We need a nickname for GOP sock puppets who sign

[applegrove]

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up and cause strife here. There was the war for and against feminism and the great race war on DU in the last two years. I think both those issues are pretty much settled if DUERS are left alone. Tonight people are complaining about some DUERS being called "far left". Too early to tell if this is gop manufactured strife on this site. But it would be nice if we had a word that would point to such trolls a Republican in nature. They have unlimited money. We are foolish if we do not prepare for their onslaught. We need language. Am I right?

[arcane1]

1. There will surely be a big-money counter-onslaught, but I don't see that as a good thing.

Money is going to make the biggest power-grab it has ever made, for one side or the other

[2naSalit]

2. How about...

the Big Tees or "the monied" or the PFOs (paid-for opinions)?

[applegrove]

8. Paid for trolls?

[2naSalit]

10. I like that one better than

"opinons". PFTs, sounds more like it.

[marym625]

17. lmao!

I read your first one incorrectly at first.

[Major Hogwash]

3. I don't know, does living in the Twilight Zone have anything to do with this?

If it does, we could call them "Zoners."
But, perhaps that is too oblique.

[revmclaren]

4. Maybe call them

KERMITS!

[winter is coming]

5. No, you're not right. MIRT does a good job of taking care of trolls

and having special names for suspected GOP operatives is juvenile and will encourage a witch-hunting atmosphere. Frankly, if I were a newbie and saw that sort of thing going on, I wouldn't bother sticking around.

[applegrove]

9. The whole point is to stop toxicity from being created. Did you

not experience the anti feminist and pro feminist slurs that were being bandied about suddenly on the DU right after women had voted Obama back in in 2012? No newbie would have stuck around after reading that ginned up sexist warfare. Perhaps I should have used the work "name" rather than "nickname". You are 100% right in that.

[winter is coming]

23. I'm sure you mean well, but your effort to stop toxicity will only create more of it.

Any newbie hanging out here in the aftermath of 2012 would have seen some pretty disgusting shit, but they would have also seen the banhammer falling right and left. That would be reassuring as to the type of community DU is.

[lovemydog]

21. MIRT worked very well the other day, for me.

Some blowhard was super-hostile & only had a few posts. I said some funny stuff back. Checked the next day and *poof* name removed. I laughed out loud.

I don't know how you all do it, but thank you very much MIRT team.

[Sunlei]

7. think about it, without DU those paid republicans would be unemployed. We're job providers :P

[KMOD]

11. lol

They aren't actually all GOPers. They are mostly DUer's who are starting new accounts to bash HRC. They are starting new accounts because the are either too embarrassed, or too cowardly to slam her under their regular screen names.

It's funny, because it's so very obvious. lol

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. thank you Member since: Sun Oct 12, 2014,

you made your point?

[KMOD]

14. Thanks for the welcome

I love how the gang always shows up to put newbies in their place. It's so cool, right?

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. You attacked new members being new yourself

just pointing out your hypocrisy.

[KMOD]

16. Oh, Ok

I'll pretend it's not happening as well.

Let's all live in a bubble. Woo Hoo!

[Cha]

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[KMOD]

20. ..

[cali]

30. bullshit. Most people posting threads critical of HRC, are like me- long time DUers.

what a steaming pile.

Gonna claim I'm a coward or repuke? Do it. You can be the 2nd person to get a hide today for that.

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. if Republicans think they are advancing their agenda by paying people to troll DU they are wasting

their time and money.

Is it not possible that people can be wrong for free? Is it not possible different people tend toward progressive politics for different reasons and passionately disagree on priorities?

I suggest that people who think all Democrats either love or hate Hillary or hold this position or that position on whatever culturally sensitive issue - take some time off from talking to people like myself who are obsessed with politics. Talk to some Democrats or Democratic leaning independents who are not political junkies like me and you will discover a whole range of opinion - from the same person you may hear some ideas that are "far left" and some ideas that are definitely right-wing.

I am an ideologue with a body of firmly held beliefs which I try my best to propagate. Most people including most Democratic Party leaning voters are not ideologues and their opinions are going vary all over the place.

[ND-Dem]

18. The "far left" accusation has been around for some time, and proferred by posters who've

also been around a long time.

It's nothing new, maybe just a little more common at election time.

I doubt it's republicans.

[SidDithers]

32. But you've only been here since Dec 9, 2014...

between the forgotton password account and this one.


How would you know what's "nothing new" and more common at "election time"?



Sid

[Cha]

22. gopuppets.

[pinboy3niner]

25. When we had the thread about Senhor Testiculo, the Brazilian testicular cancer teaching aid...

...I couldn't resist calling them "sack puppets."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3921843

[Cha]

31. Oh gawd.. You're good with those

play on words, pinboy.. I've taken note.

OT.. I miss HarveyDarkey and scheming daemons!

[TBF]

24. Sure let's call them by their real name -

the 3rd way.

[merrily]

27. It's what they call themselves. That and

"pragmatic liberals."

[LondonReign2]

33. Yup. Third Wayers

Those who throw an occasional bone to social progressives while campaigning endlessly for warmed over Republican economic ideas and slamming actual liberals. Yup.

[reddread]

34. +3

yeah, I cant wait to see what great things are in store for this country.
a country that has its taxpaying voters hating each other just enough to
keep them where they want them. A country that extends absolute freedom
only to money.

[cali]

26. I don't agree. In fact, I think it's horse shit to suggest that the post you're referring

to has anything to do with gop manufactured strife.

Frankly, I see your post as nonsense.

and I'm tired of pro-Hillary posters suggesting that I'm a repuke. Jaysus, I've been here for almost 15 years and someone just got a hide for suggesting that about me. And it happens all too frequently.

fuck that shit.

[Siwsan]

28. I've suggested this one, before - "Cat Toys"

We can gently nudge them around and toss them back and forth until we get bored, and then bat them down the the heat register.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

29. "They have unlimited money. We are foolish if we do not prepare for their onslaught."

Wouldn't it be more foolish to operate under the assumption that everyone having a disagreement is insincere and paid-for and thus to be dismissed out-of-hand?

Maybe other people do hold other beliefs and opinions and are able to do so with the best of intentions. If thought was as homogenous as so many want to pretend it ought to be then we would not have things like DEMOCRACY and its derivations wherein each person is allowed to register their opinions on matters via a ballot. I would hope this would be intrinsically understood at a place such as DEMOCRATIC Underground.

Considering the "gender and race wars" you mentioned is it more likely that such impassioned fights were perpetrated by paid operatives with no real interest except the pay or does such passion rise from genuine belief?

I merely offer this for consideration. No one paid me to write it.

[demmiblue]

35. We need a nickname for people who post meta threads in GD.

Something about stirrers, perhaps?

[TBF]

36. ...

[LeftishBrit]

37. The consensus of the hosts is to lock this thread as 'meta'