two imperfections. Harrington's ...
https://books.google.com/books?id=m-YDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=michael+harrington+hubert+humphrey+sds&source=bl&ots=yAcP5GqtvG&sig=dIQs-7adpMNo8cdhLzJv030L1To&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazqC3gerNAhVDw2MKHfBvC_AQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=michael%20harrington%20hubert%20humphrey%20sds&f=false
still_one
(92,617 posts)and a lot of ugliness was exchanged here.
During the primaries there was no question that the number of Bernie supporters on DU exceeded the number of Hillary supporters, and that is fine, we had two progressive candidates.
I believe the majority of Bernie supporters on DU support the presumptive nominee, Hillary.
However, there were some who helped foster a very unhealthy environment here, and a lot of Hillary supporters were made to feel very bad.
While there is no doubt this thread does not provide the unity that is needed among Democrats, I think it provides a cathartic outlet for some who were treated badly.
There will be much more important issues to pursue in the weeks ahead. This thread is an opportunity to blow of steam after a very trying primary.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)mcar
(42,534 posts)This thread is shining a light on some very ugly things.
George II
(67,782 posts)....to bring down Clinton's candidacy, which is why they were such zealous Sanders supporters.
They WANTED the republican candidate to face up against Sanders rather than Clinton. Now that they're not getting their wish, they're doing what they can to continue to destroy Clinton's candidacy because they are NOT "Democrats" or "progressives".
Thankfully a huge majority (estimated at over 80%?) of Sanders supporters are sincere and willing to support the Democrat, no matter who it is. So they're standing behind Clinton and working to get her ELECTED (geeze, did anyone see that "autospell" error? Embarrassing!).
Rhiannon12866
(207,863 posts)And discuss what's going on here rather than discussing important issues of the day. I've always been grateful that we don't do that here...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Thank you in advance.
And how many of those sites have forums closed to the public devoted to bashing DU?
still_one
(92,617 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)steam to blow off.
For me it was about the self-righteousness. And most of the posters over there who were so critical of our lack of purity and who are now voting for Trump, are exactly the ones that were the most self-righteous.
Rhiannon12866
(207,863 posts)Have spent most of my time here as a mod or a host or on MIRT, felt that it was more important to support this board and give something back for all I've learned here since the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)I wear their scorn like a medal.
Rex
(65,616 posts)What a way to waste a life away, I am thankful over the years at DU to have so many great conversations. I cannot imagine being obsessed with another website.
They are sad people. No wonder they don't have any ideas - all they do is talk about people and not ideas.
Rhiannon12866
(207,863 posts)Back in 2004 I actually went there and defended John Kerry and his military service. Several backed down since I was armed with the facts - except this one hostile creep who said he wouldn't listen to me until I read John O'Neill's book - and as far as I know, I'm still a member there in good standing, for what that's worth. But after the awful attacks on Andy Stephenson - who was one of my first friends on DU - I learned my lesson and never went back.
I'm grateful for all I have learned on DU over the years, and I'd rather continue that journey than deal with the uninformed and angry. It's amazing to me how obsessed they are with us, even to the point of discussing individual DUers! I agree it's a pointless waste of time and bandwidth, and it speaks well for us that we almost never see that here.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I tried trolling FR, back in the day and found it to be a boring waste of time. I think most of them are lost causes.
And AFAIAC LBN still has the latest news and world events. Still, many times DU will scoop a story long before the mainstream media picks it up. We are still at the forefront of information and I think it drives those that rely on lies to live day to day absolutely crazy.
The obsession over our site and the members has to be very unhealthy, I wish they could find a more productive hobby.
Thanks for all the work you do here Rhiannon.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Missed the italicized part, did ya?
Oh, patronizing folks is the sine qua non of you and you and your cohorts. It must be nice to go through life thinking you are better than everybody else. I would ask where that sense of self assurance gets you if I expected a candid answer.
P. S. Send my love to the denizens of that board.
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DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)I wear your ad hominems like a crown.
Mea culpa, the forum was closed and every trace of it was erased, kind of like the Soviets air brushing figures out of photos who fell in disfavor with the party.
Who is the annointed one?
