Hey! How did you find DU? When did you find DU?

[CanuckAmok]

Here's how I found DU:

Back in February 2003,a friend sent me a link to veteransforpeace.org, which had a link to takebackthemedia.com, which had a link to DU.

I lurked around for about a month before posting my first contribution, and donated in September or October of 2003.



How did you come across this great, extended family of heroes we call Democraticunderground.com?

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I found it thru the Top Ten Conservative Idiots link.

[Exultant Democracy]

16. Same here

it was the week after O"Riley freaked out on Franken at that book show.

[greatauntoftriplets]

41. Same here.

Shortly after the inauguration, but I didn't register until October of 2001.

[are_we_united_yet]

2. Searching the web for "hate on the W administration" food

gotta link and I was hooked.

[Dees]

3. About 2.5 years ago. I think it was linked from democrats.com

Not sure.

[Beearewhyain]

4. Either from Bartcop.com or Democrats.com

Can't remember which. Been lurking for about a year before I finally decided to start posting.

On edit: Added time

[POed_Ex_Repub]

5. I linked through an anti-bush site...

Was glad I did. :smoke:

[Maddy McCall]

6. Searched for anti-Bush websites after first day of Iraq War and

found DU then, and have been here almost daily ever since.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. I was feeling alienated in 2002 by all the rabid conservatism

and pro-war madness in the media. I couldn't find any leftist opinions anywhere. I didn't even have a computer! I went to the library and looked up "liberal voice" and up came a bunch of RW sites promoting hate, and particularly hatred of this one site, democraticunderground.com. I was intrigued, checked it out, and got hooked. I was going to the library and reading for four hours a day...finally my wife bought us an eMac.

Started posting in March of 2003, right during the Iraq war hysteria, and haven't stopped. I'm addicted...there's no much to read here, it's overwhelming sometimes, but always worth it.

[Lady Freedom]

8. in College

My news-writing teacher told me about it! She like to come here and read some of the stuff. Hi, Mrs. Kilby!!!:hi:

[Webster Green]

9. January 20, 2001

Saw the huge DU banner at the chimp's Inaugural Parade in Washington DC.

[VelmaD]

29. Me too

Was here as a lurker from just about day 1. Made my first post in June of 2001. Got into a little tiff with Crewleader about the death penalty the day they executed Tim McVeigh. :-)

[Jax]

43. Same for me

That banner was the only thing that kept me sane on that sickening day.

Jax

[Cat Atomic]

10. Hypocrites.com- they have a link to here.

I was at work one day... sometime in late 2001, and someone was listening to Rush Limbaugh. I was so disgusted by the hypocrisy of Limbaugh's arguments, I decided to type in hypocrites.com and see if it dealt with guys like Limbaugh. It did. Does, I mean. Very cool site, btw.

[populistmom]

11. My husband found DU

Summer 2002, but I didn't sign up until November 2002 after a couple of months of lurking.

But now he's banned because he'd read my husband-complaining lounge posts and get pissed at me. I said, "Then who else am I supposed to complain to?" (He doesn't like me to share our "personal business" with people we know in our lives more. Nevermind the ego big enough to think I talk about nothing else but him. :eyes: ) I just kept coming and he switched departments at work and is now too busy to check up on me there anymore.

He only has a postcount of 20 or so here anyway and wasn't really into posting. Now if he wants stuff, he goes to Buzzflash.

[waywest]

12. Linked from Bushisms

Around March 2001. I just don't post a lot.

[FDRrocks]

13. A wonderful lady...

who runs a wonderful site ... http://www.hereinreality.com

She mentioned it en passant, if I remember.

[AlienGirl]

14. From Bartcop.com, sometime before 9/11

I don't know the exact date, but I know that by 9/11, my first reaction to big news stories was to come here!

Tucker

[jus_the_facts]

15. Buzzflash......almost 2 years ago.....

:)

[LosinIt]

17. Found it from a search on Democrat on Google, the same week I found out...

that I worked with Mrs. B. Boudelang. I was surprised that such an intelligent woman was married to him......;-)

[underseasurveyor]

18. I don't remember how I found it

Probably through Bartcop would be my best guess. But I found it in June or July of 2001.

[LastKnight]

19. Linked from the message board from Axis of Justice

AoJ is an organization formed by tom morello of audioslave and Serj Tankinin of System of a Down. they do activisim and whatnot, they lead a group of protesters in a few antiwar marches. but they are more focused on domestic issues, labor, poverty, whatnot, i remember when they made it illegal to feed homeless in santa monica, they led about 200 people handing out handmade sandwiches they helped make themselves.

they dont moderate thier boards though, so i only go there when i want a full out brawl. the repukes will dissregard facts so it doesnt matter if you have them or not, the board is pretty evenly split between liberal and conservatives. and you make enemies and allies quickly.

www.axisofjustice.org

-LK

[PartyPooper]

20. In 2002 I was writing Senators and Congress Critters to vote against *

and the illegal invasion of Iraq. Somehow, I did a Google...and, DU came up. :-)

The rest is history!

