Nutcase nadin Explains Language - A Sunday Conversation Among Friends

[GOBUCKS]

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:21 PM
nadinbrzezinski (137,994 posts)

I gotta make a point about language and issues

Sabrina has made the point, and I have observed the same. You cannot really have a discussion here about ISSUES. You really cannot deal in this place with real policy issues. That is a fact.

People spend a LLLLOOOOTTT of time on things like shitty novels, and the use of a WORD.

Some of us would like to talk policy in the depth some do here over a so called novel.

Over the last few years I have spent my time with people who are actually affected by things like pay, unequal pay, getting enough hours at work, what WELFARE REFORM has done to them, childcare, or more precisely lack of it. There are other issues that matter to these folks, including rape in the workplace, not just in the armed forces. Trust me, a word is not at the top of the list. Not even near the middle to be exact. It is the kind of things parents tell children you do not use.

Posts on policy sink like a rock. Why? There is no obvious interest in those things.

We have two main tribes regarding issues that affect working people, including minorities and women. One is concerned mostly about language (which matters, but not as much as you think), and the other group that deals with issues, including the ERA.

Not that it matters to me. I really don't give a shit about the reputation this place has as far as policy discussion in other places of the web. It is not my concern. Suffice it to say, when it comes to issue centered discussions, it is not that good. In fact, it is pretty bad.

And yes, we have to watch what we say and what we do... becuase of a small, but very loud clique.

And I must say today we saw far more evidence of that war between two major tribes and several sub groups. It makes taking this place seriously even less likely.

I am honored to know mothers, taking on the judicial system, to save their kids from mass incarceration. They walk the walk and talk the talk.

And I concluded this place is NOT a place to talk budgets, which are economic and political documents. It is also not the place to talk infrastructure... or for that matter issues of war and peace.

Have an excellent day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026795027

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:31 PM
Star Member zappaman (15,925 posts)
6. Thank you for spending so much time here at DU

Telling us how much it sucks.

Very helpful and informative!

Response to zappaman (Reply #6)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:34 PM
nadinbrzezinski (137,994 posts)
9. Lovely personal attack

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #9)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:39 PM
Star Member zappaman (15,925 posts)
12. No, it's just an observation.

If you want to see what a personal attack is...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026792887#post48

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:16 PM
Codeine (14,634 posts)
33. Whoops. Evidence purge.

(Nutcase deletes her nasty post.)

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:20 PM
Star Member tammywammy (20,951 posts)
36. That's a nasty post especially for someone always condemning bullying.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:39 PM
Star Member gollygee (17,519 posts)
11. For someone who doesn't like to spend a lot of time discussing language and certain words

you are spending a lot of time discussing them.

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:39 PM
Star Member BeyondGeography (25,385 posts)
13. Anul?

Maybe fix that.

Poor nadin vicitimized again by auto-correct.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:44 PM
NuclearDem (12,465 posts)
17. Well, there's the door.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:54 PM
Codeine (14,634 posts)
21. I sometimes forget how much smarter and better you are than the rest of us,

but you're always eager to remind me.

Response to Codeine (Reply #21)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:08 PM
nadinbrzezinski (137,994 posts)
27. I am sorry you feel you need to take it that way

Let me help you there is this thing called Ignore. I suggest you use it.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #27)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:13 PM
Codeine (14,634 posts)
30. And miss all that wisdom?!
I'd be lost without you telling me about the scourge of wind power and meters-high snow in Mexico City.

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:07 PM
nadinbrzezinski (137,994 posts)
25. Don't.

My use of a word is limited here to frack. Which is due to my admiration of an extremely well written series. Just pointing out that to people in the very real world it is not an issue at the top of their priorities. Hell not even at the middle

Pam!

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:10 PM
demtenjeep (22,384 posts)
28. I'm sorry you waste your time on such a "crappy" place to be

maybe you will find a better fit somewhere else

I actually get a lot of information here and enjoy it very much

[obumazombie]

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #27)Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:13 PM
Codeine (14,634 posts)
30. And miss all that wisdom?!
I'd be lost without you telling me about the scourge of wind power and meters-high snow in Mexico City.

Come on codeine.
Get it right when you are attempting to put cousin nadin in her proper place.
It was hail.

