What kinds of threads do you find too annoying to read?

I ignore threads that start with or contain....

absolutely NO GOOD to be so negative. Take that energy and f'n do something about it. Go door to door - get a feel for what real people are thinking - work for what you believe instead of picking your nose while reading RW shit.

.. since "All of the above" includes "Other". :shrug: :hi:

:evilgrin:
:puffpiece:
:hangover: :headbang: :beer: :shrug:

learn.

Hoping that the naysayers and crepe-hangers and freeper trolls (sometimes it's hard to tell which are which) will get the hint and realize that a lot of us are ignoring their doom and disaster crap.

and I'm going to start making more use of the "Hide Threads" and "Ignore" functions!

"All of the above" was very tempting. However, I do like keeping up to date on polls, even though I don't consider them definitive. "Kerry must do..." is a variant of the liberal buzzwords that drive me nuts. "Kerry has to take the fight to them," or "Kerry's lying down and taking it," or "The Kerry campaign is in disarray." Those have no more validity than "Kerry's a flip-flopper." They're the defeatists soundbites on our side, and I'm heartily sick of them.

What is so difficult about letting people express themselves? If they're defeatist, post in the thread and try to change their mind! If they're saying something you believe is wrong, post and express your opinion! If they're wrong about something, educate them! Just stop whining about them speaking out!

:thumbsup:

Jumping down someone's throat because they've expressed doubt is just wrong, in my opinion. I'm still going to volunteer for the Democratic Party and I'm still going to vote, but that doesn't mean I'm sure we're going to win.

Also, I'm tired of threads complaining about people who think "Kerry should" do something. If they have an idea, let them express it. You don't have to click on the thread.

It seems like a few people here on DU want to control the entire tone of the debate by making it a DU thought crime to express doubts. I'll tell you right now. I'm very doubtful. During the past few weeks the power of the GOP has become very apparent. We're fighting something that has more power than we do because we 1) don't have the money, 2) don't have the media, 3) don't have the organization. Am I going to give up? No. Am I going to be overly optimistic and jump down people's throats when they don't agree with my Pollyanna position. No.

I'm striving to be a realist.

I'm going to do what I can. I'm going to give what I can monetarily. And I'm going to go to the polls.

So there.

...I don't believe anything is "lost" yet, but the people who don't think that polls - real or fake- are a problem, or the slanderous media coverage, or James Thug Baker having control of the debates, then such people are either hopelessly naive, hopelessly blind, or else my suspicions about the DLC's motives in this election have been right all along (i.e. they have every intention of losing)

gave me a chance to vent. Thanks.

There's one type listed I read.

First, someone gets negative because they have run out of energy. The "put that energy into" suggestion is like suggesting someone run a car without gas very fast.

Second, as someone said, being too positive is unrealistic. One of my problems with Bush is that he is falsely optimistic.

Third, where else is a tired Dem to go to get encouragement to continue the good fight? I would have thought this was the place to come, but if someone posts about their depressed feelings, they get leaped on for being "negative," thereby driving them even further into depression. If you can't offer a little support to such a person, you might try taking all the fierce energy you use to flame them and instead put it to positive use for the campaign. It's better than making a bad situation for someone worse.

How things aren't good enough is defeatest.

there are at least 100 per day about new utterances from the media whores and loony wingers. If I gave a damn about any of those, I would watch or read them. I don't.

starting a thread to whine about people starting theads. bleeach...

1. "Shut up" posts

2. "Lead, follow or get out of the way"

3. "Trust the Kerry campaign; they have far more understanding of
the American people than you liberals/naysayers"

4. "Clark-baiting", "Dean-baiting" or "Freep-baiting" constructive criticism

5. "I don't understand everything you said but I agree... Ditto!"

6. "DU this poll" posts

7. "Analysis" of polls that have already been posted in other topics

8. "The media is the problem"

9. "DU Polls" that act as a sounding board for the poster's beliefs,
with no dissenting options available -- a form of sophistry not
dissimilar to the Bush way of thinking -- OK I realize it's all
in good fun...

10. Posters who somehow believe that the tenor of discussion on the DU,
and/or the amount of time DUers spend complaining about each others
posts will have any impact on the outcome of the election (it wont)

11. "SCREW this person in the news, he/she is a Bush operative" posts

12. "Screw all (issue voters)" posts

13. "I can't distinguish between the naysayers and the RW trolls"

14. The self-same obvious troll posts which the "anti-negativists" can't seem to distinguish
from legitimate dissent; or end up replying to, at any rate, to argue with the poster or "prove"
that he/she is a RW troll, during which time they could be out registering voters, so-to-speak.

Now... who's being more productive to the campaign? Who's wasting less
time they could be spending? Who's being more "negative"? I don't know.

Actually, I'm sorry for being a bit too negative in this post. But this sort of thing got my goat a long time ago. Sorry for taking it out on the original poster.

They annoy the living shit out of me. :grr:

but those chicken little posts need to go right into the BBQ.

Or--

If were the nominee, we wouldn't be having this trouble.

The posters sound like trolls.