primitives discuss hysterical hate-clowns

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018496872

Oh my.

Apparently a reference to the primitives eating their own.

I dunno what the excitement's about though; it's in the nature of primitives to eat their own.

Aristus (31,188 posts)    Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:05 AM

The hysterical hate-clowns have driven away another DU-er.

"Hysterical hate-clowns". Sounds like a really bad punk band playing to three drunks in a hole-in-the-wall dive bar somewhere.
 
I've started lurking here in March 2001, while we were still licking our wounds from sElection 2000. We were hurting, we were humiliated, and we were angry.
 
Skinner and the boys gave us a place to gather and find each other. So we would realize we were not alone. That in a country that was wall-to-wall with brain-dead flag-flailers, there was still some sanity left.
 
When I started here in March of 2001, I think we all knew the years ahead would be bad. But until September 11th of that year, I don't think any of us knew how bad it was going to get.
 
One week after that awful, horrible day, I became a member of DU, and I've been here ever since.
 
And despite the departure of another long-time member, I will remain.

Even though the hysterical hate-clowns mentioned above have made me the target of their unbridled, purposeless rage on more than one occasion, I will remain.
 
I just won't patronize their hellish circus, that's all. And when I see their smoking, sputtering little car coming my way, intent on disgorging a comically large army of senseless spewers, I'll just turn and walk the other way. I will remain.
 
I am stronger than they are.

I was born and raised in a Southern military family. I've lived all over the place. I've eaten foods the names of which I can't even pronounce. I played school football; in Texas, where football is less of a sport, and more of a religion. I swam competitively. I joined the Army and served as a tank crewman, including service in the Gulf in 1991. I enrolled in a high-stress, high-intensity course to learn Physician Assisting, and earned a license to practice clinical medicine. If anybody here wants to get rid of me, they're gonna need some kryptonite! I will remain.
 
And to all of my loyal friends at DU: I will remain. I will mourn the departure of old friends just like all of you. But I will remain.
 
And I'll close with two of my frequent refrains:

To the hysterical hate-clowns: Liberal till I DIE, mother****ers!

To my DU friends: I love you all.

First up, Skippy from New York City:

NYC_SKP (53,461 posts)    Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:13 AM

1. I'm glad you posted about this. For me, it's still sinking in.

I'm still trying to accept the loss of yet another great DUer.

As I read the post I was nodding in agreement, understanding every emotion.

Transparency and community self-policing, my ass.

We are broken and the craziness and insults rule the day far more often than they should.
 
****.

uppityperson This message was self-deleted by its author.

^^^bets this primitive had something to do with it.

rug (51,999 posts)    Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:19 AM

3. Who left?

Aristus (31,188 posts)   Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:24 AM

5. cherokeeprogressive...

rug (51,999 posts)   Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:30 AM

6. Thanks for the direction. What an eloquent post.

Lately though, there's an animosity at DU that has sapped my enjoyment of posting. Way back when, when I first found this place, there was a sense of familia. Now, it's like I always imagined a street corner in the USSR to be: Shifty eyes and open ears... always trying to find someone who's going against the grain so as to tattle on them and garner some kind of favor with the powers that be.

Now, a post is instantly judged based on its perceived "Obamanosity", or perceived lack thereof. By the same token, a poster's worth seems to be judged by fealty to a politician and/or an administration rather than loyalty to an ideal or philosophy.

In addition to that, there seems to be an expectation to hate someone, as if you don't hate the right people, you can't be one of "us". I don't hate. I think I may have said here before that in my entire LIFE, I haven't had a single headache (yeah, I've had hangovers, but they're NOT headaches per se). I believe there are reasons for that, and not having the capacity for hatred is one of them.

CaliforniaPeggy (106,239 posts)    Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:39 AM

9. Oh, my dear Aristus...

I didn't realize that was why he left...

How awful.

I too will stay. I will endure and thrive. This place is HOME to me.

