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When will DU be targeted? Or is this too kooky a question? (Original Post) pbmus Wednesday OP
General Eisenhower has a girlfriend? Turbineguy Wednesday #1
Actually, he did. ananda Wednesday #4
Good one! yellow dahlia Wednesday #9
I was thinking Patton..... lastlib Wednesday #25
The "antifa girlfriend" is a recycling of the Epstein scandal nuxvomica Wednesday #29
Trump even said some people that he has had dinner with will be targeted. tetedur Wednesday #2
I want to go on record now: I think Trump is a bloated orange toad with execrable taste who has populated jls4561 Wednesday #3
The orange Mussolini is destroying our democracy and country pbmus Wednesday #6
Not likely. Silent Type Wednesday #5
Sorry, Your confidence is not connected to reality ! pbmus Wednesday #7
Misplaced fear ain't helping either. Silent Type Wednesday #8
Who said I was afraid....? pbmus Wednesday #10
I don't alert, too much of that as is. Guess OP was not for discussion. Silent Type Wednesday #11
Oh, please. This is trifling. Here are a couple of questions. ancianita Wednesday #13
November 2016...... lastlib Wednesday #26
Nine years ago. I remember that. We've had 4 election cycles since 2016, and nothing but a few maintenance shutdowns, ancianita Wednesday #30
I think it's a little naive to think that..... lastlib Wednesday #37
I hear you. ancianita Wednesday #42
There you go again... W_HAMILTON Wednesday #18
I sure don't think he's coming after DU. It's a great forum, but not worried about it being a target. Silent Type Wednesday #34
What's he gonna do? Prosecute our user names? Captain Zero Wednesday #35
My question was where you think they will stop. W_HAMILTON Thursday #45
mhmmmm WarGamer Wednesday #40
Sleepy boy is having trouble keeping his eyes open again. Totally Tunsie Wednesday #12
Targeted? In what way? markodochartaigh Wednesday #14
I suspect OP is concerned for themself as much as anyone. But they aren't doing one of the most obvious things Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #23
Set up a decoy: Antifa Underground nilram Wednesday #15
LOL! i love it! orleans Wednesday #20
This sounds like a good idea actually uponit7771 Wednesday #44
I think we're a bit far down on the totem pole to expect thugs breaking down our doors before Thanksgiving DFW Wednesday #16
New Yorker cartoon surfered Wednesday #17
They don't even know what ANTIFA means. It's just a Spooky Boogie word to them & their base. n/t aggiesal Wednesday #19
Yep, they'll just define ANTIFA to be anything that pisses them off uponit7771 Wednesday #22
Pedocon doesn't own enough judges, that's what's holding us together uponit7771 Wednesday #21
Do most obvious thing. Drop X. Stop feeding all your personal & social connections to Muck & his bros. Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #24
Soon as they find out I am ANTIFA, our goose is cooked! Jack Valentino Wednesday #27
You've been embezzling it. That's why I've never seen a penny. Crunchy Frog Wednesday #41
I WISH !!!! Jack Valentino Wednesday #43
lol dcmfox Wednesday #28
We Are Antifa! BidenRocks Wednesday #31
They need a boogeyman and an excuse, hadEnuf Wednesday #36
Terrorism Is Back BidenRocks Wednesday #38
They are all Faux pas Wednesday #32
Reddit is really the last big site with resistance SamuelTheThird Wednesday #33
Nothing is too kooky. We're in the Twilight Zone now. Crunchy Frog Wednesday #39

nuxvomica

(13,685 posts)
29. The "antifa girlfriend" is a recycling of the Epstein scandal
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:06 PM
Wednesday

Bullshitting - imagination = projection.

tetedur

(1,371 posts)
2. Trump even said some people that he has had dinner with will be targeted.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:07 PM
Wednesday

Can he do away with free speech? He has so many targets. Can he get around to them all?

jls4561

(2,750 posts)
3. I want to go on record now: I think Trump is a bloated orange toad with execrable taste who has populated
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:09 PM
Wednesday

his administration with flunkies, fluffers, psychopaths and men who worry incessantly about the size of their penis.

Come after me Trump. I will cash in my 401K and hire Roberta Kaplan (E. Jean Carrol’s lawyer).

I look forward to the discovery phase of the trial.

pbmus

(13,113 posts)
6. The orange Mussolini is destroying our democracy and country
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:13 PM
Wednesday

With the help of his co-insurrectionists

pbmus

(13,113 posts)
10. Who said I was afraid....?
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:28 PM
Wednesday

I am just pointing out the obvious , if you feel my post is weird, kooky or off TOPIC, make your alert

ancianita

(42,249 posts)
13. Oh, please. This is trifling. Here are a couple of questions.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:47 PM
Wednesday

What reason(s) do you have to even think DU would be targeted?

What reason(s) do you have to think that DU hasn't already been targeted. Huh? Take your time.

lastlib

(26,846 posts)
26. November 2016......
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:43 PM
Wednesday

DU was offline for a full week, starting on Election Day, after a targeted denial of service attack by some cowardly human excrement.

Anybody think that wasn't done by The Felon and his goons (including Putin)?

ancianita

(42,249 posts)
30. Nine years ago. I remember that. We've had 4 election cycles since 2016, and nothing but a few maintenance shutdowns,
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:08 PM
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as far as we've learned from Earl G.

