Warning If you post in " GD: Primaries" asking to be allowed to vote 1st you will get LOCKED

[awake]

Unbelievable

this was the post that they locked
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511417152

"Please let everyone vote first"

"This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by ******** (a host of the General Discussion: Primaries forum). If you believe this was done in error, please contact ******** to appeal."

"A post that I was responding to was just locked, I can only guess it was because the poster used profanity, so I have reposted the hart of their request below with the response that I had written;

"The. Primaries. Are. Not. Over. Over half the country still hasn't voted yet. Got that? Fucking California, or New York, or Oregon, or Washington and a whole lot of other people in a whole lot of other states HAVEN'T VOTED YET.

I am so sick of the loyalty oaths and now I read where a long-time DUer wants to start another purge, yes, I said PURGE, all those not swearing blind fealty to the Democratic Party. NOT ALL OF US HAVE VOTED YET!"


my response;
Your primary vote will count this time
Trust your hart do not let the BS get to you, Bernie is far from done. "


I was ask to edit this post removing the host who locked the post so I block out their name I hope that this clears up the problem.

[retrowire]

1. KnR this to the greatest.

that lock was the stupidest lock I've ever seen.

I proudly stand with Le Taz Hot.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511417716

[bahrbearian]

2. They are desperate.

[roguevalley]

17. they have authoritarian mindsets and can't help themselves.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

22. Yes and to many games being played

the game becomes more important than the subject, way to much energy spent on this.

[SoapBox]

3. Go and Rec it anyway!

First, that's what's funny...you can still give the locked thread a Rec.

Second, of all the fucking nerve!!!!

Expressing frustration about voting in the Primaries isn't primary enough?

Of all the shit and lies that get posted, this get a Lock????

[Old Codger]

4. Really disgusting

But not too surprising really, the desperation from that group of groupies is pathetic... not allowed to use a proper description here anymore... so that is best I can do

[HereSince1628]

5. Sad to see someone who joined way-back around when I did, PPR'd in that thread

May not be for something said there, but it seems tolerance, a key dictionary descriptor of liberalism, is a real victim of the centrists/moderates.

[grasswire]

38. can you PM me who was PPRd? nt

[OkSustainAg]

6. I want

Bernie to address its not over on the 15th during the debate.

[restorefreedom]

7. its 2008 all over again....and they are in denial, deep denial. nt

[Ivan Kaputski]

8. That host used to be a host here. Others objected to it. Now he's blocked.

Troll host extrodinaire.

[Gwhittey]

9. Hell

I just posted something here and got it hidden when I asked a general question about HRC supporters. I thought this was a safe area.

[Betty Karlson]

10. Seems like DU is going the way of Kos: Third Way.

[RufusTFirefly]

14. Third Way: Money talks

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair

[That Guy 888]

11. Kick and Rec

I hate it when the general is called before the West cost polls close too.

[malthaussen]

12. This one will be locked, too, you may be sure.

So far today, there have been uncountable echoes of the original post; indeed, the one you cite was not even the original.

-- Mal

[Autumn]

13. Your OP has been alerted to the hosts of the Bernie Sanders group.

With your edit I am not inclined to lock it at this time.

[bvf]

15. Why the request to remove the host's name?

[MelissaB]

16. A moderator says "Something has changed" as a reason for the locks:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511417114#post121

I'm interested to know what people think of this.

[Paulie]

18. Have to be a host to go see if there are discussions in the hosts fourm

None of it is private, so it can be copied out into the regular forums. I want to know what it means as well.

[DhhD]

19. The link says that no members are blocked from this (GD:P) Forum. Is that about to change?

[blackspade]

34. I'd like to know what the 'change' is as well.

[HassleCat]

20. I thought it was a reasonable post

I took the liberty of paraphrasing it and making a new post, with explanation as to how it relate to the Democratic primary.

[RKP5637]

28. Same here. I just don't see the problem with the original post. n/t

[Duppers]

23. And these same DUers criticize Republican voter laws?!

Even if the mathematical odds say the election is locked up (??), it's only DEMOCRATIC to allow it to play to the very end.

