the people who defended the NSA most vociferously, are those

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175. Mocking is an equal opportunity behavior, ideas and individuals both

I still think we should just number the arguments, insults and so on, it would save a ridiculous amount of bandwidth on the DU.

I actually learn quite a bit from you and in a positive way, I appreciate your input sometimes and I think you have good insights into some aspects of politics.

A lot of us were trained by eight years of Dick 'n Dubya to defend the barricades at the slightest threat, it became our lives to a bigger extent than I think many of us realize ourselves. Bear in mind that the human brain largely sees what it expects to see and we expect to be sold out, it's been going on for over thirty years now that this nation has staggered from one political and economic disaster to another and I for one don't see particularly the economic picture changing except for the worse for those of us up here in the cheap seats.

So many things are a matter of perspective and changing one's perspective is so often a remarkably difficult thing to do. There are some subjects on the DU that I simply don't post about any more, there isn't any point when the conversations invariably shed far more heat than light.

Everything you say will be misquoted, misconstrued and used against you.