I am really sorry to do this, but now our own reality has lapped our satire. It should not surprise you that it happened in I/P.
This was never intended to be a series. It started withTheir Reality has Lapped Our Satire, about a statute in Tennessee. Next was Their Reality has Lapped Our Satire, Again. This one, too, was on about religion. Third, in what pretty much officially made it a series, was Their Reality has Lapped Our Satire, Three, then That it, I give up, I just give up, and most recently, Their reality has lapped our satire, Ronald Reagan edition.
Well, unfortunately, it's time for a sixth edition, and this time, our own reality has lapped our satire.
First, what is going on in Gaza is a nightmare, a culmination of bad decisions and bad acts that started, depending upon your point of view, yesterday, last week, a few years ago, in 1967, in 1948, in 1917, in 1890, or even in 70 C.E. I will not, here, opine any further on it, lest I distract from what THIS diary is about.
Next, Daily Kos has changed a lot. A new Presidential election brought 70 or 80 thousand new posters, most of whom are Obama first, rater than Democrat-first, posters. With that comes a slightly different point of view than we had before. Not better, not worse, different. (Can you tell I'm trying hard not be let my own personal opinions poison this diary?)
Okay, so Hamas launched rockets and Israel invaded, or Israel invaded and Hamas launched rockets, you pick the chicken or the egg, not me. Either way, I/P diaries have exploded. Most feel for the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, as well they should. Some blame Hamas. Some blame Israel, some try to go an extra mile and look to solutions, rather than blame. A few propagandists from both sides made the predictable appearances, but no surprise there.
Then, well, it got weird. This is Daily Kos, folks. Did you ever expect to see somebody positively quoting Stormfront? Well, it happened. HERE
Stormfronter Werewolfblood states only about the ramming "That was a muscle flex."
Stormfronter Achille states: "It's only fair that the jews be equal opportunity terrorists. It's great that McKinney mentions the USS Liberty. Click on "Watch Cynthia McKinney discuss the collision." But that part of what she says of course will never be played on TV or mentioned in the papers. And you will never hear Obongo mention the USS Liberty. That's for sure."
Stormfront. STORMFRONT! On Daily Kos! Do you know what Stormfront is? No, I won't link there. I do not link virulently anti-Semitic white supremacist Fourth-Reich fantasy sites. Nor did I think I would ever find them quoted on Daily Kos. Their slogan is "White Pride World Wide." On Daily Kos. And people are uprating the diarist.
Then was The Nazi Card, by another Kos poster. The content is actually prety thin, but it makes its point- Israel in Gaza is the equivalent of Nazis in, well, I guess Poland. A commenter get it, saying:
your scum. A holocaust is just that. No matter if its the Nazis who did it or the Israelis that are doing it now.
Ignore the bad grammar for a minute, and look at what was written- 300 dead, mostly Hamas members, is just like 6,000,000 dead, living children thrown into ovens, families gasses, shot, and used as experimental lab rats. Am I reading too much into this? No, apparently not:
This shows how hardcore Zionism is. Israel is a blood thirsty nation that knows no good. They will bring the entire world down with them in their Zionist ideology. They are committing so many war crimes and have been, that it would make Heinrich Himmler say "enough." I feel bad about comparing them to the Nazis, because at least the Nazis let the Red Cross come in and inspect some of its concentration camps. The Israelis won’t even allow that in their concentration camp of Gaza. Am I saying that Israel is worst then Nazi Germany? No, I’m saying that when you compare the two when it comes to atrocities, they are one and the same. The only difference is that the Nazis did it on a bigger scale. Zionism like Nazism is the root of all evil. No good can come from it only war. Israel wants war when it does not get it way. However, they are bombing and killing people who cannot even defend themselves. Even Hitler had the balls to attack countries that were at least capable of putting up a fight like Russia or England. Israel can only bully and attack a strip of land without a navy, air force or standing army. Let’s see Israel do the same to Iran or Pakistan. They need to at least pick on someone that actually has bullets and not stones
Folks, our own reality has lapped our satire. On Dailyh Kos diarists quote Stormfront and compare 300 dead, mostly enemy militants, with Nazis and the Holocaust, and figure the ANazis come out looking better for the comparison.
Something is wrong here, terribly wrong.