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In reply to the discussion: I think name-calling makes DU suck. Can't we grow up a bit? [View all]Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,848 posts)149. Oh for fuck's sake. What the fuck kinda fucking bullshit is this? nt
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Being reasonable and not buying the Obama/neoliberal propaganda is not "bootlicking"
nichomachus
Jan 2015
#101
Oh for fuck's sake. What the fuck kinda fucking bullshit is this? nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jan 2015
#149
A lot of people would rather call someone they disagree with a troll, or a plant, instead...
Lancero
Jan 2015
#141
+1 I have noticed that since I started posting again under a different name.
bobGandolf
Jan 2015
#85
Other than "cracker", none of the others is name calling and are EXACTLY correct...more often than
randys1
Jan 2015
#91
Drooling fanboi-- that's just a recent slur for my liking an Obama policy, Grumpy.
Hekate
Jan 2015
#7
120 DUers recc'd "Fuck you, Mr. President, you piece of shit used-car salesman."...
SidDithers
Jan 2015
#11
But apparently calling shills for a fascist enemy of the LGBT community a not-nice name
NuclearDem
Jan 2015
#12
Didn't realize there were so few recs. I guess it felt like more, Sad and uglyl. So ugly.
sheshe2
Jan 2015
#29
Yup. Much celebrated. First website I've been to that tolerates it to this degree.
freshwest
Jan 2015
#27
Well, let me know when we actually have a Democrat running and not a 3rd Wayer please
Katashi_itto
Jan 2015
#118
I agree with you, but I wish I found it easy to ignore. Stupidity bugs me esp in something called
ellenrr
Jan 2015
#53
Sometimes people just feel the need to cuss. But I still can't think of anything worse to be called
world wide wally
Jan 2015
#40
At one time or another I've been called every name in the book in at least 8 languages.
hobbit709
Jan 2015
#48
I agree, I don't know why so many- give a rats ass about what people think about them
notadmblnd
Jan 2015
#104
"You are not a very nice lady. bbbbpppppssssttttsssss" is this supposed to mean something?...
ellenrr
Jan 2015
#51
I'm not a big fan of Russian authoritarians. And I find the name-calling juvenile.
Comrade Grumpy
Jan 2015
#95
Good point - call them names not our own. think they call us Libtards. nt
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2015
#123