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DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Can you please share with me how your ad hominem attacks:
comport with the rules the Administrators have established for our board:
Do not personally attack, insult, flame, threaten, bully, harass, stalk, negatively call-out, ascribe ugly ulterior motives to, or make baseless claims about any member of this community. Do not post in a manner that is hostile, abusive, or aggressive toward any member of this community.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice
And , as always.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of statements of fact or when used in certain kinds of moral and practical reasoning.[3]
Since you have proferred no discernable argument,there can be no fallacy.
As for the rules of the board, that is a subject in which you lack authority. Your passive-aggressive threat notwithstanding. My posts can be adjuicated by my peers, and if the administration deems me to be out of line with the new program, they can do as they please.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)I believe I know what an ad hominem attack is and when a person is being patronizing, your obscurantism notwithstanding.
As always:
opiate69
(10,129 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)-DemocratSinceBirth
As always,
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Cassius in Julius Cae
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)2 Corinthians 10-12
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)"Does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider, but he is too far removed to make any statements of real value. Only the man inside knows. His judgments may not be objective; his evaluations may be out of proportion. This is inevitable. An attempt must be made to avoid any personal bias, and that is the real difficulty..."
Viktor E. Frankl
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Is this a great thread?
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)I have seen the Bible dismissed as a manual for living in an agrarian society that is no longer relevant. Of course I don't interpret it literally and see it as a book of parables and metaphors but the writing is amazingly good in parts and instructive.
And a lot of the writers of it were agitators in their own way.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)underlings on my porch why I would not validate their religion in all its patriarchy. That I am not a less person, per religion. The top dog came knocking at my door to tell me how women are not under men as.....
he states
god
man
woman (man cherish and take care of women.)
he literally used his hands god... high
then man
then women
I am looking at him flabbergasted. Physically and verbally you showed me women are underneath man
Ya, but, man is suppose to take care of women.
Man is doing a shitty job. Lol
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)but, I am not getting into that.
Not because of you. Because Du is not the site for this conversation.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)And I am a perfect agnostic--The theories in the quantum world keep from being an atheist--But, back to the bible, the first time I read it was simply to say I did--I wanted context. The second time I read it, it was out of feminist anger, I was researching how women came to be subservient, how a patriarchal society could evolved.
Then I got interested. In particular, I look at the story of David and Jonathan, and wonder how anyone could think of that as anything but a love story? Or that one of the most beautiful expressions of love ever was between two women, Ruth and Naomi?
And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God"
Ruth 1:16
There are other clues. I read theologians like Elaine Pagels and the bible suddenly looked very different to me.
Also--I don't believe in hating on religion in general or people of faith. I find that abhorrent
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)competent, strong, an equal, before they create the "Eve", creator of all sin, the original liar.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Lilith became a demon because she wanted to be on top--such a crime!
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)betsuni
(25,983 posts)types who are WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING but don't notice. Seems like something a person would notice, eventually.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)is that we learn just how much we don't know. The problem with believing one knows everything is that it forecloses possibility of learning.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)in this case.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)I've read the vile horrendous, misogynistic crap spewed on that site.
The OP was holding back.
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seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Prism
(5,815 posts)Just once, for a change of pace.
Mainly where I devoted multiple sentences where I explain, if I see it, I will speak out against it.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)not a big deal as you listed the big deals. I thought that interesting, and unsurprising. Consistent, actually.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)"Destroy Her Legacy" posts.
Interesting. Plus, a lot of words for someone who "is not here anymore."
mcar
(42,534 posts)You said in your post that you draw the line at the n-word, but the f-word and the c-word are a OK. Picking and choosing here?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Just once, for a change of pace.
Thank you for patronizing one of the denizens of this board. That's what I always loved most about you and your cohorts.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I decided to have mushroom ravioli for lunch. Yummy.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)I mean, dayam!!
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Two days ago, at which time he spent enough time here to diagnose all of us as mental midgets, and then today when he chatted us up so charmingly. And sorry, but this thread is nowhere near LBN.
I think he secretly has a crush on us, but doesn't want his new friends to know about it because if they found out they wouldn't let him sit with them.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)That is the tiredest return on the internet; "I have this fabulous life while you losers are on the internet 24/7." I am always perplexed why these posters have to take the time out of their wonderful lives to let the rest of us know.
Your casual dismissal of the c word is telling... It is not okay to use a pejorative that denigrates members of an entire group even if you believe that person deserves it.
