Is it just me, or is the discussion more bizarre than most years. normally, we start yammering about the election way too earlier, generally when Yoshie has decided to hammer home the message that we must vote, ever, and if we must, then be it for the green party.
So that, over and over and over again, followed by objections to the green party or to voting at all, ever.
This year, I must suffer the insistence of obamaholics that we must vote for obama.
WHY WHY WHY?
bring back the ABB daze and y oshie on nadar. PLEASE!
> I've been reading Abu Hartal's "ass kicking", "name taking" posts and
> wondering why it's so common for leftists (and not just the silver
> tongued AH) to accuse other leftists of being:
>
> Out of touch with the working class or, in related news, too elitist
> or "ultra left" (Which to me, sounds like you're a leftie who can
> create wormholes and battle kaiju creatures. But calm down academic
> nerds! I know the actual connotation.) or irresponsible or monstrous
> or nihilistic or idiotic or deranged or too feminist or not feminist
> enough or too fixated on race or not fixated enough on race or
> obsessed with big foreign policy questions or totally oblivious to big
> foreign policy questions or...etc, etc - always negative and
> recursively self back patting (i.e., you're a nihilist you infectious
> tardy-gaited malt-worm, whereas I, in stark contrast, care!) - etc.
>
> Whatever happened to, oh, I don't know, something along the lines of
> 'I disagree with you mate and here's why'? Is everyone auditioning
> for a staff writing position at the eXile?
>
> If the left is such a big old bag of bat guano, why not jettison it in
> favor of knitting? If your debating opponents are such awful, awful,
> awful people why spend any time at all talking to them?
>
>
> So we don't see eye to eye on the importance of BHO. So what? Julio
> mentioned the unpredictable fate of our actions. I disagree with his
> take on BHO but concede that point at least: who knows what will
> happen as a result of this campaign? I see problems, others see
> opportunities. The universe is cantankerous; we may both be proven
> right.
>
>
> I'm not going to call everyone who disagrees with my pessimism
> reprehensible because they have a different POV.
>
>
> Hot heads! Get a fucking grip.
>
>
>
> .d.
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