[Mr Mannn]

Nadin lecturing on language broke my irony meter

[Delmar]

I gotta make a point about language and issues too.  It seems to me that Nadin has been using the phrase suffice it to say more than usual lately.

[GOBUCKS]

Of course it goes on and on:

Bully -

It should be pretty clear by now that actually a lot of people agree with me.
          BTW, I was sent those jury results... I can't believe that you called me that..

Nutcase -

I did not call you a thing.  I said you came to mind when that scene played.

(Character talking                               
              about someone being a ****.)
Nutcase -

It should also be crystal clear that many agree with me and Sabrina. Don't worry, this place has a   
              reputation  among issues oriented people on the web. It is not precisely stellar or progressive.     

Bully -

I'll tell you what's not stellar or progressive.. is you calling me that word in the oh so clever way you did so.

          Please do me a favor and never post to me again as you say, after what you called me in your
          oh so clever way.

Bully2 -

Unbelievable that a poster would think calling another poster that would be acceptable. Not cute and               
            certainly not adorable.

 

Nutcase -

Whatever dude duddette
              It was indeed a beautiful thing

Bully3 -

You just posted a few days ago that you IP ban people from your blog.

What's up with that? You obviously understand offensive postings, vulgarity, and obscenity to the point that you would block people from posting.

Nutcase -

At my site the snide attacks, such as spell flames, questioning of credentials, sh... things like that, have earned an IP Ban to a few folks. Due to both Democratic Underground and The Conservative Cave, that site is manually moderated.

Nutcase -

Now if you do not mind, I have elections to cover in Mexico. Not that I will bother posting any of that here.

Bully -

That is utter baloney.

You make a post telling people that if they are easily offended by the C word, to not see the movie SPY. Which apparently has some character saying c*nt over and over and over again.

Then you post directly to me that when that character is saying that word over and over again that I am a person that came to your mind.

Nutcase -

My apologies that I was not clear in stating that you were rather muscular

Now back to the elections, really... and for multiple reasons, mostly since DU does not really care about issues, or foreign affairs, won't be posted here. So off to serious stuff.

Nutcase -

I am going to avoid walking on egg shells with you

Bully -

Yes, nadin, you are the victim here.....
I am the one who done did you wrong..You sure are good at trying to make someone else be at fault.

You said it. You can own it. .

Bully -

I've done nothing to you. I did nothing to you to enter your mind the moment some movie character starts to repeatedly say the word c*nt. That is all on you.

Bully4 -

You're a published author and "Reporter, editor, and wonk."

Clarity is your business. Everybody knows what you meant.

Nutcase -

Except aparently me which is amazing. You do read my mind... you also not going on ignore... though I find you boring

Bully5 -

You're a newspaper reporter and you post here under your own name?

No newspaper I wote for for would have been OK with that. Maybe things have changed since I stopped doing that work.

Nutcase -

Yeah a lot has chanced since you did that for starters we do not chase if it bleeds it leads.
I even own it. We mostly do policy, and other serious stuff, as well as the procedural closures by CALTRANS. A few wanted from the Sheriff's...

Bully6 -

"So those posts will not get though." sic. Wow, that sounds worse than here if it's

"manually moderated." So people apparently have to "walk on eggshells" on your site? What's up with that?

Bully -

Eggshells are crunchy.

[I_B_Perky]

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:21 PM
nadinbrzezinski (137,994 posts)

<blah, blah, blah>

And I concluded this place is NOT a place to talk budgets, which are economic and political documents. It is also not the place to talk infrastructure... or for that matter issues of war and peace.

No it is not, nads. DU is a place for the bat shit crazy and flat out lazy to congregate and whine about how the government is not giving them enough to live on. And to share tips on how to defraud the government out of more.

I would have guessed you would have figured that out by now.  Silly me. 

[obumazombie]

All kinds of bullys on that site.
By bully I mean anyone who disagrees with cousin nadin.

[Big Dog]

All kinds of bullys on that site.
By bully I mean anyone who disagrees with cousin nadin.

Wooly bullies, too?

[obumazombie]

^Most Definitely !

[diesel driver]

Wooly bullies, too?

Not.  Going.  There.