DU is by far my single most concentrated information source..

[Carl]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2292154

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:09 AM
Original message
DU is by far my single most concentrated information source..
 Everyone I know IRL (in real life) thinks I'm a hyper-informed royal pain in the ass about politics (and a lot of other things too), I routinely call bullshit, albeit sometimes politely, on things the many right wingers I have around me say and I can always blow them out of the water on the true facts. They don't even bother to argue facts with me any more for the most part.

Between GD, LBN and the Science forum DU is about seventy five percent of my daily online reading, most of the rest of my reading is in specialized subjects that DU doesn't really cover..

I know I come across as very negative a lot of the time so I want to take a breather for a moment and try to be positive about what is actually one of the more positive parts of my life.

I just want to say thanks to all of the DUers out there who contribute to me being a hyper-informed royal pain in the ass to the wingnuts.

 

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:38 AM
Response to Reply #8
13. It's not even just the facts..
 There are so many smart people here putting two plus two together and connecting the dots between disparate events that the great majority of people would never think of...

It's that connecting the dots that really makes DU great..

 

An ode to the conspiracy nuts of the DUmp!

JuniperLea  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:37 AM
Response to Original message
12. It's good to be a HIRPITA
 Knowledge is power. Keeping up with what's going on helps you head the RWers off at the pass. I work with a couple of 'em. I respect their business savvy and I'm routinely confused at how such highly intelligent and highly educated people can be so drunk on the Kool Aid. I think it pains them to discuss politics with me because I'm always two steps ahead and it really sticks in their craw. Still, there's a modicum of respect because they know they can't railroad me with their talking points. They don't say much too me anymore about politics, which is good. We need to maintain a healthy working relationship.

Another fun thing about being a HIRPITA is when you are lucky enough to speak to one of your Senators or Representatives... in one such incident I was at a local neighborhood meeting with our Rep, and she was asking questions to make her point. I had the answer to all her questions. It was fun

You are a pain in the ass... even to some of us... but that's okay. I'm sure I am too 

Zorra  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:46 AM
Response to Original message
18. Yes. The posting of facts and conflicts of opinion here are great
 for sorting out arguments for debate.

In a debate outside of DU you'll already know where your debate opponent is coming from, and often know their argument better than they do.

I'm trying to learn a kinder, gentler method of diplomatic smackdown.
 

Please sign up here...you can and will not be banned for being a DUmbass.
Give it your best shot,the few that have tried usually end up running away whimpering.

[USA4ME]

Attn primitives:

When you sit on your butt doing nothing but reading the opinions of others who believe the same thing you do, who in turn spend all day sitting on their butt reading the opinions of others who believe the same thing they do, then circular logic would automatically cause you to falsely conclude that the things expressed there allow you to be "two steps ahead" of those who oppose your POV.

In real life, you're a joke.  But upon having encountered others who determine that you're too stupid to engage for more than a few minutes, you can then have your own misinformed viewpoints reinforced by those who sit on their butt and do nothing but read the opinions of those who believe the same as you do.

.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:38 AM
Response to Reply #8

...

It's that connecting the dots that really makes DU great..

More like, connecting the dolts.

[tanstaafl]

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:38 AM
Response to Reply #8
13. It's not even just the facts..
 There are so many smart people here putting two plus two together and connecting the dots between disparate events that the great majority of people would never think of...

It's that connecting the dots that really makes DU great..

Boy! I tell ya, them smarterest peoples on the innerwebs, with their drug induced, hyper dot connecting, sure are something. But, alas, the connecting of two or more disparate events is likened to creeping paranoia. Case in point would be Nutcase.

Reading this "fumesucker" thread has again caused me to drop one or two more IQ points. I may have to quit reading at the DUmp to preserve my intelligence. Luckily, my superior intellignce allows me to sacrifice up to fifty IQ points and still qualify for MENSA.

[ChuckJ]

At least he/she/it seems to be accurately named.

[marv]

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:09 AM
Original message
DU is by far my single most concentrated information source..
 Everyone I know IRL (in real life) thinks I'm a hyper-informed royal pain in the ass about politics (and a lot of other things too), I routinely call bullshit, albeit sometimes politely, on things the many right wingers I have around me say and I can always blow them out of the water on the true facts. They don't even bother to argue facts with me any more for the most part. They don't bother arguing with a brick.

Between GD, LBN and the Science forum DU is about seventy five percent of my daily online reading, most of the rest of my reading is in specialized subjects that DU doesn't really cover.. Hmmm, only 25% of the time on porn?

