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So there has been an influx on my FB newsfeed of 'somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot' and 'eagles swooping in to "pick off" our president'...just a LOT of President bashing. To which, I replied, on ALL of them:
To think that these horrible pics are being spread while we have troops on FOREIGN SOIL fighting for our freedom. It certainly denigrates our troops and their mission to see people criticizing their Commander in Chief. I tell you one thing...I cannot BELIEVE how much people will put their hatred for this President over the love of this country.
They. are. exploding.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Snort!
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Just who do they think they are?
Kath1
(4,309 posts)It is a great feeling to piss off the right-wingers first thing in the morning.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)but sometimes, they just INSIST on the smack down. What can I do?
tridim
(45,358 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)Excessively religion-based, minimal regulations, and access to all the weapons they can get their hands on.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Where men are pigs and the women know their place is in the harem.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Or that's how it seems to me.
Good of you to "correct" them (I mean that in earnest) but so much is rooted in racism and bigotry with these types that couldn't find their way out of a house of doors on fire.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)I agree that I am not, and will never get through to the poster, but FB doesn't happen in a vacuum. Our common friends and all of his friend will see this exchange.
And some of them get reached. Truly.
cartach
(511 posts)so you don't have far to go. I've had some harsh words for a few of them lately and the result is they've jumped on my case and had a few of my posts erased. It's too easy to do that here and so if you're hypercritical about right wing subjects you can expect a few alerts. I recently had a post erased for, if you can believe it, calling a certain right wing country a bunch of Nazis. Freedom of speech has gone all to hell here and I don't spend much time on this website any more.
cutroot
(875 posts)They are here in teams and backing each other up. I had a post hidden simply because I insinuated that someone was a romney voter. Freedom of speech hasn't gone to hell. They are simply trying to use it against us. Do not succumb to them. The right is now fully aware that the internet defeats them. That is why they are here throwing mud and trying to diffuse it.
Bucky
(54,027 posts)They're loyal to the country as long as there's a Republican president. When there's a Democrat in office they hoard gold, store canned fruits in their basement armories, and all but root for the coming collapse.
I think there must be a phantom country called "Republican United States of America" that they are loyal to. And when that country goes away and there's only the E Pluribus Unam United States of America left standing, they enter into a kind of Cold War mentality. They won't shoot us, but they'll do anything up to that point--deception, propaganda, scapegoating, jamming up the gears of legislation--just to make sure the United States fails, the economy falters, and the enemy regime revents to Republican America.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)NOT our freedom. However, since the right wingers fervently preach that the US's endless wars are for our freedoms, it's a great, very effective smackdown & shines a bright light on their hypocrisy. And it's quite true that these right wingers put their hatred for President Obama over any love they may profess for their country.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)My cousin has been spreading a lot of her right wing porn on Facebook lately. I wanted to smack her down but the family is going through a serious mental health crisis with another cousin and I felt it just wasn't the time to spread dsicord. I know she is doing it and doesn't seem to care, but I don't want to sink to her level.
So I just took her off my newsfeed so she didn't piss me off any further.
galileoreloaded
(2,571 posts)Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)That the troops we have on foreign soil are actually fighting for our freedom?
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)But I do NOT believe their actual missions in the Middle East are keeping us free.
Quite the contrary. Feeding the military industrial complex while starving domestic programs curtails our freedom.