Pardon me if I say
I plan to hang our here for hours and hours...I want to make up for all the time I missed DU and I feel safer here than on twitter or anywhere else.
I had posted some notes about DU being down on twitter and had gotten some nasty responses by right wingers, telling me, they hope we never get the site back up, and they hoped that it will always stay down for good.
I also, left that other website, because I hated what I saw there as well. I just wanted to play my music, but I could not avoid all the crap that was being flung at this website.
Joni Mitchell once wrote lyrics that said:
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Its how I certainly felt. I need this place as someone who has always felt the need to be political and its certainly a safe haven for Democrats who don't feel like being beaten over the head every day by People who JUST HATE. HATE women, hate minorities, hate leftist ideas, hate democratic ideals, and just HATE anything that is different. They are even threatened by people speaking a language other than English in their presence. How did all this even come about? Its just so nuts. So don't mind me, (please) popping up in a few threads planting my two cents worth. I just, like some of you, I suspect, need a safe harbor, away from the flying shrapnel and in coming bombs from the right wing.
With all they plan for the next four years we will need strength in numbers and a place to seek refuge from the insanity that this country will transition to.
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by logging trees, and mining the GRAND CANYON. No one can stop them this time.. IF they want to take out ALL THE CALIFORNIA REDWOODS, than they will and will shove a huge middle finger in our faces. I suspect more than a few people will be strapping themselves to Redwood trees before long...
Say good bye to these giants
I got into some nasty tussles with trolls on the DU Facebook page, and on another group page where I post. On the bright side, it helped me sharpen up my troll squashing skills. But I sure missed my friends on DU. 
He finally disappeared. And my question, in both English and Russian, was to ask if he was paid by the word, or by the post. And was there a bonus if he posted rude pictures.
Another persistent guy disappeared after I corrected his grammar. I'm a little disappointed because he was my favorite. I didn't even take it personally when he referred to me (now I'm paraphrasing) as a hellish, blood spurting, spell casting demon witch from hell. 