poll: does your attitude about individual primitives change over time?

[franksolich]

You may also recall TLB bragging about conspiring with a grocery clerk to shoplift cheese.

Of course DUmmies lie, all the time, but it's usually about doing something good.

True, that wasn't one of her finer moments, like her comment about Barbara Olson--also she wasn't too kind about Robert McNamara--but on the scale of repulsive things that primitives do and say, it was pretty minor.

[BlondeMoment]

You're a kind person, frank. And obviously generous by nature. I used to think of leftists the way I think about people in general- because...they're people. But eventually, I realized (or maybe the word is "accepted") that these are people who are so brainwashed & so inherently damaged & dysfunctional, the only thing you can do is keep your distance & watch your back very carefully. If you give them a quarter of an inch, it's not going to be pretty.
That's why I keep an eye on du. I saw it coming in 2007 & it's 1000 times worse now. Pinch yourself. Bite your tongue. But never, EVER let your guard down. They screw people over because they get off on it.
Something really, really bad is going to happen if we don't get our country back PDQ.

[I_B_Perky]

I voted changed for the worse because just when I think a particular dummie... could be any of the dummies... have hit rock bottom he/she/it brings in a large back hoe and starts digging deeper.

I've watched the dummies off and on since 2003 or so and they never fail to surprise me with their utter lack of human decency... and the thing that gets me is they are proud of it!

[franksolich]

But never, EVER let your guard down. They screw people over because they get off on it.
Something really, really bad is going to happen if we don't get our country back PDQ.

Others may remember differently, and my memory isn't the definitive one, but this is the way I recall it: when I was growing up, politics played little, if any, role in associations between two individuals.  One person was a Republican, the other a Democrat.  Big deal; it didn't matter, because there were other things (shared interests, shared tastes, shared talents) that counted for more.

Politics didn't make any more difference than if one person collected postage stamps, and the second person had blond hair.  It was a difference, but it was so trivial.

That all changed in November 1980.

And man, did it change.

That was when I first discovered that people who were Democrats didn't want to have anything to do with me.....only, and only, because I was of the other political party.

It got evil.  I was stunned.

Of course, the elections of 1980 had a profound effect on Democrats, liberals, and primitives; it was after all a crushing, humiliating, embarrassing defeat for them.  (Everybody nowadays thinks only back to the landslide of 1984, forgetting that 1980 too had been a landslide of historic proportions, although not as big as the one four years later.)

But hey, as a Republican, I'd lived through crushing, humiliating, embarrassing defeats myself, and that never affected how I felt about family and friends who were Democrats.

Why were these people taking things so personally; it was only politics, after all.  There's bigger, more important, things in life than politics.

It got worse and worse and worse as we went through the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush prosperity; these people were really angry, really bitter, and didn't want to get along at all.

I haven't even bothered to try befriending a Democrat since 1992.  It's pointless.

They, not us, were the ones who made ideology the single criteria for friendship, or non-friendship. 

[the county]

The old saying "familiarity breeds contempt" applies to me - the more I know about them, the less I like them at all. These people live and breathe far-left politics, half or more are insane, and are overall miserable creatures with few exceptions. It is possible to be friends with a Democrat, though, if you can get the Democrat to never talk about politics or religion.

[franksolich]

It is possible to be friends with a Democrat, though, if you can get the Democrat to never talk about politics or religion.

Back before the elections of 1980, it was possible even to discuss politics with them.

It was politics; it wasn't any big deal, any more than arguing the virtues of the Nebraska Cornhuskers versus the Oklahoma Sooners.

Now, God forbid.....

[98ZJUSMC]

What a horrible bunch they are. Such self-absorbed bunch.

They are.  It wouldn't be quite as bad if they didn't put on such nonsensically altruistic airs. Their benevolence, with other peoples' stuff, knows no boundaries.  Their covetous nature is the worst type of greed and none of them understand this to the slightest degree whatsoever. 

It is funny to watch the light bulb go from .0005W to 1W, on occasion, but it's purely accidental.  Just when you think a few of the shriveling puss buckets are stumbling onto a clue, they shit down both legs and recline back into the stupid.  They can't help themselves.  The Cognitive Disconnect opens some relay in their indoctrination and, .... back to drooling idiot consumed with envy, self-loathing and a weird childlike fear of, just the possibility, of being totally wrong.

