When someone that has ultimate power and is In-It-To-Win-It for Hill...some voices apparently need to be taken out...also serves as a warning to others as an example.

But we know that he is alive and well, speaking freely to the World, in other locations...so, nothing was stopped.

I might not be able to really help out though.

I'm the newest member there.

I agreed with much he had to say.

Not even gone from off the facebook of the internet.

ETA: See Reply 7

been ignoring politics in most places lately. I'm sorry to see this though. I loved Manny's sarcasm and I didn't see him as divisive at all. Maybe I misjudged, but I did think he was a true progressive who was sick of the take-over of the party by the third way.

Manny I will miss you.

Sorry to see him go.
I guess it will be only a matter of time before they throw me out too.
I never did too well in places like these. I eventually get under folks' skins, and they throw me out any way.
I'll be seein' Manny on Facebook though.

I went off on Facebook about the DNC thing yesterday. If I said on DU what I'd said on FB, probably I'd be gone too (though I don't post enough to draw Manny levels of attention).
I'm sad to see him go and will mosey on over to JackpineRadicals.

I've been sticking to reading lately...end of semester stress has made me a little, ah, agitated.
Have a wonderful afternoon!

1.) EVERYBODY... was angry yesterday, and there were lots of threads where things were said, in said anger. To me, in times like that... unique/unusual times... an Admin Warning might be a better way to go.

2.) There was a poster (who shall remain nameless) who outed a HRC supporter (who shall remain nameless) yesterday during the mele, for a post from the 2008 Campaign who stated that they would rather die, than vote for Barack Obama. Said it in many different ways in just one lengthy post.

Yet that poster still posts here.

Maybe they apologized, and were reinstated... I do not know.

The point I'm attempting to make, is to realize that were are all human, and provocative posts tend to provoke, by definition.

I'd love to see some sort of leeway for people who have a long history of posting, and a body of work that suggests where their true heart is... especially in a moments of heat, as ALL of yesterday was.

Many here did not find Manny humorous... I understand that.

Most... as evident in his post history, found him both thought provoking, and funny as hell.

I for one will miss him, and will welcome him and others back with open arms.

I look forward to that day.



Thank you, Autumn.

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Manny didn't say anything many, many others haven't said, including myself. The TOS states specifically anything goes during the primary, but Manny was TS'd for the TOS rules for the general election. It is a blatant unfair application of the rules. And the grave-dancing by the usual clowns is just ugly.

For saying something that the jury thought was offensive to all Texans. In fact, one juror said "MOL how would you like it if someone said bad things about your state?"

Well, strangely enough, I an a native Texan and have lived here all my life, but I didn't state that in my post.

I know I'm surrounded by recta. (That's the plural of assholes, or you could say "ani" as plural of anus.)

who would be missed here.

Thank you, JDP, for your thoughtful and informative posts . I've learned a lot from you.

It’s disheartening. And to think we pay for the privilege.

See #7.

I'm offline for a day and come back to this. Manny's posts almost always made me smile -- except when they made me want to punch a wall. Sometimes they did both.

Another exile, another reason not to renew.

He laughed at us, we laughed at him, and he laughed at himself. That's rare around here.

I think the PPR was a bum rap, but it's not my site. I'm just a barnacle around here, occasionally clinging to other people's posts.