other than the occasional read. But this community is open to opinions, views, and ideas supported by some sort of evidence. However, all views are (at least) tolerated. So jump in. The water is fine.

It ain't pretty sometimes, but it is something to learn from others perspectives.
Jack Pine was somewhat interesting to me in my occasional visit, but it didn't
always seem to click in my muddied brain. This site is worth investing some time and
attention to, as we tend to be a varied sort. Outlandish is generally not frowned upon.
Which is good. Sorry about your loss and welcome.
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So a page was formed after Brian Kemp realized non-symptomatic people could pass COVID. At first it was great! My kind of people. Trashing idiots like Kemp as well not trusting the Dems. It grew.

Then! The first Bill Clinton/George Bush post reminding us of 'better' times. Made me want to vomit. I expressed dismay. I had many supporters. Within weeks, the site had so many people promoting the Clinton/Bush era that I was removed for simply calling it out for what it was.

Needless to say the original people in the post were not Biden kind of people. We had to be silenced to allow the senile, war-mongering president to be able to make sure nothing what the people want happen. We must have war with Russia and China. That is all that matters. Black lives? Minimum wage? Health Care? Nope. Gotta send Pelosi to Taiwan to start yet another war.

I think for all of us participating online and in life, communication and community satisfy a natural desire to build relationships that are meaningful and have the potential for growth and understanding.

I think you might have misinterpreted snoopy’s comment. Maybe it was because you are feeling vulnerable at the moment, which is understandable and I’m sure appreciated by others. I would say from my personal experience, it is a time to be gentle with yourself and feel welcome.

are refugees, of one form or another. Many were shown the door from the Great Orange Satan, and wandered through the desert of a bunch of different Reddit groups before finally finding a home here. I hope that you find it to your liking, and that you can encourage some of the folks from your old community to come and see if what's on offer here suits them as well.

This is an amazing island of sanity in the midst of some distinctly unsane times. There are some disagreements, and the occasional troll, but by and large the community really works well. Welcome!

Since finding out from Ohio Barbarian's website that you intended to post it here. I, too, feel like I lost part of my tribe (the other part being here on caucus99%). JPR and C99 have been my two go to websites for all things progressive.

There really isn't much else out there.

I never went to Site Voldemort (out of respect, I won't give search bots the chance to return them hits), I came to C99 from The Orange Satan after discussions with other members like myself who were disgusted with that site. So we migrated here. That was when I started looking for other sites that shared the same progressive values. I found the newly formed JPR. These folks had likewise migrated from a corporate shill site. Or is that corporate shit site? I immediately felt right at home.

Like every family, there have been battles. Like here at C99, I was banned once (for dancing in joy at the death of George Bush Sr.). I forget why I got banned once here. But both places eventually forgave me and let me back.

As an aside, I've proudly been banned from the Orange Satan eight times and they never let me back any of those times. I suppose I could go get banned again, but even trolling corporate whores with truth bombs gets old after a while.

SFFH and I used to have our battles, mostly over censorship. I was unafraid to post something up about subjects he felt strongly repugnant. Like the Great Reset, etc. I felt as a free society, we should discuss any and everything. Once you censor the littlest thing, nothing is safe. Just ask lefties who once cheered the censorship of Alex Jones. How'd that work out? But when he passed away, I was saddened. He had created something special.

Then there was that thing about dancing on graves. Bad taste? Maybe, but I am unabashedly not sorry for dancing on George Bush's grave. Or the graves of others.

Things like this we argued about. But we remained family. And that is one more thing that set JPR apart of Site Voldemort or The Orange Satan. Aside from those last two places being full of corporate shills and CIA operatives. At JPR, like here at C99, you could talk about anything. And it was okay, even if we disagreed.

And now it's gone. Progressives are worse off for it.

I haven't felt like dancing since.

Thanks for the early history of JPR. Saw your comments at OB's blog. I miss JPR. So I'm here.

Motivated to add my sick and twisted thoughts. Not to bury them with faint damnation- It is worth remembering there were more than two iterations of this message board. It is worth remembering some active folks took a very conservative point of view to some blatantly obvious events and JUST LIKE THOSE SLIME AT DU tossed disbelievers out on their ear, eliminating some useful, accurate and intelligent participants, presumably diminishing their entire virtual political and philosophical output in a world overrun by botlike PR whores at every level. Then these white hat/helmet defenders of decency disappeared, as the mob was too filthy for their handling.
None of this would resonate so much if it were not for the bizarre history of disappearing progressive (for lack of a better expression in this corporate coopted triple speak world of lies called politics) discussion. From the day Media Whores Online shuttered at peak popularity, to the assault on Progressive Independent, to the transmogrification of the Bernie diaspora into a mirror for DU level of wheel spinning and finger pointing. Something has smelled funny all along. For responsible parties to shutter without warning is inexcusable for a variety of genuine reasons. Whatever lay at the bottom of this, trust was never deserved by any of these operators. Any offered was certainly betrayed. A series of disappointing events showing many folks to be just as vapid, racist, conservative, duplicitous and indifferent to the average persons real issues, while echoing the dismay or approval of propaganda to ludicrous degrees and utter hypocrisy.
like everywhere else, for the most part, as open information warfare against the people of the US wins every battle without a fight. Shame on these fuckers for all the bad things that happened to decent people, and the darkness behind their phony personas.

So Far From Heaven was often supportive of my posts in the early days of JPR and he was very flexible for people of different mindsets. My condolences to his friends and family.

Just wanted to say....

I was possibly the reason for the creation of the Creative Speculation group back then when Manny Goldstein was in charge as my lengthy posts about the White Helmets, Russiagate psyop and Wikileaks/Soros DC leaks, along with the Ukrainian Nazis, was very controversial at the time and led to a lot of conflict in the JPR community. He felt that I was too pro-Russia, (whatever that means).... A few of us were quite disappointed that the site we left DU for was also censoring highly-revealing information about our governments crimes. Manny Goldstein didn't seem to take a liking to that info coming out so he and the mods he put in place went after me and had me shut out. Sadly, Mary embarrassed herself with some of those emails she sent to me explaining Manny's reasoning for wanting me off the site. I guess I should be thankful, as that led to me setting up the site Clarity of Signal where I compiled a lot of that info after being tombstoned. I've been out of the groups for a long time now but still post at Reddit Conspiracy under the name Clarity of Signal. Just wanted to say hello again and let everyone know what happened. P.S. If Ohio Barbarian is also censoring or against posting about the Great Reset then a similar problem as the one I had with Manny and Mary still exists as that issue is incredibly important for everyone these days. It really is about the future of humanity, the choice between an AI and billionaire elite controlled Huxleyian-Orwellian dystopia and true creative freedom with consciousness rising for all humanity. Worldwide this rising of consciousness and understanding that the system is corrupt is taking place, and what we are witnessing now is the affects of these two paths for humanity clashing. Its gonna get a lot stranger yet but it's important to let all subjects be discussed and let freedom ring. Also I wanted to point out that the real battle is a class war, not left vs right or any of the other divisive issues their corrupt media uses to control us all. It really is the corrupt, murderous elite with their outdated systems of control versus We The People. With that in mind, be kind to your neighbor, turn off the MSM and get some lovely fresh air outside with friends and family as much as possible to keep raising your vibration. With that in mind, maybe the moun's and electrons will produce a future reality that is absolutely fantastic for all of us and we can leave these corrupt systems behind.... All the best.