A horrible bunch, indeed.

[franksolich]

Their benevolence with other peoples' stuff knows no boundaries.

Oh yes, there's that too.

[98ZJUSMC]

Quote from: the county on Today at 09:32:50 PM
It is possible to be friends with a Democrat, though, if you can get the Democrat to never talk about politics or religion.

I know a couple who refuse to shuck the (D)Marxist party, primarily because they haven't woken up yet.  They just can't admit what is staring them in the face.  They're simple acquaintances, nothing more.

Back before the elections of 1980, it was possible even to discuss politics with them.

It was politics; it wasn't any big deal, any more than arguing the virtues of the Nebraska Cornhuskers versus the Oklahoma Sooners.

Now, God forbid.....

The reign of Ronaldus Maximus, crushing that putz Carter, really set quite a few off.  AFAIAC, Carter was the last (D)Marxist elected honestly.  It was the 70's and lots of actual well-meaning folks with functioning brains, were bamboozled.   They learned their lesson and woke up for 1980.  I tried to have some honest discussion in college around 81-83.

Impossible. 

They had run off the rails, completely.  These were hard left Marxist and Trotskyites and it was very chilling to experience.

[BlondeMoment]

@frank, I remember the same. Not many people saw it at the time (unless they were in the thick of it, where stuff was happening), but in my memory, this goes back to the 60s. (Actually, it's much further back than that) There have been things going on, under the radar, all these decades. It makes no sense why they would freak out about President Reagan- or even Dubya, really, but that's because people are still unaware of what's been going on behind the scenes in "foundations", "think tanks", "NGOs", & "endowments".
Look up a guy named Mark Gerzon & some of the other Weathermen/ SDS types & see where they've been these past 4 decades.
Check out the acknowledgements on PBS & see what those people do. If you haven't read Paul Kengor's The Communist, you should. These people are like termites. And to a brainwashed person, it *is* personal. Each one of them is personally accountable for their role in bringing America down. That is their motivation. (Maybe that's why President Reagan is such an anathema to them. Newt Gingrich, too, although he gets blamed as the catalyst for the "new" acrimony)

I don't think that things have changed for them. They just decided it's safe (because things are so far gone) to show everyone who they really are.

[freedumb2003b]

She had terminal cancer, a condition about which her detractors were fully aware.

It got too painful for her, and so she took an overdose of pharmaceuticals prescribed to help her deal with the pain.

I cannot revel in someone whose physical pain led him/her to the end.

I entered the discussion thinking we had a standard-issue prog who realized it was too stupid to live.

The loss of a primitive is a gain to mankind always.  But we should not dance on that grave.

But I guess I was thinking the classic last words "President Gore" of a total idiot.

ALL THAT BEING SAID...

I understand the dearly departed was an evil witch whose terrible invective will not be missed...

So let her hate be buried with her.

[franksolich]

I understand the dearly departed was an evil witch whose terrible invective will not be missed...

So let her hate be buried with her.

Well now, even though it's been a long time ago, I for one feel deeply indebted to the late Tangerine LaBamba, because she was a gold mine of information that, without her, we'd still be trying to find much of it these five years later.

She was most generous, most giving.

[GOBUCKS]

I don't remember references to cancer in the case of the hateful bitch TLB, even when her sister briefly posted here after her timely demise.

But if that's what it was, it doesn't change my impression of her by a millimeter.

I went back to see if there was a reference I've forgotten, and found some nice quotes.

When she was tombstoned, shortly before allegedly killing herself, most DUmmies were dancing with joy because she hated DUmmies as much as she hated normal people.

One of her least-favorite DUmmies was Pam Dawson, who was constantly a target due to her ludicrous, habitual lies.

Many DUmmies mentioned how Pam was brutalized (this was 2009, before Pam's DOTY win and before the envious DUmp started hating her).

It prompted this great post from Pam:

greenbriar  Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Dec-16-09 12:11 PM

71. Thank you all. I know she was very hateful to me. I do not know why

I have never lied on this forum, if anything, maybe I am too honest and too open.

And this:

madmax  Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Dec-16-09 09:19 AM

58. T LaB and I have become very good friends.

She is one of the kindest and most caring people you would ever want to meet.

