What Is Happening At DU
It's probably me, but lately I scroll through 30 threads before I find one to click on.
I rarely respond to posts that cut and paste and then the author just walks away. I want to know the posters' opinions not some podcaster's opinion.
I want to see a debate today about why crude oil dropped 9% because once again we are being told that a peace agreement is on the doorstep. Who negotiated this deal?
My opinion about that is clear - Bullshit - market manipulation, and no I don't have a link, it's my opinion, I own it. If I am wrong and there really is a peace plan I will gladly publicly eat my words.
I do click on the animal threads, we all need some cheering up, especially me.
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is inevitable. Meanwhile, every day is a new start and I try to find something uplifting to get me through another day.
I think the one thing that tends to bring me down isn't so much Trump, but the many people who surround us who appear both mindless and soulless. I had no idea there were so many and I share a world with them.
Welcome to DU Jim. It is truly a great place for thinking and feeling people! 
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might be afraid to voice their opinion, when their sources are being attacked.
The thesaurus is out of words. On Facebook,I'm down to replying to maga comments with the puke emoji. Why argue with stupid? And I've noticed the puke emoji really sets them off, especially if I leave that and ignore any responses 
On DU, I scroll by any news about any of the collaborators, their latest scandal, their latest attack on principles I've lived by my whole life. In my own world, I try my best to starve them of oxygen.
I know I need nonpolitical humor, human interest stories to function at a level where I can pretend to be normal, and maybe keep a lid on the resolute anger that simmers just below the surface, all day, every day. If I comment or contribute on DU, I'm going to avoid politics.
I know know how I feel, and I know how I feel won't change with further information about the regime. There is nothing wrong with being kind, helpful, honest, trustworthy. There is nothing wrong with accepting differences and celebrating diversity. Cruelty, selfishness, crime and lying are all wrong. I am secure knowing that if anyone in the regime says or does anything, it is a lie or a set-up. There was no reason to murder school girls, the start of this useless bombing mission. There is no cease-fire. There were no assassination attempts, at least not any that weren't badly scripted and ineptly acted. The only real thing happening is that criminals were profiting from all of the hard work that Americans do every day to survive. The criminals who are attempting to destroy the ideals of this country aren't content with taking just a little off the top. They want every single bit. Every house, every farm, every penny in every bank, every human they can treat as a slave or a sex object. The giant sucking sound you hear is a soulless monster atop a bottomless pit. When they go too far, which for me, was the corruption of 2016, the populace will rise and topple the criminal regime. People know the government will take some, but when they take too much, leaving families with nothing, they rise up. We cheer Robin Hood. We cheer the French Revolution. We cheer the American Revolution. It is not a matter of destroying the government, but bringing it to heel, making it work for the citizens and not accepting institutional slavery, wage slavery, grindingly numb days of putting one foot in front of another for someone else to realize dreams and gain acquisitions.
I guess I'm not out of words, but I'd rather be living in a reality where I felt like writing letters to my friends, or poetry.
It lowers my blood pressure and saves time, which is precious at my age. 
