1StrongBlackMan, Bravenak, Number23

[brer cat]

...

[pirateshipdude]

1. I am all for a strong black man, love anyone brave. And Number 23 sounds fun. Eom

[JustAnotherGen]

5. She's one of our hosts!

[pirateshipdude]

7. I an always there for a toast, especially to someone with a voice.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Me toooooo!

Unfortunately, there's too much silence lately.

[pirateshipdude]

11. Ya, well. Lets change things. Eom.

[sheshe2]

12. my own poem.

23
bn
strong

[pirateshipdude]

13. Clever, man. Eom.

[sheshe2]

15. she. eom

[pirateshipdude]

17. Ha ha.

[sheshe2]

20. ;)

[pirateshipdude]

23. ....

[brer cat]

22. Then you might just fit right in here, pirateshipdude.

Number23 is fun and also quite brilliant.

[pirateshipdude]

24. Brilliant. A fav. An absolute Fav! Eom

[betsuni]

56. She's brilliant and fun -- I am a groupie.

I guess I'm doing that "echo chamber" thing that's supposedly so terrible, supporting people who are smart as hell and don't bash Democrats all the time. Oops.

[pirateshipdude]

60. Lol, yes. Eom

[bobbieinok]

2. What has happened?

I haven't followed this group for a while.

[TexasTowelie]

3. All of them are on flagged for review

for an indefinite period of time.

[montana_hazeleyes]

30. I wonder why this takes so long.

I would like to see them back!

[LuvLoogie]

41. WTH!? Did they go and hurt somebodies' feelings again?

[brush]

42. But they let William Pitt Rivers' work be posted here twice in the last week

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He called President O a POS used car salesman then doubled down on it.

He openly stated that he wasn't going to vote for Hillary in the general and tried to influence others to do the same.

Oh, did I mention he's been tombpstoned, yet the admin allowed his work to stay up despite alerts?

THAT EFFIN' SMELLS TO ME.

[sheshe2]

53. Hmmm....yup.

[fleabiscuit]

99. He's got a new name here too. nt

[brush]

100. You mean they've let him back? What's the new name?

[JustAnotherGen]

4. You my friend

Are running amok.

[pirateshipdude]

6. Really? Why? Eom

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Quiet joke

Between brer and me.

[pirateshipdude]

10. Ah. Shhhhh.

[brer cat]

18. Better than running scared.

[pirateshipdude]

19. Who does that? Boring! Eom

[sheshe2]

14. Bwahahahahahaha.

Luvs ya!

[sheshe2]

16. My favs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gothmog]

21. Three of my favorite people

[calimary]

40. Mine, too!

I miss seeing their posts here.

[ismnotwasm]

25. I hate it

I hate that they are not here. I hate why. Its bullshit.

[pirateshipdude]

26. Kill Bill. Love the picture. Eom

[pirateshipdude]

27. I am feeling a bit of that tonight. That is all, lol. Eom

[Squinch]

36. And that it is this weird limbo. Bullshit indeed.

[sheshe2]

28. brer

To our friends...gone but not forgotten~

[JHan]

31. Hahahahahahaa love it

[JHan]

29. K & R lol

[we can do it]

32. Number 23 LBJ?

[sheshe2]

34. No

Number23 host extraordinaire of the AA Group.

[we can do it]

35. Was a sorta joke/compliment, I love LeBron 😍

[sheshe2]

37. Okay!

Thanks

[we can do it]

38. Cheers! 🥂

I'm not always funny😹

[sheshe2]

39. Lol

[still_one]

33. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NurseJackie]

43. ❤️👍❤️❤️❤️

[Brother Buzz]

44. I was always amused when nadinbrzezinski locked horns with them

They didn't take no shit from her. None!

I'm sorry to see 1StrongBlackMan and Bravenak checked into the roach motel (a.k.a flagged for review).

Times have been better

[still_one]

46. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Tarheel_Dem]

45. The purge is almost complete.

[sheshe2]

47. 23 is still active.

Yet silent non the less.

[murielm99]

48. If this post disappears,

we will be closer to competing the purge.

[sheshe2]

51. Yup. nt

[lunamagica]

49. I miss them all, and I want them back!

[Jamaal510]

50. K&R

[lunasun]

52. I missed when this went down but it has been obvious they are now gone. I didn't know if they

left on thier own for twitter . I know sometimes I have to leave DU for a while
I get too pissed off at some of the non sense

[BlueMTexpat]

54. LET THEIR

VOICES BE HEARD!!!!

They have been in purgatory long enough. MUCH TOO LONG!

This is censorship, no less.

[betsuni]

55. YES I LOVE AND MISS THEM.

Dammit.

[betsuni]

57. I'd like to say more about this but can't afford another hide.

Pearls before swine.

[mcar]

58. I miss their voices here

[treestar]

59. 3 great posters

[Quayblue]

61. K&R

[wryter2000]

62. K&R

Don't know 23 well, but I always look forward to what 1SBM and bravenak have to say.

[irisblue]

63. I went back and reread some of their posts. DU is poorer without their input

[BainsBane]

64. I couldn't agree more

[KitSileya]

65. Just want to chime in with my support.

Important voices that DU should be ashamed they silenced.

[Starry Messenger]

66. Sorry to be late to this party.

I can't stand coming here much because of precisely this--minorities getting banned from DU for fighting bigoted bullshit. At least on twitter there are no juries with axes to grind.

