This is the second time recently that someone has zeroed out a comment that I made. This one was on Booman’s most recent Quote of the Day post in response to some things centerfielddj said about me. It’s no big deal and I am not even going to quote the shit…look it up if you have any interest.
Several people here have simply stopped posting comments…drummed out by the ratings attacks and name-calling of the neocenrist Dem loyalists, they prefer to mostly post articles that cannot be zeroed out. Others have left the site in disgust over the censorship tactics of a few people.
I will do neither. I am going to continue to comment when I feel like it, but from now on I will keep copies of the comments and repost them in context as a standalone if they are zeroed.
I will not be censored!!!
As Lenny Bruce…who was driven to a drug-induced death by the same sorts of people…once said:
If you can’t say “fuck,” you can’t say “Fuck the government.”
Well…fuck the government and fuck the censors.
Cowards all.
Over and out.
AG
How old are you?
Come on! You know this place hasn’t been the same since early 2016 when a bunch of newbies showed up to turn your blog into Dailykos complete with two minute hate and doublethink. I’ve seen completely innocuous posts troll rated because of who posted. Posts that were partly line completely down the line.
Is that what you want? to become Markos and have his ad revenue? I hate to think so but it sure looks that way.
Rein in these punks if it isn’t.
I do not think that is Booman’s aim, Voice. I think that he is an “Anything’s better than Trump” guy, and he is willing to compromise some of his earlier positions to that end. I also think that he has a job at WAMO and a family to consider.
We all grow up sometimes, I guess.
Except for me, of course. I “grew up” for about a decade and a half in my late ’30s.40s, but I didn’t like it much and first chance I got, I once again became the world’s oldest 23 year old.
Much happier.
AG
Thank god you guys have the diaries to wank publicly like this.
Arent you happy you have a place where you can project your silly butt hurt onto the host and community that gives you the platform to do so?
Of course when you whip out your genitals too much in public and start jerking it in uncontrolled fashion people are going to tell you its not appreciated. Then you will feel censored, understandable of course, it feels really good jerking it with a large audience.
Buzz oof. Although this IS about you and others.
Me, I don’t give a flying fuck what you think, but leave AG alone.
Why don’t you just bring up a photo of Hillary Clinton on your screen to jerk off too and leave the adults alone.
The silliest reaction possible, i dont care what you think.
Of course you do, you gave me a reaction.If you didnt you would ignore me.
I prefer Bernie.
Not to masturbate to of course, i have interesting friends for that.
I was considering of not following your advice, since i am quite stubborn and wont do as i am told.
I am listening to reason though, if you like to convince me why its best to do what you say i will seriously consider it.
But then, i dont think you are that kind of type, explaining what you tell others. Or be willing to convince them. Thats whats the wanking in these diaries is all about isnt it? Its where the ones failing to make an impact come to masturbate together, still in public, but avoided by those that are not into that stuff.
Or are you still planning your revolution together? And suddenly there will be a coordinated effort to steer public opinion, together you ached out a coherent political philosophy that no open minded person can resist?
Seriously, frustrated and angry people may force the left in America to be actually Left, and care for the needs of people. But frustrated and angry people wanking in the diaries here are not seeers, and they are not morally superior, or smarter, or whatever.
They just like wanking.
Wank on.
AG
Thank you for your approval, i have learned a lot watching you AG.
I think i know the tricks of the trade now.
Thank you for the 1, i deserve it.
Now dont you ever complain about your rating, ok ag?
I am not “complaining,” bazzz. in fact, I often long for you all to zero me right out of this system. I spend too much time hoping and praying for some kind of awakening from y’all.
But…it’ll all work out in the end.
See ya in Guantanamo…or some other version of hell.
Later…
AG
Awakening, right.
So you actually do believe that you have some special insight?
Is it something thats not been heard before?
Or is it something your 3% only can understand?
No matter how meticulously you explain it to us in detail?
Maybe it is something you need to feel, you cant explain it?
“If you have to ask you dont get it, if you dont get it you never understand” ?
Is it the belief that there are forces at work, that arent obvious to most people? Ofcourse there are. What makes you think you have a better understanding of what they are?