[sus453]

24. I joined Democratic Underground on the

perhaps incorrect premise that this would be a "left wing" site (I guess that's just my romantic and somewhat nostalgic interpretation of the term "Underground&quot - the progressive side of democracy or the Democratic Party. Am I mistaken?

Loyalty oath - what is this, Joseph McCarthy? It's better to follow your your principles and your gut instincts. If Democratic Underground doesn't promote "left" and progressive values, I'm sure that somewhere there is another site that does.

[RKP5637]

27. Frankly, I'm confused by DU anymore and I've been here awhile. n/t

[cui bono]

33. You are correct that your premise that this is a "left wing" site is incorrect.

There is a very vocal contingent that are moderate Republican in policy stances, but to be fair, most of those don't actually have any policy stances or principles, they just agree with whatever their chosen one says and wants.

It's rather disgusting actually. Something you'd think would be seen only in teabaggers.

You might like http://jackpineradicals.org/content.php

.

[Hydra]

35. Some of us are lefties, I myself am a far lefty

But there has been a whittling away at the vocal left for many years. I'm still here because I'm stubborn and haven't been banned yet, and there are still some good posts and articles for me to read.

Many of my favorite people here have been banned, chased off or subverted however, so this isn't the amazing place it used to be.

Please consider staying for a bit and adding to the discussion- the more of voices we have here the more likely it will become the place it used to be, unless Skinner is against that.

[ellennelle]

25. i am baffled by all this

i quite literally never commented until recently, and then it's been pretty rare, but i have on one or two occasions been a bit blunt. i don't feel particularly apologetic about that when the entire premise of the posts i'm responding to is to trash bernie, search and destroy his supporters, smoke 'em out, and then congratulate each other on the solidarity of their group. well, duh; when you don't allow any dissenters into the discussion, you can certainly smile from inside a perfect bubble. actually, more like an iron-clad prison that may well feel like they're protected from the uncomfortable truths of the world, but we've already watched that scenario unfold, thanks to fox and the republican party.

i'm not interested in inviting chronic flame-throwers into the discussions, but that scorched earth policy seems antithetical to not only democratic principles, but certainly to the spirit of what i understood to hold here at DU.

again, no apologies here, but it seriously smacked of jr hi "aahwm, i'm gonna tell" when someone wears a 'wrong' shoe brand or uses 'so yesterday' slang. most grown-ups i know are (a) not so thin-skinned, and (b) capable of just ignoring the worst of it, possessing the capacity to wait until it gets out of hand before pulling in the tribunals.

and i have to say, this tactic so utterly did not endear me - or anyone that i could see - the the hillary cause. au contraire; i still recall PUMAs, not to mention the pretty pathetic tactics employed by her campaign 8 years ago against obama.

my opinion of her and her followers/entourage has still not recovered, sadly. there are different ways to handle all these situations that i see repeating old patterns, and not the thoughtful, measured, grown-up, and wise management we tend to see more consistently in obama. or bernie, for that matter.

tho, sigh, i will most definitely cast a vote against the republican candidate, IF bernie does not win the nomination. i just wish someone - mostly HRC - would give me good, substantive, and tangible reasons to do that with some enthusiasm.

[RKP5637]

26. I guess I'm totally confused as to why it was off-topic. Now profanity is blocked. FFS! n/t

[warrprayer]

29. Here we go.

[dchill]

30. K&R!

[Bjornsdotter]

31. Ah yes.....

.....double secret probation. Things have changed......

[cui bono]

32. So all the whiny posts by Hillary supporters about how persecuted they are are fine,

but asking to actually exercise democracy are locked?



.

[Hydra]

36. *laughs* They've been calling for a revolution to banhammer all of us

Out of the many, few!

[AZ Progressive]

37. The Democratic Party is currently infested with authoritarians

Authoritarians are NOT Democrats, they need to go back to the Republican Party.

[OZi]

39. They prefer New Authoritarians. eom