Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumWarning If you post in " GD: Primaries" asking to be allowed to vote 1st you will get LOCKED
Unbelievable
this was the post that they locked
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511417152
"Please let everyone vote first"
"This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by ******** (a host of the General Discussion: Primaries forum). If you believe this was done in error, please contact ******** to appeal."
"A post that I was responding to was just locked, I can only guess it was because the poster used profanity, so I have reposted the hart of their request below with the response that I had written;
"The. Primaries. Are. Not. Over. Over half the country still hasn't voted yet. Got that? Fucking California, or New York, or Oregon, or Washington and a whole lot of other people in a whole lot of other states HAVEN'T VOTED YET.
I am so sick of the loyalty oaths and now I read where a long-time DUer wants to start another purge, yes, I said PURGE, all those not swearing blind fealty to the Democratic Party. NOT ALL OF US HAVE VOTED YET!"
my response;
Your primary vote will count this time
Trust your hart do not let the BS get to you, Bernie is far from done. "
I was ask to edit this post removing the host who locked the post so I block out their name I hope that this clears up the problem.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)that lock was the stupidest lock I've ever seen.
I proudly stand with Le Taz Hot.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511417716
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)the game becomes more important than the subject, way to much energy spent on this.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)First, that's what's funny...you can still give the locked thread a Rec.
Second, of all the fucking nerve!!!!
Expressing frustration about voting in the Primaries isn't primary enough?
Of all the shit and lies that get posted, this get a Lock????
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)But not too surprising really, the desperation from that group of groupies is pathetic... not allowed to use a proper description here anymore... so that is best I can do
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)May not be for something said there, but it seems tolerance, a key dictionary descriptor of liberalism, is a real victim of the centrists/moderates.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Bernie to address its not over on the 15th during the debate.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)Ivan Kaputski
(528 posts)Troll host extrodinaire.
I just posted something here and got it hidden when I asked a general question about HRC supporters. I thought this was a safe area.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)I hate it when the general is called before the West cost polls close too.
malthaussen
(17,202 posts)So far today, there have been uncountable echoes of the original post; indeed, the one you cite was not even the original.
-- Mal
Autumn
(45,106 posts)With your edit I am not inclined to lock it at this time.
bvf
(6,604 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)I'm interested to know what people think of this.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)None of it is private, so it can be copied out into the regular forums. I want to know what it means as well.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)I took the liberty of paraphrasing it and making a new post, with explanation as to how it relate to the Democratic primary.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Response to awake (Original post)
DUbeornot2be This message was self-deleted by its author.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Even if the mathematical odds say the election is locked up (??), it's only DEMOCRATIC to allow it to play to the very end.
sus453
(164 posts)perhaps incorrect premise that this would be a "left wing" site (I guess that's just my romantic and somewhat nostalgic interpretation of the term "Underground" - the progressive side of democracy or the Democratic Party. Am I mistaken?
Loyalty oath - what is this, Joseph McCarthy? It's better to follow your your principles and your gut instincts. If Democratic Underground doesn't promote "left" and progressive values, I'm sure that somewhere there is another site that does.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)There is a very vocal contingent that are moderate Republican in policy stances, but to be fair, most of those don't actually have any policy stances or principles, they just agree with whatever their chosen one says and wants.
It's rather disgusting actually. Something you'd think would be seen only in teabaggers.
You might like http://jackpineradicals.org/content.php
.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)But there has been a whittling away at the vocal left for many years. I'm still here because I'm stubborn and haven't been banned yet, and there are still some good posts and articles for me to read.
Many of my favorite people here have been banned, chased off or subverted however, so this isn't the amazing place it used to be.
Please consider staying for a bit and adding to the discussion- the more of voices we have here the more likely it will become the place it used to be, unless Skinner is against that.
ellennelle
(614 posts)i quite literally never commented until recently, and then it's been pretty rare, but i have on one or two occasions been a bit blunt. i don't feel particularly apologetic about that when the entire premise of the posts i'm responding to is to trash bernie, search and destroy his supporters, smoke 'em out, and then congratulate each other on the solidarity of their group. well, duh; when you don't allow any dissenters into the discussion, you can certainly smile from inside a perfect bubble. actually, more like an iron-clad prison that may well feel like they're protected from the uncomfortable truths of the world, but we've already watched that scenario unfold, thanks to fox and the republican party.
i'm not interested in inviting chronic flame-throwers into the discussions, but that scorched earth policy seems antithetical to not only democratic principles, but certainly to the spirit of what i understood to hold here at DU.
again, no apologies here, but it seriously smacked of jr hi "aahwm, i'm gonna tell" when someone wears a 'wrong' shoe brand or uses 'so yesterday' slang. most grown-ups i know are (a) not so thin-skinned, and (b) capable of just ignoring the worst of it, possessing the capacity to wait until it gets out of hand before pulling in the tribunals.
and i have to say, this tactic so utterly did not endear me - or anyone that i could see - the the hillary cause. au contraire; i still recall PUMAs, not to mention the pretty pathetic tactics employed by her campaign 8 years ago against obama.
my opinion of her and her followers/entourage has still not recovered, sadly. there are different ways to handle all these situations that i see repeating old patterns, and not the thoughtful, measured, grown-up, and wise management we tend to see more consistently in obama. or bernie, for that matter.
tho, sigh, i will most definitely cast a vote against the republican candidate, IF bernie does not win the nomination. i just wish someone - mostly HRC - would give me good, substantive, and tangible reasons to do that with some enthusiasm.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts).....double secret probation. Things have changed......
cui bono
(19,926 posts)but asking to actually exercise democracy are locked?
.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)Out of the many, few!
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Authoritarians are NOT Democrats, they need to go back to the Republican Party.