Snowden says he could see what I do on the web.

[MADem]

57. Who "disrupts the system" here?

Most of the folks here--myself included--are in the gum-flapping and yammering brigade. We'll throw a few bucks at a candidate, sign an online petition, send a letter to our congressman, do that kind of organizing, but that's "participating" in the system, not disrupting it

When primary and general election season rolls around, I may do a little volunteering to help a candidate or two, hanging shit on doorknobs, maybe collecting signatures on the rare occasion, and the one thing I do, reliably--drive people to the polls, like a lot of others do here, too.... but really, who in hell is "on the barricades" here?

We've got this person or that who does a good thing, like volunteering to help homeless people or doing community outreach, and posts about it, and we've got folks like DemoTex keeping people safe in his fire tower, but the people here aren't system disruptors, if anything, they are system contributors. We had a few people who got involved in Occupy during its brief foray into relevance, but that didn't last long.

What most people are, here, is middle aged and older and they like spirited discussions. We've got the odd young people who want to change the world but they are few and far between, we've got people who like to troll (and there are plenty of those), and we've got the odd older failures who haven't gotten what they want out of life and they want to fight with people to make themselves feel better.

But the "Fight The Power" crowd aren't here, at least not in large numbers. They're at the more edgy, youthful and under-the-radar sites that most of us aren't cool enough to even know about. People like to joke about "Agent Mike" but he probably retired years ago, and he's sleeping in his rocking chair, occasionally checking the DU for sports - related conversations!!!