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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen the hack occurred, this thought immediately entered my mind:
"This is what a fascist takeover would look like in this day and age".
May we never feel that level of terrifying hollow hopelessness again.
marybourg
(12,642 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)we are still facing that exact situation. We are in trouble folks.
Time to start fighting back HARDER THAN EVER
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)My gut was feeling bad juju all day. As much as I wanted to believe the polls I kept hearing Thom Hartmann and Michael Moore saying he could win. I knew at 8:45 pm pst and the reaction of the tv hosts he won.
Since then I have not been able to watch any cable news. I might just extend my boycott indefinitely. Every time I turned on MSNBC it was orange hitler and never anything positive about Hillary and only about her godamn emails,
mopinko
(70,268 posts)i seriously think that our history of tearing into fishy election results is known and feared. if you knew it was close enough to steal, and you planned to steal it, and you could blind the witness, and you were a thug, that is just what you would do.
maybe my tinfoil is too tight, but i'm just sayin.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Very similar thought came to me before, I've been hacked before and it had the same feeling but it's just someone fucking with you what makes it scary is you don't know who.
I hope they have law enforcement involved to trace who did it, more serious than vandalism but more like shutting a business down.
byronius
(7,402 posts)They hate this site. They hate it bad.
Go Democratic Underground.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)So they didn't need to worry.
byronius
(7,402 posts)Except more out in the open. They're proud to hijack democracy -- they view cheating as strategy.
2016, and it's the 1400's again.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)bench scientist
(1,107 posts)I can't help thinking about Fascism in Italy prior to WW II. Trump is a pompous buffoon in every way Mussolini was. A vain self indulgent buffoon manipulated by a far right wing to do their unchecked bidding.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...the Trump camp is populated with plenty of script kiddies from 4-chan and reddit. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED AND PLANNED FOR. These are black hat hackers, plain and simple. And quite frankly, this may happen again.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)You plan as best you can, but there is no perfect unhackable internet accessible system out there.
Mike Niendorff
(3,463 posts)Keep it up.
MDN
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,244 posts). . .hacking DU had zero effect on the election. Almost everyone here already voted for HRC by the time the hack occurred. And undecideds weren't coming here for influence.
It was a crappy thing to do, and it screwed up a lot of our plans for election night coverage, but this wasn't part of a rig.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Election Integrity is the very foundation of DU!
ProfessorGAC
(65,244 posts)I know i don't have any.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)You have whatever power you are willing to exercise.
ProfessorGAC
(65,244 posts)I could have done it that night by sitting with people watching election coverage, which i did for a while.
None of that changed the outcome between 4pm EST last Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
Not sure where you're going with this. A bit too CT'ish for me.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)peaceably assemble. Something fishy is going on."
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)at least the USA doesn't have Government run TV, all we got was another crappy trump youtube and a 401 page