How did you find DU?

In my case, It was 2002 and I was getting revved for the legislative races. I literally, just for the hell of it, Googled the keywords Democrats and underground. I was looking for a site that was Party oriented* but decidedly NOT official.

Lo and behold!

I had no idea whatsoever this place existed but I clicked on the first result I got, started reading, began to laugh, and signed up maybe five minutes later.

I was here to celebrate the 32,000th member!

*and accidentally found one that was "little p" party oriented, too--the Lounge...

when dKos refused to let us discuss the possibility of anything having gone wrong in Ohio. I saw DU mentioned one day and haven't left since.

How are YOU?

:hug:

I found DU when http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=sabra+halliburton+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com">sabra posted about the http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=halliburton+david+smith">news stories regarding my Halliburton efforts in 2006. We were monitoring the coverage very carefully for provably false rebuttals from Halliburton, and sabra's post came up.

- Dave

All is well over here. And it's 2008, and we're gettin' a new president!

:hi:

Music to my ears, that new president bit!

Stocking up on http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=stoli+boli+patsy+absolutely+fabulous&spell=1">Stoli and Boli, dahling!

Wish me an http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=edina%27s+birthday">early happy birthday, won't you Pats?

- Dave

And real feelings for real people??

Nov 09th 2004 to be exact. And for very similar reasons.

I waited a little longer than you, until Nov. 22. :hi:

And I guess that's why I predominantly visit DU as opposed to Kos. I felt much more welcome here. I spent pretty much my whole entire first year in the Election forum.

I did as well. 2004 ERD was also the genesis of the Keith Olbermann group here at DU, because he was the only one mentioning Ohio. I don't know about a whole year, but it was definitely months and months before I ventured into GD.

and DU, then started to do a bit of googling.

I lurked a little at first but as I got angrier and angrier about what was going on, I found myself drawn to it until it has become an addiction. :)

LBN and the formation of the groups in 2004 helped keep me after the election -- GD was just too painful.

Well, at least in 2001 you would have been amazed. These days that's pretty tame, but that's how I got here following the cookie crumbs.

OTOH, Bush and the f-word yiels a whopping

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,070,000 for bush fuck. (0.26 seconds)!

:rofl:

I followed a link from the late and much-missed Media Whores Online, and have come back almost every day since.

Read that for about a year, and after the 2004 election I signed up and started posting. :)

here in the UK. First time I watched it that coincided with a DU anniversary and DU'ers kept 'phoning to get the oar in. Decided to check it out and quickly found like minded people.

:D


But honestly I don't remember...I've slept since then.

I lurked for a loooooong
time before I got brave
enough to post. ;)

I checked in every week to see the Idiots then I wondered, "Hey, what's with all the swear words on the side of the homepage?

Was following links from there one night. I knew at once I'd found a home.

In 2002, I found a link to DU on a democratic message board, whose name escapes me now.

I started reading LBN here after that.

I joined and began posting after a link was posted on the John Kerry forum that lead me into the rest of the forums. I don't think I ever realized there was more to DU than LBN before that.

I was really tired of MSM and I found a link. I lurked for a bit before I signed up.

I signed up through my job's computer in '01? or '02! :P

:shrug:

I tried to keep in touch at the library but it wasn't plausible.

But had to re-register after that job went the way of the winds,
as in, moved out of state and now, out of the country, I think.

On second edit: I worked at that job in 1999 and 2000!
So I must have signed up here at that time! :crazy:

I wish I still had all that info! ;)

then Cenk from The Young Turks mentioned it a couple months or so ago.

And I love it!

http://bravenewfilms.org/election

proudly claimed they allowed any and all opinions. After I made a crack about how Bush was turning into the worst president ever, I was banned, with a note to come here.

i used to come read that and found the forums. i lurked for 1.5-2 years before finally joining.

though Media Matters does a good job, too. MWO was the first, though.

"The site that set out to bring the media to their knees, only to find they were already there!"

:shrug:

The forum was a free for all: excellent training....

