Manny? If you're reading this... c'mere.

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131. I think they're decapitating the golden goose

for the first time ever we will not break even for the year

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027465031

Not that there's a causal relationship between treating your erstwhile customers like shit and losing money, DU has a proud history of busting rabblerousers on weird technicalities (or just calling them "troll" or unwitting tools of the GOP), but it seems like a bad precedent for mgmt to endorse a primary candidate over the wishes of 90% of the DU-voting inclined population, then banning notable Berners for disloyalty to the anointed one before the convention. (Then when crypto-dems do the same thing, Skinner iirc bleats some rationalization about the "heat of the primary season" and everybody does it.) The AtA post about "no, I didn't really mean *underground* like subversive or a diverse range of opinions" really slipped the mask, I thought Skinner did a really good job with the Prime Directive for the first 14 years (notwithstanding the gay purges and whatnot) at least in primary season, I think the Dean purges were mostly self-inflicted (PeopleForChange!) and the pumas posted weird racist shit so that was an easy call, but DU isn't really DU if it's not, like, underground.