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RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 08:42 PM Mar 2016

I have been PROUDLY blocked from the Sanders group!

I replied to that CRAZY post claiming that Hillary was actively engaged in voter suppression, and in my reply post I simply said that this was an INSANE post and that ANYONE who believed it was INSANE and needed a psychiatrist right now.

I stand by it because it was on its face totally NUTS. I got blocked, of course, on a 4-3 vote and am very proud that I called out that craziness for exactly what it is. Totally DELUSIONAL nonsense.

Just like with Trump. ENOUGH of Democrats playing "high road" with right wing nastiness and NUTTERY! SLAM Trump and the right wingers as the LOONEY TUNES that they are. (And it is nice to see in local letters to the editor in my area that people are doing just that. It is WONDERFUL! There is no high road with the the likes of Trump and the INSANE right wing.) PISS ON THEM !

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I have been PROUDLY blocked from the Sanders group! (Original Post) RBInMaine Mar 2016 OP
There's a large group. Treant Mar 2016 #1
Same thing... MrWendel Mar 2016 #2
Results... Major Nikon Mar 2016 #3
I guess someone can't read. I said "Piss On" right wingers, not the BS people. RBInMaine Mar 2016 #4
The juror who told you to take your meds.. just be abuse alerted.. that is not acceptable. Cha Mar 2016 #19
Not surprised that this was alerted still_one Mar 2016 #8
I was blocked (not alerted) on the exact same topic LisaM Mar 2016 #5
Their group is in my trash bin since last month. I livetohike Mar 2016 #6
I was blocked from that group a while back when I entered the discussion about what Sanders still_one Mar 2016 #7
Blocked too. OhZone Mar 2016 #9
hahaha mercuryblues Mar 2016 #10
No great accomplishment, really Hayduke Bomgarte Mar 2016 #11
I have been blocked since last year. I trashed that group and got this message upaloopa Mar 2016 #12
LOL, certainly improved my DU experience. nt UtahLib Mar 2016 #14
lol nt SylviaD Mar 2016 #27
I got blocked for providing a link to Sanders announcing for POTUS on CNN. MADem Mar 2016 #13
I am a proud member of the Bernie blocked group, made me like Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #15
Perhaps we should start another group KewlKat Mar 2016 #16
I's say you didn't waste your block! Cha Mar 2016 #17
Me too shenmue Mar 2016 #18
I was blocked a while back too book_worm Mar 2016 #20
lol 20 replies, 365 views! stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #21
I got blocked a couple of days ago LiberalFighter Mar 2016 #22
We are a proud band of brothers & sisters... Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #23
Hear, hear! Loki Mar 2016 #24
Welcome to an elite group. Thinkers. nolabear Mar 2016 #25
Mime was very mild compared to yours and I got riversedge Mar 2016 #26
If you think that's insane, okasha Mar 2016 #28

Treant

(1,968 posts)
1. There's a large group.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 08:49 PM
Mar 2016

I don't think I've been unless somebody did it pre-emptively. I never go over there because of the problems you highlighted.

MrWendel

(1,881 posts)
2. Same thing...
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 08:53 PM
Mar 2016

happened to me on the exact same topic. If they were going to fucking lie about it, I was going to call them out.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
3. Results...
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 08:56 PM
Mar 2016

On Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:47 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

I have been PROUDLY blocked from the Sanders group!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110782306

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

The poster is talking about fellow DU members that support another democratic candidate. "piss on them" is over the top.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:54 PM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Doubling down on a hidden post just isn't too smart.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: shine on you crazy diamond. but take your meds, mkay.

 

RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
4. I guess someone can't read. I said "Piss On" right wingers, not the BS people.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:00 PM
Mar 2016

Amazing they didn't block this one. And to the juror who called ME crazy...NO. The crazy people are those who would be so off the rails as to claim and believe Hillary and her team were intentionally involved in voter fraud. That post was nuts, and if anyone can't see that then get to an eye doctor YESTERDAY.

LisaM

(27,801 posts)
5. I was blocked (not alerted) on the exact same topic
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:09 PM
Mar 2016

Unfortunately I mistakenly went there via a link from, I think, this group. I didn't even criticize Sanders. I simply pointed out that Hillary would have had to time travel backwards if she'd changed the Arizona system after the Michigan primary (this was based on someone saying that she changed it after she lost that primary). But, I didn't realize I was over there, and wouldn't have posted that there on purpose.

