It seems like people here find particular delight

[loyalsister]

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in us-them alignment re:the NSA controversy. I am a little repulsed when I come across the "the apologists will be here soon" posts. I really don't understand why disagreement on this issue can't be civil. I would hope it would not be fun to tear fellow Democrats down.

[Fumesucker]

1. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3437109

I'm sorry, but you've been on his jock from day one.

But remember, it's never about Snowden if you are critical of him. But if you want to praise him and call him a hero, then it's about Snowden.

[Silent3]

2. For way too many it has become important to quickly categorize others as friend or foe...

...on the slightest pretext, and to show bitter contempt to those judged "foe". Any attempt at nuance or qualification on any point of disagreement must be quickly interpreted as "weasel words" instead.

[loyalsister]

3. Yeah. I'm not much on black or white thinking

There is usually gray area that merits consideration.

[Just Saying]

4. Yeah, name-calling and preemptively attacking those who you assume

Disagree with you gets old fast. Frankly, it's shut down any real debate on the issue. Who needs the drama?

[AppleBottom]

5. You can't be civil towards fascism.

Should we lay down to Republicans?
Why should you act civil when people spread lies and propaganda, it only encourages them.

[pnwmom]

15. There are no fascists here. But there are plenty of name-callers. n/t

[randome]

6. This has been worse than the Occupy heyday.

"You're either with us or against us!"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Fumesucker]

8. Oh, that's rich

I'm really having a hard time telling snark from serious lately, I totally hacked someone off the other day because I thought they were joking and went along with the joke then they thought I was making fun of them.

[randome]

17. Happens to all of us.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[loyalsister]

9. I know

It's been disappointing to find very few threads worth reading lately.

[Fumesucker]

7. It's like the old joke about the new prisoner

Anyone who's been here for a while has heard all the arguments and gone through the minutia of each of them, now we're just shouting argument numbers at each other.

A man is sent to prison for the first time. At night, the lights in the cell block are turned off, and his cellmate goes over to the bars and yells, "Number twelve!" The whole cell block breaks out laughing. A few minutes later, somebody else in the cell block yells, "Number four!" Again, the whole cell bloock breaks out laughing.

The new guy asks his cellmate what's going on. "Well," says the older prisoner, "we've all been in this here prison for so long, we all know the same jokes. So we just yell out the number instead of saying the whole joke."

So the new guy walks up to the bars and yells, "Number six!" There was dead silence in the cell block. He asks the older prisoner, "What's wrong? Why didn't I get any laughs?"

"Well," said the older man, "sometimes it's not the joke, but how you tell it."

[Lugal Zaggesi]

12. Number four

always makes me chuckle.

[tblue]

10. "Hater!" "Racist!" "Firebagger!" "You just want a pony that farts glitter!"

Tell the people who use those words, will ya?

[loyalsister]

11. It was a general observation

The first time I noticed it was when the response to something I posted included "we" and "the rest of us." I find the creative naming to be a little immature.

[jazzimov]

13. Interesting. I'm here almost every night

and I've NEVER seen those terms applied. Perhaps they are so rare that I have missed them.

I'm sure that you are willing to supply a link?

[Fumesucker]

16. Here's "Obama Hater" for you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2447384

OF course you're an Obama hater...

[pnwmom]

14. The worst of the name-callers are not Democrats

but other progressives whose goal is to tear the Democratic party down and replace it with a third, purer, party.

Except for the ones who aren't progressives at all.

[pacalo]

18. Locking, per consensus of GD hosts that it is Meta.