FYI - Beware that Bernie supporters are mischaracterizing posts because they want to get a Hillary

[stevenleser]

supporter banned in retribution for SKP being banned.

See this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6789807 and the various subthreads around it.

and this thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6782740 which culminated in this post http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026782652#post89 where I was laughing at her personal attack on me and threat to post a link, not about what happened to her son. Bernie supporters are spinning it as if I laughed at her son dying to try to get me banned and are harassing me about that in various posts.

Of course I would never laugh about someones child dying, but that is how they are trying to spin that.

[stevenleser]

1. I understand this has been alerted upon. The evidence is all in the links. nt

[MuseRider]

2. Really?

If si I think I shall leave the group. How freaking childish. Happens on your side too but since I am not a member I won't go further than to say we are all, meaning the groups not all of the members, acting like toddlers after the same toy. He was not banned because he was a Bernie supporter. Sorry to keep coming into your group but damn, if this is true I will be leaving that group. 😢

[stevenleser]

3. See for yourself. Read this post and then the hidden post before it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026782652#post89

Tell me if you think what I wrote was about the threat from the other poster to post the link, or if you think I was laughing at her dead child. That's the spin.

[MuseRider]

6. I just read

a whole lot of unpleasant stuff. I totally agree with you that sticking up for the use of a spoonerism just because that person supports who you support is as creepy as about anything but the rest of it is just a nasty mess.

Just want to say, I can't really say for certain that your accusations are correct since I am hardly in the in crowd.

Gonna leave now.

[murielm99]

18. I am trying to remember if any other banned poster was ever

made the subject of such hue and cry by his or her friends.

Middlefinger Mom was. But I think that was a genuine misunderstanding. He needed this place, and I am glad they brought him back.

At the time of his banning, I asked some questions about that guy with the beer and travel money. I liked his whimsy. I received an answer. His banning was justified.

I think some of the Bernie supporters, the genuine ones and the others who come here to cause trouble, are trying to agitate until the banned person is reinstated. If they do that, maybe they can wait until 2017.

What really surprises me is the number of people trying to copy the banned post with similar posts that come close to the line. I served on a jury for one of those posts, and could not believe it was allowed to stand.

I have always thought the person in question was a bully. I did not respond in his threads, even when I agreed with him. After awhile, I stopped reading his rants.

[HassleCat]

4. Deep breath!

I hope everybody can remain calm as the primary season heats up. We already have indications of some funny business, so we're at a crossroads. Where do we go from here? Do we make it better, or worse?

[sufrommich]

5. I don't think the admins fall for that crap. It's pretty pathetic

that someone is trying though.

[DURHAM D]

7. I would not worry about the admin take on this.

Also, I have always assumed the admin can read private messages so they know exactly what is going on behind the scenes.

The 2008 primary was tame compared to what is going on this time. There are too many trolls, Paulites, disruptors, socks and general a-holes who have made DU their home now. It is why I don't have a Star. Until skinner figures out how to make this a positive place for women and Democrats who support Democrats I won't contribute.

As for skip - in my view from day one he was just another authoritarian bully. I noticed that many members of the Permanent Moderator/Host Class ignored it but I read exchanges in the long, long departure thread between some old moderators about how his behavior behind the scenes was far worse than what we saw in the public forums.

[hrmjustin]

8. Hopefully things calm down soon. But yes it was clear what they were trying to do to you.

[Buzz Clik]

9. I've been hit a dozen times in 48 hours.

I'm a fence sitter that leans toward Hillary, but I find a good chunk of the Sanders crowd to be repugnant.

First thing this morning, I open up to a reply to one of my posts in which the poster is totally in my face for not mourning the disappearance of Skippy.

Yep, it's real.

[Cha]

15. Good Grief! They're still insisting he did not mean what he so blatantly said.. he even put it

in his journal he was so proud of it.

The spin must make them a little dizzy.



They're not doing SKP or their candidate any good.

[Buzz Clik]

16. Indeed -- a link to his journal entry for those in doubt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/~NYC_SKP

[OKNancy]

10. In the immortal words of Cher

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I think everyone should knock it off.
Sure, some people are mean and unreasonable, but let's be like Hillary.... cool and dignified.

[Thinkingabout]

11. Yes, I have found ignoring many is the best move, I like to participate but it isn't

Enjoyable. In time things will change. I have a goal of electing as many Democrats across this nation as possible, I will not lose my focus.

[onehandle]

12. A certain poster in that thread has been trying to get me banned for a long time.

They are a deeply embedded troll and if asked, I may tell you who.

[stevenleser]

13. Pm me! Nt

[Hekate]

19. PM please?

[Cha]

14. Some are Spinning fast as their

little tops will go!



All over the damn place.. they're not doing themselves any favors.

[Lyric]

17. Ugh. GD is like a kindergarten party without any cookies right now.

I hope all the whining and wailing about the loss of their pet misogynist stops soon. I'd like to get back to discussing things that actually matter.

[Hekate]

20. I keep telling my friends, Don't rise to the bait. There are some real nasties chumming the waters

....and chum stinks.