I am ANGRY! Who the FUCK are all you people! I am FUCKING PISSED at the TREASONOUS, OUTRAGEOUS COWARDICE of the Bush administration! They burn our villiages, drink the blood of our infants, and I'm so pissed off I am going to USE A WHOLE BUNCH OF GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING BLOCK CAPITALS AND GRATUITOUS FUCKING F-BOMBS TO LET YOU ALL KNOW HOW PISSED OFF I AM AT THE OUTRAGEOUS MOTHERFUCKING CABAL OF TREASONOUS HALLIBURTON PIGS THAT SUCK THE BLOOD OF OUR PROUD NATION!
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Oh God, is anyone still taking me seriously?
More on the flip.
I personally don't like the logic that Tazz uses in his comment in Patriot for Al Gore's recommended diary- the comment is near the top- the fact that things are not as bad now as they may have been in the past does not justify complacency- but he has a point. I read this diary, and the one it is in response to- and you know what, they both made some good points. Diary A pointed out that if we stoop to their level we are no better or more deserving of power than they are. Some people take issue with this. But it's the same argument we use, in a broad sense, to oppose torture and WP use. Diary A also pointed out the dangers of being consumed by hate- they're very real and there are a great deal of people on this blog who seem, frankly, to be mean-spirited and hard-hearted because they've allowed this stuff to consume their lives.
Diary B also made good points. B pointed out that if we tell ourselves not to hate, and neuter our emotions, we grow complacent. Look, he/she says, at what's happening to our country, and worse, the cavalier and arrogant way in which it is happening. We SHOULD be angry, and while A may have a point, his strident, accusing tone implied a disrespect for those who aren't, which is very not good- double-plus ungood in the new language.
And yet these two diaries are a symptom of a problem I see here at DKos. I don't have a problem with excessive cursing because it's vulgar, or bad, or morally offensive- I remember the war the other week over this. I have a problem with it because it is cheap and easy. Nothing makes me snicker more than reading "BREAKING: Outrageous MOTHERFUCKING treason blah blah blah....." The self-righteous indignation level on dKos is seriously epidemic. Just tell me, please, what happened and why you are upset. Do it eloquently. Do it passionately. Drop an f-bomb or two. But please, do not style yourself some tricorner-wearing, flag-waving verbal patriot, jumping boldly into the breach left by the GOP guns- because odds are, like me, you are a fat guy sitting in front of a computer screen in his boxer shorts :)
Peace.
Or not, whichever you prefer.