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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:18 PM Original message |
Martin Luther King Would Have Loved the Teabaggers, Not Called Them Racists |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Truthout - check. White folks saying what MLK would have done - check. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. cause white folks can only understand white folks, & black folks can only understand black folks, |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
42. No, because white folks have a long and glorious history of making shit up about black folks... |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:20 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. And black folks have a history of stealing things in my hood |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #47 |
57. hahahaha! |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:49 PM Response to Reply #47 |
90. You know |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #90 |
117. Exactly my point |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:21 PM Response to Reply #42 |
48. oh, you're a white guy telling us what black people think too? irony alert. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #48 |
56. I missed the part where I did that. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #56 |
75. did you? not surprised. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #42 |
66. yes, yes. only white people lie. |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:47 PM Response to Reply #66 |
164. Gracious. |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #42 |
95. I love this comment from Alice Walker's Mom |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
63. How come no one's called this guy on his racism? NT |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #63 |
76. how's that? |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:36 PM Response to Reply #76 |
83. The poster |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #83 |
87. which poster? |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #87 |
88. First responder NT |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:01 AM Response to Reply #88 |
129. Because it isn't worth the hassle. |
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NWHarkness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. The teabaggers may not all be racists |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
51. All generalizations are incorrect NT |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. Okay. But how many, really, are saying they're all racists? |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
4. You lost me at "Martin Luther King would have..." nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
172. Yes...why don't we ask what Alister Cromwell would have said...or Elivs... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. Not buying it, sorry. |
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Solomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
142. Here's what bugs me about the constant attempt to portray |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #142 |
148. That's how I see it. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
6. mlk would have organized them, not called them "racists". in fact, it's |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. He would have had to throughly re-educate them |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. you assume people's opinions & inclination to action are stable, unless subject to |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. "many of those folks you're calling "racist" would be there." |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:49 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. some would, so what? it doesn't excuse the "party of the little guy"'s failure |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. I agree with your post, not with the idea that MLK wouldn't see the racists as racists. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:18 PM Response to Reply #33 |
46. i'd say he had a bigger vision than most. his focus was never on demonizing his opposition, |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #46 |
114. I know! I hate the name-calling! |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
127. +1 |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
151. the teabaggers would have lynched MLK einstein. jeeesus h on a pogo stick. |
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subcomhd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
165. purposeful or are the ruling class just part of the same paradigm? |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
8. I wish this guy would ask his grandmother why she thinks there were no teabaggers |
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uberblonde (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Mike Elk is a union organizer. |
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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
44. Well I'm glad somebody besides me got it |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:38 PM Response to Reply #44 |
112. Lots of us GET it. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #112 |
120. while *you,* otoh, know *exactly* what mlk would think. |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 11:46 PM Response to Reply #120 |
123. No. But then *I* am not the one making the claim. That would be you. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:45 AM Response to Reply #123 |
128. i'm claiming what he *actually DID do* while living was organize a |
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FlaGranny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 05:14 AM Response to Reply #128 |
132. You need to go back and look |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 05:59 AM Response to Reply #132 |
133. please point out where i claimed a teabagger rally was equivalent to the march on |
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FlaGranny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 06:44 AM Response to Reply #133 |
135. You didn't - you said MLK would approve |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #135 |
161. please point out where i said mlk "would approve" of teabaggers. |
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FlaGranny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 07:46 AM Response to Reply #161 |
176. Okay, you're right - you said "LOVED" - not approved. |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #128 |
166. Organizing does not mean one has to include |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. the rest of us got nothing? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. that there are powerful, connected forces funding & promoting this "movement" doesn't mean |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
30. Because a mere 9 months ago... |
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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
9. I'm sending the author a link |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. Martin Luther King would have been shot by the Teabaggers. |
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VMI Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. +1. |
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GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Oh, come on. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Teabaggers should stop being crazy racist losers. |
