The reason I wrote this diary was because of a very honorable diary by a Dkos member. I’m glad it is getting some attention. I can’t refute anything stated which typifies everything he has ever written. Zach’s response was brilliant. Thanks to both of you.
It enfuriates me when sh8t like this happens. It absolutely needs to be corrected now, or at least a response given. Invite other DKos members to join in the discussion. Is there a provision against such actions? Does Nir get paid for his writing? Do other people here get paid? There is a big difference.
All of a sudden a great diary by a good guy in Ohio became a constipation fest. I’m positive that was not the intent of the OP. Suddenly everything written on DKos became sh8t. Emotionally stuff written thingys unworthy of their standards.
That is the objective of this diary.
Emotion is the compelling reason that inspires most people to vote. Or not to vote at all. Although perhaps not ideal until we accept that as a fact and integrate it into every effort we will continue to lose the interest of those that would vote for us.
Very, very few people are born good writers and few become good writers. If you get paid to write based on your educational training or your proven ability to write there should be a zero tolerance policy for falsehoods and inaccuracies. Maybe not on Mars but [perhaps on DKos?
When you learn how to control auto-correct or whatever spell check program use you deserve a Pulitzer. But that’s another diary. Is Error ridden news as reprehensible as Fake News and are they all propaganda? Did Nir present a false or erroneous item in a front page diary?
How about that all Twitter feed posts diary? Was that error ridden or fake news? Was that fuct up because it appealed almost entirely to emotion or the cathartic response it engendered. Made me feel good.
Did it destroy the integrity of DKos? Does David Nir not fessing up to an error and issuing an apology do that? The last thing we should ever want to be accused of is creating stress, drama and extra work for any Democrat anywhere.
I have to strongly disagree with anyone that criticized the recent Twitter based diary. It had everything to do with what some people wanted to hear, and it provided a way for some here to vent and express suppressed feelings.
People’s emotions and feelings matter. The feelings of unheralded, unprofessional or highly emotional posters matter. Stop fucking attacking each other.
Several of the posters in that diary have quite nastily attacked several diaries I have written. Their assaults were gratuitous and not at all helpful. They didn’t address the topic at all. I pulled my diaries down.
If you are going to criticize an effort by an unpaid person trying to express themselves perhaps constructive encouraging criticism instead of questioning their mental state, educational level, or substance use status would be a better protocol?
That’s the purpose of this diary.
Move on. Don’t read the diary. Hold your tongue and suffer the indignities of being appalled by a lack of adherence to your standards. Some of us here will never meet them anyway.
Diaries might be irritating to those that want to keep DKos at a certain level of emotional literacy but I think that Democrats need to start providing emotional outlets for those that might be undereducated according to someone’s arbitrary standard.
Please correct me if I am wrong but haven’t some here postulated the reason Hillary Clinton lost was because she ran an emotionless campaign, and was always guarded about everything? This crap about attacking women because they express too much or too little emotion has got to stop now. Or anyone of any gender for that matter.
Do the people at rallies for the Russian mob pawn in The White House appear emotionless to anyone? Had that as8hole in The White House kept his rants to accurate, rational statements he never would have been able to steal the presidency — even with all the funding from foreign adversaries and huge amounts of dark money - using revival tent style demagogic fucxery.
Until stupid, emotionally unstable, angry, sadistic people that either respond to or employ dog whistles and visuals that encourage them to vote based on emotion stop voting we should have more emotion laden diaries and rallies.
And please, Kossacks, wail about what’s in your heart and invite your friends to do so as well. No one will card you for your educational level or expertise. You just can’t lie or present an error and not have the integrity to admit you made a mistake. We still have First Amendment rights. Don’t be so distracted that they get taken away along with your health care — which might be happening as you read this.
And to have a Democrat be forced to resort to defending themselves and the work of a good group of Democrats in any state on social media based on an inaccuracy in a DKos diary is not acceptable. What is up with that already?