Oh, and lets ignore your friend's posts that applaud Jason Chaffetz and denigrate Elijah Cummings, discuss whether or not Bill Clinton has AIDS, and wishing for the death of Hillary Clinton.
Oh, please tell your friends at jpr DSB says hi!
P.S. Thank you for interrupting your fabulous weekend to talk to us plebeians.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)While I am very glad you are enjoying yours, I doubt yours is more productive than mine has been thus far.
What JPR is, is a site devoted to conspiracy theory, illogic and misogyny. It is completely regressive. It has the thinnest veneer of the kind of actual progressive politics that work as positive change agents. In fact could stand for the poster child of the regressive left. It's whole premise is based on hatred of one particular politician. there is nothing redeemable or admirable about its conception, its inception or its growth.
Anti-semitism is just as vile as any other biogtry, including homophobia and mysogyny. Words, singly or in paragraphs or a treatise for that matter, matter in their use and their intent. Words carry cultural freight. It is never a good policy to dismiss one many find offensive because it may not effect you personally over another that does.
Enjoy your new home.
Loki
(3,825 posts)No longer here. Keep trying to convince yourself of your superiority, I'm sure it will come eventually. Shedding light on that hate infested site is the best disenfectant there is.
George II
(67,782 posts)...toward the end, the "Jew-hating"?
That faux accusation has been floating around this site on and off for almost a year now. WHERE ARE THEY?
In truth, they don't exist. We've seen phony contrived "dog whistles" created to conform with so-called "anti-Semitic" posts (which in fact were NOT) and then pointed at as "ooooh, they're anti-Semitic"!! And when asked to clarify, the accusers turn tail and run.
So, where are those threads and post?
One last thing, what does this mean, which you just posted: "That is why I'm no longer here".
Squinch
(51,127 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)i can't imagine any of them being members here at DEMOCRATIC underground!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)"Anybody Here Planning To Vote For HRC In November ???"
Look at the responses -- all are members of DU, some with different sobriquets
https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/anybody-here-planning-to-vote-for-hrc-in-november/
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Could it be they are just nasty RWers using the names of good DUers here in an attempt to smear their monikers?
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)That "my state will go blue so I don't have to vote for Democrats"...expression..is particularly, how shall I put this.. I'll just just quote Dr. King:
"nothing in the world is more dangerous than than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"
And follow with a facepalm
Squinch
(51,127 posts)If we dont resist with all of our might, this shit will never end.
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/we-must-work-to-tarnish-her-legacy/
That idea is catching on over there. They think this is a really keen idea.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)I mean how..
I mean why would..
I give up. Incomprehensible.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)him ever be successful even at the expense of the people and the country.
Says something about a person.
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)These posters attacked President Obama and then turned their guns on Hillary Clinton. I doubt that many of the JPR posters have ever voted in the democratic primary or attended a democratic party function
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)He admitted he'd had never voted Democratic. What a shock!
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 11, 2016, 01:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Squinch
(51,127 posts)R B Garr
(17,051 posts)voted for a Democrat, but I'm sure he's not the only one that you might have seen there. His "concern" about Bill Clinton goes back before he was Governor of Arkansas. His Clinton hate even prior to Bill's rise in politics revealed some serious discrepancies in his story, and I've since read that others have followed his links all the way back to their origins from some dubious places..... which was not surprising at all. At least now we see that we were right about them and their obvious "concern".
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Rex
(65,616 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)I do not really care what they have to say. Like DI, it is not a part of my word.
But you... funny.
Rex
(65,616 posts)To each their own. If they want to live there, then more power to them. Does it matter? No, not at all imo. I have this feeling, many will come back here and stay low key.
I do believe many will leave when BS throws all his weight behind HRC.
Tyty...this thread has been one of the better discussion threads on DU in a long time imo.
DI has some real sad people posting there, many seem to think the End of the World is every other weekend.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)I worked hard last week and doing just what I want to do on my day off. Tomorrow, mowing and cleaning. Today, ya, sitting on a puter. Oh oh.... I have gotten hooked on a show though. I am really enjoying Burn notice, too. I think I am off to be non productive on my couch and watch some Burn notice.
Rex
(65,616 posts)But dam it is HOT out there, still! Have a good one sea! I'm gonna go watch some Samantha Bee on youtube, I've missed her latest episodes.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)No discovery of new life forms? Didn't even try a new micro brew?
