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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 09, 2009, 12:00:36 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8071337#8072693
Oh my.
It's a very big bonfire, just a very big one, and so full of funny.
By the way, the insane Floridian primitive is a diehard Howard Dean fan.
Even now, in 2009, five years after the scream.
madfloridian (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:08 PM
Original message
Ridicule is very easy. It works well. Being a bully is easy.
When I was teaching I saw a lot of bullies in action. It is not hard to be a bully, it is not hard to pick on others. You don't have to say anything important, you don't have to source, you don't have to care about the feelings of others.
Another thing about bullies. It does not take a lot of intelligence to be a very good one. You just pick a target, or a group thereof, and you set out on your mission.
I have seen two or three people who are known for their kindness and consideration for others join up with the bullies here lately.
I don't know when it happened. But they are changing.
There's not much else to say. Just that ridicule and bullying work. The GOP won for years doing it. We suffered through it when Bush came into office.
I guess we will be going through it again if we express concern about the direction of our party....one that is pretty obvious already.
I guess we can take it or not.
As mentioned, it's a big raging bonfire, but for some reason the subway cat hasn't shown up at it, which is odd considering the topic.
There's so much here I'll deal just with the Primitives of Prominence, even though it comes out disjointed. There's a lot of primitive evil-eyeing and wiggle-waggling the armpits at each other, and I highly recommend one get out the boat and row over to Skins's island to see the festivus in all its glory.
madfloridian (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:14 PM
Response to Reply #1
7. It is dangerous, and it is taking over this forum.
And it is prohibitive of any difference in thought.
LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:10 PM
Response to Original message
2. So is emotional blackmail and playing the victim.
madfloridian (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:12 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. See, that wasn't hard at all, was it?
You see what I mean?
Bornaginhooligan (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:13 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. It's just another form of bullying, when you get right down to it.
LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 08:38 PM
Response to Reply #5
35. Oh you bet.
I know someone who basically tugs everyone around by acting somewhat high-maintenance, using guilt and pity and obligation (as in, she'll do stuff for you so that you're "obligated" to do stuff for her) to get what she wants. It's extremely calculated. (Then she wonders why people actually do avoid her.) I think she has borderline personality disorder, a mild case. I'm trying to find some way to counteract it, so that when she's in her victim mode, I can say something or put her in some situation where it's no longer to her benefit to be the victim, and watch her snap out of it right quick!
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:32 PM
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8. This is not a good day for you to buy a lottery ticket.
Bornaginhooligan (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:52 PM
Response to Reply #8
15. Oh my, maybe I should buy a ticket.
Looks like I was right. It's all about an imaginary snub against Dean.
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #15
17. That's not how his friends tell it. But, please let me know how that works out for you.
Bornaginhooligan (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 08:12 PM
Response to Reply #23
25. People who complain about on-line bullying are often hypocrites.
Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-09 08:32 PM
Response to Original message
33. So is playing the victim to discredit political opposition.
FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-09-09 12:33 AM
Response to Reply #73
75. Well, since I know for a fact that you will always have Howard Dean's back as long as he is alive, I'll let you solve this one.
I'm barely making my mortgage payments, and have taken on a second job (5 hours in the late afternoon, 5 days a week)...which is good, since it means that I won't be posting as often.
In otherwords, I've got other worries apart from how Howard Dean is being treated based on what others are observing.
The skidmarked underwear primitive:
Skidmore (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-09-09 07:47 AM
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120. What are you talking about?
I've not been reading the board with much attention for the past week since I've been sick as a dog with the flu. I do know there is a change in tone on the boards and I'm not sure what to attribute it to.
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I'm glad I checked first because I was getting ready to drag this over from Skin's island. Good find, frank.
The insane Floridian primitive IS a diehard Deaniac, you're right. In fact, that's the understatement of the decade. And has there EVER been a Dem group that was more bullying than the Deaniacs were, and still are? The LAST group that needs to be complaining about being bullied should be the Deaniacs.
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You know I'm often reminded of the primitives when I'm out among my chickens. Well, chickens aren't angry all the time but content and industrious for the most part. But they have their bullies and their little cliques. The bullies eventually end up being soup but before getting to that point (we generally like them to have a good amount of meat on their bones...no point in wasting a perfectly good bullet), the rest of the flock has to put up with them. Mostly the flock avoids them. Like a playground, there are plenty of nice places to hang out where one can avoid bullies all day long. Of course there are times when it can't be avoided, usually leaving the coop in the morning or returning in the evening. The chickens deal with it and go on about their lives. They certainly don't spend hours whining and moaning about a few seconds of bullying. That gives the bully more power than he or she deserves, especially when time is better spent scratching in the dirt, chattering, taking dust baths, and exercising one's wings. If one wastes too much time bitching one just might miss the fat, juicy earthworm poking it's head out of the dirt.
Cindie
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MadFlo is a hardcore diehard Deaniac. She takes severe offense to any 'dissin' of the Dr Dean'. :mental:
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MadFlo is a hardcore diehard Deaniac. She takes severe offense to any 'dissin' of the Dr Dean'. :mental:
But Harold Dean, or Dean Howard, or whatever, was a long time ago now.
You think she'd let go.
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But Harold Dean, or Dean Howard, or whatever, was a long time ago now.
You think she'd let go.
Most primitives jump from saviour to saviour,a few stay faithful to only one.
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-09-09 07:47 AM
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120. What are you talking about?
I've not been reading the board with much attention for the past week since I've been sick as a dog with the flu. I do know there is a change in tone on the boards and I'm not sure what to attribute it to.
Gee Skidmark, you think it may have something to do with the fact that Mr. Hope and Change is making the White House and the Cabinet Posts look like Clinton 2 Electric Boogaloo? Or that the frothing moonbats that thought Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld were going to get dragged to the guillotine are finally realizing that they've been kicked to the curb now that they gave over their votes? Or that it's sinking in that instead of the Messiah you guys elected another slick and dirty Politician?
Go figger... :whatever:
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But Harold Dean, or Dean Howard, or whatever, was a long time ago now.
You think she'd let go.
Oh no, MadFlo considers Dr Dean to be the savior of the DNC from the cruel clutches of the DLC and the Clintons. Dr Dean's '50 state strategy' is the sole thing that got Obama elected in MadFlo's mind. To MadFlo, Dr Dean is as just 'today' as he was before he screamed himself into obscurity.