Liberals and their Soapboxes...

Every liberal needs to go to Eastern Czech. They need to see the aftermath of a government run "green" society. 20 years ago they had electric mass transit or bicycle for transport and the government gave everyone a job and health care was free. They are a free society now but their thinking has still been fucked up by the socialist programming. I think it will be another 20 years or more before they can be mentally free. The generation that is in power there now is still crippling their ability to produce.

It might have something to do with courtesy and respect.

Been snorting the melange again, haven't you.

I've got a few friends like that - one guy is a writer who's firmly convinced the only thing the world lacks is more of his opinion (also, he's one of those Canadians who's obsessed with US politics)

Several others who are TG (and, as you might expect, the TG crowd is heavily tilted towards the left as a demographic) and "mouthy" about their politics. mind you, I don't mind that they speak up a lot on "equality" issues, but extrapolating that to "no conservative was ever right about any issue in the history of mankind" thinking is weak.

But what's really gripped me lately is on twitter - the number of people I follow who feel the need to make some lame ass jab at GWB because the Rangers are in the ALCS and he's at the games is just Unreal. Guys been gone almost two years folks - let it go.

Doesn't exist on Facebook.

Take the time to go and study the First Amendment. Let us know where it says one has to let others say whatever they want on one's own Facebook page.

If the man is tired of seeing that crap he needs to start bitch slapping and yes, censoring people who won't stop.

Well, I dunno. My "friend" has the right to say whatever he wants. I have the right to not listen to him though. The dilemma is, about 75% of what he says is parroting trite, reactionary garbage. So if I want to catch the other 25% I either have to put up with the bulk of it or, as someone pointed out, call to attention how annoying the rest of his posts are.

That said, one of his most recent posts was bemoaning people saying America needs to be more "pro-business" and that we should be "pro-America". Ordinarily I'd have just ignored that, but in light of this thread I decided to chime in and point out that America was founded by businessmen who were sick of an over intrusive government, taxing them and telling them how they could run their businesses. His reply to this was something like "That is true, but I think we can change with the times".

So basically I've got a guy I know used to be very smart, spouting bumper-sticker truisms and then when you call him on it he says "Oh well, I don't care."

Really, I can't get my brain around how you get to that point. My first impulse was towards evil--knowing you're saying things that aren't true, but using them to manipulate people anyway, but then I realized this guy isn't part of the Inner Party. He's just like the rest of us. So I don't understand, logically, how he could've drank the Kool Aid.

There's some sort of Neo-Hippie style going around here in Sweden nowadays. I scored one of those, and boy, she was hot.

Take one tablespoon of hippie. Mix in a teaspoon of hip hop and a pinch of punk. Add hair coloring and eyeliner. Stir vigorously. Serve with emo sauce.

Enjoy!

Which hair? The ones on her head or the euro-afro between her legs?

Sounds like an overly-dramatic, self-important, must-be-the-center-of-attention chick who mistakes packaging for personality.

What's wrong with wanting to be the center of attention?

It's the polar opposite of my own personality, and with very few exceptions, bothers the living shit out of me. People like that tend to have terrible manners, interrupting/talking over the top of others, talking too fucking loud just to make sure everyone is listening only to THEM....

I dunno. I just have a problem with, arrogant, overbearing, rude-ass cartoon character types.

Oh. I don't interupt or talk over others. I just walk into a room and suddenly, it's all about me... well.., it is in my head, anyway.

Which is what makes them easy....

God fuckin' damn it! This guy is having a fucking meltdown. Every two hours he's posting links to liberal blogs about how immigration requests to Canada are skyrocketing and such. I think it is about time to quietly defriend him.

Why do fucking liberals act like hysterical women when they don't get their way?

(and like smug douchebags when they do)

So do it. What's the issue? Some leftist dickhole starts spewing garbage, shut off the flow. No muss, no fuss.

Like I said, he once was a fairly smart guy, and on occasion he'll make an enjoyable post about the State fair or renovating his house.

"once was" doesn't excuse "now is" beyond a certain expiration date. If he's reached his, thrust that leg, enjoy the impact through the bottom of your bootheel and shed no tears. Fucker's had his run.

Why don't you invite him to Wordforge? The leftist assholes here complain there isn't enough of their retarded ilk on this board already, and the rest of us could use a good laugh.

Facebook is very interesting to watch today.

There's quite a bit of "good sport" losing going on, as well as no small amount of epic butthurt (the latter from people who were overwhelmingly smug, condescending gloaters on election day, 2008). Have to say that there's some satisfying, well-earned laughs to be had at the expense of the "butthurt" crowd.

Just take everything you said and apply it to yourself.

See, Aztek Ace, that is why I keep my WF persona. I can act like a douche here without annoying my normal friends who know my real name.

So while I may go on about what an utterly shitty and failed company GM is here, at Facebook I talk about working on my house or how much it has been raining lately or Halloween parties.

I refuse to believe that you have friends.

My actual friend list people are pretty philosophical tonight (albeit the one blowhard isn't posting at all) but THEIR friends who are replying in their threads are wildly entertaining, in terms of providing schadenfreude

I finally wound up defriending him. This evening he made a post, bitching about how much he hates listening to Rush Limbaugh within 5 minutes of one about how awesome Richard Dawkins is and I finally couldn't take it any more.

WE GET IT! YOU'RE AN ATHEIST. YOU DON'T LIKE CONSERVATIVES.

I don't spend my time bitching about Rachael Madcow or Keith Olbermann. I certainly don't listen to them just so I can tell all my friends how much I hate listening to them. I don't spend my week talking about the sermon or the scripture reading from church that Sunday either.

That's ok. We all refuse to believe you're capable of keeping a job.

You should have shot him.

So not 12 hours after dropping this guy, I get a butthurt e-mail, asking if his commentary on his writing was getting too much. Since I felt like I owed him an explanation I said essentially what I said here. I ENJOY when he talks about writing. I ENJOY when he talks about remodeling his house. I just get tired of his constantly bitching about politics (I didn't even bring up his missionary atheism).

This immediately got me ANOTHER butthurt e-mail about how he likes talking about politics and if I can't handle it maybe I SHOULDN'T be in his Facebook list.

Duh? Isn't that kind of what I decided?

Seriously, though, at the risk of being an amateur psychologist, I suspect deep, fundamental insecurities. If you say you don't believe in God, but you're continually haranguing people with YouTube clips and articles from Richard Dawkins; if you need to bitch about how biased Rush Limbaugh is in the year 20freaking10, it seems to me that you've got a chip on your shoulder.

After he posted the Dawkins clip, I should've told him I was going to pray for his wicked soul.

I believe the clinical name for that condition is 'liberal'.