The horror...
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)No kidding!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)have been mentioned.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Spaghetti Os, from the can. I heated them first, of course!
betsuni
(25,983 posts)I thought I still had a bottle of dipping stuff in the fridge but didn't. I'd already started to boil the noodles and had to quickly prepare the broth from scratch, which caused me to go into paroxysms a little, but it turned out fine. I'm still here.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)j/k
Rex
(65,616 posts)did you say something?
LostOne4Ever
(9,311 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]to defame Chelsea Manning like I did in LBN...
Regardless, I plan to continue posting both there and here both.[/font]
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)I will call the poster out.
LostOne4Ever
(9,311 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]Poster in question is promoting the anti-transgender stereotype of transpeople being deceptive by saying she was hiding her true self.[/font]
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)I lack the discipline to go through the entire thread.
LostOne4Ever
(9,311 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Only anti-Manning posts but no broad-brush attack against transsexuals.
LostOne4Ever
(9,311 posts)marble falls
(58,048 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)She was called deceptive because she used a whistle blower defense. If she had handed her material to another governmental agency empowered to investigate wrong-doing, it would have been a genuine whistle-blower case and there would have been no punitive action.
Instead, she gave it to the Assange-Greenwald axis and claimed it was whistle-blowing.
LostOne4Ever
(9,311 posts)Like so many others, she thought a big change would "fix" things. When that big change, that new life, didn't do what she hoped it would, she started lashing out--at everyone and anyone who didn't understand her, and she sought "retribution" against an agency, the Army, that demands the conformity that didn't solve her problem as she hoped it would.
Instead, she was an extremely poor recruit, abusive to her supervisor (attempted to beat the woman up, but that didn't go well) and she ripped off, wholesale, classified material and dumped it on the wider world in a fit of pique. Those jerks who encouraged her to do this share some of the blame, but no one put a gun to her head and told her to do what she did--that was her choice, her actions. And actions have consequences.
I feel sorry for her personal issues, but a half century ago she would have gotten the death penalty for what she did. She got off light. I hope she gets better and makes the most of her time in Leavenworth--she is NOT doing "hard time" in the big picture--it would be a much rougher go in a civilian prison, and the longer she stays where she's at, the more she moves up the prisoner ladder, as it were.
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]That is pretty blatantly calling her deceptive for being trans.
Transperson tries to be themselves as they are inside and they are being deceptive and trying to trick people. They try to live as the world tells them they are and they are deceptive for not revealing who they are on the inside.
They can't win.[/font]
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)however, if that was what was intended by the poster, I do not support such bigotry. Nevertheless, it does not condone what is going on at JPR -- praising republicans, conspiracy theories about Hillary, calling her a C-word, open support of Trump, saying Bill Clinton has AIDS etc. etc.
LostOne4Ever
(9,311 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]But I usually do with them as I did with that poster, I ignore them and do my own thing.
Okay, for complete transparency, I did make one joke about voting for Cthulhu but that was about it
Either way I oppose all republicans and WILL be voting for Hillary come November.
I care too much about the Supreme court and civil rights and liberties to ever let orange skinned Hitler wannabe within 100miles of the presidency.[/font]
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)to do with Clinton personally. I respect that.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)LostOne4Ever
(9,311 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Response to cosmicone (Reply #938)
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Not sad at all.
So, you like it over at JPR?
Squinch
(51,127 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Looking at it longer--as painful as that is--doesn't improve it. Quite the opposite.
Mean and small-spirit analogs of actual humor-well, that they have at JPR.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)So often when the posters over there would post here in the past, I would think, "That person is either a troll or deluded. They are not liberal or Democratic. They are the opposition. They work against liberals and Democrats."
And there they are over there, proving that to be an absolutely accurate assessment.
So many of those posters spent most of their time criticizing the rest of us for our lack of purity. And there they are, reading Fox and 4chan, wallowing in racism and sexism and batshit crazy conspiracy theories, and pledging to vote for Trump.
It's somehow a very satisfying validation.
Anything else you wanted to know?
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)was odd!
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)With what we've got.
