Posted on 05/04/2012 10:15:31 AM PDT by lacrew
“7. Idol worship.”
Reminds me of those “Day in the life of President Bush” threads. To our credit, all the idol worship WAS encapsulated in ONE daily thread.
haha. Glad you did the research and not me :).
:)
They won’t make the Jim Thompson mistake, because they use a perjorative nickname most of the time.
I left it off the list, but name calling is a comon tactic.
Reptard, Rethuglican, etc, etc,...as well as prolific use of profanity....such as a common thread title: John Doe needs to F Off (in all caps with exclamation points).
I forgot about that part. When Breitbart died, some posts were downright nasty, while others used the “I don’t want to speak ill of the dead, but....” format.
Some members there even tried to clean that up...but were rebuffed (usually with the F word).
I always feel like I need a shower after I go there.
I once tried to explain Chinese infanticide to a liberal. They’ve got over a billion people, so any movement in the boy/girl ratio has to have been a result of hundreds of thousands of (often forced) abortions, and infanticide.
He just flat did not believe me. So that was the end of discussion as far as he was concerned.
I'll cut the turds some slack on Breitbart because he so successfully showed the public what a bunch of liars and scumbags liberals are.
Likewise, it would take restraint higher than what I currently have to feel sorrow over the passing of David Brock or George Soros, if it were.
That is so tr...oh, wait.
Ah, never mind. Already taken care of.
Too bad you got squished on DU
But! Now that you’re probably going to be bored - pop in on some of your local newspaper sites article comment sections.
This is where middle-moderate-America hangs out to get their news and opinions - when they aren’t watching Colbert and Letterman....It’s relatively safe work-viewing sites that they glean their info from...In my area the sections are filled with progressive liberals and a few of us Conservatives commenting.
283 posties? I have to ask, how many conversations with nadinebrezinsky? The DU hysterical expert on EVERYTHING! It’s amazing to watch her unravel when she makes other DUmpsters “dead” to her.
It's my sincerest rainbow hopey, from the smiley huggy depths of my heart, that some shining unicorn day we can simply . . .
. . . with those assclowns !
I only tangled with nadinbrzezinski once. It was on a thread about the post office financial woes. She (I assume she)jumped in and said I was wrong about something....just found it in the Google cache...her title in her response to me is “No they did not”.
I immediately replied with a link (to Huffington to keep it legit in their eyes) which proved her to be the fool. Its an example of how I was able to be pretty rude, and get away with it, since facts are hard to fight. Here’s a snippet:
They absolutely did defer the pension payment, from FY 11 to FY 12. The $5 billion loss in FY11 was exclusively the difference in income and expense...completely outside of any pension payments, which were delayed until November ($5.5 billion). So, I really have no idea what you are talking about....I did not remember wrongly at all.
She did not respond.
I tended to avoid her, and many of what I call the ‘core’ group. There are probably around 50 members there with post counts over 40,000, and they make up the bulk of the posts. They are mostly zealots, and I imagine have diagnosed mental disorders (and I’m not being flippant). They have a sense of personal ownership over the site, and are quick to ‘tattle’ on people. I have seen people who crossed their path get tombstoned for very minor slights.
But I got away with it that one time. Obviously I didn’t get away with it today, though.
Good point. I’ve actually commented on a few local articles...but at my local paper, the atmosphere in the comments section is toxic. A dozen ‘regulars’ just launch personal attacks at each other...so nobody bothers reading the comments section.
The Colbert crowd worries me greatly....and I really don’t know how to counter it. There is some solace in knowing that the ratings for the likes of Colbert and Letterman are relatively low....they may be good ratings for the time slot and format...but the total number of viewers is still low.
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