BEWARE of concern trolls on DU trying to discourage you from voting

[brentspeak]

You know the type:

"There's nothing we can do!"

"The fix is in!

"I'm so discouraged!"

"They're going to steal this election!"

There is a difference between posters who encourage people to be vigilant and aware about possible election fraud, and those who are trying to make you believe the "sky is falling!"

Nothing is beneath these Republican activists; but why empower them?

[wanpete]

1. Amen to that! I refuse to be a victim of the negativity and loser attitude.

[magellan]

2. Too late, I already voted.

:patriot:

[Midlodemocrat]

3. There's been an awful lot of the sky is falling crap lately.

But, my husband voted yesterday and I plan to vote Tuesday if I have to walk up to the polls, (A grand total of three blocks).

I feel very optimistic about VA and supremely optimistic about PA (Senate races)

[eleny]

4. you betcha!

we've got our paper ballots all ready and i'm dropping them off at the polling station tomorrow. i wanted to wait till tomorrow to mitigate them getting "lost". a thom hartmann suggestion, so what the heck. but they're ready to go - straight dem ticket!

[Union Label]

5. Piss on anyone who tells me that shit

I'm union and I vote!

[Gemini Cat]

6. F*ck 'em and the repub swine they rode in on.

I will vote and so will everyone I know.
Our future depends on it.

[LoZoccolo]

7. Can we just say what we want to say without all the troll paranoia?

Yes, the negative sentiment is counterproductive and obnoxious. But I imagine a lot of it is genuinely pathological and not necessarily trolling. The Internet seems to attract people who wallow and whine and never do shit about getting what they want, plus have a distorted negative view of things; that's a problem we need to own and deal with and no one suffering it is going to be convinced their a troll seeing as they're the first to know they aren't. I feel accusing people of trolling is just another form of not taking responsibility as well.

[longship]

8. "The race is tightening, therefore the fix is in"

It's all rubbish.

Individual polls are *MEANINGLESS*. They've always been meaningless. They always will be meaningless.

Ignore them.

And ignore the screechers.

[Blackthorn]

9. Hmmmmmm

So you can't actually point to anyone who is saying If you can't link one, where do you get off making this out like there's literally hundreds of people here actively trying to make Dems stay home on Tuesday.

And I'm liking the new meme that anyone who isn't rampantly optimistic or suggest that the election could be a foregone conclusion before Tuesday is automatically a "Republican activist". Nice.

[JackBeck]

10. My favorites are the ones who joined Nov. 4th.

And all of a sudden start to give advice.

To quote RWinger John Stossel, "Give me a break."

[blm]

11. Vote AND stay alert to fraud. That's the ONLY answer.

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[TheWatcher]

12. Projection, thy name is brentspeak.

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