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Maraya1969

(22,441 posts)
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 01:17 AM Feb 2016

This whole place is becoming a snooze zone for us not fighting about the primaries.

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Goblinmonger (a host of the General Discussion forum).

Every damn thread is about Bernie or Hillary. Hillary or Bernie. "Look at what awful thing this one did" "Look at what awful thing the other one did" "We have such a big lead" "No you don't"


There is nothing interesting to read anymore. Nothing about the world about politics except the Democratic primaries.

Has anyone looked at what congress is doing? I usually get my news here but no more because there is group OCD that has taken over.

Anyway that's it. I hate to have to go look for news other places but I supposed I'll have to until this thing is over.

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This whole place is becoming a snooze zone for us not fighting about the primaries. (Original Post) Maraya1969 Feb 2016 OP
Are you sure you posted this in the right forum? WillowTree Feb 2016 #1
jeb bush and scalia both go away in the same week? RobertEarl Feb 2016 #2
You're right-- I have GD-P and the Bernie/Hillary groups blocked, and... TreasonousBastard Feb 2016 #3
astute observation mgmaggiemg Feb 2016 #4
I'm interested in the primaries, but other things, too – snot Feb 2016 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author 840high Feb 2016 #6
Agree! KT2000 Feb 2016 #7
I agree 100% Meldread Feb 2016 #8
THEY MAKE ME SICK Skittles Feb 2016 #9
Why not post something yourself? oberliner Feb 2016 #10
Come on. You want some fun or excitement in GD? it's a piece of cake. Sing it with me. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #11
bwahahaha Johnyawl Feb 2016 #14
Supporting whoever the Dem nominee Oneironaut Feb 2016 #12
So, start non-snooze threads. bigwillq Feb 2016 #13
It was the same way in 2004... Johnyawl Feb 2016 #15
Everybody needs to turn off the damned television. hunter Feb 2016 #16
Even prior to the primaries, separating the chaff from the wheat was a frustrating exercise LanternWaste Feb 2016 #17
Locking Goblinmonger Feb 2016 #18

WillowTree

(5,325 posts)
1. Are you sure you posted this in the right forum?
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 01:20 AM
Feb 2016
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
2. jeb bush and scalia both go away in the same week?
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 01:23 AM
Feb 2016

What a week! Discuss.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
3. You're right-- I have GD-P and the Bernie/Hillary groups blocked, and...
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 01:39 AM
Feb 2016

half my screen is blank when I hit "Latest..."

But there are also those who sneak primary posts in the video, latest breaking, etc groups...

mgmaggiemg

(869 posts)
4. astute observation
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 01:42 AM
Feb 2016

snot

(10,481 posts)
5. I'm interested in the primaries, but other things, too –
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 02:30 AM
Feb 2016

pls post!

Response to Maraya1969 (Original post)

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
7. Agree!
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:22 AM
Feb 2016

the fighting is just supplying the RW with more for opposition research - Democrats doing their job for them.
Now that the Oregon stand-off is over, there is not much to read about other than the insults flying everywhere.
Why can't people be satisfied with their choice and leave it at that?

Meldread

(4,213 posts)
8. I agree 100%
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:36 AM
Feb 2016

I will be glad when the Primaries are over and this place returns to normal.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
9. THEY MAKE ME SICK
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 04:12 AM
Feb 2016

seriously, I find them DISGUSTING

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
10. Why not post something yourself?
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:20 AM
Feb 2016

Get some more interesting conversations going.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
11. Come on. You want some fun or excitement in GD? it's a piece of cake. Sing it with me.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:52 AM
Feb 2016

Porn, PETA, circumcision,
sports illustrated swimsuit edition
kids on airplanes,
cornflake chicken

population, hipster hats,
superbowl and outside cats

truck nutz hang off ugly cars,
why can I not smoke in bars?
olive garden, peak oil soon,
those NASA fuckers bombed the moon







Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)
14. bwahahaha
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:52 AM
Feb 2016

Very good!

Oneironaut

(5,461 posts)
12. Supporting whoever the Dem nominee
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 08:49 AM
Feb 2016

is, so I don't care for the bickering. I don't like Hillary or Bernie - they both inspire as much passion as a dead fly trapped in a quagmire, so bleh...

 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
13. So, start non-snooze threads.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 08:51 AM
Feb 2016

You control your own DU experience.

Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)
15. It was the same way in 2004...
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:03 AM
Feb 2016

the Deaniacs vs all the rational people. lol (that was a joke people, do not start on me.)

I've been here since 2001, don't post much but I read DU everyday. I don't have anybody or any forums blocked, I guess I've just been here long enough to develop a healthy dose of tolerance and the ability to ignore some subjects. My advice is to develop the ability to drive past the accident without slowing down and staring.

hunter

(38,264 posts)
16. Everybody needs to turn off the damned television.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:13 AM
Feb 2016

The more teevee "news" feeds the flames, the more advertising they sell.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
17. Even prior to the primaries, separating the chaff from the wheat was a frustrating exercise
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:53 AM
Feb 2016

Even prior to the primaries, separating the chaff from the wheat was a frustrating exercise. And now, with app. half the posts in GD and GDP (esp.) being little more than bumper-stickers replying to each other, it's become even more prohibitive to find a substantive or analytical post or a thread.

However, having gone through (now) four primary seasons on DU, I tell myself that even though passions run high and dogmas are absolute, this too shall pass. Whether that be April, May or June when a lock is announced, we'll simply have to stumble through the morass of fallacies, distempers, empty rhetorical devices, and Progressive Purity Pogroms.

 

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)
18. Locking
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 12:36 PM
Feb 2016

The hosts try very hard to make sure that all primary discussions stay in GDP so that there is a group (this one--GD) in which non-primary news can be discussed. We feel we have been as successful at this as possible.

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