Davefromqueens, late of this site, has died. His death has been confirmed by sofia, and that's all I need to know, to know that it's true.
Dave, while on this site, oscillated between acceptable and unacceptable. He was eventually shoved, forcibly, into the latter. From which place he was summarily heaved off the site.
Shortly after I came here, I rashly inserted myself into things that--I guess--were none of my business. I was HR-bombed from sea to shining sea. I pulled back. Once I proved myself quiescent, I wasn't pursued.
Dave, too, was HR-bombed. Dave, too, was pursued. But Dave never become quiescient. Dave never stood down.
Maybe because Dave was out of his gourd. Heaved outta here, he immediately set out to intentionally cause real harm, to real people. His whole being he devoted to destroying dkos. He attacked, outed, innocents. He did wrong.
But there is no doubt, in my mind, that Dave's death, even in the smallest part, was at least in some way connected to what went on on this site. To how he was here abused.
I saw it. You did, too.
I don't really want to debate this. I just don't want people here to hurt each other, anymore. Is that okay? That we don't cause pain? That we don't hurt each other?
DFQ was a sporadically rational poster who was more or less driven off the deep end here by the incessant attentions of Major Flaw and BraveheartDC (the latter banned in the course of their pursuit, apparently for sockpuppetry). Dave was one of those people it was easy to rile into ridiculousness, and riled, constantly by these two, he was.
Dave eventually set fire to himself here by more or less demanding that Flaw and a couple dozen other posters, including several front-pagers, be banned from the site.
He then migrated to fsz, which is, among other things, a refugee for dkos rebels and rejects. There he immediately became obsessed with first identifying the prominent "assholes" on this site, and then publicly naming them--outing them. When he persisted with the latter, he was heaved even from his new home, fsz.
Dave then started his own blog, dedicated primarily to outing Kossacks and condemning this site as the downfall of the Democratic Party. To get a sense of his obsession, of how far he had gone, consider that he set himself the task of tracking--and reporting--the real-world physical movements of Markos, and of his family.
Meanwhile, just a couple days ago, Dave's erstwhile tormentor, Major Flaw, together with MF's running-buddy bottles, seemed to just . . . vanish . . . from this site. This after they had apparently collaborated in posting a comment outing (or attempting an outing) of a user to this site--a comment subsequently deleted by site admins.
Curiously, the outing information posted here by bottles & Flaw apparently appeared first on fsz, posted by a user Flaw & bottles (and others) had only recently succeeded in banning from this site.
So. To sum up the meta, a man who for months was obsessed with "getting" his enemies on another blog dies just after those enemies have apparently been gotten.
This means the world has grown so chillingly absurd that, really, we should definitely question whether we any longer wish to live in it.
I don't want to. Then again, as far as I can see, it's the only world there is . . . .
In a world like this, what can you do, but just try to be kind, for chrissake . . . .