Hey mylye2222 !!! - Please Consider Coming Back... And That Goes For The Rest Of You Re-Lurkers... [View all]
Look...
This place was started after the Gore v. Bush decision.
It was the first online place one could go to express their frustration/confusion/anger at the SCOTUS interfering in a Presidential Election... an election where the Democrat WON!
And as we came together, and found others of like minds... this place grew and grew...
I found DU through a Sacramento Bee insert of the Sunday paper that would rate/rank websites on this newfangled thing called the Internet.
Remember... most people were still working with NetScape/Windows 3.11/95 at the time.
This was all new to most of us.
But back then... after this place had been running for a while... on the front page of DU, there was an entire section dedicated to DU Meet-Ups... Ya Know ???
Where actual DUers from across the country could get together and meet each other in person. This happened all the time.
And I drove to SF several times from Sacramento to meet with complete strangers... and become fast friends.
Proud Patriot, Tinoire, Arcane1, JMatson, NorietBlue, and dozens of others... was even put on a cell phone with Catwoman in Atlanta. Hell... I even met Will Pitt !!!
When we elected one of our own... their was division here... not unlike there was division here when Barack Obama went up against Hillary Clinton in 2008.
Yet... as angry as it could get... most of us still found a way to give each other a hug and a giggle... and realize it was more important to stay relevant members, and online friends, than it was to "win" the argument, and sow the seeds of disappointment and frustration.
DO NOT LET any MFer here run you off.
If they're new... who knows... if they've been here forever... SHAME ON THEM.
There are FAR more good hearts here, than you know.
The others... FUCK 'EM.
Please reconsider.
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