What in the fuck is wrong with DU?

[stop the bleeding]

How can a thread/OP threatening to not vote in the GE because their DEM may not win the nomination get 7 recommendations?

You people are recommending a thread that says this person will not vote in the GE because their candidate may not win.

You are recommending a thread not to vote for a DEM on DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM

In the words of Mugatu(Will Ferrell) "I must be taking crazy pills"


on eidt: make it 14 now

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. 7 trolls.

Next. (Works the other way, too.)

[Name removed]

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[L0oniX]

35. LOLROTF he/she hit my ignore list like a fly in a spider web.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. you mean, you've missed the vitriol and hatred spewed by Hillary fans?

boy, that is almost incredible. they seem to be everywhere, trying to crap on everyone who cannot see their candidate's perfection and inevitability.

[emilyg]

13. You got some nerve.

Yesterday a poster (Obama supporter) asked for people to post even lies to bring post count up against Hillary.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. not some nerve. Just an accurate memory and screen shots.

[emilyg]

28. So it's OK with you

to ask people to lie?

[Drunken Irishman]

3. I don't know, hell, even I will support Clinton if she's the nominee.

And I'm not liking her much right now.

But I'll still support her.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. Same here. I've certainly expressed a thought of sitting it out, but I won't.

I just think about President McCain and shudder violently.

[Dark]

4. Don't worry. It was just as bad in 2004, just we didn't have the rec's page.

It can get real bloody in here. It'll blow over once the nominee is finally decided.

[lastliberalintexas]

43. No, it wasn't

And I was a Deaniac- we and the Clarkies got into it plenty and got plenty thrown at us by the other camps. 2004 was still not this bad.

People need a vacation or some happy pills. I am an uncomitted who just votes Dem in Nov, in my mind Obama and Clinton are 6 of one, half dozen of the other. I can't understand the vitriol or the passion, since both are very similar on the issues and are moderately centrist Dems. Good candidates who will be a good president, but neither is going to revolutionize the American system of government.

But their supporters act as though they are running against Pol Pot or Stalin, and find every imagined slight about which to complain. It's bloody amazing the idiocy on this site these days. I guess I keep coming back to see the train wreck. :shrug:

[Dark]

46. I saw some pretty bad vitriol thrown around then, but It's been a while.

However, look at McCain, who was attacked constantly by the right wing radio hosts, yet now they're all coalescing around him.

[JVS]

5. It's the crybabies

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. It's gotten so bad today, you don't even want to know.

I think some of the newer posters on DU think a Democrat shouldn't win.

Fortuately, they're greatly outnumbered, in spite of their generous use of sock puppets. If Will Ferrell doesn't post here, he should. :-)

[Donkeykick]

8. I agree with you.

Party unity is a must!

[jody]

10. Interesting point but DU does welcome Democrats of all stripes, along with other progressives.

[f the letter]

14. At least nominally..

mostly progressives are insulted or marginalized.

Nevertheless, the idea that if your candidate doesn't win the nomination you won't vote doesn't make a lot of sense. My candidate's long gone but i'll still be voting. If only by drawing a picture of my middle finger on the ballot.

no not really. i'll be voting.

[maximusveritas]

11. Where have you been? 7 is nothing

I've seen OPs saying the same thing with 100 recs. And from multiple camps.

[Forkboy]

12. DU doesn't follow it's own rules quite often.

[still_one]

15. What they are threatening to do is make themseleves irrelevent /nt

[comradebillyboy]

17. what's wrong with DU? how about oughtright hatred, intellectual

dishonesty, blatant distortions of reality that would make bush blush, intolerance of dissenting opinions. Nothing is right about DU any more. I have been here since the days of the Clinton presidency and its gotten to be a hideous place.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

18. DU was not around during the Clinton presidency.

[stop the bleeding]

19. TY

I was gonna mention that.

[proud2BlibKansan]

38. Clinton was president in 2001?

Well I guess he was - for about 20 days.

[NJmaverick]

20. Sadly, while we like to believe all Democrats are better than

Republicans, it's not the case. There are Democrats that will sell out our nation, just because they didn't get their own way. The worse part of their actions, is because of the Supreme Court issues, future generations will pay for their betrayal, more than they will.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

22. Hmmm, I think the Republicans have a LOT more to answer to. They were in charge and fucked up the

country.

:hi:

[NJmaverick]

24. Yes, but what does that say to the Hillary people who are declaring

they will help the Republicans to continue to do that?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

34. I don't think anyone but Republicans want to fuck up the country.

The Democrats keep getting stuck with fixing the shit.

