dday, a Kossack, is doing his/her best to further the agenda of the anti-funnytistas worldwide with this truly idiotic diary.

Summary: a tech dude was at YearlyKos. While there, a truck slammed through his house, and had he been there, both he and his child would have been killed. But they weren’t. Because of YearlyKos. So he said thank you, YK, for everything. Touching story. Give ‘em some PayPal lurve.

Then Harry Hutton (who is one of those natively hilarious types that drive us mere quippers insane with jealousy… yeah, I’m speaking to you too Worker #3116. bitches.) wrote (in reference, ironically):

I am not easily moved to tears, but this post had me crying like a baby. Just think… he could have been… and the little ones are safe?… thank God for that!

Kos once saved my life too. I was reading a post about Senator Joseph Lieberman, and it was so dull that I got up to run my head under a cold tap. Just then this assagai comes flying through the window. Zulus! Fuck! If it hadn’t been for Kos, I could have wound up in a cooking pot. I’ll always be grateful to him for that.

Anyway, so we formed a laager, called for reinforcements and went all Rorke’s Drift on their arses, and it all ended happily with a glorious slaughter of tribesmen. That was the day Boris Johnsons won the Victoria Cross.

Funny! Goddamn funny. I’m still LOL’ing over here. For the record, Hutton is a Brit lefty. There was another comment later, by dsquared … who happens to be a writer for the (lefty) Guardian:

That Daily Kos type is gonna feel pretty fucking stupid when the guy who missed him first time comes back for the second attempt.

Funny! Fun-nay.

Of course, D-Day, in his/her infinite wisdom, sees this and thinks “not funny! They are obviously eliminationist rightwing fascists!” because… drumroll please… mouthbreathing sack-of-hammer-stupid trogolodytes of the rightwing bigotsphere linked to the Hutton post! OMFG! It’s teh nazis! They link to Hutton, therefore Hutton is bad! (You wouldn’t happen to be a member of my State pursuing the same logic v. online “gambling” by any chance, would you?).

Here’s D-Day’s commentary:

If they actually were jokes, I’d lighten up. I’d like to see in human history the comedy routine that consists of “I don’t like you, I should murder you, ha!!” Jonathan Swift comes the closest, I guess, but there is no satire in this joke, no greater point made that the logical consequence of policies against the Irish would be for the poor to eat their own children. Just “wouldn’t it be funny if our enemies were dead?”

Furthermore, it’s directed at ct, who’s an enemy, apparently, merely by ASSOCIATING with those seen as the enemy. He’s a tech guy whose house got trashed by a drunk driver. The joke says he deserved it, and wishes for “better luck next time.”

This is not a joke. This is the rising tide of eliminationist language that I’ve seen for a lot of years on the right. It starts as chuckles among unformed or unaware or unprocessed minds, and can quickly metastasize into action. In a metaphorical sense it already has, with the cutthroat way Republicans do business in the political arena. Then it turns into jokes that reflect some wishful rage with a wink and a nod. From there it’s just a hop and a skip and a jump to calling Democrats “cockroaches” that need to be “stamped out.” And then you’ve got Radio television libre des mille collines, advising conservatives to “leave none to tell the story.”

Got it? Jokes from an insane, but funny, weirdo followed by an ironic comment by a lefty == Republicans are coming to eat our babies!

Get ahold of yourself. Also, go get laid or something. You’re embarassing the rest of us lefties. Much like the person who constantly proclaims their hipness, anyone who says they crack jokes all the time and therefore knows from funny… obviously has no sense of humor. Your self-induced cyclone of moral outrage is remarkable both for its tone deafness and its complete lack of self awareness. Your ragegasm and addiction to outrage rivals Jesse Michelle Magalangadingdong Malkin on his good days.

Fergawdssake, your bringer of the righty apocalypse is someone who wrote the following post:

JENNIFER LOPEZ HAS BEEN SHOT!
Jennifer Lopez, the popular entertainer, has been shot.

UPDATE!
Jennifer Lopez has NOT been shot, not even slightly. I was confusing her with President McKinley. I apologize for any distress this caused.

That’s Hutton in a nutshell, right there. Python too, while we’re at it. Say it with me, people - fun-nay.

Bluebiker makes a valiant effort to show D-Day the stupidity false crisis hysteria over the Hutton post is misguided, but D-Day is having none of it.

The misinterpretation that “some crazy guy thinks a convention saved his life” is actually no different than the common frame of the liberal blogosphere as unhinged and loopy. Hutton’s attempt at a joke was doltish, it played into the wrong hands, and I think all would agree you don’t get to manage the response to your own words. Just like I don’t get to manage your response. I can argue it, but you’re going to believe what you want.

I want to see the guy who hasn’t made a bin Laden joke. Go watch The Great Dictator and understand that such mockery is a key part of any country’s strategy to marginalize a villain. What the fuck did ct do to deserve the same treatment?

For the record, I don’t think ct gives two shits about any of this, he’s got enough on his mind. But the point is that eliminationism, a major part of the hard-right conservative movement, must be outed at every opportunity. A point you’ve yet to address. But honestly, there’s no point in arguing this anymore.

Christ, D-Day, your sense of humor is worse than the feminists. At least they’ve got the hot lesbian sex to keep them distracted. What’s your excuse?

D-Day here is just like any of these insecure blowhards who, when confronted with the fact that they are wrong and overreacted, refuse to acknowledge it. Instead they go further and further on a limb clinging desperately to their internal vision of themselves as Right and everyone esle as WrongWrongWrong. D-Day, I’m here to tell you: you made a fool of yourself.

Well, D-Day, add me to the chorus of “haters,” along with this poster. And this poster. And this one. This one too. Oh, and this post as well.

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