Where do we meet up on line if DU goes down?

[safeinOhio]

[Grasswire2]

1. there's a FB page. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. What's that - Farewell, Bro?

[safeinOhio]

11. Found it. Thanks.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. That's what we did 4 years ago

[Crunchy Frog]

59. It was absolute garbage the night of the election. Full of RW trolls and threatening posts. n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. You mean when the internet goes down after the bombs start flying.

[cwydro]

4. You really don't think we're going to be bombed here, do you?

Jeez.

[irisblue]

28. Cyber attacks seem more likely to me.

Power grid goes down & in winter, that is a BFD

[cwydro]

31. Yes, I agree.

But that poster was talking about “bombs flying.”

[safeinOhio]

35. I was thinking overload of server.

Wanted to insure no panic.

[EndlessWire]

57. Apparently the Feds think so, too

https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-january-4-2020`

[GemDigger]

43. Ask that question to the people that live around our missile bases.

All bases have been put on high alert.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/01/06/us-bases-on-heightened-security-alert-following-soleimani-killing/

[cwydro]

44. I'm referring to posters who think the US is going to be bombed.

Sorry if I didn’t make that clear.

[GemDigger]

46. Ask the people that live around our missile bases that question.

The ones in this country. Most of the silos have been decommissioned but we still have active bases for our protection in cases of war. I believe there are still several that have the capabilities now.

[MontanaMama]

54. My kiddo is asking about this.

There’s a crap ton of those silos between Missoula and Great Falls. I don’t know how many are active or not. They all have personnel onsite when you drive by them... and those are just the ones you see from the highway. Conventional wisdom says we’re safe. But these are not normal times.

[GemDigger]

64. Nodding my head. That poor kid should not have to worry about shit like this.

I can't find the article right now but I think that half were taken out of commission and the other half and the rest went through some heavy upgrades. I know that they spent a small fortune on the base.

Conventional wisdom says we’re safe. But these are not normal times.

Nodding my head.

[cwydro]

61. And you think Iran has the capability to hit us?

Ask the people who live around the missile bases that question.

[GemDigger]

65. Iran has friends. Right now we do not have many if any friends.

Russia is one of them and China has big business dealing in Iran. If this war escalates it will not stay between Iran and us.

[USALiberal]

3. Silly. nt

[cwydro]

8. Panicky posts seem to be the order of the night.

[doc03]

13. It is not so panicky, DU was taken out of service for a couple weeks after

the 2016 election.

[cwydro]

20. So?

What’s that got to do with now?

You think the Iranians give a fig about DU?

[doc03]

23. Trump does, I am not concerned in the least about Iranians shutting us down nt

[Raine]

26. Exactly

Geesh, all this hair on fire!

[cwydro]

32. No shit.

[Kingofalldems]

37. No but Trump and his Russian and American trolls do.

[cwydro]

62. I really don't think DU is nearly as important to our adversaries as some here seem to think.

I wish I had a buck for every post about DUers being afraid to place a bumper sticker on their car, for every post about how they somehow changed a TV set in an oil change location, how they moved a book at a bookstore.

And of course, there was the great “safety pin” resistance movement of 2017.

[TeamPooka]

66. Considering the cyber attack that neutralized the site on election day I think you are wrong

DU is an info sharing and mobilization platform for Democrats across the nation.
Our opposition and enemies know how effective we are here.

[livetohike]

5. There used to be a Yahoo group. DU Panic Room

I think that’s what it was called

[localroger]

19. No more Yahoo groups though. nt

[elleng]

6. FB

[jberryhill]

7. Tinder

[cwydro]

10. ...

[LuckyCharms]

42. .

Nice.

[still_one]

12. We meet under the Cone of Silence

[blm]

14. Heheh

[gristy]

49. Somebody had a great time designing and building that thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence_(Get_Smart)

The larger, plastic version of the "Cone of Silence", appeared in the pilot episode of Get Smart, entitled "Mr. Big", which aired on September 18, 1965. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the original screenwriters for the series, devised many of the running jokes. Henry either borrowed or independently came up with the Cone of Silence concept, which debuted in the pilot along with other show standards, like Fang, the improperly trained dog-agent, and Max's shoe phone. The Cone of Silence scene was shot ahead of the rest of the pilot episode, and was used to sell the series to NBC.[citation needed]

[SaschaHM]

15. I've always wondered that.

I still remember the attack that brought DU for most of election day 2016. I expect the same to happen or be attempted this year.

[Hekate]

45. DU was so seriously vandalized it was offline for 2 weeks, not just one day

[Raine]

16. Then I'll be going to look at cute animal videos

on YouTube ... calm down.

[BadGimp]

17. Twitter - easiest, likely to be always on

darn, DU does not seem to have a public Twitter account

I'd like there to be one if for no other reason..

[Princess Turandot]

39. Here you go:

https://twitter.com/demunderground

[lunasun]

56. Thanks I did not know that

[dweller]

18. in the woods

hopefully there will be firelight ...

🕶

✌🏼

[Newest Reality]

21. In the booth in the back in the corner in the dark! /nt

[Raine]

24. Good one! 👍 nt

[Different Drummer]

25. I remember that! I think it was from Flip Wilson?

DD

[Newest Reality]

27. It's fuzzy...

Perhaps.

It's a cozy place for us to be, though.

[Raine]

33. I just looked it up ... it was from Flip Wilson Show

Geraldine would say it.

[Newest Reality]

68. Ah,

Well, the devil probably made you do that

[Raine]

69. 😈 😉 nt

[bdamomma]

22. Let's meet at

at the next massive protest in DC.

[Hekate]

34. Now THAT'S a plan. Carry the big banner -- see you there

[bdamomma]

40. Just saying

Democratic Underground it will be lovely to be with you all. You know in the years of Bush and his Iraq War, I met up in DC with other Randi Rhodes posters during that time I think she was on Air America. It was something we all marched together.

We met at a hotel lounge and we introduced ourselves by our user names, it was really great.

[mountain grammy]

52. Yep 👍

[bamagal62]

30. When DU went down the

Night of the election, we went to the DU Facebook page.

[Olafjoy]

36. Twitter?

Tinder? Grindr? Oops, sorry. Just trying to be funny...

[Hekate]

38. FB. It's not panic to plan; DU was savagely vandalized the day of the 2016 election...

...while the nation was still voting. The Admins are pros; they were prepared for high traffic and I don't know what-all. But this was special and somehow personal, and it took a good two weeks to repair the site and get it back online.

But the FB connection stayed open.

[2naSalit]

41. That leaves out those of us who

don't do fb or instagram or twitter. I'm never joining fb.

[H2O Man]

47. Washington, DC.

[mountain grammy]

51. +1000

[Lars39]

50. On Twitter...

https://mobile.twitter.com/demunderground

[Demsrule86]

53. Last time we met at the facebook page.

[badhair77]

55. I was lost after the 2016 election, suffering alone.

I was not aware of the DU FB page. Good to know.

[CottonBear]

67. FB & Twitter links are on the DU homepage

However, the links don’t display on the mobile version. Use classic or standard view options.

[pecosbob]

60. Seriously? People suggesting FaceBook?

I avoid FB and other manipulative social media. I would visit a Reddit forum, but never FB.

[CottonBear]

63. DU has an official facebook and Twitter. Here's links:

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Twitter link: https://mobile.twitter.com/demunderground
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/democraticunderground

I don’t believe that you have to have an account to view these sites.
They’re a lifeline if regular DU goes down.