I have a feeling I am going to enjoy this group

[bernie_FTW]

I am already disappointed that I was blocked from Bernie group for stating my desire to support the nomination.

I can imagine some people will use "questioning Hillary's stands" as ways to put a lot of negative information out there on general discussion and attempt to avoid hides.

I will be coming over here quite a bit to check in and band together behind a strong, accomplished woman who will make history as our first female President of the United States.

[William769]

1. Welcome to the Group.

Please be advised though after this OP, we would appreciate not bringing up being blocked from other Groups here. Our main concern is all things Hillary & news that Hillary supporters want to share! We shattered the glass ceiling in the primary, now we want to shatter it again to have the first female president!

Again Welcome.

[bernie_FTW]

2. sounds good!

[liberalnarb]

11. I was blocked too. Kind of funny that they blocked someone with the username "Bernie for the win".

[Cary]

34. I don't get it. Can you explain why people feel that they have behave this way?

I don't expect you will but really I'm having a hard time understanding. I've lost a couple of friends in real life.

It's not me. They would say it was me, but it's not.

Oh well. If they want to perplex me, and confound me, and bring me down a little they've done as good a job as possible. But they haven't won anything for it. They haven't gained. For whatever it's worth they have lost my respect.

[liberalnarb]

36. I contacted the DUer who blocked me.

I received this message from them :

Hosts are allowed to run groups as they chose. Yes the primary is over and people are moving on to the GE and you can post about it in GD 2016. However feelings by the remaining members in the group are raw and when members object to posts by other members in their protected place they come first. It is time to move on, you have and they will too.

[Cary]

39. Not really what I was asking but thanks

It's all so unnecessary. Oh well.

[liberalnarb]

40. Well, to answer your question, I think its just raw emotion.

[Cary]

41. Probably. It's certainly not rational

They're freaking politicians, not lovers. They do a job. If we get our policies we win, because we're correct.

There's a healthy dose of stupidity and another of malice in that cocktail too.

[liberalnarb]

42. You may be right, but its hard not to get attached to at least the idea of your candidate winning in

these elections.

[Cary]

47. In the meantime they're trashing John Lewis and Democrats

Where do they think they're going?

[Walk away]

3. Wow! Great! Welcome! And Welcome to DU!!!!

So Bernie_FTW does that stand for "Bernie for the win" or Bernie fuck the world"? or is there some other more obscure meaning???

Just asking to be friendly

[bernie_FTW]

6. yes, your first guess is correct. "For The Win". I signed up when

the primary season was in full swing and that was the best I could come up with. I guess he showed a yearning for more liberal policies so that is a win.

[JSup]

8. I'm pretty sure...

...it's 'free the whales'. 'Fun time wins'?

Ah ha!

'Fuck the Wall' (street). <--I said this one a lot irl.

Edit: Just having 'FWA'. Fun with acronyms. I know it's 'for the win' (which I almost typed out as 'ftw' because that's how it's spelled to me).

[BlueCaliDem]

4. We love you, too, bernie_FTW! Welcome to the Hillary Clinton Group!

[JSup]

5. To be fair...

...to the Bernie group, I think you probably would have been blocked from this one for saying the opposite if the situation were different, though I can't be sure.

Thank you for your post in GD, umm... E. It made a terrible (for non-politcal stuff at home) day better.

[William769]

14. Your comment is not fair to this Group.

This Group would have supported whoever the Democratic nominee is and encouraged our Group members to do the same.

Just saying.

[splat]

16. Yup, we supported Obama despite our despair in 2008 n/t

[JSup]

18. Oh, for certain...

..but I really was trying to help the poster feel less stabbed in the back by their former brethren.

And I did state that it was an opinion that I had no certainty of.

But I can delete it, if you like. There's all kinda of awful things happening right now in my life so I cannot be a good judge of the appropriateness of what I say and will leave that judgment to others.

[William769]

20. Your post is ok.

I just wanted as a group host to inject how we would have handled this Group if there had been a different outcome.

[JSup]

21. Alright...

...I think I'm going to (try to) shut up for a bit, though. I'd probably break down at this point if I upset somebody and all I'm doing right now is cluttering threads.

I'm sorry, guys.

