How did you find your way to DU? I was on Huffington Post and someone brought it up. So I came here and never went back

[debm55]

How did you find you way to DU? Edit, that was in 2004. I did lurk for a long time and just read.

[maynard]

1. GWB inauguration

I was watching the parade and someone held up a poster in view of the camera. DemocraticUnderground.com.

[debm55]

43. Ty, maynard. That's funny,

[kimbutgar]

2. I remember seeing it in the early 2000's but the format was more difficult for me to like

Used to enjoy HuffPost until the Ariana Huffington sold it. Now DU is my daily go to for news and entertainment.

[debm55]

44. Agree. TY kimbutgar.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. for me finding du was by " accident" and that is how i do my best internet finds .

my discovery was after the gore v shrub gaffe ,( another republican packed us suprime ct) and after i became a freshly minted dem. havent looked back since . when we had the great du hack of 2016 , before that i was under a different username and we had to change passwords and usernames , i was so happy when du came back on line.

[debm55]

45. Thank you AllaNO1Bear.

[stonecutter357]

4. I think it was BartCop !

[Pendrench]

9. That's how I discovered DU, too.

RIP BartCop!

[Midnight Writer]

28. Bartcop for me, as well.

[IA8IT]

37. Bartcop

[IA8IT]

38. Bartcop RIP March 5 2014 Missed by Many

[OAITW r.2.0]

40. Definitely Bartcop for me. He linked a lot of DU posts when they came online.

What I am trying to remember is....how did I get to Bartcop? Amazing to think back when he did a 1 person orchestration of a lot of different things in 2nd gen webpage format. He loved Garbage (whom I never really listened to), his favorite tequila, and just a lot of smart posts that I could say, I absolutely thought correct. Did he have a posting forum? If he did, I was never a poster there.

[debm55]

46. Thank you stonecutter357,

[Mr.Bill]

5. I used to frequent a particular car forum.

They had a section for politics, religion and controversy. It made Stormfront look like Romper Room. They have actually been visited by the Secret Service for some of the threats that appear on that website. I spent several years just diving in and being one of the few progressives in a field of thousands of insane wingnuts.

What I did for sport is to goad people into posting things that will get them banned. It was kinda fun sometimes. Anyway, this place got mentioned there pretty often. Some of their members came here and didn't last more than a few hours before MIRT nailed them. (Nice work, MIRT) I started lurking here then finally joined over ten years ago.

I still post over there, their Off Topic section is well policed for political content and some of the people there are really funny. I've met several of them and think of them as friends if their politics aren't too crazy.

[debm55]

47. Thank you, Mr.Bill.

[mommymarine2003]

6. I heard about DU when I was listening to Thom Hartmann years ago.

My Marine son was deployed to Iraq at the time, and I was so angry with Bush and the Republicans. I listened to Thom Hartmann and others to help me deal with my anger. I think Air America still existed at the time. When Thom mentioned a site called Democratic Underground, it sounded like the perfect place for me. I don't speak up much, but I am on Democratic Underground several times a day. It helps to be around other people who share my beliefs, even if it is via the Internet.

[SarahD]

7. My neighbor.

He said he got banned, but thought I would like it. He was right.

[rurallib]

8. Close friend told me about it during a county party meeting.

I was hooked on first bite somewhere @ 20 years back.

[louis-t]

10. Top 10 Conservative Idiots

Can't remember where I saw it but that was the link. Over 20 years ago.

[Aristus]

11. March, 2001. Deeply depressed, and pessimistic about our future.

How quaint, thinking GWB could be the worst thing that ever happened to the Presidency. I know, I know.

Surfing the net, looking for anyone who felt the way I did.

Saw the democraticunderground.com link. Clicked it, and the rest is history.

Lurked until October, 2001, then joined.

DU till I DIE!

[SamKnause]

12. My story is the same as yours.

I was posting on Huffington Post and I asked if there was website for Democratic and Progressive views.

Someone suggested Democratic Underground and I never looked back either.

I have learned so much from the posters on Democratic Underground !!!!!!!

