With all the humor I could muster, I’ve tried to broker peace. Now, however, the pilots have been scrambled, the jets are fueled and fully armed, and if a stand-down order is not issued soon, I cannot be responsible for the thermonuclear consequences.
With all due respect, you did not try to broker peace. You engaged in an exercise of futility. Those of us who know who you are speaking of know this and know that the individual in question was not going to stand down. Rather than calling him a “good guy”, you should have turned up the heat and called him out for the son of a bitch that he is. Had you done that, I bet he’d have turned on you and you’d see the same nonsense we see here at OG or people like Little Miss Attilla, Cynthia Yockey and Cassandra see.
Maybe I’m not as nice a guy as you, but I know a bad situation when I see it and know when to cut my losses when the other side is being completely unreasonable . When someone digs a hole that deep while causing all sorts of collateral damage to a cause that many people deeply care about, I don’t waste time pontificating about Animal House and inside jokes. I fill in the hole burying whatever is in it and making sure that sort of nonsense never sees the light of day again. It’s that simple.
I like your Great War and Armageddon references but there is none of that going on here. You have an annoying yet vocal little pissant that needs to be stepped on (if anyone has a more suitable reference, I’m all ears). Why you seem to be one of the last to notice is beyond me but at least I can appreciate that you’re starting to get it.
Do what needs to be done.
And don’t forget Dan Riehl, who sees all this pretty clearly, too.Report
Okay. *NOW* I understand what’s going on.
There was a blogger for a while called “Ilyka Damen”. She was a feminist blogger who happened to have been conservative around 2002-2004/5ish. Exceptionally interesting writer.
As the years passed, however, she experienced a great deal of betrayal on the part of (some of) the (not especially representative) dudes on the conservative part of the web (Jeff Goldstein, Mean Mr. Mustard, those kinda guys).
She went from “of course America needs to take on the Taliban, it’s the feminist response” to being mocked as yet another chicky chick whenever she did the feminist thing with regards to, say,Westerners.
When it was against the Taliban, she was bracingly honest and principled but when it was against stuff like, say, a peep video, she was yet another humorless feminist who, let’s face it, needs a (a lot of various things might have been put between these parentheses).
She’s stopped blogging, I think.
Pity.Report
Yeah, it’s all inter-bloggy, fuedish stuff. At least we’re only crowding up the sidebar with it….Report
We’re also not trying to publicize it directly because of our own damn good reasons and if people know what’s going on, they’ll know why we’re doing this.
I don’t want to say there’s a bit of a schadenfreude moment here but if people knew the inside story…. (cue music…)Report
Dude, this is the first one that I’m TOTALLLY lost on!Report
Nihilist.Report
To my shame, I deeply suspect that there is nothing and we float through nothing, to die and then become no more. No gods, no masters, no judgment. We are alone.
I pray I’m wrong but even that act is meaningless.
All that to say: Yeah. I know.Report
Heh. (I do hope you’ve caught on to the inside “nihilist” joke; if not, ignore that I said anything…..as a nihilist, this should not be difficult – just disbelieve the existence of words).Report
It’s more their transience.
But, no. Though, with your explanation, I now suspect that “nihilist” is a favorite epithet of a particular person to use against someone who has different professed deities.
Close?Report
If by “deities” you mean “opinions” then yes.Report
Man that nihilist list is growin’, id’nit? Soon you’ll all be nihilists, every last one of you, no matter how conservative you pretend to be. (And yes, Stacy’s day of nihilism will come, too… The mutual strokes betwixt ’em can’t last forever…)
Thanks for the shout-out, Mark. 8>)Report
People disagree with me? You’re all nihilists for suggesting it.
BTW, I meant to write exercise IN futility.
My bad. Ill edit it later.Report
Sorry, your circle jerk is now notching over some in-kink far to obscure for me. What the fuck is going on?Report
If you have the time, do as Dave says and follow the yellow brick road. If you don’t have the time (and frankly, most people shouldn’t….dude’s really not worth anyone’s time), then don’t worry much about it. I suspect this will be the last anyone here needs to see this subject come up.Report
Follow the yellow brick road on the links, especially Cynthia Yockey.Report
Summary: this guy linked to Erin the Newscaster I’d Never Heard of, or something similar, to whore out his largely unread blog: http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/ , these two femme bloggers got annoyed: http://littlemissattila.com http://www.villainouscompany.com , inventor of “Rule Five” R. McCain piles in: http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/05/dear-cassandra.html , rather like Frankenstein attempting to destroy his monster, then Dave the ordinary gentleman mops up: http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/youre-surprised/
Cynthia was seemingly not involved but gives a rather more lengthy summary: http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/2009/07/26/i-am-with-little-miss-attila-in-villainous-company-to-challenge-american-power/
Right?Report
More or less. Add in some personal history and a heap of hypocrisy and you got yourself a deal!!!Report
Excuse my previous inattention. Now, however, the ignoring begins in earnest.Report
Excused.Report
Excused. Good luck.Report