[Dori]

@frank, I remember the same. Not many people saw it at the time (unless they were in the thick of it, where stuff was happening), but in my memory, this goes back to the 60s. (Actually, it's much further back than that) There have been things going on, under the radar, all these decades. It makes no sense why they would freak out about President Reagan- or even Dubya, really, but that's because people are still unaware of what's been going on behind the scenes in "foundations", "think tanks", "NGOs", & "endowments".
Look up a guy named Mark Gerzon & some of the other Weathermen/ SDS types & see where they've been these past 4 decades.
Check out the acknowledgements on PBS & see what those people do. If you haven't read Paul Kengor's The Communist, you should. These people are like termites. And to a brainwashed person, it *is* personal. Each one of them is personally accountable for their role in bringing America down. That is their motivation. (Maybe that's why President Reagan is such an anathema to them. Newt Gingrich, too, although he gets blamed as the catalyst for the "new" acrimony)

I don't think that things have changed for them. They just decided it's safe (because things are so far gone) to show everyone who they really are.

My sentiments exactly......H5

[Gina]

Well I loved zappaman but I don't see him being so funny anymore 

I hope he's feeling well.

[Gina]

Back before the elections of 1980, it was possible even to discuss politics with them.

It was politics; it wasn't any big deal, any more than arguing the virtues of the Nebraska Cornhuskers versus the Oklahoma Sooners.

Now, God forbid.....

I can talk with a handful of democrats.  The one's that will actually condemn Obama and actually get pissed off at his law breaking. 

[obumazombie]

Every time I think DUmmies hit a new low, they reach a much lower point. A clannish bunch.

Libs are depraved. But they always leave room for deprovement.
Courtesy of my erstwhile next door neighbor.

[BlueStateSaint]

Every time I think DUmmies hit a new low, they reach a much lower point. A cKlannish bunch.

Fixed for accuracy.

[miskie]

It always does - sometimes for the worse, but more often my opinion of the primitive moves laterally.

For example, I could start off thinking a primitive is dumb as a box of rocks, and that it 'deserves what it gets' in life - But after reading more posts I end up feeling that the same primitive is as dumb as a box of rocks, yet feel pity for it because its obvious something is malfunctioning in its head that might be from being dropped one too many times as an infant by its primitive parents.

In the above example, I still feel that the primitive is stupid. But instead of pure willful ignorance on its behalf, it could be there is a defect responsible for at least part of its behavior.

Occasionally my opinion improves, but only when the primitive proves itself to be a likely mole.

[Mr Mannn]

Libs are depraved. But they always leave room for deprovement.
Courtesy of my erstwhile next door neighbor.

My opinion has only gotten worse. Liberals are the evil they blame on Conservatives. Further reading DU, KOS and other lib sites, liberals will kill if they feel they can get away with it.

A liberal has no friends, no sense of humor. But he will force his views on others at the point of a gun if he can.

[GOBUCKS]

I can understand some evolution in how hone feels about a particular DUmpmonkey.

Each one is a blend of stupidity and evil.

A DUmmy without a whit of stupidity would be pure evil, while a DUmmy of absolute stupidity may not be evil.

But those are two types of DUmmy that don't exist. They're like absolute zero and infinity.

Skimmer might be the closest thing to the former, while Pam Dawson and Amber approach the latter.

As you learn more about a DUmmy, your assessment of his stupidity may be adjusted up or down, but is always accompanied by an corresponding, opposite change in his evilness.

[dandi]

I don't know of any DUmmy I've ever met towards whom I've mellowed over time.

If my first impression was not correct, it was only in the sense that the individual was an even greater asshole than I first estimated.

[franksolich]

If my first impression was not correct, it was only in the sense that the individual was an even greater asshole than I first estimated.

Yeah, I think that's the most common experience.....like 99% of time.

[Carl]

Look at it this way,one of their pet sayings is that we vote against our own best interests because some day we think capitalism will magically make us rich.

No one with a brain (excludes leftists) actually holds such a thought but whatever.

Despite what is now just short of a full century of history and evidence,these cretins actually do think that for being good and faithful servants,after the great marxist revolution,the overlords they dream of will reward them with riches and power.

If that day ever came DUmbasses,you will be bulldozed over in a trench.

For that level of willful idiocy as they demand their way be forced on the public it is almost impossible to not despise them.

[Ptarmigan]

Libs are depraved. But they always leave room for deprovement.
Courtesy of my erstwhile next door neighbor.

The more I see DU, the more I realize they can really go off the rails.