So, about OPOL's banishment - a solidarity plan
Okay, so it's a "time out" more than a full on banishment. The Kos version of a cult "shunning" to make a point. OPOL represents too many page views to Kos for him to risk losing him, he's just trying to make a point and get him, and anyone else thinking of defecting from the party line, to get in line and shut up. Like a company town boss suppressing a workers revolt.
This might be unworkable, but I wish it were possible to connect with OPOL's 1,700 followers and anyone else supporting Bernie and/or free and open dialog still posting at the GOS and get everyone to boycott posting for the duration of OPOL's time out. I know it can be tough for some (self included) to not go there and try to lend support for the few remaining, but it would be a thing of beauty if we could in mass stop posting for the week (two?) that OPOL is on time out.
Maybe a few of us could post "Why I Won't Post During OPOLs Time Out" diaries, with nothing more than a request for recs alone and no comments from anyone supporting and joining the writers boycott, and a maybe a request to repeat of the headline in a diary of their own to keep it going? Then follow it up by not taking the bait in the comments, or commenting in any other diary for the duration. If we see supporters posting send a private message asking them to support the boycott for the duration of OPOLs time out?
Am I crazy?
Comments
No, you are not.
I will likely get a time out for my comments to Might Mouse kos Himself.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Why Promote The GOS At All?
Seriously Kos is committing "Webmaster Suicide" why even promote any one visiting there at all...
Just let it go and build the alternative...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Amen!
Unless you think GOS can be saved, it's time to break the habit.
Let the place be.
I wish it could be saved
Not really believing it can be right now, but I wish I were wrong.
Cognitive dissonance.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
It's now been about 40 days...
since I last posted a comment, rec'd a diary or tipped a comment. I saw the handwriting on the wall before Kos made it official. After 12 years there, I admit, it hasn't been easy! I knew I was headed towards a banning. I just couldn't make myself be nice to the new
Clinton paid shillsHillary supporters. That place is now so infested with Hillary shills and sock puppets that you can't avoid them. They've banned a couple and the next day they're posting right where they left off before they were banned.And if you think the webstats are declining now, wait and see what happens when the primary is over and all the paid shills for Hillary quit posting. And trust me, they will stop the day the primaries are over. Kos will find himself in a corner mumbling to himself. He won't have anyone left to talk to.
So I'm staying away and plan to stay away for good. Should Bernie win the primary, and I still believe he can and will, I'll pop in over at TOP and see how many comments I can make before I too proudly wear the "Banned from Kos" t-shirt!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
If Sanders wins the nomination
either through the delegate process or the possibility that Clinton runs into serious trouble with the FBI investigations forcing the superdelegates to back him (I'm not picky), I'll be going back to rally the troops and help the Clinton supporters see what the Sanders supporters saw all along -- the chance to bring the country back to core Democratic principles as seen under FDR. Not sure we can count on Kos to do that.
Heh, beat ya by 5 days. My last comment or tip at TOP was
Feb. 20, other than a couple of inadvertent tips from control + f errors. . It's turning out to be easy as pie to disengage. I do "confess" to lurking, because I don't watch much TV and TOP meta is really quite entertaining once you realize it matters precisely not at all. As long as I'm still a TU, I do drop a few anonymous flags here and there, because why not?
Hillary Clinton 2016: I'm a proud progmoderate!
You are correct. There are MANY paid shills.
Or at least many individual accounts which are probably manned by 3 people.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho
I do t get it... Kos wrote a diary about how great DK is doing
Said traffic has never been higher clicks have never been bigger and new members are flooding onto the site in droves... ?
Orwell was an optimist
He's got to convince somebody!
If that's only himself, so be it.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
It must be frustrating for Kos that the progressive monster
DK helped create has now turned on Dr Frankenstein (wink)
And Inspite of the edict Bernie Diaries still take up most of the real estate on the wreck list. laFem wrote a great one the other day. Why I went from Bernie to Bernie to Bernie (LOL) it's worth not being banned just to rec the Bernie diaries and sit back and read how it's pissing the HRC crowd off to no end
Orwell was an optimist
He's a lying Pos
He makes shit up. The new users are socks by the hundreds. Plus kossak berners. Pretend they left then give him millions of clicks a day. And post comments ALL THE TIME. If that ain't you. Good.
