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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mary Ann on March 07, 2018, 05:12:35 PM
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flibbitygiblets (1,215 posts)
How many friendships have you had to end
Last edited Wed Feb 28, 2018, 11:52 AM - Edit history (1)
as a result of their "gun fever"?
I've had to cut ties with dozens of people.
Some of them were mere acquaintances, so no big loss.
Last night I said goodbye and good luck to a close friend of 20 years. He'd marched with me against the Iraq war. A highly intelligent man, who seems to have traveled a path from libertarianism to full on gun nuttery. I should also mention that along with the ramped up gun advocacy, I observed increasing signs of racism, fascism and religious intolerance. It breaks my heart, this is not the person I once knew.
I am not silent when I disengage these folks. I tell them exactly why I can no longer be their friend. I think its important to stand up to them so they know there are consequences to their stubborn insistence that more guns are the only possible answer. Usually they are angry and spiteful, and oddly, seem to feel misunderstood.
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like this is a national madness that is spreading? How did it infect these seemingly reasonable people? Will it infect me or my family?
And one other thing. Its been insinuated here that I've insulated myself from people with differing opinions. That's completely untrue, and I apologize for not being clearer in my original post. I was, and am still pretty heartbroken, as well as concerned, sorry I wasn't more articulate. Respectful, thoughtful discussion of these difficult subjects is the only way to resolve them.
Surprisingly, this moron gets her a$$ handed to her. Maybe the DUmp has more rational people than I had previously assumed. Anyway, it's worth a row over to the island to take a look. Flibbitygiblets just keeps digging a deeper and deeper hole.
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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)Mon Feb 26, 2018, 11:23 AM
Star Member DUgosh (2,362 posts)
1. Bff from high school since 1975
First reply, right out of the gate.
Doesn't BFF stand for best friends forever? I guess not. Breaking ties with a BFF for exercising a right.
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friendships never end you moron. If politics weigh in then it's not friendship you ignorant moron.
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flibbitygiblets
Usually they are angry and spiteful, and oddly, seem to feel misunderstood.
From the mouths of babes. Once again a primitive perfectly describes the posters at DU.
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I am not silent when I disengage these folks. I tell them exactly why I can no longer be their friend.
And they have a big sigh of relief to be rid of a psychotic ass hole like you. :mental: :loser: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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First reply, right out of the gate.
Doesn't BFF stand for best friends forever? I guess not. Breaking ties with a BFF for exercising a right.
BFF = Big Fox Fan
j/k
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What an arrogant, pathetic pigstwat .
flibbitygiblets
I am not silent when I disengage these folks. I tell them exactly why I can no longer be their friend. I think its important to stand up to them so they know there are consequences to their stubborn insistence that more guns are the only possible answer. Usually they are angry and spiteful, and oddly, seem to feel misunderstood.
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Usually they are happy and over-joyed, and oddly, seem to feel relieved.
(Closer to the truth)
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Or, maybe you're an asshole.
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And they have a big sigh of relief to be rid of a psychotic ass hole like you. :mental: :loser: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
At least until the next month when they get the call : "Hey man, things are a little tight here, think you could spare a couple of bucks to keep the water from getting shut off? "
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I call BS. DUmmies would have already cut off friends for 1. Voting for Bush 2. Voting against Obama 3. Voting for Trump... etc...etc....
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At least until the next month when they get the call : "Hey man, things are a little tight here, think you could spare a couple of bucks to keep the water from getting shut off? "
Now that sounds exactly like something a dummie would do. :rotf:
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How many friendships have you had to end
Those peopel are so over the top crazy and filled with hate it amazes me that they can even have a friend. Except some bots on social media. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :loser:
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flibbitygiblets (1,215 posts)
How many friendships have you had to end
Last edited Wed Feb 28, 2018, 11:52 AM - Edit history (1)
as a result of their "gun fever"?
I've had to cut ties with dozens of people.
Some of them were mere acquaintances, so no big loss.
Last night I said goodbye and good luck to a close friend of 20 years. He'd marched with me against the Iraq war. A highly intelligent man, who seems to have traveled a path from libertarianism to full on gun nuttery. I should also mention that along with the ramped up gun advocacy, I observed increasing signs of racism, fascism and religious intolerance. It breaks my heart, this is not the person I once knew.
I am not silent when I disengage these folks. I tell them exactly why I can no longer be their friend. I think its important to stand up to them so they know there are consequences to their stubborn insistence that more guns are the only possible answer. Usually they are angry and spiteful, and oddly, seem to feel misunderstood.
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like this is a national madness that is spreading? How did it infect these seemingly reasonable people? Will it infect me or my family?
And one other thing. Its been insinuated here that I've insulated myself from people with differing opinions. That's completely untrue, and I apologize for not being clearer in my original post. I was, and am still pretty heartbroken, as well as concerned, sorry I wasn't more articulate. Respectful, thoughtful discussion of these difficult subjects is the only way to resolve them.
Talk about petty! :mental:
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None.
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None.
Same here. H5.
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I've had several from both party persuasions that have dropped friendships with me.
Many of them, believe it or not, are card carrying members of the Trump cult of personality, who're upset that I am just as critical of the current leftist New York democrat in the center seat as I was of Reggie Love's Li'l Bitch.
Ah well; I miss them, but they are just as "free, white and 21" as I am and entitled to make their own choices. The point is that there are absolutists on both sides.
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The only dimocrat I considered a friend died before the election. He wasn't going to vote Trump OR Hillary.
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The only dimocrat I considered a friend died before the election. He wasn't going to vote Trump OR Hillary.
Probably voted many times for Hillary, unfortunately.
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Probably voted many times for Hillary, unfortunately.
True.