This is about the 5th time I've excused myself from jury duty

[tavernier]

because someone in one political camp was having a snit fight with someone in another.

Yeah, I really want to get in the middle of that snake pit. *eye roll*

Man, I'll be glad when the election is over!!!

[Kalidurga]

1. Funny I was on a jury

Someone was trying to push a bad hide on a Hillary supporter. I really don't care what side a person is on I am not going to hide just because I support candidate A the other one supports candidate B and now these two people are fighting. Let them deal with it I sure won't end the convo.

[Tipperary]

4. I agree with you.

Many of us try to be fair. I do not judge based on someone's candidate.

[Kalidurga]

7. Thank you

we should not be at war over who we support. Make the case for that person and let the other make their case. Now if someone says something that I disagree with I might get a little snippy myself, but that is how I am in real life so...

[Thinkingabout]

2. Jury decision is not required in cases of differences in opinions but have seen serveral like this.

We have an option not to hide and in some cases where it is a difference in opinions I alert on the alert.

[trof]

3. That's when I say 'Leave it'.

I'm happy to serve on a jury.
It's gonna have to be pretty outrageous before I'll vote to hide it.

[spanone]

5. i refuse the shit in gdp...

[tavernier]

17. and lately it's ALL in gdp.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. I quit the jury duty cesspool about two weeks after it started.

I simply have better uses for my time.

[gratuitous]

8. Yes, I can serve now . . . *click*

Please don't be the gungeon/pleasedon'tbethegungeon/pleasedon'tbethegungeon

*Change*

Shit.

[Renew Deal]

15. Or I/P

Some of those arguments are so "inside" that they're hard to follow. I think I turned one like that back recently.

I mostly get GDP/GD juries. Sometimes I/P or guns. Occasionally Religion. Rarely anything else.

[Shandris]

35. Oh wow, there are actually reported posts from there?

To be fair I've never checked in on those groups, but to my recollection I can't think of anywhere I've been groupwise for Jury Duty other than AfAm once and...I think it was maybe one in the Gungeon? Other than that it's all GD and GDP, every single time.

I don't know if I'd do one in I/P. I don't follow the topic much and I know for a fact there's two entire armed propaganda centers churning out the material, so I'm not really interested in sticking my nose into that one. If it was something that didn't require knowledge I would ("Oh hush, you poopyhead!" or the like), but otherwise? Probably not.

[Renew Deal]

36. I/P is tough

Especially when the complaint is about sources. At the old DU there were two people dedicated just to I/P. It was Lithos and Underground Railroad(?).

[Agschmid]

39. I almost always excuse myself on those...

They are tough sometimes.

[Retrograde]

9. I seem to get one of these every day

Can we have another option, like "You too go fight among yourselves and let the adults talk"?

[B2G]

10. I thought you meant real jury duty

I started reading the thread and was like wtf. Lol.

[tavernier]

12. Oh, sorry!

I should have been clearer.

[Quantess]

13. You´re thinking about reality.

DU is a little bit of escape from reality.

[KamaAina]

11. Hell no! I relish the chance to vote against the alert trolls

and call them out in the explanation.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Some of the jury comments have been on point lately.

...and total smackdowns.

[edhopper]

14. I am 0 for 3

on my last 3 jury votes.

I guess i don't know who is being bad.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. The only juries I'm ever called for are in GD: P.

I'm still willing to serve, but I have to warn everyone, I only hide posts in extreme circumstances. I'm all for letting them duke it out.

[restorefreedom]

40. me too. i think i only voted once to hide,

and it was unanimous so it must have been pretty bad.

[cwydro]

18. I always serve when called to a jury.

I've voted to leave posts from posters that I cannot stand.

I've voted to hide posts from posters I like.

Usually I only vote to hide in a pure personal attack, but I sure as hell don't give a damn if you like Clinton or Sanders. Makes no never mind to me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Right? And it can be hard to do.

But it's the right thing to do.

[cwydro]

24. You are so right.

I don't have anyone on ignore, but there is one poster that I absolutely have no respect for - my opinion of this one divebombed way back during the ebola crisis.

I have voted to leave posts by this poster even though I have to fight myself to do it lol.

On the bright side, he/she seems to spend a lot of time on suspension, so that's all good.

[Quixote1818]

22. I am the same way.

Once I am in the jury I really try to look at things objectively. I think most people on DU do as well because the outcomes are usually pretty good.

