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You're more forgiving than me. Given the very pointed exclusion of you from even being considered for front-paging, in your place I'd be very conspicuous by my absence for a while.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 10:16:44 AM EST
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I was never going to be a front pager there, the site has simply become too prominent and having a foreigner be the voice of it would be a source of endless diversion.

The announcement could have been done in a nicer way, and after the actual vote of the community, but otherwise the decisions is not wrong.

Plus Devilstower was chosen; together with Meteor Blades, that 2 of the 3 of the original crew of Energize America that are on the 'staff', and Devilstower told me that, contrary to perception, there's a lot of work behind the scenes on the site to get the "policy communities" cranking.

So I still hope to have some influence via this. Plus now I'm free to be controversial!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 10:58:35 AM EST
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Oh, true enough but, as you admit, it could have been done more diplomatically.

He was very blunt to the point of being dismissive about you (and letting everybody know he was talking about you personally) and I think that was what rankled. I understand the logic of needing the lead voices to be American but, at best, he was extremely careless about allowing it to appear as a personal slight.

And yea, they could really do with some policy stuff to work on and get worked up about. Bush bashing has got old now the new houses are in, so they're either gonna drown in presidential '08 hypothesizing or spend the next two years bitching about the dems/hilary/obama etc

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 12:10:13 PM EST
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Quite frankly, I think Jerome is a bit too authentically left for American tastes.

Oh, he is beloved when he writes to liberal America's prejudices with respect to the envirnoment and energy policy, but nearly every time he writes about socio-economic policy or poverty matters, it's quite another thing over there.

Let's face it, it's a center-right site for partisans of a center-right political party, and now that those Democratic partisans have apparently been delivered from the evil of Dubya, the site is quickly devolving into the partisan hackery it already was somewhat prone to.

It's too bad, but it is what it is.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 12:40:44 PM EST
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Oh, he is beloved when he writes to liberal America's prejudices with respect to the envirnoment and energy policy, but nearly every time he writes about socio-economic policy or poverty matters, it's quite another thing over there.
On the famous hunger in NYC thread, I had the following exchange:
Good, why not go back to writing about positives

then?

Write about energy.

Inspire people to do something about it.

...

Write about energy?

Poor Jerome, you guys have pigeonholed him into a narrow role and every time he steps out of his little box or says something off-message he gets wacked over the head.

by Migeru

He googled problems, why not google solutions?

That's what's so off-key about his diary today.

...



Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 01:15:51 PM EST
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Yeah, I saw that and got a chuckle.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
by redstar on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:10:40 PM EST
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There are quite a few of us who very much appreciate Jerome.  With tens of thousands of users there are many who are centerists and center-rightists, but dkos is really where the fight needs to be had.  There are many who try to move the whole damn thing in a progressive direction.

We haven't been released from the W thralldom yet, and we are at best at the end of the beginning of a move back toward respectability.

I'm interested to see how many European governments fall due to their cooperation with the ghost flights.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

by NearlyNormal on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:06:32 PM EST
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"I'm interested to see how many European governments fall due to their cooperation with the ghost flights."

None!

We ain't in the 60's and 70's.

by Euroliberal on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 07:17:00 AM EST
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Sadly, you're right

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 07:18:29 AM EST
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My most polemic diaries have also been those that were recommended by the most people - a sign, in my view, of latent frustration by a number of people, and something that can be used to bring forward some "subversive" ideas.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:12:42 PM EST
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