Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumAn unsolicited PM I just got about Bernie supporters...
Anyone else getting stuff?
It said:
I have never in my life seen a group of people
living in such denial and delusion as the DU Bernie supporters.
It is about Bernie and the narrow piece of the electorate he represents.
elleng
(131,292 posts)'Narrow piece of the electorate?' SOMEONE's in denial, imo.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)and I'm feeling kinda left out, I want someone to slip semi threatening or at the very least sidelong insulting notes into my locker...maybe I should be more outspoken.(jk, pls, I'm not sincerely mocking you getting this shit, I'm mocking the sender).
Cleita
(75,480 posts)You are getting PMs because they got banned from the Bernie group. Don't they get that maybe we don't want to talk to them about our "denial and delusion?"
When this is over though, I'm looking through my recipes of crow pie that I'm going to be serving up.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)that crow pie.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)take a long vacation at St. Barth's, write a few pro-fracking letters to the editor, go by private jet to the next Clinton Family Fund glamorous international soiree, etc.
And if any Clinton supporters do not have those options available to them, why were they supporting her to begin with?
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Whack jobs are already desperate.
I can't believe that they would have the "brass" to send PM's.
...hope you blocked and reported.
London Lover Man
(371 posts)Just wondering...
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)Response to madfloridian (Original post)
LiberalElite This message was self-deleted by its author.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Bernie must be doing something right!
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)What is about Bernie and the electorate?
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)will result in anything other than the 1% getting wealthier and the rest of us getting poorer.
brewens
(13,645 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)that says "go fuck yourself"
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)their own beliefs and actions on those who they do not agree with.
This generally happens when people like this feel threatened.
Look at what the RepubliCONs are always doing. It's the same thing!
historylovr
(1,557 posts)So I can't remember who received it, only who sent it. Curiously, this is their favorite group. I hope you put that person on ignore.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)from a DUer on vacation.
MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)Hang in there.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)everyone is entitled to their opinion and to express them. We are also entitled to peace and it appears that has been disturbed.
MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)I thought there was an option to block PM and email? You could either add individuals you wanted to hear from, or turn 'on' receive PM and email. It seems to me that was one of the reasons DU so appealed to me-- the option to not be harassed!
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)ReallyIAmAnOptimist
(357 posts)"They" also thought BO had no chance and HRC was a shoe-in in 2008. Maybe it's just too painful, too much cognitive dissonance to see it happening again, with Bernie. So the denial is in them, not Bernie's supporters. That said, IMO there's not enough time in the day to be bothered by such nonsense. Block 'em, and move on.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)admins.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)socialist? hmmm....
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)mad. People can be such jerks.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)still_one
(92,492 posts)report it to admins that you are being harassed
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)The frustration is epic.
So sad.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)If it were truly that narrow, why bother even acknowledging the existence of the delusional?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I have never in my life seen a group of people
living in such denial and delusion as the Wendy's supporters.
It is about Wendy's and the narrow piece of the burger market it represents.
Signed: McDonalds
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)on Full Ignore.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Considering that poll after poll shows a majority of voters agreeing with Bernie on the issues, although perhaps not yet supporting him, it is absurd to call his supporters a "narrow piece of the electorate."
Our task, and we still have lots of time to accomplish it, is to convince people that they should vote our dreams, our hopes and our best interests and not let establishment punditocracy, who have betrayed us over and over for the last forty years, tell us for which establishment candidate we should vote. The establishment doesn't represent the people like Bernie does.
The oligarchs are going down in the next year and a half, people. Long live the revolution. Long live Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd -- each in his own eight by ten cell.
Let MIRT know about this e-mail, MadFloridian. It may be a TOS violation. I haven't gotten one like that yet.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)are neither in denial or delusional. No more than they are. We are supporting OUR candidate in a primary. And from the crowds we are seeing it does not seem we are so small. This has been the way of the Party for a very long time. We have not even had one primary state vote yet and they expect us to give up?
If that bothers them then they fail to see what a primary is all about. It is not about a coronation. IMO what they are doing is telling us that we should give up and support THEIR candidate because - well I do not know why - but I indent to stay with Bernie to the end.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)(Or so they claim). Said poster was using right wing radio talking points equating polygamy and marriage equality. Someone said they sounded like a republican, so I said "walks like a duck, quacks like a duck". This earned me the title (via PM) of Bernie Bully.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Bernie Bully?
Me, too, I guess.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)find people to pick on
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)you go, I'll watch.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)and I know at least one other person who has, pretty nasty too.
Best to ignore them, I can't imagine doing something like that, it makes you wonder what is wrong with people ...
TBF
(32,118 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Said that Iraq War bit was the only difference between them.
Then they switched to the socialist lie.
They're nimble; I have to give them that.
If it's such a small number of voters, one wonders: Why so butthurt?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Not cool.
"denial and delusion" indeed...
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)On Mon Jul 27, 2015, 12:18 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
An unsolicited PM I just got about Bernie supporters...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128030007
REASON FOR ALERT
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
Hide this very meta post. This is the exact stuff that we complain the Clinton group does, and there here it is right here. High fives and all.
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Jul 27, 2015, 12:36 PM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I see nothing wrong with discussing a rude, unsolicited PM.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Why was this alerted? They posted a PM message and left the users ID off protecting their identity, soooooo?
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Ok, I'll hide for being meta because I would like to see some consistency, too. Shouldn't the hosts be taking care of this?
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I want to know if this stuff happens so I can be prepared if it happens to me.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: More alert stalking. Knock it off.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)just deleted it while shaking my head. Such a waste of
time with this nonsense!
And for the world I cannot understand why your OP
was alerted on. If people don't want to read it they
can go to another OP. This is getting very silly.
artislife
(9,497 posts)I think that is borderline nuts.
Can I say that?
They shouldn't be reading here to be offended anyway. Why torture yourself going into a group you don't support?
I went there once and backed out, but I did learn they do a group huddle to go and swarm OPs.
That just made me laugh, because that is what it felt like before I knew.
It's hard to remember we are all supposedly on the same side...
Springslips
(533 posts)" You guys are making me anxious and nervous that you'll vote down my candidate, stop that!"
CountAllVotes
(20,879 posts)& recommend.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)But I have been packing my ignore list with a bungling band of bobbleheads ...
onecaliberal
(32,976 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)however, if we have DU users who are even on a time-out stalking and rudely PM'ing our members, I believe it is important to share this information for others in the group to be forewarned and forearmed.
Thanks Mad.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)about a month ago. That person is on time-out also. I will alert if it continues.
TM99
(8,352 posts)We will try to help out as well.
This, to me, is very inappropriate behavior, and frankly, I do not understand why Admin is allowing it.
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)if and every time it happens in the future.