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They are already starting with the voter fraud in GDP (Original Post) liberal N proud Mar 2016 OP
They have to find an excuse. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #1
Don't you mean a hundred different slanders, Ag? Hortensis Mar 2016 #13
True believers often act in ways that do not make sense. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #14
Me, too. I can go days watching Hortensis Mar 2016 #15
Its a product of identity politics tymorial Mar 2016 #26
The paranoid and conspiratorial are exactly the sort drawn to him. Codeine Mar 2016 #22
Have you seen indication of that here, though? I can see that Hortensis Mar 2016 #23
I see it elsewhere on the interwebz, but not here. Codeine Mar 2016 #24
Oh, I didn't realize he did, but of course. Hortensis Mar 2016 #25
I love how MSMITH33156 Mar 2016 #2
Echo chambers... wysi Mar 2016 #4
Yup. nt OhZone Mar 2016 #7
Well put jsmirman Mar 2016 #17
It's time to call for an end to GDP! stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #3
I don't have anyone on ignore,but I trash sufrommich Mar 2016 #5
and the vast media consipiracy nt msongs Mar 2016 #6
That forum's been in my rear view for about two weeks now. charlyvi Mar 2016 #8
Oh geez....and I've already been accused of not living in the US. George II Mar 2016 #9
Any excuse will do. Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #10
Meh, ignore them UtahLib Mar 2016 #11
Kids area funny Stuckinthebush Mar 2016 #12
William Galvin, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, has said that the candidate's husband MADem Mar 2016 #16
This is the consequence of the death of the media jsmirman Mar 2016 #18
I'm with you on the media; however, there are people Hortensis Mar 2016 #19
Absolutely liberal N proud Mar 2016 #21
They are already proclaiming that tonight was a great night for them book_worm Mar 2016 #20
Time for the Wambulance. Fla Dem Mar 2016 #27

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. Don't you mean a hundred different slanders, Ag?
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 11:14 PM
Mar 2016

There's an interestingly paranoid streak out there too. Some posts would have you questioning the writers' sanity if you didn't know it was just some of Bernie's ardent followers expressing their...intense displeasure in their usual way.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Me, too. I can go days watching
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 11:20 PM
Mar 2016

curiously because their behavior is interesting and intriguing, and then I'll find myself wading in and engaging as if it could possibly make any difference. Who's nuts?

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
22. The paranoid and conspiratorial are exactly the sort drawn to him.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:59 AM
Mar 2016

He's got the leftist side of the Alex Jones crowd locked down.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
23. Have you seen indication of that here, though? I can see that
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:47 AM
Mar 2016

Jones' conspiracies related to evil corporate plots might rope some people in, but the behavior I've noticed is usually just related to temporary emotional upset over some political reverse or other.

Bernie puts in an uninspiring performance during a debate, so the network and DNC must have rigged the questions to sabotage him. Bernie loses a state, and someone leaps to election tampering as the explanation of choice. That sort of thing. Though extremely common, it tends to die off as people calm down - instead of being developed into elaborate and sinister plots. Very different from Jones' stuff.

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
24. I see it elsewhere on the interwebz, but not here.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:49 AM
Mar 2016

Skinner weeds the truly whackadoodle sort out pretty quickly, with a few glaring exceptions in sure we can all name.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
25. Oh, I didn't realize he did, but of course.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:58 AM
Mar 2016

There are a lot of true whackadoodles, but, now that you point it out, not here.

Still, between true whackadoodles and bizarre but temporary outrage because Bill Clinton visited some polling places to sabotage Bernie's chances is room for the most typical conspiracist type -- those who know to keep it mostly hidden -- at least before the second drink.

MSMITH33156

(879 posts)
2. I love how
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 10:14 PM
Mar 2016

the polls show them losing, decisively in most states. He loses, decisively in most states. And then it must be fraud, just because they've deluded themselves into thinking they're a majority instead of a vocal minority.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
16. William Galvin, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, has said that the candidate's husband
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 11:24 PM
Mar 2016

did nothing wrong.

People sometimes forget that this is no different than Jane Sanders wandering around, smiling and shaking hands, accompanied by the mayor.

It's just not illegal. If they need to get riled up in that fashion, well, there you go.

But here's the bottom line--MA politicians (especially savvy ones, like those mayors are) know exactly what a candidate can do--and what they can't do. They aren't new to this. That's why they were there with Clinton, to give him entree and to make sure he didn't overstep.

People can get mad at Clinton for taking the rules to the limit. But they could have done the exact same thing--it would have required, not a lot of money, but a lot of EFFORT. They chose to not try to boost their voter turnout in that fashion--that was their choice.

jsmirman

(4,507 posts)
18. This is the consequence of the death of the media
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 11:34 PM
Mar 2016

which we are all complicit in.

It's allowed internet alternatives with absolutely no standards to grow like weeds.

The sad thing is that these internet "journalists" don't know how to do journalism.

I spent a couple years in traditional media, and it makes all the difference in the world. You learn how fact checking works and why it is important. You learn to take pride in accuracy and in responsibly reporting a story.

These internet zines could be good if they had any desire and dedicated any resources to restricting their output to stories they can stand behind and stories they can justify.

(not that this is the genesis of tonight's hogwash, but it has created an overall atmosphere where facts are optional and no one "knows" the truth)


Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
19. I'm with you on the media; however, there are people
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:06 AM
Mar 2016

for whom facts always have been "optional" and the truth has always been whatever they want it to be. A big difference between past and now was largely that local society acted as something of a control on behavior, but now the internet allows various types to find each other in large numbers and reinforce each others' behavior.

Someone from the Boston Globe, I think one of the editors at the time of the church scandal investigation, was saying just yesterday something to the effect that with information age resources journalism can be better than ever, but that people just won't pay for it. Of all the problems, the biggest is that we who need it so badly and once mailed out checks every month for newspapers won't ante up a monthly auto payment.

liberal N proud

(60,302 posts)
21. Absolutely
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:30 AM
Mar 2016

24/7 media coverage and the monopolies that have take place allow the media to control the propaganda.

I have said for a long time that Russia and China can only dream of such a propaganda machine.

book_worm

(15,951 posts)
20. They are already proclaiming that tonight was a great night for them
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:11 AM
Mar 2016

VT (Bernie's home state), CO, OK and probably MN--we have to see what happens in MA.

Yet, HRC won by landslide margins in GA, AL, Arkansas, TN, TX, VA & American Samoa--and will get many more delegates. They are delusional. One said now there best states are coming up. Well, they are behind in key states like MI, FL, NC, IL, PA, NJ, NY, OH and apparently pinning all their hopes on small states like ME and NE.

Fla Dem

(23,352 posts)
27. Time for the Wambulance.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 11:22 AM
Mar 2016



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Wambulance
A fictional ambulance or rescue squad for someone who cries or whines, most often without provication. A way to insult someone whom often cries for no apparent reason; a cry baby, a brat, or someone suffering from hypochondria.

" Waaa, waaa, I want a cookie waaaa, waaaa, waaaa!"
"Did someone call the wambulance, WAAA! WAAA! WAAA!"
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