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Showing Original Post only (View all)Someone said " There are many paths to God" How many paths to DU? How did you get here? [View all]
I got here shortly after the coronation of GW. I had been following Buzzflash and they had an interesting link to DU that I followed and have been here ever since. If I counted the hours I've spent here every day I would probably sign up for some kind of rehab. None the less, although I have been politically active for most of my adult life and interact with oodles of like minded folks, I have never actually met anyone else who has heard of this place. It's easy when you spend a lot of time here to think that EVERYONE must belong but the fact is that this is a very small microcosim of the progressive people in this country. So, my question is, how did you get here. How did you stumble upon DU?
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Someone said " There are many paths to God" How many paths to DU? How did you get here? [View all]
OffWithTheirHeads
Aug 2012
OP
I was looking for a place with like minded people after the Kerry campaign ended
Marrah_G
Aug 2012
#1
It took a few weeks to find this place but I went looking the night Dumbya stole the election.
roguevalley
Aug 2012
#32
I got here through the website Citizens for Legitimate Government before I realized they were nuts.
Ian David
Aug 2012
#15
googled "conservative idiot" in 2001 or 2002, found the site, and regularly
struggle4progress
Aug 2012
#18
Around March 2001 I could not believe there were not many others like me still angry over the 2000
Samantha
Aug 2012
#20
In 2001, I used to read a political web site (forget the name -- it's probably gone)
Arugula Latte
Aug 2012
#28
I had to find like-minds to help pull me out of the doldrums after King George was reelected...
Frustratedlady
Aug 2012
#29
Had been hanging around Slashdot off-and-on for a couple of years. MoveOn also had somekind of
patrice
Aug 2012
#30
I got here after RimJob kicked me out of Freakville for shittin on one of his NRA buddies. :)
Monk06
Aug 2012
#36
I was posting on a generic bulletin board and one of the rwers there said that...
Tikki
Aug 2012
#38
Dayum! I used to fuck with Carlos by putting "Ralph Nader" in a post just to see
OffWithTheirHeads
Aug 2012
#61
I used to post on a sceptics site dominated by right wing Americans
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2012
#57
Got here after hearing from some Americans that they were being baited by repukes after
applegrove
Aug 2012
#67