A couple of my comments (and the replies to them) have been disappeared from Booman’s thread An Era of Breathtaking Lies. The “Cabron dioxide” posts. Perhaps this post will disappear too. I no longer care, one way or the other.
I am not surprised. This site has been heading the way of all dKos fledgelings for a couple of years now. I am surprised that it lasted this long as a place where people could really say something that is not the “Party” line.
The Trump debacle accelerated that process.
Have fun agreeing with one another.
And when the breakdown really happens…whether the PermaGov breaks down of its own dishonesty and/or is taken down by some sort of outside interests…
Remember.
I tried to warn you.
Later…
ASG
Lighten up Cassandra. I just visited that thread and all your comments are still there, as are all of your diaries. Booman (I don’t know him well enough to call him Martin) doesn’t seem to be interested in censoring anyone. Even those who direct ad-hominem attacks at him.
Still trying to decide if this is a GBCW diary. If so, AG will be back. And Booman almost never does censorship. There are probably plenty of comments on this blog that have gotten a pass when they really should not have. Nature of the beast. Thought the same about message boards and Usenet before the advent of blogs. So it goes.
You have SIX diaries from March 20 and 21. Censored?
Actually, “censorship” should be understood as an act by the state against individuals or organizations. Martin Longman is not the state. If he decides to give me the heave-ho, he, as owner of this blog, is entirely within his rights.
I dunno.
I checked about 10 times before I posted this article. (I was practicing at home for an upcoming concert of Gil Evans compositions…the Ravel/Debussy of American jazz. 20 minutes of hard practice, 10 m,inutes of rest. Lots of time to check.) The comments were gone. They were still available in my own “Comments” section, but on the main site? Gone like Flynn.
Somewhere in there, some fool Booman poster had given me a zero rating for one of the posts.
I ignored it.
An hour later?
Comments gone…on the main article…An Era of Breathtaking Lies? Gone.
I checked and rechecked, because I didn’t believe it myself. But there it was.
And now…magically, I suppose…they are back.
Blame the Russians.
All the other DemCenrtic elements are doing so.
So it goes.
Denials of responsibility?
Taking credit for it?
All PostFactual bullshit.
I no longer believe anybody or anything except my own experience.
Whoever did it…I was censored.
Deal wid it.
You think maybe I’m hustling y’all?
WTFU.
I don’t give enough of a shit to hustle you.
I’ve got other things to do.
Wake the fuck up.
AG
Upon further examination, I see that someone handled “IL JimP” laid a zero on me, and that’s why my post disappeared. Thanks to all who uprated me back in action again, including Booman.
If this was my site…which I realize it is not…I would caution said IL JimP that “zeroes” should be reserved for porn sites, ripoff shoe sales and the like, and the next time that he or she ran that game would be the last time.
I have a valid point of view. Anybody who disagrees with me is welcome to have a discussion. That kind of shit is digital McCarthyism at its worst.
And…if not nipped in the bud, it leads directly to the clomp, clomp. clompingness of failed faux progressive sites like dKos.
A Drudge Report of the left.
Heaven forfend!!!
One is enough!!!
Later…
AG
I don’t find Daily Kos interesting or well written. I haven’t spent time analyzing that blog for ideological conformity. And on the rare occasions I write a diary here, it’s highly unlikely I’ll have a chance to go back and look for comments for many hours. Ratings interest me not at all.
You state that you have a valid point of view and that those who disagree are welcome to have a discussion. Presumably as long as ratings exist, giving you a zero is a way to express an opinion of your writing. I don’t maintain it’s a good way. But equally I don’t think telling people to wake the fuck up is a good way to have a dialogue. Do you tell people in your life to WTFU? Or just those of us here who disagree with you?
You are not the only writer here who seemingly scorns common courtesy, which I’ve always regarded as the minimum for having a productive exchange of views. By telling you this, I don’t imagine, of course, that your rhetorical style is going to change.z
I’m through being polite, JDW. I “politely” lived through about 30 years of adulthood, watching this country deteriorate.
Sorry if my rhetorical style offends you.
How impolite of me.
You want “impolite?”
Here.
Next to this, I’m Mother Theresa.
You think this same scene isn’t happening all over the world due to U.S. actions?
“Wake the fuck up” takes the form of a prayer!!!
AG
So, so eagerly and peculiarly offensive.
You are referring to the United States, I suppose.
No?
Oh.
Those that refuse to see the moral compass that is pointing back at us like a weapon are blind to the truth.
We have met the “offensive,” and it is us.
There is no “halfway” about this, centerfielddj. No “supporting the lesser evil.” I mean…people are doing just that, left and right, but that’s like saying “I am not a Satanist” because you sold your soul to one of his employees instead of to the boss.
Evil begets evil, centerfield, and the U.S. has begotten ISIS and all of its other enemies.
So it goes.
Live and learn.
Or not.
It’s all up to the individual.
1 Corinthians 13:11
As children, we all of us stood, placed our hands on our hearts and recited the Pledge of Allegianc , innocent of all knowledge regarding what our country was really about. There comes a time when childish beliefs are either put away and the work of an adult starts, or one continues to believe the unbelievable.
So that goes as well.
AG
The strategy you ask us to take, to only support politicians, policies and people which are pristine and perfect as you define them, and to insult and denigrate all which fall short of meeting your defined standards, is a losing strategy. It has been shown to be a losing strategy by the political Parties which most closely execute this strategy. You can’t gain and hold sufficient power to change the world or our Nation with this strategy, and the rhetorical devices you employ to support this strategy are often repulsive.
You want to create national and worldwide change while opposing a strong Federal government. All in all, it’s nonsensical.
And…considering the steady decline of the U.S. since its highest point immediately after WW II…you still think that your compromising tactics are better?
See Einstein’s definition of insanity:
WTFU.
Or…”Get thee to a nunnery.” (Shakesepeare)
Someplace where they’ll take care of you.
AG
P.S. “Nunnery” definition in Shakespeare’s times:
Both a convent and a brothel.
Much like the United States of Omertica today.
. . . didn’t say that.’
” It has been shown to be a losing strategy by the political Parties which most closely execute this strategy.” Which party would that be? not the Republicans or Democrats.
“You want to create national and worldwide change while opposing a strong Federal government.”
Strong? like Russia? like China?
Software sux. All of it. It ain’t personal.
Note from a former IT professional.
Also a former IT professional and I disagree. Some software is elegant and beautiful (no other word for it). Most software is either written by hacks with no soul or forced out the door with inadequate testing by managers who know nothing except office politics. Almost all commercial software sucks as a result. Ans seeing the name “Microsoft” is a guarantee of crapware.