Comments on: Here Come the Kossacks!

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:23:09 +0000

Prok, Howard Dean has been Chairman of the Democratic National Committee for two years now. I didn’t come to know that by reading blogs, I came to know that by being a marginally informed citizen.

And of all the insults you have ever sewn into your whinescrapers, this one takes the cake: it’s Ann Arbor, not East Lansing you cad!

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:01:12 +0000

>they helped get Dean into a position of power in the Dem party (and thus got his 50 state strategy rolling) i

Um…Dean is in a position of power in the Democratic Party?! Is that how it looks to you in East Lansing?

I’m all for getting rid of Beltway insiders blah blah, but you have to be realistic with realistic machines. The Dean machine isn’t on.

Uri, you’re reading too many blogs.

By: Pierce Altamura

Pierce Altamura — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:55:08 +0000

*laughs at Prokofy casting aspersions on dKos for the content*

Ever hear the term “purity troll”?

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:24:45 +0000

Prok, I recommend you read “Crashing the Gates” to get a feel for the issues that they take to be important. On their success, the fact that they helped get Dean into a position of power in the Dem party (and thus got his 50 state strategy rolling) is more significant than trying to get Dean elected to a national office. Their real mission at this point is to retake the Democratic party from corrupt beltway Democrat insiders like Bob Shrum – they are still fighting against the FIC of the Democratic party, if you will.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:38:47 +0000

Hmm. “Kossacks” might be a more appropriate term than you know?

Was that $25 Lindens or $25 US dollars, i.e. about $6000 Lindens or something?

Can we say “progressive” one more time? *There* we said it. Let’s say it again: this group is “progressive”. And…what does that mean?

OK, after they dump Bush and dump Gonzales and bring our boys home — that’s all good — then…what? The left has been so embroiled in opposition, that these days you don’t know what they’re for. The blogroll has goofy stuff like “My husband was forced into group prayer at work”.

So 600,000 people come here, that wasn’t enough to carry the Dean campaign, remember? Remember all the latte froth and all that stuff about the Internet and blogs that was going to bring Dean victory?

I almost worry about a Dem sinking his campaign by getting it besmirched with SL.

And I still think the real politics of the world will not be decided by this presidential campaign or that prime minister campaign in another country, but by deeper and larger sea-changes, and that getting other kinds of politics right and exploring them within SL itself, in the virtual world, is more important, somehow.

By: rikomatic

rikomatic — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:37:11 +0000

I’m super excited about this. Holding YearlyKos in SL might be the perfect meeting of politics and virtual worlds. Kossacks are already comfortable with other social networking technologies, so getting them to adapt to a 3D interactive social space should be pretty easy.

Can’t wait!