Can we stop fighting with each other?

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Saturday December 11, 2010 · 1:16 PM PST

2010/12/11 · 13:16

We are upset by some things and rightfully so, but it's getting out of control around here. The things people are saying about the people we elected just a couple years ago and about each other are becoming indistinguishable from the things that are said about us by the people on the right who hate us all.

We are mocking each other ruthlessly. We are ganging up on each other. We are calling into question each others morals. We are accusing each other of being bad people. We are escalating in intestity and outrageousness in the ways in which we are attacking each other. And it's driving people here apart.

Now, if you are a troll, you are perfectly happy to divide and conquer the people on Daily Kos.

But if you are a Democrat and you support more and better Democrats then it must be disheartening to you to see how Daily Kos has been turning against itself instead of working to find common ground that we can all work together on.

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Can you be respectful toward people who disagree with you on some things so you can work on the things you agree on?

47 votes Vote Now!

Can you be respectful toward people who disagree with you on some things so you can work on the things you agree on?

Yes

36 votes

11 votes

I support both President Obama and Senator Sanders

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Friday December 10, 2010 · 7:18 PM PST

2010/12/10 · 19:18

I voted for President Obama for many reasons and one of the most important was his ability and willingness to work with everyone to solve problems. I didn't vote for someone like Dennis Kucinich because I didn't want someone who only respects the left and demonizes the right(even if they deserve it). I wanted a President who sees the people of this country as neighbors living together. I wanted a President of the United States of America. Not of California or Massachusetts. Not of Texas or North Dakota. All of the United States of America.

Now, Senators and Representatives on the other hand. They represent the people of their state or district. John McCain doesn't represent the people of California. Alan Grayson doesn't represent the people of Idaho. They represent their own people and while they have a responsibility to work with other Senators and Representatives their number one priority is their own people. It's their job to fight for what their people want and need. There is a priority for them and it's not people in other states.

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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 7:54 PM PST

2010/12/08 · 19:54

I make enough money to make ends meet right now. A year ago I was making more than double what I make now, but I'm doing better than most in this economy. I make video games with my brother. My wife is in college with a 4.0 after years of waiting to help me and my brother get our careers off the ground. But our taxes are about to change in a way that will effectively cut our legs out from underneath us.

We pay all our payroll taxes in addition to normal income tax. This tax cut deal will not only save us having to pay payroll taxes but keep our income tax at a rate we can actually squeeze out. This tax cut deal will also mean that we get a huge($2500) credit on my wife's college expenses.

This all adds up to thousands of dollars for us. And to be honest, the only way for us to make it and for my wife to continue to finally get through college is for this tax cut deal to pass and help us. Otherwise I'll have to get a second job again or my wife will have to quit college.

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Do you want all(including middle class) tax cuts to end?

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Do you want all(including middle class) tax cuts to end?

Yes, I don't pay taxes, so I don't mind.

1 vote

Yes, I make a lot of money, so, I don't mind.

3 votes

Yes, other.

40 votes

No, my family needs these tax cuts.

28 votes

No, I don't need them but I know most families do.

48 votes

No, other.

7 votes

President Obama, fight already, will ya!

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Thursday December 02, 2010 · 3:51 PM PST

2010/12/02 · 15:51

I am an idealist about social issues but when it comes to economics and foreign policy I am a pragmatist. So, you'll find me pushing for gay rights and justice for victims of domestic abuse. But you'll also find me supporting compromise and consensus when it comes to economics and with a lot of understanding and patience when it comes to foreign policy. So, that is where I am coming from when I say this.

President Obama, fight already, will ya! The House just set you up for a spike on YOUR middle class tax cuts but you not only didn't spike the ball you caught it and then handed it back to the other side to make the next move. What. The. Hell.

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Sunday November 28, 2010 · 12:55 PM PST

2010/11/28 · 12:55

A half of a lifetime ago for a very short amount of time I was an evangelical minister. It didn't really work out for me for a variety of reasons the biggest being that I couldn't reconcile a loving god sending people to hell, I couldn't understand how being gay was bad and I couldn't accept that being a woman made you second class.

But all of those reasons had their beginning in one single calculation that I had made after seminary: if I spend my entire life learning I will still know so little compared to what there is to know in an infinite changing universe that I essentially know almost nothing. This calculation had an amazing humbling effect on me.

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Thursday November 25, 2010 · 6:01 PM PST

2010/11/25 · 18:01

i remember thanksgiving last year. i had just lost my job about a month before. we were running out of savings in a month and we didn't even know how we were going to be able to pay rent or even for food. we lived in a mid size town but i am a video game developer and there were no jobs here. there weren't even regular programming jobs here.

the day i lost my job i was able to get remote work with a client i had worked for for years but they were also struggling due to the recession and all they could pay me for full time work was $325 a week. a fraction of the pay i had been making for years. my wife had a 4.0 in school and i was determined not to have her have to drop out again. she had worked so hard with me for years so we could make it at video games and i wasn't going to let her put her education on hold any longer. i took a second job as a manager at a movie theater for $10.50 an hour just to make enough money to live.

