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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome of the morons out there are going a bit crazy about DU being restricted at the moment...
I google DU's latest restrictive status (I wasn't a star member until today) and the only news I could find was on trump-humper sites. They seem to think we are covertly planning some sort of violence over here!
Croney
(4,931 posts)I'll just follow the plan once it's presented. 😎
marble falls
(62,737 posts)... on your squad. Bring money, food, guns and the laugh track. Oh, and pick up a bag of gummy bears.
The revolution needs gummy bears. And you.
RoadRunner
(4,598 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,856 posts)(That's a code phrase that gets maga latent tendencies all excited and stimulated!)
progressoid
(50,866 posts)Conjuay
(2,229 posts)My part is dependent on me having a decoding device!
ms liberty
(9,906 posts)The keys are in the back pocket of the paisley coat.. Good Luck!
tavernier
(13,320 posts)As soon as the Elvis impersonator starts to sing Jail House Rock, he will wiggle his behind and the keys will drop out, at which point one of us (you know who you are) will retrieve them.
Piece of cake.
marble falls
(62,737 posts)... out of Dodge.
Your laptop will appear to self destruct in 10 seconds. It's a special effect. It's all special effects. This lighter? It's only a flipping lighter. I wish we could afford some cool stuff.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,856 posts)It's in the car with the Puerto Rico license plate, when the flower pot on the balcony is on the left.
scipan
(2,682 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,856 posts)KPN
(16,216 posts)B-K1 at N6 0840.
ExciteBike66
(2,663 posts)rubbersole
(8,839 posts)Eat a couple of gummies, then focus the space lasers. I'm responsible for the non-denominational ones...
hatrack
(61,424 posts). . . wounds my heart with its monotonous languor.
Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)hatrack
(61,424 posts)I'm pretty certain that this was the actual coded message used on D-Day.
Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)yorkster
(2,591 posts)Meadowoak
(6,333 posts)I'm series!!!!!!1!!!1!!!!!1!!
tavernier
(13,320 posts)Harker
(15,328 posts)tavernier
(13,320 posts)Tradition!
I was but a lurker in the Bob Boudelang days, but DU was and is a lifeline for me.
surfered
(4,190 posts)Harker
(15,328 posts)berniesandersmittens
(11,803 posts)I heard she moved over to the Space Laser unit.
Harker
(15,328 posts)I conducted a DU user name search.
There is an active user "Hugh Moran" with two posts ending in 1999.
Aviation Pro
(13,646 posts)That'll fuck up their day.
marble falls
(62,737 posts)... their own ill intents. But if their fear of the unknown makes them wee their pants - I'm happy for their uncertainty.
I hope it keeps them off balance and awake at night.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,856 posts)2 posted on 2024-11-01 by wildcard_redneck
I've seen it a couple times during election cycles when they're losing the election and their minds.
3 posted on 2024-11-01, by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, Surely I am coming soon. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
7 posted on 2024-11-01, by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
9 posted on 2024-11-01, by BBQToadRibs2
13 posted on 2024-11-01, by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
19 posted on 2024-11-01, by ReagansShinyHair
36 posted on 2024-11-01, by RoseofTexas
40 posted on 2024-11-01, by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State."
Everybody will blame everyone else for the Katastrophe (note I got Kamala and apostrophe in thereclever huh ).
Then they will go to hate the dumb voters mode for the rest of the year.
52 posted on 2024-11-01, by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
niyad
(121,303 posts)Hekate
(95,683 posts)Yeah right. Be there it will be wild was not said by any of ours.
marble falls
(62,737 posts)peggysue2
(11,541 posts)That's all they've got.
Vote for our God-King and insanity will rule the day.
A post-election bloodbath?? Receiving our last minute marching orders? And who knew there was a civil war brewing among DU members?
This is what INSANE sounds like, a total U-turn on reality.
Pathetic.
Scrivener7
(53,539 posts)Captain Zero
(7,620 posts)Charging up the Jewish Space Lasers. They'll never know what hit them.
ms liberty
(9,906 posts)Scrivener7
(53,539 posts)pat_k
(10,883 posts)I don't think I'd last in the MAGA alt-verse more than about 10 seconds.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,856 posts)I've gained some useful understanding of why they behave the way they do. How some nonsense can infect them so easily. Their standard tropes.
They are like Democrats: they love their families, they love justice, they love country.
They are unlike Democrats because they do not have the broader empathy that Democrats add: love and empathy for all humans. They also have a different concept of country, kind of frozen in 1950s suburbia with a layer of a few accomplished non-whites that they tolerate. I wanted to know how they could be so alike the rest of the country and yet so different and so opposed.
Now I sometimes find it amusing just how stupid they can be. Over the years the site evolved to be tightly controlled maga group think and then devolved into maga infighting. So much confirmation bias. So much overlap with evangullibles. So little logic.
