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EF, I hope this comment reaches you since my comments are disappearing frequently now. I’ve enjoyed your work here and will miss being in contact with you and many other great people here. I hope you can carry on a more civil discussion on the cultural insensitivity being displayed here. Like Markfromireland snd Mohammedibnlaith I [...]

Sorry EF, I don’t mean to detract from your diary and I hope we can find more to investigate about US/DPRK conflict.

The Gregorius cartoon reminds me of the Nationalistic and racist US propaganda aimed at Japan during WW2. The Chinese were our allies and were depicted as almost Western looking.

I was addressing EF Karen so no need to scold here.

I’m not sure about Bill’s genius or building 350.org from the ground up since he did it with a few million from the Rockefellers.

I understand your reluctance to join this “kerfluffle” but I and some others see it as, Death By A thousand Cuts, for FDL. We have lost many fine commenters, foreign and domestic, due to this kind of behavior.

This may be the normal evolution for a blog but it is still depressing.

I know you have no real power here but your comments have been dismissive and Authoritarian or at least possessive, in my opinion.

Ruth’s comments also display some of those traits, IMO. Trying to cover her parroting of Western Truthspeak, with hair spliting on terms, is very weak.

While things have been quiet here the Ugly Amerikan has been rearing its head again at GregoriusU’s post about DPRK and there is a minor skirmish happening at Over Easy due to MFI’s and MiL’s shunning of FDL.

You have been warned ” I think you’re crossing a line at this point” and summarily dismissed by our compassionate creator of this thread. Look forward not back, never back and stay in line.

Since the Reagan era many Liberal Dems have rebranded themselves as Progressives, which they most certainly are not.

The subtitle of this diary should be the title.

It’s telling that Ruth is insisting her facts were the truth and Mohammed’s were supporting Assad.

The certainty of Amerikan Exceptionalism leaves us free to never be wrong.

While this is a serious subject I had to laugh at this post. Who is this multitude of “we” and how are they, even if they exist, going to take control of our corrupt system? From what I have read from Progressives who have tried to work inside the Democrat Party they were marginalized and [...]

Looks great now Margo!

I rarely visit the, over easy posts, but from reading the offending posts I don’t imagine there will be any apologies from those involved. This parroting of the offical point of view is not new here and neither is the type of response generated by holding a mirror to that POV. I noticed and commented [...]

OK EF, I’ll wait until you get your coming flaming and then we can revisit this modern issue.

I hope we haven’t lost Wendy due to this problem because we have lost Markfromireland and Mohamedibnlath and many other strong voices.

Margo, please do something about the formatting of your posts they are very dificult to read while the contents are excellent.

EF, the Counterpunch post is titled Missed Opportunities IN N Korea by Peter Lee. I’m sorry you misunderstood my quip about the DMZ like divide here at FDL. I still think you could handle a discussion of this ancient divide, relativists vs dualists and how it influences us today. I may be asking too much [...]

I see the “flame wars” as a result of this divide not a cause. Do you really think censoring discussion will improve the tensions here?

This is not an attack on FDL or the mods it was a request for a discussion of different philosophies.

I’m glad to see you have continued this thread EF, I have learned quite a bit about Korean history especially from Margo’s posts and links. Wonk Litwak seems to be projecting when he talks about “failed states with nuclear weapons and opaque leadership” I read an interesting post at Counterpunch on how China not just [...]