Okay, Bernie Supporters, I promise not to tell anyone. Just whisper in my ear.

[merrily]

How did we and our fellow Bernie supporters who do not post at DU manage to get control of the internet?

Apparently, Bernie supporters on and off DU are the only ones who have had access to the internet during the last several months.

I am the first to admit I am no whiz when it comes to things like this. How did we manage it? Did you all take up a collection without including me and hire Anonymous to pull this off?

[RoccoR5955]

1. Anonymous takes no money.

They just need a good cause!
We just put out the word to a good cause, and Voila! Anonymous is on it!

[merrily]

2. So, you're saying you did get Anonymous involved without including me,

you just did not pay them.

I'm so hurt to have been left out of the Great Bernie Supporter Internet Takeover of 2015.

[RoccoR5955]

4. You are not left out

You are Leftist in!

[merrily]

7. LOL! True. I still do have access to the internet. I occasionally even vote in Internet polls, but

not often. Most of them are ruses to get my personal info.

[roguevalley]

58. MERRILY! I love you. :D I personally admit to the hole thing.

(misspelling purposeful)

[merrily]

66. I love you, too! Even though you are guilty. I'll visit you in prison, I promise.

(I"m pretty sure messing with the internet is some form of terrorism anymore.)

[Kalidurga]

3. Beats me

I am still trying to figure out how that box with the teeny tiny people in it works.

[merrily]

5. Television? A lot like radio, but with pictures.

I think Thomas Edison stole the idea from some guy in France and patented it.

No wait, that would have been moving pictures.

All of it is a mystery to me. I'm not even sure how phones work. Tom toms are the only technology I get. Kind of.

[Scuba]

9. Not Edison, but Farnsworth, Philo Farnsworth.

[merrily]

18. My post ultimately credited Edison with ripping off moving pictures.

I thought Julie Chen's husband invented the television thing.

[marym625]

59. Drunk History!

[merrily]

72. LOL! Say it to my face!

[marym625]

81. LOL!

[Kalidurga]

17. Tom toms are cool

but, they are so newfangled.

I am partial to pan pipes myself love both though.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18196349

[merrily]

20. Percussion is very cool. I am not so sure about the Pan pipes, though.

That Pan guy was trouble.

[Kalidurga]

22. Pan was one of my favorites

I think it had something to do with him being trouble

[merrily]

25. Ah, you have that "Why do smart women fall for bad gods?" thing going, huh?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

83. Ya gotta wonder.

After all, if a boss sleeping with an employee is an abuse of power, or a teacher sleeping with a student, isn't it a massive abuse of power for a God to sleep with a mortal follower? Can't have any more lopsided power imbalance than that, after all. Essentially statutory rape, and if they get knocked up, the God makes sure they serve as a forced birth incubator for their Godly rapist seed. What does it say about folks who would go around worshipping such a divine rapist and his cuckolded spawn?

[merrily]

26. BTW, this may have been what turned me off:

"He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr."



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_%28god%29

Not my first preference.

[potone]

55. Don't diss Pan.

He has the ability to cause PANIC, with disastrous consequences; including losses in battle. I'm a classicist and I know!

[merrily]

67. Not my first preference is a diss? Thin-skinned pantheon?

(see what I did there?) chuckle:

[pangaia]

41. As a percussionist I agree

[merrily]

69. I love an unbiased opinion!

[passiveporcupine]

44. smoke signals work, sort of

Tom Toms just make me want to dance.

[merrily]

68. Sure, but you need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

[sarge43]

53. merrily, it's time for you to upgrade

Do plug into our crafty network of tin cans and butcher string. It's cutting edge albeit messy.

[merrily]

70. Messy? You know you're supposed to wash out the cans, right?

Other than that, sounds good!

(A teensy of acoustic humor.)

[sarge43]

75. Sound advice about washing out the cans

It's the string. We keep tripping over the string -- very nerdy.

[merrily]

82. There must be a solution to that. Have you thought of trying to contact Stephen Hawking?

[sarge43]

84. As a matter of fact, I did

He wrote back, "We're nerds; we do shit like that. You'll just have to cope."

[merrily]

87. I had the same thought and I am anything but a nerd. (I have a lot of nerd envy.)

[ladyVet]

105. Whoa, whoa, whoa, it's magic!

You know.

I'd tell everyone how we did it, but then I'd have to kill you.

Which would sort of defeat the purpose of our devious scheme.

Better you don't know. Trust me.

[HassleCat]

6. I guess we conform to a certain stereotype

I see the term "keyboard warriors" quite a lot when referring to Sandernistas. I guess we're supposed to be a bunch of near sighted geeks who wear Star Trek costumes and debate the fine points of different Linux versions. We watch the internet and pounce on any sort of poll, etc. by posting under each of our 230 different profiles. And so on.

