DU Has Gone Full Hillary
Here's the complaint and decision on my time out on the General Discussion Primary thread:
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
This poster has been advocating for voting against the presumptive democratic presidential candidate throughout this thread.
A clear violation of the TOS. This particular post is over the top.
JURY RESULTS
A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Tue May 24, 2016, 11:28 AM, and voted 5-2 to HIDE IT.
Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Voting to hide this one because it creates more stress between the different candidates. which we do not need at this time. It also calls Hillary corrupt. this plays into the hands of Trump folk.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
If I can't argue against voting for the "presumptive nominee" or accuse Hillary of bring corrupt I don't have much to say over there.
Saw DU going Full Hillary coming. Now it's here. Surprisingly, I'm ok with that. DU has joined The Washington/Markos Consensus.
Time to make a burnt offering in gratitude to The Kush Gods for giving me Caucus99percent.
Comments
You'll be fine here.
Most here are not voting for hrc nor are we worried about this:
Thanks for acknowledging her corruption. We know they cannot handle it in a meaningful, adult manner.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
An admission that sometimes reality has a pro-Trump bias?
On the same level as a Republican who knows man-made global heating is real, but won’t allow it to be discussed because it “plays into the hands of ‘Algore’ folk.”
DU?
What is that?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Daily Upchuck?
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Good one
I like it!
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
“Democratic Underground,” a discussion forum website.
http://democraticunderground.com/
Sad that it is Democratic Underground rather than democratic
underground. They obviously aren't included when describing the independent media.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
Democratic Underground
I used to participate in some pretty good discussions. The Berniacs raise good issues, but The Cult of Hillary has taken over.
I expect we will be seeing DU dropouts migrating here soon.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
First time, myDD, now DU and the GOS
Seriously, what's next?
Only a centrist would be proud of being the "more convenient season" white moderate spoken of in the letter from a Birmingham jail.
HRC black hole sucking forum after forum into its accretion disk
The Emptiness that swallows everything in the Neverending Story?
This one doesn't work for me
…among all your wise and mysterious posts that I eagerly follow.
The logic of this analogy — "…she has to vote it into existence." — so charming in its simplicity, puts me in mind of Tipper Gore or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign.
I envy folks who still believe in voting, which might work for domestic feel-good issues, but cannot work against the very forces that are gutting their futures. That makes for a dangerous assumption among Americans; it is their way of surrendering and denying at the same time.
Personally, I think clapping for Tinkerbell has more impact on one's future well-being.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Hm, true. Voting can easily become Potemkin political engagement
As the pun is the lowest form of humor, the vote, so sacred in popular patriotic culture, is but the lowest form of participation in democratic process.
Wow. No wonder this site is becoming so popular. Well, I guess
I can't blame the blog owners for taking the money. There are always more Web sites.
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I used to make fun of Tea-GOPers
I used to make fun of Tea-GOPers (known as Republicans during the George W. Bush administration) for their 100% all-in loyalty to The Worst President Ever, come Hell (Iraq) or high water (Hurricane Katrina). It's just plain weird to see Democrats demanding that level of unquestioning obedience.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
They've become the thing...
...they always claimed they hated...
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I want my two dollars!
Got banned myself
A while ago, I got into a "discussion" with an HRC loyalist that claimed Bernie wouldn't be speaking at the Vatican. I replied with a link to the schedule listing him as a speaker. Next time I visited DU, I found out I'd been banned. I was always careful to be factual and civil so took the banning to mean DU'd sold out completely. Haven't been back since...
You stated an objective fact and got banned for doing so
wow.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Thanks for this information.
Now I know to avoid DU.
Amazing how corporatist thinking has infiltrated the Democratic party.
"You look normal. How can you believe neoliberalism is sustainable much less healthy for the planet and its various species?"
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
If HIllary loses the nomination, for whatever reason.....
is the DNC and whoever else going to continue to support all these supposedly "democratic" bloggers when it has become clear that they have been in the bag for Hillary for years?
I am a conspiracy theorist, I do believe in connecting the dots, that this isn't all just random BS. Many of the so called left-wing bloggers got their start, as did Air America, shortly before the 2004 election. I think that those that have succeeded have had a lot of help from their "friends" in the Democratic Party ala the Clinton's Third Way or whatever they wanted to call it. I think it was all done in preparation for the presidential run of the Queen. That failed in 2008 and now they have brought out the big guns in desperation to get Hillary ELECTED. This is their last chance. Hillary cannot fail, it is all supposed to work this time.
They can't afford for Bernie to get in. He will not be the gatekeeper for the neocon/lib agenda that Bush and Obama were. Their only hope is to continue to get neocon/libs elected to the presidency so they can protect each other from the war crimes trials they all so richly deserve - Hillary maybe more than most because she takes such delight in killing people.
I don't really think it is about Hillary.
It has always been about having a reliable Neoliberal and a co-opted Neocon on both the Republican and Democratic sides in all Presidential races. This has kept the current economic and military trajectory on course for decades. After the fall of the Soviet Union, this strategy became politically aggressive because of the possibility of global Empire. To voters, who are largely controlled by propaganda, this reality was and still is, invisible. They are lost in the weeds that have sprung up as a result.
In 2015, the nation was unexpectedly attacked by a populist tide in the form of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Both of them up-end the Neocons and Neoliberals, in their own particular ways. This threw our Overlords, political and corporate, into a crisis mode of frenzied realignment of their powerful resources.
The full-court press around Hillary, the only reliable Neocon left standing (after Jeb Bush bowed out) is now of monumental size, consisting of both Republican and Democratic establishments working together to elect her.
Their weak flank is Donald Trump, who could be their Waterloo. But Hillary is their only hope, policy-wise, so they all took the risk of backing her. The military weapons trade hangs in the balance; the global chaos of war defines the strategic interests of the United States. War and Empire-by-force is now the major economic pillar of the US economy, after corporations dispersed the rest of it globally (although their profits are not returning to the US, as planned). Nonetheless, there is no Plan B.
The American people are fighting in blindfolds.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
This is a good place
No need to go kill brain cells arguing with irrational people.
Love is my religion.
all in a row?
Things are getting bad when Ducks Unlimited has swilled the Clinton koolaid.
I left DU a long, long time ago
for basic censorship issues. I would consider TOP a bastion of liberalism and open-minded thinking, compared to the petrified, ossified administration at DU.