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Post by RPankn on May 25, 2004 1:57:41 GMT -5
No conspiracy theories. Swallow it whole and shut up ! No Israeli-American connections. Is swearing in Yiddish allowed ? Shut up you Chutzpah ! SC's abhorance of CTs used to irritate me. It's like, I'm a grown adult, I can make up my own mind what to believe and what I think is a load of crap. Smirky Chimpster a/k/a Jeff Tiedrich used to make such a big deal out of that like SC was gonna turn into something rightwingers would use it to point out how loopy liberals are, but I thought that was a load of b.s. because they talk about CTs over at Free Republic all the time, and some of them were whacked out. I remember there was a story one time about the DoD buying a town in New Mexico and I joked that that's where they were putting an internment camp and my post was deleted in a minute. The Israel thing, I really don't get at all. I know some things about the topic, I know very little of the history behind it, but I would really like to learn because so much U.S. money goes to Israel, I would like to know what's being done with our tax dollars and in my name. What I don't want, though, is to have to rely on mainstream media to tell me what's going on because I don't trust them to give me the full story. All I want is an unbiased source that isn't tied to either side and I used to rely on the debates from both sides on SC to learn more about it and see where both sides were coming from and learn some things, but I guess that's over. I thought it was funny though that one time DoubleHelix used ______ instead of Israel in one article, but BN got on his or her broomstick and had to go and ban him awhile for it.
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Post by RPankn on May 25, 2004 5:25:36 GMT -5
Ok, I read the thread on the banning of Kerry and Nader bashing; what a little soap opera they got going at SC! So I'll join in with my opinion and keep the drama going! lol
I never cared much for Onaboojoka's posts -- what the hell is that name supposed to mean anyway? -- and her response to ChimpChips being praised was just childish. ChimpChips' posts are not easy to read, but he says the things I, at least, find myself saying a lot lately, like what the hell has happened to this country? If Democrats have a hard time understanding this, we're all totally screwed and Christ should return and bring Armogeddon on now.
NaderNadir left SC! Or at least he says he is. I predict the tone of the site will improve dramatically because I never liked that loudmouth, fat, momma's boy. Ok, that was childish of me, but something about NN works my last nerve. His posts are irrational half the time, and the other half of his posts are flames of anyone who expresses the slightest bit of difference with his worldview. If one wants to see how Democrats can just as easily become fascists like the Republicans have, he's a perfect example.
SmirkyChimpster is an ass. I really don't hate a lot of people, but I just have this intense disliking of him. Hi, my name is Jeff Tiedrich and I sell digital mix tapes for a living, did I mention I was God's gift to political discussion websites? Ok, that was also childish on my part, but I can't stand pompus, arrogant and pretentious people like him. These were not the kind of Democrats I grew up around so, like America, what the hell has happened to that party? And his "Oy f'in vey" comment was so uncalled for. If Mr. Tiedrich actually bothered to read the d**n thread, he would have seen Michou has some trouble with English, and I can definitely understand that with all the subtle nuances of the English language.
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Post by calabi-yau on May 25, 2004 5:49:02 GMT -5
That was an interesting thread wasn't it ? A waste of words in the long run but if it really got NaderNadir to leave, that's good news. I was getting fed up of being called a Repuke by him. It's the same with bughead when he starts with his Ketchup sleeper mantra. It helps me understand why SmirkyChimpster started the thread by calling us all Kids. That got my blood boiling but I'd say he is not far from the truth in his appreciation of SC members. As for michou's poor English, yep, it's pretty bad at times but I can understand English nuances. I was playing the french dummy to make a point on how ineffective this new rule will be. It seems the strategy worked very well. OY VEY ! ;D I just love to exasperate pompous a**holes. (Is my English really that bad ?)
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Post by calabi-yau on May 25, 2004 5:56:05 GMT -5
I never cared much for Onaboojoka's posts -- what the hell is that name supposed to mean anyway? The only way I can remember her handle is by thinking: She has ONA big pair of BOOJOKAS. Maybe it'll work for you !