See that graph up there?
Kos' version stops at that high peak, which was March 14 IIRC. Strikes me as whistling in the graveyard. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.
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The funny thing is that when
The funny thing is that when he wrote that BullShiot Diary he used an old graph in his diary...
There was already several days of steep decline showing when he published...
Quantcast posts the results for each day the next morning so the up to date chart would have had a ending date of 3/24/16 for an article posted on 3/25/16, as seen below...
As you can see he sells his site with the same dishonesty he sells his choice of candidate...
The graph here shows traffic for a month prior to his webmaster suicide, the peak visits when we went to watch the bloodbath, and the decline afterward... Still dropping BTW...
Each peak will be a little smaller and each valley a little deeper... There really isn't a reason to go there...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Yes, he never explained why he stopped the graph
days before he posted. But we can see why. He forgot the Internet rule, don't try to snow people, everybody can see everything and the Internet never forgets.
I read somewhere in the comments - I think it was over there, even - that the people who have come to the site just to gin up support for Hill will be gone once the primary, or at most the election, is over. That's so true, they've come for Hill, not for Kos. That graph will take a steep nosedive after the convention and probably again after the election.
I kind of hope Hill's paying him. He's not going to have much left if this was just the worst business decision of all time.
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No...
Caucus99percent.com does not have the script in the site coding that does the tracking cookie to show the results.
They have a clean site so they may not welcome the intrusion of information gathering that this would present to the users of the site. If you look as the results for GOS and scroll down you'll note the information gathered on site users from the tracking. It includes demographics, shopping, media, political affiliation, etc...
Really it is more useful to a site owner to sell advertising, and pat themselves on the back for their internet success, or in the case of the GOS we can see "the big fail" with next day results...
You can opt out of this tracking with browser settings, and cookie blockers, but really the tracking is everywhere you go on the net. I have Quantcast on my own sites purely to aid with gaining advertising. When I go to a new advertiser and they have requirements on the number of visitors I just give them my Quantcast Link and usually am approved right away.
If they do want Quantcast tracking data it is free all they have to do is sign up...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
I've got a better idea...
Get the fuck off Daily KOS and never go back. The place is toxic, horrid, and KOS is an adult nursing at the DNC teat. Who needs it?
Some of these ex-GOS-ers are worse than heroin addicts.
We need a Betty Ford Clinic for recovering DK'ers. Or are they just abused spouses? I can't seem to put my finger on it.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho
Either way, be kind,
just as you would to a recovering junkie or an abused spouse.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
It's more like an abusive relationship
And I think its only fair to give people time and a place to vent. Even though its only the Internet, a lot of people invested a lot of time and energy and put out their creative content and then were betrayed. That hurts.
Give people time... it will pass.
That's what makes me angriest
Always has. This casual mocking of and discarding of people, as if they cease to exist when they are banned. As if everyone who doesn't get with their particular program is automatically malicious and cannot feel pain at rejection and loss of contact. It's cruel, especially when they do it to people who have gotten fairly involved over time. It is some of the worst horizontal hostility I have ever seen in politics.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
It's an addiction
You create the Clinic, I'll check in.
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BNR
and I may forsake reccing Leipar when all is said and done.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
BNR
Until Leipar starts posting BNR here, I feel I have to go there to give him a rec and a tip. He works so hard to produce those posts and provide for live blog debate and election posts.
I'm already significantly tapering off my participation, mostly because I get the greatest itchy urge to declare/comment that I don't consider Bill and HRC to be real Dems, at least not the Dem party I knew as a young'un and I identify with as an FDR Dem. You know, in the old days, when the Dems stood with unions and the people and didn't decimate welfare or support privatised prisons, sign away Glass-Steagall, and didn't holiday with fucking war criminals. They, both of them, are just classier grifters than Huckabee and Sista Sarah.