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GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. What |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Well, being racists makes them losers. |
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GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Wow. Harsh. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Deleted message |
GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Why... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. LOL |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Are those real tears? Or just Vicks? |
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GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Definitely Vicks. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:16 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. Nobody alert on this one for awhile. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:04 AM Response to Reply #45 |
137. What's to alert? |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:40 PM Response to Reply #34 |
113. Racists by definition are NOT good people. |
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Rude Dog (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #34 |
124. Tell me... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Awwwwwww! |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. LOL..."decent people". |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:23 PM Response to Reply #29 |
49. Are those pics from DU over the past 8 years? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Amazing watching people defend teabaggers. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Amazing watching people use the same tactics before and then condemn them later (nt) |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:39 PM Response to Reply #53 |
61. The poster I was responding to called them "decent people". |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:08 PM Response to Reply #61 |
73. And I think we are/were decent people too, and so are many teabagger types I know |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #49 |
157. Which concentration camp has Obama set up? Oh, wait, he's closing the one Bush had set up! |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:15 AM Response to Reply #29 |
138. You cannot possibly make the claim that EACH and EVERY |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #138 |
149. If people knowlingly side with obvious racists to futher a goal... |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #29 |
152. they're just misunderstood, good christian folks is all. |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
156. The fact that they hold up signs calling Obama a "lying African" comes to mind... |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:01 AM Response to Reply #15 |
136. Most of us are. |
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jeffbr (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. Where's his birth certificate? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
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hileeopnyn8d (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #89 |
92. I saw that too |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #92 |
93. I thought it was a joke. |
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jeffbr (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
14. del dup |
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GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. And |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
59. We'll stop calling them teabaggers . . . |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
19. This article reminds me why I quit going to truthout years ago. n/t |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
24. The teabaggers think that King Glen and Limpballs are on their side |
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ThePantaloon.com (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
35. Look at the SIGNS! They ARE racist or crazy or ignorant |
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GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. That there are some... |
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hileeopnyn8d (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #40 |
80. LOL! |
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gleaner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
38. Based on what I have heard of .. |
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GMA (467 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Based on what you've heard? |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:42 PM Response to Reply #41 |
64. What, you mean like covering the 9/12 Footshooter Parade from beginning to end . . . |
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gleaner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #41 |
101. Well everyone is entitled to think.... |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
43. How can anyone know what MLK would've done or thought? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #43 |
54. the fact is he was organizing a multiracial coalition for economic justice immediately before his |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. Well a lot has changed since then. Not enough obviously, but |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #55 |
70. whatever. |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:00 PM Response to Reply #70 |
71. Whatever? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #71 |
74. i know what he was doing when he died, that's close enough for me. |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #74 |
77. Did you really post that last statement? Good God how desperate |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #77 |
81. we know how he felt when alive. he risked his life to organize a multiracial |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:58 PM Response to Reply #81 |
97. Um, ok. Thanks for the history lesson. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #97 |
103. it's crazy to believe mlk was killed for threatening the economic status quo. |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:33 PM Response to Reply #103 |
110. You believe whatever it is you want to believe I said or meant sweetie. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:38 PM Response to Reply #110 |
121. i'm not your sweetie. he's not alive. he won't be alive. it's counter-factual, therefore |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. Teabaggers aren't interested in economic justice. |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:40 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. And you know this because......? NT |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:43 PM Response to Reply #62 |
65. Because they're against health care for the poor. |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. I'm not cool W/ single payer |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:03 AM Response to Reply #67 |
130. I'm assuming you like socialized medicine then, right? |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #130 |
147. Nope |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:17 PM Response to Reply #65 |
118. It's like the fucking twilight zone in here - but this was the 50th anniverary of the show |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #118 |
