Even the queers don't like Obama

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Cohaagen

I sometimes wonder who, the authors excepted, exactly is happy to see a "volume = right" policy succeed in giving a website with broad international appeal such a US-centric and particularly right-wing flavour.

[Cohaagen]

Thanks, guys. I was only moved to comment because things have been so consistently bad for so long. To the point, in fact, that I almost feel excluded from GT, as I suspect do many others outside of the US and, probably to a lesser extent, within.

I simply cannot understand why, with the whole internet to fill up with this crap (and believe me, they're trying), we need another general discussion board loaded to snapping point with right-wing diuresis cut n' pasted from blogs and possessing a tone that is usually reserved for shortwave radio, with nothing to serve as an interlude or counterbalance between each new post except perhaps Skybird posting his latest humourless thesis talking down at everyone.

To illustrate my point, I recently visited the IMDb board for the Mel Gibson film Edge Of Darkness, a remake of a BBC miniseries I'm very fond of, to look for topics discussing differences in the two versions. There were none to be seen, though I did find:

"What;'s wrong with selling NUKES? I WISH the US still Did This"
"This is actually a very, very right-wing anti-government movie"
"Would you trust Fox News lol? **Spoilers**"
"Very liberal friendly movie (Spoilers)"
"Why did the bad guy not have a picture of Obama?"
"Typical Liberal Claptrap"
"A Mass. Republican?!"
"I didn't know John Kerry was Republican!"

You get the picture. I just think it is deeply unfair to expect people outside the US to tolerate this constant stream of loudmouthed provocation and deliberate nuisance attempts even when its sheer mass edges out other discussion. One side, at any rate, seems to be privately itching for a civil war and, as one who has to perform a pavement dance around the dog turds they leave all over the internet, I frankly would not be opposed to that provided they switch their computers off while they're doing it.