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In reply to the discussion: Is anyone else being alert stalked and over noticed? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)is still my avatar back on Daily Kos. An older pic, though.
That's from a decade or two back, when there wasn't nearly as much grey, and when I wasn't trying for a job where they like you with a lot less hair. So no beard, ditch about a foot of hair in the back, turn the moustache white, and frost the rest, and it's me
DK has had and continues to have many of the same race issues as DU, but over there, hiding is by 'faction' - the people constantly hiding each other aren't doing so by skin tone, but by position on the political spectrum. Centrists vs lefties. Things never really cool down any more, but they'll be getting worse again as we gear up for 2016. What I find sort of amusing is that many of the people who swore up and down they'd never vote for Hillary after the racist tactics employed during her 2008 primary run will now be out there boosting her because she's the 'viable candidate'.
I'm not a 'team blue' guy. I'm a socialist, and I want results, not particular politicians. So I vote mostly blue, but I'm not going to be dragged in by faux populism.