I hate it when Democrats cave almost before the first shot has been fired Oops, wrong set of pet peeves. I had intended to stick to more neutral, lighter complaints, because Flying Spaghetti Monster knows, we could use a break from all this gloom and recrimination.
How about these:
+ I can’t stand it when I’ve just about finished drafting a diary, and my hand slips and suddenly my masterpiece has disappeared forever, and when I try to recreate it I end up with a pale imitation of the original with none of the spark and power (that must have been what happened to nearly every one of my diaries).
+ It’s so frustrating when the site rejects every attempt to recommend a comment until I finally give up trying to get my own Senator to show some spine. Oopsy!
+ It really burns my ass when the Democrats are afraid of their own shadows Damn, there I go again. Keep focus, man, try again: It’s obnoxious when someone replies to my comment, obviously agreeing with me, but doesn’t rec my comment. Recs aren’t rationed like donuts, you know. Ah, much better.
+ You ever had a great comment mid-thread, and later some attention whore goes and says the same thing (but not nearly as well) in a reply to the tip jar, just for position? Good, I’m on a roll.
+ How about those diaries where no commenter recs or replies to any other commenter, and the comments just sit there like middle school boys at their first school dance not wanting to talk to anyone?
+ And those times when you construct this fantastic comment, and when you click Post you find that someone else said the same thing 27 seconds ago? How dare they!
+ Then there is that Democratic leadership that refused to listen to what we had to say html code that works everywhere except on the comment you’re drafting. Crap. Again.
+ Sometimes I get lost in a deeply nested set of comments, and don’t know who is replying to whom or when Waxman will finally say enough is enough, you’re in contempt for not complying with the subpoena.
+ Doesn’t it seem that a brand-name user can write shit and people say it smells like roses, while an unknown needs diary rescue in order for the politicians to start realizing that Broder is really making all this shit up and the electorate does not actually think that way?
+ Hey, there’s always yesterday’s high-drama diary that everyone on the site seems to have read but you, and it’s become part of the lore of the Daily Kos, and don’t even bother trying to argue that Fox can bloviate all they want and it won’t hurt the Dems one bit. Aargh! I can’t control it!
+ And every candidate seems to disappoint in the end, and if you don’t have big bucks or are a swing voter don’t bother trying to get their attention, and damn it, why do some Democrats have to be corrupt too, and can’t they stop repeating and internalizing the Republican talking points, and what’s the deal with this secret free trade shit, and, and,
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