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FadedMullet

(957 posts)
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 02:43 PM Sunday

I have recently realized that I have inadvertantly become part of the DU "purity police", albeit as an entry level..... [View all]

..................practitioner. I have in the past bemoaned the fact that some among us find it impossible to just accept it and be quiet when someone here (occasionally me) veers off the path of Progressive/Liberal Democratic Purity in any meaningful way and posts something in that vein. My recent transgressions are more in the realm of correcting minor factual errors and misspellings, but my shame is real.
Therefore, I am today, on this beautiful Sunday morning, pledging to this community of fellow travelers, that it ends now. I will not, in the future feel the need to add my own two cents whenever I have to "suffer" some minor irritation to my low-rent opinions, let alone minor deviations from "facts" as I know them.

There, I feel better already.

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