Senator Warren on Facebook

[SHRED]

My son-in-law's dad just responded on my FB, "She is a prototypical ass hat" in response to the pic below I posted. He is a Tea Party far rightwinger.

I replied with, "ad hominem...LOL"

Since he works for the nuclear power industry should I also post up..."cut government spending on insuring and funding nuclear power"?

LOL...RWNTs are strange creatures...especially those working for six figures on government contracts.





http://www.facebook.com/teamsters

[Marie Marie]

1. They will never get it.

The brainwashing appears to be irreversible.

[SHRED]

2. yes...very much so...

...in his case it is even worse.

He spent time in the Navy also...another "socialist" organization...LOL.


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[socialindependocrat]

3. A government FOR THE PEOPLE

What is so difficult to understand about that?!

[progressoid]

4. Yer damn skippy!

[Union Scribe]

5. The more I hear her

The more I really like her. I try not to get my hopes in one elected person up too much, but she is hitting all the right notes with me.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

6. Thanks for the link.

You should post it in the new DU Elizabeth Warren Group: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1265

[UnrepentantLiberal]

7. Here's Elizabeth Warren's Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren

[No Vested Interest]

8. In the interest of family harmony

I find it better to not post my political views on Facebook.

It's not a two-way street in that regard, but I just routinely
"hide" the offensive RW posts, and, believe me, there are a lot of them/

[lebkuchen]

9. That's a DU topic unto itself

Has it ever been discussed in a separate thread?

My brother posted on FB how much he enjoyed living on another continent. I said I enjoyed living on another continent as well (not his), and all hell broke loose on the relative front--they have rarely ever been out of their own county and considered us unpatriotic. I have nothing to talk about to these people since we have virtually nothing in common other than DNA, and since my parental connection to them has passed on, I decided it was a good time to let the extended rellies pass from my Facebook account. If they want to get in touch w/me, they have my snailmail account.

[No Vested Interest]

10. By virtue of longevity

I have become the (extended) family matriarch.
I am protective of family ties and want to pass on family heritage to those who will never know it without my input.
So, yes, their political stance was imbued by the other side of their parentage, but I'm not giving up on them as people.
I not going to convert them to my way of political thinking and they're not going to convert me to theirs.
It's a stalemate, and I can accept that.

[lebkuchen]

12. I live with stalemates every day

as I work on a military base. Fortunately, it's against the Hatch Act to discuss politics, but they do tend to make their positions clear. However, it's in my financial interest not to engage.

When extended family members from "Pleasantville" consider me the evil incarnate because I prefer to live in another country, it doesn't make my angry, but it does make me sad. Further, we lack any basis for further communication, DNA or no DNA.

[kentuck]

11. Another one from FB