Something wrong with DU?

[Brenda]

It is almost 6:00 pm on Tuesday, August 13, 2024.

The forum called Latest Breaking News has this post:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3289187

JD Vance in drag has 88 replies while 2.9 Billion People May Have Been Compromised in National Public Data Breach has 28 replies and the rest have very few.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. No, nothing wrong. What do you think is wrong? What is "wrong" about the numbers you cite?

[Brenda]

9. Latest Breaking News Posts

should not be such highly recommended stories about some asshole who wore a wig 20, I don't know 30 years ago?

This close to Kamala Harris being elected President of the United States of America and YOU ask me what's wrong about some fucking numbers about Punk Vance?

DU is better than your response.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. My response?

You miss the point.

Vance's toxic hypocrisy kills women in need of reproductive health care, takes freedom away from women, denies trans people the care they need, while Vance indulges in his own questioning of his own sexuality going all the way back to 8 years old.

The hypocrisy is the point and rubbing his nose in his two-faced hyper-moralism for you but not for him, rubbing his nose in his hypocrisy makes the point to voters.

That's my response. Obviously DU is better than I am, but you mean something else much more pejorative.

[Brenda]

14. I did not miss the point.

I agree completely about Vance and his hypocrisy.

But I do not agree that the most read and recommended posts at this site should be about something pretty insignificant right NOW.

I think we should focus on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, not dumb fuck Vance, whatever he is.

[Hekate]

2. And your point is?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Huh??

[Cirsium]

4. it is unfortunate and counterproductive

People are treating the very serious MAGA threat as mere amusement, as entertainment, and it is on the level of middle school humor at that. Yes, you are right, there is something wrong with that.

[Think. Again.]

7. Fear does bring out humor as a defensive mechanism....

I think most true DUers are very well aware of the threat we all face, and after 8 years of this we're getting a little exhausted.

[Think. Again.]

5. I think most people are focused on winning the election and feeling very competitive against the rightwingers right now.

Honestly, the identity breach seems old hat by now, my id has been breached and compromised 3 times before this, so maybe I'm just jaded about it though.

[Srkdqltr]

6. Ya but, Vance in drag is HOT. Data breaches are booorinnng.

just in case

[JI7]

8. It's a political forum. Most come here to discuss or get info on specific elections

What exactly do you want people to post on the data breach. If someone replied saying it was not important or something else they disagreed with then it would get more replies.

[Nimble_Idea]

10. but how can that be? there are only 60 people on planet earth.

[Torchlight]

11. It's my fault.

I'm told I laugh like a baboon when I watch comedies, but that I get really quiet and introspective when I watch dramas.

I think I apply that to most messgae boards as well; I laugh like a baboon and act out when I read something funny, and I get really quiet and introspective when I read something of subtance and weight.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. You posted one minute after the Data Breach thread posted in LBN. Vance posted 24 hours ago

And yet somehow you think that the data breach post should have out-responded the 24 hour old thread.

Vance in dress #2 posted 7:13 ET yesterday
Data Breach posted 6:58 today
Your post 6:59 today

Your OP has no merit.

[mercuryblues]

17. I just posted the same thing.

IDK about you, but I feel duly chastised.

[Disaffected]

15. Can't figure out this one either. nt

[mercuryblues]

16. Just wow.

that is 24 hours old to one that was 2 hours old and the chastising DU members for not being concerned enough for you.

Vance post: Mon Aug 12, 2024, 03:10 PM

Data breach post: Tue Aug 13, 2024, 03:48 PM

Your post chastising DU: Tue Aug 13, 2024, 05:59 PM


Priceless.

[TheKentuckian]

18. I guess it will result in a $12 check and a year of data protection whatever stuff

and the wheels on the bus go round and round.

This sucks!

Somebody has to do something about his stuff!

Wait for the quantum encryption!

In my day we didn't have this stuff all.the time!

What is it to discuss?

[CoopersDad]

19. Please consider using the "hide thread" feature so that you don't see the post again.

You can also ignore any member who posts things you don't want to see.

What you can't do is make people stop posting stupid things, like the JD Vance thing, which I think is a borderline homophobic waste of time thing to do.

I agree, we should have better things to do.

[Lulu KC]

20. I wouldn't call it "wrong," but

I am noticing an odd mood. Not just here, but among my friends and elsewhere. What I keep thinking is that the mood for our party shifted so suddenly between the difficult weeks before Joe announced he wasn't running (and all that came before) and then the sudden and surprising highs of Harris/Walz. We might all be a little bit woozy, just adapting to change, each in our own way. Collectively, it feels kind of odd to me, but I think it's a natural phase. It has been a roller coaster.

We need the stability that Harris/Walz will provide.

[JoseBalow]

21. People are strange, when you're a stranger