The Clinton Foundation is going to be seriously investigated someday, and its pay-to-play operations are going to be revealed, sooner rather than later, I hope. But this time, I won't feel any obligation to stand up for them as I did in the 90s. HRC has completely and irretrievably lost me by the choices she's made, by the $$$ she's accepted, and by the way she engages in gratuitous lying, especially this campaign season. And I would love to see a woman president, but it's not HRC.
There are other options
we don't have to all disband because we've been displaced. Kos is right about one thing, it is a big internet, and there are many platforms to choose from, free ones at that. We can work it out, come what may.
bern baby bern disco inberno
It would be nice if we all landed in the same place...
Rather than become a splintered community off in all corners of the net...
Really what that blooming idiot that should never be entrusted with anyone's web content, did to us Bernie supporters in the start of a primary run is inexcusable. For me there is no return there with any meaningful content development in the form of a diary or comment.
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Liepar
Doesn't post here so we have to crawl back to that shitstain and humiliate ourselves to recommend him oh fuck that shit I ain't playing his game. He posts there to get eyeballs. He loves talking about it. Bnr rocks like hell but fuck that.
I don't crawl.
I walk proudly to post my daily comment. I will support Liepar until the end. I don't mind going over there and tipping, commenting, and rec'ing all Bernie supporter diaries, either. You sound like you are still very angry. Chill - it's much more fun to be a positive person and a positive contributor to the discussion.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
How about if everyone just left? n/t
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First Nations News
And then stopped even talking about it at all.
Let them become another establishment mouthpiece.
About what?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Daily Clinton still serves an important purpose.
We should go there to post "come to caucus99percent" diaries.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
That is about the only purpose...
A place to SPAM... LOL
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
We will drink...
your milkshake.
There is a very special milkshake for $hillbots...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_epmoLeRGA]
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Hah!
love that movie!
I'm still feeling the urge to push back
Gotta shake off the ick somehow.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Forward, not Backward!
The chant of the anti-walker protests. ("Forward" being the Wisconsin State motto.)
Some things we want to put behind us. Torture, no. dailyKos, yes.
That icky feeling comes from wanting to be wanted by people you don't respect. Fuck 'em. Move on.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I think that will get you banned
Kos was pretty pissed in his comment in OPOLS diary, before he put OPOL on a TO.... Said so ething about not allowing diaries that contain links to alternative websites....
Orwell was an optimist
Really? Wow, that's desperate.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
A lot of supporters didn't leave
This might be a way to get them to take the first step.
Like giving up any addition, we're not asking anyone to quit, just to give it up for a few days. And then a few days more. And then... a few more...
"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me
It gets better.
I showed myself out last week; I just couldn't handle it anymore. Plus hubby had to wipe my internet history so my internet would work again, and I haven't bothered to log back in since. It gets easier to not go back every day.
This shit is bananas.
One day at at a time works for lots of addictions, including TOS
I left the evening of 3/14 and I will never visit again, for any reason. I refuse to give The Owner the economic benefit of my page visits. It does get easier, and I believe c99p will emerge as a genuine meeting place for Liberal activists and an effective marketplace for Progressive initiatives.
There is a reason why the Page Views fell so far...
Like there is so little worth reading there any more...
And certainly not worth commenting on anything with all the $illarybot Trolls in the comments...
The thing is eventually even the $hillbots will leave when they get tired of sitting in their own echo chamber...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
I do like a lot of the non-political posters
There is so much information about Native Americans, El Nino and a whole host of other content not directly related to the primaries. Right now that is completely overshadowed but I hope that group of posters does not get lost in the wilderness.
Beware the bullshit factories.
There was a good piece
about chemists working on determining exact amounts of cannabis in baked goods, so that proper "serving sizes" can be determined for medicinal and recreational users. This is to avoid what happened to Maureen Dowd who ate an entire cannabis-laced candy bar when she should have only had a small portion, and claimed to suffer hallucinations. It doesn't mean that cannabis is bad...just that she's an idiot.
