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Okay, guys. I'm going to lok

Michael Maiello — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:39:03 +0000

In reply to Another one bites the dust...

Okay, guys. I'm going to lok this thread before anybody says anything they'll later regret. Lots of other cool places to play on the site!

Kyle before I depart this

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:59:01 +0000

In reply to C'mon. When has DD ever

Kyle before I depart this thread, I must thank you for confirming with your comment that my comment was in fairly comprehensible English. I know I'm not the best writer and often have serious typo problems but I was starting to wonder whether I had slipped into another language or something.

Just sayin'.And just totally

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:47:01 +0000

In reply to Do you think a gang of

Just sayin'.

And just totally taking something out of the context of a reply to brewmn and twisting it into nearly the opposite of what was meant by doing so. What the hell?! Gees. I give up. Like Emma, regrets serious regrets I evah said anything on this type of thread. There's some serious serious reading comprehension problems going on on it, that's for sure. And some of it smells of seriously sick personal motives, too, as in: why not take this up with your therapist or your therapy group, eh?

BTW, as long as we're talking about taking offense, mho, you jumping in here without reading carefully, to supposedly defend old friends from another website, against a totally imagined insult that wasn't one, when you never contribute any content or content discussion to this site, really doesn't help the situation in the least. At least not to me. It's creepy, it's like you're a mother hen lurking out there waiting to jump on anyone who you think (mistakenly in this case) might be picking on one of your clique.If I were Dickday, I wouldn't welcome your "help" in this regard, it might make people afraid to talk to him lest his mom lurking out there misinterpret what they said.

I'm am outta here done with the group therapy, personal angst and exorcizing personal demons via role play on internet forums, back to content. Farging waste of time, I'll do this kinda shit with my family and friends because I love them but I am not going to waste my spare time on it with strangers on the internet.

Y'all call me whatever names you wish, make me into whatever strawman or evil character you like, will not be responding or defending or explaining further. A thread like this just makes me thank the lord I keep my pseudonym separate from my real I.D. This has all been a useful reminder: none of that linking with Facebook shit for me, that's for sure..

I hadn't read many of Orion's

acanuck — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:40:44 +0000

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I hadn't read many of Orion's posts; the headlines just didn't drag me in. But only the last two appear to have been scrubbed from the archive. Some are pretty good. I had missed the one where he talked about having Asperger's syndrome, which can make social interaction awkward. As someone suggested upthread, that could help explain what many see as a thin-skinned overreaction -- first, declining to address commenters' criticisms, then taking his ball and going home.

Genghis thinks people who took issue with his post should feel contrite. I now feel bad about him leaving, but nobody, to my recollection, told him, "Go away, get lost!" (The post is gone, so it's impossible to prove either way. I saw it as just another rough-and-tumble dagblog thread. I recall disagreeing with Orion, but not whether I actually commented. If I was rude, sorry.)

Personally, I like the passion and vigor people here put into defending their positions. And the thoughtful effort, unlike the typical TPM exchange: "Troll!" "Poopyhead!" My feeling is that folks here (generally) are plenty polite; asking them to tone down the heat of debate in case someone takes things the wrong way would be a mistake. Call the egregious fouls, refs, but try not to slow down the game.

Totally different point, but while I've got the floor: Way upthread, there's a quite meaty exchange between artappraiser and quinn (brew gets his reply to AA before quinn does). It goes a long way toward explaining the bad blood that's been generated by a string of posts, most recently Orion's. Basically, appraiser denounces incivility and personal attacks, and expresses puzzlement at the "tribalism" some people display when "liberals" as a group get caricatured. It's as if they feel "personally insulted," she says.

My reaction was right in line with quinn's (I'm paraphrasing): "Hey! We can hear you; we're in the same bloody room, standing right next to you! Don't say, 'Liberals do this, liberals do that.' Don't hide behind criticism directed at some straw man. If I've said or done something that's BS or stupid, tell it to my face. Or to acanuck's. Or call out Michael Moore. Rachel Maddow. Bernie Sanders. Don't worry about hurting our feelings or theirs. Just make sure, if you're going to smear an entire group, that you've got an example or two that bolsters your accusation. Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong. But at least we'll be having an honest discussion." Get it?

I disagreed with Orion's

Donal — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:41:10 +0000

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I disagreed with Orion's premise, but I hope he didn't take my objections personally. I was mostly away from the net this weekend and didn't follow the threads very deeply.

How did I miss all this

jollyroger — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:22:17 +0000

In reply to Hey cmaukonen. "Asshole" is

How did I miss all this excitement? Couldn't someone put the thread back up for those of us who sleep on a strange schedule...

You're right. You didn't

brewmn — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:38:12 +0000

In reply to Er, where did I defend him? I

You're right. You didn't defend Orion. You just used the offense that others took at his post to try to paint them as hysterical, thin-skinned children. I apologize for the mischaracterization.

And, for someone who doesn't care about any of this, you sure have spent a lot of words in the service using it to make your point about liberal critics of conservatives being every bit as vituperative and awful as conservatives are about liberals. I would just like you to spend a few of those words comparing the substance of the post and the comments it generated, instead of casting blame equally on both sides of America's primary political divide from your lofty perch on Mount Above It All.

This is probably the only

brewmn — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:21:24 +0000

In reply to Hey cmaukonen. "Asshole" is

This is probably the only comment this blog warranted.

Tilkileywinks; yes. What

we are stardust — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:18:50 +0000

In reply to You and your Tiddleywinks

Tilkileywinks; yes. What next?

You and your Tiddleywinks

quinn esq — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:56:54 +0000

In reply to I freely admit that I'm one,

You and your Tiddleywinks ilk.