Comments on: I must really rank

I must really rank

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:54:32 -0800

Outright censorship?

I was super-censored by Jessamyn. You won't even find this on Deleted threads with GreaseMonkey. http://www.metafilter.com/75263/Documented-History-of-the-Bubble All the supporting docs are in the second link and Jessamyn super-deletes it because it's "kind of sketch"? Smacks of censorship. I didn't think she rolled that way. Raf

By: Jofus

Jofus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:58:48 -0800

No, that was just a kind of crappy post to something that had already been deleted once. The only thing it smacks of is crappy post.

And as for how Jessamyn rolls, we don't generally indulge is specualtion of geometrical alignment.

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:58:54 -0800

Oh, fuck off.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:58:54 -0800

You can't find it because it's newer than any of the current undeleted posts, which do their magic by starting at the highest visible index on the page. This is a known issue with those scripts. There is no such thing as a "super-deletion". For fuck's sake.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:59:27 -0800

Or "in speculation", for that matter.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:13 -0800

Silly cortex, whoever wrote that greasemonkey script is part of the conspiracy!

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:50 -0800

Oh, she rolls that way. By day she's a mild-mannered librarian and Admin for Metafilter. By night she becomes, Super Censorer!

Or maybe the Greasemonkey script works by finding gaps in the numerical sequence of threads and, since thread # 75264 hasn't been posted yet, it hasn't yet found that gap.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:03:03 -0800

She superdeleted it so hard that even Greasemonkey has been deleted from the internet! And this comment is starting to fade in the prev....

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:03:39 -0800

There is no such thing as super-deletion as much as we might wish otherwise. MeFi has general standards for front page posts and yours linked to something deleted once already. It was finally pulled because the media disappeared but we'd been having a behind the scenes debate about the video anyhow because it's borderline conspiracy theory racist if I recall correctly. The original discussion wasn't that great and we saw no reason to think any more would go better.

If you want to post borderline edgy stuff to MetaFilter -- which is your right, really -- it might be a good idea if you also learned a little bit about how the site works and what you can maybe expect from the site. This link might have been decent in one of the bailout threads already in progress but was not great as a FPP.

That is how I roll.

By: ibmcginty

ibmcginty — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:04:17 -0800

It was deleted because we all know that financial crises are caused by the Jews, not the blacks.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:05:50 -0800

Someone deleted my pants! Cortex, I'm looking at you.

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:07:25 -0800

There is no such thing as super-deletion as much as we might wish otherwise. MeFi has general standards for front page posts and yours linked to something deleted once already.

If you check, matthowie deleted because the video was down. Now you deleted it because the video is up, or because links to the source info were also included?

Can you expand on your "kind of sketch" reasoning?

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:07:55 -0800

Silenced all my life!

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:11:33 -0800

I ~~must~~ am really rank.

FTFY

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:17:11 -0800

Super-censor me!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:18:12 -0800

Can you expand on your "kind of sketch" reasoning?

I can. It's because you are obviously not very bright.

By: graventy

graventy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:19:14 -0800

Man, I need to post more. I never get the chance to feel defensive when my baby gets deleted because it sucks.

WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE INFRINGE UPON MY META-RIGHTS?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:19:32 -0800

...so Jessamyn walks up to this guy in the street and says, "Hey, there, how 'bout some super censorship!" He thinks about it for a minute and says, "Eh... I'll have the soup."

By: kisch mokusch

kisch mokusch — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:23:02 -0800

If you re-work the video personally: Make it shorter, not biased in the extreme, include the missing factors that contributed to the problem, drop all the "Obama got his wish" bullshit, remove the godawful soundtrack and then host it on Projects, somebody (not you) might include it in a bigger, well-balanced FPP about the issue a couple of months from now.

By: grateful

grateful — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:23:51 -0800

Super Censor

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:26:08 -0800

Man, you are so wrong, raf. Grease Monkey would totally kick Super Deleter's ass one-on-one.

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:26:37 -0800

It was definitely a superdelete. She even reset my VCR.

12:00

By: The Straightener

The Straightener — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:29:36 -0800

When SUPERCENSORSHIP arrives you won't even know about it because Jessamyn will be in your brain deleting the thought before it happens.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:32:01 -0800

If you check, matthowie deleted because the video was down. Now you deleted it because the video is up, or because links to the source info were also included?

The post so nice, they deleted it twice.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:34:26 -0800

Everybody needs a cab driver story.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:34:29 -0800

Can you expand on your "kind of sketch" reasoning?

