I have mentioned Yabberz before, a commenting site and news discussion place I write on at times. It is hard to put energy into the site at times. It is not the disagreeing voices and discussions. It is not the snarky and thinly veiled insults and insinuations. It is the pollution plain and simple, the pollution of the kind of branding and "news" that the right deems worthy. It is their processes of attacking the messengers and diluting the message, bringing the value of any discussion to zero. Baseline mentalities that look for every reason to jerk their knees and "teach" everyone who disagrees. Bring you down to their levels and bash you with their well used dummy clubs.
I know a lot of people who are Republican and Conservative and they don't act like this in real life. They don't act like this in front of their Mother, why the hell do they do it on these pages? I have spent two and three hours writing something to be considered for discussion only to have it completely misunderstood. Reading comprehension issues, and just plain stupid reactions put up, memes that have nothing to do with the subject plastered across it like graffiti. Just because they think that that is the way you discuss something, antagonize, attack. It is as if their penchant for destroying something they don't understand and declaring war first runs all the way to their commenting styles. So the page that I like to post on is and has become littered with stories from the extreme right wing. Ugly, filled with lies, and just plain made up crap is tossed into a page with real thoughts real pieces, written by real people. Not simply cut and paste opinion pieces from the latest right wing rag, or derogatory and inflaming memes.
New people coming onto the site at times must see a litany of pieces that would make your head swim. It is mostly the right, some on the left, it is pollution of the page and a dilution of our effectiveness to get our voices out. It's like there is a concerted effort to shut out our pieces by cluttering the page with bullshit. Polluting the comments with the very thing the page was supposed to avoid, this kind of petty attacks that are allowed to happen. This polluting of the page that has been allowed. It is not the voices that disagree and say something completely against us. It is the hollow profiles and rabid vitriol that those who are there to 'teach" us would have it become. A soapbox for sure, but the line is now filled with names like God and something dot com. Pieces written by the person are getting rarer and rarer and most just want to put up a link to a story without considering they would then be asked to argue its points.
With all of that pollution it is hard at times to think of anything that you would want to write for those jackasses. Your friends are busy with their thoughts and pieces and the others just suck you IQ down by the sentence. Meh, I talk to myself all of the time. I don't need anybody else to validate my BS. I don't need that kind of constant pollution either.
I know a lot of people who are Republican and Conservative and they don't act like this in real life. They don't act like this in front of their Mother, why the hell do they do it on these pages? I have spent two and three hours writing something to be considered for discussion only to have it completely misunderstood. Reading comprehension issues, and just plain stupid reactions put up, memes that have nothing to do with the subject plastered across it like graffiti. Just because they think that that is the way you discuss something, antagonize, attack. It is as if their penchant for destroying something they don't understand and declaring war first runs all the way to their commenting styles. So the page that I like to post on is and has become littered with stories from the extreme right wing. Ugly, filled with lies, and just plain made up crap is tossed into a page with real thoughts real pieces, written by real people. Not simply cut and paste opinion pieces from the latest right wing rag, or derogatory and inflaming memes.
New people coming onto the site at times must see a litany of pieces that would make your head swim. It is mostly the right, some on the left, it is pollution of the page and a dilution of our effectiveness to get our voices out. It's like there is a concerted effort to shut out our pieces by cluttering the page with bullshit. Polluting the comments with the very thing the page was supposed to avoid, this kind of petty attacks that are allowed to happen. This polluting of the page that has been allowed. It is not the voices that disagree and say something completely against us. It is the hollow profiles and rabid vitriol that those who are there to 'teach" us would have it become. A soapbox for sure, but the line is now filled with names like God and something dot com. Pieces written by the person are getting rarer and rarer and most just want to put up a link to a story without considering they would then be asked to argue its points.
With all of that pollution it is hard at times to think of anything that you would want to write for those jackasses. Your friends are busy with their thoughts and pieces and the others just suck you IQ down by the sentence. Meh, I talk to myself all of the time. I don't need anybody else to validate my BS. I don't need that kind of constant pollution either.
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