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In reply to the discussion: I've been having a lengthy argument on facebook with a former neighbor [View all]coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)15. Yeah that's the point
She isn't completely stupid. She's just stupid enough to post this stuff on facebook.
My own sister unfriended me last year because I was happy that Obama won. And I told her to stop posting nonsense (she was upset that he used Air Force One to fly to a campaign stop).
About 60% of my family are rabid Republicans. One sister is a one-issue voter -- abortion. The rest of them think Obama is Muslim, or communist, etc etc.
I never heard this kind of stuff about Clinton when he was president. Even through the Monica Lewinsky nonsense they all kept their mouth shut.
I think some of this is a form of prejudice. Bigotry that no one is willing to admit to.
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I've been having a lengthy argument on facebook with a former neighbor [View all]
coeur_de_lion
Feb 2013
OP
Why do you stress yourself out with people like this. You can't reason with stupid.
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#7
Keep her around and keep inviting her over for coffee/tea while having political discussions.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#9
Really? The neighbor sounds two steps from irrational. Having a person like that over
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#10
Yeah but unfriending could lead to all types of awkwardness when you see the person again.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#12
I look at it like this: I talked/felt like that in the Bush administration years
Hekate
Feb 2013
#16
Orwellian, the new handi-dandy all-purpose intellectual buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz word. nt
patrice
Feb 2013
#30
There was a time in life when I thought people in many ways were pretty much the
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#31