TTFN: Solidarity Forever

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Monday September 12, 2011 · 1:24 PM PDT

2011/09/12 · 13:24

I leave for a weekend - to go to Geek.Kon 2011 and get my geek on, no less! - and come back to find out that this Purge thing has gone way out of hand. And there's a boycott, and everything!

And I go and start looking into what happened, and I see that TiMT is gone, and I think, "OK, he was kind of a shit-stirrer, whatever." And then I see Adept2U is gone, and I think, "Wait a minute, I just started reading him! He was good!" And then I look a little further and see all of the really, really good people on this site who got ratings privileges revoked. And then I start thinking about how many of them just so happen to be Black, and/or female. And then I read Robinswing's diary, and about a half-dozen others, about the boycott, and their legitimate reasons for it. And even though I'm a White guy... it pisses me off, on their behalf, that the banhammer fell unequally on the people at the bottom.

So this is my last diary, and I won't be commenting for awhile. I'm not even saying how long. I'm not GBCWing because I don't like to burn bridges, but this is a TTFN. More on my thoughts over the fold.

SocialPunk

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Thursday August 04, 2011 · 2:46 PM PDT

2011/08/04 · 14:46

I post this (almost) without comment:

The GOP's Plan to Blame Obama For Everything

I can't decide if I'm more frustrated that the GOPosaurs are taking this obvious, predictable tactic...

...or that President Obama walked right into it by compromising Democratic core values and, apparently, never saw it coming.

It feels like it's hard to be mad at a scorpion for stinging, as the old parable goes.

National Day of Prayer (we can do it too)

SocialPunk

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Thursday May 05, 2011 · 11:52 AM PDT

2011/05/05 · 11:52

So I realize that I'm probably going to poke someone's hot button with this diary, but today is the National Day of Prayer. I understand that some people are going to immediately associate any mention of nationally recognized prayer with fundamentalist evangelicalism, but I'd like to take a minute and encourage all of us Kossacks to think about ways that we can pray today for our country, our leaders, and our world. I would like to say first of all that I want this to be non-sectarian in nature. I am a Christian; I pray to the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus Christ. If you are a Jew, pray with me as a close brother in faith. If you are a Muslim praying to Allah in the name of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), pray with me as an honored member of the Abrahamic tradition. If you are a Hindu praying to Ganesh to bless the endeavors of our country with success, pray with me. If you are a Buddhist praying for enlightenment and truth, pray with me. If you are a Wiccan praying to the Triune Goddess, pray with me. If you are an atheist or agnostic and don't pray, feel free to think about ways that you can act to help bring these things to fruition. In other words, don't walk away because I used the word "prayer." Stay with me and let's try to make this positive.

SocialPunk

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Wednesday May 04, 2011 · 5:34 PM PDT

2011/05/04 · 17:34

OK, first of all, before anyone asks me what I'm talking about, here's a link to Neil Gaiman's blog post relating the entire situation in gory detail. Read up and come on back.

SocialPunk

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Wednesday June 16, 2010 · 11:22 PM PDT

2010/06/16 · 23:22

I feel really bad for writing a meta diary on a day when meta diaries have completely overwhelmed this site, but I am doing so. I don't want recs for this, I don't deserve them, honestly. I just want people to read my diary and know that it is 1 AM, I can't sleep, and I come to my favorite blog to find that it has been completely overrun by garbage. So I write.

SocialPunk

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Tuesday May 25, 2010 · 6:44 PM PDT

2010/05/25 · 18:44

So Keith Olbermann brought up this character on Countdown tonight, and I wanted to take a minute, and a little internet research, to inform you all about the current state of the Tea Party, vis a vis this particular would-be Congressman, Tim D'Annunzio. I would call Tim a bizarre, deluded man, but I have to say after looking over his positions a little, that that would be a discredit to bizarre, deluded men everywhere. If you have spent the last few weeks mired in the diaries regarding Obama's failure or his impending triumph (depending on who you are), take a moment and remind yourself who the enemy is here.

SocialPunk

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Friday April 23, 2010 · 10:40 PM PDT

2010/04/23 · 22:40

This whole Arizona fascist discrimination thing is drilling at me like a bad toothache. I don't really even know how to respond to a law that, at its heart, deprives people of life, liberty, and happiness based solely on the color of their skin. So I'm going to take a page from TheNephew's book - solidarity and prayer for him as he continues to go through his own personal struggle - and make a music diary. Embeds below the cut.

SocialPunk

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Thursday April 22, 2010 · 12:47 PM PDT

2010/04/22 · 12:47

You know, I seriously considered making this a GBCW diary, but what I've realized is that if I GBCW off of DKos, I pretty much need to also leave the entire internet, because the things that are really pissing me off here are also everywhere else on the internet. So I'm going to rant at all of you in the hopes that, perhaps, Daily Kos can prove itself to be a community that actually listens and understands. My topic, as mentioned, is decency on the internet. And it's something that we're all sorely lacking.

SocialPunk

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Wednesday March 31, 2010 · 5:24 PM PDT

2010/03/31 · 17:24

Sadly, the whole controversy with Glenn Beck and churches that practice "social justice" as part of their theology is far from over. Oh, sorry, it's not really a controversy except in Beck's twisted mind. Glenn Beck still thinks that Christian churches that care for the poor, serve others, and put the welfare of our whole world before the welfare of one country are CommuNaziSocialFascists (we could go somewhere with this new term - abbreviate it CNSF for short and just plug it into rightwinger speeches whenever they say "Democrat party" or "Marxist" or any of the component words). Jim Wallis is still under attack from Ol' Lonesome Rhodes, and still - because he is a better human being - trying very, very hard to educate people about the untruths in Beck's messages, rather than attacking him outright as an idiot. See this article for more of Jim Wallis' refusal to rise to the bait. More below the cut.

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Glenn Beck is...

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Glenn Beck is...

hopelessly out of touch

3 votes

a liar

2 votes

a hypocrite

2 votes

unable or unwilling to read the Bible

3 votes

not going to tell me which church to go to

2 votes

all of the above

56 votes

Dude, I'm not Christian. Pie and Spaghetti Monsters please.

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Music for the Vigil: Arizona

Decency on the Internet - Warning: Rant

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