Good-Bye Cruel World
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I started coming here regularly in 2015 as I was young, hopeful, and utterly disgusted with the Trump campaign. I wanted to learn how to better talk about progressive politics and in general just find a place that felt sane. It’s never been perfect but...
by Testaccount
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 02:47 PM PST
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(That's GoodBye Cruel World, and Ta-Ta For Now, in case you weren't sure...) Happy 20th Anniversary, Daily Kos Twenty years of Daily Kos history, rowdy as it’s been, doesn’t compact easily. I’ve only been here for 14 of them (I’ve got to be kidding....
by siab
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on Thu May 26, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Just so you can follow as we go, here’s the current link: The Rules of the Road ******* Off Topic, but possibly interesting: I’ve issued an invitation to come and take part in the conversation to someone whose comment I took exception to earlier today....
by siab
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on Fri Apr 16, 2021 at 06:00 PM PDT
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I’ve been here since late 2004. I’ve written lots of diaries. I’m done. I won’t be commenting either. Perhaps I’ll be back for a lurk once in a while. I won’t be reading the ...
by AlyoshaKaramazov
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on Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 02:58 PM PST
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GBCW
by Quipspeed
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on Sun Jan 12, 2020 at 05:20 AM PST
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I have left Daily Kos.
Nancy Pelosi’s spineless, ineffective, weak, and politically worthlessness non-actions, combined with the Rose-fueled, lickspittle, knee-jerk defense of her does nothing but protect Donald Trump and his criminal upending of...
by iburl
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on Tue Jul 09, 2019 at 11:12 AM PDT
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Originally published by Brett Wilkins at caucus99percent.com. I know how much y’all looooove a heartfelt GBCW, so…
I've recently been informed by the anonymous admin Demo-gods at Daily Kos, to whom I’ve contributed 154 articles over the past...
by wakapanda
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on Mon Aug 20, 2018 at 11:03 AM PDT
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Dear friends on Daily Kos,
This is a one-time post from a new account since my old account of 10 years, BrokenGlass, has been BOJOed but I wanted the opportunity to say "goodbye" to all of the amazing people I've met here over the last decade.
(I...
by BrokenGlassGoodBye
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on Wed Jul 11, 2018 at 09:02 AM PDT
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This will be short and sweet, I got banned/time out for a month(I broke the rules so no issue there). I am grateful because it helped me realize how much time I was wasting here posting comments, checking to see who liked them and responding back. It...
by rscottp
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on Sat Jun 02, 2018 at 01:52 PM PDT
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It’s official there are Liberals as bad or worse than Trump people and I want to thank you all for making me realize it. There are some great people on here but the bad ones are really bad and since I don’t meet your purity standards.
Thank you...
by streicher187
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on Mon Feb 19, 2018 at 03:19 PM PST
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Go away Hillary. Go away Bill. You’ve never represented the progressive cause. You both have consistently sidelined the outspoken Left.
The vast majority of the people on this site continue to support and believe the Clintons are something...
by mbinbg
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on Wed Jan 03, 2018 at 11:10 PM PST
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I learned an important lesson from my short time here at DailyKos. I waited a couple months before coming here to delete all my info/posts and write this in the hopes that people weren’t still lurking and watching for me to post something else they...
by GravyBear
101 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2018 at 09:03 PM PST
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Yup, the betrayal of Franken, the feckless and willful refusal to fight hard have made me give up on the Democratic party. The celebration of the betrayal of Franken has made me realize this website does not have the best interests of the country at...
by Inspector Javert
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on Fri Dec 08, 2017 at 01:59 PM PST
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Markos should stop leeching off true Democrats and crawl back into his hidey-hole. Let me out of here! 87 comments
on Thu Nov 30, 2017 at 12:51 PM PST
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I always heard that there were serious Democrats here at Daily Kos; so after November, I joined: Iv’e been a Democrat since before I could vote. My first vote was for Jimmy Carter. For years, I volunteered to get Democrats Elected, I campaigned and...
by radflyr
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on Thu Sep 21, 2017 at 10:07 PM PDT
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This tweet. Shocking in its bluntness. Dumfounding in its ignorance, inaccuracy and fuckery.
I’m officially done with this idiotic, privileged simpleton. I will not be returning to this site. I will not listen to anything he has to say on...
by StarkyLuv
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on Sat Aug 26, 2017 at 06:36 AM PDT
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It’s been a year since I’ve joined, and in this time, I have noticed a sad matter of affairs here at DailyKOS that I wanted to talk about before I move on to my next replacement after the fading of AmericaBlog and ThinkProgress (my go-to places back in...
by jhymesba
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on Fri Aug 11, 2017 at 07:32 AM PDT
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I DemExited this year when it became apparent that the Democratic Party leadership has no intention of reversing its corporatist, hegemonic, war-mongering, anti-populist direction. Since this site has no provision for deleting user accounts, the best I...
by op
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on Thu Jun 29, 2017 at 10:46 AM PDT
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Good Luck, Best Wishes, Short-Timer RRSpyke Over-and-Out! 22 comments
on Wed May 31, 2017 at 09:18 AM PDT
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I have been a life-long Democrat, and have always voted party line. I’ve been a registered member of Daily Kos since 2011, and a daily visitor to the site since around 2007.
I rarely write a diary, and I rarely comment. I come here to read...
by Geriw
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on Wed Mar 22, 2017 at 01:25 PM PDT
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