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- Lederhosed, on 04/16/2009, -17/+100The GOP will never get how the web works until it ceases to be a top-down party run by plutocrats and religious caudillos that has no respect for dialog, debate and opposing ideas. At which point the GOP will stop being the GOP.
- Jordan117, on 04/17/2009, -10/+60They're already spamming Digg with their propaganda. There was a website dedicated to listing right-wing stories for members to digg en masse (diggcons.newsplatoon.com), but they took it down because it was apparently too damning. The network of spammers lives on in Twitter, though -- just check hashtag #diggcons. Most of the Examiner.com spammers use it -- I notice that gun-nut 45superman has some stories on the queue now.
- shutaro, on 04/16/2009, -13/+59Al Gore beat them to it.
- mjk340, on 04/16/2009, -8/+51I don't like the part of the GOP where the talking points are based on rigid ideology instead of pragmatic problem solving.
- donsnyc, on 04/17/2009, -7/+37I think they are two decades behind the curve but that is not the point. The GOP needs to be more inclusive and open minded, and get rid of the ilk like Hannity, OReilly, Coulter and Limbaugh.
- XtheXlanternX, on 04/17/2009, -11/+36There was a good article on The Huffington Post yesterday saying how the GOP needed to change. I know that its a liberal blog site, but the guy made a lot of good points. The groups that make up the GOP and fundamentally incompatible. Big spending defence hawks, social conservatives, libertarians, etc, it is hard to make these groups work together when some of their fundamental beliefs have conflicts. Personally, I think the GOP has a bright future, but they need to make some drastic changes in their leadership as well as their platform. First, they need to stop the gay bashing. Equal rights for all, regardless of sexual preference. Second, they need to respect the privacy of women and allow them to seek comprehensive reproductive health care should they so choose. Third, they need to tone down their anti-welfare (anti-black rhetoric stated in a politically correct way) and anti-immigrant message. It is okay to want to seek welfare reform and prosecute illegal immigrants/secure the border, it is an entirely different ball game to slander an entire group of people routinely. If the GOP does these three things, they will have a very quick rebound and will attract many young, financially saavy professional types. Unfortunately, the GOPs reputation leads me to believe that it will take them another 10-20 years to move into the 20th century (not a typo).
Lets see how many blind diggs I get in the down direction from people who see HuffPo and press the thumbs down without reading. - shdwfthsun, on 04/17/2009, -7/+30Let the GOP die and the Libertarians take their place. We don't need the Religious Right or the Neocons--we can just replace them with fiscally conservative liberals.
- BrutePhysics, on 04/17/2009, -1/+24The incredibly religious may not be the majority of your party but they are by far the most vocal.
- Craig304958, on 04/17/2009, -2/+23"I am not a homophobe, but neither do I hate people because they believe in god."
Typical right-wing argument by distortion of what was actually said. Leading up to the smear: "There is pretty much nothing but hate" on the left. Starts with a lie, leads up to a totally ***** conclusion.
I've been hearing this kind of ***** from the right-wing noise machine for years and I'm tired of it. If I just fed a troll, so be it. - inactive, on 04/17/2009, -11/+32Do the Obama supporters have a diggcons.newsplatoon.com type site where they coordinate their spamming certain stories?
Care to provide evidence that anyone but the Right Wing Shills go about spamming their propaganda onto digg in that manner?
The Right Wing *have* to use those techniques, that's the only way they can get their brand of ***** onto a true aggregate blog, because the majority of people don't hold those relentlessly stupid views. - ELee, on 04/17/2009, -2/+21FTA:
Outgoing RNC chair Duncan, when campaigning to keep his job, declared that the GOP could appeal to young voters "in the Facebook, with the twittering." - XtheXlanternX, on 04/17/2009, -2/+20The use of the Internet? I am not really a liberal, but you're blind if you think it was the Internet. I thought about the Columbus, OH tea party and I went to the Facebook page. There was a whopping 80 some people registered. This was helped greatly by Fox News. I'm not bashing the GOP, I just think there is a significant amount of the GOP's base that doesn't really use the Internet. Ex. My dad uses the Internet at work, for email, etc, but he never reads blogs, sites like digg, etc. The GOP has tons of people like my dad.
- pintomp3, on 04/17/2009, -2/+20Give them a break, they are just trying to get enough Mccain Action Center points to earn their cone of silence.
- obreaslan, on 04/17/2009, -6/+24They will also be mailing a set of ten 3.5" floppy disks to all of their supporters outlining this new strategy.
- akchrs, on 04/17/2009, -14/+31What's the website number for information on how to use the internet.
