What I am is what I am, are you what you are or what

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2. Nicely said. Good luck. I suggest following the money.

Whether anti-smear, anti-broad-brush, or pro-discussion, I see DU disappointment in the Religion, er, or is it the atheism pot-shot forum.

The short of it is that politics involves lots of money, hoards of it. And, that's it.

I think there is enough money to at minimum, send in a rabble rouser to get other angry persons to act like an army. Maybe a famous name. May be a rube him/herself, the idea being to promote a group or idea, the result being to disrupt discussions with pot-shots, angry pot-shots, smearing pot-shots, confusing pot-shots, etc.

The result keeps people of faith in God from coming to DU, or KOS, or, wherever.

Was it Montana where the found all the Republican paraphernalia in a meth house. Have fun, get high, stay high, be protected (so it might seem), and just keep posting posting and posting. These people will work for next to nothing. The more they love Ayn Rand, the younger they are, and the less you have to pay them, the more they don't care about others except in that clinical way that if everyone wants things their way all will be right some day. Yeah, un-huh, right. Eyeroll.

The jury system here got rid of the worst offenders here and we actually did have a few discussions. But, the new tack employs pot-shots. Every couple of days another post written to fly just under the jury's nose. A little army to hit the rec buttons, or sock puppets to hit the recs. DU only needs two or three recs, then it can get to five and thrive on its own.

Note how any discussion might go. Slightly off responses. If you respond in short, they paste a lot. If you counter with a lot of response, they pull out a sentence and feign umbrage. I tried this once with one other DUer, it went on for a hundred posts. It was easier than I would had thought. Only needs to be done for two days. Then, even the highly rec'd posts disappear.

All this keeps people of faith stuck listening to individual ministers and not hearing what we have to say.

And, this keep the hoards of cash money in the pockets of the few.