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Can the DU Wet Blanket Brigade give it a brief respite for now? [View all]
Maybe you're right.
Maybe the hearings won't amount to a hill of beans.
But let's just have them first, okay?
Plenty of time to judge later. But let's sit down and take it in before anything else.
Is that too much to ask?
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Can the DU Wet Blanket Brigade give it a brief respite for now? [View all]
Tommy Carcetti
Jun 2022
OP
Wet blankets discouraging activism and voting are damaging to all. Not about disagreements. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2022
#64
Totally with you, Tommy, even if I don't see one. There are the doubters, but everyone's tired, so
ancianita
Jun 2022
#12
What about the DU Pollyanna Brigade? Can they take off their blinders and rose-colored glasses?
FoxNewsSucks
Jun 2022
#10
In the end it's just negative speculation. Sometimes they coach it as "reality"
LakeArenal
Jun 2022
#15
I've been here a lot longer than you or that poster, and I've never seen a post like that.
BlackSkimmer
Jun 2022
#24
So the OP is asking people to curb their opinions because they are offended by what is written?
Chainfire
Jun 2022
#17
Well, I suppose that I should just put my little ole blinders on and follow the happy pack down the
Chainfire
Jun 2022
#78
If posters would say this my opinion instead of cutting ppl off. Behaving as if their opinion means
PortTack
Jun 2022
#38
So, each post on DU needs to include a statement saying, "This opinion I'm posting is my opinion"?
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2022
#97
Here's the thing. When I post something that doesn't have a back up link..ppl say links please
PortTack
Jun 2022
#105
You're joking, right? Or, you fail to grasp the obvious difference between someone on a discussion
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2022
#106
Ahh... So you point out that you are entitled to your opinion, but that I am not. "I am dismissed."
PortTack
Jun 2022
#125
In my opinion, yes. I find I have to preface everything I say with In my opinion/I think/Seems like/
betsuni
Jun 2022
#111
Please provide an example of someone "behaving as if their opinion means more than someone else's"
brooklynite
Jun 2022
#98
There area lot of posts on DU that appear on a daily basis and don't appeal to a vast audience
Cozmo
Jun 2022
#21
Is it too much to ask people not to give their opinion on any particular post? Yes, it is too much
BlackSkimmer
Jun 2022
#28
Nothing will ever get better. Nothing. Ever. NO ONE will ever be held accountable for anything...
paleotn
Jun 2022
#37
Yes, maybe it is too much, but ppl need to be respectful and say THIS IS MY OPINION!!
PortTack
Jun 2022
#40
And what would be the harm in saying this is my opinion. JMHO, MHO something just to be respectful
PortTack
Jun 2022
#83
Perhaps you should share all of the great news on the social and political scene lately, apparently
Chainfire
Jun 2022
#79
I yhink people are just afraid there won't be anything they haven't already read on DU
Warpy
Jun 2022
#45
Yes, but they were kept hidden for decades until long after he and much of his gang were dead.
Warpy
Jun 2022
#54
Has it ever occurred to you that the critics who strongly express skepticism of the legal process
sop
Jun 2022
#56
I don't want to get my hopes up. They've been shattered every single time before.
Kablooie
Jun 2022
#61
I often wonder how many are trolls vs legit clinical depression or anxiety
IronLionZion
Jun 2022
#65
So many on DU blame the media for everything (just like the GOP), but it looks like
Martin68
Jun 2022
#86
Who is feeling that? Anyone that questions what and how we're doing something is a doom and gloome
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2022
#133
I agree with you when on another post you said, "I'll say what I want to say." n/t
patricia92243
Jun 2022
#107