[JI7]

67. and openly right wing trolls are allowed to continue posting

[JHan]

68. ... and forjusticethunders!

[steve2470]

69. so sorry to hear Bravenak and Number23 have joined 1StrongBlackMan in exile

sigh....

[brer cat]

70. Number 23 is active

but she has gone silent.

[steve2470]

71. ah ok thanks! nt

[betsuni]

72. Now La Lioness Priyanka is FFR.

[brer cat]

73. Damn.

[JHan]

74. I'm curious about something...

What's the average age on this site? 45-60? Because its a lil amazing to me grown ass people are running around on an alert spree to get people FFR'd.

[betsuni]

75. Seriously.

It's not an interesting adult hobby. Sad.

[JI7]

97. older and mostly white

that has always been the case.

but there were still POC that i remember in the early days and MANY of them left during Obama's presidency because the disgusting attacks on him.

DU was full of Obama haters during his presidency and many of them(obama haters) ended up supporting trump.

[Squinch]

78. NO! What is that about??

[betsuni]

79. I don't know.

I'm assuming it has to do with hurt feelings over her post "Guess what I am doing right now" making fun of the silly neoliberal/establishment/corporatist buzzwords. And she's a Democrat and intelligent and funny, so obviously ...

[Squinch]

80. Will no one rid us of these meddlesome bots???

Really, I am more and more convinced that those buzzwords are tells for bots intentionally creating disunity among Democrats. I was very happy to see her lampoon them.

This sucks.

[betsuni]

81. Yes.

[Squinch]

87. Really, I should say, it's the bots and the dumbasses who fall for the bot messages.

There are plenty of the latter here too.

[JHan]

82. I had no idea people were alert stalking until recently...

it blows my mind.

Don't people have lives?

[ismnotwasm]

84. There's a number of people who think it's funny I guess

I have my own theories, mentally unstable, prone to malignant gossip, poor work history or are retired or on disability--because who has the time for that shit when you're working? Very little emotional intelligence, obsessive/addictive tendencies, anger issues. Some of the more unpleasant DU characters have openly talked about--or inadvertently exposed-- one or more of these these traits so I'm extrapolating really.

Not the kind of people I hang out with.

[JHan]

85. great observations. On net forums you meet all types indeed..

I'm a gamer, I used to frequent gaming forums a lot, it's almost the same drama but still unexpected.

I cannot get over that someone has the time to STALK someone on a forum and alert their posts to get them klcked off. That kind of abuse shouldn't happen anyway?

[ismnotwasm]

86. The system was tweaked to try to stop or slow it

But I've been in juries where I regret my vote because I didn't have enough context--I just did the best I could. I think there's a lot of unresolved bitter as well. What's very concerning is it appears a disproportionate number of PoCs have been FFRd--not outright banned, which I don't get, seems petty--so they remain in that strange, insulting limbo. I wish I had the numbers. Of active posters, how many are PoC, and what percent are FFRd?

Gaming culture absolutely fascinates me, especially when more and more women joined. I am not a gamer, but I like reading about what's happening in the gaming world on occasion so I've heard about some of the drama that can happen.

[JHan]

88. From what I've read, in the 80's and 90's it wasn't so bad..

when there were some strong female game developers... douchebro culture invaded late 90's to early 2000's.. and gaming culture changed culminating in the gamergate nonsense. The most righteous rant about this came from Chris Klewe - "Why GamerGaters piss me the fuck off" His opening hits em straight in the gut

Dear #Gamergaters,
Do you know why you piss me the fuck off?
Because you’re lazy. You’re ignorant. You are a blithering collection of wannabe Wikipedia philosophers, drunk on your own buzzwords, incapable of forming an original thought. You display a lack of knowledge stunning in its scope, a fundamental disregard of history and human nature so pronounced that makes me wonder if lead paint is a key component of your diet. You think you’re making piercing arguments when, in actuality, you’re throwing a temper tantrum that would embarrass a three-year-old.

I've been lucky, I played in some great guilds but the misogyny is toxic. These dudes have mental problems.

[ismnotwasm]

89. That's a great article

I've recently learned the derisive term "neckbeard" that describes certain toxic-sexist male individuals immersed in gaming or comics. Usually white, libertarian and always sexist. They sometimes join the Nordic cults springing up all over the place.

[JHan]

90. yeah they tend to frequent..

return of kings site - run by a dude living in his mother's basement.



they can't even patriarch right...but they wanna pontificate

[JHan]

91. speaking of neckbeards....to get back on topic..

I was once alerted on here for saying Michael Tracey is a neckbeard douchebro....



I guess a neckbearded douchebro in kind was offended?

[ismnotwasm]

92. OMG!

"Neckbeards in the wild"

I hear they consider themselves deeply sensitive...

[JHan]

93. "broflakes" ..

[ismnotwasm]

83. Jesus

How many people of color are left at DU? It's never been a high number, but every one with a vocal voice gets hammered with these 'midnight' alerts. And too many voices are on reviewed status--from a place that can't afford to bleed diversity if it wants to retain any quality.

[betsuni]

94. "a place that can't afford to bleed diversity if it wants to retain any quality"

That's for sure.

[irisblue]

95. What the hell?!

[betsuni]

96. It's like that Agatha Christie story where people on an island are murdered one by one.

And then there were nine, and then there were eight, and then there were none.

[sheshe2]

76. Kicking for Pri!

[longship]

77. R&K

Those are great DUers.

Bring them back.