:toast:

[Upton]

21. It's reflective of the party

and the contentiousness of this primary season. It needs to end, and barring something unusual happening Tuesday, Hillary needs to pull out.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

23. A party to which you don't belong. Look out when we have a nominee.

:hi:

[Upton]

25. Awful presumptuous on your part

and also incorrect. I'm a registered Democrat in the state of Wa. Have anything else to say?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

27. As long as you're OK with either, you're OK with me.

:toast:

[unapatriciated]

26. You stoke the fires with your last sentence.

"It needs to end, and barring something unusual happening Tuesday, Hillary needs to pull out." If Obama takes Ohio and Texas, than it would be time for her to concede. It is still close enough in votes and delegates for her to continue until Tuesday. Both camps need to back off of all the he said, she said bickering. I voted for Edwards but will have no problem voting for either Clinton or Obama. Hopefully the nominee will incorporate some of Edwards policies.

[Upton]

31. Just stating the facts

even if she wins Ohio (which I expect her too) a single digit victory in Ohio and even Texas is not enough, the delegate math is simply not in her favor. That's why you've been seeing the super delegates starting to move towards Obama. You're right about the bickering though.

[bpeale]

29. and why do you continually troll & troll & troll with this stupid shit?

enquiring minds want to know.

[stop the bleeding]

30. you're calling me a troll?? laughable

go visit the research forum and look at the work I did on Valerie Plame, any old DU-er knows that I am not a troll.

Now answer my question with a real answer not the crap that you just said, after all the OP is a a legit question.

on edit: please provide links to back up your post from above that I continually troll and troll.

Do not answer without links - it just makes you look sad

[Bongo Prophet]

41. I will vouch for the fact that you are not a troll, STB. Heck, I was called one....

Once, for telling a poster to stop spreading right wing talking points.

And another time, for requesting a poster stop picking fights and insulting people.
I even said "Please" !!! Then got attacked harder - the poster reeeally wanted to fight.
I didn't at all - just wanted them to back off the hostile attitude.
Thought I could appeal to their humanity. Am I stupid or what??


It's just crazy in here, and people throw out stuff they think will hurt the most.
Oh, and it doesn't matter to me whic candidate you support - this goes on in both camps.

Like I said, crazy! :hi:

[stop the bleeding]

32. Links please, if your gonna call me a troll you better have proof

LINKS PLEASE!!!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

33. Yes please. Links kick ass. Please provide them.

Jeebus.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

47. bpeale, you seem to pull things from your nether regions.

Nether region arguments tend to fall flat very quickly here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. The same poster started ANOTHER thread where she tried to prove she was a loyal Democrat

First she says she is considering not voting for the Dem. Then she claims she is a Dem. And she posted fan mail she had received.

Mind. Boggling. Absolutely. Mind. Boggling.

[stop the bleeding]

39. I know she changed the out of bounds lines

in the latest post she said people were calling her unpatriotic, I did not witness that, all I saw was that people were wondering why she would chose not to vote DEM in the GE when she has been a DEM for 35 years, all this because her candidate may not win.

[billyoc]

37. I don't believe there is such a thread. nt

[stop the bleeding]

42. see here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4851120&mesg_id=4851120

I have been voting for Democrats my entire adult life - over 35 years - and this is the first time I am considering not voting. I know of many who feel as I do. Perhaps that should be a signal to the Democratic Party

recs up to 16 now

[billyoc]

44. Wow, that's something. Well, I hope McCain doesn't end up in the Iran bombing seat. nt

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

45. Thank you.

Reading the words vs. reading the paraphrase.

I pick the original words. I can figure it out from there. :-)

[Fox Mulder]

40. I don't support either of our two remaining candidates, but I'll vote for...

him/her in November.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

48. FM, this is disappointing. Both candidates inspire enthusiasm.

Yikes, go cry somewhere else. :-)

[Fox Mulder]

50. They don't inspire me.

Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards know how to inspire me, though.

[hifalutin]

52. Me too

Sadly I'm in the same boat but we have to do whatever it takes to get our side in there.

[Avalux]

49. Some are even threatening to vote for McCain. It truly is bizzaro DU.

I am hoping it will end soon once we decide on a candidate and those who aren't here for the good of the Democratic Party will go away.

[Forkboy]

51. Not enough cowbell?

[saltpoint]

53. Democrats may have a really good year. I'm a Democrat. I'm supporting

our ticket.

I betcha a hell of a lot of other DUers will also.