What has kept DU the best for all these years.

[trumad]

Don't go overboard with the crazy talk.
Democratic Underground is not intended to be a platform for kooks and crackpots peddling paranoid fantasies with little or no basis in fact. To accommodate our more imaginative members we tolerate some limited discussion of so-called "conspiracy theories" under the following circumstances: First, those discussions are not permitted in our heavily-trafficked Main forums; and second, those discussions cannot stray too far into Crazyland (eg: chemtrails, black helicopters, 9/11 death rays or holograms, the "New World Order," the Bilderbergers, the Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, alien abduction, Bigfoot, and the like). In addition, please be aware that many conspiracy theories have roots in racism and anti-semitism, and Democratic Underground has zero tolerance for bigoted hate speech. In short, you take your chances.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice

[edhopper]

1. What is best on DU

"Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women. "

[Va Lefty]

8. Thank you Conan

[MohRokTah]

2. K&R eom

[pintobean]

3. Civility has kept DU the best for all these years.

ETA - and killer software.

[benz380]

4. Definitely the jury system. n/t

[femmocrat]

11. And the Auto-trash feature!

[Jesus Malverde]

5. The baby boomers keeping me up to date on

Paul McCartneys latest singles.

[emulatorloo]

16. Wait until we finish the Mandatory Listening Chambers

[Jesus Malverde]

17. One of my faves

Paul McCartney Tried to Write a Song About Ferguson and NYC Protests

Paul McCartney said he tried to write a song about the recent Ferguson and New York City protests but scrapped it when he felt it wasn’t going anywhere. But, he told the Associated Press, he isn’t finished with the song yet.

Read More: Paul McCartney Tried to Write a Song About Ferguson and NYC Protests | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-mccartney-ferguson-protest/

[Renew Deal]

6. The New World Order made you post that

Because they can.

[RiverLover]

7. George Bush Sr & John Kerry & Bill Clinton talk about the New World Order

So you think that makes it a conspiracy theory?

I question your logic.

[pampango]

9. Wiki: New World Order (conspiracy theory)

As a conspiracy theory, the term New World Order or NWO refers to the emergence of a totalitarian world government.

The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government—which will replace sovereign nation-states—and an all-encompassing propaganda whose ideology hails the establishment of the New World Order as the culmination of history's progress. Significant occurrences in politics and finance are speculated to be orchestrated by an unduly influential cabal that operates through many front organizations. Numerous historical and current events are seen as steps in an ongoing plot to achieve world domination through secret political gatherings and decision-making processes.

Before the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two American countercultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily that part of fundamentalist Christianity concerned with the end-time emergence of the Antichrist. Skeptics such as Michael Barkun and Chip Berlet observed that right-wing populist conspiracy theories about a New World Order had not only been embraced by many seekers of stigmatized knowledge but had seeped into popular culture, thereby inaugurating a period during the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the United States where people were actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios. Those political scientists were concerned that mass hysteria could have what they judged to be devastating effects on American political life, ranging from widespread political alienation to escalating lone-wolf terrorism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_%28conspiracy_theory%29

Do you believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order, or not?

'Very Liberal' : Yes - 12%, No - 69%;
'Somewhat Liberal' : Yes - 20%, No - 51%;
'Moderate': Yes - 23%, No - 56%;
'Somewhat Conservative' : Yes - 33%, No - 38%;
'Very Conservative' : Yes - 45%, No - 26%.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf

"Very Liberal" seem to laugh this CT off, but not the 'very conservative' folks.

[RiverLover]

10. You better tell that to Kissinger, Bush, Clinton, & Rachel Maddow nt

[pampango]

15. I'll tell them to stop using code words that set off mostly right-wing conspiracy theorists. n/t

[libodem]

12. Are the 1% Republicans?

Who are these Builderburgs?

[Jesus Malverde]

18. Best kept in the creative speculation group.

[William769]

13. What has kept DU the best for all these years. ?

One is showing Anti-Vax knuckleheads the error of their ways.

[OnyxCollie]

14. Was the Iraq war a conspiracy?

[AverageJoe90]

19. It's a good rule, though I feel it could be updated, too.

For one thing, we still have a little climate doomer woo that manages to slip past the radar every once in a while; I'm all for cracking down on denialist B.S., but I wish the other extreme would be dealt with as well.....at the very least, restrict it to Creative Speculation, if nothing else!

[Arugula Latte]

20. Admins, y u squash talk about the Squatch?

[benz380]

21. Cat pics? n/t

[CJCRANE]

22. When I first joined DU it was full of profane rants

about Bushco torturing people and various other seemingly crazy conspiracies...many of which turned out to be true.

In fact the truth, when finally revealed, often turned out to be more bizarre than we had imagined.