I can't believe they're still flogging it.

still_one

(92,131 posts)
7. I was blocked from that group a while back when I entered the discussion about what Sanders
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:20 PM
Mar 2016

wished to accomplish, and providence forgive me, but I had the audacity to suggest that whoever was President would need the Congress to get anything done. Yes, I know it was bad because I was questioning that the messiah could not get anything done without Congress, but that is what I did.

Unlike the many threads I have seen pop up from those supporters who felt so injured that they were blocked from the Hillary Group because they didn't accept the statement of purpose, I had no issue with being blocked from the Sanders group. I wasn't a Sanders' supporter after all, and they have every right to determine who should or shouldn't be blocked from their group.

When this process started last year, I had a very favorable view of Bernie, and considered the Democratic party lucky to have such fine candidates running for President, especially looking at what the republicans had to offer.

Whatever positive impression I had of the Sanders campaign is no more, and I lay that change of view directly at the feet of some of his supporters.

From the bullying of any organized group or individual who endorsed Hillary, to the constant threads popping up that if Hillary is nominee they will absolutely NOT vote for her in the general election has turned that favorable impression into pure disgust.

I imagine they are quite proud of how they have represented THEIR candidate

OhZone

(3,212 posts)
9. Blocked too.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:35 PM
Mar 2016

Like I said a few times, they're going all conspiracy nuts, because they don't understand most people do not think they do. So they assume that they're losing because of voter fraud, not mostly because more people, especially real Democrats, are actually voting for Hillary. Oh well.

mercuryblues

(14,530 posts)
10. hahaha
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:38 PM
Mar 2016

I got blocked for replying "no". Yes. those great progressives who whine ad nauseam about how they get blocked in this group for saying "the truth". Yet in there, a post that is an absolute lie, was allowed to stand, and my 2 letter response got me blocked. Then they wonder why "some" people can not warm up to Bernie. They are befuddled why "some" people are completely turned off by him and it has nothing to do with Stockholm Syndrome.

It has to do with if Bernie can't reign in the absolute BS coming from his camp, how can we expect him to fight FOR us?

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
11. No great accomplishment, really
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:41 PM
Mar 2016

Take hardly any effort. They banned me from that asylum months ago, for agreeing with an OP that IF millenials all turned out to vote that BS would win in a landslide. True enough. I also pointed out that of the 25 or so millenials I'm acquainted with, only a very few could be bothered to spare 15 minutes on election day to actually vote. Within three minutes of making the post I got the DU Mail informing me I was banned.

When I sent a PM to the mod listed as who banned me, and who BTW wasn't even part of the converstaion, to ask just why I was banned, the chickenshit wouldn't even respond. Fuck that group.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
12. I have been blocked since last year. I trashed that group and got this message
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 10:05 PM
Mar 2016

You have put Bernie Sanders in the trash

MADem

(135,425 posts)
13. I got blocked for providing a link to Sanders announcing for POTUS on CNN.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 10:18 PM
Mar 2016

It was in reply to angry tirades insisting he wasn't getting coverage (when he was).

For my trouble--and that's all I did, provide a link--I got blocked and received a snarky PM from a host, which I've saved for posterity.

They're welcome to their own group, but when they use the group as a firewall behind which they lob shit out the rest of us here assembled, I think that's wrong.

Conspiracy theories belong in the Woo Group.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
15. I am a proud member of the Bernie blocked group, made me like
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 11:28 PM
Mar 2016

Hillary more. In fact I gave Bernie a thumbs up post, maybe they did not like me to post good post there. Oh, well.

book_worm

(15,951 posts)
20. I was blocked a while back too
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 03:20 AM
Mar 2016

But I actually thought it was a post in GD-primaries, but it was Bernie's group.

LiberalFighter

(50,881 posts)
22. I got blocked a couple of days ago
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 01:29 PM
Mar 2016

before I even came to this group. I didn't even have a jury rule on a post in their group. One of their hosts just all out blocked me.

riversedge

(70,186 posts)
26. Mime was very mild compared to yours and I got
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 06:56 PM
Mar 2016

the boot also. I had not looked at the heading forum I was in--oh well.

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