It's a weird slanted ten minute attempt at a viral political video to encourage people to vote for McCain by presenting a bizarre retelling of events that support that conclusion. Along the way it manages to push the "illegal immigrants took our jobs" button and stops just short of "jews did it" allegations.

The story it tells is not credible [I'm not disputing "facts" only the way theyre asembled to present this one narrative which I think is actually sort of crazy] and we're already discussing the mortgage crisis and the bailout in better ways elsewhere on the site. We remove it the way we'd remove a 911 conspiracy thread.

By: briank

briank — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:34:35 -0800

All I remember is a man in a plain black suit and sunglasses asking me to look at his camera and the flash going off. Next thing I knew, it was about a minute ago.

By: mandal

mandal — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:35:07 -0800

It was rather a super deletion.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:42:24 -0800

Super censer

By: Jofus

Jofus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:46:53 -0800

Super Censer!

(As Billy Connoly said, "I don't want to worry anyone, but that man's handbag's on fire.")

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:49:05 -0800

We remove it the way we'd remove a 911 conspiracy thread.

Which is to say, "at the bidding of our Illuminati puppetmasters, long may they rule from darkness, ia! Ia! Google Ron Paul!"

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:52:08 -0800

Oh crap. Then Cortex has to go blow the party for everyone.

(Takes off mask, reveals hideous fish-man countenance, begins gibbering, returns to ocean.)

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:53:35 -0800

It's a weird slanted ten minute attempt at a viral political video to encourage people to vote for McCain

And how quickly would a similar post be deleted if the dog-crap was on the other shoe? Never, perhaps?

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:56:58 -0800

Oh, sheesh.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:57:20 -0800

When our right to post any old weak shite we fancy to a web forum of our choosing is curtailed even in the slightest we have truly arrived at Orwell's dystopian vision. But when you tell people this, they can only point and laugh.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:59:19 -0800

Pro-Obama posts are never deleted!

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:02:05 -0800

Jofus, I am sorry, but my censer is more super than yours.

I mean, come on. They had to hang it from a rope attached to the ceiling because it's so big. Incensational!

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:02:44 -0800

I'm not disputing "facts" only the way theyre asembled to present this one narrative which I think is actually sort of crazy

Facts - Good
Conclusions - Bad?

How would you assemble the facts?
BTW, why do you feel compelled to put quotes around the word facts? Tell the "truth".

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:03:10 -0800

"no"

By: box

box — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:03:17 -0800

I'd like somebody to super-censor all this talk about rolling. Rickroll, how I roll, Rollo candies, Rollie Fingers, I can't stand any of it.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:06:03 -0800

This is not a good way to begin the New Year.

By: box

box — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:06:18 -0800

Also, if you rearrange the letters in 'Rafaelloello' it spells 'Roll a loaf eel.'

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:06:59 -0800

And how quickly would a similar post be deleted if the dog-crap was on the other shoe? Never, perhaps?

We'd delete it the same way. Really I understand that you're arguing that we removed this post, or that *I* removed this post because it takes an unfavorable look at who you think I'm likely to vote for. I'm not sure how I can convince you otherwise, in fact I don't think I can convince you otherwise.

There is a certain extent to which the flag queue does represent the general gestalt politics of the site as a whole, but we also make our own judgments as moderators. While you're welcome to do your bit to balance out the political leanings of this site, I suggest you do it with content that is a little less crazy-seeming and make your callouts a little better informed and/or a little less aggressive.

We'd like to have a plurality of opinions, political and otherwise, on MeFi and I think all of us believe one thing is true about that video: both parties have made mistakes. Posts that just slag McCain in the same hamfisted OMG way don't last any longer than ones that slam Obama and generally speaking political posts should be something more than a "vote my guy/gal!" shill piece which the end of this video clearly shows it to be.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:08:27 -0800

ANCHOR THE SENSOR SHIP

FREE RAFAELLOELLO

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:10:03 -0800

I'm voting the way I always do. A straight Irish ticket.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:11:35 -0800

Quick, can someone please post a craptastic pro-Obama video so jessamyn can delete it and prove her bona fides?

By: DU

DU — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:14:48 -0800

Her super censor already knocked all craptastic videos, pro- or anti-Obama, completely off the face of the universe.

It seems like you wouldn't want to mess with the Super Censor. I applaud Roffledoffle's courage.

By: Combustible Edison Lighthouse

Combustible Edison Lighthouse — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:15:15 -0800

Keep grinding that axe.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:15:53 -0800

I'm voting the way I always do. A straight Irish ticket.

O'Bama's straight and Irish, isn't he?

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:20 -0800

smackfu: "Silly cortex, whoever wrote that greasemonkey script is part of the conspiracy!"

