Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumHave any folks here noticed there's a whole new boatload of extremely unpleasant newbies
the past few days?
I wouldn't be shocked to find they are flagged for review socks.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)and drown out any meaningful conversation with babble..
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)So, I am pretty sure a lot of Bernie supporters also voted for Obama. I voted for him so it doesn't seem a stretch to me. Jebus the choices we had to make in 2008 and 2012. Now we have someone that is supposedly a Democrat telling racist jokes at some gig I dunno what that crap was, other than unacceptable.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)...
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)redwitch
(14,946 posts)I just put them on ignore.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)JudyM
(29,263 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)They post nothing but daily memes. They are not real. Seriously, if people don't know that they are astro-turfers, then some are just not paying attention.
Push back enough and their persona crumples.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)elleng
(131,053 posts)JudyM
(29,263 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)JudyM
(29,263 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)and catch phrases...
JudyM
(29,263 posts)Karma13612
(4,553 posts)Maybe some on my Ignore are spreading the disease to that creepy clone of JPR...
Or they're getting pennies and shillings to troll any sites that post positive about Bernie.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)I believe it to be a quid pro quo with the founder of this website ... The backdoor is open ...
Dumping them as fast as they pop up ... It's DU Whack-a-Mole ...
JudyM
(29,263 posts)Bernin4U
(812 posts)ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)I do question "new".
They do seem to know people in spite of having only 1 or 200 posts.
Long term lurkers, I guess.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)other than that.....
I lurked for about five days before opening an account.
That is one way to be familiar with posters here before speaking to them.
xloadiex
(628 posts)the other day on twittery over 100, he said he hadn't seen anything like it. He did notice a lot of them were new accounts.
Clinton must have coughed up some cash to buy some extra trolls for this leg of the campaign.
I believe he also said that many were coming from the Hillary support site that was an offshoot from DU.
The minute I spot them they go on ignore.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)potone
(1,701 posts)And they all say the same things. It isn't hard to figure out their agenda, and it isn't having rational, informed conversations about policies.
Karma13612
(4,553 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)JudyM
(29,263 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)I've said it before and I'll say it again Bernie supporters are the best. Esp at DU!
Hydra
(14,459 posts)It would almost be cute, but they're all sticks in the mud. Probably thinking their end of campaign bonuses aren't coming.
DookDook
(166 posts)I never thought that the real reason that a lot of the paid posters (post whores, if you will) for Clinton are losing their shit is because they were told, "Just remember, you bonus is contingent on her winning the election."
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)So they sent for reinforcements. I have even seen a couple of the low post Hillary trolls say that the Bernie Sanders group is their favorite group in their profile.
RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)I rarely get mistaken as a newbie, but I've been here since 2013 and I've seen people come and go. But by god, this surge of new trolls is truly unreal.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)islandmkl
(5,275 posts)DU is free, but it would give them the opportunity to move some of that money around...
Crawling out of the woodwork, they are.
Duckfan
(1,268 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Peace.
LT
carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)are they doing it for money or for pure love of HRC?
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)per OP
Hydra
(14,459 posts)She gets hundreds of thousands per hour. They get $4 if they're fast.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Seem to be more active.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)who just happen to despise bernie
they go right to ignore, my blood pressure is too high already
JudyM
(29,263 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)and then on christmas eve i emptied my ignore list. everyone who was on it is back on and then some.
i actually enjoy talking with some hillary supporters even when we disagree. but some are just out to stir the pot and add nothing constructive. to paraphrase danny glover in lethal weapon, i am getting too old for that shit.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)Always wanted to keep it real, representative, but with this new crop of vacuous crap slingers who aren't really representative, it just makes better sense to douse em all. And as you said, it's because I'm too old for that crap. Life's too short to keep getting those recoiling feelings that often.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)and so far so good!
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QC
(26,371 posts)How are you gonna catapult the propaganda if the propagandists keep getting the boot?
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)randr
(12,413 posts)Have you noticed the boatload of unpleasant oldbies we have on board?
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)especially in this pohase which is do or die.
Impedimentus
(898 posts)Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
Jim Butcher
FEEL THE BERN - 2018
djean111
(14,255 posts)termite tented - except that these termites are likely more welcome than we are. Gee, I wonder how many are star members.
Impedimentus
(898 posts)Ignore --->?
FEEL THE BERN - 2016