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Title: ACTIONABLE WATCH!!!! There is no point anymore- Atman
Post by: dutch508 on April 02, 2017, 12:52:57 AM
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Atman (30,102 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028881370

There is no point in DU anymore.

I'll just read Twitter. Every ****ing post here is just a link to someone's tweet. Why bother?

there never really was...

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Star Member vlyons (2,585 posts)
1. So why don't you write something worth reading?

Why don't you be the one to write something useful, inspiring, thoughtful? Stop pointing the finger of blame at others and make a meaningful contribution to the dialogue.

 :rotf:

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Star Member Alice11111 (1,523 posts)
69. Yes, & if you don't like the tweets, don't read them.

 :lmao:

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Star Member Aristus (38,561 posts)
5. I agree with vlyons above.

If you're not seeing the content you want, why not create some?

To put it another way: you can curse the darkness or light a candle.

 :rofl:  Don't you ****ers know who you are talking too!?!? DO YOU!!!!????

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Atman (30,102 posts)
86. After nearly twenty years here, I don't have to answer to you.

I was a "front page" guy back when DU was just a fledgling site competing with AOL and Yahoo. Suck it, junior.

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50 Shades Of Blue (956 posts)
90. Backing slowly away....

 :lol:

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Atman (30,102 posts)
91. I don't understand.

Why are you backing slowly away?

If you have a point to make, MAKE IT. Why do I have to go to Twitter to read you post? If there is a compelling subject, TELL US, don't make us go to Twitter. If I wanted to surf Twitter, I'd surf Twitter, not DU. I don't see how that is so difficult to understand.

 :lmao:

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Star Member Denzil_DC (2,837 posts)
94. Maybe because this has been explained again and again.

See this post of EarlG's: "You can now embed Tweets directly into DU posts" http://www.democraticunderground.com/10138150

 :rotf:

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Star Member OldHippieChick (1,367 posts)
7. Do you also tell people to get off your lawn?

 :lmao:

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Star Member EarlG (15,455 posts)
16. I just clicked on all 80 OPs on the Latest page

7 of them contained a tweet.

 :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

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Star Member blogslut (30,662 posts)
18. We'll be sorry to see you go.

Good luck to you.

the passive aggressive version of "Go **** yourself, asshole."

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Star Member nolabear (24,560 posts)
85. For the fits of pique.

And the comaraderie, interesting info and long time associations. Oh, and the humor. And the cool admins and some smart writing. And the occasional shoulder to cry on or astute warning. And some entertaining trolls. And California Peggy.

Silly Atman.

 :cheersmate:

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Atman (30,102 posts)
92. WTF?

I think you're higher than I am.

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Star Member nolabear (24,560 posts)
99. Tough room!

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Title: Re: ACTIONABLE WATCH!!!! There is no point anymore- Atman
Post by: Skul on April 02, 2017, 01:21:09 AM
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Star Member EarlG (15,455 posts) 
16. I just clicked on all 80 OPs on the Latest page

7 of them contained a tweet.


 Oooooo, pedro. You poked a hive master.
Pack your colored pencils.
Title: Re: ACTIONABLE WATCH!!!! There is no point anymore- Atman
Post by: Carl on April 02, 2017, 05:33:48 AM
McGrath is just a loser.
Title: Re: ACTIONABLE WATCH!!!! There is no point anymore- Atman
Post by: franksolich on April 02, 2017, 07:47:36 AM
Actually, my good friend Atman has a point, and franksolich stands with him.

Despite that one of the smartest men in the world does it, having found it an effective means of countering malicious fake news, twitter is, essentially for shallow people whose thoughts about things can't go deeper than half a sentence.

It's trite, like reading a bumper-sticker.

As for the primitives' unkind comments about my good friend Atman, Atman has in fact written reams of his own original stuff for Skins's island.  His stuff, not copied-and-pasted junk, or one-sentence posts.  Of course it's been utter nonsense, the stuff he's written, but he has had original ideas, written about them, and posted them.

There was a time Atman was one of the top posters on Skins's island--not lately, but there was a time--original stuff, stuff he considered substantive even though we didn't.  When it comes to contributing insight to the primitives on Skins's island, Atman paid his dues a long time ago.

I suspect the primitives don't remember all Atman's written simply because the primitives are so self-absorbed, so narcissistic, that they remember only things they write themselves, not what other primitives have written.

<<<stands foursquare with Atman; if wants to read bumper-stickers, will go outside and look at cars.
Title: Re: ACTIONABLE WATCH!!!! There is no point anymore- Atman
Post by: SVPete on April 02, 2017, 10:37:00 AM
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Atman (30,102 posts)
86. After nearly twenty years here, I don't have to answer to you. ...

If you're going to defend your silly, petulant GBCW post, get your chronology straight, or at least get your math straight. DU was started in January, 2001. IOW, if The Mad At-ter was a founding member, he's been there just over 16 years. That's not "nearly twenty years".

GBCW posts pretty much never go well, especially if the one leaving insults the site members or the site itself. I would have thought The Mad At-ter would have seen this often enough to realize the fatuousness of GBCW posts.