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In reply to the discussion: To all the DUers I've argued with, and even the DUers I don't like or respect very much: [View all]JoeyT
(6,785 posts)89. Hear hear.
Here it's mostly a difference of tactics or extent for an idea. Some of the people there are outright opposed to basic human decency. There's only so much about letting hungry kids starve or how letting non-whites vote is totally oppression I can handle, and it's not very much.
I figure on DU even most of the people I don't like much here I would probably like IRL. I have to wonder what some of the people I've seen there are like. BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!? SOCIALISM! WHAAARGARBL! "Dude, just shut up and eat your fucking cheeseburger." "No! Obama eats cheeseburgers!"
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To all the DUers I've argued with, and even the DUers I don't like or respect very much: [View all]
dionysus
May 2014
OP
If I wanted to argue with brainwashed RW zombies I'd visit my family. #nothanks nt
TeamPooka
May 2014
#111
just one example, if the HOF folks here think DU is sexist, wait'll they get a load of that joint!
dionysus
May 2014
#13
jesus christ, no. i'm pointing out they're even worse there. don't try to put words in my mouth, ok?
dionysus
May 2014
#64
indeed you have. you have now twice aspired to assign motives to me that i do not hold.
dionysus
May 2014
#75
it wasn't a swipe for crying out loud. HOF are the most dedicated feminists on DU. all i said was,
dionysus
May 2014
#92
Yeah, in the first few days I was engaged in a, um, discussion about that place, and I said
Warren DeMontague
May 2014
#11
when you extrapolate outside of the DU bubble, where the infighting is viscious... and stroll to
dionysus
May 2014
#76
They're the new CC and FR. Long may they spew about DU there. Just not here. It's rough enough. n/t
freshwest
May 2014
#22
it's fun tearing down their lies and exposing their double standards.. up to a point. and liberals
dionysus
May 2014
#62
See, neither you nor I would ever have known that if not for Discussionist. (n/t)
Jim Lane
May 2014
#48
"as Stephanie Miller says they may be entitled to their opinion but not their own set of facts"
Fortinbras Armstrong
May 2014
#91
I love Discussionist and have actually found a few Conservatives, granted they contacted me
sabrina 1
May 2014
#67
there are a few i was able to debate with in a polite fashion, but our ideas were just %100 apart.
dionysus
Jun 2014
#122
The right wingers at Politico make the Discussionist variety seem reasonable and eloquent
Tom Ripley
May 2014
#72
I don't huff or drink, but, in principle, the OP explains why I stopped posting
merrily
May 2014
#78
it's fun to destroy them and have the fellow liberal posters laugh at them, but even faced with
dionysus
May 2014
#95
no joke, i was arguing over there with a guy who had fucking Benghazi in his damn handle...
dionysus
May 2014
#93
the dumbest most misinformed illogical DUr is a Mensa member compared to those reactionaries.
arely staircase
May 2014
#96
to quote Ed Bailey from Tombstone "jesus it's like playing cards with my sisters kids..."
dionysus
Jun 2014
#114
DU will always be my mainstay but i have a guilty pleasure into tearing into conservatives. sad part
dionysus
Jun 2014
#118