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Showing Original Post only (View all)After 12 years and almost 20,000 posts it's time to move away. [View all]
To paraphrase Heraclitus, "No man steps in the same DU twice. It's not the same DU, and he's not the same man."
This is not the DU I joined over a decade ago, and I'm not the same man.
I no longer believe that party politics (or politics of any sort for that matter) has anything to offer against the underlying existential threat of our time, the destruction of the global biosphere. After 10 years of research into the root causes of this catastrophe I have come to the realization that the best politics can do is amplify the global breakdown.
It's been a slice, folks.
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Farewell, literally and figuratively. I recently concluded that issue by issue is a good approach.
merrily
Jun 2016
#2
At the moment, the DU "tent" seems full of people inside the tent pissing inside the tent. n/t
TygrBright
Jun 2016
#44
The kind of pissing I'd like to do would get me kicked out of this tent anyway.
GliderGuider
Jun 2016
#65
I'm thinking I'd have my hand on the spoilers most of that time with bases at that height
calikid
Jun 2016
#142
I am certainly also one of those who got what you were trying to say. Indeed, what you have...
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2016
#18
I want to second your post, madokie, especially the first paragraph, lol. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2016
#17
of course Glider is correct, but does one prefer to watch history unfold or look away in disgust?
vkkv
Jun 2016
#46
I would disagree that Democrats and republicans are the same on environmental policy but
pampango
Jun 2016
#50
Will you at least stick around the Environment/Energy board? You contribute a lot there.
StevieM
Jun 2016
#74
You've been one of the good ones, imho. DU will be worse off without you.
Electric Monk
Jun 2016
#86
I've appreciated a lot of your posts and input. You'll be missed by many here and
liberalla
Jun 2016
#88
Ten years and 20,000 posts is a great run and a demonstration of true committment
lapucelle
Jun 2016
#105
Trump changes his stripes, he was more left leaning years ago, but bottom line he has a Congress
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#129
The two party system has to go. They represent nothing but the same ole same ole.
YOHABLO
Jun 2016
#117
Bye. It's sometimes been a pleasure to chat, even if I really don't buy into to that "nothing...
NNadir
Jun 2016
#122
Party politics ultimately keeps people 'in line' with their own wishes, it is done by both main
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#128
Behaving in groups is our downfall, we should not be programmed to back candidates that ...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#140
Not opposed to people and making new friends :) but no reason to crowd our site ...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#146
Climate change and the sixth global mass-extinction event is happening now
SoLeftIAmRight
Jun 2016
#147