I respectfully suggest that we just ignore JPR from now on.

[Nye Bevan]

I don't know how many remember but when Kerry won the nomination in 2004 a bunch of disaffected Dean-supporting DUers (anyone remember Slinkerwink?) jumped ship to a new Dean-supporting forum very much modeled on DU. But it faded away pretty fast and I don't see any posts there more recent than December 2005:

http://progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=104

Soon JPR will go the same way; flinging the c-word at Hillary, lamenting Bernie's endorsement of her, and pimping Jill Stein will get old pretty quickly. I suggest that we let that place die a natural death and when good DUers start returning here let's welcome them back without snarkiness. Defeating the conceited, ignorant, dangerous, sociopathic, racist, mysogynistic maniac is by far our main priority now.

[giftedgirl77]

1. Aka, let the babies have their tantrum.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Well since I have no idea what JPR is, that shouldn't be a problem.

I've already forgotten it.

[COLGATE4]

9. Jack Pine Radical.

[The Wielding Truth]

27. Yea. If its to be forgotten. Why bring it up?

[Democrats Ascendant]

3. Who? What??

[Warpy]

4. The site seems to be used for the venting of many spleens

and is probably a useful safety valve for disappointed people. The best idea is to leave them to it, I agree.

At least don't bring meta from that site to DU. It makes this site a lot less tolerable.

If you must howl about them, go to Discussionist. Please.

[MADem]

5. I think a far better "Fight Club" (and one with fewer rules and no donation requirements)

is DISCUSSIONIST. They tear it up over there.... It's like a YAHOO! board with better user interface...

People who want to fight (and they do exist) just aren't going to have as much opportunity to do that here. They can argue Dem policy, POLITELY, but the bashing/trashing and snarking/flaming is finally a thing of the past, thank heavens.

For those that once-upon-a-time came here FOR that, they'd do better to just scootch down the road to DI and have at it.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. I just signed up there....jesus, what a cesspool of racism, rampant ignorance, mendacity...you name

it

the only thread I checked out had a poster with a confederate flag as his avatar.

can't WAIT for the confirmation to come through

[MADem]

31. For people who want to get their FIGHT CLUB on, it's the place.

I look at it rarely (usually when DU is down for maintenance) and it DOES take a strong stomach!

But it is pretty as hell--very streamlined, very fluid, the way stuff is grouped is simple and easy to grasp.

If it were a civil place it would be .... adorable!

I think the admins oughta sell copies of that platform--it really does look good!

I never understood why people who were dissatisfied didn't simply slide over that way--it IS an "anything goes" Wild Wild West kind of place, and all views are welcomed, pretty much.

[Gabi Hayes]

35. agreed....similar to this. now....

check post 33

[MADem]

37. OMG--that's probably the worst post I have ever seen over there.

How frightful that you see that on your first day there!!!!!

On edit--never mind--I thought someone was telling YOU to shop there!!

I've mostly noticed Trumphumping and assorted rightwing themes, along with the usual Obama/Clinton hatred and mockery of other Democratic figures--they are racists, and they don't like minorites, many of them.

They think all those poor people working at minimum wage are "takin' their jerbs."

[Gabi Hayes]

38. frightful....I DUG it! what was frightful was when four of us drove through the back

valleys at the VA/WVA border....closest town, Waiteville. as we drove and drove, we saw confederate flags at more than half of the houses. then, at one house there were three flag poles, one with the stars and bars, two which were unidentifiable, but scary-looking. I was able to find out later that the really scary looking one was Stormfront, and I couldn't find a match to the other. one of the people in the car was African American, and he was starting to freak out, but he still ran out of the car and took some closeup pix of the flags. I can't FIND them anymore, damn.

it instantly brough to mind schwerner, chaney, and goodman.

btw, I tried to find some sort of marker for them when I stopped in Philadelphia almost 20 years ago, and nobody could 'help' me find it. none of them professed to even know what I was talking about. this was before I had a computer.

there's a marker, but I can't cut and paste the url

this, then, in memoriam:

s

just imagine what those MONSTERS did to those young men. have you ever read the story.....so so so sad

[MADem]

39. I remember that when it happened. They did a movie about it much later, starring Gene Hackman.

I was living in Europe at the time, but they covered it over there, as well.