.... if you posted there regularly, we probably knew each other.

I was a younger, more polite, less profane man back then.

I also never allowed my clown shoes to show.

I enjoyed it there, but prefered the greater speed of this place.

Smirking Chimp. Was pleasantly surprised. I've laughed ever since at the witty and clever people on DU.

at work for the 2000 election recount and a co-worker told me he had heard about DU from a friend and he thought I might like it. It seems so long ago. I lurked, I joined, stayed away long enough to lose my password and forget how I spelled my login- graylib or greylib and signed on under a new user name. Haven't been away much since.

was bashing it way back in 2001-2002 and I immediately came here and started causing problems for same douchebag.

I was on a fishing website, one of their forums was similar to the DU Lounge where anything goes. The topic under discussion at that particular time was politics. One redneck didn't like what I had to say so he told me 'you ought to be posting in DemocraticUnderground' rather derisively. I checked it out just to see what he was talking about. Lurked for a while and have been here about five years now. If I knew who that redneck was I'd thank him profusely.

I am on the mailing list of "the best of the web" from the WSJ. And one of them mentioned DU, with a link, of course. I think that it was a story about the difficulties that we will have encouraging our kids to excel at school, after a C student - Bush - is the President. This may have happened around January 2004, just as the primaries started and this was a great place to find out about the candidates. Also, I used to be active on another message board dedicated to a specific public issue but on occasions would slip to politics, where the majority were, are, RWers. So this was such a nice change, to be able to talk about Democrats and to to face constant attacks.

And in many cases I would seek information to rebut idiots on RW boards and was always rewarded.

I was so discouraged. I don't actually remember how I got to this site. It must have been through some other political site. But I have been here almost since it started. Although I did not post anything at all for months. I was too chicken. Now just try and shut me up!

joined after the hanging chad fiasco in FL...it was comforting to be among like minded people

I think? Been so long. I lurked until joining in November 2003.

when I heard Elizabeth Edwards mention it somewhere.

the FIRST available screening possible in Arizona. While I was skimming his website, he had a link to 'Music Row Democrats', which I clicked on and, "Bovina Sancta", there are people posting things I had been screaming at the teevee for a couple of years!
One of the more prolific posters at MRD had a sig line link to DU. I clicked, and the angels sang.
Been spending waaaaay too much time here for (almost) 4 years, but honestly to Dog, I don't know how I would've made it, otherwise....So, THANKS, ya crazy bastiges!

---Darlene :loveya:

found a whole slew of great places to visit, none better than DU....although I do get a kick from Dubyaspeak.com! DU and Talking Points Memo are regular reads for me.

I was in shock at the time. I couldn't believe that more people weren't upset with what was going on. I was so thrilled to find DU, I've been a daily visitor since.

using the googles to try to find like minded folks - found Buzzflash and from there I found DU....

I was looking for sites about election fraud, cuz I KNEW it took place and was looking for others who knew too. Somehow I found blackboxvoting (Bev Harris' site) and someone there posted a link to DU. Been an addict ever since :) Just don't post as much as I used to. I am probably the most guilty lurker on DU ever :hi:

edition of DU on inauguration day, 2001... Early adopters like Will Pitt and others were here... I didn't sign up until a few weeks later, though, since I was using a borrowed "puter"....

Boy, was I glad to have found some like minds. I doubt I'd be sane today, if I hadn't!

...Sam Seder urged his radio listeners to sign the Bring Back Mike petition on DU. It was just a few weeks before the '06 election and DU was in a raucous, impassioned pandemonium. I was hooked immediately.

It was so long ago I was having a hard time remembering the specific incident that led me here.

I lurked forever before I joined and posted. As you can tell, I don't post often.

furious and sickened by the 2000 selection, and utterly appalled by the national reaction to, and pro-bush consequences of, 9/11-- I googled something to find other people to relate to. I don't remember what, exactly. Nothing about political parties, since I wasn't at that time a member of any party.

