Saturday, April 03, 2010

Yahoo Buzz!

I HATE Yahoo Buzz.

But, Dice, why do you hate it? You might ask.

Well, it is simple. It has become a breeding ground for morons.

You can't read any news without some Tea-Party activist jumping in to share their "enlightened" opinion on the government.

Throwing around words like "fascism", "socialist", "communist" or even "Marxist" without motive, or understanding of what they mean... using them as synonyms! Synonyms! What the hell people?!

Obama cannot possibly be both a fascist and a socialist! They are mutually exclusive concepts!

But well, let's face it. Talking with big words (correctly) to the average Tea Party Activist is like kicking a puppy. Except that they're not that cute. And it's a bunch of puppies convinced that their whining is righteous justice. And you don't have a foot big enough to kick them all at the same time and shut them up.

But, I digress. Returning to Yahoo Buzz! - It is completely annoying to read any article precisely because some random idiot is going to bring their unrelated government opinions to it.

For example. I once read an article about the ice melting and how it would affect oceanic currents. It was a study done and reported by French Scientists. In France, which is in Europe... just in case some of our Tea-Partying friends need further clarification.

First comment just at the end of the article? "Oh, great MORE government money spent on Democratic leies!" (Yes, he couldn't spell "lies")

I will concede that there were a few interesting comments (much further down) by some individuals arguing the actual topic of the article. But finishing the article and encountering stupidity on that level just ruins it for me.

I mean, granted, I am not reading the article to look at people's opinions on it, but well, people ARE entitled to share their opinions and Yahoo Buzz! is designed to allow them to do that. The problem is that there is NO moderation whatsoever. So you get morons trolling an otherwise interesting article with their misled political propaganda. And beware if someone reports you as "abuse" (justified or not) because then, you can't even share your own opinion until YB decides you can.

So, Yahoo Buzz can go to hell in my opinion and drag with it all of its effing Tea-bagging followers.