- AndrewDB, on 04/17/2009, -9/+25When the GOP discovers Web 2.0, the rest of the net will be 4.0, and the GOP's website will look 1.5 % done.
- BoxAdorable, on 04/17/2009, -1/+17Your party may not be run by the super religious, but it sure does cater to them.
- schnikies79, on 04/17/2009, -5/+20Can't be done because Web 2.0 doesn't exist.
It's nothing but a ***** buzzword with no real meaning. - Dumbledorito, on 04/17/2009, -1/+16Apparently chriskzoo's astonishment at stories about a presidential candidate being on Digg during an election is matched only by his outrage at all of the stories about football that magically appear near the Superbowl.
- traveler1217, on 04/17/2009, -5/+19 A well-thought and well-articulated entry. Unfortunately, I'm at the point where my antipathy towards the GOP is permanent. Ever since we suffered 8 years of Bush and 8 years of neoconservative hegemony (and still suffer from residual Bush/Cheney policies), there is no more reconciliation or bipartisan cooperation to be had. Until the opposition to the democratic party becomes something I can respect (like Ron Paul's framework perhaps?) I will actively seek the permanent demise of the GOP in its' current form.
- inactive, on 04/17/2009, -2/+16You brought it on yourselves.
- homercles337, on 04/17/2009, -3/+17The GOP can not succeed in an environment of open discussion and facts. They get thoroughly trounced on the web with all their *****. Their ideas are outdated and as the baby boomers die off so shall the GOP. The only direction for the GOP to go is left--there is no more movement to the right and all the web propaganda they can generate will not change that fact.
- Dumbledorito, on 04/17/2009, -1/+15Neither do they, which is why they ignore their "principles" at just about every given opportunity, especially when there's money involved.
- vidaliasweet, on 04/17/2009, -0/+14Maybe they should ask Ron Paul, he didn't seem to have any trouble with it, and he's older than dirt. It's not about gimmicks, and trick marketing. It takes a sincere desire to reach out to the people and get them behind what you believe in. That is, if you really believe in anything.
- XtheXlanternX, on 04/17/2009, -3/+16yep, everyone on the Internet is jobless and on welfare. Makes sense and seems entirely rational. Also, it seems quite respectful to someone who was respectful to you!
Somehow I and all my friends managed to graduate college and get jobs (which weren't lost to the recession, thx GOP policy) all while using this Internet thing. - MeatMountain, on 04/17/2009, -3/+16I can, how about this: WE WON HAAHAHAHAHAHAH SUCK IT LOSER CRY SOME MORE
- skintigh, on 04/17/2009, -1/+14Tell me again, what is the LOGICAL, NON-RELIGIOUS reason to deny equality in marriage to all Americans?
*chirp* *chirp*
How about forcing schools to teach religion instead of evolution in the science classroom?
*chirp* *chirp*
I rest my case.
(You may not be one of the religious nuts, nor might many of the business-repubs, but your party is controlled by the anti-social-progress wing of religious nutjobs who blame 9/11 on gays and feminists, and have driven your party off a cliff.) - pimpofpixels, on 04/17/2009, -10/+22The Republicans fail on the internet because their base is very old.
The Democrats fail in Talk Radio because their demographic doesn't include too many truckers. - Craig304958, on 04/17/2009, -1/+13I don't think "rhetorical question" means what you think it means.
- inactive, on 04/17/2009, -1/+13Can someone tell me whats the deal with freerepublic.com?
Like Craigslist, its all text, no graphics, but like Digg or Fark, they post articles for users to read and people comment on them. I dont see any other internal forums which allow for users to create their own threads (like any other conventional web forum), just the main index of posted articles. Yet they are constantly having pledge drives to pay for server costs to the tune of 80,000$ per quarter. From what I can see, the server isnt really being taxed.
Do they really need 320,000$ each year to pay for server costs? - blackinthmiddle, on 04/17/2009, -4/+16See, what I find shocking is that Biden immediately corrected himself. IMMEDIATELY! Yet you douche's still rip on him. Yet, Bush shows eight solid ***** years of screw ups where it was apparent he *didn't* have a clue that he screwed up and you had to question if he had a brain in his head, yet you turn a blind eye. What a surprise!
See, *THIS* is the main reason why your party has been reduced to a side show circus act. You're not interested in putting the best person in office. You want "your guy" to win, regardless if that guy has the talent to turn things around. Look, if it makes you feel good to root for "your team", go right ahead. Also, keep thinking that the reason your party lost in November is because you didn't embrace technology. Oh, and one more thing, get the hell out of the way of the people who are actually trying to solve problems. - ohplease, on 04/17/2009, -5/+17Al Gore never claimed to invent the internet. He claimed to champion funding which helped create the internet, or, at the time, Arpanet. The guys who actually were commissioned with getting Arpanet set up have praised Al Gore publically for his efforts in getting the funding.
