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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Jack Pine nutjobs and the Hillary pedophilia conspiracy. [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,210 posts)28. That makes me sad - that the name of DUer Jackpine Radical,
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who passed away last year, was used for what eventually turned out to be a nest of lunatics. I signed up at JPR when it was first created because I was worn out from all the hateful Bernie-bashing on DU, but before long it started to go down a pretty weird path so I stopped even reading there. The human Jackpine Radical seemed like a gentle soul, and it's very sad that his DU name has been taken for purposes that probably would have horrified him.
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Not sure what you are talking about-here's the banner at the top of their first page.
jalan48
Dec 2016
#4
The fact that they had to say this tells us all we need to know about their members.
Squinch
Dec 2016
#7
That was put up after some of their posters went nutso with this pizza pedophile conspiracy.
tammywammy
Dec 2016
#17
Thanks for the honest report. i don't have an account there but I disagree with the demonization.
JudyM
Dec 2016
#34
They never saw a far right wing conspiracy theory they didn't agree with completely
BainsBane
Dec 2016
#8
The only hight note; It took away a lot of the most unpleasant/unstable posters from here
ismnotwasm
Dec 2016
#21