But yeah, they have many ways to be disgusting. Beginning with violent bigotry, misogyny, racism, and prejudice. Not all of them are that way, but a majority of the vocal ones can't hide it or don't care.
pat_k
(10,883 posts)Few are purely on thing or the other, but I you hit on the central key with they do not have the broader empathy that Democrats add: love and empathy for all humans" from which flows so much.
On "the radical difference of mental habit between the good character and the bad." (Schopenhauer )
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219622617
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,856 posts)Thanks. I am following links the link links to.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219622617
It really pays to check and take care of details, particularly such as links. If you post a link and it does not show the "visited" decoration (usually a slightly different colour), then you probably have a mistake. I was able to guess (by counting) that you had added a stray '0' onto it.
pat_k
(10,883 posts)Vinca
(51,381 posts)I think they do that around elections, but if the crazies on the right think we're plotting, let them think it. The only firing squad we might discuss is walloping them with whoopie pies. We wouldn't even do that. Why waste a good whoopie pie on a Trumphumper?
Bev54
(11,951 posts)the site doesn't crash. Earl G advised us last night.
House of Roberts
(5,799 posts)I haven't seen any notice of it, but if it takes that to keep the site from crashing, I'm for it.
Silver Gaia
(4,921 posts)Here's a link to EarlG's post about it:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/101314930
House of Roberts
(5,799 posts)and it just now reached enough recs to make the top five on Greatest Discussions, so that's how I missed it. Thanks!
TurboDem
(297 posts)as appearing to be violent, but too bad, I'm going to do it anyway!
KPN
(16,216 posts)Were on a rampage!
HAB911
(9,418 posts)I'm all in
Jersey Devil
(10,360 posts)I can't think of an election where they did not do that but usually it's on election day or the day before.
ExciteBike66
(2,663 posts)Jersey Devil
(10,360 posts)My star expired and I did not renew it due to financial concerns surrounding surgery early this year when lo and behold, one day I looked up and there was a star next to my name. Another DU member had paid for it. I don't know who it was but am very grateful. We have a lot of very good and generous members who look after each other.
niyad
(121,303 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)niyad
(121,303 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)niyad
(121,303 posts)Wednesdays
(20,317 posts)...not just days, to finally login normally after that 2016 blackout.
marble falls
(62,737 posts)... I got a new account and got a MIRT OP over my being a returnee. EarlG and Elad got me back on.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)mercuryblues
(15,362 posts)spray their screen and keyboard with bleach, the secret plans will magically appear.
tavernier
(13,320 posts)Thats a deep dark secret!
mercuryblues
(15,362 posts)Baitball Blogger
(48,743 posts)It's true! Be sure to check into the new forum for the next meeting date.
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It's a joke.
BWdem4life
(2,504 posts)Hekate
(95,683 posts)Maru Kitteh
(29,327 posts)Truly.
Wednesdays
(20,317 posts)Maru Kitteh
(29,327 posts)niyad
(121,303 posts)Wow, we are even more powerful than I ever thought!
ExciteBike66
(2,663 posts)Both had similar comments, and several references to making sham accounts on DU to mess with us. None of them wanted to pay for a membership though, even though you name your own price!
BWdem4life
(2,504 posts)Wednesdays
(20,317 posts)It's a junior invasion! You didn't hear me? Return to your positions or you're all screwed!
[secret plan mode = off]
marble falls
(62,737 posts)niyad
(121,303 posts)marble falls
(62,737 posts)durablend
(8,037 posts)underpants
(187,830 posts)Ive heard it in several talk radio shows.
Clearly its projection and its telling that it seems they are preemptively creating a cover story for themselves.
Think. Again.
(19,986 posts)...and a few of them will be dumb enough to try it.
Think. Again.
(19,986 posts)(or I just don't have anything to post about at the moment.)
yardwork
(65,001 posts)We're just over here arguing about polls.
Think. Again.
(19,986 posts)(Thanks for the chuckle)
yardwork
(65,001 posts)KPN
(16,216 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)Martin Eden
(13,681 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 1, 2024, 10:49 AM - Edit history (1)
They just assume others have the same rotten impulses they do.
Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)tavernier
(13,320 posts)that lemon meringue pie and the chocolate moose I will serve at our DU election get together at Madison Square Garden. Seating is sold out but the kind NYC police department are roping off three city blocks next to MSG for overflow.
dweller
(25,289 posts)Said I was to bring asparagus and would be instructed when to cast them
Now ?
🤔
✌🏻
Wednesdays
(20,317 posts)Throw...the...CHEESE!
LAS14
(14,880 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)No guests currently while they deal with some software issues or something. If someone hasn't donated they don't get in.
Also to keep the trolls out around election day.
LAS14
(14,880 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,998 posts)about how they can't come here to scout us and troll us.