I work my ass off to become part of the Jewish pro-Jihad anti-anti-disestablishment elitist Illuminati, and I'm just a "whoever"?! That's it, I quit. You can take back your commemorative mug and embossed membership cards!

And your logo is ugly!

By: box

box — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:18:13 -0800

Here's a craptastic pro-McCain video.

By: box

box — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:19:34 -0800

Here's a craptastic pro-Obama video.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:20:29 -0800

So it's gonna be the double veep switcharoo. McCain dumps Palin and Joe Biden steps aside for Hillary. I know it's true because I saw it on TV the internet.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:20:38 -0800

Rafaelloello: Facts - Good... Conclusions - Bad? ... How would you assemble the facts? BTW, why do you feel compelled to put quotes around the word facts? Tell the "truth".

"Facts" deserves quotations when true details about a situation are adduced to imply a false idea of the whole. It is a fact that Hollywood in the '50's and '60's included many Jewish people who were producers and directors. If someone came to me and claimed that "the Jews ran Hollywood," I might tell them that, despite the "facts," I have a dispute with their claim. I'd put "facts" in quotations there because he and I might have a disagreement about where those facts start and his lip-flapping foolishness began; I'd want to make sure that I'd indicated to him that I didn't take at face value certain silly notions that he seemed to have accepted from the situation. "Facts" have interpretations. Sometimes people interpret them in a silly way. That's what the video did.

If you believe that jessamyn is a partisan hack, you probably haven't been around here very long. (Do you have any idea how many 'PALIN IZ DUMM' threads that the mods have had to delete over the last few weeks? And they do, believe me.) That, or you're one of those obnoxious partisan people (they exist on the left and the right) who believes that anyone who disagrees with them must be working for the enemy.

In which case there's really no hope for you, my friend.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:24:06 -0800

box: Also, if you rearrange the letters in 'Rafaelloello' it spells 'Roll a loaf eel.'

Real loo, fella.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:25:37 -0800

Tell the "truth".

I like the way this guy thinks. Can we offer him a trial membership in the Illuminati? If it doesn't work out we'll just wipe his memory and dump him Kazakhstan like we did the others.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:25:47 -0800

'Superdeletion' has excellent anagrams.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:27:02 -0800

Er, dump him in Kazakhstan. I get all excited when I think about Illuminati recruiting.

By: quin

quin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:28:00 -0800

And how quickly would a similar post be deleted if the dog-crap was on the other shoe?

I'm confused. What's the dog crap now? The post? McCain? The way this is headed, I think someone needs to threaten to cut their hand off before anyone will take this issue seriously.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:29:10 -0800

Apply for your trial membership here!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:31:24 -0800

Do you ever start to write something on metafilter, and then for whatever reason, just stop and erase it? Maybe close the page, go do something else? Sure, the world won't get to benefit from your brilliant comment, super funny joke, or most awesome post. But it will still roll just the same.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:31:33 -0800

What's the dog crap now?

"This is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle," Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., said of the package. "I'm not going to eat that cow patty."

By: scottreynen

scottreynen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:34:06 -0800

She turned me into a newt.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:35:19 -0800

I work my ass off to become part of the Jewish pro-Jihad anti-anti-disestablishment elitist Illuminati, and I'm just a "whoever"?!

Dude, you're doing great. Just another USD17,000 and three more confirmed kills and you'll get upgraded to "whomsoever" status.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:37:11 -0800

I think we've definitively proved that the Super Censoring wasn't jessamyn's fault. It was Clinton's. Here, watch this video.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:39:19 -0800

No. You're not only not going to do that viral astroturfing shit here, I forbid you from doing it anywhere. This is now the seventh time (I've been keeping track) that I've heard the republican spin that the housing crisis is caused by Hispanics/black/minorities/poor. A memo must have gone out the night Paulson proposed the plan because jowly white douchebags from all over are all simultaneously on board with the same talking points.

Let me be perfectly clear. It is true that there exists a non-zero probability that risky loans to lower-income people, who by virtue of demographics happen to be disproportionately members of an ethnic minority, may be responsible for a single digit integer percentage of the housing bubble. This is true in the way that a butterfly flapping it's wings in China may have contributed to hurricane Katrina. But the inference that this video intends the viewer to draw is that minorities are a major contributing cause for the whole crisis, which is not true. Of course, if you tell them this, they give a clever smile and say "But I didn't say that!" Oh, you're too shrewd for me! I guess I'll just have to counter your cleaver argument by opening your throat with a K-bar.