[Niagara]

13. I discovered DU while on Facebook

Back in the day, a page would "like" another Facebook page and they would share content. If I remember correctly it was Occupy Democrats and Lucid Nation. This was before Facebook was Putinized.


Also through Facebook, I discovered in a upcoming local Niagara County election that some bozo was running on a Democratic ticket and wasn't actually Democratic at all while pushing Trumpian like talking points. If it hadn't been for Facebook and this bozo's public talking points on their Facebook page, I would have made a colossal mistake and voted for said bozo.

[malthaussen]

14. Link from Democracy Now. n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

15. BartCop

I don't know how I discovered BartCop, but he brought me to DU.

[mopinko]

16. i was making political buttons, and google turned down my ad.

i searched and found a post here from someone who was making a deck of cards w bush cronies on them who had also been turned down.
been here ever since.

[Prairie_Seagull]

17. Thom Hartmann led me here.

He used to bring it up frequently.

[Xavier Breath]

19. Same, and he still does mention it quite often.

Just the other day in fact someone created a thread here recognizing the shoutout he gave to a poster.

[GP6971]

18. Another one who found DU through Bartcop.

[Emile]

20. 2001 DU started & I was a member of MSN Democrats

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and someone posted a link to a new website called DU. Shortly after MSN did away with their political forums.

[BOSSHOG]

21. BARTCOP. NUFF SAID

I sent him a few bucks way back when. One evening he called me. Two kindred spirits having a nice chat. The world needs more BARTCOPS.

[Hope22]

30. He was a gem!

He and my sister who was in memory care both got sick at the same time. When he died I cried like a baby. My sister died a couple of days later. Sad times. I’m glad you got to visit! 💗💗🙏🏼

[BOSSHOG]

36. You got that right My Friend

He was a very valuable Gem. We had a short but meaningful chat. Peace!

[electric_blue68]

22. I stumbled upon it on line several months or a year after it started up when I was at a Net Cafe. But...

because I had sooo many things to follow on line and no computer at home - I soon forgot about it.
I more casually looked at over time Huffpo, Daily K, BuzzFeed.... a few others

Then when my music site w Off-topic politics sub forum was not imho paying enough attention about something: somehow I remembered DU's name.

I googled and behold all these years later it was thriving.

I joined, and never looked back. 👍🙂

[Rizen]

23. I don't like people.

People are science denying morons. Then I realized: that's not Democrats! So I looked for a place for Democrats.

[Kali]

24. Ann Coulter got me here.

also got me my first deleted post.

I was arguing politics on a local server when I first got on the internet, didn't have tee vee so didn't know any of the talking heads. This bozo had the hots for her, even met her on an elevator one time LOL. I was looking her up (did google even exist back then?) and found the top 10 biggest idiots here and started looking around. that and Bob Boudelang got me hooked. I read the latest page but stayed mostly in the lounge and still do.

I was on dial up back then, posted something about her being a skank and it got deleted as being misogynistic and had some other posts deleted while I was having a real slow conversation with the moderators. eventually I proved my point that skank wasn't always sex-specific but the slow dial-up almost got me banned because I didn't get the messages or reply fast enough.

[Elessar Zappa]

25. I can't remember.

I do remember I discovered it in the spring of 2003 when I was despondent about the Bush regime. I was so happy to find like-minded people.

[FalloutShelter]

26. I was reading Firedog Lake and

Followed some folks over to DU.
Here ever since and loving it.

[calikid]

27. I heard about DU on the Mendocino County public radio station,

KZYX & Z. It was before my current reign here as the kid, before I forgot my previous sign in name and password!

[LoisB]

29. Bartcop.

If I remember correctly, I heard about Bartcop from Thom Hartmann.

[Archae]

48. I learned of DU from Bartcop too.

I miss him, he would be having a blast with Trump.

[LoisB]

49. He sure would. i think he steered a lot of us to DU.

[Hope22]

31. From a sailing buddy.

He pointed me in this direction. A bright spot in dark times for sure! 💗🙏🏼

[rsdsharp]

32. Bartcop. It's hard to believe he's been gone ten years,

although the site is still up, with his last word, and a comment from Skinner.

