Like me, for instance! :D
Accept that wishy-washy doublespeak gets us mad, and that we're really really bad at holding in this anger and aggression.
Accept that some of us were raised by wolves, or suffered abuse, or are just angry motherfuckers, and that we prefer DKos group therapy to the expensive kind.
Accept that many assholes still contribute valuable things: like dissensus, snark, sharp-eyed commentary, etc. I'm more of the drama-dispensing, personal-BS-dealing asshole, but there are assholes of the former, better type all over this site!
But accept too that a lot of what's been flying around here lately is assholery without the aggression, douchebaggery without namecalling: really, folks, if we've spent eight years absolutely fucking EXCORIATING Bush for tapping our phones, lying about the same, and destroying our Constitution, only to COMPLETELY give Der Barack a pass for advancing legal arguments that would do the same (only more extremely, lulz), then we assholes will arise, and claim our noisy space in this here public sphere, mainly by calling YOU ALL assholes. Deal with it, or stop making stupid doublespeak arguments about how "Barack knows best": your choice.
Accept that we don't play nice, don't particularly want to. It's rather hard to want to be part of a community that's seemingly lost its collective senses in the last few weeks or so. Assholery is the best I can offer right now. Kinda like HAL in 2001 and 2010: you're giving us conflicting data (Obama good, wiretapping bad, Obama wiretapping, Obama still good), how do you expect us to react other than assholishly?
Accept that Geithner, State Secrets, FISA, wiretapping, more Afghanistan, etc., piss a lot of us assholes off.
Accept that we've got something to say about this.
Accept, finally, the tiny little asshole within, the one that hides behind pootie- and woozie-love, or whatever. Accept that you might benefit from letting this asshole out sometimes.
In all seriousness, I guess I'd sort of like to apologize for the more egregiously trollish commentary of late. Think of it as a cry for help: I just don't see where we're going, as a country, party, community, wherever. I campaigned for Obama because I thought he'd stop all this, his FISA vote notwithstanding. He's still SOOOO much better than that other guy, but fuck that, he needs to take a stand on these issues. Maybe assholes like me can help him do so? Probably not, but again, this is the best I've been capable of lately.
Cheers for assholes! :P