Some kid on my Facebook friend list is constantly slamming Joe

[thegoose]

And making accusations about him being a rapist and shit. I just asked the little fuck if he's just working to get Dump reinstated.

That shit pisses me off. We KNOW Dump is a rapist. Who the hell proved that Joe is a rapist???

[William769]

1. Facebook in general pisses me off.

[kimbutgar]

2. You can mute him or report his posts as spam

I deleted one of them on my Facebook timeline.

[Rebl2]

3. Don't have

FB, but can’t you block him somehow? Don’t know anything about it so excuse my ignorance.

[thegoose]

5. Yes, I can unfriend him

But I want to try to talk him down. He's not a Dump supporter, just a really young kid. He needs to be taught.

[LakeArenal]

4. Can't prove a negative. They count on that.

[groundloop]

6. If they tell that lie enough times people accept it as fact, and we waste a ton of time debunking it

That's the right wing playbook, start an outrageous lie then spread it far and wide. Unfortunately we can't just ignore it and expect it to go away, ask John Kerry how that worked out.

This seems to be a case of the right wingers inoculating against what's likely to come out about tRump, accuse your opponent of what you've done so the story doesn't carry as much weight.

[Thekaspervote]

7. just IMHO we would be better not to post this kind of stuff.

Or, discuss it without using the words they are using

[left-of-center2012]

8. Don't waste your time - unfriend him n/t

[TwilightZone]

9. Agreed.

People like that aren't worth the time or effort, and the time and effort wouldn't matter anyway.

[caraher]

10. Same here

The problem is a segment of young Bernie supporters are in full cult-of-personality mode, imagine Bernie can still win, and feel they have to pull out all the stops to make that happen including smearing Biden with every rumor they can.

I've tried explaining to them that they're just helping re-elect Trump and they just feel personally insulted(!). They don't understand politics.

[thegoose]

11. But he doesn't want anybody!

I'm trying to teach him since I voted against Ray-Gun forty fucking years ago but he just doesn't get it. RRRRR! Goddamn kids!

[left-of-center2012]

12. Some, even on DU, enjoy the back and forth

If you say 'up',
they say 'down'.

If you say 'go',
they say 'stop'.

They will demand an explanation,
and then ask you to expand on it.

There is never an 'end'.

Just stop it by unfriending (ignoring) the person.

[Promisep]

13. Lots of right wing and Russian trolls in Facebook

Unfortunately.

[LVZ]

14. This Bernie Bro "invaders" crap is all over the Facebook Elizabeth Warren for Prez Facebook group

[zackymilly]

15. He's just another young Bernie Bro who can't be bothered to show up and vote for Bernie. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

16. Has the Tara Reade story gotten any traction here at all? Just skimming the subject lines of GDP

seems to indicate nobody knows about it here.

[LVZ]

17. Here is one 2018 twitter post from Reade that leads to some skepticism

Link to tweet

/photo/2

[Blue_Adept]

18. I didn't ask for tweets. I asked if the story was getting any real traction

I ended up seeing two other stories on GDP that surfaced, neither of which used her name in the title.

And the bulk of the posts disbelieve her as well.

[Generic Brad]

19. I saw that crap on Yahoo News yesterday

The comment sections were clearly being hammered by bots. The number of likes to dislikes for outrageous comments were running approximately 500 to 1. It was essentially a Trump "grab 'em by the pussy story" with Joe's name substituted for Trump. It was really obvious it was a planned campaign hit job.