You ruined Daily Kos.
Yeah, you! You ruined the site I love. You know who I'm talking about!
No... not you... you're okay; I'm talking about that other person. We all know who.
You all know who I'm talking about though — that one longtime and highly respected Kossack who has just lost all their respectability now that they've gone over the deep end as a supporter of the 'wrong' candidate. They used to be my favorite member of the community, but now they can't even be civil to me when I drop in to one of their diaries to let them know over and over that they're wrong. (I can't find it right now, but I swear I've rec'd all of their diaries/stories and comments in the past. Really... You don't need to look... Take my word for it. I think DK5 ate all of the great back-and-forths we used to have, so you can just take my word for it.)
It's as if every single thing they write is purposefully designed to piss me off — me, and of course all of you fellow followers of the Light Side of the Force. I can just feel the sarcasm written in every "good luck" and "we are all on the same side." They just live for getting under our collective skin.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I think this person may be working with some large group of outside infiltrators, as well. I mean, there's absolutely no effing way that on a site that exists to elect more and better Democrats that people with differing views of who those “more” or "better" candidates might be could possibly be all coming to the same conclusion. That is, when it's different than the one that we've come to.
And I've noticed that they're getting their diaries posted in the Recent Diaries list ALL. THE. TIME. Some even make the Rec List. The freaking Rec List!! Yet my diaries are getting 50 or 60 recommends and falling off the list. That's how much power they have. (No, no... It's purely coincidence that some of the stories on the list right now and that I rec'd are for our candidate. That never happens. Well, almost never when I'm on and I notice, anyway.)
I know. Some of you who are good-faith supporters of the opposition will try to tell me that whoever we elect will be better than a Republican, and that our elected president will be bound by the realities of having to pass legislation through Congress.
Nonsense, I say.
That only applies to your side, because your candidate doesn't know how to harness the power of the American people or to get Congress to work together.
And don't even get me started about how they post diaries, links, and comments that have a different view than mine. We are the enlightened ones, and anyone who disagrees is part of the problem.
I've even tried pointing out that they're ruining the site! I follow them from diary to diary, repeating arguments from earlier diaries just to make sure they understand, since they obviously didn't get it the first time. (I mean duh, otherwise they'd stop with their backwards thinking or just go find somewhere where everyone agreed with them!) I've even made sure to follow all the people who agree with them and post in their diaries, too. I figure maybe they will get the message through for me if I keep posting the same thing in all of the different diaries.
Oh, and I make sure to hide/flag any comment I disagree with. No, it isn't because I disagree with it! That would be rating abuse! No, I clearly only hide the comments because only a paid shill, propagandist, or zombie/sock puppet/staff member could possibly write something so blatantly against what we know to be true.
Besides that one longtime and highly respected Kossack, that is.
If they do much more to ruin this place by allowing such behavior, I think it will be a personally directed message that we aren't wanted here. (Perhaps a message from management even, maybe.) It just won't be the same place anymore. I guess we will just have to spend the next four years and tens of thousands of comments each discussing just how much they've ruined it and how it isn't a place for us anymore.
So stop ruining Daily Kos for all the rest of us.
Yeah, you... You know who you are.