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Thu Apr-02-09 01:34 AM
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DU Is a heaping, steaming pile of inconsequential bullcrap! TRUE/FALSE? |
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Do you take DU seriously? Does it matter if someone else doesn't think like you do?
(I'll join in with my opinions under the OP)
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:35 AM
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1. A little bit less than the MSM. But just a little. /nt |
Cronus Protagonist
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:43 AM
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To me, it's like a little flock of concerned birds fluttering around in the tree of DU... always looking for things of interest to bring into the tree for discussion...
No one of them/us holds much weight but you can detect the mood of the flock.
I usually try to lighten the general mood up a bit. I wonder how other DUers see their role here...
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:48 AM
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6. You try to lighten the mood? |
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Damn, but I would hate to see you on a bad day...
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Thu Apr-02-09 02:16 AM
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8. Yep, I try to bring a little fucking cheer to the joint too.... |
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Thu Apr-02-09 07:55 AM
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23. Listen here, you bloviated Hugh Jass ... |
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Thu Apr-02-09 10:43 AM
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24. My real name was Hugh Johnson but I changed it.... |
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:59 PM
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32. That's better than Tiny Johnson! |
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:04 PM
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:rofl:
I'm with you - we need to have a little fun too!
:)
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:56 PM
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:spray: Coffee. Everywhere.
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:43 AM
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3. I think your opinions fall in the midden heap. |
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:44 AM
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:58 PM
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Just like your post is too.
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:45 AM
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Thu Apr-02-09 02:08 AM
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7. Those are several very different questions. |
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At least three, just upon the face of it. Maybe seven, if I was in the mood for logical dissection.
Therefore, I cannot honestly offer any single answer, let alone a mindlessly simplistic "Yes or No".
As always, thank you for using JohnnyCab. :hi:
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Thu Apr-02-09 03:33 AM
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9. DU is kinda like porn. |
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I know interacting with people here doesn't accomplish anything, but it can be satisfying at some perverse level. Like when you really just need to rant, for emotional satisfaction knowing full damn well that you are preaching to the choir.
On the other hand, DU can be a life saver. I'll never forget getting information about Katrina before the MSM or president actually addressed the situation. So its a bit of both.
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Thu Apr-02-09 07:12 AM
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19. That should be on a T shirt.... |
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:59 PM
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31. Too bad you missed the T-shirt nominating process. |
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:rofl: Your slogan would have won handily.
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Thu Apr-02-09 03:36 AM
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10. my posts should be taken seriously. they are important and meaningful... |
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Thu Apr-02-09 04:11 AM
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11. Perhaps you'd be happier elsewhere? |
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Thu Apr-02-09 05:27 AM
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12. full spectrum-smart people to complete suggestible morons |
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Thu Apr-02-09 05:30 AM
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13. With over 48 million posts . . . |
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I'd say it was about anything you could imagine.
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Thu Apr-02-09 05:59 AM
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14. If you look you can find lots of corn (good stuff ) in the pile |
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and if I am not interested in the rest others may find it has value.
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Thu Apr-02-09 06:45 AM
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15. There is little sense of reality here. There used to be more. |
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Part of the problem is that I believe that there are much fewer Democrats here than there used to be.
The fooling themselves crowd is what is left over.
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Thu Apr-02-09 06:50 AM
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16. A victim of its own success....gather a lot of traffic, attract a lot of astroturf... |
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Edited on Thu Apr-02-09 06:53 AM by Junkdrawer
There's still a handful of worthwhile posts, but there's an increasing amount of propaganda you need to sift through to get to them...
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Thu Apr-02-09 07:48 AM
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21. What would characterize worthwhile posts vs propaganda? |
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Social economic awareness vs opinions on social economic awareness ?
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Thu Apr-02-09 07:00 AM
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Edited on Thu Apr-02-09 07:04 AM by spiritual_gunfighter
Sure I don't agree with everything I read, but this has been an invaluable resourse to me these past few years, before when I was a lurker then when I felt like joining because I wanted to contribute to the discussion. I am very thankful for it and thank everyone on here, whether I agree with them or not. Maybe it's time for you to find a new community, just saying. Or maybe you are just throwing the question out there and are perfectly happy with DU, cant really tell. I hope to hear your personal opinion on DU.
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Thu Apr-02-09 07:03 AM
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18. Sometimes true, sometimes not. |
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There are a lot of dumbfucks here, frankly. But there are also a lot of really smart people with differing life experiences who have taught me a thing or two. Or ten. I learn something new pretty much every time I look at the forum.
If someone doesn't think like I do, I don't much give a shit. This is America after all, and a wide range of views are to be expected. Even the Democratic Party is a "big tent," though we've got a few ideologues who only like the far left end of the tent, and are intolerant (without any of the attending irony that should accompany that perspective) of those poor bastards over on the right side of the Big Top. I have a pretty good view of the field from the middle, myself, though I wander all over the tent, depending on the topic at hand.
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Thu Apr-02-09 07:35 AM
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20. It is both dung and enlightenment |
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I can get some really good information and some great discourse after weeding through the swamp of seething victim based thinking, self righteousness and mental illness couched in personal "causes" that often plaster this board.
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:51 PM
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27. LOL!! That was too good. |
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seething victim based thinking, self righteousness and mental illness couched in personal "causes" that often plaster this board.
Now I for one COME here for the seething victim based thinking, self righteousness and mental illness couched in personal "causes", but hey, to each his own.
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Thu Apr-02-09 07:49 AM
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Thu Apr-02-09 11:19 AM
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I come here rarely now, seems more like freepervile than DU.
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Thu Apr-02-09 11:27 AM
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we are a dysfunctional family of thinkers.
well, most of us.
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:54 PM
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:59 PM
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33. i get one right from time to time. n/t |
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:07 PM
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35. I don't give a shit what other's think, just as long as their beliefs are |
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based on fact. I care bout truth.
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Thu Apr-02-09 01:08 PM
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36. There's a lot of good info here on DU, if you don't mind shoveling the bullshit off the truth. |
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And the bullshit can be pretty deep, especially over on GD-P.
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