Final Frame
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Searching for my liberal heart
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Feb 26, 2016 0:18:30 GMT
Post by Final Frame on Feb 26, 2016 0:18:30 GMT
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Feb 27, 2016 2:32:56 GMT
Post by anniebannanie on Feb 27, 2016 2:32:56 GMT
sounds fair to me. I got suspended from DK by people, not by two hidden comments. Can we leaks this to Steven Colbert, he covered the strike? annie shane (aka anniebannie)
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Feb 28, 2016 2:30:06 GMT
Post by phoenix on Feb 28, 2016 2:30:06 GMT
Markos thinks it's going to be just like 2004 and 2008 when he could ban a few people and make the problem go away. What he doesn't understand is that:
a) He didn't ban enough of the right people back in 2008, not for a site whose mission is ostensibly to elect Democrats. He spared far too many of the whiteprog and emoprog Hillary-hating and Democrat-hating folks, who then formed a beachhead to welcome in the emoprogs from Reddit and other sources, such as those who hijacked and trashed FDL and then jumped to DK after FDL breathed its last in late 2014.
b) DK itself is five times as big now as it was in 2008. And again, much of that growth was from it becoming what Al Giordano calls a "white prog ghetto". The emos might or might not be more numerous than are actual Democrats, but they are definitely more vocal, putting all their "activism" into harassing and silencing people they don't like, even fellow Sanders supporters. The time to prune them back was last spring, not now when they've figured out how to game the site, just like many of them figured out how to game FDL and take it over.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:26:15 GMT
Post by phoenix on Feb 28, 2016 20:26:15 GMT
Can't say I disagree with that since I just took on a Bernie supporter that said he acted the way he did because we called all of them racist. Oh, jeez, lemme guess... geebeebee? Bob Johnson? Choco8?
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Feb 28, 2016 21:34:58 GMT
Post by phoenix on Feb 28, 2016 21:34:58 GMT
I had to step back over there to see what the emos are liking. Now they're taking a Hillary-hating black man to their bosom: www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/28/1492803/-I-Would-Like-Black-People-To-Explain-Why-They-Vote-HillaryAnd Zacapoet just posted a very snarky diary asking his fellow Hillary folk not to post pro-Hillary diaries because they so obviously inflamed the BSers. And a number of really vile BSers are already back from their TOs. Meanwhile, the 2/25 "both sides do it equally" purge seems to have hurt site traffic. I won't know for sure until this time next week, and it might just be a deeper version of the usual weekend slump, but the Quantcast data for the last few days isn't promising.
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Feb 29, 2016 1:13:28 GMT
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Post by phoenix on Feb 29, 2016 1:13:28 GMT
Which was essentially the message, directed towards anyone who liked the Democratic Party, that FDL sent out once the hijackers took over.
And people stayed away in droves.
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