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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 05, 2011, 03:31:26 PM
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SPLIFF NOTES Version: DUmbasses spend all their time fabricating wild caricatures of TEA party.
A parody site write an article.
examiner.com treats the article as a real news piece.
DUmbasses pile-on with +249 recs
Krakowiak (275 posts) Tue Apr-05-11 03:56 PM
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Seriously? 249 Recs for a hoax?
I've been here 7 years and not once thought to post an OP, but someone has to do it.
This thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
Is an EMBARRASSMENT to DU.
As many have attempted to point out, only to be swept downstream into the raging current of outrage and recommending, this is a HOAX. The website that originally published the article http://www.redesign.rumormiller.com currently has on its frontpage other "true" stories such as: Westboro Baptist Church Protests Ewok Funeral & Goldman Sachs CEO Commits Ritualistic Suicide.
This is the equivalent of having people respond seriously to an article from the Onion.
I know that people are busy. I also suspect that this phony article isn't so far off from how politicians from both sides of the aisle look upon most of our population as a whole. But please, take a few minutes to try to verify a story such as this when it gets posted. Or, in this case, simply read through some of the replies trying to call attention to the mistake.
When we post articles like this and blindly recommend, we come off no better than those at those 'other' sites posting 'evidence' of Barack Obama's 'Kenyan Birth Certificate', etc...
We don't need made up articles to prove how despicable people like John Boehner are. There is plenty of actual, verifiable evidence that demonstrates it beyond a doubt.
So whose fault is it?
Yours apparently:
Drale (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 03:57 PM
Response to Original message
1. I think that shows that Tea baggers are so crazy that
it is nearly impossible to tell when something is a joke and when its not.
Balanced budgets and minimal government.
Only lunatics want THAT!
drm604 (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 03:59 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Poe's law at work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
I prefer Poe's policy of walling-up annoying people.
gratuitous (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:01 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. Gee, who would ever think . . .
To make up a story about John Boehner drinking to excess? Or saying reprehensible things about "the little people"? It's just so, uhm, unbelievable that it's amazing anyone would even think of such a tale. As children's book author Patricia Polacco tells about her Nana, who was quite a story-teller: The grandkids would listen, goggle-eyed, as Nana spun out a story. At the end, one of them would ask Nana if the story was true. "Of course it's true!" Nana would say in mock indignation. "It just may not have happened."
I'll put the Boehner story in the same category.
And the fake-but-accurate drum beat rolls on...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x818430
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The TEA Party is toast in 24 business hours.
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Bunny, I was just about to bring that over. What dumbasses. They weren't apologetic or embarrassed or anything. Same reaction as when they plagairize. "Oh well."
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Bunny, I was just about to bring that over. What dumbasses. They weren't apologetic or embarrassed or anything. Same reaction as when they plagairize. "Oh well."
And the OP is taking his lumps for de-bunking while having a low post count:
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:05 PM
Response to Original message
12. Your concern is duly noted... eom
Krakowiak (281 posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:08 PM
Response to Reply #12
15. Yep, you got me.. I've been waiting 7 years to unveil myself as a right wing troll..
your concern over my concern is duly noted.. thanks for the code words.
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:10 PM
Response to Reply #15
19. LOL!
I never said such a thing!
Whatever.
See, this is where liberals are deceptive (wilbur does this a lot as well). They make a statement that is a play upon earlier statements then when you reference the originating statement they claim that is NOT what they meant.
"Thank-you for your concern," is a means for calling someone a "concern troll" without violating the ban on personal insults.
What is a concern troll?
bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-08-06 12:11 PM
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What is a "concern troll?"
I recently used that term and got a thumbs-up from a fellow DUer who had, apparently, never heard it before.
It's not necessarily in common parlance, but I think it ought to be.
Here's some instances of its usage, from Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/23/23539/8255
and I'll quote:
"I am a lifelong Democrat but I just feel the party is being damaged by association with Howard Dean/Russ Feingold/DailyKos"
"I don't know why you're so upset. I only called you a big-assed whore because I'm so worried about your health."
I thought the term deserved a DU thread of its own. Can you come up with a really solid definition of your own? Here's the best I can do on the fly:
Concern Troll (n): One who professes complete faith in the progressive cause, who deliberately works to destroy it by claiming falsely that our displays of courage and strength are actually a weakness.
Anyone got anything better?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1382185
So PubertyLea is gaming this. It knows exactly what the term means: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9090136&mesg_id=9090136
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"I don't know why you're so upset. I only called you a big-assed whore because I'm so worried about your health."
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Krakowiak
When we post articles like this and blindly recommend, we come off no better than those at those 'other' sites posting 'evidence' of Barack Obama's 'Kenyan Birth Certificate', etc...
Pfffft!
Obama is so unpopular, even the Kenyans are saying "He wasn't born here. We don't want credit for that disaster."
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Amazing how easy it is to constantly fool the "smartest" people on the planet. And they don't even have the common sense to be embarrassed.
Cindie
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The TEA Party is toast in 24 business hours.
You racist....toast is brown, our president is brown, ergo the use of the word toast is racist.
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Didn't their hero du jour, Rachel Maddow, fall for a hoax recently?
Then when she found out, she blamed Faux Snooze for her not catching on.
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Didn't their hero du jour, Rachel Maddow, fall for a hoax recently?
Then when she found out, she blamed Faux Snooze for her not catching on.
I think she fell for two. One about Sarah Palin wanting to invade...Egypt? And then a couple of weeks before that, she fell for something else and did the "outrage" thing.
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Amazing how easy it is to constantly fool the "smartest" people on the planet. And they don't even have the common sense to be embarrassed.
Cindie
BINGO!
This is one of the mental disease called liberalism/progressivism/socialism. It is always an outside (& evil) force that causes liberalism/progressivism/socialism concepts to fail. USSR, USA's fault. Cuba, again USA fault. Decent and civilized people are mass murdered, it those people's fault. It's a concept that only a mentally deficient person could come up with...and believe in.
1+1 does not equal POTATO, basic arithmetic's fault.
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BINGO!
This is one of the mental disease called liberalism/progressivism/socialism. It is always an outside (& evil) force that causes liberalism/progressivism/socialism concepts to fail. USSR, USA's fault. Cuba, again USA fault. Decent and civilized people are mass murdered, it those people's fault. It's a concept that only a mentally deficient person could come up with...and believe in.
1+1 does not equal POTATO, basic arithmetic's fault.
Nothing more can be expected of creed which has as amongst it's fundemental tenets "If it feels good, it has to be right." The notion of socialism feels good to them, so any failure must be excused.
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Amazing how easy it is to constantly fool the "smartest" people on the planet. And they don't even have the common sense to be embarrassed.
Cindie
Just like the Pitt "Rove Indictment of 2005" and the "Walmart Detention Center Expose" on FR during the BFEE years. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
That was some funny stuff right there! :lmao: :rotf: :lmao:
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Just like the Pitt "Rove Indictment of 2005" and the "Walmart Detention Center Expose" on FR during the BFEE years. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
That was some funny stuff right there! :lmao: :rotf: :lmao:
Is anyone bidding against WAL-MART for running the Detention Camps this year?
What happened to that plan to out source it to the south pole?
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Isn't this the same website where Thor got all worked up about Charlie Sheen being dead?
Then again, that's actually believable...DUH, WINNING!
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At least half the DUmpmonkeys still secretly believe in chemtrails.
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At least half the DUmpmonkeys still secretly believe in chemtrails.
..The other half openly believe in chemtrails...