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snowybirdie

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6. I finally did

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sun May 9, 2021, 09:43 AM

May 2021

before the last election. Finally called a relative a liar on FB. A super evangelical and right winger who posted falsehood after falsehood there. No more contact since then. I'm sorry to be estranged because of family ties, but not sorry to not being in contact with a crazy and stupid person. Life is too short.

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Do Democrats need to be more confrontational with the liars and conspiracy theorists? [View all] kentuck May 2021 OP

More confrontation, immediately. (nt) Paladin May 2021 #1

I prefer ridicule TheRealNorth May 2021 #14

I like ridicule. But it's no longer an adequate response. Paladin May 2021 #15

absolutely nt Celerity May 2021 #2

Oh yes! North Shore Chicago May 2021 #3

HELL YES! RobertDevereaux May 2021 #4

Laugh in their faces and tell them they're pathetic. LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2021 #5

I finally did snowybirdie May 2021 #6

How about firmer in expressing our own principles and beliefs? Hortensis May 2021 #7

I don't think so StarfishSaver May 2021 #8

Wish that they were gab13by13 May 2021 #9

Christofascists see not being confrontational as weakness and a win for them. Thomas Hurt May 2021 #10

my experience, it is a futile effort mnmoderatedem May 2021 #11

Agree it is a futile effort MOMFUDSKI May 2021 #18

Yes. Stupidity and ignorance grow in a vaccuum. Baitball Blogger May 2021 #12

Yes, and always in court. SmartVoter22 May 2021 #13

I like Jen Psaki's approach. Delmette2.0 May 2021 #16

I simply cannot any more. If someone believes this kind of thing, no skepticism at all, just blind Lettuce Be May 2021 #17

Does Dracula have an overbite? Atticus May 2021 #19

Yes. no_hypocrisy May 2021 #20

Unnn, more insistent the M$M focus on them IMHO. We can be more confrontational with MAGA uponit7771 May 2021 #21

Yes the weight of their lies will become heavier scarytomcat May 2021 #22

Should they have challenged Nazism and Hitler stronger in Weimar Germany? roamer65 May 2021 #23