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Offline dutch508

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What the hell happened to DU?
« on: January 10, 2016, 08:37:29 AM »
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My God - What happened to this place?


I haven't been here much recently but am completely stunned at what I'm seeing. This forum is unrecognizable. If I didn't know any better, I'd think it was a Republican website, with all of the attacks on Democrats with little positive discussion about our own candidates, issues, etc. just vicious smears, accusations, name-calling, "my candidate is an infallible god, your Democrtic candidate is a corrupt/naive/arrogant spawn of the devil and anyone who supports him/her is a stupid idiot."

What I'm reading here is virtually indistinguishable from the content of the most virulently hateful right wing websites.

What in the hell happened to DU?

wait til Hillary takes the nod by pulling out the super delegates card and Skinner starts the Bernie Purge.

it will be glorious!

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14. Before 2008 it wasn't this ugly

Back in the early days people took in the information from the posts more completely before making a reply that was good, bad or just indifferent. People came here for knowledge and not for one-ups-man-ship and bombastic turnabouts. I still come here to see what's going on but its much harder to gain any knowledge because there is just so much B.S. one needs to sift through first.

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2. Some I think are Republicans... many are independents or socialists... seems few are Democrats.

Its disturbing.

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3. The only people that are Democrats are people supporting Hillary...

Apparently.

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23. Isn't this META?

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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2016, 08:46:42 AM »
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14. Before 2008 it wasn't this ugly

Back in the early days people took in the information from the posts more completely before making a reply that was good, bad or just indifferent. People came here for knowledge and not for one-ups-man-ship and bombastic turnabouts. I still come here to see what's going on but its much harder to gain any knowledge because there is just so much B.S. one needs to sift through first.

Well, that explains why the DUmmies are stupid. Going to DU for knowledge. nolabels made a funny. :lol::rofl:
Liberals disgust me. (Now I don't have to remember to put it on each post).

Because only the left goes searching for that which is not there in a desperate attempt to be offended about something.

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Many people do not see evil until the gas is flowing into the chamber. That is why they get on the trains in the first place.

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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2016, 10:18:38 AM »
EffieB, the state of DU is due to "blue-on-blue" Progressivier-Than-Thou and Victimier-Than-Thou urination matches and purges. IOW, it's the true face of "Progressivism".

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« Last Edit: January 10, 2016, 12:57:48 PM by SVPete »
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2016, 10:23:27 AM »
Most of us sensible folks realized DU was a s**t hole years ago.  Welcome to the club, EB
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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2016, 02:41:12 PM »
EffieB, the state of DU is due to "blue-on-blue" Progressivier-Than-Thou and Victimier-Than-Thou urination matches and purges. IOW, it's the true face of "Progressivism".

:ownit:

It doesn't get much more succinct than that.

Well done and Hi-5.


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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2016, 02:52:21 PM »
It doesn't get much more succinct than that.

Well done and Hi-5.


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Thanks. The foundation of DU was hating on George Bush and other Rs. Which they are free to do. But that any DU member would not understand that cultivating and feeding on hatred and bitterness, as they do, would inevitably result in that hatred and bitterness being turned inward on each other gasts my flabber (and that's not a pretty sight!).
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2016, 02:56:49 PM »
Thanks. The foundation of DU was hating on George Bush and other Rs. Which they are free to do. But that any DU member would not understand that cultivating and feeding on hatred and bitterness, as they do, would inevitably result in that hatred and bitterness being turned inward on each other gasts my flabber (and that's not a pretty sight!).

They're like muslims. IF the entire world consisted of muslims, after they conquer everywhere, the shia would be fighting the shiites. Muslims know nothing but war. Whoever won that battle, they'd fight each other for some unknown reason.

Want peace? Drop the bomb, kill all those f*ckers and wars across the globe would drop to nothing.
Liberals disgust me. (Now I don't have to remember to put it on each post).

Because only the left goes searching for that which is not there in a desperate attempt to be offended about something.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

Many people do not see evil until the gas is flowing into the chamber. That is why they get on the trains in the first place.

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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2016, 03:54:55 PM »
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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2016, 08:04:07 PM »
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14. Before 2008 it wasn't this ugly

Except for that little incident when Bush won the election and DU had to shut down to the public for a few days so that the world couldn't see the meltdown. That might have been the Dawn of the Age of the Mole.
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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2016, 08:28:25 PM »
Democratic Underground... the YouTube of political discussion forums.

And not the.good YouTube like Achievement Hunter or The Mighty Jingles either.
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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2016, 09:16:04 PM »
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3. The only people that are Democrats are people supporting Hillary...

Apparently.

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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2016, 10:55:37 PM »
Except for that little incident when Bush won the election and DU had to shut down to the public for a few days so that the world couldn't see the meltdown. That might have been the Dawn of the Age of the Mole.
2004 & 2008 were bloodbaths at the DUmp.  For different but equally entertaining reasons.  Those of us who have been regulars at CU & here for that long know what I mean.
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Re: What the hell happened to DU?
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2016, 11:18:21 PM »
2004 & 2008 were bloodbaths at the DUmp.  For different but equally entertaining reasons.  Those of us who have been regulars at CU & here for that long know what I mean.
I was around for 2008; 2004 was just before I joined.

Damn shame the site admin never bothered to back up his shitty server.
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