The best goddam political discussion board I am aware of.

[OAITW r.2.0]

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Seriously, there is no real time better news/analysis then what happens at DU. Been here since WTF Happened in FL in 2000. Some really smart people post here and my hat is off to the best progressive US board on the internet. DU has been the place to be during the entire election process.....as it has always been. I always would prefer listening to brief points by a bunch of great posters than a TLDR opus from a hack that is no smarter the rest of us. I get the real story when I read 50 different opinions on any latest news event as it happens.

My goto sanity and real time group therapy site for 20 years (and it's free).....but you contribute because you appreciate this internet oasis that DU is.

Best regards, admins!

On edit: Blown away by the responses. Thanks all. We all get it. DU is a resource worth supporting!

[MomInTheCrowd]

1. Yes,yes. Thanks for noting.

[jayfish]

23. ...

[Richluu]

30. My first click is DU

Before any other site. Thanks for all the news links and tweets and expressions! Invaluable!

[calimary]

53. Welcome to DU, Richluu!

I've been hooked on this place quite literally for years.

Every time I come here, I learn something new - and useful.

Glad you found it, too!

[OAITW r.2.0]

78. You know Calimary........we are probably from the Pod....been reading

you for years!

[Richluu]

99. Thanks!

I love being welcomed even though I've been here for years too; I just don't post very often.

Your comment shows the kind nature of this place. I got my husband on DU also. I used to be "richlu" but had to add a "u" after we were hacked and had to make new accounts. Glad that didn't happen this year! And... Ding, dong, the witch is dead....

[calimary]

55. And welcome to DU to you, too, MomInTheCrowd!

MAN, what a day... must be Christmas or something.

I got a brand new President today! How 'bout you?

[Hugin]

2. ...

[demtenjeep]

3. AND NO HACK

Thank you all

[tanyev]

4. Woot Woot!

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. I think Dwight Schrute voted for Trump?

[Shermann]

8. FALSE

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. He'd never admit it at the paper company, but cmon

a Trumpster to his core.

[OMGWTF]

109. Authoritarian personality complex

[cry baby]

5. May I echo your sentiments!?

16 years of sanity.

[Throckmorton]

95. 18 years here.

My first stop for other than local news.
This site will one-day be enshrined in the Internet Hall of Fame.

[Archetypist]

7. hear hear

been here since 2000 also

[blitzen]

10. Well said, my sentiments exactly! n/t

[malaise]

11. Indeed

[Blue_true]

12. I agree. I love the thread format here and the great diversity of forums.

I have gotten to the point when I need up to date news about an ongoing important event, I come here, some member would have posted details.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Me too.

I read DU, because you get links to LBN right away.

But you get immediate commentary that educates you as events happens, Without mis/dis information....

[kenziemom06]

13. I didn't even turn the TV on this week ...

Just read posts here and my anxiety was kept in check. DU is the greatest.

[Dem2theMax]

24. I did the same.

The one time I turned on the TV this past week, my blood pressure must have gone up 50 points in 30 seconds.

DU is the best. Thank you to EarlG and Elad for taking such good care of our 'home' for all of us!

[calimary]

71. Welcome to DU, kenziemom06!

This is a real home-away-from-home for many of us.

I too check the news here first. And it IS usually here, first.

[Tommymac]

14. 2004 for me. And a big +1 for the OP.

I come and go, and really only post during presidential cycles...

But I don't think I'll revert to lurking mode for a few more months at least...

Georgia.

GOTV GA!

[Roy Rolling]

16. 2016 Election Proved it

DU was important enough to be attacked and taken down on Election Day. Someone thinks it’s important.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. That was a very weird moment.

Made a dark event even darker. I could have used a future booster that night.....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. It was! Yes!

[OAITW r.2.0]

80. Tips to a poster I don't always agree with...but always read..

[lunatica]

19. 100% ditto

[PatSeg]

20. Oh yes

DU has been a lifesaver for a long time now!

[lobointexas]

21. Absolutely!

Most won't believe it because of my low post count, but I've been lurking here, almost daily, since 2001. I was locked out the night of the 2004 election because I wasn't a member, so I joined before the 2006 election.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. I get it....thanks for posting!

The fact that you decided to post on my thread honors me. Obviously you are a person of few words, but comment when you read something worth commenting on!

[lobointexas]

47. Your post nailed it.

It is exactly how I feel, and what you stated is part of the reason why I don't post much. There are so many incredible posters here now, and in the past, that posting here is a little intimidating, especially during primary season. This has also been my therapy during the Bush years and now the last 4. Thank you for giving DU the props it deserves.

[OAITW r.2.0]

50. Thank you.

Maybe the best response I have received on DU.

[NRaleighLiberal]

22. 2004 for me - a safe place then, an essential place now. This is indeed THE place!

