Is anyone else creeped-out?

[PeoViejo]

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Lots of sophisticated gaslighting posts from camp Clinton since Tuesday. I guess we're just supposed to go tits-up.

What's next, Chiêu Hồi leaflets dropped by aircraft?

[FarPoint]

1. No....

All is good.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. no, because i don't like my life in a state of paranoia. nt

[bettyellen]

45. paranoia seems to be a feature, and not a bug of that campaign. no matter how many times

shit is debunked, it pops up again.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

50. confirmation bias. people are treating random reddit posts with the same level of believability as a

nytimes article, just because it confirms their existing views.

[bettyellen]

55. even when Reddit discredits a story as a CT and removes it- it gets big play here!

And the same people call others "low info" - what does that make them- "shit info"?

[sufrommich]

3. Well,either that or there's a primary coming to an end.

This mysteriously happens every four years.

[Maru Kitteh]

48. THAT PROVES IT! IT'S A CONSPIRACYYYYY!

CALL YOUR CONGRESS MEMBER RIGHT FUCKING NOW !!11!!!!

[JoePhilly]

4. huh?

Personally, I'm getting a kick out of the endless stream of bite sized outrage OPs from the Sanders camp on DU.

[PeoViejo]

31. Trying to keep it simple

for the profoundly misguided.

[JoePhilly]

34. Whatever keeps the perpetually outraged outraged.

[VulgarPoet]

5. They want us to roll over and supplicate with them.

Fuck. That.

[PeoViejo]

12. Better on my feet

..than on my knees.

[FarPoint]

16. Excuse me...

Are you talking to me?

[Hiraeth]

30. why would you think that?

paranoid much?

[wendylaroux]

32. doing their Robert De niro impression.

[FarPoint]

44. Now, what are you suggesting?

You need to clarify.

[jcgoldie]

6. gaslighting posts

How dramatic.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. As a sensible centrist, now that the dream is squished

I'm doing my best to get in line and drink the koolaide.

[Hiraeth]

28. you sound ~pragmatic~ even

kudos and good look with the kool-aide. is it cherry?

[MineralMan]

8. Creeped out? No.

Why do you ask? The Democratic primary race is winding down, and Hillary Clinton is still leading with big numbers? Nothing creepy about that. The people have voted and are voting still. That's how it works. The candidate with the most pledged delegates becomes the nominee, and we work to get that nominee elected over whatever clown the Republican Party offers.

Seems like a normal presidential election year so far. The only thing creepy is the blobfish, Ted Cruz. Now he's creepy.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Shit, I knew those were eerie but I had no idea their heads were human-sized.

[tclambert]

19. It has a Donald Trump expression on its face, though.

[Maru Kitteh]

52. Oh my Gawd. It DOES look like Raphael Edward Cruz

GROSS. Seriously. I feel sorry for that damn fish.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

[brooklynite]

11. Is anyone else relieved?

Lots of angry ranting posts from camp Sanders since Tuesday. At least they're accepting reality.

[MineralMan]

13. Yup. Relieved.

Here's another creepy image from the Republican side:

[PeoViejo]

15. ...but whos' reality is it?

..and, in what Dimension did it originate?

[bvf]

14. No. "Sophisticated" isn't a word I'd use for them, either.

I like the Chiêu Hồi reference, though.

[JaneyVee]

17. Im creeped out that Trump wants to punish women for having abortions.

[Octafish]

18. We've always been at pre-emptive war with Eastasia, G.I.

Like the Gulf of Tonkin, it's getting me down that no one remembers Eastasia.



Or that Ho Chi Minh served with the United States in the fight against Japan during World War II. The cartoon above tells the Vietnamese people how to help the downed U.S. airmen get to friends in China.

During the Eisenhower years, the USA, for some reason known but to Wall Street and the Dulles Brothers, sided with the French colonialists in their claim against the North.

But, goldongit, Bernie sure is toast now. And his ideas? Forgetaboutid.

[PeoViejo]

20. Lodge Brothers' Rubber Plantations

..the Viet Minh were imposing taxes on them and the Boys were furious. Michelin paid-up and suffered only damage from US Forces.

[Octafish]

56. That explains it.

'Arrogant' CIA Disobeys Orders in Viet Nam

[Skwmom]

21. Gas lighting: Commonly adopted by psychopathic, sociopathic and narcissistic types of people,

http://lonerwolf.com/gaslighting/

It makes sense that our current political world would attract these personality types (considering some of the really mean political operatives out there). But then I've read that psychopathic people are also attracted to the sales and legal professions.

[PeoViejo]

25. A lot hope for jobs in the new House of War.

[blue neen]

29. Is that what you are calling people on DU?

Psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists?

[Skwmom]

37. Did I mention anyone on DU? No. I was referring to people in the political world.

[blue neen]

46. The OP is about posts on DU.

You replied with a post about psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists.

[Skwmom]

49. I clarified in my post.

[RoccoR5955]

38. They certainly do exist here.

To think otherwise is naive.

[Pisces]

22. I'm creeped out by this post

[randome]

23. What's creepy is the sudden influx of group prayers for an indictment.

Get a room, you guys. And keep it down in there!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[JoePhilly]

35. + 1

[gordianot]

53. The real live people I know who like Sanders do not want an indictment.

Actually they get along well with Hillary supporters. The entire group(s) meets face to face and only two others ever come to DU. They never get nasty with each other.

The concern about legal problems of the Clintons are universal among the Clinton-Sanders supporters as is the desire not to see elected the most odious Republicans running for office in our collected lifetimes. Of the two real life people (from about 40 total attending members) I know who come to DU , they come here to vent. People who call themselves "real Democrats" on DU need to go out into the world and meet some real life people with names and learn some social skills.

[seabeyond]

24. Ya... your post.

[Hiraeth]

26. Put the worst on ignore. Helps a lot with the static to noise ratio.

[DookDook]

33. I had family members that used to gaslight me.

It took years to really get past a lot of it. I remember when I first realized that I had come from a toxic home and the best thing that I did was cut off contact with the crazier members of my family. One of them wasn't too happy about that so they spent the next two years cyber stalking me across message boards, reporting back all my posts to other members of my family.

So now that I'm free of a family that gaslit me, I join a message board that uses the same tactics? FML.

[Hiraeth]

40. I see it happening a lot in the work place. Management is a master at it. Black belt even.

Ignore does wonders for it, trust me

[dana_b]

36. yes! Although the "worst" has expanded greatly lately

but it's okay. It only takes a few seconds.

[Hiraeth]

41. indeed

[NCTraveler]

27. No. nt.

[ibegurpard]

39. daily

And it's far from sophisticated. It's ham-handed, transparent, and sophomorish.

[Hiraeth]

42. laughable, even

[djean111]

43. Creepy. Seem to use the same script.

And have morphed from saccharine faux-reasonable blather into peevish and authoritarian rants.
Things must not be going well.

And I don't drink Kool-Aid. Not for anyone. So all the posts do, for me, is help increase my Full Ignore list.

[workinclasszero]

47. No but here's a puppy for you

[LexVegas]

51. ...

[dinkytron]

54. Spot on.

[Omaha Steve]

57. Locking after a review by forum hosts

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