Mon Mar 3, 2014, 04:54 PM
sibelian (5,326 posts)
Some of you have been on this site for over a decade.
What was your favourite moment?
(sits down, cross legged. BIG eyes).
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10024598259Star Member Kelvin Mace (11,183 posts)
11. Tearing apart Diebold talking points
and claims. Especially when we infiltrated a conference of voting machine makers and made fools of them and their PR firm.
It was all fun and games then, until Frank killed Andy...
barnabas63 (1,210 posts)
31. Fitzmas was good...
...but could have been better, as I recall.
Dirty, rotten, freeper troll. Fitzmas was AWESOME.
Blue_Adept (268 posts)
44. Weird as it may seem, 9/11
I can still see that event with where I was at work on the computer, reading DU, seeing the threads going on about it and the way for the next 48 hours it was a whirlwind of information, corroboration, debunking, solidarity and more. That was a defining moment for the forum for me and why I've stuck around ever since, though I didn't do much in the way of posting across the reboots.
I still remember when the place started since I had run my own website, non politics related, that was using the DCForum software and there was a lot of discussion on ways to utilize it and DU was one that worked over the core software in a big way.
Terrorist attacks on our country always seems to make them teary with happiness doesn't it?
Star Member WilliamPitt (56,388 posts)
69. Me and Matcom handing out flyers in Boston about Bush and the war-drums bullshit, May 2002.
...copying the flyer here, and watching as thread after thread popped from people in their own communities handed out the same flyer, or handed out their own, and then shared their experiences.
That's what this place was about back then. There was a coming-together, in the midst of pitch darkness, and a sense of shared purpose.
Beyond that: CALL CONGRESS RIGHT ****ING NOW
No data to follow.
9/11 here, and the days after, kept me sane. 2006 and 2008 were tremendous.
I've been thinking about it since you posted this. I have a hundred answers.
Oscar.
What not to say when watching The Passion.
Elizabeth Edwards.
Hunting Freepers back in the day.
But the CALL CONGRESS RIGHT ****ING NOW thread still gives me joy.
Hunting freepers? Pitt, dude - put the damn bong down.
xiamiam (4,792 posts)
88. cindy sheehan camped out in a ditch and du's coverage of katrina
those were back to back but up until that time, the entire media offered no criticism of anything bush and cheney. du was the only place to find like minds, then, when sheehan camped out, things started to change. It was an important shift. katrina coverage came from duers living in new orleans and posting up to the minute events and needs. once again, I got better info by coming to du. I also enjoyed the many actions in which we participated, calling or emailing congress. Those were quite exciting and effective. I was equally excited when Obama was elected although I knew when I listened to the afghanistan surge speech, also right here on du, that I had been fooled by him. Rahm also started his internet message management program just before that..its been downhill on this site ever since.
Hey WTF happened to your gal Cindy? you kicked her to the curb when the messiah hit town. She is still protesting misfits, cause we are still at war... did you forget??
Katrina was a hoot -just like Sandy... oh wait, y'all didn't say nothin' about Sandy did ya. Did you forget?
Star Member adirondacker (1,521 posts)
116. Howard Dean leading in the polls. Then the DLC and media sucked every bit of "hope" I had remaining
Ruining our fun BASTARD --
IDemo (13,104 posts)
122. Roses for Helen
Oh no. No, no, no.
Star Member bmbmd (2,693 posts)
123. We were at our best
When people needed help. Like Andy.
Really sucked when Frank killed him - I hear ya. Good times.