[Karadeniz]

25. Totally agree!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Amen, and what a wonderfully diverse bunch of progressive Americans we have here....

along with some equally great friends from abroad!

I'm constantly amazed at the knowledge and good wit I receive from DU every day.

It was indeed my elixir during this nerve-wracking election and I thank each and every one here....


KY...... ........

[Hekate]

28. 18 years of kinda-sorta-usually sanity. My haven & definitely worth the effort. Thanks Admins!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. Wait a minute. We can talk about politics here? Wow.

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. What pisses me off is....

we still need to gain the 2 Georgia Senate seats to start moving full speed ahead on a progressive agenda.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. We need that in order to repair some of the ransacking.

[karin_sj]

32. Amen!

DU is the first place I go to with my cup of coffee when I walk up in the morning. It's been an island of sanity and information during four years of despair and turmoil under the orange monster and his regime.

[FailureToCommunicate]

33. I am sure with you about how great DU is!!

[relayerbob]

34. 100% agreed

[TigressDem]

35. Glad to be back myself.

I did come here after Florida 2000 also.

People say in 2010 there was a big purge and I got zapped of all my history. BUT I am back and you are right. It's good to be here when the world is such a crazy place.

[ProfessorGAC]

97. I Don't Think There Was A Purge

IIRC, there was a MAJOR upgrade to the site that required a reboot of posters.
That's why someone like me, (started here the 3rd month) no longer has the exact join date.
Everyone got a "before 200x" type of member start date.
I don't remember if the post count started over.
My post count now is decent, but I racked up way more posts since I retired a couple years ago. I don't remember if I lost those first few years of posts or not.
All the older stuff is archived somewhere, but since I've never even tried to look, I couldn't tell you how to find them.
But, welcome back to active posting.

[TigressDem]

103. Yeah, not sure what happened, and I am almost glad.

Back during the GW time there were some trolls on here and I got into some really heated debates with them.

I am normally a peaceful type person but some folks were justifying racist teachers down south, FL I think, calling the police and putting a 5 year old girl in the back of a squad car because her Mom had put a "do not spank" notation in her file. The woman either couldn't leave work right away when they called her or could but had a couple of buses to catch to get to the school, so that was their solution.

I know that one set me off. I was like a bazooka. I am a Mama Bear protecting kids and they don't have to be "mine" to be "mine" if someone is dumb enough to do stupid to them in front of me.

It's ok that me is archived. I hope, I think I have better self control now.

Maturity is a good thing, right?


EDIT: Then I look at my sig pic.

THAT IS HOW I FEEL
ABOUT ALL THE LIES AND DESTRUCTION BEING DONE
TO US.
So when I deal with the other side, I ... I just try not to.
My son is upstairs talking about stolen votes.

[gademocrat7]

36. DU is my home for news and views.

[sakabatou]

39. This is the place where I get my news

And the Lounge is where I can take the load off.

[OAITW r.2.0]

81. I'm banned from the Lounge.

Back in 2005. Ugly but no suits filed.

[GulfCoast66]

40. No doubt. I love it reflects the full spectrum of Democratic Voters.

Black folks, white folks, vegans, hunters, gun owners, LGBT, rich, poor, veterans, pacifists, capitalist, socialist(well, maybe not really) Christians, atheist and everything in between.

I would not come here if it was a monolith. Not my scene. I want a diversity of opinions. Anything else is boring. I hate with a passion bias confirmation.

DU challenges me to rethink my opinion. If you think your opinion is always correct you are not thinking.

[OAITW r.2.0]

48. Diverse opininos challenge my world construct.

I think that is a good thing.

[GulfCoast66]

54. Yep. But as we get older we have to work on it.

The mind gets set in fixed patterns. The proudest thing I have done is become a liberal as an adult. A 40 something adult. I had to face my beliefs in their face and admit they were bogus.

Since then my mind had become more flexible.

[OAITW r.2.0]

59. It's harder being a liberal, the older you get.

Cuz we get set in our ways. I try to keep that point in my mind,always. DU helps!

[movingviolation]

41. I whole heartedly concur.

I've been lurking since 2003, and joined much later. I don't post much, buy come here for news and analysis pretty much every day. I really should donate.

[OAITW r.2.0]

49. You really should.

If you spend min. 15 minutes a day here (and be honest).....you should throw a few bucks to the admins...

[WA-03 Democrat]

42. I am addicted

Well run, smart, faster than any news aggregator and great folks!

[Progressive Jones]

43. K & R !!! 'Tis true. I was here a lot back in the early 2000s; came back last year.

Wish I'd never left.

[mfcorey1]

44. Amen to that!

[Upthevibe]

45. OAITW r.2.0

I couldn't agree more! I don't know what I would've done without DU over all of these years.

