An unsolicited PM I just got about Bernie supporters...

[madfloridian]

Anyone else getting stuff?

It said:

I have never in my life seen a group of people
living in such denial and delusion as the DU Bernie supporters.
It is about Bernie and the narrow piece of the electorate he represents.

[elleng]

1. Not I, but I wouldn't, as an O'Malley supporter.

'Narrow piece of the electorate?' SOMEONE's in denial, imo.

[JackInGreen]

2. Not yet, no

and I'm feeling kinda left out, I want someone to slip semi threatening or at the very least sidelong insulting notes into my locker...maybe I should be more outspoken.(jk, pls, I'm not sincerely mocking you getting this shit, I'm mocking the sender).

[Cleita]

3. Those guys have no shame.

You are getting PMs because they got banned from the Bernie group. Don't they get that maybe we don't want to talk to them about our "denial and delusion?"

When this is over though, I'm looking through my recipes of crow pie that I'm going to be serving up.

[madfloridian]

6. Love the way you talk about your pie...

that crow pie.

[MisterP]

30. "but if you say you're not in denial that's the gold-standard proof you need to fess up to denial!"

[Divernan]

44. When this is over, they'll return to keeping track of their investments,

take a long vacation at St. Barth's, write a few pro-fracking letters to the editor, go by private jet to the next Clinton Family Fund glamorous international soiree, etc.

And if any Clinton supporters do not have those options available to them, why were they supporting her to begin with?

[SoapBox]

4. No low, is too low.

Whack jobs are already desperate.

I can't believe that they would have the "brass" to send PM's.

...hope you blocked and reported.

[London Lover Man]

5. Would be our friend that doesn't like chocolate and something in blue?

Just wondering...

[malokvale77]

23. I had to block that one from my PM account. (nt)

[arcane1]

8. Fortunately, no. Sounds like a depserate measure to me.

Bernie must be doing something right!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. It what?

What is about Bernie and the electorate?

[Live and Learn]

10. Ha, denial and delusion is thinking that electing the status quo candidate

will result in anything other than the 1% getting wealthier and the rest of us getting poorer.

[brewens]

11. No one has wasted my time with it. n/t

[L0oniX]

12. That's what ignore email is for. I only wish there was an auto responce to those being blocked...

that says "go fuck yourself"

[RoccoR5955]

13. I think that they are reflecting

their own beliefs and actions on those who they do not agree with.
This generally happens when people like this feel threatened.
Look at what the RepubliCONs are always doing. It's the same thing!

[historylovr]

14. There was another who did, but the thread was locked.

So I can't remember who received it, only who sent it. Curiously, this is their favorite group. I hope you put that person on ignore.

[malokvale77]

24. I had a thread locked for pointing out unwanted PMs ...

from a DUer on vacation.

[MerryBlooms]

15. Alert and block the bullies.

Hang in there.

[Sherman A1]

16. Agreed

everyone is entitled to their opinion and to express them. We are also entitled to peace and it appears that has been disturbed.

[MerryBlooms]

18. Maybe I'm wrong, but when I first signed up on DU...

I thought there was an option to block PM and email? You could either add individuals you wanted to hear from, or turn 'on' receive PM and email. It seems to me that was one of the reasons DU so appealed to me-- the option to not be harassed!

[Snotcicles]

25. It's by way of the ignore list process. I do believe. nt

[ReallyIAmAnOptimist]

17. A bit of projection perhaps?

"They" also thought BO had no chance and HRC was a shoe-in in 2008. Maybe it's just too painful, too much cognitive dissonance to see it happening again, with Bernie. So the denial is in them, not Bernie's supporters. That said, IMO there's not enough time in the day to be bothered by such nonsense. Block 'em, and move on.

[n2doc]

19. ...

[Zorra]

20. I've been threatened and harrassed by unsolicited PM's and have reported them to

admins.

[noiretextatique]

21. could this have something to do with the S word?

socialist? hmmm....

[Mnemosyne]

22. I just don't understand why they care what such delusional people think. Sorry you'getting hasseled,

mad. People can be such jerks.

[Snotcicles]

26. I have not so far, but I may have that particular cretin on ignore already.nt

[still_one]

27. I really think that is pretty messed up. My suggestion is ignore it, but if occurs again

report it to admins that you are being harassed

[cantbeserious]

28. Maybe The Denial Is The Senders - And The Feeling That Something Is Slipping Away

eom

[MannyGoldstein]

29. I got one nastigram so far

The frustration is epic.

So sad.

[winter is coming]

31. I guess we'll find out how "narrow" that electorate is when the primaries start.

If it were truly that narrow, why bother even acknowledging the existence of the delusional?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

32. No. but I got this....

I have never in my life seen a group of people
living in such denial and delusion as the Wendy's supporters.
It is about Wendy's and the narrow piece of the burger market it represents.

