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barbtries

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34. media needs to stop giving them air.

Sun Sep 19, 2021, 01:30 PM

Sep 2021

suffocate them, put them back under the rock they slithered out of back in 2008. they are FRINGE and crazy, willfully ignorant, largely stupid as fuck, and should not be getting air time. or articles in reputable publications, etc.

without that happening they'll just keep on catapulting the propaganda all they want. which is what has happened here imo. i love some of these people and am alternately horrified and terrified at the shit they spew.

sorry about your friend. now that Delta is out and about, she may not be around much longer.

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2008 I laughed when a friend said "you know he's not American". [View all] KentuckyWoman Sep 2021 OP

Yes, such types have always been with us PatSeg Sep 2021 #1

I always knew people like that but was blindsided by how many there actually were. Girard442 Sep 2021 #2

Social media has made it worse. CrispyQ Sep 2021 #9

I totally agree with you. nancy1942 Sep 2021 #15

I second your agreement. llmart Sep 2021 #32

For sure. Probably one if the worst inventions. jimfields33 Sep 2021 #18

I disliked Twitter from the start. Prof. Toru Tanaka Sep 2021 #23

Sharing photos and videos of animals. niyad Sep 2021 #31

Oh yes. There have been some great ones! CrispyQ Sep 2021 #42

WOW! I missed that one wnylib Sep 2021 #44

Introducing... CrispyQ Sep 2021 #54

Thanks. After my post I did a search wnylib Sep 2021 #58

Yeah, she's pretty awesome! -nt CrispyQ Sep 2021 #59

Believe it or not, social media includes DU IronLionZion Sep 2021 #49

To DUs credit, Latest Breaking at least has some rules before posting as "news." CrispyQ Sep 2021 #53

I don't mess with NextDoor.com IronLionZion Sep 2021 #57

The other party apparently knew and went all in on it to win IronLionZion Sep 2021 #48

Yes all of this has been a long time coming. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #3

They're not going away. But their bad decision-making is putting them in danger Baitball Blogger Sep 2021 #4

We have to out-vote them while we still can... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #5

And TFG just let 'em out of the closet to run free. And run amok. calimary Sep 2021 #6

Yes, who was it that pushed birtherism? Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #25

He gave them permission to completely abandon what turned out to be a very thin veneer of civility. deurbano Sep 2021 #33

When you laughed in her face in 2008, what did she do? irisblue Sep 2021 #7

I was in her home. KentuckyWoman Sep 2021 #12

Now, you see the void between me and trumpers.... LakeArenal Sep 2021 #8

If we don't figure out how to stop letting them dictate their crazy to everyone, we are sunk. malaise Sep 2021 #10

That explains my ingrown toenail... RainCaster Sep 2021 #11

My sciatica probably derives from my vaccine. Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2021 #56

Yup Joinfortmill Sep 2021 #13

once-dear friends told me that, too mainer Sep 2021 #14

Having a Father who once said that to me, let me tell you: maxsolomon Sep 2021 #20

Yes, these people have always been among us... Silent3 Sep 2021 #16

"If Kennedy is elected, the Pope will move to Washington" left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 #17

They said the same about Al Smith. In 1864, McClellan's people tried to convince voters AZLD4Candidate Sep 2021 #21

I heard it as "the pope will run the country". That was a minister in a church. demigoddess Sep 2021 #35

"the pope will run the country" left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 #37

I noticed a lot of these conspiratorial nutjobs popped out after the Waco raid. Crowman2009 Sep 2021 #19

My std response to people saying born in Kenya, not an American..... KS Toronado Sep 2021 #22

People will go to great lengths, incredible lengths, to support what they already believe. paleotn Sep 2021 #24

I actually think its the opposite, they do not have strong beliefs about much. Jon King Sep 2021 #27

My 58 year old cousin is the same way. Woodwizard Sep 2021 #26

Same here, found out friends of 45 years are long gone into the abyss. Jon King Sep 2021 #28

Those people certainly enjoy outsized influence and over-representation in America. n/t Beartracks Sep 2021 #29

TN VickiSmith Sep 2021 #30

Welcome to DU, VickiSmith! Lars39 Sep 2021 #40

media needs to stop giving them air. barbtries Sep 2021 #34

YES. But ALL media would have to. calimary Sep 2021 #36

there's always been somewhere for them to go. barbtries Sep 2021 #38

Been saying it for years now.... Hulk Sep 2021 #39

My reply: "No, you do not know what I know. You also don't know what I do not know."...... KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2021 #41

Obama's date of birth is another thing to consider FakeNoose Sep 2021 #43

It doen't matter when Hawaii became a state. ShazzieB Sep 2021 #52

John McCain was not born in a State. raging moderate Sep 2021 #55

RightWing media acts like all this crap is credible and newsworthy SouthernDem4ever Sep 2021 #45

They are a perverse, ugly, cynical, adversarial lot who abrades all they contact bucolic_frolic Sep 2021 #46

The belief that non-whites aren't American is racist IronLionZion Sep 2021 #47

The other day, I was in a meeting at work with five other people Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2021 #60

Most of my career I've been the only one from the US IronLionZion Sep 2021 #61

Cornpone Zone Logic. It'll never change. Period! czarjak Sep 2021 #50

I have a theory about birtherism. ShazzieB Sep 2021 #51