[Joinfortmill]

46. 👍

[hibbing]

51. Where I come for real news and so much more n/t

[PatrickforO]

52. I'll go with that. This is a good discussion forum.

I know I have learned a lot on here.

[sarchasm]

56. I 56th that...

...also the first click for me. The insights and opinions are reliably accurate and invaluable.

I don't post much at all, but I've actually been here a long time.

[sobenji]

57. Totally agree. My go to first place

[Puppyjive]

58. Yes

This is where I get informed. I go here first every day. Very intellectual people, incite, and ideas!

[UCmeNdc]

60. K&R

[AllaN01Bear]

61. ive been here since the 2000 mess as well.

even though it says 2017. after the infamus hack, we had to change our accounts , passowrds and usernames .
i have a morning routine . i check the most recent earthquakes in california and the world . solar activity and then du. the rest of the day is youtube for train videos and other such distractions .du has kept me insane the last 4 years and since the 2000 mess as well. u dont want to see me sane.

[OAITW r.2.0]

74. Keeping you insane is the whole goddam point.

Why did you let everyone else know?

[yuiyoshida]

62. Many Thanks to the Admins who started this....

i love this community.... I once tried to join another Democratic website but was pushed off... I don't know why... but DU took me in and I been grateful! Especially when Skinner allowed the ASIAN Group. Where else could i show a Tea Ceremony to a raw Visuel Kei Concert video? Mina sama, Domo arigatou gozaimasu!

[OAITW r.2.0]

63. Shi Shi, Yuiyoshida. Or maybe "Maywantee"?

Thanks. in my laguage.

[yuiyoshida]

72. cool , which language?

Kochia Koso!! コチラコソ!

[OAITW r.2.0]

73. Shishi...Um Guo - thanks....am i right depending where in China you are

from?

[yuiyoshida]

75. um...

That info is in my bio... I am a San Francisco native born. My parents are mixed NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND Japanese. Yoshida is a Japanese last name.

I only know a teensie tiny bit of Mandarin because, I grew up in a Chinese neighborhood and because some of my best friends that I grew up with are Chinese. Like Juju, she was born in Malaysia but she lives in San Diego. My family immigrated to HAWAII during the 1800's to work the Sugar Cane fields in Hawaii along with many other immigrants. My family married into a native Hawaiian family, which kept them safe during World War II...because back then Hawaiians still OWNED Hawaii long before it was a state. OH, and I can speak Japanese or other wise known as Nihongo.

[OAITW r.2.0]

76. Thank you for sharing.

You know, I see a lot of your threads here.....thanks for your contributing!

[yuiyoshida]

79. Come visit the Asian Group sometime ... there is lots to offer!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1250

[OAITW r.2.0]

84. My first trip to China was 1992.

Been maybe 10 trips? Lots of friends in Zhongshan, PRC. My China base!

[yuiyoshida]

86. Very cool.

I have been overseas as well, visited; Tahiti, Cannes France, Naples Italy, The UK, Barcelona Spain, Palma De Majorca but I haven't been to the far East as yet.. Some day maybe. Where are you from?

[OAITW r.2.0]

112. Maine!

I live smack in the middle of nowhere!

[mountain grammy]

64. Didn't realize how important this place was to me

Until it wasn’t here. 2016 was a jolt. I was lost. Don’t think I’ll ever leave.

[SpankMe]

65. Yep, DU's better than any progressive resource out there

Still...a post of mine was hidden by a jury a couple of days ago because I said I was pessimistic about our ability to prevail based on how fickle and fucked up the voters can be. (This was while the toss-up states were still counting and things were even closer than today.)

I mentioned that Miami-Dade went for Hillary by a margin of 30, but went for Biden by a margin of only 7, largely because of single issue Cuban voters spazzing out over Biden's policy to change Cuba through engagement rather than continuing the still ineffective embargo.

The jury hid it for - get this - promoting right wing talking points!

As awesome as DU is, and as grateful as I am for EarlG and former owner Skinner for bring it to us, there's still a streak of butt-hurt among some DU members that gets translated into mob rule. I hope DU will fix the jury system in the future.

[OAITW r.2.0]

67. LOL, I've had many posts reviewed!

Oh well, sometimes deserving, sometimes not....but it is the best self criticizing community on the web. You serve, maybe, and uphold community standards....which they do....thanks MIRT!

[AlexSFCA]

66. the most politically knowledgeable people on the internet

I love DU community.

[OAITW r.2.0]

85. Smarter people than I, post here.

That's why I visit daily.

[ailsagirl]

68. I signed on to DU in 2000 and all the way to today it's been part of my life

An integral part

[ALBliberal]

69. DU my shelter in the storm. And most of all DU gives me much needed levity and laughter!

[cheezmaka]

70. Hear hear

I've been here since 2012... DU is the best on the Net!!!!

