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A Political Journal?
I buried Quasit, my political persona, a while ago. But I still get outraged about politics. Worse, I still come up with funny ideas for political essays. I just can't help it.
For example, I was watching a news station a couple of nights ago when they ran a story about Arnold Schwarzenegger's trainer. My mouth shot off a punchline before I knew what was happening, and even Teri laughed. So I ran upstairs and wrote it down, tying it to an online AP story:
Now, I'd given up writing for political sites a long time ago: I'd been badly turned off by the ego of BartCop, and by the way that so many liberals wasted their time attacking each other or trying to "reason" with freeper trolls. To be reasonable and fair-minded is a fine thing, but there are times when you have to cut the bullshit and fight back. The GOP has been eviscerating the Democrats because they fight without quarter or pity, while the Democrats worry about seeming fair and being liked by the press - a press which, ironically, is in the pocket of the GOP.
It's really goddamned frustrating. Liberals need a place where they are able to talk, and plan, and share ideas, without being constantly disrupted by trolling freepers. But sanctimonious jackass moderators always insist on allowing every obvious GOP operative to come in and throw everything into a tizzy - or else they start censoring the hell out of everything they personally dislike. These were common problems on the BartCop forum.
I was also totally frustrated by the refusal of liberals and Democrats to take ANY sort of effective political action. There's a long story behind that which I'll save for another day.
Anyway, I can't help writing political stuff, so I thought I'd look for a forum here on LiveJournal. I found one called "anti_bush" and made a couple of posts.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to hear the same damned self-destructing responses that drove me out of online politics before. My joke about Schwarzenegger, it seemed, was unnecessarily partisan, and didn't relate to Bush. Another "open-minded liberal" remarked that Schwarzenegger had an MBA which could be a big help in dealing with the troubled California economy, and to my amazement they weren't joking.
Somehow, to hear that kind of bullshit remark in a community called "Anti_Bush" was too much for me to take. Mind you, some of the other participants were disagreeing with the trolls, but when I checked the forum in depth it was clear that trolls pretty much had the run of the place. As was the case for every liberal forum I could find on LiveJournal.
I am so tired of this suicidal mania on the part of so many liberals; when the hell are they going to wake up and realize that they're heading straight towards concentration camps, where their open-mindedness will earn them precisely nothing?
So I'm seriously thinking of starting up a community here called "Killer Liberals". It will be heavily restricted in membership; anyone who says "both parties are bad", or "that's unfair to Bush", or any other such crap will be summarily banned. It will be a place to post information to help liberals fight right-wingers, funny attacks on right-wing figures, etc.
Is it worth the effort? I don't know. I don't know what would be involved, to tell the truth, and I don't want (or need) a huge energy-sink in my life right now. I just want a forum where I can slam Bush, or Lieberman, or Schwarzenegger, or some other GOP/right wing bastard and not have to worry about being irritated by some totally obnoxious caveat from a well-meaning fathead or freeper troll. If other people who feel the same way also join the community, that will just be gravy.
Ah, I don't know. I'm too tired to make the decision right now.
For example, I was watching a news station a couple of nights ago when they ran a story about Arnold Schwarzenegger's trainer. My mouth shot off a punchline before I knew what was happening, and even Teri laughed. So I ran upstairs and wrote it down, tying it to an online AP story:
| Schwarzenegger's trainer weighs in From the AP: GRAZ, Austria - In a gym plastered with photographs of his protege, Arnold Schwarzenegger's former trainer described Saturday how the California gubernatorial candidate helped break up neo-Nazi gatherings as a teen-ager. He did it by saying "Okay, meeting adjourned." |
Now, I'd given up writing for political sites a long time ago: I'd been badly turned off by the ego of BartCop, and by the way that so many liberals wasted their time attacking each other or trying to "reason" with freeper trolls. To be reasonable and fair-minded is a fine thing, but there are times when you have to cut the bullshit and fight back. The GOP has been eviscerating the Democrats because they fight without quarter or pity, while the Democrats worry about seeming fair and being liked by the press - a press which, ironically, is in the pocket of the GOP.
It's really goddamned frustrating. Liberals need a place where they are able to talk, and plan, and share ideas, without being constantly disrupted by trolling freepers. But sanctimonious jackass moderators always insist on allowing every obvious GOP operative to come in and throw everything into a tizzy - or else they start censoring the hell out of everything they personally dislike. These were common problems on the BartCop forum.
I was also totally frustrated by the refusal of liberals and Democrats to take ANY sort of effective political action. There's a long story behind that which I'll save for another day.
Anyway, I can't help writing political stuff, so I thought I'd look for a forum here on LiveJournal. I found one called "anti_bush" and made a couple of posts.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to hear the same damned self-destructing responses that drove me out of online politics before. My joke about Schwarzenegger, it seemed, was unnecessarily partisan, and didn't relate to Bush. Another "open-minded liberal" remarked that Schwarzenegger had an MBA which could be a big help in dealing with the troubled California economy, and to my amazement they weren't joking.
Somehow, to hear that kind of bullshit remark in a community called "Anti_Bush" was too much for me to take. Mind you, some of the other participants were disagreeing with the trolls, but when I checked the forum in depth it was clear that trolls pretty much had the run of the place. As was the case for every liberal forum I could find on LiveJournal.
I am so tired of this suicidal mania on the part of so many liberals; when the hell are they going to wake up and realize that they're heading straight towards concentration camps, where their open-mindedness will earn them precisely nothing?
So I'm seriously thinking of starting up a community here called "Killer Liberals". It will be heavily restricted in membership; anyone who says "both parties are bad", or "that's unfair to Bush", or any other such crap will be summarily banned. It will be a place to post information to help liberals fight right-wingers, funny attacks on right-wing figures, etc.
Is it worth the effort? I don't know. I don't know what would be involved, to tell the truth, and I don't want (or need) a huge energy-sink in my life right now. I just want a forum where I can slam Bush, or Lieberman, or Schwarzenegger, or some other GOP/right wing bastard and not have to worry about being irritated by some totally obnoxious caveat from a well-meaning fathead or freeper troll. If other people who feel the same way also join the community, that will just be gravy.
Ah, I don't know. I'm too tired to make the decision right now.
Re: Hey. Prick.
This will not continue.
Re: Hey. Prick.
(Anonymous) 2003-10-07 10:50 am (UTC)(link)Surely you do not think that you're behaviour has been the epitome of courtesy? (rhyme!) and furthermore, do you really believe me to be some insidious operative of the right, planted within the community to rip it apart and be a further detriment to the left's efforts to fight it's coming enslavement and oppression?