This is in response to Granny Doc’s diary "This is going to be hard to write..." It started out as a comment and ballooned into a full-blown diary.
If you are not familiar with Granny Doc’s writing, check her out. If nothing else at least read "This is going to be hard to write..."
DISCLAIMER: I have no idea if Granny Doc would ever agree to meet with you in a bar (or even if she visits bars on occasion.)
Hop in a barrel and follow me over the fa-a-a-a-lls.
So you and Granny are sitting at the bar having a broad-ranging conversation about politics, the World situation, history and the like. The two of you may not agree on every particular, may even disagree strongly on some issues, but, given a certain mutual respect, the conversation proceeds on a high plain.
Then, all of a sudden, an eavesdropper in the next seat over intrudes into your dialogue. And this person is just an absolute flaming asshole, with nothing constructive whatsoever to contribute to your conversation. It may or may not be their intent, but they are disruptive to the course of your conversation.
This has happened to me. Not with Granny Doc of course, but with other friends of mine. My reaction is to freeze these interlopers out and ignore them. I won’t give them the time of day. They are not worth one iota of my energy. If they persist, I will explicitly tell them to bug off.
In the online world, I have had responses to my diaries or comments that ticked me off. My first impulse was to flame them, but I never reacted to these first impulses. I would reread the comment and mutter under my breath, "Fuck you!" and move on.
I have never been involved in any of the flame wars that sometimes rage here at Dailykos. I won’t even read the threads that go there. If I see nothing productive in the comments thread, I’m gone.
There is so much good writing and commenting here that it is a complete useless waste of time to even go there. I say, stick with the good stuff, bypass the crap—fuggedaboutit.
As this election campaign progresses we will be inundated here with troll nonsense and all kinds of other useless crap. Move On and deal with real issues.
Crosspost from http://www.docudharma.com/...