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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: RuralNc on December 02, 2022, 04:41:42 PM
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Drum (7,739 posts)
Why I joined DU in 2005
(Edited for accuracy)
Yes, I know, that’s only 7000 or so posts from me in 17 years, overwhelming “replies.” 🤷🏻♂️
It was Hurricane Katrina. I was going nuts because I couldn’t find news on what was happening in New Orleans, a place dear to me from a serial work gig that took me there numerous times in the late 1980s.
I then happened on Democratic Underground and it was sense-at-first-sight: DU presented as (and is) a clearinghouse for a super-diverse band of news media sources, but also a source of news via witnesses, court and agency records, editorials, and of course emotion, wit, snark, and so much love.
Drum/Tom
I dont know why this moron felt the need to post, but hey, whatever.
So, the DUmp is supposedly made up of the most diverse new sources. Uh huh. :whatever:
Emotion? Yeah, yeah. Theres plenty of emotion at the DUmp.
W_HAMILTON (5,987 posts)
11. I joined because I was becoming much more politically aware in my young life...
...and happened to be watching C-SPAN and a caller mentioned this website. I checked it out and it's been one of my go-to websites for almost two decades now...
You never know what little gesture may impact people and cause a butterfly effect.
What? I didnt know C-SPAN had call ins. Who in the hell is so bored they are willing to call into C-SPAN?
Greywing (1,113 posts)
48. I joined in 2011 because I was looking for like minded people
I mostly lurk as so many people have already expressed the views I hold by the time I read ... it's wonderful!
Like minded peeps? Eh? So youre a Crack-Pot-Dim-Witted-Conspiracy-Theorist-on-the-lunatic-fringe-of-The-Dems? If so, you have found Nirvana.