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In reply to the discussion: So Ocasio-Cortez has not even taken office, and she's already planning [View all]A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)Or at least that how it seems to be.
But that's fine. YOU have been here a while. The fact that this board has morphed into what it is - this "I don't like him/her because he/she isn't exactly as I prefer" bullshit is frankly not only alarming, but god damned disgusting. And since you've been here as long as you have, I KNOW you have watched it happen.
This constant back and forth, I like/love him/her to I hate him/her over and over again. It's nauseating.
OH WOW! LOOK WHAT BILL MAHER SAID! HE'S ON OUR SIDE!
OH WOW! LOOK WHAT BILL MAHER SAID! I HATE HIM!
OH LOOK! A YOUNG WOMAN/MAN OF COLOR/ETHNICITY/RELIGION/LACK OF RELIGION HAS JUST BEEN ELECTED AND THEY ARE SURE TO ROCK THE BOAT ! YAY!
OH LOOK! A YOUNG WOMAN/MAN OF COLOR/ETHNICITY/RELIGION/LACK OF RELIGION HAS JUST BEEN ELECTED! AND THEY ARE ROCKING THE BOAT IN A WAY I DON'T APPROVE! BOOO!
And before you tell me some silly bullshit about how I can go to any other part of the internet I want to or I don''t have to open this website or pay attention to any threads, please. Please, please please. Democratic Underground has lost a FUCK TON of good and decent liberals and progressives over the years PRECISELY BECAUSE of the sentiments expressed in repeated threads like this AND THAT MAKES DU SUCK.
I put up a thread the other day calling out this bullshit, offering a large bus to throw people under and someone, likely SEVERAL someones got their noses bent right the fuck out of joint because...oh.,.,.I don't know...perhaps saw themselves in it? And it got alerted on and hidden. Why? This used to be a board where people could take a fucking joke. Or perhaps a ribbing. Or be told they were full of shit and not lose their shit because of it.
The active members of this forum seem to have shifted to an area that not only lacks an open mind, but seems to be sitting on their collective front porch, knitting away and yelling at all the kids walking on the fucking sidewalk to stay off my lawn!
I've said this before, I'll say it again here;
Just because I am not fully on the wagon some are riding on, I am assumed to completely off of it.
And FWIW, I don't feel I need to be told how it is by people who haven't been here long enough to remember BigMcLargeHuge or OPERATIONMINDCRIME or Bob Boudelang.
Fuck that noise.