[10 Turtle Day]

33. I was reading the comment section of a news article on Ted Haggard

He was a high profile evangelical preacher who got outed for hiring gay sex partners. Not a scandal or anything to be ashamed of unless you’re preaching about gays going to hell and such, as he was. So a huge hypocrite. This was in 2006. The comments were seemingly endless and really hilarious. Anyway, a DU member named Hepburn linked DU in one of her comments. So I went to take a look and have been lurking ever since, until I finally joined this year. I haven’t seen Hepburn post anything in a long time, but would like to thank her for opening up this world of like minded people to me.

[drray23]

34. I left huffington post the day after they required

non anonymous accounts. I do not want my political opinions to be used against me in my personal life especially from a post on an internet forum. I have a high profile public job.

[Hekate]

52. I can understand that very well, minus the high profile job. I pick & choose where my name goes.

When DU got hacked in 2016, a note pinned to our poor maimed site directed us to FaceBook. That was a great consolation, but the lack of anonymity was jarring, and the lack of the usual DU community structure was as well. Fairly soon some guy jumped all over me for my opinions and I admit one of my first thoughts was to wonder if he was going to “follow me home,” so to speak.

[no_hypocrisy]

35. Suggested website on Lynn Samuels' homepage.

[Diamond_Dog]

39. I was arguing with some dolt in our local paper's comment section

I don’t remember what it was about, except he was a rwnj who thought he was superior to me because he was an engineer (or so he claimed)

His retort to one of my comments was “Got your talking points straight off Democratic Underground, did you” ?

So of course I had to come here and check it out!

[ProfessorGAC]

41. CSPAN Washington Journal...

...did phone interviews with various political website operators on weekend mornings.
I heard Skinner (David Allen) one Sunday morning in 2001, and checked out the site.
Been here since.

[sorcrow]

42. A friend sent me a link

A friend sent me a link to Top Ten Idiots of the week back in 2006.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[Hekate]

50. I remember it well -- our town was having anti-war marches in 2002 & I kept bumping into my friend L...

She was very knowledgeable about online political groups, Bartcop among them, and kept recommending them to me. I poked around a bit, and the one that I liked best was DU. (If you are lurking, L., I am forever grateful. )





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[AverageJoe]

51. Media Whores Online

MHO was my go-to spot for a few years. When it folded, I found DU, probably from a tip on the Horse.

[MOMFUDSKI]

53. Was on a liberal site that had a long list of

other liberal sites. Took a tour and really liked DU. Still here!

[debm55]

58. TY MOMFUDSKI. Glad you stayed.

[sinkingfeeling]

54. Was searching on something about Bush's war and found someone's (might have been Will Pitt's)

post. That led me to DU, where I lurked for awhile.

[debm55]

59. TY sinkingfeeling. I lurked for a while too

[Hikerchick57]

55. I was here back when Dubya was president and forgot about it.

When I remembered I scurried right back…I don’t think I ever posted before, just lurked…

[debm55]

60. Thank you, Hickerchick57

[Conjuay]

56. Truthfully - I don't know.

But just today I bought and returned TWO cans of paint because I forgot to read the label.
Oil? no
Latex? yes
Satin? no
Flat? no
Semigloss? Yeah, okay, we're making progress !
Cash? no
Debit? yes

(Home)
Color? DAMN!

[debm55]

61. TY Conjuay. That's funny. I have brain farts too.

[frogmarch]

57. A poster named Britt on Websleuths

recommended DU to me almost 20 years ago.

[debm55]

62. frogmarch, that's when I signed up in 2004,

[MiHale]

63. Saw an sign on an overpass...

Followed to address and lurked for years.. joined but had no input… forgot my original name. Too long ago.

[debm55]

64. TY MiHale. I did the same. That was 20 years ago when i joined.

[GoodRaisin]

65. I was watching Thom Hartmann and heard the website mentioned.

Googled it and been here ever since.