So I'm in the 'not likely' camp because I see no reason(s) to think DU will be targeted.

lastlib

(26,846 posts)
37. I think it's a little naive to think that.....
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 11:13 PM
Wednesday

given that we're hostile to The Felon and his crime syndicate. We've seen their willingness to make up "facts". I have little doubt that we are, or will be, on the "hit list".

ancianita

(42,249 posts)
42. I hear you.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 11:26 PM
Wednesday

And if we keep fighting the good fight and things generally don't change for the better, I can see that happening.
But from the hit list we've seen so far, he's got to get through the current 60+2 governors and 1 mayor on that hit list first.




W_HAMILTON

(9,639 posts)
18. There you go again...
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:04 PM
Wednesday

It's times like these that I wish DU's search function worked better than it does.

EDIT: Pray tell, where exactly you think these MAGA fascists will find a line that even they won't cross? What is the most extreme you see them going to, hmm?

Silent Type

(11,398 posts)
34. I sure don't think he's coming after DU. It's a great forum, but not worried about it being a target.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:19 PM
Wednesday

W_HAMILTON

(9,639 posts)
45. My question was where you think they will stop.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 05:59 AM
Thursday

Going after DU? Is that the line you think they'll draw? Even though they've done far worse than that already and have gone after other groups on the left already?

Totally Tunsie

(11,333 posts)
12. Sleepy boy is having trouble keeping his eyes open again.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:36 PM
Wednesday

I'm waiting for the day his forehead hits the table!

markodochartaigh

(4,297 posts)
14. Targeted? In what way?
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:57 PM
Wednesday

The site owners, administrators, and those who keep the site running hauled off to a camp? Authoritarians crush opponents to benefit themselves, the reich-wing Republicans fear their own base and Trump more than they fear the Democratic base or politicians. Crushing DU in that way now is like crossing the street to squash a bug that you don't like. Someday it may be worth their while, but there are too many much bigger fish that need frying now.
Or targeted by cyber attack? They already have these trolls and bots on their payroll. Haven't there already been some site disruptions here? I very much doubt that those have been caused either by competing Democratic sites or Bernie bros.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,462 posts)
23. I suspect OP is concerned for themself as much as anyone. But they aren't doing one of the most obvious things
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:30 PM
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Reduce targeting by blowing off Muck and X and tracking.

Do that by not linking to X. X is data central. X has so many data partners. Linking to X increases your exposure and increases your associates exposure.

Most people think of user data on the internet as being a billion little silos, one for each person. It is also all of the vehicle traffic (to extend the farming analogy) between the silos and the feed store and the harvester repair shop and the country-pop fan site and the site where some of the comments are not repeatable in polite company and .... It's about connections, networks of associates and what binds them.

DFW

(59,126 posts)
16. I think we're a bit far down on the totem pole to expect thugs breaking down our doors before Thanksgiving
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:01 PM
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When they are convinced that all the bigger fish to fry have indeed been fried, we will get our day before the Inquisition, fear not.

We'll just have to vote wisely, and hope those votes are counted. Stay home, and that's where the thugs will next show up to "thank" you in their own inimitable fashion.

aggiesal

(10,379 posts)
19. They don't even know what ANTIFA means. It's just a Spooky Boogie word to them & their base. n/t
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:05 PM
Wednesday

uponit7771

(93,284 posts)
21. Pedocon doesn't own enough judges, that's what's holding us together
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:26 PM
Wednesday

If he doesn't call for Martial Law he's handcuffed to a degree

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,462 posts)
24. Do most obvious thing. Drop X. Stop feeding all your personal & social connections to Muck & his bros.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:38 PM
Wednesday

It's not about you being in a little data silo labelled pbmus, it's all the people who click on linked X. Most of them don't reject cookies and are wide open.

The medium sized companies, like some middling health advice web site will state "We have 814 partners and we share data with them". The tightly interlinked companies analyze and generate data maps that show connectivity of user and visitors. If you link a Xit and user B looks at it three times and looks at Xit posted by user C, they make the transitive connection. Multiply this by millions of posts on DU and realize that Xit posts feed the Bros.

Don't feed Musk if you are sincere about your concerns.

Jack Valentino

(3,558 posts)
27. Soon as they find out I am ANTIFA, our goose is cooked!
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:48 PM
Wednesday

I am the Antifa paymaster. George Soros sends me the money,
and I distribute the cash to all our footsoldiers
wrapped in empty bags of "Flaming Hot" Doritos ...


BidenRocks

(2,350 posts)
31. We Are Antifa!
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:13 PM
Wednesday

Our headquarters is every VFW and American Legion Post around the world.

Feeling lucky?

hadEnuf

(3,424 posts)
36. They need a boogeyman and an excuse,
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 11:10 PM
Wednesday

so Dems, liberals and progressives will ALL become Antifa.

They are literally having "discussions and investigations" into something that does not exist as an entity, so they are making us into that entity in order to justify their planned persecution.

BidenRocks

(2,350 posts)
38. Terrorism Is Back
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 11:16 PM
Wednesday

So, another 'War On Terror'?

Another enemy without a mailing address.

Faux pas

(15,963 posts)
32. They are all
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:14 PM
Wednesday

FARKING NUT BAGS. I'm guessing the criteria for being part of the "insider's club" is flunking the pych test.

SamuelTheThird

(327 posts)
33. Reddit is really the last big site with resistance
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:18 PM
Wednesday

I think, anyway. So they must be eyeing it.

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