[merrily]

10. There's no keyboard warrior like the DU minority.

The April poll asking us to choose between Bernie and Hillary was such an eye opener in so many ways. Until then, I thought DU's left was in the minority here.

As of this post, that poll stands at 60 to 620, quite a stunner.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026592890

[DUbeornot2be]

45. Well...

It now seems to be 621 in favor of Bernie over the 60 who prefer the chosen one. Yes, I am number 621.

The numbers don't surprise me in the least. She supports the few... A few support her back.

[merrily]

71. I and many others were gobsmacked in April.

[Marty McGraw]

56. That contrast

Just makes it so much more laborious to refute. All those extra hours the other camp has to make up for these days

[merrily]

73. To a point, yes. But it doesn't really take that take long to type "hater."

[jeff47]

34. I'd just like to say systemd sucks. (nt)

[Scuba]

8. We didn't. It's just that Hillary's supporters have yet to learn how to click multiple times.

[merrily]

12. Isn't that why God made socks?

[Snotcicles]

11. I like the way you happy-dance merrily. nt

[merrily]

15. Thanks, snoticles. I love happy dancing.

I have a beside myself with joy dance, too, but this is only my tongue in cheek happy dance.

[jeff47]

13. I have 100,000 email accounts, and use all of them to skew every online poll.

In fact, I've given up eating and sleeping just so I can mess with online polling. Though remembering all the passwords is quite annoying.

[merrily]

16. I knew that about you.

FYI: I posted about you today. I've posted this a lot.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1290602

[jeff47]

19. Give it time. You'll hate me again.

[merrily]

21. I can't quit you twice!

[Bubzer]

43. D'awwww

[merrily]

64. I know, right? We're adorable. nt

[Bubzer]

101. Yup!

[Kalidurga]

23. I remember mine by having the same one for all 100,000 emails

here is the password don't give it out to anyone okay &%5)(&%)%(!!!#(!)!!!#PassWord#

[Faux pas]

14. Don't know don't care

as long as it's working!!

[hootinholler]

24. reddit

/r/allyourbasearebelongtous

[merrily]

27. All my base are belong to Democratic Presidential hopeful, Bernie Sanders.

[PoliticalMalcontent]

57. Glad someone mentioned reddit.

I'll add 'youth'.

Younger generations which grew up with the internet tend to break heavily toward Sanders. Reddit has given this younger crowd a platform with which to organize allowing them to effectively vote on poll-driven endorsements, spread the word for Sanders, and raise money for the Sanders campaign.

[merrily]

74. Make way for Millennials, MFUA! (Millennials, Fed UP Already)

[stage left]

28. We posted Kittehs pictures all across the net.

Embedded in these innocent looking pix are subliminal messages which wipe all passwords from the minds of unbelievers, leaving them unable to post anywhere.

[merrily]

29. Posting, meh. No one cares. Internet polls are where the big bucks are.

As best I understand it, Bernie supporters control all the online polls because no one else has had access to the internet since Bernie announced he was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

And I demand to know how Bernie supporters pulled that off and why no one included me.

[Voice for Peace]

39. Lol. This OP is most pleasing.

Here I thought it was only my facebook settings, and the awesome social media ground game, causing my perception that Bernie owns the intenet.

Now you say he really DOES?

[merrily]

42. Thanks. Bernie supporters own the internet, but I can't give details but they left me out--and I'm

not at all happy about that, either!

[Voice for Peace]

47. Apparently you were not left out, for here you are.

[merrily]

48. I was left out of the plotting and the internet coup. True, I've been allowed to post post-coup,

for I am indeed a Bernie support, after all.

(Left out--since what I did there? :silly

[SoapBox]

30. Let's ask Al Gore...

Ya know...the inventor of the Internet!

[merrily]

31. Gore's still doing the happy dance about the "climate" agreement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/proposed-historic-climate-pact-nears-final-vote/

I think he may even have planted another one on Tipper, despite the divorce, but I'm not sure about that part.

[sonofspy777]

32. Like LOLCats

We controlz the internetz!

Ceiling Cat be praised!

Basement Cat too!

[merrily]

33. Can haz primary votes?

[Marty McGraw]

50. ( ._.)

[Autumn]

95. Oh!. Sad sad baby kitty

I want to love and squeeze it and it's little face

[retrowire]

35. I have no idea!

But with "useless unscientific online polling" we just won Bernie the DfA endorsement!

Haha, weird! Obama didn't even get that endorsement!

XD

This is such an "I told you so" moment for me.

All the "we don't do online polling because it's stupid, and useless and we have better things to do with our time."

And here Bernie wins the DfA endorsement, with a poll that required an email a name AND A ZIP CODE in order to vote... AND BERNIE WON WITH 88% of the vote!

EIGHTY EIGHT.

