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Celerity

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17. I have seen people here called that simply for posting legit, mainstream news-sourced discussions on the same issue.

Reply to womanofthehills (Reply #8)

Sun May 25, 2025, 03:40 PM

May 25

Those types of attempts at inducing a chilling effect and choking off any discussion that the attackers simply do not like is an actual 'purity test'. They love to conflate their opinions with facts, their own framings as the only acceptable stances.

I will never bend the knee to those type of intimidation tactics on any issue I deem worthy of discussion, but the intimidation works on far too many.

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Have you ever been accused of not being a REAL Democrat? [View all] Ping Tung May 25 OP

Reminiscent of being in Temple and no_hypocrisy May 25 #1

That's Evangelical bread and butter too Ponietz May 25 #4

Yes i have. Frequently. Been called a Bernie bro more often than not. Autumn May 25 #2

I would write letters to the editor in my local red neck newspaper gab13by13 May 25 #5

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever Ping Tung May 25 #15

He was a smart man for his time. Autumn May 25 #16

No. sakabatou May 25 #3

Recommended. H2O Man May 25 #6

Strict conformity is the required end for the purists. Ping Tung May 25 #12

Funny Clouds Passing May 25 #19

Only on DU TnDem May 25 #7

Same here. Go figure. Dave Bowman Monday #26

When I talked to friend/neighbor about Covid leaking from a lab womanofthehills May 25 #8

I have seen people here called that simply for posting legit, mainstream news-sourced discussions on the same issue. Celerity May 25 #17

How is being a real democrat defined? SocialDemocrat61 May 25 #9

I don't belong to an organized politiical party. I'm a Democrat. Will Rogers Ping Tung May 25 #14

Gary Larson!!! 🤣❤ FakeNoose May 25 #10

Yep PJMcK May 25 #11

Happens all the time. Mosby May 25 #13

I've been called a MIC-friendly anti-socialist centrist, anti-feminist by so-called radicals - haele May 25 #18

No. Clouds Passing May 25 #20

Differences sof opinions are what makes horse races. Mark Twain Ping Tung May 25 #21

Please define what the HELL is a "REAL Democrat". republianmushroom May 25 #22

That's the point. There is no such critter. Ping Tung May 25 #24

The last person who said I was a troll is now herself FFR'd Kaleva May 25 #23

Yes Raine Monday #25

I've been called a both Tree Hugging Marxist and a Coorporatist Democrat Chasstev365 Monday #27

Sure. I've been called all sorts of things here. MineralMan Monday #28