I've been reading HRC group posts....

[Equinox Moon]

I am in the HRC group just to see what they post. I was just there and I saw a lot of 'Bernie this' 'Bernie that'. In contrast, the Bernie group is primarily reporting on Bernie's campaign.

I also mostly see Bernie posts on the main home page.

Just noticing.

[DemocracyDirect]

1. It's called envy...

... another mortal sin.

[noiretextatique]

2. That group

Is a cheerleading echo chamber. Most of DU is banned because they do not tolerate anyone except cheerleaders.

[Equinox Moon]

3. That's if you post there

I'm just reading

[mac56]

16. I agree.

As another Bernie group poster put it: I feel like I'm eavesdropping on a sorority house.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. they can't talk about her positions or the issues

So they just reinforce each others talking points and insults.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. They've banned 806 people. There's hardly anybody left

but the members of a sad little echo chamber where they can complain about how badly they're being abused without anybody stopping by to annoy them with facts.

[dorkzilla]

9. I never go there, I trashed it and I don't care to look but

That's a huge amount of banned people, which just seems irrational. Is the moderator on that board actually Hillary herself?

[Equinox Moon]

23. In all fairness...

...the banned number count is higher because there are more Bernie supporters here on DU.

[dorkzilla]

25. True, there are more of us but...

from all I've read a great number of the posts that resulted in banishment were innocuous; it sounds like the ban hammer is a result of intolerance more than anything. I think the moderator (maybe it's not Hillary. Bill seems pretty intolerant these days so it could be him) just looks to see if the commentator's favorite group is Bernie then WHAM, gone.

[retrowire]

12. They broke 800?!

Christ, their intolerance is amazing.

[berningman]

29. maybe they should take bubbas advice and start listening right?

[Baobab]

35. Maybe they have little or no experience with narcissists or are Ns themselves?

that's my best explanation. Narcissists tend to gravitate to other narcissistic people.

At this point, I just pray she doesn't win, we will lose if he is nominated. There just won't be any joy and we will lose.

Maybe that's what they want? Rather that than have somebody who doesn't want their precious sellout trade deals.

[SheilaT]

57. I'm thinking they're hoping to get that number to at least

a thousand by the end of the primary season.

Probably the only reason they haven't accomplished that is that a fair number of posters have already trashed that group.

[Bjornsdotter]

17. I'm holding out for #1000

[Bjornsdotter]

33. I believe it

They are incredibly twitchy over there.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

43. Welcome to DU and welcome to the Bernie Sanity group.

[w4rma]

51. I am ban #401. I was banned on January 23.

I'm also ban #55 of 74 on the 'African American' group (banned on March 3rd), which the Clintonites have AstroTurfed to bash Bernie on all day long and can't stand to see anything pro-Bernie or anti-Clinton on.

[RazBerryBeret]

6. that place is toxic!

check out how many DU'ers they've blocked compared to this group!!! or that they have as many subscribers as they have people who've trashed it. I got banned, but I was like number 730 or something.....

[Equinox Moon]

7. where are numbers posted for that info?

[RazBerryBeret]

8. go the the group thread

by clicking on the name, you'll go to a stats page, click on "about this group" button.
you can even see the names of all the people banned. and it grows every day!!!

[artislife]

10. eridani, elleng and Susan Calvin are the calmest posters on the site

Gee whiz, I cannot even begin to believe they posted anything mean.



Best revenge will be her losing...

[elljay]

11. To get some context:

Hillary Group has 388 subscribers and 806 banned
Bernie Group has 998 subscribers and 326 banned

[cantbeserious]

13. Proudly Number 2 On The HRC Banned List

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[elljay]

14. It is a badge of honor

I'm quite new here so am number 622. It hasn't taken them long to ban another couple of hundred!

[noiretextatique]

18. Absolutely a badge of honor

I was banned a while ago

[Jennylynn]

50. I've been a member of DU since 2001. I only just read articles. Been participating in forums hotly

For about a month. I got banned pretty much right away, lol. I didn't realize it was a 'group' either. I'm number 767. 41 have been banned since me. Less than a month. Could be just in two weeks, really.

[elljay]

55. They're a very "sensitive" and humorless bunch

They ban anyone who asks a question or provides information that may not agree with their agenda, which is apparently:

Hillary is perfect
Anyone who suggests otherwise is sexist
All of her views are the most progressive ever and
any discussion of what, precisely, they are is sexist
She has the most experience and any discussion of what she actually did is sexist

It is their safe zone.

[Jennylynn]

56. Boy! We need a 'you hit the nail on the head' emoticon!

[Equinox Moon]

58. JL- 190 posts since 2001!!!

Wow! you are chatty!