Just one candy bar and she had hallucinations?
Sometimes I can put quite a lot of cannabis in my body and yet still no hallucinations. Darn.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Knowing Dowd
you'd probably have to dose up with a couple bottles of wine to have her experience.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
Back in the 70's...
A friend and I baked a batch of brownies that had some pretty damn good weed and hashish in it...
An hour later I wasn't off yet so I had another...
Hole-E-Shit did I get off! But then again it was exactly what I was looking to accomplish...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Yeah, I'm going to miss the groups
for cooking and crafts I was in. Oh well. In the end it's better to move on from there.
This shit is bananas.
It is like moving to a new town.
I chose to stop writing 18 months ago at TOP and went back to only writing for my food and craft blog at word press. I only would go back to read once in a while or to make a comment. BNR was what brought me back daily just to read it. There was so little out in MSM on Bernie that I enjoyed the one stop place. I didn't like all the meanness that has been going on there.
You can find other options for crafts and cooking on the internet. You welcome to visit me when you miss your groups. https://trkingmomoe.wordpress.com/s Who knows maybe we can do something here together?
missing the small groups
I last posted over a week ago on WAYWO(What Are You Working On?) to let people know I had to leave. Those small, friendly interest-based groups kept a lot of good will and cohesion that previously sustained through heated primary seasons. I went over to give a rec to a pro-OPAL diary today, but limit visits to a couple a day, down from, like, dozens of check-in visits I used to make. (and I just read a diary and try to avoid looking at comments at all.) If anyone here is interested in a "crafts for the common good" series, to gather people who want to make things for donation/honoring awesome people, I would be happy to start that on a once/week basis.
missing the small groups
I last posted over a week ago on WAYWO(What Are You Working On?) to let people know I had to leave. Those small, friendly interest-based groups kept a lot of good will and cohesion that previously sustained through heated primary seasons. I went over to give a rec to a pro-OPAL diary today, but limit visits to a couple a day, down from, like, dozens of check-in visits I used to make. (and I just read a diary and try to avoid looking at comments at all.) If anyone here is interested in a "crafts for the common good" series, to gather people who want to make things for donation/honoring awesome people, I would be happy to start that on a once/week basis.
what happened to MySpace
at some point may happen to er, that other place. It was like rats leaving a sinking ship, the way I remember it.
Maybe he could reinvent the place as a "save the earth" site and earn a few clicks that way.
⍢
Oughtta ask him
I have a sneaking suspicion that when he gets time inned, he'll be right back at it. This one may just answer itself without further assistance.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Crazy?
I don't know if that's the right word for someone who can't walk away from an abusive relationship.
Screw dailykos.
I like OPOL just fine, and if he wants my support, I'll be happy to read the stuff he posts here.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
GOS, TOP,Whatever
I agree with the replies above,no need to visit there at all.Going there is like electing hrc it will just prolong the misery!
Who cares if OPOL got a time out
or was banned. Jeeze let it go, it's pure evil and who gives a rats ass, Thumb. The quicker posters on dkos realize it's a dead end and nothing but pure evil the better. Why drag the dkos sickness over here? Let it go. OPOL will keep on and prevai, he's golden. Why be a dead ender and keep knocking your head against a useless piece of shit website that passes it's self off as progressive or democratic/Democratic. It's Chinatown and while I admire and love OPOL please let it go. I don't want to have to deal with the inanity of dkos here. Why did I come here? Why did you? Who gives a rats ass about boss kos and that dead zone of democracy. Get over it and det9ox and join with people of good spirit who could giver a toss what goes on in that cesspool.
Delete my double post JtC
Gol' darn it I just got carried away and posted two comments that are a variation on a theme or just plan old reptetitive. No need o beat a dead horse no matter how dead it appears to you. Quit using dkos as some kind of whatever people it's just Chinatown writ large. OPOL will keep on keeping.
I'm not sure, but you look crazy!
I really have no idea whether your suggestions are crazy or sane in the bigger picture. I also hope that OPOL manages to continue writing without censorship, because he speaks to and for so many.
