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In reply to the discussion: There is a living breathing human being at the other end of your keyboard. [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)know that you were referring to something specific. In that case I would just point it out in the thread directly to the people who are being mean.
You are absolutely wrong if you think I hate anyone. What I 'hate' is attitude and empty smarmy posts that are nothing more than name calling and insults.
You are absolutely wrong to say I don't support the president. (not everything is about him) I don't support a lot of his actions and policies. I wish we had a liberal president as I am a liberal, so of course I'm not happy with a self-described moderate Republican. What I don't support is the people who attempt to disallow any criticism of the president and proceed to call those who criticize his policies and actions with smarmy posts that are only insults with smileys and have no content about policy in them. We try to discuss policy and get rude name calling in return. You know it happens. You know who does it.
And no, I'm not grouping everyone who supports the president as a BOGGER. That would be silly. I evaluate people based on their posts just as in real life I evaluate people based on what they say and do. And anything I've said was based on the posts and actions of the posters themselves. Most of them do belong to a certain group, but not all who belong to that group behave that way.
I'm sorry anyone called you a bitch. I didn't do it though, so don't hold it against me. I'm not sure why you brought that up and then proceeded to ask me if I agree with that. Clearly I don't agree with that, you should have gathered that from my previous post. I do not let my feelings about others' posts/positions affect my jury duty behavior, I told you that already. Did you think it was me who did that???
As to the post you linked to, I didn't even understand that post, much less had any inkling that it referred to you in any way, why would I have? Why do you think I "probably found it funny"? Really sheshe, you are making baseless, ill-advised and insulting accusations about me right now on a personal level in your very thread asking people to be nice. And you dismiss your rudeness to others in this thread with a casual oh well, that's how the thread went, as if your reaction is beyond your control. Surely you can see how that looks.
Honestly, you shouldn't post an OP like this if you don't practice what you preach. Or if you do you should make a point that it's directed at everyone and that you include yourself or something. Or maybe you do believe that it's only necessary to be nice to terminally ill people? I don't quite know what to make of it.
As I already stated originally, when you post like that it just comes across as a lecture. And it's ironic that some of the people on here cheering the OP are the ones who need to heed it the most.