for the beer! And to affirm I am not the only one!

Who's been here almost as long as me
and has less posts.

Some going back to the early days.

I don't much, as you can tell.

Or just available to the inner circle

The troll-sniffers are also fun.

They keep me coming back again and again.

and I didn't have any difficulty understanding that.

then read his post again- he is being humorous.

Sometimes he misses the boat and falls off the dock.
Took me a while to realize that.

Bit like this i suppose.

That's funny.

I just have to look, can't turn away.

but there is so much knowledge here. I love that I read stuff on DU that makes the news two days later.
I also love the laughs.

whose posts I enjoy reading, and also I need a few laughs now and then. Some people here simply crack me up, which is why I don't use the "ignore" feature.

There are lots of smart people with interesting things to say. And dealing with the bullshit without losing your temper can be a stoic excercise in self control. Sometimes I fail at that and got a post hidden not to long ago after a year of no hidden posts. It is fun but sometimes you have to step away for a while. I have enjoyed making a point to find commonbground with people I disagree with often and stronly.

be it on Morning Joe, Rachel, various stuff in DUers lives, etc. I love this place and it has added to the joy of my retirement. Of course, let it be said I will not win awards for the cleanest or most dust-free apartment but then....compromise. I now know the meaning...

I care about middle-class and poor individuals and families; their well being.

I do not care what don trump thinks about anything…but I should be slightly
aware of his actions.


Tikki

Unlike some places, people here care.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]DU is my primary news portal and springboard. The many links I find here take me to what is important/interesting to see/read/investigate further.

DUers also have wide-ranging and varied opinions on every subject. While I prefer to avoid the confrontational and argumentative threads, I often find a differing point of view to consider that I might not have thought of on my own.

Besides that, you are overall just good people -- incredibly smart, insightful, kind, helpful, and often funny.

Here's to DU and DUers!

On edit: And how could I forget to include all the debunking and truth-telling DUers do -- setting the record straight and helping to highlight the most egregious lies that the media need to set right!

saying what I was thinking!



I like finding info here, it takes less time than roving through over twenty web sites every morning. And once in a while I have something to say and sometimes people actually respond! Otherwise I have to go down to the nearest town and go find someone to have an intelligent conversation with or call someone in a another state.

You do know I'm crazy, tho, right?

And this is a place where I can embrace it.

Have to see what is going to happen next!

If it happens, someone notices it and puts up a link.

I don't get very deep into the conflicts. I did years ago in other places, but not much anymore.

I value and love DU because of the wealth of information, the members who care enough to make sure we are informed, and because we, as liberals, really care about one another.

This is a wonderful website, and I have had it as my home page for more than 8 1/2 years.

Thank you for this wonderful thread!

to read the "ready for Hillary" ads and click on them.

You among many, many others. Was unsure way back about what all this discussion forum stuff was about. It was all new to me. Registered and joined in. I enjoy being a part of it.

I love to laugh and this place keeps me

Also, I get a quick synopsis of issues with some excellent responses that I can use to debunk the teabaggers that I occasionally come in contact with.

Oh yeah, and the humor of some of you is amazing.

There's a wide range of ages and backgrounds here, too, and hopefully we learn from one another.

It makes me sad sometimes that I'm not one of the cool kids, but I still stop by here every day just because people here are so much more progressive than those I know in my 3D life.

I have my subscriptions and latest breaking news, and Sunday wouldn't be Sunday without SalmonChanted Evening.

I know I have favorites, but everyone does.

And stay for the schadenfreude.

Not everyone else in life understands staying glued to news of the shut-down vote, etc.

Even with those here who have wildly differing ideologies, a certain deeply nerdy need to stay ultra-informed on late-breaking issues ties us together, I think.

The ACA (several versions) in full?

You kid me right?

I don't know how they live.

Two great accompaniments to cigarettes and scotch.

a right wing troll coming in and flooding the board with completely insane gibberish.

Seeing DKF booted, I'm reassured that someone who consistently floods the boards with right wing propaganda will get booted.

It's been a place to learn and share, even when it gets frustrating. One of the two sites I keep open all day on my computer. I have made friends and watched people come and go. We lost some really good people over the years.

Actually it's all cool. I got the free vodka.

I love droll.

It has been fun.

I have been here for almost 9 years.

I found this website from another website.

I visit everyday even if I don't post.

It is nice to have a place to hang out.

I mostly post in the Lounge but I read GD.

This is the place I get my news, and keep up with world.

People have come and gone over the years, I miss them.

DU is alive and well.

for all the cat pictures in GD!!1!!

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that isn't brainwashed by Faux Znews. This area is f---d up.

If there is a breaking news story, I come straight to DU for updates.

This crazy place is home.

Who wouldn't want to fly with a bunch of good eggs.

Oh, I've flirted with lots of blogs over the years, and even tried Daily Kos (ick), but there's just no place else on the intertubes where I feel at home. (I adamantly refuse to do facebook.)

DU has been my home page for almost as long as it's existed (I found my way here a few months after DU came into being).

After spending so many years here, I'm totally hooked on all the drama, the personalities, the people who come and go - it's endlessly fascinating. And since I don't have TV, DU is both my source of daily entertainment as well as my main news source.

It was definitely a lifeboat during the bush* years - now it's more of a habit, like brushing my teeth and sorting through my mail.

I've made several good friendships here (I won't list names because I don't want to inadvertantly leave someone out), and have come to know and admire several other DUers - like H2O Man, Plaid Adder, Arendt, and others - from whose wisdom and compassion I have learned so much.

