http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1419640I found this thread to be strangely ironic. The DUmp is a hive mind and it purges unsame thought with Orwellian efficiency. Unsame posts are either removed or if an unsame thread, moved to the dungeon.
The replies are kind of lame as you would expect it to be. How many opinions can be changed when essentially they all think the same. In my mind this is what DU is like:
You have two people who are going to buy a car. The choice is between two cars that are the same make, model, color, interior, options and their biggest disagreement is the position of the headrests.
Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jul-06-11 12:04 AM
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33. What was posted on DU lead me on a path to change my opinion on Anthony Weiner.
Edited on Wed Jul-06-11 12:13 AM by Kaleva
it wasn't any one post in particular but some of the comments made got me to thinking and to do some google searching on Weiner. It was after that I changed my mind on him.
One of the most vanilla of posts. Unless you dig for it no one has any idea what his original opinion was and what it was changed to.
I also wonder how many of his (and others) positions were changed by actual reasoning than by plain peer pressure.
It seems the biggest theme is gay marriage. But mostly on civil unions vs marriages.
KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-05-11 03:01 PM
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8. Yeppers. I used to be part of the "why don't they just accept civil unions and be quiet?" crowd.
Then the most esteemed Bertha Venation fixed my red wagon by pointing out how unfair it was that Britney Spears could get married as a joke but she and her life partner of two decades could not (at the time).
EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-05-11 03:05 PM
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12. I was right there, too, until about 2004.
Edited on Tue Jul-05-11 03:06 PM by EFerrari
I don't remember anyone fixing my wagon but do remember that it was reading ruggerson that helped me figure it out.
Was this even an issue in 2004? I know the DOMA was passed in 1996 (and signed into law by Bill Clinton btw-suck it dems) but I do not remember this burning up the any of the message boards.
DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-05-11 03:05 PM
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10. Yes. Gay marriage.
I was arrogant about it. I had decided that everyone should have civil unions, not just gay people. How stupid was that? Now I know that I was arrogantly brushing aside their concerns and replacing them with my own.
All it took to make me see the light was a person here asking me why it should be called something else just because gay people want to do it. I also know now that marriage is well defined by law, over hundreds of years of Precedents, while civil union is not well defined at all; therefore, there is no equal protection.
So it has to be marriage for all. Period.
Ideally I wanted more out of the thread and was hoping someone would have stirred the hive up a little.