That's the theory anyway.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)betsuni
(25,983 posts)Proof. It is delightful.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)betsuni
(25,983 posts)Linking to the JPR discussions posted in this thread made me remember how bad it was here and I'm not looking any more. I've had enough of that hate and stupidity to last half a dozen lifetimes. I just want them to leave us alone. I hope JPR is a huge success and they forget DU and work on their new relationship. It's not us, it's them.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)I have no desire to ever click on the link again.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)... this thread is so popular - a lot of us are feeling that same "satisfying validation".
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)lpbk2713
(42,792 posts)Hekate
(91,286 posts)Sometimes you just have to process your feelings along with clearing out their junk, especially if you find out they are relentlessly badmouthing you behind your back.
I'll bet we can get to 1,000 posts before midnight somewhere.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)revmclaren
(2,593 posts)to keep the light on.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)It was an unpleasant journey, but I suppose a necessary one.
JFK said, "forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
To me that means it's healthy for us to forgive wrongs, but not to turn around and give the person who wronged us our trust foolishly just because we're not holding a grudge.
Yes, I completely agree the examples posted here of things being said by people there are horrific. Some of the names aren't too surprising. Many made their hate of the Democratic Party no secret in the years I've been here. Some were banned from the site for their various inabilities to contain their biases and/or hate. Others, well, some surprised me, and I'm not sure how long they'll be content there. There's a vast difference between working within the party to create change you want to see, and voting for Trump. They're not even on the same spectrum, and if a person thinks they are then they're blinded by their own idealism. Which is sad, but not uncommon on either side of the political aisle.
Lastly, Jackpine Radical was a thoughtful, kind and highly intelligent member here. I like to believe he wouldn't have condoned the RW conspiracies, or the hate speech taking place under his moniker. I'm mentioning this so others know, and don't confuse him with that place who may not have read him here. He wasn't like that at all in my experience with him.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)voting for Trump.
herding cats
(19,569 posts)They were the haters of the Democratic Party, bigots, misogynist, etc. who didn't surprise me by being there.
I'm being gracious to the ones I didn't see act that way. In disclosure, I didn't really participate in GDP this primary season. So, I have missed much of what took place. What little I did see was due to being on MIRT the previous term, and serving on juries. Even that little bit was eye opening.
BainsBane
(53,142 posts)The primary season was not pleasant.
Hekate
(91,286 posts)It's good for people here to be reminded of the difference between the man and the discussion board.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)with who they are as people for the last 12 years I have had conversation with them. I have absolutely no problem at all seeing that the last year is not all of who they are and appreciate a hell of a lot of who they are.
I hope as things settle, they can put this in a healthy place.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)The first I know of was in 2002 after a group of very pure martyrs was tombstoned. They put up a forum and talked endlessly of "the night of the long knives". It was pretty dramatic stuff, in a ridiculous sort of way.
Since then, among the ones I have been aware of, most have consisted of the purest of pure liberals who think anyone not of the exact same view is an idiot. These forums usually wither and die with varying lifespans. Often when a new one springs up the same disaffected, all-knowing pure beings among us congregate there, mostly talk about all the people they hate here. Additionally much discussion is about how awful Democrats are. The mindset closely resembles that of religious fundamentalists. Rather distressing to witness, especially if anyone you felt a particular bond with goes that route.
More commonalities, many are in reasonably comfortable situations and have zero time, money or effort invested in any political effort besides on-line rants.
Frankly I can't understand having one's discussion forum participation take up such a large part of one's life. Sad business all around.
Julie
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)...JPR posts an article rec'd by 50 of its users by Maureen Dowd, filled with invective.
Yeah, I'm glad I have no association with those people.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)We've talked about this several times throughout the primaries. Here's a post I made in the Hillary group back in the beginning of March:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110770936
And here's another post from June:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2174436
Some basic info about group polarisation from my March post:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_polarization
A well-supported theory of social psychology:
"Group polarization is the phenomenon that when placed in group situations, people will make decisions and form opinions to more of an extreme than when they are in individual situations. The phenomenon has shown that after participating in a discussion group, members tend to advocate more extreme positions and call for riskier courses of action than individuals who did not participate in any such discussion."
In conjunction with the social comparison theory:
"The social comparison theory, or normative influence, has been widely used to explain group polarization. According to the social comparison interpretation, group polarization occurs as a result of individuals' desire to gain acceptance and be perceived in a favorable way by their group. The theory holds that people first compare their own ideas with those held by the rest of the group; they observe and evaluate what the group values and prefers. In order to gain acceptance, people then take a position that is similar to everyone elses but a little more extreme. In doing so, individuals support the groups beliefs while still presenting themselves as admirable group "leaders"."
