Do we have 'Open Threads'?
One of the things I got used to over at Daily Kos was the concept of the 'Open Thread'. This was an OP that was started either automatically or by an admin roughly 3 times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) so that people could post on any topic they wanted to, without cluttering up the site with 'top level OP's. So if you had, say, a comment about Capeheart filling in for Kornacki and explaining just WHY he had to agree with the DOJ's report on 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' being a false narrative, you could, without the feeling that you then had to sit around to be on hand to respond to replies, or to do much in-depth analysis. You COULD still take a comment from an open thread and go ahead and expand on it in an OP if people thought it was a good topic, but it was a sort of 'clearinghouse thread' for one-off comments so you didn't wind up with a zillion OP's on the site that got maybe 1-2 comments.
(BTW, Capeheart explained that he felt he HAD to go with the DOJ narrative, because he felt that in order to maintain his credibility, he needed to accept the official DOJ report, because there was no more authoritative investigation to be had, and he said he felt he had to accept 'something'. That, essentially, if you called for a DOJ investigation, you had to accept the results it presented. While I can understand this, I also find it somewhat troubling in a way, because it's actually the same as calling in the police, then saying 'because there was a police investigation, we must accept what the police report says'. And we know how well that works. So it's that dynamic of 'who do you trust? IS there anyone trustworthy out there? And if not, what does it actually take to restore trust in our institutions of 'justice'?)
And also, btw, feel free to treat this as an open thread, and post on anything you want, even completely unrelated.
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