Signed: McDonalds

[passiveporcupine]

36. SNORT

[Le Taz Hot]

33. No because I've got most of the mindless ones

on Full Ignore.

[Jack Rabbit]

34. It's crap

Considering that poll after poll shows a majority of voters agreeing with Bernie on the issues, although perhaps not yet supporting him, it is absurd to call his supporters a "narrow piece of the electorate."

Our task, and we still have lots of time to accomplish it, is to convince people that they should vote our dreams, our hopes and our best interests and not let establishment punditocracy, who have betrayed us over and over for the last forty years, tell us for which establishment candidate we should vote. The establishment doesn't represent the people like Bernie does.

The oligarchs are going down in the next year and a half, people. Long live the revolution. Long live Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd -- each in his own eight by ten cell.

Let MIRT know about this e-mail, MadFloridian. It may be a TOS violation. I haven't gotten one like that yet.

[HooptieWagon]

35. Smells like desperation. Just block them. Nt

[jwirr]

37. We really need to ignore them. We are doing what we think is right and we also know that we

are neither in denial or delusional. No more than they are. We are supporting OUR candidate in a primary. And from the crowds we are seeing it does not seem we are so small. This has been the way of the Party for a very long time. We have not even had one primary state vote yet and they expect us to give up?

If that bothers them then they fail to see what a primary is all about. It is not about a coronation. IMO what they are doing is telling us that we should give up and support THEIR candidate because - well I do not know why - but I indent to stay with Bernie to the end.

[awoke_in_2003]

38. I got one from a post-natal democrat

(Or so they claim). Said poster was using right wing radio talking points equating polygamy and marriage equality. Someone said they sounded like a republican, so I said "walks like a duck, quacks like a duck". This earned me the title (via PM) of Bernie Bully.

[madfloridian]

39. ....

Bernie Bully?

Me, too, I guess.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. Let's go

find people to pick on

[madfloridian]

41. ....

you go, I'll watch.

[sabrina 1]

42. Yes, I have, a couple, from the same person, I don't respond to them

and I know at least one other person who has, pretty nasty too.

Best to ignore them, I can't imagine doing something like that, it makes you wonder what is wrong with people ...

[TBF]

43. I just posted this in another thread:

[merrily]

45. How odd. Not long ago, some were insisting that Hillary is as liberal as Bernie.

Said that Iraq War bit was the only difference between them.

Then they switched to the socialist lie.

They're nimble; I have to give them that.

If it's such a small number of voters, one wonders: Why so butthurt?

[blackspade]

46. Whoever is sending these needs a talking to by the Admins

Not cool.

"denial and delusion" indeed...

[Hiraeth]

47. -

On Mon Jul 27, 2015, 12:18 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

An unsolicited PM I just got about Bernie supporters...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128030007

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Hide this very meta post. This is the exact stuff that we complain the Clinton group does, and there here it is right here. High fives and all.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Jul 27, 2015, 12:36 PM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I see nothing wrong with discussing a rude, unsolicited PM.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Why was this alerted? They posted a PM message and left the users ID off protecting their identity, soooooo?
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Ok, I'll hide for being meta because I would like to see some consistency, too. Shouldn't the hosts be taking care of this?
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I want to know if this stuff happens so I can be prepared if it happens to me.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: More alert stalking. Knock it off.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[sadoldgirl]

48. Yes, I got one some time ago, and

just deleted it while shaking my head. Such a waste of
time with this nonsense!

And for the world I cannot understand why your OP
was alerted on. If people don't want to read it they
can go to another OP. This is getting very silly.

[artislife]

49. They send pms gah

I think that is borderline nuts.

Can I say that?

They shouldn't be reading here to be offended anyway. Why torture yourself going into a group you don't support?

I went there once and backed out, but I did learn they do a group huddle to go and swarm OPs.

That just made me laugh, because that is what it felt like before I knew.

It's hard to remember we are all supposedly on the same side...

[Springslips]

50. The way I interrupt that is....

" You guys are making me anxious and nervous that you'll vote down my candidate, stop that!"

[CountAllVotes]

51. Seems like an act of desperation to me

& recommend.

[Trajan]

52. I have not received any direct messages ...

But I have been packing my ignore list with a bungling band of bobbleheads ...

[onecaliberal]

53. Hang in there Mad, they're getting desperate.

[TM99]

54. I normally lock meta threads in our Group,

however, if we have DU users who are even on a time-out stalking and rudely PM'ing our members, I believe it is important to share this information for others in the group to be forewarned and forearmed.

Thanks Mad.

[madfloridian]

55. Thanks, I had another from someone else...

about a month ago. That person is on time-out also. I will alert if it continues.

[TM99]

56. You can also always PM us Hosts.

We will try to help out as well.

This, to me, is very inappropriate behavior, and frankly, I do not understand why Admin is allowing it.

[Mnpaul]

57. Threaten to send $5 to Bernie

if and every time it happens in the future.