LuckyCharms (18,148 posts)
Is Brooklynite still around? Did I spell his name correctly? n/t
This is LuckyCharms attempt to passive-aggressively point out that Brooklynite got the ban hammer again. He's a particularly nasty piece of work who delights in the misfortunes of others. He's an old man in ill health so I guess he gets enjoyment out of mocking those who he believes are in worse shape than he is. He's a pathetic POS.
The rest of the thread is the typical DU grave dancing. But this jumped out:
PCIntern (26,055 posts)
16. I never alerted his weird attacks on me
but I got good and *******ed sick and tired of his arbitrary bs
Did the dentist to all the Pennsylvania elite lose some sort of name-dropping competition?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219280698But what I find really funny is why Brooklynite got banned. His last transgression was in this thread:
brooklynite (96,882 posts)
How Kamala Harris took control of the Democratic Party
As long as Joe Biden still believed, there could be no Plan B.
The boss had earned that much. Vice President Harris approved no discussions. Campaign advisers did not break ranks in public.
But some key preparations were still put in place for the most spectacular transformation in recent American political history — a flash-bang midsummer swap at the top of a presidential ticket, an outpouring of volunteer energy, a rebound in the polls and a flood of campaign cash best described in fractions of $1 billion.
The national party bosses quietly consulted their rule books. State party chairs met in secret. Others operated without orders to prepare the ground.
Donna Brazile, the former Democratic Party chair, and Bakari Sellers, the former South Carolina state lawmaker, started running their own delegate whip operation weeks before Biden bowed out. There was no public list of the 4,000 or so first-ballot convention voters — the risk of it leaking, causing harassment and death threats, hung in the air. But Brazile and Sellers knew the local politicians, the union leaders and the state party chairs who ran most delegations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/28/kamala-harris-control-democratic-party/
niyad (116,718 posts)
3. Paywall
brooklynite (96,882 posts)
5. I believe in paying for news media...
You’ll have to find the extract sufficient.
And a few comments later his removed post, which basically said that professional writers deserve to get paid. What's funny is that the DUmmies post almost daily about how tragic it is that traditional media, like hardcopy newspapers, are disappearing and that mass media is being consolidated. But mentioning that someone actually needs to pay for the service is a bannable offense. They will go on and on about AI stealing other people's work, but then they get all insulted when someone suggests they actually pay for content. They think the minimum wage should be raised, union workers should be paid whatever they want and artists and writers should earn ridiculous salaries, as long as someone else is paying for it. When faced with the reality that consumers ultimately pay for increased labor costs, they stick their heads in the sand and try to get what they can for free, while bitching that they may have to actually spend some money for something they want. It's almost comical how hypocritical they are.
https://democraticunderground.com/100219254430
