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More and better more clicks.

Thank you and keep fighting,
Markos Moulitsas

But people have been saying that he is selling our email addresses when we sign petitions.
I signed one and the whole week my spam box was full of political emails.
So I believe that is happening.
And no, I'm not donating to a website that calls any criticism of Hillary right wing talking points. Or possibly being banned because he and Hillary's supporters don't like how we phrase that she is a fucking warmonger.
I responded to a comment from one of her supporters that used the word warmonger in his comment and said that just because we don't like her foreign policies or that any criticism of her is calling her a warmonger.

And his article from the Hill today calling for Bernie to drop out was disgusting.
Fortunately he can't ban the people who replied to his article.
I use a different name on discuss and said that he certainly has changed from crashing the gates to now closing them after he made his money from selling out.
What happened to the Markos that said that there was no way that Hillary was ready for the presidency in 08?
He's involved in the new organization that evolved from the DLC.

Only time I go there is to rec BNR and check for Bernie diaries. Otherwise I'm done.

Markos Moulitsas: Sanders: Time to bow out - By Markos Moulitsas - 03/22/16 06:38 PM EDT

May be it's Markos who should bow out. Or booed out, or whatever ... out.

In short, there is no plausible route for Sanders to overcome the advantage Clinton enjoyed of 319 pledged delegates before Tuesday’s contests.
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That’s just not going to happen.
Clinton beat Sanders in the South on the strength of the region’s Democratic base: African-Americans. She beat him in Hispanic-heavy states like Nevada and Florida. She beat him in white-dominated industrial states like Ohio. In fact, she’s beaten him just about everywhere Democrats came out to vote in numbers — of the nine states the Vermont senator has won, five have been low-turnout, undemocratic caucuses. While Sanders has gotten an impressive 6.3 million votes this cycle, Clinton has far outpaced him, with 8.7 million votes.

Just like Howard Dean taught us 10 years ago, you can’t build a meaningful progressive campaign without the support of African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians.
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In short, the Sanders campaign is now making the same argument it was decrying just a few months ago — that Democratic super delegates should subvert the choice of the Democratic electorate to hand the nomination to the primary loser. It was an absurd argument when Clinton made it in 2008, and it’s no less absurd today. And if anyone was a beneficiary of such usurpation of the will of the voters, it certainly wouldn’t be an outsider like Sanders.

Sanders is obviously free to stay in the race so long as his supporters keep funding his efforts. But no one should get angry when the rest of the party starts focusing on the Trump threat.

Daily Kos is part of my arsenal. The few remaining progressives there deserve my support, it is literally an act of courage now to post a diary. I respect that, and I'm still fighting with them. Secondly, and just as importantly, is the cross-promotion of this site when it is appropriate which I have seen others doing as well. I even expected Kos to do something about that, but so far so good... This is a powerful recruitment tool for people that have been funneled into Daily Kos for leftish content, imagine a fresh progressive landing there right now... They need to know about the alternatives until we establish ourselves.

However let me be clear, I understand, respect and sympathize with those who cut the cord, they have excellent reasons to do so. I guess I'm being more practical at this point. My 2 cents. Cheers.

*echo effect* The Edict */echo effect* ?

Everyone showed up on the 15th to look.

Still pacing myself for Bernie and a handful of progressives running for office this cycle, but I'm happy to put my money where my reading pleasure is here. Sadly, I'm about ready to stop my daily read-and-rec routine for LP's BNR and the other Bernie stalwarts whose diaries are up when I make my stop there. I don't want to give kos a single click. I think by this weekend, I'll be done.

Back to MsGrin, it's lovely to see more of the strong and lucid voices jump ship and swim to peaceful shores.

we're going to junk. Found my Bernie emails! Was wondering why I never got emails after contributing and signing up. :-). Moved them from junk. Left Daily Kos emails in junk.

I am sure all the Hillary supporters will send $5 to Kos, just like they supported Hillary with small donations. Maybe also will ask Maddi for a dollar.

He wants to run off the left and define his views as " progressive."

He lost young folks with the purge.

je m'en fou de ton French, but I thank you for teaching me the meaning of 'salopard'
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any views conveyed with reasonable civility, iirc. As are we all. What a relief!

That matters more to me, and I suspect to many others here, than whatever depth and (to me) questionable power the other place has. I don't take kindly to despotism, especially from a Democratic site: heavy on big "D" Team Blue rah-rahs and light on little "d." His prerogative, of course; ours not to play along. You're free to be here, there, and everywhere, and many who participate here opt to remain there as well. Freedom is good.

Sure to grow, with care and tenderness.

Of course c99p has been around one-twelfth the time that the other place has, and has a somewhat smaller membership. And there's currently a bit of venting going on, as new members here adjust from what they have left behind (and many haven't abandoned TOP).

The measure of this site will be what it becomes with a growing membership and a little more distance from the orange "original," as you put it. I tend to think this place has its originality, too, but that's just me . . . and the other thousand writers who have selected this place as a new home in the past two weeks.

Glad you decided to visit.

original for years if ever. But who ever said that was the goal - The power and depth to do what? Be the mouth organ of the party in power and a laboratory of team-building memes?

Kos started small, grew his base and became the powerhouse that he is, good for him. But as a consumer of his product, it's like when that restaurant that you liked a couple years ago franchised itself, started getting their food from a commissary, limited the number of items on the menu and one day you ask yourself - why am I still coming here? Co-incidentally, a smaller restaurant opens up down the street with a lot of good chefs which features a smaller menu and a great specials board. While there are fewer choices, I find a lot that appeal to me. Plus, the dining room isn't filled with people running around and turning my table over if I don't order what they like.

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Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side man...