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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on June 25, 2009, 03:11:48 PM
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elocs(1000+ posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 12:25 PM
Original message
"Nothing you post on an internet forum is helping to get anything done anywhere." Agree? (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5922181)
This was a response by another DUer to one of my recent posts. I disagree because I have been here long enough to know this is not true. Otherwise we are just venting and spouting feckless opinions here (although that does occur also).
I would like to hear what others say and maybe read some examples. I believe however small, we do help to get things done and changed by our postings and if it helps even one person then it is worth it.
So now the DUmmies start spouting what they've actually accomplished on by posting at the DUmp. :rotf:
rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 12:29 PM
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1. Tell that to Trent Lott, Jeff Gannon and Howard Kaloogian.
it was we left wing extremist "little people" on the internet who got those stories into the mainstream media!
99% of the country doesn't know who Gannon is, and I've never heard of the Kaloogian guy. Well done, DUmmies.
AndyA (1000+ posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 12:29 PM
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3. The seach engines index DU pretty well.
People seach for someone or something, and up pops a post at DU, often filled with facts not easily obtained through normal channels. I suspect a few people have had their eyes opened a bit wider, or at least did some research on their own, after reading a DU post they came upon quite by accident.
The world is a much smaller place now, I've learned a lot over the years from the things people have posted here. I don't always agree with others, but I do try to keep an open mind on most things.
Yes, DUmp facts. :whatever:
Atman (1000+ posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 12:30 PM
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5. We have been quoted on Rush, in print, on tv...people DO pay attention.
I think it is a bit much to say "nothing you post" is making a difference. It may be tough to measure the impact of internet forums, but the fact of the matter is, lots of movers and shakers do read them. It couldn't hurt.
Yes, you've been cited on Rush's show and in print TO MAKE FUN OF YOUR IDIOCY! Remember the tsunami threads, Texas Toast? How about the Secret Service visits. The DUmp is the laughingstock of the internet. Nice success, way to go, DU!
BuyingThyme (1000+ posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 02:00 PM
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9. Total bullshit.
EFerrari (1000+ posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 02:15 PM
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13. Nobody here should agree with that.
Edited on Thu Jun-25-09 03:01 PM by EFerrari
:)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3608367
The link goes to a "Save Andy" thread. That accomplished a lot, didn't it?
old mark (1000+ posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 03:47 PM
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15. While I definitely say we should be spreading our views/demands/opinons
amongst the rest of the world via posting on "real" sites such as MSNBC, CNN, even the stupid Fox as well as emailing our various congress persons and other elected officials, there is certainly a great need for us to get our opinions etc known among ourselves. We do have different views - we are not like the RW robots who dare not differ. We actually have THOUGHTS and FEELINGS and are not afraid of empathy and even (gasp) humor.
Some of you guys are real assholes, but you are assholes on my side of the fence and I am better for having access to your ideas.
mark
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kjackson227 (267 posts)
Thu Jun-25-09 03:57 PM
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19. I've heard Thom Hartmann reference a comment from a thread on DU...
on his radio show one day, and other media people use barackobama.com all the time. I think posting does help to a certain extent.
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Not the Thom Hartmann show!!!!!!!111111111
Once again, the DUmmies grossly exaggerate their importance in the political realm.
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Thanks to all the demands from DU, Teh Rove, Chimpy, and Cheney have all been frog marched.... oh wait. :lmao:
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Funny...mainstream democrat politicians don`t want any part of 9/11 troofers,hate filled diatribes on Sarah Palin and her children.
They want you silenced.
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Thanks for finding this, and bringing it over, Mr. Wiggum, sir.
The original bonfire on Skins's island is hilarious.
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Well, at least they saved Tookie.
And they got Ohio's electoral votes switched to Kerry.
As soon as it's unsealed, they will have indicted Karl Rove.
And they forced President Bush to meet with the Ditch Witch.
They uncovered the truth about MIHOP and LIHOP and chemtrails.
Now they're working on socialized medicine.
So there is cause for hope.
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Well we all know that every post at DU is possibly the funniest shit ever typed to a message board.
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Well we all know that every post at DU is possibly the funniest shit ever typed to a message board.
We also know DemocratUnderground.com was created to isolate the kooks, freaks, oddballs, troofers, and Little Goons in general to keep them out of the mainstream.
I've never heard DemocratUnderground.com mentioned anywhere that it wasn't followed by howling laughter or metaphorical vomiting.
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Oh my, they really are very good at inserting their heads in their rectal apertures, aren't they?
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They were mentioned by Britt Hume before his retirement.
Vicious Vendor
Meanwhile, someone posting on the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com created a fake eBay page claiming to sell Governor Palin's youngest child, Trig. The media watchdog site NewsBusters.org, a conservative site, reports it read "baby used prop newborn boy three to six months special needs."
The bogus page included a picture of Palin holding Trig during the Republican National Convention. The starting bid was $40 and the page listed Trig Palin's father as unknown. It also included a description that called Governor Palin a "pushy social climber, unwilling to let pregnancy and children stand in the way of ambition."
The fake auction posting is no longer on the site.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,419964,00.html
We all remember that one.
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The false view of self importance drips off the pages of Skin's island. I say let them believe the things they type on a worthless pol site actually holds some greater meaning. As longs at it keeps them out of my neighborhood then why should I care.
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"Nothing you post on an internet forum is helping to get anything done anywhere." Agree?
When the DUmmies finally come to that realization......the shock will kill them.
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"Nothing you post on an internet forum is helping to get anything done anywhere." Agree?
Dear DUmmies,
I call bullshit.
Sincerely,
Dan Rather and Mary Mapes
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I've never heard of the Kaloogian guy. Well done, DUmmies.
I'm laughing too hard to finish my coffee. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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So DUmmies admit that the media uses biased sources like them for the "breaking stories?"
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I'm laughing too hard to finish my coffee. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
I just googled the guy...and it's HUGH what the DUmmies did to discredit this guy, I'm SERIES!!!
The guy is practically a household word, I don't know how I had never heard of him.
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We also know DemocratUnderground.com was created to isolate the kooks, freaks, oddballs, troofers, and Little Goons in general to keep them out of the mainstream.
I've never heard DemocratUnderground.com mentioned anywhere that it wasn't followed by howling laughter or metaphorical vomiting.
Every time I see "Little Goons" I think of this (this was when pro wrestling was worth watching even if Bret "Hitman" Hart isn't in the video...Cyndi Lauper hated this song, btw):
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMi9tvuuZY[/youtube]
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Every time I see "Little Goons" I think of this (this was when pro wrestling was worth watching even if Bret "Hitman" Hart isn't in the video...Cyndi Lauper hated this song, btw):
That was painful. :-)
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I just googled the guy...and it's HUGH what the DUmmies did to discredit this guy, I'm SERIES!!!
The guy is practically a household word, I don't know how I had never heard of him.
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Hah, I googled him too. Never heard of him, but I notice his Wikipedia article has claims that are sourced by DU and DailyKos... Article flagged as a BLP violation. lol