Then some of our guys started posting the comical "secret agent plotting" posts above. That part is all in fun, of course.
LAS14
(14,880 posts)surfered
(4,190 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(3,868 posts)._. .... ._. .. _. _._ ._ _ _. . ._._._
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Aviation Pro
(13,646 posts)-.- .- -- .- .-.. .- / .... .- .-. .-. .. ... / .-- .. .-.. .-.. / .-- .. -.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,868 posts)KPN
(16,216 posts)Hang on folks. Ill get back with you.
KPN
(16,216 posts)Free 🍕 pizza! Thank you, AP!
chia
(2,427 posts)For those who don't know Leeroy Jenkins.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,868 posts)So funny, almost stated coffee through the nose.
chia
(2,427 posts)DEM1955
(96 posts)Should have done it years ago!
SamKnause
(13,937 posts)Yeah !!!
Let's hope the plans go as smoothly as practiced.
I have every confidence they will.
Good luck to all.
See you on the other side.
Hekate
(95,683 posts)KPN
(16,216 posts)GreenWave
(9,703 posts)wnylib
(25,100 posts)to train cats, who are excellent at surprise kung fu attacks. Latest memo from the cat brigade is that back up militia cats have joined up from families with children for a massive joint attack on mysogynists. OK to discuss strategies while we're incognito.
(Remember to delete when we go open again.)
NBachers
(18,234 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,189 posts)EarthFirst
(3,257 posts)Shhh
lindysalsagal
(22,453 posts)believe all their lies and conspiracies. Why can't they see that he's a failed gangster, a liar, a fool, a loser, a traitor?
Jack Valentino
(1,584 posts)in their deluded little minds....
It's like he's Jim Jones or the guy who burned up his followers in Texas...
Abolishinist
(2,112 posts)I'd totally forgotten about Freaky Repukefest!
Just checked them out, same GREAT format circa 1989... wowser! And they still don't care if you're a dumb, stupid, ignorant piece of garbage, truth be told they welcome you with open arms. Can anyone imagine attempting to have a real debate with one of these idiots?
Scrivener7
(53,539 posts)as planned! Code name Cornflake Oscar Buzzard !1!!!
joshcryer
(62,511 posts)...on election night. You know the Russians will attack the site like they did in 2020. This should help alleviate that. In fact on Election Day Skinner should make it so no one can get a membership because they'll use stolen credit cards and such to get in.
Jack Valentino
(1,584 posts)FSogol
(46,953 posts)Hekate
(95,683 posts)Send out the bat signal! Calling Dark Brandon!
Lifeafter70
(393 posts)I think a lot of good duers are now gone from this board. Those that for many different reasons are not able to afford a star membership i had to join PayPal to donate, which was supposed to be a one time thing. Since doing this just a day ago my email has been flooded with different messages from PayPal. That is something I did not want and thought would not happen with a one time choice. Because of that my hubby who has been a member since 2007 decided not to use it
.and is now blocked from signing in.
We are now in a echo chamber during a critical time of this election.
A lot of good information is posted here and will not be seen by those who need it
the most. We will not be reaching out to the very ones Vice President Harris has asked us to reach out to.
This thread reminds me of another many many years ago. I referred to it as the sneechies thread. Long time du readers and members might remember it. Think Dr Suese.
Membership dues are great but in my opinion not enough to keep this site up and running. As much as many here dislike the adds, they are needed revenue . One of the perks of a star is no adds in your feed. So if we are a closed site why would a business want to advertise here.
Just wanted to point out we lost so good du members not just trolls.
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Scrivener7
(53,539 posts)blogslug
(38,705 posts)On desktop, log in and click your account profile located in the top menu at the right. On it you'll get a drop-down menu, click Account Settings. Choose the Notifications link on the left vertical menu.
usonian
(15,224 posts)Never joined. Never will.
With Apple Pay, PayPal never sees my card number.
canetoad
(18,411 posts)Of this site's name CC? (No way I will name it, or link)
I had a look there yesterday. Apart from their 'Latest News' post being two weeks ago, the sad bastards are pretending they had something to do with the 2016 hack.
Hekate
(95,683 posts)canetoad
(18,411 posts)What a hell-hole it is. There's not much activity an there any more, just a few bitter old Klansmen whining about DU, and I disinfected thoroughly when I left.
GenThePerservering
(2,675 posts)read like Dems doing a little trolling themselves - they're just too funny.
The rest are typical moron.
GenThePerservering
(2,675 posts)to these people that they have to start extrapolating ridiculous scenarios as to what we're doing.
BTW, I'm willing to contribute to someone who can't afford the star membership. I could help at least a few people out.
pat_k
(10,883 posts)Or is it more PC to call them reptilian humanoids these days?
Scrivener7
(53,539 posts)askyagerz
(901 posts)They could become star members and figure out all of our secrets. Maybe next time guys...