141. yeah...DU is good for a couple of good WTF threads per week... |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #118 |
153. The full moon was Sunday. |
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malletgirl02 (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
50. Jumping the Shark |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
60. I am SOOOO going to get flamed |
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ellie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. Where were they |
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Treo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. Were you there? |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:24 PM Response to Reply #69 |
106. home town... no we were in DC and NY |
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ellie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #69 |
108. We aren't talking about me |
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subcomhd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #69 |
169. The ones in our town wanted to know |
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hileeopnyn8d (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #60 |
102. If you haven't noticed |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
72. Um...no. Not sure that a group of folks dedicated to opposing EVERYTHING |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:25 PM Response to Reply #72 |
79. you start from the assumption the folks involved are all |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #79 |
82. That's funny, because the little rallies and town hall protests are basically about |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:39 PM Response to Reply #82 |
85. it's funny you know why every one of those folks might support an anti-tax |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:49 PM Response to Reply #85 |
91. You can be FOR lower taxes and not be a teabagger. Teabagging |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #91 |
94. yes, & you can be *for* ending war without going to demos, too. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:05 PM Response to Reply #94 |
98. Your analogies are a little off. If I said all Republicans are teabaggers, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #98 |
100. The simple fact that you seem to ignore is that the views of the leadership |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #100 |
111. Protesting against this President for daring to propose health care reform, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:44 PM Response to Reply #111 |
122. "Protesting against this President for daring to propose health care reform" |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
78. They aren't standing up for their rights. |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:06 PM Response to Reply #78 |
115. The teabaggers ARE standing up for rights - the rights of |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
84. Who Marched with a Rifle at Selma? Jesus, read a history book ! |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #84 |
86. care to respond to the issue raised in the op? |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:08 PM Response to Reply #86 |
99. I did. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:23 PM Response to Reply #99 |
104. no, you didn't. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:24 PM Response to Reply #104 |
105. Would someone argue with Hannah already so she can get her fix? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #105 |
107. is this a discussion board? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #107 |
109. Please someone, I beg of you. |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #105 |
154. Haha |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
96. Sure they're not all crazy or racists but they're dupes |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #96 |
116. Guilty of "RANK, WILLFUL STUPIDITY" - KO has never been more accurate in |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
119. Pretty sure Dr. King wouldn't have liked the threats of violence |
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New Dawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
125. MLK would not have supported reactionary thugs, like the teabaggers. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
126. MLK would have organized the teabaggers?!? WHOA!!! |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 05:03 AM Response to Original message |
131. Yes, we should reach out to working folks |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 06:07 AM Response to Reply #131 |
134. by "reach out" what's meant is create an alternative to teabagging. |
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hileeopnyn8d (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #134 |
145. But a majority |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
139. I would give a shit about the teabaggers if they had done ANYTHING |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
140. wrong on several levels... |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
143. Sorry, I just don't see it that way. |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:55 AM Response to Original message |
144. Anyone who is listening to people like Glenn Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, or Coulter and |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
146. Those people who MLK treated with love? |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:26 PM Response to Reply #146 |
160. And he would do the same thing -- |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 02:33 PM Response to Reply #160 |
162. I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.... |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #162 |
163. This is not about what "you" would do, |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 09:12 AM Response to Reply #163 |
177. Last time I checked, he's pretty much still dead... |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
150. ROFL!!! them boys is vying with Counterpunch ain't they? |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
155. Yes, Mike Elk, your grandmother IS a stupid, teabagging reactionary. |
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SIMPLYB1980 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
158. Well look at this I stay away from DU for a couple day's |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
159. The tea-baggers are a vast minority |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
167. Inconvenient truth: there's no money in representing the interests of working people. |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
168. Aw, those sweet teabaggers are just like us...NOT! To these idiots, Obama's an African muslim. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
170. No - if MLK Jr were around today, this is what he'd say |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #170 |
174. The OP and a couple of others see working class white people |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:19 PM Response to Reply #174 |
175. I just have a problem assuming what a historical person would say in today's world |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
171. One good thing about this thread it's that it's brought out the "I don't want the government in my |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
173. Frankly, I think a lot of teabaggers loved MLK... |
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