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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on October 22, 2013, 09:23:56 PM
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what to do when you fb friend a childhood friend and
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018502739
Pretty sad that the DUmmies are obsessed with politics and put it over everything. Such a miserable life as they are always unhappy. :mental:
mopinko (40,111 posts)
what to do when you fb friend a childhood friend and
it turns out they are a wingnut.
i think after a few days of me on her feed she will at least figure it out. hope i can manage not to get into to many ugly arguments on her feed. i hate when i get sucked into that stuff.
should i just defriend her and put her out of her misery? (or is it my misery?)
kentauros (23,269 posts)
1. If she's bothering you, then defriend her.
Maybe post a little bit on her page before you do so, just so she knows it's her and not you.
This is why I don't use my real name on FB. I don't want them finding me!
Hong Kong Cavalier (3,499 posts)
2. Defriend them.
Especially after they rant in ALL CAPS at their sister because she "liked" a page that promoted same-sex couples and adoption of children.
After I thrashed him good, his wife came on and said "I can't believe the HATE that Hong Kong Cavalier spewed forth!"
She, of course, totally ignored that her husband said in one sentence...again, in ALL CAPS (she said he didn't know the Caps Lock was on) that they have gay friends and don't hesitate to tell them they're evil and wrong and will burn in hell and are perverts and don't deserve marriage equality. (I would imagine they don't really have any gay friends anymore)
So I dropped them. Even dumped a few blood relatives, too, for similar comments.
This was my best friend in Jr. High and High School, too. But he went full-on wingnut and I don't have to see that kind of idiotic bigotry on my page.
This sounds like a bouncy. :diebouncy:
Wait Wut (7,275 posts)
3. You can hide her posts without unfriending.
I've done it to a few people. I like them enough to keep them as friends, I just don't need to hear their factless whining.
mopinko (40,111 posts)
13. that sounds about right
i made a comment that got a couple likes, so maybe she has friends on both sides.
hard core catholic, tho.
i recovered.
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Maybe post a little bit on her page before you do so, just so she knows it's her and not you.
::)
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YOU'D THINK HE'D AT LEAST LINK TO THE FB PAGE WHERE THE WINGNUT MADE THE OFFENSIVE POST IN ALL CAPS SO EVERYONE COULD SEE IT!!!!
Cindie
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i think after a few days of me on her feed she will at least figure it out.
That you're a hyper-emotional, perpetual adolescent who is adverse to proven fact and have a burning desire to redistribute S/h/its wealth to pay for your sloth?
Nah. What would give S/h/it that idea?
just so she knows it's her and not you.
:rotf: Yeah, right......!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
This was my best friend in Jr. High and High School, too. But he went full-on wingnut and I don't have to see that kind of idiotic bigotry on my page.
IOW, he went on to a career and you are fingering your EBT card.
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YOU'D THINK HE'D AT LEAST LINK TO THE FB PAGE WHERE THE WINGNUT MADE THE OFFENSIVE POST IN ALL CAPS SO EVERYONE COULD SEE IT!!!!
Cindie
Yep. :II: Busted. I would think the (D)Umbshits would get months of amusement out of those comments. Think of the (D)Ummie chest thumping (don't hurt yourself) that could go on as they poke sticks at the campfire waiting for the next producer provided hand out.
Alas, like their worldview :bouncy:
mopinko (40,111 posts)
13. that sounds about right
i made a comment that got a couple likes, so maybe she has friends on both sides.
hard core catholic, tho.
i recovered.
You just go right on thinking that.
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Seriously? Either you care about a person enough to tolerate posts that you don't agree with or you don't. If you want to de-friend somebody, then do it. Don't be all dramatic about it.
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Everything is full of drama for those infected with the mental disorder known as liberalism.
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That you're a hyper-emotional, perpetual adolescent who is adverse to proven fact and have a burning desire to redistribute S/h/its wealth to pay for your sloth?
Actually, if my memory serves me well from the days of the DU picture gallery, mopinko is an angry looking gargoyle in her 60s
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Actually, if my memory serves me well from the days of the DU picture gallery, mopinko is an angry looking gargoyle in her 60s
I recall a picture of her sitting in a garden, showing off her jailhouse tats.
I said "tats". :-) :-) :-)
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Why go through all this fuss and drama? Can't you just like, not visit their page? Ignore them?