I wandered in Rimjob's Den of Nitwits looking for amusement
(which there is plenty of) and lo and behold,
they were getting all worked and freepy about a place called DU.
I figured if they hate it, then I'm gonna absolutely love it.
And I do.

(and those dumbf*ck freeps are still pretty darn hilarious)

One of the other players kept posting it on one of my chess sites.

I had to check it out.

I liked what I saw.

and it's still my favorite thing about DU..

Seems to me it was around 9/11. I googled "democratic messageboard" looking for a site with like minded folks and when I got to DU. I checked the mission statement or whatever and it mentioned that it was a site for Democrats or progressives. Since I was not really a Democrat per se (was not a Republican either, considered myself independent), I still thought I'd dig it here. Lurked until about 2003 when I finally signed up and started posting.

Despite the fact that I sometimes really have a hard time with the partisanship prevalent here, I still come back everyday.

and found them here.

...and the first thread I opened was by Starpass which contained a very salty and crude description of Babs...

:rofl:

I was hooked...

So many have come and gone, some back under other monnikers.

Starpass was a-ok in my book!

I'd been reading (and posting) there for some time, but after the 2004 election, I lucked on a link to DU, and I've been here ever since. :D

To one of the very first Top Ten conservative idiots, back in 2001?
I found Bart through Betty Bowers.
I got to Betty Through Landover Baptists.
I found my favorite church while looking for an Atheist discussion group.

I LOVE that site, love it, love it, love it!

I found Landover and BB through DU.

I made my bones the night of the 2004 election. Been here ever since.

I linked here from a Wes Clark forum and discovered where America had gone....

What a relief it was. I lurked for a couple months then jumped on in.

I figured if those 2 putz's hated this place it had to be wonderful. And of course, it is.

I've been a Freeper my entire life...then one day I woke up and questioned everything I thought I knew. I started thinking for myself (what a novel concept). I work in a very, very right-wing dominated environment and I remember one day some guys at work talking about those "left-wing nut jobs" and I noticed they were viewing DU. So naturally, when I realized I was a progressive democrat, I went straight to DU!!! :pals:

Questioning is good, even here. Best of luck to you, keep reading, listening, thinking, questioning.

I don't remember how I found DU.

Glad to "see" ya! :hi:

I came from republican family, was still republican when I married into the military (actually I wasn't really paying attention). It was the hunting of Bill Clinton that actually "woke" me up to the fact that I was not a Republican. I became active because of the 2000 election. (knew Bush was an evil kind of stupid). But I didn't find DU till 2003 when I began researching '04 candidates.

I lurked for awhile, and think I joined right after septembertheeleventh.

of his old website, and I think his site is still listed here :)

I lurked for about week and saw threads I just had to post on then registered.

Strangely enough, I heard about DU at Free Republic. I had googled something and one of the hits that came up was FR. I clicked on a few threads, but I could tell right away that it wasn't my kind of place. However, one of their posts mention something called Democratic Underground, so I googled that and I've been around here ever since.


:crazy:

We had some communications with the founders of DU, but I forget the specifics.

Later, I met them at a Bartcop event in DC at James Carville's restaurant just before it went under.

Remember when Carville was actually a Democrat? I still have the T-shirt.

been here ever since, it's my online home

or something after the 2004 election when I was scouring the internets trying to figure out what went wrong. I felt like the election had been stolen and that led me here where a lot of other people felt the same.

but then it could have been WTF is it now, The River, daily kos, americablog, or any one of dozens of other left wing blogs.

nowadays i kinda live on DU, and click to other pages when a link intrigues me enough to do so.

just had to add, i think it was the top 10 idiots that hooked me and kept me coming at first.

I thought it was best to stay with one website (DailyKos) where I'm like within 3,000 users. Then I started to want to post but I didn't. I looked for the Top 10 and Nostamj's posts (I truly enjoyed looking at his posts). Then Nostamj died, and I finally posted to offer my condolences.

