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I run a football related message board for the vikings. Like many message boards we have an off topic section and and even more restricted one for "sensitive topics" like politics and religion.
Below is the text of one such reply in it. These people are deranged. I mean these people are seriously out of their minds. How would you deal with this?
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LOL
The only thing you have to worry about is the truth coming out.
I stand by all of my posts. Your Trump Derangement Syndrome is hilarious.
Lets see if I was right about the Russian hoax, the complicity and duplicity of the Obama administration, the money made by selling their offices by Kerry, Clinton, and Biden.
The MSM was involved. Shep Smith was escorted out for a reason. CNN is going to be exposed in the next few days. Durham and Barr are investigating treason for a reason.
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dem4decades
(11,283 posts)I guess
TheBlackAdder
(28,186 posts)SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)I have run it for 5 years I'm about to divest myself from it as most of our public interaction is done via twitter, insta, and FB these days.
The best part is that I pay for all the hosting and handle the maintenance and I get called a baby killer and anti-American daily for being a Dem.
TheBlackAdder
(28,186 posts)True Dough
(17,303 posts)It's nutty how much support Trump and the right have among sports fans. I fought them tooth and nail on a previous forum but I was badly outnumbered.
When I joined these two latest forums, I vowed not to get into the political talk. I just stick to sports and try not to picture two-thirds of the forum as redneck mouth-breathers.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Unbelievable
(84 posts)Leave it up to rub it into his face if he's wrong.
Deleting it would only serve as ammo for them that they are censored.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)conspiracy theories, reiterating the truth has no effect. We can counter lies in the hope that reasonable people will not buy in to propaganda. Hopeless when people need lies to support their hatred, their illusions of superiority, or justify groundless fears.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)To be honest with you I have had to tell some of the more liberal members to disengage because these type of people seem like the ones that will take it way too are and start trying to locate people.
I'm not kidding there are some seriously deranged trumpers out there.
TwilightZone
(25,467 posts)They're not even original. It's the same stuff, in the same phrases, over and over again. Copy/paste/repeat.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Right? I hesitated to even share here but sometimes I need a reality check
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Like a crazy football conspiracy about Aaron Rodgers deflating footballs.
That would be too easy.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)of your board. Its just one more place the reich wing can spew their propoganda.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Do you have a way to verify ID when they join your message board? I used to see stuff like this on the Yahoo message boards, and many of them were bots. That was before I joined DU three years ago, so I don't know what's on there now.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)This is a real live cookoo. there are several of them and I have known them for years. Lately they are getting worse and worse. Where as before they were just a normal run of the mill republican.
Takket
(21,563 posts)"Durham and Barr are investigating treason for a reason."
there is no treason investigation. They are looking into the origins of the Russia probe in the FBI to see if any laws were broken. Has nothing to do with "treason". If he doesn't know what his own party is doing, safe to say his knowledge of the Democrats isn't going to be any more well informed.
moondust
(19,975 posts)why their superhero Dumpy the Clown doesn't sue all the fake news media for spreading fake news about him. Reporting that he has told more than 10,000 lies since taking office must be blasphemy or libel, right? He loves to sue everybody! That's what he does. So why not the fake news that he calls the "enemy of the people"? Save us, Dumpy! Save us!
nolabear
(41,960 posts)It was low level Twitter chatter. Hes promising some incredible exposé, to much laughter and abuse.
salin
(48,955 posts)ooky
(8,922 posts)I spent so much time moderating trolls I was mostly just baby sitting. We had a rule against political posts and yet I was deleting them all the time. Most of them were started by right wingers, who then wanted to fight me for deleting their posts. It was not much fun.