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In reply to the discussion: Can we please stop with the dog and cat eating [View all]Stinky The Clown
(68,349 posts)107. There are site tools to insulate you from such threads. Meanwhile . . . .
. . . . mind your own damn business.
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I personally find such posts as disgusting as topics on abuse of any sentient being
SheltieLover
Sep 12
#72
Do you wanna win? Winning against these assholes will require getting a little dirty
Happy Hoosier
Sep 13
#189
I don't care to engage in it. Reading even subjects that suggests such behavior is a trigger for many
SheltieLover
Sep 12
#24
TFG and his allies are still pushing the lie about non-whites eating pets
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 12
#169
Mockery is a powerful debate tactic against an opponent who won't debate in good faith. nt
Shermann
Sep 12
#7
Except it doesnt "hurt them" for us to waste bandwith on this nonsense - it HELPS THEM
Kashkakat v.2.0
Sep 12
#161
So, according to you, we're not capable of concentrating on their true failures and goal of destroying
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 12
#47
Their bait? Pretty sure they didn't plan this. THIS is hurting them. They are embarrassed by it.
FlyingPiggy
Sep 12
#74
True Dough, this is your second post in two days where you have mentioned "fingers".
LuckyCharms
Sep 12
#136
While I think it's been done to death I don't think it warrants an OP telling posters how to post. Just trash
Nanjeanne
Sep 12
#21
Yeah they might be funny the first five thousand times, then.... gets kinda old, time to move on nt
Kashkakat v.2.0
Sep 13
#193
No. That idiot repeatedly stated it as a fact. He needs to be mercilessly mocked.
Voltaire2
Sep 12
#49
Out of respect for you I'll include a trigger warning up top, but hope you will read my post.
thucythucy
Sep 12
#57
Agreed, however, the titles can be triggers for some folks with traumatic backgrounds
SheltieLover
Sep 12
#78
Most of the threads are labeled pretty clearly that the subject is cats and dogs.... Simply scroll past them.
33taw
Sep 12
#80
Why is it people are telling others here what and what not they can post or discuss?
Bev54
Sep 12
#96
Why? Don't read them if you are tired of them. You have agency over your clicks and we have agency over our posts.
yellowcanine
Sep 12
#97
I can't speak for the OP, but that's the "kind of professor" I was. Why risk triggering someone's trauma?
SheltieLover
Sep 12
#103
People vary so much. I doubt that what you consider potentially traumatic covers the field. nt
LAS14
Sep 12
#121
If it's being talked about outside the DU bubble it's going to get talked about here.
BannonsLiver
Sep 12
#101
There are site tools to insulate you from such threads. Meanwhile . . . .
Stinky The Clown
Sep 12
#107
Don't forget you can trash threads so you don't have to read them if they annoy you
Blue Owl
Sep 12
#109
I don't really care one way or the other, but the Barbara Streisand effect is on display here.
Croney
Sep 12
#110
Nope, and if you think this is only about dogs and cats you're missing the point
0rganism
Sep 12
#156
TFG and company are actively pushing these lies to help TFG's immigration lies
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 12
#170
No but you don't have to read them. Since cable news is treating this as an 'investigation, we should continue to post
Demsrule86
Sep 12
#157
No, it's political. Trump: Democrats let violent dangerous criminal ('rapists') immigrants who'll eat your pets
betsuni
Sep 12
#158
You added one more for the record and I am all for the eating of crow, sorry not sorry?
Brainfodder
Sep 12
#163
TFG is still pushing this story to promote his immigration lies and to attack non-whites
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 12
#166
This story is being defended by TFG and his allies on really shaky grounds
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 12
#176
KJP-"What is happening here is an attempt to tear apart communities ..."
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 12
#178
Springfield, OH City Hall had to be evacuated and closed for the day after a bomb threat
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 12
#187