On election Eve, Freepers hit a new low

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As have I and no it doesn’t. Just that the Freepers tend to be the most prominant, and somehow the scariest. Maybe because they have guns.*

*And no, that’s not a slam at gun owners. Just a joke.

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BTW, when I say I’ve seen “equally disturbing” I don’t mean, “McCain” killed his grandmother. Just that I left DU years ago after the Bush/Gore election-it got too weird for me.

But they still don’t scare me like the Freepers do.

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Just to draw some of the venom aimed at what was a pretty innocuous post, how about:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/9241/85282/359/579333

“McCain Fortune Has Ties To Unsolved Murder”

or from the US Liberal groups at about:

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-usliberals&tid=17706

“McCain was not just a war criminal. He was, and is, a vocal proponent of war crimes.”
or for an example of how fucking desparate both sides seem to be to tarnish the other guy,

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/5/115643/8150/700/530192

“It’s pretty bad when your hair is whiter than your teeth”

So, 2 minutes of searching and I can find the more fervent leftwing types saying he’s a murdering war criminal, with bad teeth.

And before anyone starts accusing me of bias, I’m fucking british. That means even if I’m a hardline right winger by local standards, I’d still qualify for membership of the communist party by US standards. All I’m trying to do is point out that both sides have got their unpleasant little extremists.

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None of those are even in the same league. :rolleyes:
Compare:

Obama had his cancer ridden grandmother who raised him, killed to garner sympathy votes.
To yours:

1: There is an investigation into whether McCain was involved in a fatal car crash in 1964. True

  1. McCain flipped on his stance against torture. True

  2. McCain is old. True

Nice try but no cigar for you.

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FWIW, it appears the thread generating all the faux outrage has been deleted.

Der Trihs’ posts on the SDMB remain.

So I guess you are correct - there is no equivalence.

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Oh, my outrage is decidedly not faux.

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Shodan’s “point” is though…

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May I recommend a nightstick, officer.

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You know, I really don’t understand people who use the rolleyes smiley. Do you really want to advertise that you’re a smug cock whose grasp of written language is so poor you have to resort to a cartoon picture to convey your disdain?

It was a 30 second search to demonstrate there’s some stupid accusations and smears coming from extremists on both sides (for your reference, googling Dailykos, mccain, murder). Please fucking excuse me if I’m not going to waste more time on it just because you don’t feel that one accusation of murder for benefit isn’t in the same league as another, especially seeing as I even went to the point of chucking in the “his teeth ain’t white” example just to show how daft the whole damned thing is.

You don’t feel that your side is quite as vicious as theirs? Good for you. From the viewpoint of this pretty impartial outsider (actually, I want Obama to win, for what it’s worth) there’s cock all difference between the idiot fringe on either side.

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:rolleyes:

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Maybe it’s a new low for the creepers, but turned around and posted here, it would hardly raise an eyebrow.

I continue to be amazed by the power of selective perception.

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We at the Mother’s March Against Cognitive Dissonance have yet to pick a 2009 poster child. Have you any photographs, by chance?

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I like to advertise my smug-cockhood with a penis smiley, but VBulletin doesn’t have that option.

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If you honestly believe this, you’re as blinkered as the next idiot. Selective perception indeed.

There were plenty of people shushing the loons at FR, and the same would happen here.

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Check out this masterpiece of FReeper poll analysis:

(emphasis added)

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Alright, come on, which one of you Dopers posted this in that thread?

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As reprehensible the notion that Obama’s grandma was killed by Obama or whatever…is truly sick of people to say that.

Even sicker is that those posters are more likely to be Demoturds who are posting as Republicans.

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The excessive use of emphasizing capitalization might point to me, but I think it’s par for the course over there.

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Any reason to think that besides wishful thinking?

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Do explain.

Are you saying …

A) that most Freepers are actually Democrat moles trying to sink the Free Republic from the inside?

Or … B) that Democrats are actually more likely to spew that sort of ignorance.

Or … C) that you’re just a dope.