Conservative Correctness

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Wednesday January 17, 2007 · 12:56 PM PST

2007/01/17 · 12:56

Firstly, let me say that unlike many of you I do believe there is a tradition of conservative ideology in this nation which is not inherently corrupt. It is, however, not in power, not very near power, and what we have instead called "conservativism" is a sham of dysfunctional and defensive taboos: Conservative Correctness. Some of the rules of conservative correctness:

(1) Never apologize, you're never wrong, if you were wrong, somehow you were still right because of things to the north, the south, a little to the west and also to the east a bit.

(2) Never admit what you really think about Jesus' bleeding heart liberal talking points

(3) DO NOT EVER suppose a problem cannot be solved by war, related to ...

(4) Never appear "weak"

(5) Moral strength is material weakness

(6) Never rely on human rights to make arguments

(7) We are fundamentally superior to (fill in the blank)

(8) We must all think the same thing, and since we don't, you shut up

(9) Never coddle, to exploit is fair play, but never coddle

(10) Never follow rules when defending a fellow group-member

(11) Demons require unethical treatment

(12) War is Strength

pyrrho

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Monday January 08, 2007 · 5:30 PM PST

2007/01/08 · 17:30

I have noticed that people will take a lot of criticisms sitting down up to the point you imply or outright say they are "bad people" for whatever the criticism entails. So let me not be subtle. I don't want to imply something unintentionally, so I'll be fully intentional about it.

Followers are bad people.

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Followers are...

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Followers are...

... bad

16 votes

... good

3 votes

... something negative but not

4 votes

... something non-negative but not

5 votes

... neutral

8 votes

Leadership Sucks

pyrrho

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Monday January 01, 2007 · 10:12 PM PST

2007/01/01 · 22:12

Humans the world over seek out leaders, they cry, "where are our leaders?" and "I wish we had the type of leaders we had back then". They rejoice every time some new game generates "winners" who, gasp, might just possibly be the promised savior(s) foretold by pessimistic romantics and former slave owners which requires a miracle of benevolence of some other "good master", in order to be free, instead of personal conviction by which human says "I shall be free."

Not me.

I'm sick of leaders. I think mankind is going to die off unless individuals learn to lead themselves. A lead human follower is a waste, our physical gift, so to speak, is not wings or a projectile tongue (exceptions, you know who you are), it is our brains, and every human will learn to use this brain eventually, and use it specifically to lead themselves.

pyrrho

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Sunday December 31, 2006 · 2:42 PM PST

2006/12/31 · 14:42

I don't have time to screw with this old thread and why bother. I want to answer BTD in this:

So, in sum, it seems to me that the COMMUNITY has forgotten about these two uncrossable lines.

(1) Daily Kos demanded the FACTS.

(2) Daily Kos demanded respect for the character and integrity of community members UNLESS they had proven themselves to lack in these areas.

What happened?

What happened was that dkos became just a place to elect democrats, and facts contrary to that were not appreciated as much. The pushes for higher standards because "high standards in how it makes us look to hold that issue" which is contrary to "reality based".

pyrrho

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Saturday December 23, 2006 · 7:35 PM PST

2006/12/23 · 19:35

The "vlog" is at MLW where it can be embedded.

I hate the framing of the term "electability"... for one, "electable" candidates don't actually win, I find that a problem.

In summary I think that electability is an despicable smear used by conservatives Democrats to criticize much more inspiring idealists and progressives.

I created a video log to that affect a day or so ago and I wanted to share it.

pyrrho

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Monday December 18, 2006 · 7:07 PM PST

2006/12/18 · 19:07

I think I may have missed some cultural evolution at Dkos. I see teacherken in his latest diary talks about "letting" folks adjust the tags on his diary. I have been asked if changing a tag was "ok" in my diaries.

What are the collective standards about tagging? The whole point of tagging is that users do it... I myself do not worry about putting a complete or accurate set of tags, others are SUPPOSED to add those. They are supposed to even know the "proper" tag, so if I put "Mountains" someone can put "Molehills" because I may not know the use of a tag that has developed out of the collective unconscious.

Did tag abuse lead to a community standard I don't know about? It is unfortunate because the whole idea of tagging is that it's community driven, otherwise, it's just a top down keyword sorting scheme.

btw: monkeybiz suggests I link to the Approved Tags List in the wonderful dkosopedia, which seems reasonable.

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Video Web Logs (vlogs)

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Video Web Logs (vlogs)

good

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bad

4 votes

heavenly

2 votes

evil

2 votes

indifferent

7 votes

we didn't have visuals when I was a kid

13 votes

other

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Everyone Hurry Up And Stay Yourself

pyrrho

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Wednesday December 13, 2006 · 5:09 PM PST

2006/12/13 · 17:09

Free speech. Every forum should embrace free speech if they seek to create powerful ideas.

