Caltrops - Biohazard: Code Veronica





	[quote name="Senor Barborito Metafilter Post"]I have to agree with dios, here. I scan the headlines of both dailykos and littlegreenfootballs to keep tabs on what the extremists are thinking, and every time something catches my eye I go to look at the comments and the detachment from reality on both sides is breathtaking. LGF is like a ceaseless lynchmob screaming that all Muslims are animals and all dissenters are traitors. DK is a discussion circle of people so desperate for any ray of hope that they've gone delusional - as if wanting something badly enough will make it happen. I've had the opportunity to chat on IRC with both ParisParamus and amberglow and I've seen lesser, borderline symptoms of this in both of them despite the fact that they are in every other respect extremely likeable. With Paris it's many little statements that add up together to paint a portrait of an unfounded ideology, whereas with amberglow there's one event that sticks out in my mind - an hour after John Kerry* had clearly lost the election amberglow was virtually chanting in #mefi that we could still win. dios trolls, make no mistake, but when he isn't trolling he's right a surprising amount of the time precisely because he isn't completely gone over to LGF in exactly the same way so many left-wing people here aren't completely gone over to DK. Relativism in this vein does have to stop at some point because there is - even factoring in for my personal bias - staggeringly more intellectual dishonesty and acceptance of clearly manufactured 'truth' on the right than the left these days. I'm no longer quite sure where I'm going with this other than to say that any links or information coming from either LGF or DK need to be heavily prescreened by those posting it for legitimacy and most importantly secondary sources. Newsfilter on Mefi is still one of the best sources on non-mainstream political insight out there, but the last thing it needs is to become even more hit-and-miss. *As an aside, I met John Kerry a few weeks ago at the Old Salt Tavern in NH and he wished my wife a happy birthday. If only he had been half as personable ON camera as he was off it . . . posted by Ryvar at 5:07 PM PST on March 2 [/quote]