I think we are now living with fans shitting back.

The nail in the coffin of democracy. If your democratically elected government does something that costs a corporation money, even if it's just banning toxic dumping, that corporation can sue for loss of profits. No malice needed, just prove lost profits.

Banning of country of origin labeling. About half the fish in my local supermarket is labelled with "Origin - China". That will go away, so will any fish not from China as the price is half or one third US fish, whether wild caught or farm raised.

More job devastation. More pollution. more "donations" to the Clinton Foundation.

This thing is so bad that I don't have the luxury of voting for Jill Stein. I must vote for Trump because he has a chance to stop it.

make sure you have them copied and on a site you control. They are history, and it would be best to have them on another site, for many reasons, one being you have control of them. I'd hate to see them disappear, for whatever reason.

afflicted with post-DK blog war PTSD, but also real war PTSD. And I believe what traumatized them in both wars might come sometimes from overlapping or similar issues.

The differences I see that post-DK blog war PTSD is more personally related to certain posters by whom they feel abused or misused or ridiculed or put down.

In general I hope people can work on those feelings and overcome them. Distraction is working, like gardening, listening to music, art and all around craftsman activities. Triggering discussions have not always a positive effect. You try to flee from what is haunting you, I think. It's hard to "talk it away".
But may be talking helps as well.

Along with OPOL and MA Southpaw you were one of my bright lights at D Kos. Speaking truth to power and fighting off the Hillary dingos like swatting flies.
Facts, not emotion. Okay, so you get fiery. Since when is that a bad thing?
Take the time you need to regroup and regain perspective. Yours for the revolution, comrade. It ain't over, until it is. And it ain't yet.

As a comments-only kinda guy (and not many of those) my endorsement isn't worth shit, but you're alright in my book TomP.

The entire blog format is an old one that designers and site owners are moving away from.

That's not just my opinion, ether. I'm about halfway through my associates degree in Web design, and this is a concept that we covered in class. It's a format that places a great deal of load on a server, it's an expensive format to maintain, it only gets more expensive the more popular a blog becomes (mostly because you're never able to do this thing more cheaply than you are when you first start; you only do more and more of the same things that cost money, which increases costs, etc.).

The format itself is dying.

Let me add something: there is no honest reason why members at DK cannot edit their posts after posting. That is intentionally not possible at DK and frankly I'd love to know the real reason.

No technical or code-related reason. I know what I'm talking about, and I don't have to have seen the DK code base to know it. I'm glad I'm not there.... an unexplained lack of a very basic blogging feature on a site with that much exposure leaves me wondering about intentions.

I suspect intelligence, marketing, or marketing intelligence.

I've so appreciated your contributions to LD's BNR, which I continue to go to through, but the rest of the place has become such a cesspool that I get physically ill being around it. I hardly recognize the place/posters anymore.

Stepford Wives indeed. My dearest friend and neighbor, Sarah, and I used to make fun of them endlessly. Sarah passed on two years ago, but I think of her often these days. She would've loved Bernie's candidacy, and put her artwork to good effective use.

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I doubt I will be back until after Trump becomes president, and then only to say "I warned ya..."

you're saying RA. But now I look at it like this. IMHO, Liepar needs to pack up and move out of there. Hopefully a bunch of people would follow. Again, IMO, the BNR is giving the little boy owner something he can point at and say how fair and impartial his site is. We know better of course. And, as been mentioned here many times, just clicking on the site is putting money in the owner's pocket. BNR has/is really putting some serious money in his pocket. OPOL's diaries, TomP's, all of them bring viewers, clicks and $$. But I do get them wanting to stay there and duke it out with the owner and his sheep...

the same to you for Leonard Cohen.

how much it sucks over at TOP and how evil and toxic this and that person is over there, as well as many ranting diaries that are all similar in content, make it more difficult to comment on one subject at one place. It's pretty hard to say similar things at three different places and to chase the follow-up responses over several diaries, especially if people here come back to essays three and more days later and add a comment.

I liked it better in the beginning, because all the news dump comments went into the morning OT or the Evening EB. In the other essays, which have a specific to subject, you can easily comment in and be specific to the subject.

Diaries of a reader's relationship to the TOP (being TO, NR, banned, afraid to be banned, proud to be censored etc), draw a lot of empathy solidarity-type of comments and take time and attention away from essays, which were harder and longer to write and research and are harder and more time consuming to read and eventually to comment in.. That's a pity, imo, because those authors do deserve better.

There are so many excellent group and series essays here, which one can barely read at all, despite the fact that they are good, because the outrage of the day takes all the steam out of you.

Of course there is something like "talking yourself" through your "PTSD"-like emotions and thoughts.
It needs its space and circle of friends, here, among other things.

time there and the more we get over having been there, the more this site will have great original content unrelated to there and the more attention it will receive.

BTW, I post some content from here and some from there on my Facebook page, and the content from here has been getting the most responses and further sharing. It bodes well for here!