The video and these talking points are tailored to capitalize on an pre-existing prejudice, the same prejudice that makes people imagine black people when they think of people on welfare, even though more white people are on welfare. In their twisted worldview, the thesis that minorites defaulted on their debts makes too much sense to fact check.

So I'm going to engage in a little prejudice of my own. But mine is supported by data.

The majority of the cause of the bubble lies with incompetent morons who missed out on the dotcom riches, have no marketable skills to speak of, and yet want to get theirs. They watch "Flip This House" and took interest-only mortgages on "investment" properties so they could finance their McMansion with the high end GE Monogram Appliances on a combined income of $78,000.

These people are fat, indolent, greedy, petty, parochial suburbanites who watch too much television and never read a book, who are now voting for Sarah Palin and Macho Man Randy McCain because he's a war hero/christian/hockey mom/not-a-black-guy.

"I'm a Maverick." Fuckin-a right, man. You dumped your bedridden first wife for fabulously rich heiress to finance becoming the senator of a state almost half of which is owned by the federal government after which you led an unremarkable career. That sounds exactly like Daniel Webster or Henry Clay. Yeah man, you're a Maverick. Next time you see Goose and Iceman in the locker room, given them a nod and tell them, "Nice pecs."

I'm supposed to believe the banking system of the United States was brought to its knees by low-income minorities who had the temerity to pursue the dream of owning their home. All those hot shot MBAs and Ivy League lawyers were no match for those wily housekeepers and gardners.

If you could put a number on it, just exactly how stupid do you think we are? Two banks failed in Belgium this week, shithead, and it's only Tuesday. Did the dirty Mexicans do that too?

I'm sure it had nothing to do with the house flipping, the thousands of real estate investment books and seminars that were sold to suburban meat bags, or the greed and consumption culture that dominated America in the 2000s. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the toxic psychology that has these same people bitching about gas prices and how much they spent to fill up their SUV. If you drove an SUV when gas was $4.00 and you complained even once about gas prices, you should be stripped down, chopped up, and sold for parts.

The next time I see some beady-eyed pig of a pundit bring up lending to minorities as the underlying cause of this, I'm severing ears and making a fucking necklace. This is a transparent attempt to back into the campaign fears of A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE by framing the issue in the context of the current crisis.

You know this video is viral spin bullshit. I hope you got paid to post it here, because otherwise you either think we are stupid or the people who made the video think you're stupid and will believe it and pass it around. Guess which one I think it is.

By: cashman

cashman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:40:27 -0800

She turned me into a newt.

Hey, at least you get to scream and crawl through tunnels. And that "They're DEAD alright!? Can I go now?" line is killer.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:44:15 -0800

Is this a bad time to request once again that we have bozo-filtering added to Metafilter?

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:46:04 -0800

If you could put a number on it, just exactly how stupid do you think we are?

4

In fairness, that's my first guess on all math problems.

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:47:50 -0800

Obama lied, markets died.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:51:48 -0800

DOUBLE MY BUBBLE!

By: Combustible Edison Lighthouse

Combustible Edison Lighthouse — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:51:51 -0800

I'm supposed to believe the banking system of the United States was brought to its knees by low-income minorities who had the temerity to pursue the dream of owning their home. All those hot shot MBAs and Ivy League lawyers were no match for those wily housekeepers and gardners.

Low-Income Borrowers Blamed in Bailout Crisis

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:53:11 -0800

I'd like to take this opportunity to confess that, as a lesbian and a member of at least two ethnic minorities (there might be some Jewish way back there in the Old Country, but none of the relatives on that side of the family will talk about it), I am solely responsible for the current financial crisis.

Sorry about that. No hard feelings, right?

(Also, I hope that the next time jessamyn comes to San Francisco, she censors me but good. I'll buy you a beer if you do!)

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:54:46 -0800

Hehe. Was that a pass?

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:55:13 -0800

Obama lied, markets died.

Slogans chanted, failure granted.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:55:33 -0800

David Icke's Reptiliods super-deleted my cat!
Well, I'm assuming that eighteen wheeler was driven by Reptiliods.

You won't even find this on Deleted threads with GreaseMonkey.

Filthy histrionic-prone liar, or just filthy histrionic-prone ignoramus?

Upon preview, it appears to be the latter, but the day is still young.

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:00:14 -0800

How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable

"One of the most frequently asked questions about the subprime market meltdown and housing crisis is: How did the government get so deeply involved in the housing market?

The answer is: President Clinton wanted it that way."

