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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Ins0, Boa, ogllalabob- This is a broader, more personal question:
What will it take for you guys to stop credulously accepting every damn story that makes you angry that you hear from conservative talk radio "Old White Person Outrage Hour" on your drive home? Like over and over again we see this thing where you hear a story(stimulus going to unions, Wisconsin protestors defaced the Constitution, all this ****) and you post about it on the internet to shut up us whiny liberals, and EVERY TIME a liberal googles up a refutation within like 5 minutes.
What can we do, as fellow citizens, to get you guys to spend those 5 minutes googling BEFORE the post?
You don't refute anything, you nitpick details.
Stimulus may or may not have gone to "unions" but it most definitely was a giant exercise in lighting money on fire. That's where the "right wingers" have their beef. Whether it went to unions or green energy money pits. It still went to money pits instead of doing anything useful.
It's funny that you have to go to the defacing the constitution thing as your second example in a set of two. Couldn't come up with anything a little stronger?
You and I hear the word "desecrate" and we might think someone is pouring coffee on it or drawing penises on the case or something. But the person that passed along that story was an "old timer" type who saw people taping signs and putting glue on the constitution which is on display in our capital and to her, that WAS desecration. Just because it doesn't fit your or my narrow definition of the term didn't make that statement any less true.
Also, that constitution story was something heard in real-time on the radio. I mentioned it in a thread that was active at that moment in time. It's not exactly going to be on the NYT website 15 seconds after it happens.
TL;DR -- I'll stop being a right winger when you stop crying racism every time someone opens their mouth to say something that doesn't fall exactly in line with your personal world-view.