So it's Us vs. Them now, huh?

Submitted by JtC on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 9:34am

OOOOkay.

It appears the spirit of caucus99percent is dead. It took 4 years for the experiment to be done in by factionalism. I always thought that the left/right divide would be the undoing, I guess I was wrong. It was a good try though.

I now fully understand why political sites have hard standing rules.

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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 10:02am
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Coming down, but if there is anything I can do let me know please. Thank you for all you do. ( I mean it. )

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Submitted by JtC on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 10:17am

@magiamma
To be clear the site itself is not going anywhere. The spirit is dying though, post by post, comment by comment. I've been watching it in real time for a while now. I don't know for sure myself what may be coming down, that's mostly up to the members here.

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Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 10:22am

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Where is it supposed to go?

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Submitted by edg on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 12:04pm
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Back to the roving HR gangs at Daily Whatsitsname!!

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Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 12:59pm

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Submitted by lotlizard on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 10:32am
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@JtC  
https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/how-the-democratic-netroots-died/

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 11:06am
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Is the beneficiary of both:

JPR is evidence that the Democrats are playing whack a mole with the blogosphere.

Another example is Caucus 99%.

When the authoritarians take custody of a forum or blog, another rises in it’s place, and it is typically, more radical than the one that was coopted before it. Probably because the displaced members are slightly pissed off. Probably because some of the brightest minds and skilled communicators are driven off, leaving blind followers behind.

It harkens back to a favorite saying from the days of #Occupy.

“You can’t kill an idea.”

Amen to that.

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Submitted by mimi on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 12:04pm
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@JtC
to be destroyed and divisiveness increased. As I am not an American and now thrown into Germany since 2 1/2 years in which my morals and civil conversation degraded and disappeared slowly but surely, I would like to say that all of it was my fault since quite a while.

I have started to see many issues differently from how I saw them before 2017, when I was still in the US.

I can't express my changed view points clearly or calmly. It also shouldn't be of any interest for Americans, so I should not try to let my huge political frustrations hang out and express them like I did.

If Us versus Them is killing the spirit of this site, I am willing to never talk here again.

I don't want to be the one who caused "the idea" to be killed. I believe I was. I am sorry for that.

I will be gone for at least twelve weeks. Time to recover the spirit for all of you, I hope.

Feel like crying now. Bye.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 12:38pm
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@mimi You are far too hard on yourself. For instance, I could do a much better job at castigating comments than any you have wrote. Besides, you and lotlizard are my only hopes to revive my dormant skills in Deutsche Sprechen.

Your world view is valuable because of an independent mind set, since you were not indoctrinated in Amerika and Amerikanism as a child.

Gustav Mahler wrote a song cycle about the great Amerikan experiment on educating young children, called Kindertotenlieder. The title refers to the minds of the kinder. I heartily recommend this musical enterprise to anyone feeling down in the dumps if you wish to become suicidal.

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Submitted by mimi on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 1:28pm
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@Alligator Ed @Alligator Ed (edited spelling error)
PS I just go into a hospital and into a long rehabiliation care afterwards. I use that time to not be connected, because there is no way to be connected to the intertubes inside the hospital anyway.

Die Ärzte sagen, ich sollte mal abschalten. Und das tue ich auch. Verstanden? Vielleicht gehe ich ja einmal in den Zoo und schaue mir die Krokodile an. Dann denke ich an Dich. Wink

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 2:23pm
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@mimi Aber ich bin eine Alligator--nicht Krokodile--niemals!

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Submitted by mimi on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 5:13pm
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@Alligator Ed
so if I am going to see you in person, I imagine you as a Krokodil. Let's meet us in the middle. If you come to Germany, you will be my Krokodil, If I come to the US, you will be my beloved alligator.

In the spirit of civility ... I think we are doing fine. Preved

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 6:08pm
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@mimi

Drinks

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Submitted by lotlizard on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 8:56pm
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@mimi  
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