Real-life applications of group polarization - The Internet:
"In a study conducted by Sia et al. in 2002, group polarization was found to occur with online (computer-mediated) discussions. In particular, this study found that group discussions, conducted when discussants are in a distributed (cannot see one another) or anonymous (cannot identify one another) environment, can lead to even higher levels of group polarization compared to traditional meetings. This is attributed to the greater numbers of novel arguments generated (due to persuasive arguments theory) and higher incidence of one-upmanship behaviors (due to social comparison)."
The dynamic on JPR is so far gone into group polarisation that people who don't conform to the most vile, hateful expressions against Hillary are hounded and demonised. Another psychological theory is called subjective group dynamics - this is the idea that group members will ostracise other members if they don't conform to the more extreme group norms (even more so than they would an outsider). Both of these points are well-represented on JPR. Fascinating from a psychological point of view, even if toxic from a social point of view.
betsuni
(25,983 posts)Thank you!
You're welcome.
Someone on my March post said, there's a dissertation worth of interesting psychological material on political discussion boards. I tend to agree.
betsuni
(25,983 posts)Somebody has to be doing a dissertation on this, writing a book, something. It's fascinating.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)"I want to create a thread that never dies" was one. The kudzu thread another. Both in the Lounge, if I recall.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)This thread is all kinds of awesome.
Reminds of the quote attrubuted to Isoroku Yamamoto, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. "
The proverbial worm has turned.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)I agree with whomever upthread said this was a good opportunity to blow off steam post-primaries. There were a lot of people here who never veered into incivility, but were continually abused by some of the people on JPR who have now revealed themselves to never have been progressives (as evidenced by the fact they are voting for Trump) and would never have supported the nominee. Possibly not even if it had been Bernie. If Bernie had won, they would have found fault with him in some way. When group polarisation that strong sets in, by the end of the process no one is pure enough. If he'd won the primary and complimented Hillary on her performance, for example, that would have likely been enough for them to turn on him.
I don't think it's healthy for this thread to run on and on. Not for them (don't care, they are Trump voters and therefore my enemy) but for us. We needed this catharsis, but we've still got an election to win.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)The misogyny on that site or the female members who seem to countenance it. I remember there was a lot of talk about a "Stockholm Syndrome"on our site. The irony doesn't escape me.
In the few ventures I make into free republic it seems the posters are mostly males, so in some ways that site is worse.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)from posting on JPR as things descend more and more into hateful extremism.
There are DUers, people I consider reasonable, who I saw post a couple of times over there and then never again. It won't be to most people's taste, not people who consider themselves progressive. Imagine joining a site that describes itself as progressive and then finding most of the members are voting for Trump. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)betsuni
(25,983 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)I am not about to spend an hour reading this thread.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)turned out, on another site, to be hateful extremists who are now voting for Trump. As they are not any longer DUers, people are taking the opportunity for a bit of a catharsis without being in violation of the rules.
I recommend reading the thread - it's fascinating.
EDITED to change "a lot of" to "some". I think they were a vocal minority, not by any means the majority of Bernie supporters, who are still here and supporting our nominee.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Bit of both, I suspect. Mostly Hillary haters with some opportunistic Trump trolls joining in the fun over there. Not that it makes much difference - a Trump voter is a Trump voter and the enemy to democracy.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)There is much of the former and a bit of the latter. In my last voyage there I learned they believe the denizens of our board are and I quote "conservative dumb f--ks."
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)ms liberty
(8,659 posts)This sounds more like the popular yet mean girls clique from junior high school than a group of thInking, reasonable adults. But hey, whatever floats your boats; I just stopped by to see SCE's weekly thread. Stumbling into a used latrine trench was not in my plan.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)If we mocked one group for their reactionary behavior and not the other would that not make us hypocrites ?
Thank you in advance.
Loki
(3,825 posts)Oh you've got to be kidding, right? Used latrine trench? Appears you must recognize that, since you mentioned it first.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)And you are right, JPR is very like a group of mean, bulling people, although personally I find the "mean girls" meme sexist. I don't think meanness Is gender or age specific.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)sensitive to keep a harmful stereotype out of their language.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)At DU at least there are discussions and arguments about words and meanings not just a--wholesale defense of sexist language because of hatred for one woman.