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Post by RPankn on May 25, 2004 6:10:58 GMT -5
That was an interesting thread wasn't it ? A waste of words in the long run but if it really got NaderNadir to leave, that's good news. I was getting fed up of being called a Repuke by him. It's the same with bughead when he starts with his Ketchup sleeper mantra. It helps me understand why SmirkyChimpster started the thread by calling us all Kids. That got my blood boiling but I'd say he is not far from the truth in his appreciation of SC members. As for michou's poor English, yep, it's pretty bad at times but I can understand English nuances. I was playing the french dummy to make a point on how ineffective this new rule will be. It seems the strategy worked very well. OY VEY ! ;D I just love to exasperate pompous a**holes. (Is my English really that bad ?) No, no, no...your English isn't bad at all; now, I'll admit, as a native speaker, my English is horrible when I'm talking with friends because the way we construct our sentences and spell words and the slang we use, I don't speak properly like I do when I'm writing on a board like this. Actually, from reading your posts on SC and here I really never would have known you live in Quebec unless I saw it in the profile blurb next to your name on SC. What I meant though was that I can see how difficult English can be to understand sometimes for a non-native speaker because of all the subtle shades of nuance many English words can have depending on how they're used, not that your English is bad. I apologize if there was any confusion and made it sound that way.
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Post by calabi-yau on May 25, 2004 6:40:42 GMT -5
Oh my, there was no need for such heartfelt apologies on my behalf ! Funny how knowing a second language well does not necessarily translate into writing it proficiently. I am what is considered a constant reader and my knowledge of English vocabulary is extensive. It's when I try to write it down that problems occur. It seems my brain's vocabulary warehouse does not connect when I'm writing. Maybe a frontal lobotomy would help but as long as readers understand my drift, I'll go without merci beaucoup.
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Post by Moses on May 25, 2004 21:55:43 GMT -5
The part of my brain that was spelling champ is not connected to the typing part of my brain.
Clearly, those who run the SC site are not real people in the sense that they have kids in the military or even friends in the military. They regard the traditional democratic constituency as cannon fodder. (As do the Democratic Party insiders).
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Post by tombldr on Jun 18, 2004 19:51:08 GMT -5
I've been banned from SmirkingChimp. I wasn't informed via email, chimpmail or anything, it just happened quietly... as they prefer to control their dialog, to keep up appearances. I went to reply to a post today, and reached an "error: you've been banned" or similar message page. I checked the chimpmail functionality, and that was also banned. I've had an F-them attitude since the controlled nature of the SC dialog came into focus for me a few months ago, specifically wrt Israeli matters. I cut my monthly funding back in January when BN (who I've since learned is boloboffin) peed me off in locking a perfectly good thread.. and since I've hung around taking what's good from the community, but aware of the ugly censorship subcurrents. Plainly, the thread which set bloffofobin off was this: Josh Marshall Hints at Something Huge.... where my replys #9 and #15 were defiant messages laying SC/blofo's game bare. What's funny is, I've been amazed that those replys have remained undeleted. Thing is, I have past experience leading me to believe that BN can only delete the LAST reply in a thread... once more replies are posted, they can't delete replies in the middle of the pack without nuking everything below. So their not catching my replys quickly in that active thread left them impotent to delete them without being obvious. BN/blof can also edit any reply, but I gather, not without leaving the little "edited by BN date/time" bread crumb in small font below the reply. tee hee! :-) So I've been toying with this idea for awhile, and now it's imminent. I was plotting to write a short essay illuminating SC's clandestine "unwritten-posting-guideline" censorship wrt Israel, and 911-truth; which I'll then do some mass one-by-one chimpmailing to hundreds of Chimpsters. The appeal will be, IF they contribute or have considered contributing to SC, to AT LEAST BE AWARE of the clandestinely censored nature of the dialog there, and to make their (continued?) contribution decision accordingly. It was a bit of a rude awakening for me when their methodical pro-Israel censorship came into focus... and my copy/paste form letter essay to chimpsters would try to evidence this clandestine bias beyond dispute. When I get it written, I'll register a new chimp handle, and start chimpmailing away until I'm stopped by the inevitable leaking back to the SC cabal. I'll use a proxy IP server to get on if I have to. Thing is, I'd like to post it here as well, and ask that sympathetic DDers with Chimp handles which they're indifferent about getting banned from chimp (as was my attitude re my tom_bldr handle there), that you also spend some time shotgunning the essay via chimpmail to tens/hundreds of chimpsters... noting at the top that it's from the old, now banned tom_bldr. Sort of a distributed essay-of-enlightenment attack... from a "shadowy, stateless network" LOL. If Smirky's perma-banner pleading for contributions reflects reality, ie that it's a challenge to make ends meet for the site (an assertion I'm properly skeptical of-- let ADL/AIPAC pay the bills to keep their clandestinely whipped "librul SC community" afloat!), this could make a decisive dent in their game... or at least open some eyes, as my own were pried open. More to follow...
