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In reply to the discussion: I just cracked the DU analysis code [View all]ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)Has steadily devolved over the course of years. I feel no obligation to carry that water myself.
I find that the reason it has is because reason is no longer respected. Emotion and outrage carry the day and that is all it has become. Most people who "find" this place now are here because they like that sort of thing. People who had something to offer left in disgust quite some time ago. Those who might be contributive know better than to stay long.
I am glad you put me in that group. It means that at least you've been paying attention. It's not all I know how to do, though.
You see, of those disgustipated people who have left I mentioned earlier, I am probably one of the last holdouts of that "old guard". Maybe I'm inertial. Maybe I lack self-respect. Despite myself, I keep thinking that the people on DU are good people who are worth the time and trouble to converse with. Every day I am here I am made to regret that thought because, well, it's like trying to have a deep conversation with Frankenstein. USA BAAAAAAD! EVERYONE ELSE GOOOOOOOD!
I'm not the binary thinker around here. I'm not the one suggesting that the person who disagrees is stupid. I'm not the one so grandly certain of my moral rectitude that I can't entertain the idea that I might be fucking wrong about something. No, I'll leave the moral superiority and intellectual certitude to the late arrivals and play with them like a cat playing with a mouse.
DU has been, since the election of Barack Obama, all about who you're siding with one day to the next. Watching everyone fall all over themselves to decry Obama, or laud Snowden and Greenwald, and I hear, these days that Scarlett Johannsen of all people has made the shit list, someone's making that the cause celebre. Tomorrow it will be someone else with something else which is supposed to jack us in to the truth and jack us up to a snarling outrage. That and $4.00 will get you a venti at Starbucks infused with a splash of donkey piss.
This is the low hanging fruit, the bargain basement, the swirling turdbowl of discourse, and you think I should take the time to raise it with thoughtful commentary?