[Bad Dog]

One hair shirt please....size XX.  I expect much more of this as they realize the magnitude of the turd that is O'bummercare floating in their punchbowl.

[Delmar]

Lately though, there's an animosity at DU that has sapped my enjoyment of posting. Way back when, when I first found this place, there was a sense of familia. Now, it's like I always imagined a street corner in the USSR to be: Shifty eyes and open ears... always trying to find someone who's going against the grain so as to tattle on them and garner some kind of favor with the powers that be.

That's a pretty accurate way of describing leftists--all of them, from top to bottom, from Barack Hussein Guevara on down to any one of the anonymous milkfaced nobody lupenprimitives at democrat underground.

[ChuckJ]

Who was cherokeeprogressive?

[franksolich]

Who was cherokeeprogressive?

A long-distance truck driver.

He had some attitudes and opinions at variance with the primitive norm, and most unfortunately the few times he showed up in DUmpster threads, some here said nice things about him, which perhaps affected his relations with the other primitives.

That's why even if one likes what a primitive says, one should keep mum about it here.

Since we have all these damned primitive lurkers here, one's doing a primitive no favor by saying something nice about the primitive.  Some sentiments are best left unspoken.

[ChuckJ]

A long-distance truck driver.

He had some attitudes and opinions at variance with the primitive norm, and most unfortunately the few times he showed up in DUmpster threads, some here said nice things about him, which perhaps affected his relations with the other primitives.

That's why even if one likes what a primitive says, one should keep mum about it here.

Since we have all these damned primitive lurkers here, one's doing a primitive no favor by saying something nice about the primitive.  Some sentiments are best left unspoken.

Thanks for the info, frank.

I sure like the Magistrate primitive. He seems like a good guy.

[Splashdown]

Thanks for the info, frank.

I sure like the Magistrate primitive. He seems like a good guy.

And CaliforniaPeggy. What a dear, sweet lady. 

[JakeStyle]

Who was cherokeeprogressive?

He is also a Navy vet who claimed that he spent his entire career snorting coke and smoking hash all over the world.  I think he quit the long-haul job and now does local delivery in Big Bear CA.

Response to Arctic Dave (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 01:25 AM

Star Member cherokeeprogressive (16,496 posts)
7. Guess again, Hoss...

I was working at the GM plant in South Gate, CA. I was painting Cadillac Cimarrons and Chevy Cavaliers. 56 every hour. I was making more than my Dad (who was managing an industrial laundry business that serviced gas stations, hotels, and hospitals in Los Angeles). One Friday afternoon I showed up to work the Swing Shift and saw, much to my dismay, a hand printed sign above the door that said "LAST SHIFT".

I turned around and went back to the parking lot where I got in my car and started to my apartment in Whittier. I never even bothered to clock in that day. I was 20 at the time. On the way home I drove past a Navy Recruiting office. My Grandfather sailed with Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, and my Father sailed during the Korean War. I had various other Uncles who served in the Navy as well. I grew up hearing amazing stories about places like Perth, Manila, Portsmouth, San Juan, Nassau, Naples, Sigonella, Palma, Athens, Nice, Caracas, and other places. I thought "what the ****, I'm not going to find another job like this any time soon..." so I stopped in, and joined the Navy. I cut a 94 on the ASVAB two weeks later.

It was a ****ing awesome ride, which ended after 10 years when I injured myself mounting a tire on an A-6E and had to have an ACL reconstructed, which was an absolutely new surgery at the time.

I didn't join the Navy for YOU, MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES, or ANY other reason other than going to some of the places I'd heard about as a kid. FOR FREE. And you know what? I not only did that, I got to live experiences very few people could ever know. I'd compare some of the things I did with kids doing backflips on motorcycles in the X Games. I worked on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, in the daylight, at night, in driving rain, in 40 foot seas with GREEN WATER breaking over the bow. I helped fight a couple of fires. In 1988 I sailed on the USS Constellation out of San Diego which caught on fire BEFORE we even passed under the Coronado Bridge.