DU is just simply the one place in cyberspace where I want to hang out. It's my Local - the place where I go after work to kick back and people watch - and maybe get into a debate once in awhile. For all the crap that goes on here, all the stuff that drives me nuts, all the posters that make me want to reach through my monitor and slap, all the garbage and flotsam and nonsense that gets posted, I can't imagine my life without DU.

I do in fact, do Facebook, but am continually astounded at it's ability to completely mimic fifth grade angst.

At least this place manages to mimic high school and only sometimes.

it's good to know which routes to avoid.

Sid

It has world news, opinions, favorite writers, comics, art, human interest, science, jokes, controversy, and inspiration.

I love you all. You are like my family.

Never was a wiser person than him. Even when disagreeing, he's always civil and polite!

Best news in town too, great links and information. And the toons...

I get with the troll traffic, I can always count on the majority of posters to let me know that I'm not alone in my thinking. Been coming around here for 10 years on a daily basis. I always know the latest news before it's reported by the media...if it is reported at all.

And radio is full of blowhards and liars, like Limbaugh.

and i`m thinking i don't have many more here.

actually it`s my excuse to get out of things my family wants me to do that i don`t want to.

Even non political ones. Believe me I'm a moderator at Tom's Hardware and every time there's a political thread it's dominated by conservatives. DU is a liberal safe haven.

own daughters would know. I am actually asked not to talk politics at parties because some of the guests are rethugs. I love this place and I love the people on here. You are my active family. The rest just show up at the polls and vote Democratic because I do.

But this place saved my sanity more than once. I have loyalty. And sometimes, even after a decade of being here, I learn something new. I like that.

DU is one good source to keep track of politics, things I'd never see in M$M.

And, DU is a two-way street. I often open a DU tab just to x-post stuff from other sources.

and what I love about this site is that it's pretty much free from Obama/Democrat/minority bashing, and people who act like Ron Paul (or some fringe 3rd party) is God's gift to politics. DU might be its own liberal bubble, but most of us here at least stay in tuned with the issues, whether it's global warming, the NSA, health care, discrimination, or gun laws.

I enjoy being around liberal progressives and have always voted for dems.
Also, the collection of LBN is one of the best I've seen.

I think I found this place from a cross-post on the Rude Pundit. It was quite a few years ago, in spite of any appearance to the contrary due to my low post-count ( I lost a bunch of posts during a pass-word renewal cycle. ).

Like Scarlet Woman, I know I shouldn't name favorite DUers because there are so many folks that I like...but I will name some anyway:

The Magistrate; Icy Mist; California Peggy; Scarlet Woman; Skittles; Aristus; Texan Witch; NJ Cher; DemoTex (if he is the one who posts the great pics from the fire lookout in Oregon); In-the-Wind; WillPitt; Skinner; SalmonChantedEvening!!!; and, well, all of you, really!

Tonight, I am missing RedStone. Sigh...I am so very sad that he is gone.

I am very grateful and glad to have a place to come, where I can read the often wise and incredibly funny comments about the issues of our times, and the daily outrages of the robber baron class and their paid lackeys.

This place, and the people who come here

No matter the topic, someone has worked in the field or studied the subject intensively.

That, and the cat pictures.

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We have many very intelligent, well-informed, well-educated, compassionate, LIBERAL and DEMOCRATIC/democratic people here. If you want an excellent discussion or information on almost anything (especially politics), come here.

That's why I'm still here after nine years. The people here also have the biggest hearts - I've seen posters giving money to complete strangers because of hardship. Where else on the internet do you see that on a REGULAR basis ?

Initially, the LGBT community here, but they were scattered to the winds a few years ago after it became pragmatic to go after our community.

I still read, especially the Science forum, but I often feel I'm rubbernecking. A kind of epistemical closure is encroaching, so it becomes a kind of staring in disbelief. "Healthcare.gov failed because it was just too awesome!" I mean, friggin seriously.

Now I use DU as a partisan bellwether. What's the hard, partisan line on an issue? I need only read GD. The old days of informative posts are in the past. Now it's pissing matches and witch hunts. Fun as hell to watch, witness the current dkf mass orgy, but I don't learn anything here anymore. Media sources are shunned based solely on confirmation bias.

The reality-based community of the Bush years is long gone. Behold the partisan circus. It's still amusing though, in its limited, self-important way.

It's really something to realize I've been part of a this group for 11 (almost) years.

I love a few of you here, and I appreciate support I have gotten over the years from a lot of people (the others? meh, I don't care).

I'm sort of here because I've never not been. It's not the same, but there are still glimmers of what used to be.

There's a lot of good Dems who I miss; who were either banned during purges for not walking in lockstep or left on their own in disgust. I really miss them.

That's about it.

That's the real reason.

I learn all kinds of things here.

most diverse places where interesting people from all walks of life gather and many have become friends.

It "feels" like a "convention of emotions" from a community of people who are comfortable here to express curiosity, frustrations, ideas, anger, sadness, sorrow, happiness, surprise, indignation, humility, panic, helping, sharing, giving, caring and everything else I left out.

I love the diversity, information and opinions.
I've learned so much here.

At least that's my experience here.

We're the same. That's what I like.

& the do-nuts.

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Due to an injury (and complications following that) I had become a shut-in for so many years before finding DU that when Will Pitt hosted a meet-up in Boston, I went. It was my first time to be around a group of people since 2001. Almost everyone was so warm I couldn't help falling in love with DU.

I keep coming back because some of you mean more to me than people I've known in real life.

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DU has the best up to date NEWS.

When something happens I can always depend on DU to have the first story.

I avoid the cliques and shitstorms, if I can.