Anybody else think that GD is kind of mean spirited?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1002Maybe it's just me?
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Sheesh! It's like Idiocracy combined with Soylent Green in there.
I responded to a post once, in my capacity as a Physician Assistant, that smokers shouldn't smoke around their kids, or you know, smoke at all anyway. You should have heard the howls of outrage from the smokers. Everything from "nicotine isn't poison!" to "I've smoked three packs a day for forty years and I'm perfectly fine!" to "You're not really a medical provider if you dared to say something like that, so phthpthphthphth!"
I got called a torturer and an unethical provider when I mentioned an encounter once with a patient trying to shake me down for narcotics.
I have DU friends who are constantly raked over the coals in GD for anything at all or nothing.
It's insane...
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and the audio, too. 
and this goes to the folks replying as well (or maybe more so)
Part of what should make the lounge more comfortable than GD is that is is NOT GD. It is a generally accepted "policy" that we can rag on GD if it is done in a humorous way but calling out and real complaining of it or especially other groups or individuals is not cool.
So yeah, GD is 
and the Lounge is more 
with a touch of 
but please keep the 
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end of my 
honestly your OP is even OK stand alone without knowing the copycat (though more funny is always better!) but a few of the replies were veering towards gd-level bleh.
Kind of touchy out there and it needs to STAY out there. I didn't alert or anything, and I doubt if we could get consensus to lock anyway just wanted to remind EVERYBODY of the Lounge's purpose. 
it's done that before! 
I just got so fed up. I had to trash so many threads and words, why not the whole dang thing. I'm sure my mental health and anxiety levels will greatly improve now
Your DU experience much improved.
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Humans are not apes and monkeys.
We only act like them...
But, 
No thanks. And I have a PhD in the damn field. I stay out of both forums as if my life depends on it.
I imagine you got a lot of grief on that, but I feel I made my point and I would have wasted a lot more time today had it been kept open.
Especially by posters I don't take seriously.
You guys have way more action than Politics 2014. Way more. It has been a heck of a week.
"Kind of"???
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..granted, most of those are conservative sites.
(also, I almost used a word other than "admiration"
I strive to only comment on those few threads that are more along the lines of a discussion and only casually skim the fights, usually having to back out of them because they're bringing my former good mood down to the basement drain.
Something that DU has taught me over the years is a couple of personal definitions of words.
A discussion is a conversation between two or more people with the intent to learn something between them.
A fight/debate is a verbal/written brawl with the intent to WiN!!11! at all costs.
I don't care if the dictionary agrees or not; that's my interpretation in how both are approached on DU
That's a much better term!