By: Bernt Pancreas

Bernt Pancreas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:02:20 -0800

I rolled gingerly out of bed and donned my welding goggles. After my eyes adjusted, I fitted my paraffin earplugs, tongue protector, and clothespin for my nose. It's a little hard to do all this with 7 pairs of gloves and 2 sets of mittens, but it's the price I have to pay for being born a Supersenser.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:02:39 -0800

Obama lied, markets died.
posted by RafaelloelloPoster at 11:47 AM on September 30

... really? I can't tell if you think this because he's a black liberal and you're a wingnut conservative racist, or if it's just because he's black and you're a racist.

By: Bernt Pancreas

Bernt Pancreas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:05:45 -0800

I'm-a tellin' you, if it rhymes it must be true. That's how I know Rafaelloello likes lime Jello.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:05:55 -0800

How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable

Great. An editorial. Real strong "facts" in editorials.

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:06:09 -0800

Obama lied, markets died.

... really? I can't tell if you think this because he's a black liberal and you're a wingnut conservative racist, or if it's just because he's black and you're a racist.

It's kind of like, uh, a joke. I heard some people on TV once chanting this Bush lied, something something once and I thought this would be kind of like...

oh never mind.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:06:51 -0800

Yes. I've seen it blamed on Carter too.

You know what else I've seen blamed on Clinton and Carter?

Everything.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:07:10 -0800

Google hasn't gotten the memo yet to delete the original post. The Illuminati aren't what they used to be.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:08:14 -0800

(I'd like to fave Pastabagel's comment, but you know I'm not really on board with the use of "suburban" as a dirty word.)

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:11:23 -0800

Also Rafaelloello, MetaTalk is primarily for discussing policies around how the site is run, not the subjects of posts themselves, so could you drop the housing bubble talk and apologize/acknowledge your aggro "help, I'm being super repressed!" claims since they've been clearly shown not to originate from a single mod and are not politically motivated? Takes a big man to say sorry but I'd rather see that than 10,000 links to editorials that support a crazy conspiracy video.

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:13:14 -0800

BTW, I don't even mind that Obama is a liberal racist. I just don't want to pay for his social programs. For my money, Marcy Kaptur is the real deal.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:14:13 -0800

Beavers blamed for likely bank failure

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:14:52 -0800

Is there a polite way to say get the fuck over it?

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:15:01 -0800

I fucking hate "oh noes teh censoroship" people that don't understand the meaning of the word "censorship."

When Sarah Palin bans a book from your local library, that's censorship. When jessamyn deletes a post, that's "preventing display of data housed on a private server." Also called, "clean-up on aisle seven."

In other words, if I go to your house and call you a jackass, and you ask me to leave, is that censorship? No. Because it's your f'n house.

So ... S ... T ... F ... U.

By: briank

briank — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:16:03 -0800

That's it, I'm voting for Pastabagel.

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:04 -0800

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:14 -0800

Can somebody pull the soap box from under this guy's feet and lock this shit up?

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:19:15 -0800

Although I'm not a big Python fan, call-outs like these are always an excuse to enjoy Dennis the Constitutional Peasant.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:19:26 -0800

Superdelete, superdelete. Tricker treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat.

I will forgive Bush all his sins if he grants me unlimited one day immunity to take a vinegar soaked bullwhip to all the fucking greedhead cowardly solipsistic assholes who don't want to "pay for social programs", read a fucking history book zombie Ayn Rand and then get back to us. Jesus fuck. I need a double valium and stoli, stat!

By: box

box — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:21:05 -0800

Agreed. You can't teach an old dog... no, that's not it... you can lead a horse... hmm... and teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:21:52 -0800

Now if you would just apologize for calling it a crazy conspiracy video, we can probably close this out.

What would you prefer it be called? Astro-turfing bullshit that lays the blame for this massive economic fuck up right at the feet of the people who are going to be the most hurt by it, brought to you by a man who apparently can win unless he lies, lies, lies, and then tosses out casual racism and classism, all the while grinning and pretending he is a maverick who somewhere in his eighty-seven houses has a closet just full of concern for the poor?

Because I'll call it that if you prefer.

It is censorship? Fuck yes. You got censored, dude. It's their fucking site. You don't like it, go to some other goddamn site where pissing on the poor with a poor assemblage of anecdotes is treated as gospel. There are a lot of sites like that. I imagine that's where you found the video in the first place.

By: vito90

vito90 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:22:31 -0800

Pastabagel/DaShiv 08!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:22:42 -0800

can't win, rather.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:23:13 -0800

Now if you would just apologize for calling it a crazy conspiracy video, we can probably close this out.

You're right, my bad, I shouldn't have called it a "crazy conspiracy". I meant to say it's batshit insane to blame minorities for the financial crisis.