Yeah... I don't remember fighting any dreaded Reds... I do remember though seeing Russian Bear Bombers in the air and throwing apples at Russian trawlers disguised as fishing boats from the catwalks of the USS America.

It was a ****ing blast. Snorting coke on the sidewalk in Caracas with wild parrots in the trees over our table was my Number 1 experience. Or wait... maybe it was meeting the Chief Bo'sun's Mate in Palma who went AWOL in the 70's and now owned the bar and gave me a Marlboro cigarette pack filled with hash. Nope... now that I think about it; it was snorkeling off the coast of Mombasa in the glass bottom boat with the German girls and more weed than I'd ever smoked in my life...

Yeah... Guess again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022416922#post7

[Karin]

I feel bad that he left.  He's probably gone for good, because he's no Dorkangel or Atman.  He would sometimes challenge the DUmmies, he wasn't always a sheep.

A couple days ago, he got really pissed off at them in a thread, because they were talking about how to cheat at Obamacare.  How to game the system to get more than their fair share.  I know that surprises you. 

That street corner in the USSR comment above was pretty astute.  Aren't they sick of it?  Why don't we have that atmosphere here? 

[Big Dog]

That street corner in the USSR comment above was pretty astute.  Aren't they sick of it?  Why don't we have that atmosphere here? 

Because they are who they are, and we aren't.

DU is a propaganda site. It exists to keep the low-functioning leftists on message. Any challenge to the party line is a threat to Skinner's vacation fund.

Free Republic serves the same function for the Republican Party- because there are low-functioning rightists, too.

[98ZJUSMC]

That's a pretty accurate way of describing leftists--all of them, from top to bottom, from Barack Hussein Guevara on down to any one of the anonymous milkfaced nobody lupenprimitives at democrat underground.

Exactly what I was thinking.  They simply cannot see the end result of their own sickness.

One hair shirt please....size XX

No doubt.  Guess I'm lucky I kept that kryptonite.

Why don't we have that atmosphere here? 

[RobJohnson]

Thanks for the info, frank.

I sure like the Magistrate primitive. He seems like a good guy.

Aristus' service to our nation is appreciated and his common sense posting at DU is always a breath of fresh air.

[Delmar]

[DumbAss Tanker]

Thanks for the info, frank.

I sure like the Magistrate primitive. He seems like a good guy.

He is indeed a prince among moles, errr, I meant 'Men!'

 

[Ptarmigan]

Because they are who they are, and we aren't.

DU is a propaganda site. It exists to keep the low-functioning leftists on message. Any challenge to the party line is a threat to Skinner's vacation fund.

Free Republic serves the same function for the Republican Party- because there are low-functioning rightists, too.

DU and FR are almost the same thing. There is also Rightnation.

[Wineslob]

CaliforniaPeggy (106,239 posts)    Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:39 AM

9. Oh, my dear Aristus...

I didn't realize that was why he left...

How awful.

I too will stay. I will endure and thrive. This place is HOME to me.

As has been stated, here is the difference DUmmies and "us".

While I really enjoy coming here and "speaking" with like-minded people, it is NOT my "home". It's nothing more than what it is.

IT IS NOT MY LIFE.

DUmmies, you are pathetic.

[Gern]

HeiressofBickworth (1,457 posts)
 The RWNJs apparently discovered DU and ever since have made concerted efforts to insult, run-down, negate and down-right lie about this administration in an effort to disrupt our solidarity.

You're very, very wrong, or not paying attention.

If you look, it's mostly that DU hard left stalwarts that are failing to pass the purity test by other DUers these days.  The OP is correct--there is a growing contingent of Stasi at that site that will jump all over anyone who doesn't follow DU orthodoxy, in particular the lock step approval of all things Obama--from Obamacare to drone strikes to NSA surveillance.