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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Sun Mar 27, 2016, 12:47 PM Mar 2016

How to push the DU away from it's rightward direction

You've seen the RW posts.
The posts defending "free" trade, foreign intervention, against tuition free public college, against universal healthcare, etc...these are neoCON positions and are suppose to be off limits on the DU.
They try to demean us with name calling like "Bernie Bros"...pixie dust...unicorns...etc.

How do we stop it?
Should we alert every post that is RW and hold them to the Terms of Service agreement?

Frustrating isn't it?

Don't be a wingnut (right-wing or extreme-fringe).

Democratic Underground is an online community for politically liberal people who understand the importance of working within the system to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of political office. Teabaggers, Neo-cons,...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice

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How to push the DU away from it's rightward direction (Original Post) SHRED Mar 2016 OP

debate, call them out for everyone to see Viva_La_Revolution Mar 2016 #1

When I did that I got another hide, and finally banned. ViseGrip Mar 2016 #2

I got this thread locked SHRED Mar 2016 #3

Wow. EmperorHasNoClothes Mar 2016 #4

If I had removed... SHRED Mar 2016 #5

Seems really arbitrary. EmperorHasNoClothes Mar 2016 #6

Here's my response SHRED Mar 2016 #8

Our big tent should not include fascists. JEB Mar 2016 #7

Absolutely!! SHRED Mar 2016 #9

Maybe we should compile all the fascist RW posts SHRED Mar 2016 #10

Good idea. JEB Mar 2016 #18

Unfortunately we can't do it alone n2doc Mar 2016 #11

I'm half tempted... SHRED Mar 2016 #12

Ya, don't bother Hydra Mar 2016 #13

Words of wisdom SHRED Mar 2016 #14

It's highly annoying Hydra Mar 2016 #15

Great words of encouragement SHRED Mar 2016 #16

Thank goodness I don't live in a swing state SHRED Mar 2016 #17

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)

1. debate, call them out for everyone to see

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 12:50 PM

Mar 2016

I myself have resorted to high levels of snark.

ViseGrip

(3,133 posts)

2. When I did that I got another hide, and finally banned.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:01 PM

Mar 2016

It appears some are tagged...as effective and are trolled here.

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

3. I got this thread locked

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:10 PM

Mar 2016

The moderator said it was "meta disruptive" because I mentioned the DU.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511586106

EmperorHasNoClothes

(4,797 posts)

4. Wow.

Reply to SHRED (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:40 PM

Mar 2016

How was that not about the primary when those are the EXACT DAMN issues we are discussing in the primary?

Meta my ass.

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

5. If I had removed...

Reply to EmperorHasNoClothes (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:47 PM

Mar 2016

...mention of the DU it would not have been locked I guess.

However, one small fact...no warning...and therefore no chance to do so. It was just locked period. Nothing "democratic" about that in my view.

EmperorHasNoClothes

(4,797 posts)

6. Seems really arbitrary.

Reply to SHRED (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:48 PM

Mar 2016

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

8. Here's my response

Reply to EmperorHasNoClothes (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:50 PM

Mar 2016

JEB

(4,748 posts)

7. Our big tent should not include fascists.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:49 PM

Mar 2016

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

9. Absolutely!!

Reply to JEB (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:52 PM

Mar 2016

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

10. Maybe we should compile all the fascist RW posts

Reply to JEB (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:56 PM

Mar 2016

And send them to the ADMIN discussion asking them why they are allowing these violations of the Terms of Service agreement?

JEB

(4,748 posts)

18. Good idea.

Reply to SHRED (Reply #10)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 04:22 PM

Mar 2016

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

11. Unfortunately we can't do it alone

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:59 PM

Mar 2016

If Bernie gets the nomination, I think DU will self-correct leftward. The problem is that we have seen that the Party will reflect the leadership, and if that leadership is Clinton, then it will reflect her priorities. Long-held New Deal Principles be damned.

One person's neocon is another person's 'trusted advisor'...

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

12. I'm half tempted...

Reply to n2doc (Reply #11)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 02:02 PM

Mar 2016

...to head over to the GDP group and alert every neocon post as a violation of the Democratic Underground "Terms of Service" agreement.

Yeah...That would fly...NOT.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)

13. Ya, don't bother

Reply to SHRED (Reply #12)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 02:10 PM

Mar 2016

This site is going to go through a massive change at the end of the primary. It will all depend on who the nominee is on what that change will be.

Until then, engage as you think is useful, but don't put yourself out there in situations that could get you banned.

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

14. Words of wisdom

Reply to Hydra (Reply #13)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 02:13 PM

Mar 2016

I need to chill out a bit.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)

15. It's highly annoying

Reply to SHRED (Reply #14)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 02:26 PM

Mar 2016

To be fighting the same fights we did during the Bush Admin, when now we have to fight a larger part of our party over it.

I say "A larger part" because I used to have posts hidden by the admins for calling out Bush Admin torture. The Establishment apologists/pushers have always been here, but not as loud as they are now. Your reaction is perfectly normal for someone with principles- just remember they have an investment in the system, so they simply cannot be otherwise.

The best part though is...we're not going away. This movement isn't going away. DU may ban all of us, but the movement will continue. The Left WILL be heard.

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

16. Great words of encouragement

Reply to Hydra (Reply #15)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 02:48 PM

Mar 2016

Thank you

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

17. Thank goodness I don't live in a swing state

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 03:17 PM

Mar 2016

Jill Stein of the Green Party will get my vote unless Bernie wins.
I can vote my conscious.

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