[Jennylynn]

59. lol

[Equinox Moon]

15. Thanks for the numbers

[elljay]

19. My pleasure

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

45. Welcome to DU and welcome to the Bernie Sanity group.

Bernie is growing DU as well as the Democratic Party.

[eridani]

22. Latest numbers

Sanders group
Number of subscribers: 999
Number of people trashing: 175
Number banned: 326
Ratio of subscribers to banned: 3.06

Clinton group
Number of subscribers: 388
Number of people trashing: 382
Number banned: 807
Ratio of subscribers to banned: 0.48

[jillan]

20. Truth!

[SoLeftIAmRight]

21. they are very funny

best jokes of the day come from there

[Impedimentus]

27. Please be careful. Spending too much time there will put knots in your head.

FEEL THE BERN - 2016

[Equinox Moon]

36. Just an occasional observer

[BillZBubb]

28. They get worked up by Brock's latest Sanders slander. They don't have to hear the truth there.

They don't care about the truth. If they did, they couldn't support Hillary.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. THEY ARE VERY NERVOUS

[ALittleBirdie]

31. Today's nuclear weapon against Bernie

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Is the invitation that the Pope extended to him. They're going as far as calling this Popegate.

Please don't respond to these posts and let them sink on their own merits.

[earthside]

32. The serious side to this ...

... is that this is how the Clinton campaign will behave if we are so unfortunate to have her as the presidential nominee.

The Clinton campaign is all about HER! ... it isn't about issues, it isn't about helping poor folks, it isn't about making government work for working folks, etc.

The arrogance and intolerance seen in the HRC Group that is intolerant of diversity and debate will manifest itself in a Clinton campaign that will foremost be about screaming sexist and misogynist at any and all who oppose HER!

And this is why even with ridiculous candidates like Cruz or Trump, Clinton could and probably will lose the White House. The ugliness of the general election campaign will drive down voter participation so much that the reactionary-right will have the chance to triumph.

So, here on DU the machinations of the HRC Group and the more fanatical HRC supporters may seem incidental to the larger political culture, but in my estimation it is actually indicative of exactly how the Clinton operation works and will behave in the future.

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[Baobab]

38. Issues are what we should be talking about. Not the news, not Clinton.

Issues and how we can try to solve them. How we can heal the problems of our country.

Their whining is inappropriate when its just whining but also we should think of it a a cry for help from their wounded minds.

[Divernan]

46. Clintons see problems as profit opportunities/"disaster capitalism"

[Baobab]

47. Oh God, you are so right. Well, there is some truth to that WITHIN LIMITS

We have to look ahead a few years to when there are going to be a lot fewer jobs. A LOT fewer jobs. People who do not work with science consistently underestimate the rate of change.

So we have to take care of the weak or we're going to have a major disaster, soon. The policies that the Clintons thought were okay in the 90s are profoundly wrong now. In areas like health care finance and higher education, we're in mortal danger - we are being intentionally locked into them.

That is at the core of why we need to discuss them, and not by proxy, (what Bernie is doing, despite the fact that Hillary is getting to lie extensively about the reasons for things, he should speak up- why he doesnt- he must be a saint, literally) people need the awful truth.

[Equinox Moon]

40. I agree, you make many good points.

The HRC group on DU is a representation of the masses. So is the Bernie group, for that matter.

I am concerned for our country with how the National campaigns run - primary's and general. The world is watching. The unbelievable dis-honor of people, issues, and the position of President in the White House. It shames us all. It shows the immaturity of American's.

Truly, Europeans are more emotionally mature than Americans, for example.

[JBoy]

34. I heard they had to move the group onto a special server in the basement. N/t

[Equinox Moon]

37. Sharp humor, but I get it

[Baobab]

39. which group, the Hillary group?

Seems like there is much more traffic here, though?

Why do you know any more? These kinds of sites are not very resource intensive, you likely could run one off of a Raspberry Pi or similar. Not a lot of graphics or anything resource intensive. You would be surprised how much traffic any old computer running Linux will serve. Once you get up into large multicore machines you could likely serve a large commercial site off of one.

Back in the day, such hardware was really expensive, not any more.

[Equinox Moon]

41. Baobab... I think it was a joke

HRC has the scandal of an email server, hence HRC DU group is in the basement.

Get-it?

[Baobab]

42. LOL- of course..

what a pathetic, horrid situation our country is in.

Looking forward to putting this all behind us, and our becoming a great country again!

Bernie can do it. He's just what we need.

We won't get this chance again.

[Politicalboi]

52. They're cowards

They throw stink bombs and talk about him in their Bubble. Must smell pretty bad in there.

[CobaltBlue]

53. FANTASTIC

I think it’s fantastic.

(And I don’t come here that often to know the specifics.)

We are in a new period—a sea change—within the party. And the question is, “What is this Democratic Party about?”

[B Calm]

54. Their nastiness is why Bernie will be the nominee!