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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDefinitions and synonyms for "Rancid"
A definition from Dictionary.com
adjective
1.
having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils:
rancid butter.
2.
(of an odor or taste) rank, unpleasant, and stale:
a rancid smell.
3.
offensive or nasty; disagreeable.
Some synonyms and antonyms from Merriam Webster
Related to RANCID
Synonyms
abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, evil, foul, fulsome, gross, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shocking, sickening, ugly
Antonyms
innocuous, inoffensive
I don't think it's right to describe Fellow Democrats that way.
Warpy
(111,466 posts)Our conservatives just know more words than theirs do.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and we laugh and fart in their general direction.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)LOL....
Um, what are we talking about?
Igel
(35,390 posts)In fact, arguably it's describing very few fellow (D) that way.
It's describing the fringe left that tends to think of Obama as a corporatist crypto-fascist. There are such. "Liberal" is the wrong word to describe them. They don't seem to be able to be happy.
It's not just a left/right sort of thing. I heard some gay rights activists lash out at the recent SCOTUS decision because it was wrong. It had the right conclusion, but the argument was insufficient: Unless gays are a protected class, they're missing out on a large portion of the civil rights express. That has to be the next struggle, be listed as a protected class.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Hillary? Obama? or their supporters?
sheshe2
(84,070 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Do I say anything? Sometimes I do.
Sometimes I can't because I am not the board monitor.
Maybe we should all say something to each other when things get out of control.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Why don't you take it up with her?
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)and I was speaking to madfloridian. I actually agree with the original post. Some people need to cool the rhetoric.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)But of course you are trying to change it.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,821 posts)...to describe fellow Democrats as Obamabots, Hillbots, mindless cheerleaders, Tiger Beat fans, authoritarians, corporatists, or lackeys for the one percent.
I also don't think it's right to describe the Democratic president as a piece-of-shit used car salesman, a sellout, a spineless water-carrier for the wealthy, nor to infer (without any evidence whatsoever) that he is on-the-take and is selling the nation down the river for personal financial gain.
In addition, I don't think it's right to tell AA Democrats that they should keep their concerns about racism to themselves, or to declare that they - or anyone else here - only support Hillary because they "recognize her name", being too damned stupid to vote based on anything other than that.
I also don't think it's right to state, on what purports to be a website devoted to electing Democrats, that one won't vote unless their candidate-of-choice is the nominee - and actually encourage others to follow suit.
I guess that shoe really pinches when it's on the other foot, eh?
And now is the time for all good alerters to step in and alert on this post - because that's what a lot of people here do when they see anything they think they can get a "hide" for when someone says something they disagree with - or something that hits too close to home.
Oh, and I hope someone PMs me the jury results - because being told I am being "disruptive" by sticking up for Democrats on DemocraticUnderground is always good for a laugh.
So fire away, oh ye of the no one is a Democrat unless I say so school of thought. You wouldn't want your buddies to think you're slacking off when it comes to hitting that "alert" button, would you?
wyldwolf
(43,873 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)And I agree they shouldn't be said.
wyldwolf
(43,873 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)G_j
(40,372 posts)The OP did not attack anyone. They posted definitions from a dictionary. Now, it looks like a bit of a pile on.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)in as many days I hardly think a one line post from me is a "pile on."
G_j
(40,372 posts)you know what I mean. This is a stretch, criticizing people for what they don't post.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)sheshe2
(84,070 posts)brer cat
(24,662 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,028 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)betsuni
(25,815 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)blue neen
(12,335 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)betsuni
(25,815 posts)Only one vote to hide. Bitter dim bulb: "Alerted at the poster's request. I actually agree with the first line, despite the bitter, accusing tone. The rest? It's a downward spiral of bitterness and about DUers who don't agree with her, and the irony in the last line is priceless." Key word is "bitter" I guess, and the last line about irony when you are hitting the alert button ... oh never mind. Why try to make sense of bitter and nothingness.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)wyldwolf
(43,873 posts)"Notice me."
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)What would you do if you didn't have me around all these years?
wyldwolf
(43,873 posts)It was pretty hysterical.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)wyldwolf
(43,873 posts)demmiblue
(36,920 posts)wyldwolf
(43,873 posts)BainsBane
(53,137 posts)Seriously? All the issues in America: poverty, gun violence, racism, hate crimes, the GOP working to subvert marriage equality, and this is what bothers you for 24 hours straight and two threads?
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Fair enough?
BainsBane
(53,137 posts)my capacity for absurdity is limited.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Are you seriously going to claim to be a victim this time?
BainsBane
(53,137 posts)I am simply astonished by the extent of the outrage.
As a matter of fact I post about those things with some frequency. I invite you to read my journal.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)At least now people are no longer confused where you stand. Wall o text just got much less effective at obscuring the agenda.
BainsBane
(53,137 posts)and read about the author, who is in fact a leftist activist.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)BainsBane
(53,137 posts)When you don't know the author or what she is addressing. It is not punching left. it is at most a lateral punch.
If "left" is defined entirely by opposition to the Democratic party, rather than any principles of equality or collective action, that would make the GOP left. I have a lot of problem with how some define and claim leftism. I have no idea what it means to them, other than a reflection of themselves. For me, I can tell you quite clearly it is oriented toward Marxism, toward universal human equality: from each according to his ability to each according to his need. Not what my friends at the yoga studio or the coffee shop believe, or not whether one supports one member of the political elite or another. It's an ideology based on universal human equality, not elevating one man or a select group above the rest of the human race.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)I think you expected and hoped for it.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)I doubt that very seriously.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)We know who would though. That OP ed was the biggest POS I have ever seen. Rebecca is so sadly misinformed about those of us on the Left but but she has a great grasp of Presidential politics.
This is why so many of us are happy and excited about Bernie.
lindysalsagal
(20,795 posts)Chris Christie
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Which was not me. I did not give that person a "lecture"...it is not my place to tell someone that personally.
But this is some name-calling involving a whole segment of our party. I did not single out a person here and I won't.
What should I have done? If I publicly called someone out my post would be locked. If I did it privately to someone I hardly know...it would be out of place.
So despite the very good points made by my posts of the definitions of what a well-known blogger called about half our party....the thread is sidejacked because someone else said something on the internet that has nothing to do with what I posted.
Do I think someone should be disrespectful to the president? No, I do not.
It was shameful for an activist blogger to call other activists dismal and rancid.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)It was an entire segment of DU agreeing with that bullshit and you never called them out.
I call hypocrisy.
betsuni
(25,815 posts)Heh.
G_j
(40,372 posts). just how ridiculously convoluted can a discussion get?
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)If I did that I would not be here long.
That's just an absurd criticism to deflect.
Skittles
(153,310 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Orrex
(63,291 posts)The boy's a time bomb.