Repost: Cha AND Sheshe We Have Your Back "Hillary Clinton Group" [View all]

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Which scumbag is going to alert on it and not have the stones to even sign their name to it?

I don't even have a dog in this fight but something rotten is happening here.

Cha, we have your back. [View all]






I am so very sorry about what happened to you today. A vicious attack on you. You were maligned ridiculed and piled on. I think I just fell through the rabbit hole and landed in CC. DU should hang their head in shame. A sleeper with 24 posts, member since 2008 rises to crap on you and gets 229 recs? WTF? This is the day DU died for me, not just by what was said, the inaction from admin, the inaction from jury and from the hosts in the BS group that ignored TOS and community standards and lifted no finger to stop this.

I love you Cha.

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All the rules above were broken today. Every one of them and that thread was allowed to stand.

It should not be this way. This is supposed to be a Democratic board. Sadly it no longer is.