I would never claim we should have free speech at daily kos because we are legally bound to. Not at all, it is not legally bound. I think that free speech is valuable in itself. I would hope all liberals felt that way. The legal requirement for free speech is to require the dogmatists and conservatives to allow it... liberals allow it naturally.

When there is free speech two heads are better than one, but when there is not free speech, two heads are stupider than one. Free speech makes the group collaboration process healthy and creative instead of dysfunctional and repressed.

(Metadkos VLOG at YouTube: in which I address Hunter's claim I'm a petty anarchist egotistical dumbfuck.)

pyrrho

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Monday December 11, 2006 · 5:11 PM PST

2006/12/11 · 17:11

-(Podcast Link)-

Recenly "liberal american" likened RubDMC's Iraq War Grief Daily Witness to "Goya of Iraq".

I like to think of these diaries as MLW's own but of course RubDMC's Daily Witness diaries started on DailyKos. They are numbered sequentially, now up to 364 as of this writing in the MLW version, and at DailyKos it's 582. They are subtle and powerful, respectful, not unlike a silent vigil.

pyrrho

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Friday December 08, 2006 · 3:01 PM PST

2006/12/08 · 15:01

If we free the slaves, where will we get cotton? Without cotton, how will our children wear cotton coats? Without coats, our children will freeze. You abolitionists want nothing more than to freeze our children.

Or we can just get the cotton some other way.

It is the same with World Peace. Those that can't see it, those that laugh at the very idea, scoff and mock the idea... what have they to hide? What benefits do they know but leave unsaid, in perpetual war among man's kind?

Many still laugh at the idea of world peace, at those victims that plead "can't we just get along", at those dreamers that believe peace on earth can happen.

pyrrho

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Monday December 04, 2006 · 5:59 PM PST

2006/12/04 · 17:59

I thought very carefuly before using profanity in my diary title...

This kind of shit bothers me, because I'm a rugged individualist liberal, I have a problem with group identifiers, and the problem is the way the group is then controlled and characterized by such an identifier. Don't know what I mean? That's ok, you don't have to... suffice it to say I'm confused by what the "netroots" is supposed to be, what the word is supposed to mean.

Who is the netroots? The netroots may not be democratic. Take the ActBlue "Netroots" page, where the "netroots candidates" were listed for easy funding purposes --- while I'm a part of the netroots (unless I'm not) I had no say in who was on those pages. Evidently Kos and Bowers have gotten some feedback on that anomoly and felt it should be rectified somehow and so from now on they will choose the "ActBlue Netroots" candidates democratically on the blogs! Just kiddin', they changed the name to "BlueMajority" instead.

But some of what Jerome Armstrong said recently confuzified me back again.

quoted below:

pyrrho

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Sunday December 03, 2006 · 2:51 AM PST

2006/12/03 · 02:51

The special thing about blogging is that it is citizen to citizen communication. While it is sort of nice when we discover a new talent like DarkSyde, someone with the skills to be a professional journalist in his field of interest... the fact is, the sum total goodness of blogging is in the fact that EVERYONE that is blogging is taking part. It is, of course, FAR from every citizen, and personally, I don't think it's fair to call the sample representative of the whole of the citizens... and still, the citizens that are present speak for themselves. And that is good.

Nothing epitomizes this right more than the right to blog drunk. As surely as there is the right to blog, there is the right to blog drunk. Links can go whereever you like, your favorite politicians can be whomever makes sense for you personally, or not. You can be drunk, period.

pyrrho

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 1:37 PM PST

2006/12/01 · 13:37

What if you couldn't make as much money as there is in the universe, stick it in your ears and pursue your life long dream ("I'd like to order 100 cases of spikes please..."). What a grim grim world that would be. Forever stuck with a limited amount of income, and while you might prove yourself better than other more well endowed men, you could never prove yourselves better than the other man who had reached what you yourselves had reached: Maximum Net Worth. You'd have to use something other than unlimited riches to prove that, if you must.

The idea of a maximum net worth is pure poison to the American mind, but I can speak to it as a rugged individualist. That's right, I'm one of those individualist progressives, the one that accepts that if you can't make an argument that public works are in someones personal best interest, you can't convince them at all. I have such an argument but that's beside the point, the point is I understand why people would say as rugged individuals, "I should be able to shove as much money in my ears as I wants, even if more won't fit".

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Maximum Net Worth

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Maximum Net Worth

sure!

19 votes

no way!

6 votes

you bastard! stop saying that!

4 votes

other

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Everyone Hurry Up And Stay Yourself

MLW Podcast: RubDMC with Pyrrho

Non Radical Ideas: World Peace

What's a Fucking "Netroot"?

What's Special About Blogging

Non Radical Ideas: Maximum Net Worth