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Post by Marxist Piealectics on Jun 18, 2004 23:20:18 GMT -5
I, too, have been purged by the central commitee,comrades. I'm game for any thing which will expose their attempts to control the direction of the historical imperative of the dialectic. Maybe a big pie in the face. Bannana custard is a very high quality synthesis. -Karpomrx
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Post by RPankn on Jun 19, 2004 6:11:19 GMT -5
tombldr, karpomrx:
Ah feel yuh pain, lol. I wasn't banned from SC, but I sort of exiled myself from there after Mateo said he'd provide all of us who asked questions about Kerry and the Democratic Party with a picture of a dead Iraqi child to hang next to our pictures of Howard Dean and Ralph Nader because doing so would help elect Bush. I only go back from time to time to SC when DU is down or there's nothing that interests me enough to read there. Living in a swing state, though, Mateo's comment still tempts me to vote for Nader, even though it's questionable if my vote is going to really count after my county revealed this week they have no way of knowing if the votes from the paperless Vote-a-matic machines even make it to the central computer and were pretty shady about what happens from there.
Anyway, if you haven't, and if you want to participate in active threads about I/P, you should check out DU because the moderators give posters wide latitude on the issue as long as you don't personally insult another poster or post from a known anti-semetic website (i.e., an Aryan nation website). The only thing that takes time to get used to is how the threads are formatted. I noticed that BN spreads a lot of disinformation at SC about DU and makes it sound like it has all these Byzantine rules about posting on I/P, to make it seem like he/she/it's doing a favor by even allowing a discussion of the topic, but it's really nothing like that at all. DU has its rabid ABBers and Likud apologists, but it's much larger than SC and there's a large contingent of thinking people who can hold their own against those kind of drones.
A heads up though: BoloBoffin may post on there, but he/she/it does not use that handle anymore.
I'm still wondering what BN/BoloBoffin's real identity is, though, because I noticed on he/she/it's blog, he/she/it discusses several gospels of the Bible and I'm wondering if he/she/it isn't a Christian Zionist.
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Post by POA on Jun 21, 2004 14:18:18 GMT -5
Here's BoardNanny's latest fulmination against her own membership:
"Let me take a moment remind people that this site was set up for democrats and progressives and rest of the left is welcome but not this chronic democrat bashing. I'm sick of it and I have it in my sites and I'm going to start revoking memberships if it doesn't stop. Cutting the membership to half of what is now would be better than this chronic non-productive pregnant doging, moaning and flaming and the majority of this contention comes from those who believe that their politics is perfect in every way except that it is divisive and completely non-productive. So join in but keep your pregnant doging to minimum. We have work to do and being at each other’s throats is not the way to get it done. "
So, that's approximately 11,000 pieces of human detritus by her standards.
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Post by calabi-yau on Jun 21, 2004 20:09:05 GMT -5
To all banned chimps, you aren't missing much. I was wrong a few posts back when I wrote Smirky's new rule against flaming and bashing wouldn't work. It did work. Except for cookies' constant chucklef*cks and the likes, everything is pretty tame now. Numerous c-mail warnings and some more on probation I presume. Not counting all SC ghosts. So I really don't know where this outpouring of new wisdom by BN sprouts from. --- Please, don't let me guess or I'll be rude.
SC is more like a tabloid forum now. A few VP scares here and there and the whole place shows up to count the votes.
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Post by stonefruit on Jun 21, 2004 22:57:42 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the bans but not surprised. Tom Bldr, you were a one man 911 truth commission there! I barely go there now and I used to love it and go daily. Hope may die last, but mine's on life support.
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Post by calabi-yau on Jul 13, 2004 18:51:04 GMT -5
F*CK ABB'rs and their stupidity !
Sorry. I'm just back from a visit at SC and I've just finished reading comments about the Kucinich Iraq platform agreement with the Democrat party.
ABB'rs are totally about Kerry now, no "questions" about it. They've regressed to the use and understanding of only 2 words : "Vote Kerry". I'm so pissed off at them right now, I could scream and I am.
There is now one less voice speaking for peace in America and I could cry also.
Pax Americana !
On edit: As a matter of fact, I think I'll just go now and let them know how I feel right now and post the same words
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Post by Parenti on Jul 20, 2004 16:09:23 GMT -5
I just read a post by that NaderNadir guy saying that Barbara Ehrenreich, Ralph Nader, and Michael Moore were responsible for the war on Iraq because he claimed that they helped to elect Bush. He is f**king stupid. I thought they kicked him off Smirking Chimp?
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