At Bill's site he has it programmed so you can't even use the "c" word there.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)getting it is to justify the use of the slurs on one woman because people do not like her, and ignore the ramification of it affecting all women. They get it on the n word. They do not get it on misogynist slurs. That tells us how endemic it is in our culture.
So, when someone puts out, what is worse today, racism or sexism, this shows so many levels of thought.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)And in spite the many discussion and all the information--to continue defending the indefensible exposes the bone of basic thought.
It's not a free speech argument--you know how people try to frame it that way? So annoying. In the environs of one's own space, using sexist language is a choice--usually an unconsidered one. On-line, confronted with a variety of opinions, it is also a choice, but one would think consideration would happen. The cutting one woman out and saying "for her and her alone, this language is ok" is simply bizarre, and could not end there--devolution of gender equality starts there and places like it.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 10, 2016, 01:47 PM - Edit history (2)
Men get it. They have used these words to denigrate, shame and humiliate. They are not clueless. They know exactly what they are doing. And they are telling the world, they will continue, at the expense of women, to feel like a man.
I do not give them, that they are unaware. They will respect blacks to not use the n word, but then they identify with man, in black. Not the same with women. All are sub.
Even the ones in the group playing with the boys. I am waiting for a "make me a sammich" joke, and the giggles and thumbs up.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)It's not only men using the words to denigrate, shame and humiliate--many women follow the script, and quite frequently make attempted to "own" or "reclaim" words. I think that is what is troubling me the most. To see good feminist names compliant.
Did I tell you I'm reading the Feminist comic "B**** Planet? Holy shit it's intense. I'm just about to start volume two. The premise is a prison planet for "non-complaint" and criminal woman--and a society run by men "Fathers" It is essentially a classic dystopia story for women.
annavictorious
(934 posts)He's been personally aware of the problem even before the Dr. Paul Song incident in New York.
Sanders needs to stand up and loudly and strongly condemn this faction of his supporters.
And it is a faction.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)if Sanders agrees with those tactics.
I personally speculate that it is part of Jeff-Weaver-think and there is a tacit or implied encouragement to behave in such a manner.
Plus, JPR's main honcho is so obviously a Republican, he has no qualms about using naïve and radical left wingers to assist in Cause de Trump. He probably laughs at the mayhem he has created daily and shakes his head in glee.
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whathehell
(29,137 posts)ms liberty
(8,659 posts)This thread is not at JPR, and the replies are not primarily by members of JPR; but it is almost exclusively commentary about JPR and members of JPR. So what I am disgusted by is not JPR, a website that does not resemble FR in any way.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)JPR is different from FR.
FR doesn't devote 80% of its posts to wishing Hillary (or Bill) would go to jail, come down with a disease or be assassinated.
JPR does.
For a site developed to promote Bernie and his message, <20% of the posts are about promoting Bernie. At least FR promotes Republican ideas and message other than pure hatred of Hillary.
In those regards, FR is more honest with their stated political goals than JPR is.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Wow. I sure am.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,427 posts)I can't tell. There's some animosity in both places.
ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)I don't like the meme myself as I said. I mean why are girls "mean"? What are boys?
Squinch
(51,127 posts)vdogg
(1,384 posts)Let them have their little sandbox. What they do over there is of no concern to me, just so long as they don't come crawling back over here.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)and even when they're not posting, they still have alert and jury privileges to silence the dialogue here.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 10, 2016, 04:33 PM - Edit history (1)
they are either being silent or joining in because of Stockholm syndrome! I wouldn't know which applies.
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)It's gotten to where people are getting smacked upside the head for saying anything nice about Elizabeth Warren.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Maybe it was needed to get some things off people's chests.
Again I have no issue with them having that site and I see some good people have migrated there.
But since people don't have to worry too much about ehat they say there some people are letting their true opinions slip out. Amd since many are doing it under their DU names or letting people know who they are on DU prople will give opinions here on their opinions.
