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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Karin on May 10, 2010, 01:59:50 PM
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BJ10 (30 posts) Sun May-09-10 02:17 PM
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I really tried...really...
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being a Republican...or shall I say, conservative. I live in an area that is dominated with conservative thoughts and ideas (Lynchburg, VA...home of Liberty University). So naturally all I hear is one side of the story. And I always thought that conservative politics must be the right path because liberals are simply ruining this country (according to all the people I know). And I believed it for a long time...but then something funny happened, I did something different than the others around me. I began to question things...
I soon realized many of the thoughts and ideals I have been trained to believe are simply bullshit. Blame it on marijuana for initially opening my eyes. I could believe most of the ideas pushed out by the right wingers but when I heard people demonize weed and I heard the horror storied attributed to marijuana use, I didn't just think it was bullshit, I knew it was bullshit. So I thought, what else are they full of shit about?
I began to see that despite all of their hate for abortion, they didn't give a **** about the poor people. And I started to think, if they outlaw abortion, the numbers of those in poverty will rise. So I deduced that wing-nuts only care about babies up until they leave the womb.
I began to see that most of the ones talking about bombing the shit out of towel-heads and kicking ass overseas never even thought about serving in the military.
I began to see their disdain for intellectuals, not to mention other races.
I could go on and on all day, but I observed one common thread for all of these idiots: they are all CHRISTIANS!!! Well guess what? I read the whole Bible (which converted me into an Atheist) and these people aren't anything like Jesus. I might got hell for being a non-believer, but according to what I read, these "Christians" will be right there with me for being the very things Jesus said he hated.
So here I am at DU, my conversion complete. Glad to be here and join the club. Happy Mother's Day!!!
DUmp Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8301348&mesg_id=8301348)
Bullshit for DUmp cred? It sounds just so manufactured, as in "hmmm what do they want to hear?" It seems to be warmed-over teabagger insult talking points, chewed up and spit out. The comments that followed were gross and repetitive, so I won't bring them.
gateley (1000+ posts) Sun May-09-10 02:32 PM
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18. Welcome to DU BJ10! I'd suggest tuning in to
Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann and (my personal fave) Rachel Maddow on MSBNC. They'll keep you up to date and Rachel especially, presents background and facts in a way that makes it easy for me to understand.
And listen to progressive radio!
after which a waving smileyface
Groan, can you imagine such torture?
This person says this:
cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Sun May-09-10 06:06 PM
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48. Welcome to DU!
You'll be glad you joined. There are alot of nice (sane) people here.
Followed by this rambling mess of a mental patient's psychic diarrhea:
dotymed (1000+ posts) Sun May-09-10 06:27 PM
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51. Welcome aboard with
Edited on Sun May-09-10 06:34 PM by dotymed
the rest of us batshit crazy, lazy liberals. I too exist in the land of the red. I noticed an attractive single lady yesterday (about my age) and I considered, at some point striking up a conversation. While I was there (I am pretty socially conservative in appearance too). I heard her talking, rather loud , to her friends. They got on the subject of school, she graduated Butler, I graduated a community college in Tn., no biggie) then she started demonizing Obama (I do too) about raising taxes (???) and not cutting social programs, etc..) when she glanced at me again (yes she had looked at me earlier and smiled).I am sure my disgust was evident. soon, before the game was over, she and her (in their minds anyway) elite friends left. Thank God. I went for about 4 years not dating. I finally dated a professional woman (Butler grad!) that I had known casually for years. We had similar political ideas that she gave lip service to, but socially, IMO, she was batshit crazy... I have no idea why I shared that... Can't wait to get back to Tn. next month after 15 years here, I'll be going home to another red state...but my family is there..my 14 y.o. son is going with me too , my daughter graduates next year, from that same Tn. college I did. She is just a "hot mess" sometimes..lol.. but blue to the bone
Included in that were lots of emoticons, like :cheersmate:, the waving smilies, and the bouncers, placed in inappropriate places. :mental: :mental: :mental:
mwb970 (1000+ posts) Mon May-10-10 07:41 AM
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112. *All* social ills are noticeably worse in "red" states.
Besides the ones you mention, they also have trouble with drug use, life expectancy, divorce - the list goes on and on. And they take more government money than they pay in as (newly reduced) taxes. The "blue" states are the opposite, meaning that "we" are subsidizing "them".
There you go again...
elocs (1000+ posts) Mon May-10-10 07:03 AM
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107. If you love marijuana you've come to the right place here at DU.
Plus, big bonus points for being an atheist, although a few token Christians are tolerated here.