It's a sad way of joining DU but that's my story.

which by the way is due tonight. :)

Why God, why didn't I listen :cry:

:sarcasm:

It's how DU came to be - some thousands others were doing the same.

fateful morning.

I was so disgusted and upset that I couldn't go to work. Turns out my lefty boss lady at the time felt every bit the same as I did and we ended up having lunch with my other lefty colleague to recover from it!

that we really didn't have a vote so much as we have more of this system of corruption topped onto corruptions. I don't regret a moment spent here, it's all been worth it. Learning all those things they didn't want to teach in school has been great, thank you everybody :thumbsup:

at Greenland." -- JL

Seriously. Somebody was holding a sign up with the web address.

i saw it on a bumpersticker. but i honestly cannot say if i was already here.

Have never looked back.

I was wearing a scarf with glued letters: "IF AMERICANS WANTED W, THEY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HIM" A republican kid asked his mother what did that say "It says they love W dear" To wich I smiled sweetly and told the kid: "Your mommy is lying to you. it says W was not elected - he stole our votes" One of my earliest posts...I am getting teary

And when I started a search for websites mirroring my feelings that day (not sure what terms I searched on), DU came up and ding, ding, ding- that sign's message clicked!

Shortly after the 2000 election, I found myself on a newspaper's message board fighting with dimwitted Libertarians. If you can believe it, when I made a salient point in one debate, one of the asshats started hitting on me. I got bored with them very quickly, realizing that they weren't going to change and I was wasting my time trying. But, there was one Democrat on the message board who kept posting the top ten list from DU and I followed the link from time to time. It was the roving underpants icon from underpants poster which kept me around long enough to get "hooked." Mostly because I was hoping to build enough confidence to ask him how he got the underwear to move across the screen. Little did I know that I could have asked on the first post.

Underpants--we need a bit of nostalgia here, 'mkay?! :rofl:

LOL

the world has never been the same since.

I think. I can't really remember. it was 6 years ago.

:hi:

Been here since....Aug 2001.....

:bounce: :toast: :luau: :beer:

Come, we go Party, eat drink laugh smile

After seing a link to the Top 10 somewheres, I forget now. :hi: I had a different screen name back then, I was "dirk".

and several posters there talked about DU. As my worst fears about bush/cheney looked very possible, I needed a safe haven to get info and kick ideas around.

snopes brought me to DU. Well, snopes and a need to know there were still some sane, alert people left around here.

me posts over the phone in between gasps for breath while laughing hard. Annoyed her no end that I made 1000 posts well before she did and she signed up before me.

Glad I found this place. My sanity thanks you all! :grouphug:

I was hanging out at some other political forums at the time, and one of them started posting the "Top Ten" every week. I eventually followed the link here and started lurking for awhile.

I finally registered sometime in the fall of 2001.

Btw, did you know that you can see what registration number everyone has? This is so cool, someone pointed this out months ago.

When you click on someone's profile, look up in the address bar: you'll see a six-digit number at the end. The first number will be either a 1 or a 2.

If the first number is a 1, just read the other 5 numbers to get the registration number: 123456 is user #23456. If the first number is a 2, read the other 5 numbers and add 100,000: 223456 is user #123456.

I am registered user #6679, I was here when #10000 showed up!

sw

Seriously.

honest pro-choice discussion, by accident. (I can't really remember the details at this point.) But I do remember that it felt like a safe place to comment. I was feeling isolated and alone because of my opinions and situation, and desperately wanted to interact with like minded people but didn't know if that even was possible, especially in a public forum. So, not without some reservations, I registered and joined the discussion.

I was shocked and surprised to discover that, not only was it safe here but, I had actually found home...

and found the top ten conservative idiots. A few months later I noticed that there were forums and lurked for a few years before joining.

It said "Democratic Underground".

Wooo Hoooo!

I hope the DU bumperstickers bring people in, too!

and The Democratic Underground was mention so I looked it up. I found the place very interesting so I joined in Oct 04, right before the elections.

It's been my favorite place ever since. I've met some great people here.