I’ve written very few diaries with very few words, but have spent enough time on DKos to surmise that it has been becoming less and less relevant over time, but I still very much appreciate the writers and subjects that I find there that compliment my interests. I think it’s in the best interests of all here and there, for OPOL to maintain a voice there, even if it is in Kos’ interest. So maybe your idea is really a good one.
For OPOL
[video:https://youtu.be/dh7er07uwes]
I got a TO from Kos today
Same diary, issue and time as OPOL.
I won't be going back to participate in any meaningful way. Either Bernie gets the nomination and it's unbearable there or Hillary gets it and it's worse. I'm not even a Democrat anymore, a hard lesson but my party has betrayed and deserted me.
Strange days, indeed.
Having walked away in carefully engineered
bit of timing, the only thing that could possibly tempt me to go back would be to post an endless stream of very large-footed ha-fucking-ha's in the event of Sanders winning the nomination. There are people there whom I would like to be able to tie in a chair and SCREAM ha-fucking-ha at.
But I hope that my affection for my perfectly-timed I'm-Outta-Here will overcome those angels of my worser nature, should such a moment come.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
For giggles
I've been trying to find out what happened to me there a few weeks ago. raptavio has tried to intervene with the mods to at least give me a response. Today he posted to my discussion, "bump per mod request." I have no idea what that mines, but I cannot even comment now on my own help desk discussion post. The other weird thing is that the front page is filled with Kos's first posts from 2003.
Giggles subsiding.
Who fucking gives a shit?
Is this site a extension of dkos if so let me out of here.
I absolutely agree
But dang I'm curious. I'd never been banned from anything before. It's a milestone and I'm itchin' to know any details.
I've got the details...
Tyrannical Despot Webmaster Crashes & Burns Website taking you out in the process...
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I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
I agree with shaharazade. Just leave that crap over there.
I do appreciate your wanting to support me, but it's not necessary. I certainly wouldn't want anyone to bring trouble on themselves over this pettiness. I have tried to maintain my voice there, thinking it could serve Bernie and all those causes so dear to most of us. Lately especially, I've done a fair bit of tightrope walking, and the diary that so offended today, I went through and deleted several of the most potentially offensive graphics before posting - trying to toe an ambiguous and imaginary line, so as to preserve the bullhorn I've acquired over there over the past 10 years - all so I could use it to support Bernie if he wins the nomination. My plan had been to hold off on a GBCW diary until Bernie lost. And if he lost I'd be outta the GOS and outta the Democratic Party for ever and ever amen. It may come to a head sooner rather than later. But no worries. Nothing to be done about kos. We'll find better ways.
So great to see you here!
I've been one of your biggest fans since your early days there. Your graphics and artwork changed the place dramatically. For the life of me I can't figure out what went wrong over there, but I won't be returning unless Bernie wins the nomination and then only to do a Happy Dance through the tears of Hillary shills before they go into permanent retirement.
So OPOL, please keep posting here! I love reading your stuff and am much happier reading it here! Peace out my friend!!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
Thank you very much.
It's sweet to read your comment.
Love your graphics
And your message. Not a member at TOP so I haven't been able to say how much I appreciate your voice. It's great the way you post your ideas over the top of images. I really think it increases their power. Do you do that with photoshop? However you do it I think they're creative and moving. Thanks.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You've been doing a great job, OPOL
Thanks for stopping by.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
I appreciate it, Miep.
Thanks OPOL
for all you do and have done since I got online and joined the fray. I love you, your thrilling, chilling dairies at dkos have kept me sane. Keep on keeping on and I'll read you were ever you go. So today I walked down my yuppie hipster street to buy some healthy food, lol, and heard a busker young and beautiful sing the songs the Grateful Dead wrote years ago that still resonate. I thought of your spirit and voice that was still relevant in 2016 singing songs of wisdom let it be. Keep on doing it wherever you can and do. Thank you.
Thank you shaharazade.
Mucho amor.