They did this so one day you could go on Digg and misquote him because you're too stupid to use that same internet to learn some facts.
Without Al Gore there may actually be no internet as you see it today, an internet you now use to show your ignorance to the whole world. - inactive, on 04/17/2009, -1/+13and where was the bigotry in his text? Do you know what bigotry means?
- dreamofspirals, on 04/17/2009, -3/+14bingo.
Sure the Fox News loonies and the ditto heads can bring in a few loud, angry screaming millions, but it is the their hatred and closed minded negativity that keeps the other hundreds of millions away. - AgeofMastery, on 04/17/2009, -1/+12So by your logic we should accept intolerance and bigotry?
- traveler1217, on 04/17/2009, -1/+12Islamohomophobia: sprinkled with bat-***** suicidal Apocalyptic theology.
- phogasmic, on 04/17/2009, -2/+12This is hilarious. They weren`t beaten so soundly simply because the Democrats had a better internet presence. They were beat because their message sucks. Change that then they may have a chance.
- skintigh, on 04/17/2009, -4/+14But it's still okay to repeat the lie that Al Gore claimed to have "invented" the Internet, right?
Whew, I thought for a second there we might have to start being reality-based instead of faith-based. - westtexas357, on 04/17/2009, -1/+11Ron Paul will be glad to hear about this fascinating new way to get your message out...oh wait...
- Dumbledorito, on 04/17/2009, -0/+10@thecobbs: The Democrats aren't the ones running on "smaller government, less spending" and then turning around and doing the exact opposite. They aren't calling for "more responsibility" and then giving no-bid contracts to their friends and letting their donors off of the regulatory hook. They aren't claiming to be of a higher moral character while breaking the laws the country was founded on (especially when it comes to individual freedoms).
The Dems are nice and disorganized for the most part, which is really how a representative body should be. A California politician (regardless of party) should have a distinctly different set of interests than one from Texas, just based on constituency alone. Yes, a set congresspeople from the same party are more likely than not to vote together, but when it's a consistent lock-step (the GOP since 1994, with rare exceptions), then it's really not representing the bits of the country that elected them, is it?
They're not perfect, and I have no doubt they'll give us loads of hypocrisy, but the kind that the Republicans have evidenced over the past 8 years is truly a monumental horror. - sizzzzlerz, on 04/17/2009, -3/+12Envision a web page in all-caps, with multi-colored blinking text, lots of rotating GIFs, and pages that scroll on forever.
That's the GOP concept of Web 2.0. - AgeofMastery, on 04/17/2009, -1/+10John McCain asked people on his website to go spam blogs, forums and newsites like Digg. He gave them the talking points to cut and paste and offered them rewards for doing it. That made the news, unlike the job ad you claim to have seen.
- athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -10/+19GOP, welcome to the year 2000.
- Jordan117, on 04/17/2009, -0/+9Oh, the religious stuff is the least of the matter. There's been a surge of outright racist stuff lately -- xenophobic garbage from the BNP mainly. But then there's this:
http://digg.com/political_opinion/It_s_a_Wonderful ...
A white power screed claiming that, without European innovation, the rest of the non-white world would be mired in primitivism and savagery. It includes a tastefully photoshopped image of Martin Luther King as an Witch Doctor. And it has EIGHTY-EIGHT DIGGS.
This utter garbage would never make it anywhere near the front page in normal times. But, thanks to its primo placement on the DiggCons queue, it's got dozens of votes. For what is essentially Stormfront fan fiction. It's disgusting and shameful. - sizzzzlerz, on 04/17/2009, -1/+9Sort of like fungus
- inactive, on 04/17/2009, -12/+20If your computer gets a virus just perform an exorcism on it by pouring holy water on the motherboard.
- inactive, on 04/17/2009, -16/+24I think the GOP should do the entire world a favor and abolish themselves.
- skintigh, on 04/17/2009, -4/+12I love how the GOP never misses a chance to bash San Francisco or the East Coast or the West Coast or Ivy League schools, but when it comes to technology who do they go with? Companies founded in San Francisco, based on the East and Wast Coasts, founded and staffed by Ivy League graduates/drop-outs.
They hate our values, but almost everything important to them is a result of our values of openness, collaboration, education, diversity, teamwork, progress, reason instead of supernatural belief, etc. - oxdeltaxo, on 04/17/2009, -1/+8I've found myself a new hobby, burying every single religious affiliated article they try to promote.
- vsaint, on 04/17/2009, -7/+14Ooh they have the internet on computers now!
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