You heard me, Proud, proud of the kindness, the caring, the intelligence, the beauty, I am proud of the thoughtfulness, the friendship and the fact that we are the moral high ground. As a self identified progressive, I am damn proud of this community and our contribution to America. That includes almost everything here, the IGTNT diaries, the GUS diaries, hell evene the pootie diaries.
But I am not proud of everything.
And yeah, you heard me again, Ashamed. Ashamed at some of the self righteous judgemental assclownishness I see here. You know who I am referring to. It might be you, hell, it might be me on a bad day. The judgemental shit is NOT helping, at the least it is purity or concern trolling, at worst it is mindless holier than thou horseshit.
Yeah, meta jesus is crying his eyes out, but I didn't throw the first stone.
Now I know self righteous, but the love it or leave oit crap is not what I come here for, and that is what I am seeing today. That sucks, flat out fucking sucks, and the people who advocate it need to take a good look in the mirror, cause I don't think they are themselves today.
But some of them (and they are few) are themselves, they are showing themselves for the self righteous assclowns that they can be, and if you don't like it, you are welcome to HR me too. You obviously don't respect this community as much as you proclaim to if you can abuse the priveledge of TU and the HR ability that goes with it, so be my guest, stand on my head and piss on me too, but realize when you do so you are pissing on all of ouyr heads, and without respect for anyone but yourself and your views, which must be right, as we must be wrong, or so you suppose.
To compare a dissenting view with CT is a fucking embarassment, and truly Fox worthy.
Dissenting and unpopular speech, when respectful and given constructively, should be something we welcome. We NEED it, it keeps us grounded to the earth. Otherwise we in the progressive community (that of the lauded Big Tent) would fall into the same trap as the Right, living in a sound proof echo chamber of our own creation, and to the detriment of all. To do so is folly, and if you want the Democratic party and the Progressive movement to follow the fucking wingnuts down the road top obscurity and irrelevance, just keep it up, your doinaheckuvajob.
So, I will gladly tell you that I am always PROUD of this community and it's varying members and perspectives, even the sometimes unpopular ones, but I am also ASHAMED at some of it's holier than thou members, who on a good day are good friends, but on a bad day (such as this) make me shake my head and want to have a shot of scotch with my brekfast.
To those who feel directly addressed by this diary, please, feel welcome to engage me in respectfull discussion, but I would advise first this, go, log off, take a shower and look at youurself in the mirror. If you think you are saving this community or the progressive movemnet, you are not. Get over yourself. And if you can not allow unpopular but respectfull speech in your prescence, think twice, because you might be guilty of the same yourself, and wouldn't you want some one to come to your defense if you were?
I thought that was the ideal this country was founded on, not "love it or leave it"
I am Proud of this community, damn proud, even on it's bad days, just like today, and though I am ashamed of some of it's members on occassion, that usually doesn't last for long. There is a lot of good here, way more than there is bad, and enough to balance out the bad apples, who are usually good ones, even on their bad days.
But I will be Damned by the Gods to have people tell me what is right and wrong, what to be Ashamed of and why, and what is patriotic or unpatriotic. I will make up my own mind on matters such as those, and if You don't like it, You can Get Out, instead of telling us what is holy and what is sin.
Meta Jesus, forgive us all, this day.
So, in all seriousness, if you can't take what is on the Reclist or some other aspect of this community, you have the freedom to leave, for a day, or all together, but Please, get off you soapbox and leave the holier than thou shit to the other side, they are better at it than you are.
I, for one, will welcome you back, and forgive and forget, because that is how I am. I know you have your bad days, but please, don't make this a place where you are the morality police. When that becomes the norm, I will be the one that leaves.
Until then, I am Proud of this community and it's members, even those I disagree with, as long as they do so respectfully.
The point is that we CAN disagree, that is the beauty of this party, we have different points of view, even unpopular ones at times. The beauty of this site is that we CAN disagree, as often we do. It is like having your cake, and eating it too.
So, please, take thought, the person you are berating or urging banishment upon may be yourself one day, or in someone else's eyes.
Until then, like a Proud member of a family I am proud of you all, even though I am a little bit ashamed sometimes.
So let's try to get along, instead of fighting each other, we should be fighting the wingnuts. Isn't that more fun?
Therefore, I am proud of you all, even though I get a little embarrassed at the behavior of some of us, but I know, deep down inside, you are all good people who mean well.
Most of the time.
and, to prove my point of why I am so proud to be a Kossack!
heh (1+ / 0-)
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MoT, I still love ya, you know that, don't you? :)
I know what you're trying to do, and you can't. - Eddie Garcia (-6.88/-5.74)
by kestrel9000 on Sun Aug 30, 2009 at 12:18:29 PM EDT
And I love you too as well, kestrel (0 / 0)
no hard feelings.
btw, I am going to update this diary to include these two comments. That was my WHOLE POINT in writing this diary, as many have failed to see, and I thank you deeply for illustrating it for all of us.
Thank you so much.
Cheers
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?' - 1984
by MinistryOfTruth on Sun Aug 30, 2009 at 12:20:36 PM EDT
In the words of Principal Skinner, "Prove me wrong, children, prove me wrong"
Kossacks truly ROCK! I am truly not worthy.
Yours truly,
MoT