We all know that.
Is it that the democratic party is a very inefficient and imperfect vessel to power? Absolutely true. Corruptable, true. Evil? nah, just people suck, and they promise bullshit they never intend to deliver.
Thats all the same, everywhere. But you know the way to make it better? tell everyone, please. But i dont think you got anything, you are no less confused than anyone else. Oh, but you found the secret? Trump got to power by being loud and obnoxious, so thats the way its supposed to be done? Annoy everyone, scream at them when they dont follow orders? disrespect the established order, shake things up, its all pure filth. Maybe then the right people will get to power?
Or is it just to destroy what you hate? That never seems to deliver the things we love, right? Unless one has a love of destruction.
Or should we all love each other more, treat each other with respect? Stop fighting wars? Free love?
I am up for it, but fuck, we first seem to have to fuck it up a whole lot more before we come to that conclusion.
I guess we talk about it after ww3?
I am trying to “talk about it” before WWIII.
And…any “special insights” that I may have has been earned by a life lived as far outside of the boundaries that society sets up for us as I can possibly live and still survive.
I do keep trying…
AG
Old enough to stand my ground.
AG
Old enough to stand my ground.
You?
AG
Oh Snap! Arthur strikes again with his unmatched wit!
You stand your ground AG, when someone tells you to stop your pathetic whining, you tell them “WHAT ABOUT YOU HUH?”
That will teach them!
Maybe it’s not censorship but because the comments were particularly ridiculous? (I haven’t seen the comments, but that’s because I had to stop reading AG’s stuff.)
BTW, I’ve been here so long, I remember when AG sometimes made sense.
I still do.
Not reaching you?
So it goes.
AG
uid:3993 – a newbie!
I’m here as a true oldie and remember when the Pond community was open minded and lived by its progressive principles. A hardworking, pleasant sphere of community spirit where we reached out to all.
The superior purity is a thing of beauty Qui, the ancient holy order that fights the evil of the newbie intruders.
Thank god we have you to keep us from straying away too far from the dictated morals we have to live by.
What else will stop the decay? Reasoned debate? Yuk, such centrist ideas! Compelling stories? thats so mundane, no, artful poetic collages is what we need, not to be understood by commoners, only the initiated, the seeers, the pure, they will know! The untrained mind will be too closed off from the Real Truth to open up to it, so its no point in trying to convince them. The populous though will feel it, and in the end revolt, they will embrace the Real Truth, or at least the tiny bit they are capable of understanding.
Or something.
It just doesn’t get any more pathetic than this.
Also too, “censor”, like so many other words whose meaning you don’t understand, does not mean what you think it does. (hint: prior restraint . . . repeat prior restraint)
Threat of restraint…constant attempts at restraint…call it what you will. It’s happening. Here. And I will not be restrained.
AG
This diary, and many of the comments contained within it, are perfect examples of the caliber of commentary (if we can call it that) AG offers and invites. There of course is no censorship, and certainly no prior restraint (as you and I both know). The latter is way outside the scope of a blog host to begin with. Absent a blog host who finally gets fed up with AG’s antics, isolated members use what few tools they have at their disposal – and those amount to little more than a slap on the wrist. Of course, if AG really is outraged at mild rebuke, he could give running a community blog a go and of course I would wish him good luck with that. In the meantime, I’ll repeat something I’ve said in one form or another in recent weeks: this blog welcomes gadflies. AG’s behavior went way beyond gadflyish a long, long time ago. This diary is just the latest evidence of his devolution as a contributor to the conversation here.
You write:
On the contrary, this conversation is simply the latest evidence of the devolution of this blog from a truly “progressive” site to a place where McCarthyite-like neocentrists blather on about an already thoroughly decayed Democratic Party’s wonderful involvement in a two-faced set of scams…AllTrump vs. NeverTrump…while the corporatist controllers of both parties sit back and laugh at their little subjects’ gullibility.
WWE writ large.
WTFU.
You been had.
AG
Wherein Arthur essentially outs himself as a Sometimes Trumper.
Feel free to keep on own-goaling yourself in front of this community, in the most belligerent manner possible.