I have never been more thankful for the "Ignore" feature

[Fiendish Thingy]

So much kooky, irrational, Q adjacent nonsense flooding the site in the past couple of days.

Going down conspiracy rabbit holes as a means of coping with the uncertainty ahead only diminishes our collective power as we seek to regroup to address the coming challenges.

[WarGamer]

1. +1... also could be trolls.

There's the troll strategy of posting shit so batshit crazy, makes the whole community look bad.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Except some of them have high post counts and have been here awhile

I think it's just people getting seeking simple answers for the tragic election who get sucked into irrational CT's.

[LisaM]

15. I do think there are some high count posters

who somehow don't subscribe to the "Democratic" part of Democratic Underground. They seem to think that caucusing with Democrats is the same thing as being a Democrat.

There are also high count posters who cross-post to multiple groups. I am not really a fan of that myself (I open DU sometimes and see the exact same post as the most recent post repeated four times on the landing pages), so post count isn't always a true reflection.

[AllyCat]

26. Yeah, I actually have a list of these types.

Quite certain they would out themselves around this election.

[Disaffected]

6. Or bots.

There are several possible motivations for these "the world is over" posts.

[Disaffected]

2. ....

"Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside? Yes I would, Kent."

[malaise]

4. Real power is now in the hands of the liars, kings, queens, and subjects

of the most vile conspiracy theorists.
Just saying.
Asking questions about what really happened here is rational behavior.

[Disaffected]

7. Asking questions is one thing,

making dire predictions based only on speculation or rumor is another.

[malaise]

9. I ignore those without using the ignore feature

It’s easy

[Kaleva]

31. Agree

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. speculating irrationally without evidence is not rational.

Occam's Razor is your friend.

[SCantiGOP]

19. Especially when threads start with

"I don't have any proof, but............."
Or their main source of proof is the old 'gut feeling.'

[lamp_shade]

5. Rec

[Ocelot II]

10. I think what we need to do now is settle down and not grab at whatever theories

make us feel better in the immediate aftermath. It will take a long time to sort out, and I doubt very much that there was one single cause but a confluence of many things, including an inaccurate perception of the state of the economy; racism, misogyny; a whole lot of propaganda from both internal and external sources; uninformed voters; and people who could have voted but didn't. There will also be a whole lot of internal finger-pointing, which has already started. Trying to blame the whole mess on hacked voting systems without evidence makes us look as foolish as Trump's people in the aftermath of 2020, where those claims got shot down in 60+ lawsuits because there wasn't any supporting evidence. That's not to say there should be no examination of unusual patterns in unexpected places, but it's a pretty big chasm to leap in order to claim the debacle was the result of nationwide vote tampering. Rather than chasing our tails to find a unified theory that doesn't involve taking a hard look at what went wrong politically and which might make us Democrats feel bad for having misjudged the national Zeitgeist, let's let the dust settle and analyze patterns and strategies before pouncing on a conclusion which might be false and lead to more mistakes in the future.

[Ponietz]

11. Denial is the first stage of grief

Doesn’t surprise me.

[Native]

18. agreed, and at least here it will be temporary and people will accept facts.

[FakeNoose]

12. I use the ignore feature for one specific reason

Not when someone posts a crazy conspiracy theory, but when someone won't give up an argument. There are a small number of DUers who don't know when to let it go. They won't take a chill pill, and if they say the same thing twice, that's enough.

After that I put them on ignore where they belong.

[Mme. Defarge]

13. Second time I have used it

since becoming a DU member.

[Prairie Gates]

14. Watching people espouse the same election rigging theories as MAGAs did in 2020 is

really something.

That said, your reason for ignoring it it also a joke: there is no collective power going forward. There will be years, and maybe a generation, of subjection to MAGA power. That's it. That's probably why people have gone kooky sideways. It's a bleak prospect for the foreseeable future.

[LisaM]

16. Part of the problem is people who confuse rigging and suppression.

They aren't the same thing.

I would also argue that voter depression is more insidious than suppression. People somehow lost the motivation to vote and forget that it's a responsibility or they put on blinders like they did in Dearborn and decide that they'll "show us" by sitting it out.

[Native]

17. it is disheartening, but you have to admit it won't last long here in comparison to "those people"

They live, breathe, and eat conspiracy theories.

[milestogo]

20. I use the ignore feature because some people are hostile

and unable to disagree respectfully.

I cleared it out on election day, and 4 of the same posters are already back on it.

[Qutzupalotl]

21. You're in Canada, right?

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Must be nice. We'll be down here in the coal mine hoping for fresh air.

[Iggo]

22. Handy thing, that.

[joanbarnes]

23. Burning up unsubscribe

Don't need more political petitions, donation drives, etc. for all the 'good' it has done.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. They remind me of the Ghost Dancers which is so sad and tragic.

[progressoid]

25. People don't want to admit that their family and neighbors voted for him*...again.

They don't want to admit that we barely won in 2020 and that if not for a pandemic he* would have won then.

It's easier to look to some crazy conspiracy than to admit that over half of our fellow citizens are fucking idiots.

[JoseBalow]

27. Shame it doesn't work both ways

"Ignore" should be reciprocal by default, the way blocking works on all other sites.

[BComplex]

28. I'd be more thankful for AUDITS.

Democrats don't need to be embarrassed by demanding audits. We have known, as everyone has for years, that the republicans are bad actors. Trying to be "above the fray" isn't good for democracy.

[Fiendish Thingy]

29. So, why didn't Harris demand audits?

She has access to the same “evidence” everyone else posting on DU does.

[BComplex]

32. I think she's waiting for the masses to demand it, is what I think.

She can't very well do that without the voters standing behind her, or she just looks like a twerp. We need to rise up and demand audits, and she'll be covered. Without her voters rising up, she'd just look like a sore loser. AND the republicans are COUNTING on that!!!!

[Fiendish Thingy]

33. If she's waiting, and anticipating, for the voters to rise up,why did she concede ?

In her speech she said “we must accept the results of this election”; was she lying?

[BComplex]

34. It was early and all the reports from around the country of people checking on their votes, and finding out they weren't

counted, and all the ballots that Michigan "just found", and all the other hanky panky that has gone down. North Carolina voted democrats all throughout the ballot....except for donald trump? Not a fucking chance! I want eyeballs on those ballots.

[Magoo48]

30. Wow, thank you.

I don’t use ignore, but you hit the nail on the head. Blame and analysis, pissing and moaning, hell, a sliver of all of it, or none of it, may or may not be true.
So fucking what?
The question is what now. How do we most effectively resist these fascist knuckle draggers? What can we do individually, as well as collectively, to monkey wrench their worst intentions, because that’s what their coming with?

[Elessar Zappa]

35. I think

that threads suggesting it was stolen should be moved to the “Creative Speculation” group. It’s the place on this site for conspiracies.

[Fiendish Thingy]

36. Unfortunately, that group became extinct with the last DU upgrade. Nt

[Elessar Zappa]

37. Well, then they should just be locked, I guess.

Because it makes DU look ridiculous.