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Tuesday November 23, 2010 · 10:11 AM PST

2010/11/23 · 10:11

"It Gets Better" — Love, Pixar

I should have known that there were a lot of gay people working at Pixar. How else would a Sarah McLaughlin song wind up in Toy Story 2? For the record, I didn't cry during that scene. There was a draft in the theater and my eyes were watering. Seriously though, every one of these "It Gets Better" videos are tear jerkers for anyone with even half a heart.

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Saturday November 13, 2010 · 1:10 AM PST

2010/11/13 · 01:10

How did a week go by so fast? It seems like just yesterday My wife and my brother and I were leaving home for Hawaii. Now we are already sitting in the airport waiting to fly back home. Now I get to be terrified again. Yay!! Not as terrified as when I was coming but still terrified enough to wonder what the heck possessed me to agree to watch the film unstoppable today. The Denzel film about the run a way train. At least I have two of the lord of the rings films on my iPad to watch in case I can't sleep. Good old frodo and sam wise and merry and pippin and gandalf. Hopefully they will make me feel better.

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Sunday November 07, 2010 · 6:30 PM PST

2010/11/07 · 18:30

My wife and brother and I are sitting here in the San Francisco airport waiting to board our flight to Honolulu in an about 35-40 minutes. We flew here from Seattle. It's been about 16 years since I've flown. I'm married. It's actually my 10th year wedding anniversary this Dec. This trip is part anniversary and part belated honeymoon(we eloped in college) and part holiday trip with my brother who's our roommate and who works with me. So, this time I am not quite as brave about flying cause I've got so much to lose if we don't make it.

Yeah, I'm paranoid about flying. I hate not having any way to do anything to prevent my death if something goes wrong. At least I have my wife and brother with me if we go down. I should want them far away if anything happened on this plane but I can admit that if I have to go down I wouldn't want to go alone thinking of how much my death would ruin their lives. Of course, they are both perfectly excited about flying. It's their first time. They love it to death. When we landed here in SF I was so happy to see the ground that I wanted to ask it to marry me.

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Have you been to Hawaii?

123 votes Vote Now!

Have you been to Hawaii?

Yes, once a long time ago before we were in a recession. So, pre Reagan.

23 votes

Yes, not long ago. It was great.

48 votes

Yes, I live there. I am awesome beyond words.

13 votes

No, and I'm pissed cause global warming is probably going ruin my chances.

9 votes

No, are you nuts!! I don't fly! Do I look like I have wings? No, I do not. Lunatic!

8 votes

No, but I'm going soon. I hope.

22 votes

When did you choose to be straight?

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Saturday October 16, 2010 · 4:27 PM PDT

2010/10/16 · 16:27

I just watched this on a friend's Facebook wall and loved it. I had to spread it around. Watch it. It will make you feel hopeful.

And if that little clip wasn't enough to make you feel good then how about the news that everyone's favorite gay wizard is coming back to the big screen in The Hobbit! Peter Jackson is directing again! 2 films, splitting the story into 2 parts.

Yeah, that's right Dumbledore, I said that Ian MacKellen is everyone's favorite gay wizard, sorry! But you're pretty cool too. ;)

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Who's your favorite gay wizard?

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Who's your favorite gay wizard?

Gandalf

39 votes

Dumbledore

19 votes

The End of Don't Ask Don't Tell

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Thursday October 14, 2010 · 5:16 PM PDT

2010/10/14 · 17:16

I am a little confused about ending Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Is it legal for gay people to serve in the military without DADT right now? Is it against the law to serve in the military if you are gay but because of DADT you don't have to admit to being gay and they can't ask you if you are gay thus creating a legal loophole that practically allows gay people to serve in secret? So, if we just declare DADT unconstitutional does that actually make it legal for gay people to serve in the military or does it take away their only practical means to serve until we make it legal to serve in the military while being gay?

I am of the understanding that if we simply end DADT without making it legal to serve in the military while being gay that we really just go back to the way it's always been. That doesn't seem like a smart move to me. Shouldn't we just make it legal to be gay in the military? Am I wrong about this? I know someone around here can help clear this up for me.

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I just ate a piece of pumpkin pie. UPDATE with video.

"It Gets Better" — Love, Pixar

Going home from Hawaii.

Waiting to fly to Hawaii in a SF airport. I do feel more liberal.

When did you choose to be straight?

The End of Don't Ask Don't Tell