Aug 2
Satire: I-35 Bridge Collapses: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
“The I-35 westbound bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed, sending rush hour traffic tumbling into the river below. Rescue crews rapidly descended on the location only to be blocked by the media and onlookers stumbling over one another to get the best pictures of the carnage to upload to YouTube.” My response: Writing something edgy to get lots of comments. Bad taste, bad timing and not even funny.
A blogcritics contributor thought he would use the bridge collapse as an excuse for satire. The reaction on BC has been less than positive which says good things about the readers of the site.
3 Comments so far
Good. I’m glad you’re not completely one-sided, like John. He’s a different type of person who, ah, fuck it, I can’t find the words. He’s an ass. I appreciate your comments more knowing you are ideologically aligned to him in many ways.
John has to talk almost exclusively about the crazy extremists and publicity whores because, on both counts, it’s self-validation.
What takes it to another level of sick is that Blogcritics chose it to be Diggnified and voted on even though it was written only to be controversial. There’s a difference between tolerating and accepting idiocy or, more charitably “out there” POVs - and actively promoting it. Sensationalism rules the site over anything else these days, just to get hits. It drowns out the good. I recognized that was the direction a long time ago.
- Temple
Temple well I am a libertarian and the reason both the trad left & right don’t like us much is that we tend to call things whomever it comes from. I could not believe it was Dugg to be honest…so I thought I would give my take on it this way. Yeah it gave them another digg but people can follow the link and get my take.
Truly the American political system is broken - and therefore frustrating.
I’ve voted for a couple of Libertarians but ONLY because I felt they were the most honest people on the ballot. Honesty is a maligned quality in politics these days. In the last few years I’ve definitely preferred the Democrats and their more forward-looking approach to domestic politics. But it is now foreign politics which rules and the discussion there is a cesspool of disrespect in so so many ways.
- Temple