:hi:

[Piperay]

21. Early 2001

right after the chimp started squatting in the WH. I was about to go crazy because I need to vent to other people who felt the same way as myself. I first joined some groups on Yahoo and through them found out about the DU. I joined in about February but just lurked and didn't begin posting till later in the Spring because at first there was a lot of freepers posting and I just couldn't deal with them.

[Kickin_Donkey]

22. Mid-2001

It was a roundabout way, one step at a time.

A few days after the Supreme Court selected Dubya, in December 2000, I was so outraged and despondent -- really reeling -- that I had to seek out some release, at least by hearing other people similarly outraged.

One night I was absently fumbling around with a radio and I decided to see if Ray Taliferro was still on KGO (810 AM) out of San Francisco. I hadn't listened to him in nearly 20 years (I'd been out of the country for a lengthy period). To my surprise, Taliaferro was on -- and he was in fine form just whaling on the Supreme Court decision and the Stolen Election. All the callers were similarly outraged.

I began listening to Taliaferro every night. After a couple of months, I started tuning in to Bernie Ward, another firebrand liberal, who comes on just before Taliaferro on the same station.

Bernie Ward would occasionally mention mediawhoresonline.com, and when I finally got access to a computer (parents bought one), I went to MWO. MWO linked me to DU. This was sometime in the middle of 2001. It was one step at a time.

This is sort of embarassing, but I lurked at DU for two and a half years, before finally registering a few days ago.

Mike

[Kickin_Donkey]

23. Mid-2001

It was a roundabout way, one step at a time.

A few days after the Supreme Court selected Dubya, in December 2000, I was so outraged and despondent -- really reeling -- that I had to seek out some release, at least by hearing other people similarly outraged.

One night I was absently fumbling around with a radio and I decided to see if Ray Taliferro was still on KGO (810 AM) out of San Francisco. I hadn't listened to him in nearly 20 years (I'd been out of the country for a lengthy period). To my surprise, Taliaferro was on -- and he was in fine form just whaling on the Supreme Court decision and the Stolen Election. All the callers were similarly outraged.

I began listening to Taliaferro every night. After a couple of months, I started tuning in to Bernie Ward, another firebrand liberal, who comes on just before Taliaferro on the same station.

Bernie Ward would occasionally mention mediawhoresonline.com, and when I finally got access to a computer (parents bought one), I went to MWO. MWO linked me to DU. This was sometime in the middle of 2001. It was one step at a time.

This is sort of embarassing, but I lurked at DU for two and a half years, before finally registering a few days ago.

Mike

[CanuckAmok]

24. Kick for the early riser set

[Blue-Jay]

25. I was in the middle of a Fark flamewar, and someone linked me here.

Thanks to whoever did that.

[arwalden]

26. I found DU by accident. I didn't even know it was lost.

[bif]

27. Back in the late 1970s

No wait, that's wrong. I found DU during the Election 2000 nightmare. Either through democrats.com or just general surfing.

[geniph]

28. About a month after the Selection,

my husband was ranting about all the right-wing sites, and said, "there HAS to be something out there for Democrats and moderates!" and went on a mission to find them. He found Buzzflash and Democrats.com, and from there, found DU in February 2001. He started reading me the Top Ten Conservative Idiots. In March, I started going onto the site to read the Top Ten myself every Monday, then saw a thread entitled "Monty Pythoning the Junta." I couldn't resist that, registered my username and have been here since early April 2001.

[Breezy du Nord]

30. Just stumbled upon it

Looking for neocon stuff that would make my blood boil, but this turned up also.

[indigo32]

31. Found it right before the 2002 elections

in a search for liberal sites. I remember it went crazy after the elections and posting had to be limited to donating members. I donated a few months later.

[meti57b]

32. I saw the banner that read, democraticunderground.com that they held up...

for the TV cameras at the so-called inauguration parade. Just happened to turn on the TV at the right time. Must ask sometime, if that was our admins holding the banner.

[brainshrub]

33. I saw William Rivers Pitt in Boone, NC

Then after the talk I overheard him talk about Democratic Underground.
I've been hooked ever since.

ON EDIT: Sept 2003.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

35. God, I love Boone...

what a great town...was he speaking at App?

TheProdigal

[bobthedrummer]

34. I found DU in August 2002. I was banned from another site {SC}

along with several other members for discussion of conspiracy theory like the possibility of a coup of some kind, Bush/Nazi connections, secret societies, mind control, PNAC, RPMA/RMA, etc. and also for supporting Dennis Kucinich.

All of us refugees are still here thanks to a simple rule-based forums section that does allow for CT discussion {not space aliens or other far-out stuff since we have documented topics with hidden history-it's already bad enough as it is}.

