DU has officially suffered through 20k of my posts.

[Radical Activist]

Thank you to those who tolerated my more asinine posts and especially to the DUers who I've had many, many excellent conversations and debates with.

After 20,000 posts I'm showing a pic of myself for the first time.



I'm in that picture. Trust me.

[Ava]

1. damn hippies!

which protest was that? in DC?

[Radical Activist]

2. yep

Against the Iraq war in the winter before it began.

[Ava]

3. very cool.. almost every time i've been to DC it was for a protest

the best one i went to was the January 2007 protest.. 500,000 people!

[Radical Activist]

6. Nice

They're always a good time. I haven't been in a while...too long. Those protests destroy the myth that young people aren't doing anything, don't they?

[Ava]

7. that last ones i've been to were here in alabama

yeah, believe it or not.. we have some anti-war folks here in 'bama too... and many of them are students at universities. young people definitely show up for protests... hell, my 16th birthday party was a protest held on the state capitol steps here in bama a few years ago :rofl:

[Radical Activist]

8. And here I thought I was the only one

who went to a protest for a birthday. Very cool.

[Ava]

9. yup.. i planned out and organized the whole thing myself

had about 100 people show up.. which is a decent crowd for alabama, and lots of local musicians showed up and played on the capitol steps. of course, only two of my "friends" showed up since it was a peace rally.

better than some lame "sweet sixteen" party

[Radical Activist]

10. nice!

They should have put your party on the MTV show. I would have actually watched it for once.

Yeah, its funny how many people at my college were afraid of protests right before the iraq war started. Everyone grew up watching videos of violent 60's protests and protests gone bad are the only ones that make the news anymore. We've made a lot of progress with that in the last few years.
I helped organize some protests in the South and you always find out there are more liberals around than you might think.

[Ava]

13. yeah, the protests bring them out of "hiding"

lol.. still though. i can't wait to get out of my small alabama town and leave for college in a few months. i live in a small town in alabama, so there are very few people around here that actually take an interest in politics.. and few of them are democrats(and usually conservative democrats).

[Radical Activist]

16. Yeah, I saw a thread

where you were writing about applying to colleges.

I wish I had thought more about the political and cultural climate of the colleges I applied to. "Responsible" adults didn't think that's the sort of thing I was supposed to be concerned with and its hard to get a sense of it from college guides and tours. I ended up at a good place but I'm giving that a lot more consideration now that I'm thinking about going back to grad school.

[Ava]

19. to me the environment i'll be living in for 4 years is one of the most important factors

of course job and internship opportunities are also a big deal for me... especially since i'm going into film. i want to have some work experience in the film industry(even if an unpaid internship) under my belt by the time i graduate.

[Radical Activist]

21. cool

good luck.

[KittyWampus]

4. I put you on Ignore about 10,000 posts ago....

;)

[Radical Activist]

5. lol

you and a lot of other people.

[Danger Mouse]

11. Now it's my turn to congratulate you.

:hi:

[Radical Activist]

12. fucking right it is.

ha
Thanks!

[RevolutionaryActs]

14. Sexsay.

You're only at 20K? Dude, do you have one of those "life" thingys? :P


Congrats though dude. :toast::bounce::beer::party::fistbump::loveya::hug::yourock::woohoo:

[Radical Activist]

17. Thanks!

My life happens in fits and spurts.

I know, I know...you'll always have twice the posts I do. You're a machine.

[RevolutionaryActs]

18. The sick thing is

I don't post nearly as much as I used to. :o

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear Radical Activist!

Biggo congrats on your 20K posts!

Keep 'em coming, OK?


And here's to many, many more!


:party: :toast: :toast: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast: :toast: :party:

[Radical Activist]

20. thanks!