I know I come across as very negative a lot of the time so I want to take a breather for a moment and try to be positive about what is actually one of the more positive parts of my life.

I just want to say thanks to all of the DUers out there who contribute to me being a hyper-informed royal pain in the ass to the wingnuts. I wonder if any DUmmies caught the sarcasm.

[tanstaafl]

At least he/she/it seems to be accurately named.

Except that we can't be for sure what fumes the DUmmie is suckin'.

Could be other DUmmies farts, or it has locked its lips on a Ford Edsel's exhaust pipe.

[jukin]

Never has there been a web site where so few knew so much that isn't so and been so proud of it.

[JohnnyReb]

Bonnie Fwank loves him some HIRPITA ..(Highly inflated real penis in the ass)
...as do most DUmmies.

[Revolution]

I know I come across as very negative a lot of the time so I want to take a breather for a moment and try to be positive about what is actually one of the more positive parts of my life.

  I feel like I just watched Simon Birch. That just incredibly sad.

[Vagabond]

Fumesucker describes his social life.

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:09 AM
Original message
DU is by far my single most concentrated information source..
 Everyone I know IRL (in real life) thinks I'm a hyper-informed royal pain in the ass about politics (and a lot of other things too), I routinely call bullshit, albeit sometimes politely, on things the many right wingers I have around me say and I can always blow them out of the water on the true facts baffle them with bullshit. They don't even bother to argue facts with me any more for the most part as they're usually politely shooing me away.

Between GD, LBN and the Science forum DU is about seventy five percent of my daily online reading, most of the rest of my reading is in specialized subjects (porn) that DU doesn't really cover...

There I think I mostly FIFY, Sucker.

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:38 AM
Response to Reply #8
13. It's not even just the facts..
 There are so many smart people here putting two plus two together and connecting the dots between disparate events that the great majority of people would never think of...

It's that connecting the dots that really makes DU great..

I know, isn't it something how they built a car that runs on water? 

Beartracks  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #9
52. That's because facts have a well-known liberal bias.

 

JuniperLea  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:37 AM
Response to Original message
12. It's good to be a HIRPITA
 Knowledge is power. Keeping up with what's going on helps you head the RWers off at the pass. I work with a couple of 'em. I respect their business savvy and I'm routinely confused at how such highly intelligent and highly educated people can be so drunk on the Kool Aid. I think it pains them to discuss politics with me because I'm always two steps ahead and it really sticks in their craw. Still, there's a modicum of respect because they know they can't railroad me with their talking points. They don't say much too me anymore about politics, which is good. We need to maintain a healthy working relationship.

Another fun thing about being a HIRPITA is when you are lucky enough to speak to one of your Senators or Representatives... in one such incident I was at a local neighborhood meeting with our Rep, and she was asking questions to make her point. I had the answer to all her questions. It was fun

You are a pain in the ass... even to some of us... but that's okay. I'm sure I am too

Actually, your co-worker are getting tired of telling you to get your ass off of DU and do some real work.  Now, even your Rep thinks your a dweeb.

pscot (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:42 AM
Response to Original message
15. I've always been an argumentative know-it-all
 But DU has made me a much more effective argumentative know-it-all.

pscot isn't invited to family thanksgiving.

Bah, the rest of the thread is even more stupid.

[DLR Pyro]

Fumesucker  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:09 AM
Original message
DU is by far my single most concentrated information source..

and I suppose you consider 'the daily show" a legitimate news bureau too 

[jukin]

and I suppose you consider 'the daily show" a legitimate news bureau too 

I consider it more legitimate than AlPravda.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's more like 'Data' than 'Information.'  Calling it the latter implies it is in a usable form for some productive end.  It's more like a random assortment of thousands of different ways to be wrong.

[Revolution]

Beartracks  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #9
52. That's because facts have a well-known liberal bias.

I remember some idiot named Top Cat at the forum I posted at before I found the bright light of a forum that is Conservative Cave who had that exact sentence as a quote. I know without a shadow of a doubt that when someone utters this phrase, you are dealing with not just an idiot, but a BLITHERING idiot! There are no other words for the stupidity that overflows the proverbial basin.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Beartracks  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-12-11 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #9
52. That's because facts have a well-known liberal bias.

True in a certain tortured manner of speaking, I suppose, but the more common way of saying it would be that facts often have fatal consequences for Liberals.

[Aristotelian]

Fumesucker

They don't even bother to argue facts with me any more for the most part.

I've worked with people like this - they constantly drone on, to the extent that everybody else zones out and/or avoids them...it's true that nobody argues back, because it would be casting pearls before swine.