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10. I find DU to be informative

A month or two ago, I actually quit DU for about four days. Tired of a seemingly endless barrage of personal attacks on the one hand and pretty much being ignored on the other.

Then I popped in for a visit and right away found a thread about the election in Missouri. The local news had told me nothing about that.

The same would be true about he primary election in New Jersey. Neither the local, national or newspapers would tell me that, but I found it on DU.

Another time I remember visiting my sister and we were talking about various things happening in the world and mentioned Bea Arthur and I related a video which I had watched from DU (among other recent news items) and she said something like "you are certainly keeping up on the news". Yes, I was, courtesy of DU.

GD has always been a bit of a moshe-pit of "debate" - bare-fisted debate, as it were. I miss the days when the lounge was kinda GD-lite. At some point Skinner announced "the fun is over!" meaning no more sex threads could be posted in the lounge. So there was actually a time of political discussion in the lounge without all the "try to kill the people on the other side" mentality. The the lounge kinda found other ways to be silly and most of the political discussions stopped there and it was all about the cats and such. Plus, primary 2008 was heating up and I thought it was time to get more serious about the politics, so I moved away from the lounge.