I caught up with my childhood friend on FB and we chat on the phone every week or two. As far as I can tell, she's completely apolitical. She noticed that I proclaimed myself as a conservative on my page, but has said nothing negative about that at all. Sorry, I just don't have an hysterical bouncy to tell. I use FB strictly for friendly stuff.
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Seriously? Either you care about a person enough to tolerate posts that you don't agree with or you don't. If you want to de-friend somebody, then do it. Don't be all dramatic about it.
I must be cared about greatly. :-)
and the woman can just hide her feed :thatsright:
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Seriously? Either you care about a person enough to tolerate posts that you don't agree with or you don't. If you want to de-friend somebody, then do it. Don't be all dramatic about it.
Yep. For some reason my childhood friends are littered with liberals. The ones I cared little about anyway are gone--not enough pay dirt to keep them around and it was kind of a well we are all caught up now thing and have a nice life--same with people I'd call local acquaintances--why bother since it isn't growing into a friendship anyway but you'd be surprised how many acquaintances(liberals especially) can be drama queens who stomp their foot when they realize the whole world doesn't like them and how they think--I had a couple girls have little meltdowns when I unfriended them and it wasn't even anything heated, just didn't seem worth it for the negativity it was generating and, I, at least, had no emotional investment in the person to continue the discourse or acquaintance. I suspect that's just pure ego of how people are today, but I digress a bit. The rest, I hide their feeds usually unless they are occasional political posters in which case I just tolerate it in the feed since it's so infrequent. I also usually will keep restraint with friends who are liberals as far as debates knowing they are unarmed normally for such battles. But there are times, I just have to respond and I almost feel a little bad when. I will admit I'm guilty of hiding conservatives though too if that's all they post about or the posts lack substance for discussion(nobody here and those folks probably know it's not them since I hop in and discuss fairly regularly on their posts :-))
For the liberals I hide, staying friends allows me to still go to their page and see their pics and what they are doing personally without having the daily assault of political stupidity.
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I have the opposite - a childhood friend who is a flaming liberal, and extremely vocal on FB about it. Politics aside, she's a great person with a huge heart, so I just skip reading her stuff when I can tell it is something I'm opposed to. But again, I am extremely tolerant of other opinions, unlike the DUmmies. What's perhaps the better story, is that an old friend from college has "united" two of his friends in political debate - they've never met in person, but I know them both, and they debate each other after having noticed each other on my friend's FB page. They're both extreme in their views, but they debate each other in a very civil manner. It is pretty amusing.
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Jeez, just ignore the politics that they post on FB. It's that simple, DUmmy.
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Here's a thought. Don't spend so much time on FB. Get out in the real world ... golf, hike, bike, play some tennis, take a walk, tend to some flowers, or a garden. Sheesh, you would think that FB is the end all be all these days. Get a life.
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legcramp (102 posts)
14. Facebook is not DU.
You really don't need to keep up your DU cred there. Ignore the crap you don't like and try to be a bit civilized.
It won't kill ya, and maybe you can just catch up on old times.
I wonder how some people get through the day with all the trivial little outrages.
:clap:
IdaBriggs (7,114 posts)
17. I had one college friend I de-friended over gay rights.
She is a Chik-fil-A supporter, which was bad, but when I found out her husband was involved with conversion therapy (!) we were done.
Another old college friend "de-friended" me before I could "de-friend" him over Trayvon Martin when he decided I was a racist. (He believes Trayvon deserved it / was a criminal, etc. and things got ugly from there.) He is also a raving Libertarian, and later I got to smack him down on another friend's thread - "now that you have been proven to be spreading misinformation, I'm sure you will go fix that, right? (crickets)" and I must say I took a near unholy glee with it.
I'm bad-ass. Don't piss me off.
:badass:
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legcramp (102 posts)
14. Facebook is not DU.
You really don't need to keep up your DU cred there. Ignore the crap you don't like and try to be a bit civilized.
It won't kill ya, and maybe you can just catch up on old times.
I wonder how some people get through the day with all the trivial little outrages.
