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Title: Like clockwork--DU is going down on election night
Post by: Delmar on October 16, 2020, 11:46:12 PM
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Fri Oct 16, 2020, 10:59 PM
Star Member demtenjeep (28,295 posts)

2016 left us all shell shocked. Then to lose DU the same night was just a nightare


we had no one to take comfort with
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214302864

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Response to James48 (Reply #1)Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:08 PM
Star Member Crunchy Frog (22,523 posts)
2. The DU Facebook page was less than worthless.

It was full of RW trolls gloating. I hope they have a better backup plan this time.
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Response to demtenjeep (Original post)Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:21 PM
Star Member madaboutharry (34,281 posts)
3. Wasn't that just awful?

I trust EarlG will be prepared this time.
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Response to demtenjeep (Original post)Sat Oct 17, 2020, 12:31 AM
Kashkakat v.2.0 (1,391 posts)
6. This site was, and is more than just being able to take comfort with likeminded people - with each

election there's always been LOTS AND LOTS OF INFORMATION and first hand reporting about things like voting anomalies and such...

Not only links posted to articles and blogs and such, but info about recall elections and recounts a nd how to get involved. I first found DU around the time of 2004 election & Ohio recount, and also there were a number of questionable shenanigans in regards to some of the elections here in Wisconsin.

This site going down on election night (in combination with our local progressive radio talk station suddenly switching to Christmas music) still leaves me really unsettled - I still think it was more than just mean vindictive people being mean and vindictive - I think there was (and is likely to be again) a concerted effort to shut down communications between progressives and those of us who want to keep a close eye and share info about things that look fishy to us..
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Response to demtenjeep (Original post)Sat Oct 17, 2020, 12:33 AM
Fiendish Thingy (5,030 posts)
9. This year I will miss Discussionist- it would be a beautiful shadenfreude orgy nt

EarlG flying solo.  DU is in the very best of hands.  Nothing to worry about.
Title: Re: Like clockwork--DU is going down on election night
Post by: DLR Pyro on October 17, 2020, 12:06:56 AM
The algorithms are set. There's no escaping it. 

All your DUmp are belong to us
Title: Re: Like clockwork--DU is going down on election night
Post by: franksolich on October 17, 2020, 08:51:34 AM
EarlG flying solo.  DU is in the very best of hands.  Nothing to worry about.

The thing about Lord Marblehead EarlG is that he's more arrogant, more stuck up, than Skins is, or was.  That old eurocentric looking-down-upon-America thing (as if every square inch of that continent hasn't already been drenched in blood over the centuries).

And so if a primitive gets whiny, Lord Marblehead is more likely than Skins was, to tell the primitive to **** off.
Title: Re: Like clockwork--DU is going down on election night
Post by: SVPete on October 17, 2020, 10:11:25 AM
I'm sure EarlG has the "kill switch" rigged and ready.
Title: Re: Like clockwork--DU is going down on election night
Post by: hillneck on October 17, 2020, 11:48:03 PM
Trying to stop the Secret Service door knocks and questions, because they know the DUmmies will say something really stupid (even by their standards).