[FLPanhandle]

21. Lately I almost never vote to hide unless it's really outragous.

It's getting silly.

[Rex]

23. I usually pass if it is in GD-P.

Lemme guess...GD-P?

[olddots]

25. I rarely opt out

they pay for parking and the sandwichs are pretty good but the coffee sucks .

[dlwickham]

28. you bring your own thermos

throw some Bailey's in for flavor

[dlwickham]

26. the jury system on here pretty much sucks

but I'll be more than happy to serve and follow the rules

I'd say a vast majority of those I've served on juries with have no bloody idea what the rules are around here, or at least were

are there still rules on here?

[Agnosticsherbet]

27. I never opt out. It it is a Snit Fit...

not matter what the origin of the snit, I vote to let it remain.

[LiberalArkie]

29. I was on one the other day where the alerter went on and on and on about the

poster, calling the poster things I had never heard before. But I was laughing so hard I had to say leave it for the entertainment value for others.

[FLPanhandle]

31. I laugh when the alerter breaks more rules in their reason than the poster they are alerting.

Some of the reasons are personal rants.

[HuckleB]

30. The election has a long way to go, and I'd recommend just judging the behavior.

If it's truly an ugly personal attack, down it. If it's not, don't down it.

[Duckhunter935]

32. I always serve

I try to be fair and vote to hide very few times.

[BlueJazz]

34. Same here. I figure that somebody may just be having a lousy day.

[3catwoman3]

33. Can't people just be grown up enough...

...to ignore bad actors? When I first started looking around on DU, one of the things that attracted me to this site was the "no holds barred" way people expressed themselves. Why have so many become so sensitive?

[Solly Mack]

37. I take turns were I am unwilling to serve only to see a hide/jury result posted

that should have never been alerted on, much less received a hide. And that sucks, people. For something to be alerted on and hidden for no good cause other than dislike of the poster being alerted on, or because some low radar troll happens to get a jury summons and enjoys handing out hides.

So I switch back to willing to serve only to receive alerts that read like a made-for-TV mini-series from a thread filled with little more than tits for tats from people who obviously have a long history of attacking each other. Alerts that expect everyone to know the missing backstory or worse, the ones that attempt to fill in the backstory with multiple links that really serve no other purpose than to drive home just how fucking stupid the current alert is because it, too was born from the same tit for tat, backbiting hypocrisy as the supporting links.

Wow. That felt good. Thank you!

Maybe I should go back to being unwilling to serve until my frame of mind improves.

[tavernier]

41. Couldn't have said it better,

and precisely why I've opted to skip the last bunch out of gdp. It's not so much that I don't have the time (although you are correct; often it's like wading through a swamp of alligator shit before figuring out the actual complaint), but simply because the playground fighting just annoys me too much to want to finish the task.

[Solly Mack]

42. Primary season has always been acrimonious to one degree or another, we both know that...

but it gets old - quick.

[hunter]

38. GD:P is a cesspool.

Seriously, people!!!

I hate DU GD P jury duty.

I will never, ever, ever understand this sort of political blood sport or religion.

I've never ever had a most favorite sports team or religion. When I was a kid Don Drysdale signed my program and shook my little hand, but I didn't get the significance of that until many years later.

It was Free Ticket Weird Kid Day at Dodgers Stadium!!!

Living in the sewers of my brain chemistry, autistic depression, functional only by wretched meds with many yucky side effects such as anorgasmia, this deeply pessimistic person I am, I only recognize the teams that suck demon dick.

Team Reagan-Bush-Bush sucked big cholla cactus demon dick. I personally witnessed President Ronald Reagan as a confused old man who didn't know where he was or what the hell he was doing there, but he did manage to read a few words for the television news machine, so everything in the U.S.A. was okay.

Sanders vs. Clinton are merely the not so bad, compared to my personal ideals.

If I'm ever, by some horrible accident, Emperor of this Earth, many people will not be happy, including those Clinton vs. Sanders warriors.

Obama is a most competent President of this U.S.A.. By my measures, he's Lincoln or FDR great. I'm happy to be on that team.

But you gotta remember this U.S.A is a deeply flawed nation, and always has been.

What we are here, and what we pretend or hope to be, are two very different things.

I'll vote President for the person who can do the job, messy as it is. It won't be any kind of Republican or Libertarian, or anyone other than a modern Progressive Liberal Democrat.

Imperfect.