American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig November’s midterm elections, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
If you didn’t experience Boing Boing’s descent in ridiculously cartoonish hyper-partisan more-leftist-than-thou purity testing and virtual struggle sessions/Oppression Olympics before they took the comments behind a paywall (! lol. rotflmao, even), it was really quite something. I’m sure that kind of thing has been repeated elsewhere, but this was quite public.
You can still see the old comments, by the way. I would try to find some older thread that perfectly demonstrates this absurd “leftist” circle jerk/circular firing squad, but since they tended to excise anything that made them look stupid (quite easy by the way), one would have to a lot of reading between the lines about what happened after their Stalin squad got done with things.
At least here, there is not an insane cadre of mods and prominent commenters running the place like a Mean Girls spinoff…here, I tend to block the moronic people that want to play the terminally online communist armchair theorists. I went to college; I had my fill of their utopian boring bullshit back then and don’t need lectures from them on how to do leftism properly now, either.
If you didn’t experience Boing Boing’s descent in ridiculously cartoonish hyper-partisan more-leftist-than-thou purity testing and virtual struggle sessions/Oppression Olympics before they took the comments behind a paywall (! lol. rotflmao, even), it was really quite something. I’m sure that kind of thing has been repeated elsewhere, but this was quite public.
You can still see the old comments, by the way. I would try to find some older thread that perfectly demonstrates this absurd “leftist” circle jerk/circular firing squad, but since they tended to excise anything that made them look stupid (quite easy by the way), one would have to a lot of reading between the lines about what happened after their Stalin squad got done with things.
At least here, there is not an insane cadre of mods and prominent commenters running the place like a Mean Girls spinoff…here, I tend to block the moronic people that want to play the terminally online communist armchair theorists. I went to college; I had my fill of their utopian boring bullshit back then and don’t need lectures from them on how to do leftism properly now, either.