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What the Hell Happened to DU?
« on: March 28, 2011, 07:47:35 AM »
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Syrinx  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-28-11 07:59 AM
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What the hell has happened to Democratic Underground?
 When I joined up in 2002, I was treated with suspicion. Mainly, I think, because I was from Alabama, and expressed the idea that, while I disagreed with it, I could understand and relate to the anti-abortion viewpoint.

I felt that I was considered the secret right-winger. Even though I was always in support of labor unions, a woman's right to choose, and medical marijuana. And I knew that Ronald Reagan was a terrible, terrible president, who injured many generations, even those yet to come.

But nowadays, right-wing people, way to the right of where I ever stood, are tolerated and welcomed on this message board.

The participants of this website have veered far right, in my opinion. And that is in the opinion of someone who was once considered by consensus to be on the right.
 
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Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-28-11 08:14 AM
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10. You're very right (no pun intended)
 Some of the meanest and most hateful, bullying internet rhetoric can be found right here.

Sarcasm, or is he actually right for once? I think my breath was momentarily taken away...

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2011, 07:52:18 AM »
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 :lmao: I think I found a gem here. The putrid harlequin even weighs in.

Sarcasm, or is he actually right for once? I think my breath was momentarily taken away...

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2011, 08:04:39 AM »
Sarcasm, or is he actually right for once? I think my breath was momentarily taken away...

The sparkling husband primitive's been somewhat "off" lately, not his usual self.

Two theories: one is that the sparkling husband primitive's wife, when playing with her chemistry set, might have jumbled up too many, uh, additives, for the sparkling husband primitive's afternoon cocktail.

She wants him out of the way, so as to get the life-insurance money and to run away to Elysian Fields with Mrs. Tutweiler down the street, but she knows it's got to be undetectable.

The second is that the sparkling husband primitive was recently in San Francisco, confrering with his business associates Shaky-Legs Sal, Padlock-Face Vito, Pretty Boy Willie, Hair-Trigger Silvestro, Lucky Lido, Hangnail Charlie, Bet-a-Million Camillo, Hopscotch Peppone, Horny Guiseppe, Mashed-Potatoes Louie, Leo the Squirrel, and Bela Pelosi's husband--all members of the famous d'Alessandro crime family of Baltimore, some years ago transplanted to the west coast--and the "meeting" didn't go so well.

Time will tell.
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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2011, 08:19:25 AM »
I guess we'll see, but if it's theory 1, the sparkling husband primitive's wife best curb her greed. Otherwise, I fear I may be seeing her case on the I.D. channel...

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2011, 08:20:20 AM »
The second is that the sparkling husband primitive was recently in San Francisco, confrering with his business associates Shaky-Legs Sal, Padlock-Face Vito, Pretty Boy Willie, Hair-Trigger Silvestro, Lucky Lido, Hangnail Charlie, Bet-a-Million Camillo, Hopscotch Peppone, Horny Guiseppe, Mashed-Potatoes Louie, Leo the Squirrel, and Bela Pelosi's husband--all members of the famous d'Alessandro crime family of Baltimore, some years ago transplanted to the west coast--and the "meeting" didn't go so well.

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2011, 09:47:54 AM »
Wrong?  Nothing went wrong, the whole purpose of the site is to corral the political equivalent of crazy cat ladies in a dark corner of the innerwebz so they won't embarass the Democrackhead Party in public.  It's doing a fine job of it, I'd say.  The Party masters are still subsidizing $kammer to keep you in the dungeon, he's convinced you that you want to be there, and he manages to skim off any spare change you have in the process.  Sounds like the system is working perfectly!

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2011, 10:20:35 AM »
What the hell happened to DU?

Still seem to be the same hate-filled, insanity-ridden, intellectually-challenged, echo chamber of morons, drama queens, pseudo-elites, and social misfits that it always was.



Murphy's 3rd Law:  "You can't make anything 'idiot DUmmie proof'.  The world will just create a better idiot DUmmie."

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2011, 10:35:01 AM »
Wrong?  Nothing went wrong, the whole purpose of the site is to corral the political equivalent of crazy cat ladies in a dark corner of the innerwebz so they won't embarass the Democrackhead Party in public.  It's doing a fine job of it, I'd say.  The Party masters are still subsidizing $kammer to keep you in the dungeon, he's convinced you that you want to be there, and he manages to skim off any spare change you have in the process.  Sounds like the system is working perfectly!

:rotf:

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2011, 10:35:14 AM »
The sparkling husband primitive's been somewhat "off" lately, not his usual self.

Two theories: one is that the sparkling husband primitive's wife, when playing with her chemistry set, might have jumbled up too many, uh, additives, for the sparkling husband primitive's afternoon cocktail.

She wants him out of the way, so as to get the life-insurance money and to run away to Elysian Fields with Mrs. Tutweiler down the street, but she knows it's got to be undetectable.

The second is that the sparkling husband primitive was recently in San Francisco, confrering with his business associates Shaky-Legs Sal, Padlock-Face Vito, Pretty Boy Willie, Hair-Trigger Silvestro, Lucky Lido, Hangnail Charlie, Bet-a-Million Camillo, Hopscotch Peppone, Horny Guiseppe, Mashed-Potatoes Louie, Leo the Squirrel, and Bela Pelosi's husband--all members of the famous d'Alessandro crime family of Baltimore, some years ago transplanted to the west coast--and the "meeting" didn't go so well.

Time will tell.

 :jacked:

I wonder if they are any relation to the one here in NH, Lou, a demoncrat potentate for many years.

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Re: What the Hell Happened to DU?
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2011, 12:27:53 PM »
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NeedleCast  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-28-11 11:31 AM
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108. LOL
 If this is what a website that has veered far to the right looks like, I'd never visit a left wing site.

 :lmao: Lousy Freeper troll. I concur.

It's kind of become a substantial bonfire over there.

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128. This site has been infiltrated to stir up trouble in the democratic base. Not working.

Someone also seems to have mentioned us. Even though it was veiled. SKINNER...where are you???
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