This place is really getting weird.

[Hiraeth]

They are really getting desperate and are doing anything they can to antagonize trying to get hides. Be Careful out there.

[RKP5637]

1. It definitely is, as HRC slides in the polls. The cause rests on HRC, not Bernie. n/t

[Hiraeth]

3. It is bizarre. I can not even explain what has happened to my replies over night.

I am not computer savvy enough to explain it but, I don't think it is a glitch.

[RKP5637]

5. And there's also stuff like this going on.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512033482

[Hiraeth]

6. Yes, but, what happened with me can only be explained by admin minipulation.

I had a nasty reply to one of my comments last night so I put that poster on ignore. This morning the reply is gone and another poster has replied in place.

I am at a loss to explain how it happened.

[RKP5637]

7. I think some shenanigans sometimes go on. n/t

[Hiraeth]

10. While I agree, I have found the answer to this one and it is NOT admin manipulation.

[RKP5637]

11. Great to hear!!!! Thanks for getting back!!!!

[Hiraeth]

13. I didn't think they would be That Underhanded. They are giving every advantage to HRC but, they

have been open and above board with it. We knew from the start they were supporting Hillary.

[NJCher]

14. yeah, I'm pretty sure they don't do this

Hosting this forum at this time is enough of a headache; I am sure the last thing they want to do is stir the pot.


Cher

[Hiraeth]

16. and I Have to keep believing that they really do want an honest and transparently fair election.

[RKP5637]

15. Yep, this makes me feel better. They support HRC, but are very credible. I would hate to

think they would ever do anything underhanded.

[Hiraeth]

17. I had to look because the first reply to my comment was never seen by me because I already

had that poster on ignore.

Meh, It gets convoluted to explain but, anyway.

They keep replying to that comment ... haha!

[DookDook]

21. I just wanted to say that on another forum that I used to go to, the mods were actually removing

posts that were pro-Sanders. It was really weird and the only reason I caught on was that people would quote other people, but when you went to look for the original post, it wasn't there. It's a crazy primary and I don't put anything past anyone anymore. I used to have a lot more faith in the system, but this election has really opened my eyes. It wasn't this site, I just want to reiterate that, it's a news aggregator type site so they don't have forums but 'comment sections' for the different stories and it's just brutal.

I have to say that the disruption posts are working spectacularly because I know I've been feeling discouraged from even engaging in any sort of political discussion online, here or anyplace else, because of the sheer lack of any good faith or even honesty in the discourse, it's all about proving a point or twisting what you said to mean something else.

I know you said that you figured out why your posts looked wonky, I just wanted to let you know that your initial theory wasn't crazy, with all the gaslighting that is going on it's sometimes hard to tell.

[Hiraeth]

22. ty for understanding and, honestly, this has been the worst season in my memory.

gaslighting = good word

[mak3cats]

8. If you put someone on ignore, any posts of that person "disappear" to you...

...if you "unignore" the poster, their reply should show up again. (At least that's how I understand "ignore" to work.)

[Hiraeth]

9. Yes, but this is different. Hang on, let me check something. brb.

[Hiraeth]

12. Had to log out. Solved it. NOT admin manipulation. But, funny never the less.

They are really desperate!

My comment is driving them nutz!

Funny stuff, actually!

[jalan48]

2. After the Nevada blow-up I've noticed a lot of "misogynist" and "racist" attacks.

It seems like it's part of the media dis-information campaign.

[Hiraeth]

4. It is exasperating.

[Scootaloo]

31. Aw hell, that's all they've had for a year

[RufusTFirefly]

18. And hey!!

Why would a candidate and her supporters who profess to be so confident of winning be so nasty to a candidate and his supporters that she insists is irrelevant?

[Hiraeth]

19. My own personal theory is that they were always that way

and this just gives them reason to show it. Most of them. Some, very few, I have kept off ignore because they still seem to be decent and contribute to legitimate discussion.

[LiberalArkie]

20. The elections have been like this for ever. It is easier to notice the reason why "nothing ever

changes". John Oliver covers it pretty well in his video.

[Hiraeth]

23. I wonder why I notice it more this time. This harkens back to '68 and I was a child but, I remember.

[LiberalArkie]

27. 1968 was very different though. There was a Democratic Party convention

that had multiple nominees. The presumptive winner was killed. (That is different right there). The big shots of the convention did not like any of the nominees who had won primaries and instead chose someone who did not win any primaries (Humphrey). So they selected someone who the people really did not like to run for president. (See we know that the Democratic Party would never select someone that the actual voters disliked.)

So there is all the different in the world between the 2 conventions.

[Hiraeth]

28. So they selected someone who the people really did not like to run for president.

So there is all the different in the world between the 2 conventions.

since our convention has not yet happened it remains to be seen ....

[Art_from_Ark]

33. I don't know how it was in your part of the state,

but where I was, nearly everyone I knew (that is, their parents) were for Bobby Kennedy when school let out for summer vacation in May 1968. A week later and Bobby was gone. When the new school year started 3 months later, nearly all of those Bobby supporters had become Wallace supporters. And even the Humphrey supporters (what few there were) showed only lukewarm support for the guy.

[LiberalArkie]

34. Probably so, I was on the road then and not in Arkansas at the time. But everyone I knew

was for Bobby or McCarthy. It was either anti-establishment voters or anti-demonstration voter (Nixon). The Democratic Party lost the election, Nixon did not win it.

[Art_from_Ark]

37. I don't remember even hearing about McCarthy during the primary

Before June 1968 everyone I knew, it seemed, wanted Bobby, except my grandparents, who wanted Nixon. I vaguely remember hearing about George Romney.

[LiberalArkie]

39. Eugene McCarthy?

[Art_from_Ark]

40. Yeah, I just don't have any memories of hearing about him

I remember hearing about Governor George Romney of Michigan, and even Nelson Rockefeller, probably because his brother was the governor of Arkansas at the time. But for some reason I don't remember hearing anything about Eugene McCarthy at the time.

[LiberalArkie]

41. Come to think of it, it may not have made that much impact locally. I think he was "Sanderized" on

the networks.

[jillan]

24. No kidding! I just saw a thread where they want Bernie supporters to fund Puerto Rico.

No. I am not joking.
No. It's not from the Onion.
It's an Op-Ed in GDP.

[Hiraeth]

25. Haven't seen it. Maybe I have the poster on ignore. n/t

[jillan]

26. She asked if Bernie supporters would buy bonds to fund PR.

[Hiraeth]

29. I logged out to see it

[Scootaloo]

30. Laugh.

It's important. Always laugh. Sarcastic, snaky laughter is still laughter. Don't waste yourself getting angry at the knuckleheads. Get angry at what they're running interference for, but don't give them anything other than a chuckle.

[Hiraeth]

32. laughter is good medicine

[Art_from_Ark]

38. According to Reader's Digest,

it's the *best* medicine

[Duckfan]

35. It's truly sad when you have people posting on here who are supposed....

...to be democrats(in theory). But yet they attack people opposed to them in the same manner repukes attack other people.

I know this much: they (those who call people names and have an alert for a post in other threads) are not democrats.

I've been on a jury more times this month (and last month) than I have all of last year. And they are all Hills small minded minions hitting the panic button. They must be suffering from a strange paranoid disease of some kind.

I would try to come up with other theories, but I'll let someone else take a shot at it.

[Hiraeth]

36. My theory is the democratic party is splitting up into two distinct groups

and entangled in this is a class warfare which, crosses all other race, color, creed lines.