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In reply to the discussion: My swan song, come get your grave dancing on, if that's your thing. [View all]nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)... but because this site is anything but 2/3 people the author of the OP would actually be able to ignore, and because it's, in fact, mostly made up of Sanders supporters, they barely ever get hidden and they say far worse. Heck, my just saying this will probably get alert stalked.
It doesn't matter. The admins thankfully refunded the hundred bucks I donated for a Star membership back. I am all for supporting the Dems, but I will not donate to a site that has a jury system that is rigged to favor the majority candidate rather than actually work to reduce abusive behavior.
Madem's post may have been a bit condescending but so what? It's certainly worse than "piece of shit" and "fuck off" and other things I've seen on here that nobody even tries to alert.
Someone said something to me last night in our patioa pretty left-wing teacher who is incredibly well-educated and knowledgablethat really stuck with me ... and it's that most of these Bernie people have never really known poverty, so they only actually talk about it as some sort of social experiment. Heck, I'm certainly not poor now but I know poor. I know dirt poor. And I know what having one of these Right Wing wahoos mess up the economy can really mean for people. I don't know if he was really right about his assertions but it does explain this cognitive dissonance that allows the harshest of the Bernie supporters to casually toss off how they'll just sit this one out. I have to wonder if they have at stake what many women, minorities, gays, and the poor actually have at stake. I don't want to go back the days of more homophobia and I certainly don't want to be poor again. I know what's at stake and it's why, even though I find Bernie repugnant (at first because of the Pope thing but now because I see the hatred he inspires), I will still vote for him in November. Many of us don't have the luxury to sit these things out. I applaud those who do, but don't act all high and mighty like you're not participating in the nasty behavior because I've only ever seen the kind of behavior I've seen from Bernie supporters on this website and in the social media from Trump people. It does give quite a bit of weight to that old Horseshoe theory.