I went to check out the dark side (m)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

I actually started reading posts on the free republic (HA!) website.

OMG.

It made me think about this--I NEVER want my side to be accused of being as hateful and horrible as these people are. The racist jokes, the gay jokes, the stereotypes, the threats of violence to all liberals (I especially enjoyed the one wishing we were all sterile or that there were some way he could make us all sterile). It was stomach-turning.

Fortunately we have enough ammo about bush just from what he's done since 2000 (thanks bush!) to keep away from personal insults against.....those people.

And I guess that's what I am trying to say. I don't need to insult anyone or wish them dead. All I have to do is keep on the issues at hand.....the pathetic job bush has done with the economy, our environment and the world.

Dear God, don't ever let me get down in that muck and slime those people seem to be trapped in.

I cannot imagine living my life hating so many people.

[boobooday]

1. Just look at the user names

I noticed the other day, I was reading posts on Yahoo. All the right wing posters had user names like

liberals_suck_donkey_dix

or variations on that theme. Their posts were all about anal this and cock that. These people are desperately repressed. It would really be sad, if it wasn't so scary.

It's a dark and sinister world, with a crunchy outer shell!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

3. Crunchy outer shell, LOL! (m)

Yeah the usernames were pretty disturbing, but the messages.....OY.

[slackdude]

5. I know that guy

I've tangled with liberals_suck_donkey_dix on yahoo a bunch of times. I post as slack_fist_productions and shamelessly pimp my movie on those boards, mostly just flaming the right wingers. I find it to be a great way to relieve some of the stress of living in Bush's America. That guy is a total dick. I know just about all the rightwingnuts on Yahoo and have managed to get under just about all of their skins.

[daveskilt]

2. well said

I often find myself strongly disagreeing with some people on here ...and then being so on their team in another thread. and it is great to hear other views - I even like hearing the views of my republican friends (most of whom are getting more mebarrassed by bush daily) as long as it is views/opinions/ dialogue seeking to increase understanding if not reach agreement.

Of course as a scotsman i am contractually bound to hate most other people (the french, the queen etc)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

4. ROFL! (m)

Yeah, that's what I don't understand. The Republicans I know in real life don't sound like that, but maybe they just save it for when they are around only "their kind"?

For the record, I talk like this around everone of every political persuasion!

[9215]

10. Do you expect your Repug friends to be jumping ship come

November?

[daveskilt]

15. maybe some of them

a few plan not to vote or to vote libertarian. One keeps telling me Bush is the greatest president ever, but I think he is starting to not believe it anymore - he looks kind of like he wants to run away whenever anyone (even other repubs) mention bush. Most of the people I know who love bush have never voted before (scary) and think bush is a lock and so dont plan to vote. I tell them all the time bush is a sure winner and they shouldnt bother voting.

[Poiuyt]

12. You wouldn't hate most other people

if you stopped eating haggis. It will change your whole outlook on the world. :)

[daveskilt]

14. if it wasnt for haggis and whiskey

I would have to start focusing on the chafing of a thick woollen kilt.

[gander2112]

20. Good one...

I have a buddy who is Scottish. He is great fun to hang out with.

His favorite line: "If it ain't scottish, its CRAAAAAAAAAAAP!"


Sorry for the OT, but you made me laugh here!

Geoff

P.S. I have trolled there, (FR) and really feel dirty afterwards...

[dae]

6. You shouldn't go there, in the dark places are scary things. The brain-

less wonders are legends in their own minds.;)
:kick:

[arewethereyet]

7. doen't sound any worse than some of the stuff I've seen here

sad but true

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

9. That's what concerned me

I haven't been around DU long and for the most part, I have found compassionate, thinking, open-minded souls willing to put aside stereotypes and generalizations and hatefulness.

But I know there are some in every group.

Fortunately, from what I saw over THERE, they have us WAY outnumbered on the prick factor. WAY outnumbered.

[arewethereyet]

13. the moderators have held a fairly tight grip over the past several months

they may not be saying it but its not gone.

[Cat Atomic]

8. Republicans depend on the asshole vote.

I know that seems tremendously simplistic and unfair, but I really do think it's true.

That's not to say that all Republicans are assholes, of course- only that their party has catered to the "me first, fuck you, you deserve to be poor, keep to your own kind" sentiment for a very long time, and so they've got a big majority of the asshole demographic locked up tight.

[gander2112]

21. ... and that is scary...

'cause there are more assholes around than I can accurately count.

Seriously, you have hit the nail on the head.

I make a good salary (damn good), and my peers are absolutely shocked when I tell them I do not mind paying taxes.

They are even more shocked when they hear me mention that I believe we need to spend more on education, health and human services, and less on subsides, and military. They assume that since I earn what I earn, that I should be implicitly a member of the "ASSHOLE" group that you refer to.

I love disappointing them.

Geoff

[USAF Brat]

11. Their attitude stems from their deepest feelings of

fear. Yes, fear. Therefore Republican = fearful. Democrat = hopeful. The two can never meet! :shrug:

[daveskilt]

16. I actually heard this today -

"the only ethical considerations a company should care about are the ones that improve the bottom line in the long term" overheard from an MBA student standing outside the student lounge for MBA's at UGA.

how can you get these type of guys to vote anything but compassionate conservative?

[BillZBubb]

17. Was he any relation to Ken Lay?

Sounds like he interned at Enron. He'll vote R all his life--at least until his indictment.

[Poiuyt]

18. That's nothing!

I heard a conversation between my boss and his boss regarding someone who was killed in a chemical plant accident. My boss's boss said, "I'll bet that cost someone some money."

I couldn't believe my ears.

[daveskilt]

19. You should sit in on an MBA ethics class sometime

It really is pretty shocking. In a class of 80 students - when asked whether or not to turn of the power on an old man who didnt pay his bill in wisconsin in january - 3 people said no, 77 yes. Whether ornot to pay a bribe to unload goods at a US port - 79 yes, 1 no. The biggest issue for me was that the majority of the yes votes couldnt even see or acknowledge that there was any arguement to be made for the other side. One econ professor regularly argues that shoddy products that kill a few people are good for the economy and we all secretly want companies to do this (make ford pinto exploding gas tanks) because the net benefit to society far outweighs the small monetary cost of losing a few lives. Most of the class agree with him by the end of a term.

hitting the job market somewhere near you this summer.