Imagine my shock. I have held a lifetime subscription here for so long that I don't remember how long I've had it. The price was about the same as one solid political contribution, $100, so I figured, why the hell not? Imagine my shock when Kos's new campaign and program change for subscriptions rubbed my nose in the fact that huge swaths of this community, whose names I look for every day, didn't have lifetime subscriptions. I had always sort of assumed that everyone else was just like me, like any other privileged asshole would.
Anyway. it was the stream of thank you diaries from grateful recipients of gift subscriptions, that caused me to abandon my former supposition. Still, I hadn't thought of gifting anyone with a subscription myself.
Until tonight.
That is when this diary set me off on my own rant against Republicans complicit in co-opting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from properly monitoring and reacting to data on the Fukushima disaster. As I wrote what amounted to an extended comment on another dKos author's work, I began to wonder whether that writer had a Lifetime Subscription. When I clicked through to that profile page to link it to my own diary, I found that the answer was, no subscription.
Within minutes, I had completed gifting a Lifetime Subscription to the writer in question and modifying my diary at the last minute to refer to having done it. In the gift message, I said it was because the author's voice meant so much to me. It felt really good. I'm not sure why.