I'm happy to be a contributing member of this great American political website-the very best IMHO.

I learn something useful here everyday and have even made a few friends along the way.

With the powerful research posted and archived here isn't it amazing that Bush is still sitting in the WH and not in a Halliburton Corrections facility along with the rest of BFEE? It will catch up to them sooner or later, there are a number of powerful folks here, patriotic Americans and democracy loving folks from elsewhere that are helping to take our country back.

Thanks, Skinner!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

36. found it whilst looking for a place for William

my great grandfather. Knew he would love something like this...and now I seem to be hooked too!

TheProdigal

[Kathy in Cambridge]

37. Mid-2001, but didn't join until Feb 2003

I was linked from Buzzflash.

[ulysses]

38. Salon, July 2001

Not sure I lurked for five minutes before I jumped into a Crewleader thread and chatted up geniph. :)

[kaitykaity]

39. Buzzflash link, right after the selection.

I didn't really post until after my stint
as a moderator. Mainly read. This place
has saved my sanity since right after the
selection.

[MisterP]

40. love for the environment to

dislike at Buchanan-Norquist-libertarian types to TurnLeft.com to bartcop.com to here.

[bubblesby2002]

42. I was interested in finding.....

....stuf about the Iraq war and found a site called warblogging.com which had a link to DU. I lurked for the last few months and just joined about three weeks ago. I love this site very much and have tried to find a similar Canadian site - but so far no luck. But you can find alkl you need right here.:toast:

[CanuckAmok]

49. Welcome again to DU, Bubblesboy...

...don't worry about not finding a Canadian site--there are plenty of us Canuckleheads right here...

[bubblesby2002]

58. Hey

Thanks again. I look forward to political discourse about the great saviour Paul Martin arrrggghhhh! Did you see him on TV with George this morning? The lackey media were falling all over themselves with such crap as "the body language seems to indicate a much more comfortable relationship between George and Paul. Yuck.

[greendog]

44. On 911

Smirking Chimp was down because their server was in or near the WTC. I started looking around...and found Bartcop which had a link to DU.

[Tripper11]

45. I came by way of Michael Moore's Bulletin Board

Someone posted a link there.

About a month later Mike's boards were shut down after numerous attacks from freepers and white supremists.

[Squeech]

46. I don't quite remember, it's been a couple years

I think I followed the link from Bartcop.

But I remember the old days, before there was ZombyCoffee... before there were "Ask me anything" threads... (wanders off, mumbling into his beard)

[UrbScotty]

47. I was on an AOL message board

This person had DU in their sig line, I think.

I became a DUer on August 13, 2002. 17 months ago tomorrow

[gate of the sun]

48. mike malloy

about 2 years ago now.....I'm slow poster.

[WealthAndDemocracy]

50. Another member directed me here

[Ilsa]

51. I googled "Democratic message board" or something like that.

Luckily found DU!

Found M.Malloy because of DU.

[cryofan]

52. Freeperville kept banning and telling me to "go back to DU, DUer", so....

....I finally looked up DU....and stayed.

[Cleita]

53. James Carville spoke about Media Whores and

gave out the URL on Crossfire before the 2002 elections. From there I clicked the links to various sites that had links and somehow I arrived at DU.

[hedgetrimmer]

54. 2 years ago i arrived upon the scene and caused mayhem...

i went crazy, off the wall nuttsy like a freed sardine... i called everybody a freedom crushing neo-con... i did not want to end up some middle of the road tissue in a pre-teen girls bra trying to look more like something i am not... i watched this board go from some f*cking off the wall psycho water ballon throwing fest into a mild mannered "discussion board"... the good old days when i knew just about every poster's name and could defile them in a note-worthy way...

well... then i got a brain tumor and all the steam came out of the kettle when they drilled a hole in my head... i'm still sitting on the fire hoping to regain some of that piss and vinegar and start hurling some ignited dirt upon my fellow keyboard intellectuals... get a little high-test fuel on debate and to hell with this middle of the road tissue in a pre-teen girls bra... trying so hard to be something this board is not...

by the way i heard about DU from the mike malloy show back in 2001... many blessings...

[IronLionZion]

55. Anti-war did it for me

so I decided to do what I could to defeat Bush and arrived here from a google search of democratic websites

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

56. Several months ago,

back when I was on the User Friendly message boards, someone posted a link to QuestionW. I thought the content was pretty neat, even though the site's organization was terrible. I decided to check out their links to other Dem sites, and the next thing I knew, I was here.

[Haviland_42]

57. here: http://forums.therightsociety.com/

It is a conservative site that I argued at:

http://forums.therightsociety.com/

They had a thread there about some things being said at "the DU". I didn't know what "the DU' was, so I asked.

You guys ought to go there. They don't have any lefties but they sure could use a few. That place lacks intelligence.