BobbyBoring (50 posts) Mon May-10-10 02:06 PM
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146. Welcome
Drop some acid now. Your eyes will really open up then!
Dollface (1000+ posts) Mon May-10-10 02:29 PM
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155. Stay away from acid. Stick with mushrooms. Much cleaner.
Charming.
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elocs (1000+ posts) Mon May-10-10 07:03 AM
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107. If you love marijuana you've come to the right place here at DU.
Plus, big bonus points for being an atheist, although a few token Christians are tolerated here.
Our new BFF from DU should feel really welcome there.
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Our new BFF from DU should feel really welcome there.
Unfortunately that is the truth. The Christians over there are pretty silent about their faith. The athiests are loud.
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Granite pizza in 3... 2... 1...
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Unfortunately that is the truth. The Christians over there are pretty silent about their faith. The athiests are loud.
I am serious here, why would you continue on a site that degrades and had no respect for your faith? I know you are pissed off now at the "loud" majority over there but how could you stay as long as you have at a site that thinks your religion is the cause of all evil in the world, makes fun of Christians on a daily basis and basically thinks you are ignorant because you are a Christian?
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I am serious here, why would you continue on a site that degrades and had no respect for your faith? I know you are pissed off now at the "loud" majority over there but how could you stay as long as you have at a site that thinks your religion is the cause of all evil in the world, makes fun of Christians on a daily basis and basically thinks you are ignorant because you are a Christian?
I left DU.
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I left DU.
Offically? Congratulations!
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Offically? Congratulations!
I am not banned, but I did a goodbye thread for the friends I do have over there. :-)
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DUmmie says. "...but then something funny happened," I smoked up my brain.
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Another boring bouncy tale.
So naturally all I hear is one side of the story
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, AP, Rooters.....
Yeah, I am sure he only got one side. The liberal side.
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A new twist to an old ball. He had a conversation with himself and converted to DUmmy. That' worth two bongs at least. He got to slam towel head, brainiacs, anti abortionists, poor folk and minorities while not getting a pizza pie.
Another two bongs for the tacit slam. :cheersmate:
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Dollface (1000+ posts) Mon May-10-10 02:29 PM
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155. Stay away from acid. Stick with mushrooms. Much cleaner.
I've got a jumbo bottle of drain cleaner and a horse fit here if you've got the stones - can't beat that for "clean".
Moron.
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BobbyBoring (50 posts) Mon May-10-10 02:06 PM
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146. Welcome
Drop some acid now. Your eyes will really open up then!
I have to support this for ALL lefties:
It is MUCH easier to align lefties up in the scope cross hairs when they are running down the street, naked, high on LSD, screaming leftist ideology and clamoring for their free weed coupons.
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The OP's life story is a mirror image of mine. I started out a liberal stoner dumbass, then sobered up and started questioning things. Too funny.
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I have to support this for ALL lefties:
It is MUCH easier to align lefties up in the scope cross hairs when they are running down the street, naked, high on LSD, screaming leftist ideology and clamoring for their free weed coupons.
Use a shotgun. It's more fun that way.
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elocs (1000+ posts) Mon May-10-10 07:03 AM
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107. If you love marijuana you've come to the right place here at DU.
Plus, big bonus points for being an atheist, although a few token Christians are tolerated here.
I am serious here, why would you continue on a site that degrades and had no respect for your faith? I know you are pissed off now at the "loud" majority over there but how could you stay as long as you have at a site that thinks your religion is the cause of all evil in the world, makes fun of Christians on a daily basis and basically thinks you are ignorant because you are a Christian?
Probably for the same reason Mammy and Pork stayed with Scarlett after the war was over. :whatever:
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The Dump is great!
Where else would anybody think that Detroit, Michigan, Kalifornia, LA, NYC, NY, NJ, Washington, NOLA, and all the other failing city states were blue?
Now, name a failing real red state or city.
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I am not banned, but I did a goodbye thread for the friends I do have over there. :-)
Do you have a link to that thread?
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Let's give the clown a double dose of raw peyote cactus buds. Then, when he's totally out there, teach him he should meditate and consider his own attitudes and actions. Consider the future consequences. He'll return to sobrity 25 to 30 hours later a conservative, or he'll be completely insane. Either way, he'll be better off than as he is now.......
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Do you have a link to that thread?
You can find it. It might be on page 10 by now.
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I was gonna be a red state Christianist, but I got high, then I got high, then I got highhhhhhhh......... :loser:
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I was gonna be a red state Christianist, but I got high, then I got high, then I got highhhhhhhh......... :loser:
Di doo doot do do :rotf: