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Warren DeMontague

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23. What always cracks me up... is the almost mathematical predictability of how any and every horrible
Thu May 16, 2013, 03:01 PM
May 2013

thing in the world- no matter what it is- can, in fact inevitably will be linked back to, you know, "those people and attitudes on DU" in a series of incredibly predictable 2 or 3 posts.

Oh, yes, "Child Soldiers Conscripted to Mine Diamonds in the Congo"? Well, tsk, tsk, we see those same attitudes regularly on display from some here on DU yes we do

(really? people on DU support child soldiers being forced to mine diamonds? Oh, okay. Please, proceed)

Yes, yes, it's a shame that our supposedly progressive men refuse to see how their attitudes are complicit with the same sort of subjugation oppression mindset that laughs heedlessly at a dongle joke, which also sends children as young as 4 into diamond mines yes yes

indeed. it's disgusting tsk tsk quack.




At first, I was like

and then I was a bit

but at this point I'm just like

maybe i'll just live down here [View all] unreadierLizard May 2013 OP
Yep..unfortunately, opiate69 May 2013 #1
I was getting a little worried, actually. Warren DeMontague May 2013 #12
No doubt! opiate69 May 2013 #13
Someone is sure trying to Warren DeMontague May 2013 #14
I'm sure they'd think it was just duckie if DU was "alk outrage, all the time" opiate69 May 2013 #15
Im not really sure what the point is, honestly Warren DeMontague May 2013 #16
Meh... opiate69 May 2013 #18
Reacting as you do is just feeding the frenzy ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2013 #2
I don't know why you give a shit about what they think. MrSlayer May 2013 #3
meh, they got nothin' of substance galileoreloaded May 2013 #4
We're "up here" by the way. lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #5
My advice? Pay no attention to the weekly gratuitous "silly whacks". Warren DeMontague May 2013 #6
meh, its sport galileoreloaded May 2013 #7
knock yourself out Warren DeMontague May 2013 #8
it IS my time :) i appreciate both your view galileoreloaded May 2013 #9
It's a futile effort to try and debate someone when their ideology trumps reason Major Nikon May 2013 #17
Listen, they are so so so so FAAAAR beyond SICK of it all.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2013 #10
Perpetual outrage indeed. Warren DeMontague May 2013 #11
There's nothing inherently wrong with outrage Major Nikon May 2013 #20
I guess the crux of the issue is the difference between justified or justifiable outrage Warren DeMontague May 2013 #21
That's part and parcel to it Major Nikon May 2013 #22
What always cracks me up... is the almost mathematical predictability of how any and every horrible Warren DeMontague May 2013 #23
Well if *you* aren't pushing for child soldier diamond-mining conscripts, then it's not about you! lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #24
I was wrong, in this post. Warren DeMontague May 2013 #25
Conflating together totally unrelated phenomena, is one of the hallmarks of nearly all extremists. nomorenomore08 May 2013 #26
That was kind of what I was getting at, here: Warren DeMontague Jun 2013 #27
Bashing the male gender is a sport for some here at DU Upton May 2013 #19
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