I got kicked within minutes of you...
for flagging the flagger of your diary. But I'd been skirting what was acceptable for 24-48 hours. I just lost my shit with all the tone crap et al. It's been soul crushing lately and it was always gonna happen. I even declared I was no longer a Democrat just this morning. A few hours later...
POOF! - history...
Nice to see you here. I feel we are among well earned companions, comrades in the struggle.
Antitheist here, btw...
Hey Antitheist, 33 1/3 here. Is that right?
Kicked out, for good, for declaring this morning you were no longer a Democrat?
The shit there just keep getting more insidious, and weirder and weirder.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
TO for a week...
Sorry. Mentioned that in a few other comments. It was in OPOLs diary that I got the warning and timeout, not the diary I declared in. I noticed I was one of the few that flagged the flagger that got a time out. Saw some warnings to remove or get a time out but not me.
But I had posted this comment a few hours before.
I'd been having some problems with my handle there so maybe I was a bit more obvious of a mark, I don't know. I caught shit on Easter for posting some classical music that had the word christian in it. Got a warning to not try to take digs at christians. I got pretty fucking pissed and let the group admin have it. Here's the thread if you wanna read it:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1506655/60570915
I know Kos is religious and there's no doubt the TO came from him. It seems far fetched it would make a difference but in the heat of the moment I sometimes wonder. That doubt made me choose a different name here. I'm tired of being fucked over 'cause I'm an out atheist and an antitheist.
rantoversorry...
:::sigh:::
Nice to see you 33 & 1/3 (Mark). Sorry to bend your ear.
inspiring
you were. I enjoyed the HR flap you mentioned, and am inspired by the leaving-Democratic-Party post you just shared with us.
Thanks for your courage, and thanks for sharing it.
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That was a Righteous rant my brother, thanks for sharing it here
The full breadth of what you said was honest and inspiring. I applaud your conviction. Wrote something similar in the same diary, but didn't overtly say the magic bannable words I guess.
In solidarity with OPOL I'm going to publish my rant as a diary there today.
Hope you're well, and good to see you here.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
A bigger and better bullhorn
without self-censorship would be more in keeping with my readings of your work. To put it crassly, even if you are the prize pig in the yard, you are still wallowing in the dirt.
Fine, you have spent 10 years there building up a reputation, but what happens to that reputation when people see where you have a reputation at? Time to let go and find a better place where your voice can be heard instead of just being the squeaky wheel.
You and LD were always my favorite writers there, but I need fresh air to live.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
I hear ya.
Thank you.
Hey OPOL! Glad to see you here!
I hope to read you here more often.
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
Wack Job.
I've been thinking of creating an honorary t-shit for all y'all.
Boho'd for Bernie. What an honor, really.
I have no need to beat you, I just want to go my way."~ Malcolm Renyolds
Hey, RR!
We need to calm that frog down. Anybody got a joint?
aye
bern baby bern disco inberno
We will find better ways indeed.
Keep fighting the good fight OPOL, you're doing it right. Its activists like yourself that reveal the true nature of the 1%. We'll follow you wherever you set up your soapbox and bullhorn, you are an indispensable asset to this movement.
In solidarity.
bern baby bern disco inberno
I can understand why you still were writing
over yonder -- sometimes you just have to keep talking in the hopes that someone will take their fingers out of their ears to really listen. It's the reason why Bernie Sanders spoke at Liberty University when many of us thought he was crazy for going there, or why he goes on all the Sunday shows when the network news department ignores his campaign the other 6 days of the week.
You've Done a Great Job, OPOL
On this:
I have tried to maintain my voice there, thinking it could serve Bernie and all those causes so dear to most of us.
For now, that is the only reason to participate on Daily Kos. So long as Bernie is in it - and it's not entirely impossible that he actually becomes the nominee and wins in November - your contributions serve that purpose. What the future holds for any of us, only time will tell.
Let me also say that I am also sympathetic to comments made above by shaharazade, even as c99% has increased almost ten fold in the past month or so. The ones who started this website, joined early on, participated actively, and kept it going need to be listened to.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
Thank you JnH...
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