America Speaking Out - for the lulz!Follow

So, the GOP decided that they wanted to rebrand themselves for 2010. What better what to do this than with a multimedia blitz?

So they made a shiny new website, www.americaspeakingout.com, and launched it with much fanfare.

The idea is that you can post any suggestion you want, and good suggestions get voted up or down. Anyone can sign up, and share their ideas.

Bad idea, GOP.

Before long, DKOS and Huffpost folks began spamming it with suggestions like "repeal DADT" and "extend unemployment benefits." This was followed by 4chan, Fark, and the SA crew discovering it and digging in with gems like this:





I can't actually get on the website any more; it caused my computer to have a Blue Screen of Death. But don't worry, the comedy comments are already making their rounds throughout the Tubes.

In the meantime, the Dems responded with a website of their own:
www.americaspokeout.com - which needs no further elaboration once you click it.

Given Cat's links, I can't agree more.

Spamming it with garbage is pretty lame. Hard to be upset over liberals contributing liberal agenda type things though unless they meant "Only the parts of America we agree with speak out". "Repeal DADT" is just as valid a suggestion as "Lower capital gains taxes".

Two wrongs don't make a right, etc...

The opportunity existed (and may still) for both sides of the equation to voice their concerns equally in a forum designed with a conservative slant. Intelligent responses might prove beneficial. Idiotic ones certainly will not.

But what about in an argument such as in politics where 'right' and 'wrong' are subject to interpretation even more so than most other discourse? If this site allows for the frothing mouth-breathers of both sides and no side, and upside, Northside and Dennis; then the GOP hasa pretty fair shot of getting a real grasp on what Americans want and not what the seem to want. All this spouting "For the People! For the People!" they're doing had better god damned be for ALL of the people.

I'm not sure you understood my point. Ridiculous yet honest opinions from both sides would be sufficient. Stupid, pointless heckling for the mere sake of pissing on someone's effort is not at all useful.

/perplexed

Edit: Nevermind. I realized had to read that from the perspective of a conservative. It still made absolutely no sense, but was at least comprehensible.

Edited, May 27th 2010 4:12pm by BrownDuck

You mean just like the Tea Party and "Town Hall" styled rallies? Anonymity exists in the form of mobs and mob mentality, too. Not as much, but there's still a fair degree there. A site like this gets both sides to yell their rhetoric at the other in any way they choose.

To discount a public forum simply because there's a chance or, or there are hecklers is to discount the idea of a public forum itself.

Edit: Improper grammar.

Edited, May 27th 2010 5:52pm by Ninomori

Most conservatives are too old to use the internet. It was destined to fail.

too petty and childish to use the internet?

is that possible?

You mean there are more websites than that?

Since that comment was petty and childish, I'm going to assume that you're a liberal from now on.