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What are your favorite all-time Daily Kos posts/diaries?
The past week or two here at The Great Orange Satan has been...interesting. There have been highly informative and intensely personal diaries like peregrine kate's Where I Came From. There have been the highly informative daily posts on the Sanders and Clinton campaigns by Liepar Destin and Lysis, respectively.
And then there's the pie. The shade that has been thrown. The tea that has been spilled. The response/revenge diaries...
Yes, it's been stressful. But I also think that times such as these also makes Daily Kos the community that is. One second, I'm ready to write my own GBCW diary. The next second, I find a virtual shoulder to cry on. the next second, I'm laughing again.
And it all comes from these things we call diaries. Here are some of my favorites:
1. Delete my fucking account, Kos. Possibly the greatest GBCW diary in the entire history of the Internet. While I'd read the occasional reference to it (especially back when Markos did his Saturday hate-mail posts), I thought that it was an urban legend. Finally, in one of the many many pie diaries last week, someone linked ErrinF's August 2006 diary. It deserves its reputation. Unlike many diaries, where the real fun is in the comments, ErrinF's vitriol is the star of the show and never to be duplicated:
You all suck. A lot of you wouldn't know what a progressive thought was if it bit you in the ass. To you, a progressive thought is whatever the Democratic party line spoonfeeds you. A tremendous amount of you are Democrats because mommy and daddy were Democrats. Churches and political parties are full of blind conformists that are simply towing the line they've been told to from the get go, with little regard to actual political thought, let alone progressive political thought. The amount of blind conformity that goes on in America is what fuels the corrupt two party system. DailyKos exemplifies blind conformity, and I regret any and all association I have had with it. I should be allowed to delete my account and go; Why should I be forced to stay amid this pathetic cult of personality? The herd mentality that goes on here sickens me now, AND I WANT OUT. Regardless of my personal experience here, EVERYBODY WHO SIGNED UP TO THIS WEBSITE SHOULD BE FREE TO DELETE THEIR ACCOUNTS IF THEY SO WISH TO. For Kos to deny us this is downright fascist.
Since I can't delete my account myself, my only recourse is to be as abrasive and disruptive as I can be UNTIL MY ACCOUNT GETS DELETED. As long as my account remains here, I do not feel comfortable leaving. Is it really such a tough request to delete my account so I can go? Just what kind of website lets you join up but won't let you leave? One that regards people as little more than statistics, that's what. How like the Democratic Party for Kos to view his site's members as little more than statistics.
DELETE MY FUCKING ACCOUNT, KOS. You don't want me hanging around, and neither do I
Well, alrighty then.
With that type of venomous hilarity, Markos will never delete our fucking accounts. And I can't say that I blame him.
2. Facts Belie the Scapegoating of Black People for Proposition 8 by shanikka. This diary was probably my introduction to The Great Orange Satan. I remember linking to it through Pam's House Blend. A the time, I was getting myself up to speed on the various arguments w/r/t various controversies behind Proposition 8; the Voters News Service Poll that stated that 70% of blacks in California voted for Proposition 8, homophobia in the black community, the white gay reaction, the irony of that vote taking place on the same day as the United States elected an African-American president.
First of all, Miss shanikka just threw down on her research. Second of all, the comment section of shanikka's Prop 8 diary is well worth reading for all of its' virtriol and common sense. All of the black gay voices commenting in the thread (and there weren't many) speak to me and for me, in varying degrees. This is one diary that I reference time and again and share with others.
3) Liberal Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt and The New Deal by puakev. puakev and I were having the same thought at about the same time. That is, given the vitriol on the Left w/r/t President Obama's policies, how did it compare to he Left's reaction to FDR in the 1930's?
This Time magazine cover probably didn't help much. But the times did call for it.
puakev and I came to the same conclusions. I browsed through a number of
Nation magazines published during FDR's presidency and read language very similar to some of the attacks against Obama. I read some of these attacks (and others) in some of the black press archives of the 1930's. puakev read considerably more sources than I did at the time, thoroughly researched the issue, and did a kick-ass diary that should be required reading.
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Asheville, N.C. is the destination for September 26, 2015! DKos Asheville, the In-Real-Life group under the leadership of randallt, has been setting the example for other IRL groups across the nation regarding registering people to vote, getting out the vote, having a state open thread and setting up strategy conferences for their region. Because of this impressive leadership we've asked randallt to be the State Leader for all of North Carolina. We've got important work to do on the ground there and randallt has shown he's the person to make that happen.
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