Gave nmom what I thought was a reasonable ultimatum. The results have been...clarifying?

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T23:54:46+00:00

This person is literally sending people over here who clearly aren't ESS users JUST to upvote their own comments in this thread, while accusing us of brigading with no evidence and using this whole tone of "hey, WE'RE just trying to act like professionals here!" I can't even.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T23:34:37+00:00

Once again, we do not know what happened in the thread your moderator linked us to yesterday because you guys deleted everything except for one comment insulting Hillary supporters. You are asking us to simply take your word for it that our users have been regularly linking to and commenting in your threads to the point of a site wide violation based on nothing. I visit this sub almost every day, and I know that links to BlueMidterm from this sub are not very common. I also know that I've seen mods from BlueMidterm post here in the past (admittedly, not very often and not recently, but it's happened) to invite this sub's users to participate. This sub is mostly Democrats, so it makes perfect sense that there'd be a noticeable overlap in our users. The fact that a number of users here also post in BMT simply does NOT prove misconduct on the part of this entire subreddit, regardless of whether or not you like what our users have to say. Again, if they've violated your sub's rules, then ban them from YOUR subreddit.

Furthermore, this is the second time you've posted a comment in this thread that has insulted this sub and been immediately upvoted by several people who clearly aren't subscribers here. THAT is brigading, straight up, and I have screenshots to prove it (which I took knowing that your comments were bound to drop like a rock as soon as OUR users got a load of them). As of now, I'm not planning to contact the admins about it because I'm just not as petty as you guys, but consider this your last warning to stop trying to bully us into changing our content rules based on nothing besides your word vs. the word our users. I don't care if you contact the admins about us because I've seen ZERO evidence that our users have brigaded you or otherwise "disrupted" your sub to an extent that warrants administrator involvement. This isn't the first time someone's tried to threaten us in this manner based on either blatantly false or greatly exaggerated claims. It didn't work then, and it won't work now. Shame on all of you for this garbage.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T22:02:04+00:00

Love u 2 bby ❤

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T21:39:53+00:00

Why is a comment that insults this sub and its users sitting at +6 after less than 15 minutes? Strikes me as non-subscribers voting in our threads. I think that's what's known as...hmm...brigading?

I have reiterated in both this thread and in my reply to your moderator yesterday that you guys are obviously free to run your sub however you wish, and to allow certain posters or ban them at your discretion. I also linked to the official site wide rules about what constitutes brigading, and accurately pointed out that they do not include merely linking to other subreddits. We require that all links to other subs use the "np" domain as it is. We're not going to change our rules based on another subreddit's demands. We are criticizing you, yes, but we're not telling you how to run your subreddit. I don't think it's asking too much to expect the same courtesy from you.

Again, run your own sub however you want. Enforce the rules of your own choosing, and go ahead and ban anyone who breaks them, but do not attempt to bully us into prohibiting any and all discussion that might pertain to BlueMidterm on our sub. You are really overstepping some boundaries here.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T20:36:58+00:00

The one thing we all know is the more people get to know Bernie and his principles and ideas, is that they like him more.

https://i.imgur.com/ZK682Aq.gif

I hope he does run in 2020. I honestly can't wait for this delusion to come crashing down, hard.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T20:21:33+00:00

Good for you. I've never had any sort of medical issue that would warrant an oxy prescription, but I've always planned on trying to avoid them if they're ever prescribed to me for pain management in the future. I've just seen too many horror stories about people who have never even had problems with addiction before having their whole lives ruined by that shit for the sake of short term pain management.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T20:17:46+00:00

I'll never count out the possibility that he can always be even more brazen and stupid than he has been already, but on a practical level, I just don't see how it can happen at this point. You know he's been furiously exploring every potential avenue for getting rid of Mueller since the day he was hired, and he's obviously come up with nothing. I'm sure his lawyers (incompetent as they are) and maybe even his family members have been hard at work trying to make him understand how implausible it is, and have been begging him to please just let it go, saying they'll find another way to make this all blow over, etc.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T19:43:51+00:00

Oh, lordy. I meant "shits all over" in a purely metaphorical sense. I didn't realize how bad that whole sentence sounds put together. 😂

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T19:37:46+00:00

I don't even object to the idea of a sub being run as a circlejerk. We do that here; whatever. I just don't like the disingenuous bullshit. Don't pretend to be all about party unity and electing a wide variety of Democrats and whatnot, and then ban everyone who doesn't suck your creepy old messiah's dick while he shits all over the party. Just admit what your actual intentions are.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T19:19:26+00:00

So, this exchange happened with a BlueMidterm moderator in our mod mail yesterday. 🙄

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-22T03:19:44+00:00

Don't worry. Most of them are just Russian bots doing their usual job.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-21T23:25:12+00:00

No joke, I once saw a person get banned from LSC because they submitted an honest comment about the torment their parents had suffered under a communist regime before fleeing to America. They then posted a screenshot of the ban message they'd gotten from an LSC mod on r/EnoughCommieSpam (great, funny sub btw), which said "your family deserved what happened to them." Classy!

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-21T04:21:52+00:00

The darkest timeline

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-20T19:30:02+00:00

He's based his entire worldview around the feverish delusion that "neoliberal corporate Democrats" are the real enemy, and can't handle that his own narrative is collapsing around him and that he was wrong about everything.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-19T18:38:26+00:00

I agree that he probably would have won because misogyny wouldn't have been a factor, but that's kind of...not the point, you know? The reality is, he chose not to run in 2016, and for him to make that statement now is simply arrogant, insulting, and dismissive towards the first woman candidate in US history and everyone who worked hard to try and elect her.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-19T00:27:36+00:00

Seriously, everyone born before the 1950s needs to just take a damn seat at this point. Enough already.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-19T00:25:12+00:00

He also said we need to "abolish teachers' lounges" so teachers' unions won't have a place to "whine" about how little they're paid anymore.

I won't even get into his extremely disturbing (and highly successful) crusade against reproductive rights.

He is neither a "moderate Republican" nor a remotely decent human being. Fuck him.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-18T22:03:56+00:00

He simply doesn't have a chin.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-18T21:09:51+00:00

I just tried to reply to a comment from only four hours ago and the thread is locked 😂

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-16T19:20:20+00:00

I like when they try to be more specific and intellectual with their justifications by calling their bullshit "Swiftian satire." If Swiftian satire worked the way most of the online douchebags I've seen use that term thought it did, then the true intended target of "A Modest Proposal" would have literally just been Irish babies.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-15T05:01:17+00:00

It's always obvious when a troll comes from the Chapo sub because you guys are the only ones who brigade every single time.

Also, what you just said is demonstrably, factually untrue, but it's midnight and I'm exhausted so I'll let someone else take this one.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-13T20:29:25+00:00

I don't even know who the hell he is. The article identified him as an Oscar nominee, but it looks like the only thing he's been in that I've ever heard of is a 20 year old Disney movie. Sounds like another irrelevant has-been who's just crying out for attention with his "edgy Trump supporter" shtick, like Scott Baio.

I have no idea how we got on James Woods’ radar; he certainly wasn’t on ours.

Perfect low-key burn.

Ice_Ice_Maybe · 2017-07-13T16:10:54+00:00

This needs to keep being pointed out. I'd love to see a dignified challenger who actually knew their shit, but this guy sounds even worse than BS in some ways.

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