When the hack occurred, this thought immediately entered my mind:

[Ken Burch]

"This is what a fascist takeover would look like in this day and age".

May we never feel that level of terrifying hollow hopelessness again.

[marybourg]

1. Mine too. nt

[jimlup]

2. Unfortunately

we are still facing that exact situation. We are in trouble folks.

Time to start fighting back HARDER THAN EVER

[kimbutgar]

3. I felt the takedown of DU was an omen that orange hitler was going to win

My gut was feeling bad juju all day. As much as I wanted to believe the polls I kept hearing Thom Hartmann and Michael Moore saying he could win. I knew at 8:45 pm pst and the reaction of the tv hosts he won.

Since then I have not been able to watch any cable news. I might just extend my boycott indefinitely. Every time I turned on MSNBC it was orange hitler and never anything positive about Hillary and only about her godamn emails,

[mopinko]

4. my first thought- well of course they would. we are the eyes of the people.

i seriously think that our history of tearing into fishy election results is known and feared. if you knew it was close enough to steal, and you planned to steal it, and you could blind the witness, and you were a thug, that is just what you would do.

maybe my tinfoil is too tight, but i'm just sayin.

[JonLP24]

5. I agree

Very similar thought came to me before, I've been hacked before and it had the same feeling but it's just someone fucking with you what makes it scary is you don't know who.

I hope they have law enforcement involved to trace who did it, more serious than vandalism but more like shutting a business down.

[byronius]

6. Nobody else got hit -- tells you something.

They hate this site. They hate it bad.

Go Democratic Underground.

[Coyotl]

12. On dKos, election rigging talk is labeled CT and can get you banned.

So they didn't need to worry.

[byronius]

22. This is all so 2004. Exactly like 2004.

Except more out in the open. They're proud to hijack democracy -- they view cheating as strategy.

2016, and it's the 1400's again.

[msanthrope]

7. You Better Believe It!#!!!! nt

[bench scientist]

8. Yes. They hate us and reality and the truth.

I can't help thinking about Fascism in Italy prior to WW II. Trump is a pompous buffoon in every way Mussolini was. A vain self indulgent buffoon manipulated by a far right wing to do their unchecked bidding.

[Raster]

9. With all due respect to Skinner and the DU Admin Team...

...the Trump camp is populated with plenty of script kiddies from 4-chan and reddit. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED AND PLANNED FOR. These are black hat hackers, plain and simple. And quite frankly, this may happen again.

[stevenleser]

15. There is no such thing as a vulnerability proof system that is internet accessible.

You plan as best you can, but there is no perfect unhackable internet accessible system out there.

[Mike Niendorff]

10. If they hate you, you're doing something right.

Keep it up.

MDN

[Coyotl]

11. My first thought, "They are rigging the election so DU needs to be silenced first."

[ProfessorGAC]

14. While I Think The Hacker Is A Punk and A Loser. . .

. . .hacking DU had zero effect on the election. Almost everyone here already voted for HRC by the time the hack occurred. And undecideds weren't coming here for influence.

It was a crappy thing to do, and it screwed up a lot of our plans for election night coverage, but this wasn't part of a rig.

[Coyotl]

16. So, where on the web do you think the Election Integrity community is located?

Election Integrity is the very foundation of DU!

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Which Gives Us Which Power?

I know i don't have any.

[Coyotl]

19. The power to assemble, communicate, and act together. As guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

You have whatever power you are willing to exercise.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. I Could Do That Anyway

I could have done it that night by sitting with people watching election coverage, which i did for a while.

None of that changed the outcome between 4pm EST last Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

Not sure where you're going with this. A bit too CT'ish for me.

[Coyotl]

21. Not here you couldn't:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1091

[cbdo2007]

13. Yep, the first thing I thought and commented to my wife was, "they are taking away our right to...

peaceably assemble. Something fishy is going on."

[Sunlei]

17. good point! we all watched live when CNN russia were told 'while live' to leave & Gov. tv moved in

at least the USA doesn't have Government run TV, all we got was another crappy trump youtube and a 401 page