Mythsaje still writing flatulent jeremiads

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Mythsaje  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)     Mon May-18-09 11:31 PM
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Play Nice
   
That's what the corporate media, the Republicans, and even our Democratic leadership keep telling us to do. Play nice. We're supposed to be part of some post-partisanship agenda, in which people with diametrically opposed viewpoints are going to magically "get along" and stop sniping at one another. What they don't tell us, of course, is the only way to get along with the raging ideologues on the right is by agreeing with them. They're not capable of saying, "Well, maybe we weren't quite correct in this matter," or "Maybe we made a mistake."

Wait, are you guys in total power, or what? And raging ideologues? Dude, who's the one using the breakroom computer at Target to post this dreck?

Nope. It's always all or nothing.

Yes: either there are 535 Dems in Congress, one in the White House, and nine on the Court, or you'll keep feeling the need to write your shitty little Essay McNuggets.

We get accused of being raving ideologues ourselves because we say "why should we be content to be dragged to the right, past any reasonable description of "center" to "meet in the middle" with people incapable of budging even an inch? We're described by many as the "far left," when most of us are barely left of what used to be considered "center." We're not Marxists, or even socialists. We MAY be "social democrats," but even that is a tricky bit of definition. We're painted as "fringe," though, in reality, we're nothing of the kind.

Again, WHO has control of the Executive and Legislative Branches? You guys should be partying.

And, ironically enough, this continues even AFTER we take control of both Congress and the White House. Maybe because so many of our elected "representatives" have sidled rightward for so long, they're unable to see where the center is anymore. Is it really "Democratic" to choose to support big business over the interest of average Americans? Some say, "sure--why not? Democrat isn't just what YOU define it to be."

Then write letters to them, you fruit. You guys call Congress when the wind blows, so get cracking. I'm sure there's a low-level intern who's just DYING to read the first seven words of your wisdom.

Fair enough. But if the difference between a conservative Democrat and a moderate Republican (a rare breed in this day and age) is as thin as a cat's whisker, what precisely are we voting for? Those of us slightly left of center far outnumber those who're on board with the whole "let's give our money to the giants of industry and hope they'll do the right thing" idea. Or, at least, that's the way it seems to me.


SLIGHTLY left of center. Yeah, like you're SLIGHTLY a ****ing self-publishing loser.


We're STILL playing the Republicans' game, still letting them set the rules, and still acting as though their ideals and theories haven't been completely disgraced. The only strategy necessary for the left is to let them run their mouths and say "see? Batshit crazy. Any questions?"

I've said the Left is batshit crazy for 20 years. Glad to see you agree.

But that's not what we're doing. At least, we're not seeing that from the few people able to break through the corporate media blockade. For, even with them out of power, it's clear that the corporate media still carries their water. Maybe it's time to become so obnoxious that they can't ignore us. Of course, for some reason when WE get obnoxious, we're vulnerable to the media harpies and Republican pundits in a way that they're not vulnerable to us. It sometimes takes an independent like Jesse Ventura to say what we're all thinking, someone who is practically immune to it because he really doesn't give a shit. His ass is covered by the fact he's telling the truth and the fact he doesn't have to bother covering someone else's ass.

Yeah, that rightwing media gets you every time. Why, every time I turn on MSNBC, all I hear is Olbermann and Mathews rail against Obama's policies. Riiiight.

So, no, I don't think I want to play nice. If I want to call Limbaugh a fat, drug-addled dimwit with delusions of adequacy, I will. If I want to say that Ann Coulter is a scary-ass harpy who should explode when sunlight hits her, I will. If I want to call Sean Hannity a slobbering, crack-licking dog curled up around Cheney's stinky feet, I will. And if I want to call Senator Baucus of the "hey, let's arrest these people because they're annoying me even if they DO know what they're talking about" brand a terminal ****wad, I will.

Hey, Mythsaje? Go **** yourself, you impotent, self-important, flatulent sci-fi faggot loser. That takes SOME balls, calling out Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh on DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND. Why, you're so emboldened now, you might even write 400 words on why you want universal healthcare!  You know what Coulte, Cheney, and Limbaugh are doing tonight? Resting comfortably in their opulent homes, completely unaware that a failed writer dipshit like yourself measures his self-worth by how many recs his posts get.

You're IRRELEVANT. You've been ASSIMILATED, AND YOUR OWN FREAKING PARTY IS IN CHARGE!!!  What's that like? Why not write 400 words telling us what failure feels like? I'd read it.