XD

[merrily]

36. It required more than that. Bernie supporters who voted posted about requirements in another thread.

yeah, 88% of the vote. I wore out the right click button my laptop before I got it that high.

(Actually, I didn't vote in that poll at all.)

[retrowire]

37. Really?!

And he still won that much. Awesome.

[merrily]

40. Ya know what? Even if it was easy peasy voting, it was just as easy for Hillary supporters and

O'Malley supporters as it was for Bernie supporters. And, despite my OP, almost every adult in America has access to the internet, if not at home, then at work during lunch hour.

I don't quite follow the notion that Bernie supporters have some special internet legerdemain.

[retrowire]

49. and i feel the exact way

why do Republican online polls match up with their pundit polls, but ours doesn't?

strings are being pulled.

[merrily]

62. How long are those strings, I wonder? How about the polls?

[marym625]

38. Bawhaha!

We are THAT good!

#FeelTheBern #Bernie2016

[merrily]

46. You were in on this, too? And you let them exclude me?

Marily!111!!!!

Et tu?

This is the most unkindest cut of all!

[smokey nj]

51. Sorry, my bad!

I was supposed to tell you, but I had to take the Volvo into the shop and completely forgot. How can you ever fucking forgive me?

[merrily]

76. Those Volvos are so unreliable! That's why I have a latte limo.

That's would be a limo equipped with an espresso machine. Plumbing out the limo was very tricky, but when you're very rich, almost anything is possible.

[marym625]

52. I told us! We knew!

You just forgot

[Autumn]

65. No she didn't forget. I intercepted the messages, I just knew she would post about it here in the

group and now we won't succeed the next time we do this.

[merrily]

78. True. I would have posted in the Bernie Group because I would have been too excited about winning

every internet poll to contain myself.



However, you don't have to take over the internet more than once. It ours forever now. All ours, I tell ya!

[Autumn]

80. Are you like saying

We got this? Where's a darn banana when we need one

[merrily]

85. Yep. We took it over and its all ours now forever.

[marym625]

88. Marily never posts secrets!

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! That you would intercept messages!!

[merrily]

77. Hmmm. I must say, I am suspecting this claim.

I have memories of sitting on the potty.

That was only 8 days ago, but still...

[marym625]

89. It was Autumn!

She did it! She came between Marily!!!

[merrily]

90. In fairness, she was right. I would have posted it.

[marym625]

91. Damn!

She's always right!

[merrily]

92. So is Marily!

[marym625]

94. So true!

We're always right!

[merrily]

96. Psst. I was only humoring Autumn. I would not have posted.

I can keep a secret!

[marym625]

97. I know we can.

Marily is extremely trustworthy

By the way, did you know that the poster him2him is a republican? He's here only because he likes the poster chiapet. But chiapet is married! Shhh. Don't tell anyone

[merrily]

98. LOL! I've known that for months. I haven't told a soul.

[Betty Karlson]

54. Taking control of the Internet?

I have barely passed the typing with two fingers stage...

[merrily]

63. Apparently, Sanders' supporters are the only ones with access to the net now.

[Still In Wisconsin]

60. Two words:

Al Gore.

[merrily]

79. See Reply 31.

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[WillyT]

61. LOL !!!

[merrily]

86. .

[TBF]

93. ...

[Enthusiast]

99. Bernie supporters are such wizards.

[merrily]

100. I heard a rumor that voodoo dolls may have been involved.

No idea if it's true.

[awoke_in_2003]

102. I had many years of training

as a veteran in the war on Christmas

[merrily]

103. The most subtle of all wars. Respect.

[awoke_in_2003]

104. It is so subtle

that only people who watch Fox News know it is going on

[Kalidurga]

106. It seems like this was posted years ago...

since this was posted Bernie supporters have shown we are a contentious bunch of people. We will not take someone smearing our candidate lightly nor are we going to just sit by and let the DNC aka DWS control the narrative. I will be calling this number to ask the DNC fire DWS for her treachery. 877-336-7200

[merrily]

107. I know! Things at the DNC and DU got dark fast after I posted this. I blame-a myself.

[Kalidurga]

108. It's like you personally ripped the mask off of DWS

and revealed it's Skeletor, beneath the mask. DWS has let her bias show in a big way. I hope that all 258,000 plus people who signed the petition to have Bernie's access to his own information restored call 877-336-7200 and let them know we see the favoritism that DWS is showing Hillary. I don't even blame Hillary for this. In someways, I think she can be blind to her insider status.

[merrily]

109. I don't agree that Hillary is blind to her insider status.

[Kalidurga]

110. Yeah my cheek started hurting after I typed that.

[merrily]

111. Oh, OK, you got me. I fell for it, big.

IIRC, tongue in cheek originally was a signal that the person with his or her tongue in cheek thought someone else was lying.