Regularly since 2004 on a site called Newsvine until conservatives were gang collapsing comments and the site changed the format into echo chambers so we could all preach to the choir in 2011. I left.
Tried HP it but it became a tabloid rag and then they purged commenters and tried to force people to give their true names and to prove it through facebook with real phone numbers.
I actually had started here earlier around 2002 but ended up on another site because I was using a Dell Dimension Pentium III and I couldn't read the posts without hitting "view all" every time and it would s l o w l y loaded the page. 
Then I lurked DU now and then because a lot of people on this site had great info. from credible sources and I liked to pass them along.
I couldn't remember my member name or which email I had used here. So I started a new account in April 6 months after double knee replacement. They gave me these super puffy socks, hence the name.
This is now the only place I post as Raw Story , Crooks and Liars and Alternet all succumbed to Bernie bros and Hillary supporters were being thrown off the sites in droves after posting things like " I like Bernie but how is he going to break up the banks?" being swarmed with nasty personal attacks until you stop being so civil and then they run to the moderators to have people thrown off.
I watched around twenty people get cut from RS in just one night. I'd had enough of being censored while Berniebros could post whatever they wished.
And here I am! 
My problem now is that its obvious none of these people are going to be civil and it just bothers me to let them have free reign and post the ridiculous blather replete with Hillary and Hillary supporter bashing on a daily basis.
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