There were lots of orphan message boards set up. I think that Political Hardball (the Zendevil one) was set up around then. I hopped in and out of there as it's mostly populated by right wingnuts. There are allusions to DU there as some come over here and "spy". I followed one of their links one day and here I am

they mentioned DU and not in a flattering way.

Seems I've been here a life time.

in Cols OH after the '04 theft. At first I only went to ER & D, but soon ventured to GD where I learned all about PNAC, BFEE and the real DLC.

on the internet back when he was with Air America.

Jay

It was in the sixties or seventies or so when I started reading it. For a while, i didn't even join the boards, I just came by the check the Idiots every week.

the summer before the 04 election, but after the primary.
I never understood what I missed! (I was a Clarkie, through and through)

was tired of the political chat room I had been a part of and I thought DU was an excellent alternative. I haven't been back to that other place since.

Bush had just stolen the 2000 election and I tuned in to watch the travesty of his swearing in. I saw a guy with a sign that said DemocraticUnderground.com and I checked it out. It took me a while to start posting, back in those days DU had lots of heavy-weights and there wasn't lounge-type posts in GD or vanity crap and the like, as we see today.

I believe it was Skinner I saw that day all those years ago. :toast:

Julie

I lurked for a long time before eventually registering.

...indirectly, of course!

for refering to the president as "Captian Bunnypants!" (That referred to Ws hopping around on a plane from place to place on 911.

This was nov or dec in 2001. I tried registering - but didn't get it to work. Then right around New Years I tried registering again and have been posting here for six (omg!) years.

In this article from Wired about e-voting. This article is from March '04, but I didn't find it until August '04 when I started getting nervous about another stolen election. Clicked the link in the article and I went from cruising Common Dreams every day to becoming a DU junkie. I think I've only been back to Common Dreams a handful of times since then. But look at me now, Ma! I'm a DU Mod! :)

:)

:rofl:

I nominate that for a DUzy!

Found it during the summer, but didn't 'get it' until I saw some graphics from here posted right after the 2004 election, at this site:
http://www.democrats.us/beta/forum/

Needless to say, no arguments and sources filled with facts could convince my opponents. (Just the other week I peeked in and saw they're STILL supporting George Bush and the war.) But I tried as hard as I could and trying to find sources to base my claims on, I was Googling all kinds of things and somehow ended up at Democratic Underground.

It was the Top 10 Conservative Idiots that made me come back, though. Every week, I used to come back and read EarlG's masterpiece. Only much later, I started to read the discussion boards and only some months ago, I signed up and started posting.

After having dinner w/ some co-workers who were all starry-eyed about the impending invasion into Iraq, I came home and started Googling 'anti-war' etc. Found AntiWar.com and Democratic Underground and almost cried to discover that I was not the only one who felt something was going horribly wrong!

DU has helped me stay sane.

Saw a link at oreilly-sucks.com

and somebody linked to a few articles from here. Then when that guy stopped posting on the aforementioned site, I forgot about DU for a while until my roommate brought it to my attention again. :P

Just happy I'm here. Waiting for the primaries to be over. Then I will be really happy, talking trash about those effing pukes.

when a dear friend of mine was blogging and fighting for our party before the 2004 elections.:hug: I find DU to be extremely informative and hear news I'd never see or hear on radio or T.V. Great source for information.:thumbsup:

back in 2002 or thereabouts. Came across a thing called "Screed" that seemed to have something against Bush... Anyway, at some point there was a link to something that linked to DU somehow. Then "Screed" quit, but DU has continued to be a daily must.

couldn't afford a computer much less the internet for a long time. When I could finally afford one became very involved with MoveOn and political house party's, Michael Moore and Buzzflash. I lived in a very remote(republican entrenched) area at the time so it was hard to connect. I wished I had found DU then. I have been reading it for a few years but just recently got the courage to establish an account and post. Now I'm addicted.

DU was afew years ago from Mr. Hannity himself. He kept commenting without substance how "terrible" and "insane" things were discussed here. This annoyed me to the extent I came to check it out. I was still a righty at the time so I didn't think to much of it one way or another.