[keithbvadu2]

77. Many times the comments are better than the original article/post.

Many times the comments are better than the original article/post.

[OAITW r.2.0]

87. Extremely, very true.

[Cha]

82. That's exactly why I've been registered for

18 years.. just took 2 years off in 2010 bc of the incessant ridiculous Pres Obama bashing.. but came back for the re-election when DU made Forums PRIVATE!

That's not going to happen when Biden is President!

[smirkymonkey]

83. Hear, hear!

[OAITW r.2.0]

89. Backatcha, Long-timer!

[AmBlue]

88. Yes!!

I found DU because of what happened in 2000. I can't imagine what I would have done without it.

THANK YOU DU!!

[OAITW r.2.0]

90. Cool....Invest....contribute,

DU is worth it....and I get "0" dollars pitching DU.

[winstars]

91. Yes, you are correct. Been here since dark recount days pf 2001... Always great and evolving

[BComplex]

92. I found DU through Media Whores Online. Does anyone remember them?

We've come a long way over the past 20+ years on the internet.

[Tactical Progressive]

114. same here

MWO - Miss it.
Was supposedly run by media insiders.

I read them and Bartcop.

[qanda]

93. I've been here since close to the beginning

DU has gotten me through some dark days.

[Maru Kitteh]

94. HAEEELLLLL YES!

[mahina]

96. Word, and a reminder that we have good posters here because they read good journalists

And not so good ones too just to round out their perspective. I’d not want to imagine we would be what we are without journalists out their doing the lifting.

Back to the love, yes indeed, DU you are made of wisdom.

Mahalo to EarlG, Elad and Skinner in his new role for keeping the wheels on.

[olegramps]

98. For me DU is invaluable for providing me with factual information for numerous sources.

It is like having a thousand researchers as my friends. It is impossible to gather the information by yourself that is provided daily by our fellow members.

[Tom Rinaldo]

100. Gave this thread and early Rec but now let be give it a KICK

I joined DU in 2003. It lies at the center of my information universe, and has been there now for all of those 17 years. I honestly can't imagine my life now without it. DU, and all those who are part of it, is that important to me.

[Paladin]

101. +1000. (nt)

[duhneece]

102. DU is a big, noisy, messy family we all wish we were born into

Supportive when we’re grieving, celebrating or hanging out.
I love DU.

[Dial H For Hero]

104. I like the political chat section of alternatehistory.com.

It leans overwhelmingly left, although a wide range of political views are allowed, short of such bannable offenses such as denying or advocating genocide, kooky conspiracy theories, etc. Notably, it's much more heavily moderated the DU. Attacking other members is not permitted, one is lucky to get off with a warning for a first offense (being prohibited from posting for a week is more common). Repeat offenses will get one banned. It is, one the whole, quite a civil place.

They also have more knoweldge of real history (as opposed to counterfactual) than any board I've ever seen. It's quite refreshing to chat where virtually everyone knows just why Operation Sea Lion was doomed from the start, and where a discusiion of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 will bring in dozens of posters discussing the merits of varioius interwar battleships.

That being said, DU is certainly a valuable place to get news and opinion that's exclusively left wing.

[Ruby Zee]

105. Best news site ever

Long time lurker here (2004). Love how we often get first hand accounts from around the country and around the world.

[KatyaR]

106. My first stop every day is DU,

and I'm back here multiple times each day to catch up on what's happening in the world.

Bless the admins and all the members who make this a safe place to land each day.

[Firestorm49]

107. I agree as well.

[Illumination]

108. DU has been such a godsend! What a journey 2020 has been! Thank you DU for all

you've done! You rock!...

[liberal_mama]

110. I agree, I don't post much but I've been a member for years

I check DU first thing every morning and throughout the day!

[BobTheSubgenius]

111. HELL YES!

It's not the first time I've heard similar, or even said similar, but I know it won't be the last.

Thank you all!!!

[grantcart]

113. Discussion board? I thought it was group therapy.

[Woodwizard]

115. Been reading for as long found it during Bush Gore

Signed up awhile ago but I don't post much. It is my morning news check in.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

116. DU is the gold standard.

🥇🏆💛💛💛🥇🏆

[NNadir]

117. Head and Shoulders Above Many News Sites and Many Leftist Websites. As a Scientist...

...I would especially put emphasis on "head."

[Aussie105]

118. DU . . . a blessing here for me in Australia.

Local news tends to regurgitate US news as though it's Solid Gold.

DU cuts through multiple layers of bias and editorial preferences.

Some fanciful thinking and conspiracy theories bandied about at times, so thinking cap on when reading some DU threads.