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Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: Hang in there, Bravenak! We love you! <3 xo [View all]aka-chmeee
(1,132 posts)41. These people are similar to "Floppers" in basketball....
Acting as if they were clobbered when closer scrutiny reveals little or no contact. At some levels of basketball, this behaviour earns a Technical foul..in the NBA if detected after the game in a video, a fine can be levied on the offender.
The act is the same, however here it is like all the referees are partial to the same team. It doesn't seem like it should be difficult to examine all instances of poster suspensions for evidence of "flopping" and if present, penalizing the offenders and not the victim.
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There is something very bad going on here, beyond anyone's idea of a "silly season"
Rose Siding
Mar 2016
#9
Every day I'm increasingly proud to be a member of the DU anti-establishment.
OilemFirchen
Mar 2016
#24
They are so afraid of her! They don't have the intellectuall capacity to have a
lunamagica
Mar 2016
#28
I agree ... but "staying out" of the GDP hostile territory is no guarantee of safety.
NurseJackie
Mar 2016
#36