It wasn't until.. alittle over a year ago I began having huge misgivings about "my" party, and thats when I remembered DU. I think I lasted a week before I got banned. I attempted to argue with people here hoping they would confirm my ever growing beliefs about the RW. I went about it in the wrong way, and I think people thought I was some kind of a freeper plant lol. Anyway.. over the course of this year, it became apparent where my beliefs should take me, and that I had been in the wrong tent for far to long holding my nose.

I was without my XBox and decided to look at Al Franken's site. (I'm not even sure how I got there.) There was a link to DU. I've been hooked ever since.

Not exactly sure how I got here, but I found like-minded souls, especially with Keith Olbermann posters. Lurked for a couple months before joining. And still lurk more than post.


:)

i used to go on democrats.com and print out their "newsletter" blubs every day and read them to my mom. i think they changed the format and it was harder to find and print what i liked about that place so much, so i followed one of those links on a blogroll -- underground sounded good, radical, etc--so that's how i found this place.

(no place like home)

began volunteering for him. They became fast friends, and then Andy and I became instant friends. Andy DEMANDED that I get on DU RIGHT NOW--and that was the beginning for me. What a gift; I don't think I could have made it without all of you. (I miss Andy.)

Think of the light we all got to share thanks to DU. :)

Several years ago...

jumped the shark), when we heard news about H2O man's predictions that big news on the Plame investigation would be coming after June 14, 2004.

I came here to read what he had to say, and stayed, because by then the message boards at SC had become a real drag. Only gigantic, endless omnibus threads were allowed on any topic, so it took forever to load a thread or to read through the posts.

No matter how different one's angle was, it had to go on the same thread, so most posts just got buried. Meanwhile, the board's owner was getting all dictatorial and banning people who said anything he didn't like--or who defended the people he had banned for trivial reasons. Some of the people he banned were not only long-time regulars who contributed intelligent, well-supported posts, but big financial supporters of the site, too.

I see that now he has serious fundraising signs up about the wolf being at the door. It makes me sad, because that site used to be one of my favorites. But I think he drove away too many people, and then he messed with the site's easy to use format, so it isn't even that enjoyable to go there to read the front page articels any more.

So now I hang out at DU. It's easy to read, its rules are reasonable, and there is no sudden, arbitrary banning of people for daring to express an opinion. Also, although it does get old when a dozen threads pop up on the same topic, I still prefer that to the enormous omnibus threads on SC. Here at DU, when a thread gets too full, like the running debate threads, they clsoe it and satrt up a new one, so it isn't all in one impossible to load or read thread.

I lurked until I moved back to the USA and finally got DSL.

...that said "DemocraticUnderground.com." The camera panned past them a couple of times following the *Co armored assault limo.

It was the only good thing about that day.

reminiscently,
Bright

I lurked until 2005, but after she sent me that link, I started reading DU nearly every day.

Then, I finally decided to join, because from the beginning, I felt I'd come home. Before that, I pretty much felt like I was in the wilderness, because I never supported Bush, even after 9/11 happened. I saw him as a fake before 9/11, and when he stood on that truck with the fireman, I still saw him as a fake. That has never changed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/supremos/supremos_01.html

Great writing on DU.

Knew you were here ---
Saw lots of info posted and thought you probably all knew everything already
so I continued to try to inform the uninformed --- !!!

With Iraq and the need to impeach Bush and with the coming election, I decided to
spend some time here ---

I love not having to post articles to keep a website up to date ---

I don't remember how I found this place. I'm just glad I did.

After the infamous "Rove Story" people were posting links to threads at this place called DU - where TruthOut was being bashed like a baby seal on an ice flow. I came over to have a look and ended up as an occasional lurker. After about five months I started visiting every day and registered soon after that.

I think I saw her on some tv show and I went to her site. Yes, yes I know it was disgusting. :puke: :puke: :puke:

Anywho, she was ranting about this "Democratic Underground." So, of course, I had to know what that was. I found this and lurked for a few months.