[Her Sister]

23. Sorry to hear that you're going through some rough patch

Hope it works out.

[UtahLib]

27. Aw, so sorry you're in a sad place.

We're still getting our bearings concerning the new rules. Stick with us and we will support and stick with you.

[Cha]

49. No worries here, JSup.. Really sorry for whatever you're going through.

Peace~

[DemonGoddess]

54. You're okay you know

you're not cluttering threads.

[radical noodle]

7. Welcome!

[DemonGoddess]

9. Welcome!

Glad to have you!

[liberalnarb]

10. Oh, thank god I'm not alone.

I was blocked too.

[TexasTowelie]

51. Welcome to the group.

Glad to have you here.

[cosmicone]

12. Welcome to the Hillary group! n/t

[splat]

13. I was also blocked over there

Wondered why Bernie hadn't squatted for a few at the sit-in. Would have been a great visual for him.

[caquillo]

15. Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!

(I know I conflated two separate musicals, but what the hell.)

[creon]

17. welcome!

[George II]

19. Welcome!

[Cary]

22. Welcome

It seems like a no brainer to me. Of course you are welcome here.

[Coolest Ranger]

24. Supporters like you I welcome with open arms

Welcome to the team

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. This post was alerted on. I'm glad the other jurors agreed with me.

[Cary]

33. Oh fercryinoutloud.

I can't say what I want to say, except compare and contrast.

We're awesome. We are. Really. We are.

[Tarheel_Dem]

37. It clearly didn't violate any rule. I still don't understand what the alerter found objectionable.

[Cha]

50. Hahahahaaha!

Mahalo, Tarheel~

[Squinch]

26. Welcome. We are going to make all kinds of history!

[skylucy]

28. bernie_FTW----Welcome! We are a nice group and I think you will like it here. Seems like the

Gerneral Discussion Forums are better now too.

[geek tragedy]

29. welcome aboard! nt

[realmirage]

30. I have noticed they're already saying things that suggest people should not vote Hillary

But they're saying it in ways that they hope will avoid a "post removed." For example "my friends think Hillary.." or "some people say Hillary.."

The strategy seems to be that if they avoid saying that they themselves think it, or finding links from accepted sites that undermine Hillary but posting it as "objective news," they'll get away with it. My prediction is those who use this strategy will end up banned.

Welcome BFTW

[TwilightZone]

32. Agreed.

There's also a lot of "I'm not pushing Libertarians, but look at this story about Gary Johnson".

"I'm not pushing Gary Johnson. Really. Really, I'm not. But, he's at 10%!!!!! But, I'm not pushing him!"

Those do tend to get removed, at least.

And lots of concern trolling and sarcasm. Hillary is the best candidate EVER!!!

Just kind of laugh at it all, though.

[realmirage]

43. We can only hope that when

October/November rolls around and the shit is really flying, everyone who has a brain will wake up and vote straight Democrat. I can't imagine not voting against Trump. The guy is dangerous. Actually dangerous.

[TwilightZone]

44. Yep, and I think for the most part, nearly everyone who professes to be a liberal or progressive

will vote for Hillary in the end - or, at the very least, against Trump.

[realmirage]

45. I think we'll be pretty happy in November

[grossproffit]

31. Awe, welcome home. We're so happy to have you with us.

[NastyRiffraff]

35. You are very welcome here, bernie_FTW

We Democrats (and the country) will win if we stand together. Thanks for your great post!

[Princess Turandot]

46. Hi there!

Just a quick observation: If your feelings about HRC's candidacy have changed, you might consider amending your profile statement. It's a bit out of sync with unity, as well as this group!

cheers,
PT

[Coolest Ranger]

48. I agree with the person above me

you might want to find some way to either change your picture profile or reflect that your with Team Clinton right now. A lot of us were fans of Bernie until we saw how his hard core fans were treating us

[JustAnotherGen]

52. Great group of people!

They welcomed me even when O'Malley never had a chance.

[riversedge]

53. Welcome.

[Loki]

55. Welcome.

We've all be in a position of having our candidate of choice not win the nomination, and I'm no exception. But I've never seen the kind of animosity and rancor that has become the driving force behind some of Bernie's supporters. We all have one goal, and that is to elect Democrats up and down the ballot and help our country move forward. It's that important.