Mythsaje, a man with the property of simultaneously being a ***** and a penishead.

[franksolich]

Oh my.

The legendary herb primitive is back.

[Carl]

What would be the clinical term for someone who writes a screed declaring themselves a decent,civilized,level headed person for the sole purpose to at the end justify exploding with insults,rage and expletives?

That sort of disconnect must have been part of some thesis on mental disorders at some point in time.

[Karin]

Yes, Carl, you could almost see it in a movie, when an insane person sets out to get his swirling thoughts on paper in order to control them, and ends up throwing a typewriter into the hall mirror or something. 

I see they're not teaching how to write an essay in the public schools these days.  State your thesis, support it convincingly, and conclude.  It's not rocket science. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

...a moderate Republican (a rare breed in this day and age)...

Would that that were true.

The purge is far from having begun in earnest.

[USA4ME]

Mythsaje

We're described by many as the "far left," when most of us are barely left of what used to be considered "center." We're not Marxists, or even socialists. We MAY be "social democrats," but even that is a tricky bit of definition. We're painted as "fringe," though, in reality, we're nothing of the kind.

Far left, Marxists, fringe.  You're described accurately.  That you don't recognize it or agree is no reason for others to not call you what you are.  You also don't recognize that you and and your opinions are inferior to those of conservatives.  You're really very stupid in so many ways.

And if your inspiration is some washed up twit like Jesse Ventura, then maybe you need to get a hobby other than than politics.  I would highly recommend all libs get another hobby other than politics.  That would be the best thing that any of you could ever do for yourselves.

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[franksolich]

.....then maybe you need to get a hobby other than than politics.  I would highly recommend all libs get another hobby other than politics.  That would be the best thing that any of you could ever do for yourselves.

You know, I've been saying this for a while, ever since I started stalking U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, reading and commenting on her reminescences about growing up Jewish and female in a big city.

Remember, according to Pedro Picasso, reading and commenting upon something someone has written, is "stalking" that person.

My bad.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg is an excellent writer of such things; one wonders why she didn't stick with it.  Instead, she discarded her true talents and went into law, where she obviously has no talents.

Why primitives do this, stumps me.

The legendary herb primitive has talent, in the human-interest sort of stories, but he refuses to write them, instead writing political and "fantasy" garbage.

Even his rants, if non-political, are pretty good; one fondly recalls his frustration at having his antiquated cheap old automobile broken into, as if a thief thought there was something of value inside of it.

When the legendary herb primitive stays out of politics and "fantasy," he does pretty good.

Why he persists in ignoring his talent mystifies me.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Mythsaje

We're described by many as the "far left," when most of us are barely left of what used to be considered "center." We're not Marxists, or even socialists. We MAY be "social democrats," but even that is a tricky bit of definition. We're painted as "fringe," though, in reality, we're nothing of the kind.

A small snatch of German song I heard long ago sums that up nicely:

Rot is die Apfel
Und rot die Tomat'
Auch rot ist die echte
Sozial Demokrat!

Yeah DU, you're Commies.

[delilahmused]

Well I DID make it through the first paragraph without being bored out of my mind. I swear there's no original thought over there. They all say the same thing, from UGP to Mythsaje. Some are more tolerable than others. All use more words than necessary to make their point. Evidently, like your average high school student writing a term paper they think overuse of adjectives make them look smart.

Cindie

[BannedFromDU]

Well I DID make it through the first paragraph without being bored out of my mind. I swear there's no original thought over there. They all say the same thing, from UGP to Mythsaje. Some are more tolerable than others. All use more words than necessary to make their point. Evidently, like your average high school student writing a term paper they think overuse of adjectives make them look smart.

Cindie

     What rolls my eyes out of my sockets is when their thread titles start with "On" or "Of," which they do to sound academic. I've said for years that they all fancy themselves to be latter-day Thomas Paines or Ben Franklins, when (in Saje Williams' case) they're just shitty sci fi authors who do nothing but write allegories about Dick Cheney getting busted by an interplanetary court.  What a bunch of dicks.

[GOBUCKS]

What rolls my eyes out of my sockets is when their thread titles start with "On" or "Of," which they do to sound academic.

How. About. The. Pittian. Pretense. Of. Capitals. And. Periods. It's just so gravitas-y.

[BannedFromDU]

How. About. The. Pittian. Pretense. Of. Capitals. And. Periods. It's just so gravitas-y.

Or when they try to appear eloquent and prosaic by writing one-sentence paragraphs.

It's annoying.

It's pretentious.

It's DU.