This thread touched a nerve and rightfully so.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)mcar
(42,534 posts)But they will have to change their rules, yes?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)mcar
(42,534 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Rule: Get high or low on something, channel your internal self-righteous anger and spew hate against anyone and/or anything that could be construed as establishment in order to feel 100% pure.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)when KKKarl Rove and/or the Koch Brothers pull its funding.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)DangerousRhythm
(2,916 posts)Sad. I read some threads there and just shook my head. I wonder how many decried PUMAs in 2008, only to find themselves in the same position.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)They certainly deserve each other.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Epic. Many thread come and go, but rarely are they full of epic.
Squinch
(51,127 posts)It's like that last chapter in the mystery book where you find out whodunit.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I can't remember the last time I saw such epicness. This thread is also full of win. A huge amount of win and epic, they are rare threads indeed.
still_one
(92,617 posts)each new post
bravenak
(34,648 posts)rurallib
(62,537 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,259 posts)With the reason being that they will impeach HRC.
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/i-dont-want-my-senator-to-play-the-tethered-goat/#post-37755
Hard to believe any of them were once allowed to participate on DU.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)This thread is all kinds of fail.
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)The key issue is control of the SCOTUS and Trump would appoint horrible justices. Nader helped bush win and as a result we got Citizens United and the gutting of the voting rights act
betsuni
(25,983 posts)To compare and contrast.
I have a "newspaper styled" homepage thing that installed itself, it was just there one day. It posts things from the sites I frequent, sort of convenient. But now half the stories are from Free Republic! Headlines like "How the Left Lies When Blacks are Shot by Police" "How Many People Have to Die Because of the Black Lives Matter Movement?" "The Leftist/Islamic Alliance Does Dallas" and "Comey Testimony Reveals Hillary Clinton's Brain Damage." I'm so embarrassed my homepage thinks I'm suddenly a Republican. I went there ONCE. Oh well, could be worse: at least not everything's about how Hillary "Satan" Clinton wants to murder everyone and drink their blood, so not as bad as SOME places -- and I didn't see anyone at FR stupid enough to think that everyone who says they're voting for Clinton is a paid shill (are they still doing that over there in can't-tell-the-forest-for-the-pine-trees?).
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,044 posts)Always an interesting pastime by the untrained Google-educated internet psychologist.
I'll raise their projection by a full house of displacement..
I win.
leftstreet
(36,121 posts)Squinch
(51,127 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)That was hilarious!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)ellie
(6,929 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)This thread must be giving whatever thread that was a run for its money!
Gothmog
(146,402 posts)Does any know which thread set such record?
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)and the Democratic nominee are complaining on a Democratic board about people supporting Trump and the Republicans ?
mentalsolstice
(4,465 posts)They have a new member check-in. As they should certainly know by now what a cesspool that place is by now, I was surprised at who had checked in in recent days. Many are still very active here. Let's just say some do a good job putting forth a certain persona here that we should no longer be fooled by. Whenever I interact with them here, it will always be in the back of my mind that they willingly signed up to be members of a site that advocates supporting Trump over the Democratic nominee, and they accept calling Hillary names that would earn them a PPR here.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)liberal N proud
(60,365 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)were well-known here by level-headed people. They're the furthest thing from liberal that I can imagine. Juvenile, demeaning and sarcastic.
They couch it in rhetoric like blaming the 'third way' for anything liberal they don't like. They spent years here trashing President Obama, trashing Hillary Clinton, trashing any democrat not named Warren or Sanders.
Utterly self-righteous, hilariously predictable rhetoric that they are 'more progressive' than anyone who disagrees with their boorish personal attention-seeking behavior.
It was evident when they posted here. They were ignored and despised by people for whom civil rights and women's rights matter. Especially on the personal level of treating others with courtesy and respect. Listening to and trying to understand where other people with different opinions are coming from.
They were banned from the AA group for good reason. And later, properly banned from DU for being right wing trolls.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Gothmog
(146,402 posts)The fact that so many of these former posters are supporting Trump is all the proof that one needs
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Could this be the birth of Free Republic 2.0?
Even freepers don't exhibit so much Hillary-hate and cheering of Republicans ....
Warning: Some names may appear familiar to those on DU
http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/fbi-director-james-comey-hearing/#post-28532
** NOTE: This was locked in GD:2016 as not having anything to do with elections. Reposted here by popular demand **
Not sure how they themselves can tolerate it! Sucks to BE THEM!
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Means I agree with everything saud on DU right?