I am NOT leaving DU...

[Celerity]

32. I am not shocked at all. Look at the demographics here.

It is a bubble to a large degree, a lot of it simply by design and also the ageing out of the core as these last 22, coming up on 23, years since inception have flown by on the river of time.

There is a massive lack of sub 35-40 year old posters here, and even fewer sub 30 year olds. The pro cease fire, pro concern about war crime againts Palestinian civilians DUers are numerically overwhelmed (pro cease fire is, in real life, the postion of a large majority of Dems overall, and especially younger (say 18-34) where it is over 80 per cent or so) and the tenor and tone turns nasty, and often it is not emanating from the outnumbered (on DU only) side.

Today alone I have seen multiple hardcore personal attacks from some of the most aggressive 'Israel can do whatever it wants' posters.

It takes a psychic toll to be constantly, and falsely, called pro Hamas, jew hater, Hamas shill, Hamas lawyer, Hamas lover, antisemitic, Trump/Trumpy, MAGA (the last two are truly ridiculous charges as in real life, the Rethugs and especially MAGAts are FAR more 'fuck the Palestinians, let Israel do anything it wants' than the Dems or independents) etc etc.