It's been fun reading how we all found each other. It's like various spectra of light being gathered and focused into one penetrating laser beam.

but it took me awhile to figure out that there was a messageboard attached. That was in early '03, and I was looking for someplace where people felt the same way I did about the impending Iraq invasion. It took me about half a year to get brave enough to register and start posting.

i was searching for progressive websites and here it was.

my error. posted twice.

I thought I'd see what they were all getting so upset about.

I've always prefered reading political opinions I disagree with to ones I agree with. Most causes are very poorly served by their advocates on the internet, and it's always more reassuring to see that your enemies are morons than that your allies are.

It could have been Bartcop. I know the Conservative Idiots had something to do with it.

brought me over.

What a bliss, like minded at THAT time sharing, thinking the same, was awesome, lurked for awhile though, cause I thought it was too good to be true, thought it was one of those NSA/covert moment.

First, I came to laugh at all of you. I was directed here by another site for a "giggle" at the liberals, ok you were a joke "commie pinkos". And I did laugh and think that your "kind" were a threat to all I believe in, so I began reading to know what I was fighting against. And I read some more, and it began to be painful to my belief system. Change can be like that. Then I began looking around at my world I thought I was protecting and began seeing it in a different light. To make a long story short. Here I am after months of struggle, I've donated to DU to thank them for my education (something I never did on other sites) and today I donated money to the John Edwards campaign. It's been a bumpy interesting ride to get to where I am now, and I thank DU. You lot still scare me so it probably be my last post, but thank you again.

and don't make it your last post.

Don't stop posting. We're not scary, just keep laughing at us.

This place scared me for a while too--it can get pretty acidic at times (and I'm guilty of that as well) but it's well worth it for what I've learned.

:toast:

:thumbsup:

I found Buzzflash, Bartcop, and DU all in a short period of time. It was so long ago I can't remember in what order or which one referenced me to the others.

I DO remember Googling "Bush stole the election" and that one search opened up an entire world to me.

Back in those days, there couldn't have been more than two dozen active DUers. The conversations were much smaller, more intimate coffee klatches.

I lurked for a couple weeks, but being a bigmouth myself, couldn't keep from joining in before long.

And while I have occasionally stpped back and away from DU for periods of time, I never left except one time when the mods tombstoned me for joining in the virulent flamings once too often.

Gawd, that was in 2002, I think. Eventually I came back hat in hand, though. I never regretted it and time mellowed me out a little, I guess.

DU :yourock:

For years, I had been a bit depressed about a lack of a truly liberal outlet for news. I had been online since 1993 or so, but had never really gone out to search for "alternate" news sites - though, I did get some good information on foreign English-language sites. However, I was against the war in Iraq, but couldn't really find much information about my point of view and why I should be against it.

Then, I heard about Bill O'Reilly having a hissy fit over this new book from Al Franken called "Lying Liars" and I got intrigued. I had never taken Al seriously because he was the Stuart Smalley guy - but, I picked up the book because of O'Reilly's crusade and it really opened my eyes. The book & the information really spoke to me and my point of view, and it made me laugh.

So, I made a determined search online and found a site called "O'Reilly Sucks" - the owner was also a DUer who eventually led me to here.

Oddly enough, I first stumbled into it in 2001 via a newsletter for South African expatriates. They always had interesting links at the end of the newsletter, including ones for Smirking Chimp and Buzzflash. I kept reading articles and seeing this one name, William Rivers Pitt, who basically articulated everything I believe in. I followed the trail here. Been here ever since.

Love you guys!

I was truly lost in 2001.

....in the weeks and months leading up to the last mid-terms. But I'm not certain of that.

EDIT: Oops, sorry. Didn't finish answering. I got here from HuffPo, probably following a link to a video on the main page here.

....so I had to check it out for myself. I joined not long after the 2004 STOLEN AGAIN election.

That's a good way to find more DUers.