Was Timed Out a week ago and have lived to tell the tale. Suspect I'll soon be banned becuz I can't keep my mouth shut while HRC gets closer to her throne.

That prohibits speech, pits people against one another, and sits adults In a corner with a time out as if they were children?

Ma gentil ami, I recommend most strongly that you not place any too much store in anything done over at TOP (That Other Place). Once upon an ancient time, it was a good place to hang out with fellow progressives; but the commercial management of the site went clear into the septic tank for the Turd Way and Hillary Clinton on March 15. Ever since then, punishments for dissent from the Clintonite/Third Way/Conservadem line have increased beyond either rationality or even belief. Moreover, the injustice collectors and Victim Poker Players there (if "privilege" is part of their argument, you've got one of these) now run everything that the commercial management does not.

I would take this as a sign that you should join our General Strike against TOP (no more free content, no more participation except for Bernie and OPOL Diaries) and instead spend your valuable blogging time where you're appreciated: here at C99P!

Seriously: TOP's founder and owner, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (kos), has shot his first and best Internet creation in the foot, and himself with it:

[video:https://youtu.be/XTGmTrQXrwg]

There is no reason what-so-fucking-ever to allow him to shoot you, too.

So just hang here instead, that's what I say!

That says things like what is in this diary, yet the link in not clickable so how the hell am I to know what I tipped?
Fuck them. I'm not a baby that needs to be told I made a boo boo.
Jesus, that place has gone further off the wheels.
I'm hoping it crashes and burns soon.

did you or did you not tip a comment that advocated a capital crime? like murder for example?

Just kidding. I do believe the site will die from being boring. Echo chambers peopled with corporate spammers get very boring in no time.

What you experienced just might be an across-the-board way of seeing and doing things.

Early on Election Day I got a call from a Bernie admin in NC asking if there were any Bernie signs at my poling place. I told her I was just on my way out to vote. She told me if there weren't any signs she'd make some calls and get it seen to.

I (we) went to the poll, voted, and I noticed that there weren't any signs. So, I came home, got all of my remaining Bernie signs and bumper stickers, and returned to the poll. There, I proceeded to put up my signs.

While I was trying to put up my first sign, I got to talking to a middle-aged black guy, (I was having trouble with my left hand and it was in my brace), so I asked him to help me hold up the sign while I unraveled the masking tape.

He didn't know much about Bernie. No wonder, says I, they've been ignoring him of the TV. I was telling him about how Bernie got handcuffed to a black woman in the '60s during the Civil Rights Era, how he'd always been a straight shooter, how he wasn't rich, in sum, all the good shit Bernie did and stands for.

There was also a Hillary woman putting up signs. She was crowing, "Hillary's going to stomp all over him," and cackling as she did so.

So, I turned to the guy and said, "I've never heard Bernie say anything about stomping on people."

He hadn't voted yet. Who knows, maybe I made a convert.

[edit] I called the admin back and told her it was all taken care of. I used up all my signs up and down the street leading to the poll and even stapled up all my bumper stickers.

I remember when progressives protested them. Now they give "time outs"...

Why will there will always be a war between the sexes?

Too much collaboration with the enemy! (the only rational analysis of war ever made by Henry Kissinger)

we were groomed to become DNC operatives, of the Third Way flavor. Whether Moulitsas was a CIA wannabe or not, he read their playbook about grooming operatives. It started as an amusing fancy that the DNC could be brought into the 21st century, and be responsive to the concerns of the Little Man. Once hooked, the gate turned and the new way out was a way back into the fold of the unrepentant arms of the power that we were allowed to criticize before. Or else.

Screw crashing the gates, hop the damned wall!

you get treated like that over there. As several people have said, it is abusive. It is also really creepy. Have you read George Orwell's "Animal Farm"? George knew about creepy social dynamics.

You've reached a healthy place here.