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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Not sure what ‘s
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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Thanks magi
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.
The site is 'not going anywhere'.
Where is it supposed to go?
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
Quick!
Back to the roving HR gangs at Daily Whatsitsname!!
That's what I'm afraid of.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
FWIW someone over at JackPine Radicals gave us a shout-out today
https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/how-the-democratic-netroots-died/
I think it'd be fair to say that C99
Is the beneficiary of both:
Amen to that.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
I feel guilty for having caused the civility
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.
mimi
mimi, don't go
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.
Das hast Du sehr nett gesagt ... Danke Schön !
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.
mimi
Bitte schön.
yeah, but I am afraid of your teeth
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.
mimi
You got a deal!
The Soviet humor and satire magazine was named “Krokodil” !!
http://journal-club.ru/?q=image/tid/72
Oh-oh . . . Rachel Maddow and the Washington Post’s PropOrNot people