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GD-P: Where endorsements don't matter when they come from politicians or labor groups, only when they come from Facebook.
And the number of people who show up at your rallies are the REAL endorsements and are somehow infinitely more important than your ranking in the polls, particularly with minority communities.
It is even more embarassing than usual around here. And damn, that is TRULY saying something.
And without even having to be asked, either! 
But I don't think that any of you ever have to.
where the fact that "no one has heard of him" after all those years is an asset -and best of all- a poll where he tops at 20%, and "undecided" polls higher than he does, is seen as a huge victory and cause for a great celebration
It's just surreal...
Absolutely SURREAL. 
ie the AA forum or this Hillary supporters web site that everyone is baying at the moon over with all of this INCREDIBLE "concern" over all the terrible awful things they're posting there! 
And what's so stupid is that I am very much undecided at this point and I've said that more than once. But that's not even really the point. The point is very simple to me -- someone asks you REPEATEDLY to leave them alone, you do it. You just fucking do it. This is not hard. And to keep insisting that it's simply an accident or whatever that you have to keep responding to someone who has asked you several times to leave them alone is the epitome of someone with no decency, home training, social skills or worse.
Even if the admins don't do anything about any of this (and it's pretty clear by now they aren't going to and things won't get better after the primaries, Jamaal. The crowd that was anti-Obama before he was sworn in has shit on him every day since) common decency is pretty crystal clear on this. Even on a public message board, people have the right to ask you to leave them the hell alone, especially when it's clear that your "responses" to them are never the slightest bit intelligent or interesting, but intended to only harass and try to intimidate. To be asked repeatedly to stop and to refuse says everything that needs to be said about the person engaging in this behavior. And the fact that this is not anywhere near the first time this has happened to me and that in every instance it's been someone I've found to be absolutely revolting and been ECSTATIC to not be on the same side of any issue on lets me know I must be doing something right.
Rainbows and unicorns are lots more fun. 
someone alone and they simply refuse to do so. Hundreds and hundreds of posters here and they simply CANNOT leave the one person who has told them to shove off alone. Blissfully unaware of how ummm... "unwell" that makes them look.
I think that is far more indicative of some serious personality defects than any other behavior here and is certainly much, much worse than someone who posts on a message board about how bizarre so much of the bizarre behavior is. If my "5, 7" years of "complaining" (and it's so precious how you've apparently kept up with so many of my posts -- for YEARS apparently -- when I've never paid you the slightest bit of attention) about DU is so "miserably awful" to you, here's a tip honey, YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ IT. 
And you sure as shit don't have to keep responding to me.
It's like Brokeback Mountain. I wish I knew how to get you to "quit me" but considering the feeling is by NO MEANS reciprocated, I think you'll have to work on that by yourself.
Again, you post something, other people respond. That's how it works. I'm not sitting here flippin' out because you respond to my stuff.
You seem to think there's some rule here that people can just demand that certain other people never talk to them, or avoid them, or something. It doesn't work that way. The ignore function is how people get to pick who they want to listen to or not.
I don't, actually, know you from Adam, but even a couple weeks ago when I posted in response to something you said - without even giving half a thought to your username or whatever- your response was, essentially, what are YOU doing, talking to me?
guess my reputation precedes me, or something.
As for the point in question, there is a gaggle of people who have seemingly made it their mission to complain about this place, almost from the first minute it came online-- Your post reminded me of that. Yet they hang around. I don't understand it, but I think it's funny.
And when I see something that I think is funny, I comment on it.
'I'm taking DU way too seriously!' which I cannot take credit for that analysis.
Halloween is coming, and the OP reminded me of Shakespeare:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble. 
Stuff of nightmares, huh??
You should do a Google search on "scary Halloween pumpkin." There are some WILDLY imaginative ones out there. Some incredibly creative and scary people with alot of time for carving, apparently.
Nice try though.
I will admit it's quite ugly!
We always carve our pumpkins without the help of Google and they are quite original and popular in our neighborhood.
Happy Halloween!
They just can't seem to age gracefully!
that much is certain.
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Or they all do incredibly well and we're all more confused than before. 
Which has the added side-effect of not being on DU that night
have to tune into BernieTv just to see him
On a personal note, finally something we agree on!
Actually, we probably agree on most stuff, just that the couple places we disagree keep coming up...
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I think Bernie is polling a little better for the same time frame, actually.
Clinton supporters will think she won.
O'Malley supporters will think he won and will express surprise that everyone doesn't recognize that.
That's why I'm going to watch the debate and let DU take care of itself that day. I'll probably avoid GD
the next day, too. What DU thinks about the debate is meaningless in terms of the overall primary race.
I'd bet a million dollars that's exactly whats going to happen! 
