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In reply to the discussion: Serious question: We have an excellent rule about not bashing Democratic [View all]jfz9580m
(17,111 posts)Though part of that is the power of suggestion.
I can guess the thought process. I notice it casually when I try to decide who to be polite about.
I am not American and I was legitimately totally scrambled about a bunch and DU has helped me.
So I would hate to add to EarlGs troubles. I feel it is a bit unfair that any contribution I try to make to society seems like a liability risk. And it is really more generically pro American/pro Earth/pro human than explicitly pro Democratic. It is just-hey dont shoot the messenger litigious billionaire types-that GOP candidates are always way more unviable. That is Colberts realitys liberal bias, but just scratches the surface. But not being American, i worry about frivolous lawsuits.
It is really lousy that one can never rven support the correct people or things without that setting off other unintended consequences. It would be very uncool to attack EarlG over deranged posters who post drivel. Thats the engine of economy of the net- deranged drivel thar is! Thats us! All of our horrible thoughts and dreams and drivel.
I am sort of torn in my posts (as I am in an extra annoying position) between board TOS and my experience by now of how these guys wield lawsuits in actuality.
They make women out to be frivolous complainants or out to be confabulators or gullible etc.
And eventually one can no longer just ignore things and hope they go away and annoy just about anyone else, since the legal implications of that are as troubling as a futile, nuisance protest that angered and confused a lot of already angry and confused people and went nowhere.
Goddamn megalomaniacs and their stupid tacky computers and sad lame social and personal use tech for endless navel gazing by douches who mandate that as a bot or not test. Really smooth.
I feel like an imposter to the extent that now apparently one must be all ingenue or equally improbably and atrociously sensible when mostly I just avoided these people. They seem to have no goal or plan that is not built on a foundation of bullshit. How can that possibly work? And it is shamefully cruel to everyone else who is truly more a hapless human (or by now in my case, one with an adequate headsup) than a participant or player.