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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter reading through several "Ferguson" threads ...
I predict a bunch of "New to DU" posters with low post counts will be shown the door.
But then, there will be a whole new crop of "discussionists"!
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I think it's tine for some extra MIRT.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)No one even spoke to him or alerted as he got more and more outrageous. I would have alerted on all of them. The fact that no one challenged him after repeated posts, told the tale. I thought he was asking to be banned.
I was exhausted and upset and figured alerting would do no good. At certain times of day there will be no hides.
But the one and five post wonders did get shown the door. I was on a jury for one of those and suprised it got hidden. The only vote to allow the post to stay said pretty much worse stuff is allowed, so who cares?
But MIRT had already delivered pizza as I went to look at the thread...
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,292 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,292 posts)stand bugs of any sort so these people really bring a visceral response in me
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)Unfortunately, we have heavy handed oppression at the bottom, license at the top and the top make sure their protectors (cops, industrialists, bankers) enjoy the same freedom to do whatever they damned well please with no fear of the law.
A lot of people seemed genuinely surprised that a GJ spent 3 months being bullied to come up with "not enough for an indictment."
I wasn't.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)we will soon all be black in the eyes of the oligarchs and their enforcers
Warpy
(111,339 posts)Unless we can afford to pass for ruling class, we're no account, shiftless poor folks.
The problem with being black is that no matter how highly placed on the corporate, military or academic ladder you are, you're automatically shunted into the "poor, underclass, welfare queen" trope by bigots.
It's getting that way for white folks who are overweight and dress in what they can afford, leisure wear from Walmart and business attire from J.C. Penney or Men's Warehouse. If they can't afford a chef and personal trainer, they must be poor and lazy.
More and more, we're not being given the middle class benefit of the doubt. Soon, we'll be that two class society the Koch boys dream about, a tiny overclass with their bullies to keep us in line, and a vast underclass of desperate people without enough to live on and only hazy memories that it used to be better.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)cpamomfromtexas
(1,247 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)In this case we had a jury a they made a decision, granted it wasnt the decision alot of people agree with but it was still a decision that a jury made.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)That would be a start.
Unfortunately, they ruled according to MO state law, a law that is much too broad to the point of being unconstitutional, that whenever a cop feels threatened, he's allowed to use deadly force.
Think of that law being applied to women. A lot of creeper men would never see sunset.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)For some, we are just experiencing the "perpetually aggrieved"; for others, justice starts and ends at their interests, everything else is just a distraction. Still others want justice.
JustAnotherGen
(31,893 posts)Why not just go to the Disgustingist. I don't go there - that's the right wing wingnut's playground.
Don't come here.
Live and let live. Leave people alone. No need to be here.
I don't go to disgusting, freepland, etc. etc.
arthritisR_US
(7,292 posts)They will certainly do well over there. They wear my patience thin over here.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Spazito
(50,454 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Their world view has been validated.
Which will allow them to "expand" their public vocabulary and use words they'd normally only whisper in small, private, circles.
jillan
(39,451 posts)Give newbies a chance. Some of them of coming here for support.
And then there are the others.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)even the 17 post DUer that called the National Bar Association (the professional organization of African-American Attorneys) "perpetually aggrieved."
jillan
(39,451 posts)It takes all kinds.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)At least they are getting the opportunity for an education while here, although the OP I just checked out of has dug himself into a hole and continues to ply the shovel.
hunter
(38,327 posts)... and be shown the door too.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)There are a few...
merrily
(45,251 posts)rarely post?
Yeah, yeah, I know. They're all true blue faithful lurkers.
Until something like a cop getting off for the death of an 18 year old kid motivates them to make a hateful post for no purpose.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I'm on DU way too much (per Mrs. 1SBM) ... and see posters with 1,000s of posts that I have never seen before.
Judi Lynn
(160,623 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)And twitter is an even bigger cesspool of racists today.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)... all things considered, the inbred knuckle draggers are bring booted quickly
valerief
(53,235 posts)counts.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)R B Garr
(16,976 posts)as RW'ers. One in particular who thought the Ferguson PD were local heroes has pretty much outed himself over there, as if it was any surprise by what he posted here (apparently now on time-out at DU, lol).
PFunk
(876 posts)But still I really understand the sentiment.
Judi Lynn
(160,623 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Some are shit-stirrers who continually get banned and keep coming back with new accounts, others are well-known established DUers fucking with us on a sockpuppet account...
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)keep crawling out of the woodwork. DU does a good job at extermination though.