2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat about 'sell-out corporatist neocon?'
...yep, it's in there.Joanne Leon @joanneleon
Even the word "neocon" is censored this year at dkos if it's used in relation to Hillary. And "warmonger"
Joanne Leon ?@joanneleon 22h22 hours ago
Censoring rules at dkos better than ever this yr. No crit of estab, no use of word oligarch
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/4/1495813/-March-15-and-Daily-Kos-transition-to-General-Election-footing
...I'm not huge a DKos fan, never posted there, read articles as they interest me, but I think this is a blunt, yet compelling set of guidelines for the general.
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Thanks for posting.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)I find it hilarious that you're not even allowed to be pessimistic about her chances now. I mean, seriously?
highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)If Hillary acts like a Progressive, she will get Progressive votes.
If not, it may be much harder now, now that a someone has stepped up who doesn't seem to be changing his spots for decades.
I really do challenge Hillary to continue the Progressive stances she has adopted from Bernie, especially after seeing how popular they are. Heck, even Donald Trump is borrowing them, and if Hilary is not careful, he will run more Populist and more Left than she does.
In any case, I hope against hope that she will not veer sharply to the right, even during the GE, but will maintain the sanity and correctness of Progressive-leaning views and policies that have the support of the majority of Americans.
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)Bernard Sanders will never be able to post at Kos.
I do like these guidelines, and I "get" them because when political argument is reduced to grunts and single syllables or, conversely, a word salad type OP full of memes, well there is no point is there?
Armstead
(47,803 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)You are what you support, me-says, and he does.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)People who subject themselves to that regime can blame themselves.
Makes for a small and delusional corner of the Internet.
I have always found this character repugnant. His desire to work for the CIA in his youth is no surprise.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...that all of that insult, innuendo and invective toward our nominee in the general would represent some sort of redeeming enlightenment for readers, after a dismal and failing effort to advance a campaign with the same petty politics, is a classic definition of 'delusion.'
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)And to think that people won't get what they want to read everywhere outside the Kos miniverse is delusional.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...suggesting voters don't know their own minds is one of the more offensive tendencies of the Sanders supporter appeal these days.
You're right that people are free to go elsewhere. That makes a lie of the claims of censorship. There will certainly be plenty of anti-Democratic nominee forums that you're free to participate in.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...than they do the republican.
Sophistry, indeed.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)to those who find democracy inconvenient.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)so to speak.
Now he's acting like one. I guess he approves of Hillary's SOS activities in Honduras-- or at least one could infer that he does.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)there will be posters with absolutely nothing to say.
Sid
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)his family fled before coming here.
He ought to know better.
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)I don't know why anybody puts up with outright censorship like that, although I never joined there because I really dislike the format they have.
I certainly wouldn't put up with it here either though. I don't do thought control. Those who do can write the damn posts themselves, they won't get my help with that.
Censoring there or here won't unmake the facts, it will just make other sites bigger that report them.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)From Markos' biography on Dailykos:
The "communist guerrillas" were after the rich power families. He must have been from a well connected family.
Some quotes from an article from the Washington Monthly:
After high school, Moulitsas, then a Reagan Republican thanks largely to the White House's support of the Salvadorean government, spent four years as an army artillery scout, mainly in Germany.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...except that you disagree with his site's rules, so you've chosen to smear him with what I think amounts to outright slander.
There isn't ONE prominent person who's dared to deny the Sanders campaign whatever they want who hasn't had their character attacked in the most vicious way.
We all know if he favored Sanders he'd be a hero here. I'd call this type of politics sophomoric, if it wasn't so pernicious and destructive.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)I already laid out the evidence, you've chosen to ignore it.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...and you smeared him with the most horrible innuendo, based on what appears to be your own imagination.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Those perfectly objectively accurate labels for Hillary Clinton are the highest of compliments on Free Republic.
retrowire
(10,345 posts).... That's not even always used against Hillary. Are they protecting the ENTIRE corruption of a moneyed political machine over there?
Glad I never joined.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)it's not sloganeering to call an oligarch, or a neo-liberal, or a socialist, what he or she is.
Free Republic is where I'd go if I were so afraid to speak truth about all sides that I needed to hide.
And yes, there is some intended irony in that last statement.
I'm not a poster at dKos, though, so I don't have to comply with them.