Why are the forums that I favor - occupy, progressive, labor, women, etc so non-active?

[truedelphi]

23. Very much resonate with your words.

I spend far more time at other bulletin boards and also at Facebook, as the amount of topics that are actually verbotten now on DU is way too much.

Well, to be fair, those topics can be discussed on DU, as long as you say that you either are totally for them, and totally believe everything that Big Pharma is saying (as is the case with the vaccine issue) or else you are a troll for Big Pharma and say that, and the same with geo enginnering - you can discuss geo engineering all you want as long as you label anyone who is concerned about it as a conspiracy theorist with an IQ of five. (If geo engineering is balderdash - then why are all the relevant patents being announced on a weekly if not a daily basis? And why do companies like Raytheon develop those patents? And why are there conferences held in California every single year by the "industry leaders" who get their top physics and science people to attend?)

So why would I be here as much as I once was? It has become far too easy to simply go to newer discussion boards where my chosen friends add to my information level on those topics. Also, at the newer forums, I can avoid the trolls and the people dismissing what I feel are crucial issues of the twenty first century as balderdash. On the other social media forums, I also discover some of my longtime DU friends who either gave up here or were banned from here years ago.