:rotf: :rotf: :clap:
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One of my childhood friends, who is self-employed, complained about Obama Care on her FB page on Sunday. Several more childhood friends piped up and agreed with her, including me. The only person dissenting was another childhood friend whose 23-year-old son has a brain tumor and has actually received successful treatment and he appears to be in remission. She is an Obama voter and says that Obamacare will save she and her family from going bankrupt. Since her son was so ill, he was not able to continue to attend college and she says the fact that he can stay on her policy through age 26 is the best part of Obamacare for her family.
She said that ONE of his chemotherapy drugs is $750 PER PILL. I feel horrible for what her family has gone through. How do you respond to that?
I think we all know that in the short run, Obamacare may be helping her family but in the long run; not so much.
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It sounds like most of the medical care he received was before any part of O,bummercare went into effect. And, it sounds like they were responsible citizens and had health care that covered their son. The insurance companies were happy to keep people's kids on their policies (remember young folks have to sign up to save O'bungacare). The pre-existing condition rules depend on the govt. forcing everyone into the system or people would wait to buy insurance only when they get sick.
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Do you ever see a conservative develop a raging case of crotch-rash like these "progressives" do every time they run into a differing opinion?
From a relative? Disown them!
Have it come to DU? Ban them!
Show up on FaceBook? Unfriend them!
Hear it on the street? Shout them down!
From a business owner? Boycott them!
Speaker at university? Rush the stage, barricade the doors!
Private citizen? Publish their e-mail address and phone number!
Talking head in the media? Boycott their sponsors/demand their firing/ encourage lawsuit/ demand government sanctions!
I mean they just shit their collective pants if anyone dares disagree with them.
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One of my childhood friends, who is self-employed, complained about Obama Care on her FB page on Sunday. Several more childhood friends piped up and agreed with her, including me. The only person dissenting was another childhood friend whose 23-year-old son has a brain tumor and has actually received successful treatment and he appears to be in remission. She is an Obama voter and says that Obamacare will save she and her family from going bankrupt. Since her son was so ill, he was not able to continue to attend college and she says the fact that he can stay on her policy through age 26 is the best part of Obamacare for her family.
She said that ONE of his chemotherapy drugs is $750 PER PILL. I feel horrible for what her family has gone through. How do you respond to that?
I think we all know that in the short run, Obamacare may be helping her family but in the long run; not so much.
If her son was disabled due to cancer most likely he would of been able to stay on the policy without Obamacare.
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If her son was disabled due to cancer most likely he would of been able to stay on the policy without Obamacare.
And Medicare would have taken up the slack if he was indeed disabled. That family and their cancer-stricken son are a lot more likely to get screwed now than they ever were before DemocratCare was "passed".
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And Medicare would have taken up the slack if he was indeed disabled. That family and their cancer-stricken son are a lot more likely to get screwed now than they ever were before DemocratCare was "passed".
I agree. The young man would not of been without medical care. Now under Obamacare I hate to think of the care he might receive.
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Do you ever see a conservative develop a raging case of crotch-rash like these "progressives" do every time they run into a differing opinion?
From a relative? Disown them!
Have it come to DU? Ban them!
Show up on FaceBook? Unfriend them!
Hear it on the street? Shout them down!
From a business owner? Boycott them!
Speaker at university? Rush the stage, barricade the doors!
Private citizen? Publish their e-mail address and phone number!
Talking head in the media? Boycott their sponsors/demand their firing/ encourage lawsuit/ demand government sanctions!
I mean they just shit their collective pants if anyone dares disagree with them.
:cheersmate: H5
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One of my childhood friends, who is self-employed, complained about Obama Care on her FB page on Sunday. Several more childhood friends piped up and agreed with her, including me. The only person dissenting was another childhood friend whose 23-year-old son has a brain tumor and has actually received successful treatment and he appears to be in remission. She is an Obama voter and says that Obamacare will save she and her family from going bankrupt. Since her son was so ill, he was not able to continue to attend college and she says the fact that he can stay on her policy through age 26 is the best part of Obamacare for her family.
She said that ONE of his chemotherapy drugs is $750 PER PILL. I feel horrible for what her family has gone through. How do you respond to that?
I think we all know that in the short run, Obamacare may be helping her family but in the long run; not so much.
