The viral DU...

[Javaman]

Frankly, I love many things about DU, but the one thing I really love is when a topic of outrage goes viral.

All sorts of posts either defensing or attacking said topic are posted in rapid fire succession.

Usually, but not always, the topic is something that is extremely transitory.

Whether the particular topic offends or not, out come the long knives or the bouquet of flowers; all at once.

The viral off shoot of these posts is the threads about staying focused and not dealing in various transitory outrage that solves nothing. Those are great. As if trying to inject reason to an already emotional trend will fix everything.

Another "offshoot" is what I like to call the "serial" poster. Also known as the OCD poster. This is someone that posts repeatedly on the same topic as if their first 20 posts on said topic wasn't enough. But it certainly was enough to get them banned. LOL

I love DU. I love that we are impassioned. I love that we get outraged over both little and big issues.

Keep it up. Great opinions. Some very insightful (some that even changed this middle aged guys mind) and some down right amusing in their frothy outrage. :)

Cheers!

[The Straight Story]

1. I think I resemble some of those remarks

:)

[monmouth]

2. I like the posters who have evidently been banned from FR..Very entertaining..n/t

[FSogol]

3. Arrrrgggggggggghhhhh!!!!

:thumbsup:

[a la izquierda]

4. Try being a woman...

who doesn't give a crap about the words slut, bitch or whore. I even use them occasionally.
Do I think those words have a place? Absolutely, I do. Do I think that the word is a slur that every woman on the planet must get offended by every time it's used...hardly.

But there's nothing like DU going totally bananas about non-issues. People are dead in Joplin, losing their homes and starving to death in the streets while the bankers walk free and we continue to bomb the shit out of sovereign nations. Yet what gets DU in a tizzy today is the word SLUT!

[malaise]

6. +1,000

They might as well play this for the progressive hating Laura

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2sP5rG47kw

[wtmusic]

7. Slow news cycle.

The tornadoes are current issues but hardly controversial, and walking bankers and bombing sovereign nations? Without some new development there's not much to discuss there, either.

Expect more slutrage and Trumpbites.

[WingDinger]

5. I hate it. And refuse to comment on the only thing going. It goes monotone in here.

[cutlassmama]

8. k&r

[leveymg]

9. Meta is usually boring; but, this has depth and a good eye for detail. KNR.

Outstanding short post - particularly for Meta.