[Brother Buzz]

6. 'What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas'

[RobertEarl]

7. Lots of good democrats there

And some fine writing. It's a good site for other opinions!

http://jackpineradicals.com/greatest/

[RobertEarl]

13. Quite a few ex-duers there

And some who post here and there.

[RobertEarl]

19. Most left DU on their own

They didn't feel like DU was the best place to be for someone who was not into the establishment. I like JPR and the posts there, gives one a different view of the world. Diversity is good!

[trumad]

14. Good site to use the C-word and N-Word as well.

[Gabi Hayes]

22. best sig line, just about, ever!

I have the BIGGEST EAGLE! He's MY EAGLE!



you really get a great view of just what a shrinking COWARD the man is

[tallahasseedem]

8. I agree...

No need for that around here. We are uniting and I love it!

[MohRokTah]

11. I like to point at obvious Republicans and laugh from time to time.

I don't have to post here about all the good Republicans posting at Jackass Laughingstocks in order to do that.

[George II]

25. Amazingly even republicans wouldn't say some of the things about Clinton that are on that site.

[mythology]

12. Agreed

I went there once or twice to see for myself if it was that bad and haven't felt any need to go back.

[OnDoutside]

36. +1

[trumad]

15. You're right---

I vented...and I'm done.

[closeupready]

16. But WAIT! What will we talk about???

War and health care and fiscal policy ... Who cares about that boring shit?

Major

Eleanor Roosevelt, wasn't it her who said, to paraphrase, "talking about ideas is good, talking about others (gossip) is lowbrow."?

[longship]

17. If anybody wants to see justification for DU tombstoning,

go to JPR and you will see it.

A bunch of tombstone crybabies, if you ask me.

Just my opinion.

[dembotoz]

18. trying to be all unitey and koom by yah and all and then i see thread like this....

not feeling it
nope

[Iggo]

21. Trashing (yet another) thread.

Y'know, it'd be a lot easier if you guys would quit posting post after post about them.

[Gabi Hayes]

23. dunno why I came here, after dumping every reference to them I've seen, without reading.

that said, I went there, signed up, but never got an email back. haven't returned after the stuff about the c word n word stuff. wonder if they'll wise up and come back to the fold. I agree with much of their stance, though
Holder is one of the worst AGs, since, well, name any republican AG, be he comes close.

no banks ever nailed, but LOTS of weed growers, and MEDICAL distributions centers. FFFFF him.

glad I checked this one, cause the Discussionist.com was new to me.

[NNadir]

24. That's pretty easy for me to do. I never heard of them and don't care to learn more about them.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

26. Me too

[Gene Debs]

28. "Good DUers"?

[SCantiGOP]

29. Agree, enthusiastically

[Coolest Ranger]

30. Am i showing ignorance

by not knowing who JPR is?

[Vattel]

32. Yes, it is better to remove the log in one's own eye before the speck in another's.

[Gabi Hayes]

33. my first post at discussionist, to a....what....who has the stars and bars in his sigline,

and took Hillary to task for supporting the Iraq war:


so...how often do you use the "n" word in casual conversation?

aren't you embarrassed to be you?

probably not.

Here's a nice place for you to do some shopping:

[PasadenaTrudy]

34. Who cares? nt

[pintobean]

40. I already ignore them.

I think it's really fucked up that DUers link to them. Any link to JPR should be hidden.

[tritsofme]

41. LOL, I actually thought of that site when I saw one of those threads a few days ago.

And I had the same thought as you! Their rump site will be short lived and little remembered.