I think there is only ONE good thing about Obamacare. Pre-existing conditions. The way he signs laws into effect why didn't he just regulate or something instead of completely screwing everything up for everyone? I don't know, I seem to remember the gov't getting involved in regulating the price of cable and cereal a long time ago. Seems they would have just done the exact same thing. Please school me if I am wrong because I might be thinking a little off today. :-)
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I think there is only ONE good thing about Obamacare. Pre-existing conditions. The way he signs laws into effect why didn't he just regulate or something instead of completely screwing everything up for everyone? I don't know, I seem to remember the gov't getting involved in regulating the price of cable and cereal a long time ago. Seems they would have just done the exact same thing. Please school me if I am wrong because I might be thinking a little off today. :-)
That's my opinion as well. Congress could have fixed these problems with very specific legislation. Instead, Obama decided to trash the whole thing and replace it with this monstrosity.
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I think there is only ONE good thing about Obamacare. Pre-existing conditions. The way he signs laws into effect why didn't he just regulate or something instead of completely screwing everything up for everyone? I don't know, I seem to remember the gov't getting involved in regulating the price of cable and cereal a long time ago. Seems they would have just done the exact same thing. Please school me if I am wrong because I might be thinking a little off today. :-)
I think that, when the full damage of Democare manifests itself in the 2014 and 2016 elections, that the pre-existing conditions portion of Democare will be the only scintilla of it left. O-)
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I think that, when the full damage of Democare manifests itself in the 2014 and 2016 elections, that the pre-existing conditions portion of Democare will be the only scintilla of it left. O-)
I agree with that.
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Why is everything such a dramatic big deal to these people? I have all sorts of friends on Facebook, gays, liberals, and Muslims. There are even a couple DU-like liberals on there. I don't have an issue with them... Sometimes we discuss politics in a civilized manner, and there are times I know not to comment on some of their crap because of the argument that might in-sue and I really don't think FB is the place to hash it out.
These people find drama every where... Grocery store lines, Facebook, Starbucks, at the Gas pump, at the Voting station... I really just don't have that much drama in my life and I don't need to argue with every person I come across. Especially total strangers.
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I think there is only ONE good thing about Obamacare. Pre-existing conditions. The way he signs laws into effect why didn't he just regulate or something instead of completely screwing everything up for everyone? I don't know, I seem to remember the gov't getting involved in regulating the price of cable and cereal a long time ago. Seems they would have just done the exact same thing. Please school me if I am wrong because I might be thinking a little off today. :-)
There were already laws concerning preexisting conditions as long as you did not have a lapse in coverage over 90 days. Otherwise you had to wait a year. My plan did not exclude any pre existing conditions and that is the plan I currently have.
The problem with Obamacare is people will wait until they get sick to purchase insurance. It's like buying car insurance after you wreck your car. It will simply raise the rates to those that believe they need insurance already.
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I'm in a private group with people I went from grade school to high school with. I moved around here and there between but most of these people I've known forever. This is OR, there are flaming libs everywhere. But I adore them. We had grade school crushes on each other and sweet stuff like that. We keep politics out of the conversation and just ignore public posts we don't like. Why get your panties in a wad over growing up and having different POV's? People who have all your grade school class pictures and still don't laugh at you are friends worth keeping.
Cindie
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Do you ever see a conservative develop a raging case of crotch-rash like these "progressives" do every time they run into a differing opinion?
From a relative? Disown them!
Have it come to DU? Ban them!
Show up on FaceBook? Unfriend them!
Hear it on the street? Shout them down!
From a business owner? Boycott them!
Speaker at university? Rush the stage, barricade the doors!
Private citizen? Publish their e-mail address and phone number!
Talking head in the media? Boycott their sponsors/demand their firing/ encourage lawsuit/ demand government sanctions!
I mean they just shit their collective pants if anyone dares disagree with them.
Ain't that the truth, Dandi. Scratch a liberal, find a dictator. :cheersmate:
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I always love the "ultimatum" and attempt at public shaming of my Progressive FB "friends."
That's the way to convince me.
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I'm in a private group with people I went from grade school to high school with. I moved around here and there between but most of these people I've known forever. This is OR, there are flaming libs everywhere. But I adore them. We had grade school crushes on each other and sweet stuff like that. We keep politics out of the conversation and just ignore public posts we don't like. Why get your panties in a wad over growing up and having different POV's? People who have all your grade school class pictures and still don't laugh at you are friends worth keeping.
Cindie
My high school group FB page is politics free, too. There's a separate page for politics, nobody bothers.