I always think of This episode of ST:TNG
It’s not too late to introduce her to Scientology. Maybe you can get her on several Scientology mail/email/phone lists. She’s a perfect candidate for it.
The OP could be talking about someone I used to know. Very intelligent woman with a doctorate in a hard science. Also the first person to ever mention Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck to me (this would have been 2005-ish). She slowly but steadily seemed to go from a very sweet person to a crazy person.
I remember first getting worried about her when she told me all about the Face on Mars. I don’t have a doctorate in a hard science, but I remember gently saying how surprised I was that she was so credulous about something like that. It got worse from there.
In her case, I suspect she had a combination of existential fear from a health issue she had had, possibly combined with some sort of mental illness. I could be wrong about both, but in any case her change over a few years was startling and puzzling. We had a falling out for other reasons and we haven’t spoken since.
Look, I don’t like conspiracy theorists or woo-believers any more than anyone else. And I know some highly intelligent people who believe in woo and CTs. My highly-educated aunt is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist and believes no one has ever been to the South Pole. It perplexes me.
That being said, OP… can you not understand that when or if a Trump supporter sees a block of text like the one you wrote here below, that they see you pretty much the same way you perceive them?
Why don’t you show us an effective way to talk to those little snowflakes, then? After the last couple of years of listening to the hateful blather spewing from their mouthholes, I am unconvinced that being all understanding and nicey-nicey will convince them of nothing other than that we have capitulated. If you’ve got a real world example of an alternate method that works, by all means bring it forth.
I don’t know anything about Qanon other than a superficial gleaning and don’t care to know any more about it.
But y’all wanna run down a list of dumbass, retarded shit lefties get in their little pea-brains for balance?
When the fuck has the left ever been nicey-nicey? They’ve been mouthy unwashed shitbags who most people disliked for decades.
And today y’all are worse than you’ve ever been.
Guess who’s getting a mirror for Christmas?
I can’t speak for psychobunny, but I don’t care one whit about how a FPTrump supporter* perceives me, or how anyone influence by a FPTrump supporter might perceive me. It’s obvious that we perceive the world and their Dear Leader so differently as there is no overlap. I will not reach out with any form of olive branch, because all they do is retreat further into Crazy Town, trying to drag you in with them. The two assholes posting in this thread are prime examples.
*I am specifically speaking of Trump supporters, and not the entirety of Republican/Conservative (“R/C”) people. The words and opinions of R/C people who do not support Trump (though they seem few and far between, or are being very, very quiet) will be judged individually.
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Why should he need one? He’s really good at describing what’s there when he’s standing in front of one as it is.
Who is telling her which memes to post?
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Annoyed has inadvertently done us a favor by neatly illustrating a fundamental difference between the majority of people on the right and left. Namely: for some unfathomable reason, the right wing takes childish delight in irritating people on the left. It’s obviously a deliberate strategy done for no other reason than to enjoy the distress of others.
As for me - and the evidence suggests that most progressive types are of a similar bent - I really don’t have the least bit of desire to enrage people on the right sheerly for the joy of seeing their blood pressure rise. Sure, if their irritation is a side-effect of a policy I favor being implemented, or of incontrovertible evidence coming to light proving them wrong, I’m okay with it. But for me the point is the policy or the evidence, not the other person’s anger.
I realize self-introspection is largely lacking on both sides of the aisle these days, but if anyone cares to think about it, you might ask yourself whether you take visible delight in riling up the opposition. And if you do, do you think it makes you a better person? Or do you think that people who care more about the issues than about making somone mad for the sadistic pleasure of seeing them suffer might, just might, be the ones with a stronger moral compass?
I’m not one of those politically correct liberals. I’m one of the politically incorrect free speech liberals, you buttfucking snowflake. Go cower in your safe space. My Post was totally fucking gender neutral. I’m sure Hannity doesn’t look too close when a Trump supporter like yourself presents their asshole for a reaming, all he cares about is that liberals hate it. And we do !
On the left, it is not intentional that we enrage the right. When my friends got married a few months ago, they did not do so in order to piss anyone off, but only because they loved each other and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together. That some right wingers got pissed off that they got married isn’t any of their business, nor anything that they are concerned about.
Good question. I was inclined to ask that one, but I got distracted by a bunch of other things…
…and that you actually have a butthole…
Anyone got a running jigsaw?
Annoyed literally admitted that very thing already.
Huh? The “nobody’s been to the South Pole” is a new one on me. How much traction does that bullshit have?
Flat Earth? (There is no South Pole to go to.)