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Daily Kos Today: No Rhyme or Reason - Pretty Much Like the Tramp & GOP Regime. Bye! [1]

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Date: 2025-01-13

This is a draft that was saved in my account in 2017. It was my answer to readers after I posted an article regarding my encounter with the local Andover, Massachusetts, police and how abusive and degenerate they were. But I never posted this because DailyKos had summarily suspended my account, censoring me and demanding that I delete my articles about Trump. I have been writing about Trump since the 2016 presidential election. I wrote about the person that I believed Trump was, how vile, dishonest, ignorant, and shameless he was, the damages he was likely to cause to various groups of people in this country, and the destruction he was capable of visiting upon the very fabric of our society.

After DailyKos demanded that I delete my last posting due to "flagging,’ I deleted all of my articles from 2013 through 2017 and then abandoned the site. Fast forward 8 years, and everything I wrote about Trump came to pass. Since that time, I have continued to receive regular emails from DailyKos, and today, after viewing a reply in the comment section of a post by a reader who pointed out the arbitrary nature of DailyKos’ moderation and the abuses of the flagging function, I decided to post this.

Here is my 2017 draft, which had been sitting in my account since Trump’s first inauguration:

To reader unknown:

Thank you. I understand that. It did not matter whether the post was ever read to me.

I am a writer, but almost never wrote about me personally. Over a period of years of writing, and hundreds of articles and other papers later, only about 3 times had I written about myself. As I mentioned before, what I posed this morning was a test to understand exactly how posts are managed for exposure, thus engaged by readers on DK. I also wanted to explore what kind of people are behind those screen names and have been causing the problems about which many long-time DK subscribers have been complaining about, and due to which some have left the site in disgust. I can say now that my text worked beyond my wildest expectations.

In this reply, what I want to do is to address the users who wanted to throw insults and when I responded in kind, got my comments flagged. It’s absurd and cowardly.

“Cio 2” user banded with others, such as (“CClib,” “Eyesbright,” wideeyelib,” “Catnappe,” “Bakeneko,” and others, to mount a literal attack on me whom they don’t know at all, and impugn my character. When I returned the favor, they ran to cry to DK about insults. Now I remember why I have always despised people who gang up on others.

“Cio2” wrote the following”

“As for why the diary in October didn't get much response, two reasons that I can think of. First it was quite long, and the actual incident that happened to you didn't get mentioned until way down in that diary. The diary may have lost readers who read part of it and decided they had the basics before they got to that. In newspaper-speak, this is called "burying the lede." Don't blame readers, sharpen up the technique. Put the key facts up front.

The other problem frankly is with asking strangers to jump in immediately and intervene in a situation where they have no personal connection or local knowledge and no independent way of checking the completeness of the story, or its perspective.

If someone complains that they've been mistreated, I am much more likely to take up their cause if I know the person, if someone that I know or some group or public figure that I trust vouches for the person, or if I see a report in the media that includes independently verified facts. If the person provides documents to back up what they're saying, video of an incident, or accounts from witnesses, that also would also make me more comfortable with intervening.

Getting an attorney or going to local media or collecting other local support is the logical first step. Or all three. I hope you are able to get a fair hearing.”

I answered in kind. What is incredulous is that Daily Kos where I have read some most despicable writings, and where I have seen utterly crazy, outrageous, and obscene, comments posted in their so-called Diaries and threads, is somehow the great arbitrator of who can insult whom, and who does not have the right to insult back. At least, I did my insulting in “French.” I cannot say the same for the DK flag-gers with no common sense or common decency, and enough time on their hands to waste on sending me useless warnings, while cuddling up to their worst offenders.

“User Vclib” wrore:

I can’t speak for others here, but I remember reading your diary. After checking your diary and comment history I determined that there was another side to the story that I would need to know before I made contact with the police department on your behalf. There really wasn’t any way to learn that other side of the story, so I just took a pass. I imagine many others followed the same path.

When I return to check to see if there was any sensible comment that I needed to respond to, I found this yellow thing, by which I was supposed to acknowledge that I received what appears to have been some sort of warning. Ironically, it was for my highlighting in quotations this:

I made contact with the police department on your behalf.

This is the user’s own comment to which I responded in kind.

Like I said, this was a test research. I got my answers. Fortunately, the answers did not come only from these cowardly readers. Many people took the opportunity to discuss their own concerns with this site “lately.” I am not sure what they all mean, because I only write here for the fun of it. I have dozens of websites I post on. And on my own sites, I don’t censor people, even though I have ultra right-wing readers who leave me very angry comments and insults. Yet, I do not shut down or disapprove their comments. I took this site for something it was not [PERIOD].

Therefore, I will leave this post on Daily Kos to memorialize it as a thread of shame.

AND YES! THERE ARE 2 SIDES TO THIS STORY I POSTED: ONE SIDE WITH A GROUP OF UNMITIGATED, PATENTED, PROFESSIONAL, SHAMELESS, AND PATHOLOGICAL LAIRS WITH A HABIT TO BEAT BLACK PEOPLE TO DEATH — SHOOT THEM IN THE BACK AND CHOCK THEM.

AND THEN THERE IS MY SIDE. AND NO! I DID NOT AND DO NOT NEED YOUR HELP OR ANYONE ELSE’S FOR THAT MATTER. I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF — THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR EVERYONE ELSE’S RIGHTS LIKE I HAVE BEEN DOING FOR ALMOST FOR DECADES NOW — WITH GREAT SUCCESS I MUST ADD.

PS. I HAVE BEGUN TO TAKE DOWN MY PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS FROM THIS SITE. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT I WILL FINISH TODAY BECAUSE I NEED TO GO LAY DOWN. I WAS GOING TO REMOVE MY ACCOUNT. BUT I HAVE DECIDED TO LEAVE UP FOR NOW TO GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO CONTINUE TO SPEW MORE VENOM.

THIS IS MY LAST COMMENT ON THE MATTER. I WILL BE POSTING THIS FOR KOS LEGACY.

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