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Scootaloo

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31. Not at all

Mon May 4, 2015, 02:24 AM

May 2015

"yeah-butting" is excusing the actions of these idiots. Despite your obvious wish that I would do so, I'm not.

I'm expressing disgust at how for the next week i'm going to see a lot of bullshit posts like the one of yours which I responded to. You know, "clash of civilizations," "Islam is the devil" 'hurgaburglargwargarbl!" and the like. While at the same time I am certain I will not see a fucking thing from you about people actually being butchered and brutalized.

it's not a "yeahbut," it's a lament at the lowbrow self-congratulatory nature of at least three day's worth of posts I'm going to have to step around on DU while trying to read about things that actually matter. And no, two yobs getting blown away in their botched attempt to blow someone else away isn't all that important, in the scheme of things.

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Taking a radical right-wing position on the part of an outgroup is not "liberalism." [View all] True Blue Door May 2015 OP

This x infinity. Well said NT. Ex Lurker May 2015 #1

fundie religions attract lunatics gwheezie May 2015 #2

You know the only people killed were the suspects, right? Scootaloo May 2015 #3

That's good to know. It wasn't clear earlier. True Blue Door May 2015 #10

You know what bothers me? Scootaloo May 2015 #18

Tolerance and sympathy for religious madmen is acceptable because... police brutality? Kurska May 2015 #22

I don't recall saying it was acceptable. Scootaloo May 2015 #30

You've vented more spleen at the OP than you have at the gunman. Kurska May 2015 #62

Well, they failed and are now very dead. Scootaloo May 2015 #73

I would usually view attempted murder as a more serious offense than disagreeing with me. Kurska May 2015 #74

By far. Which is why those two dudes are dead Scootaloo May 2015 #75

There's a word for that kind of comment: "Yeahbutting." True Blue Door May 2015 #29

Not at all Scootaloo May 2015 #31

So you deny yeahbutting, then immediately yeahbut. True Blue Door May 2015 #35

Only if "yeahbut" is a meaningless neologism Scootaloo May 2015 #43

A "yeahbut" is what happens when bigotry is confronted by inconvenient reality. True Blue Door May 2015 #44

You realize you just typed five brief paragraphs of nothing, right? Scootaloo May 2015 #45

I took the nothing that you're saying and ran with it. True Blue Door May 2015 #46

Nope. I simply find this "discussion" repetitious and obnoxious Scootaloo May 2015 #47

This is all projection, repeated immediately after I just said the same things to YOU: True Blue Door May 2015 #51

No, it's actual quotes from your posts, where you squawk like Joseph Farah Scootaloo May 2015 #54

What's that childhood game where you just randomly insert words into sentences? True Blue Door May 2015 #58

Mad Libs!! PeaceNikki May 2015 #59

Ahhhh, yeah that's the one. True Blue Door May 2015 #60

Seems like an ODDLY appropriate name, no? PeaceNikki May 2015 #61

Yes, indeed. True Blue Door May 2015 #63

That post of yours IS a Gish gallop Yorktown May 2015 #83

The attackers shot an unarmed security guard. SunSeeker May 2015 #20

I love how you immediately try to make like I said it was okay Scootaloo May 2015 #21

You ignore that the attackers shot someone. SunSeeker May 2015 #26

I do not think a calf wound is worthy of an existential "clash of civilizations" rant. Scootaloo May 2015 #32

A bullet to the leg is worth at least a rant. SunSeeker May 2015 #72

Linking the two is emminently reasonable and justified muriel_volestrangler May 2015 #50

Really? I was aiming for tired and fed-up Scootaloo May 2015 #53

Who killed them? treestar May 2015 #55

My understanding is that it was the police, yeah Scootaloo May 2015 #57

K & R nt okaawhatever May 2015 #4

So who won the contest? JaneyVee May 2015 #5

Everyone attending. This was their jackpot. Scootaloo May 2015 #6

+1 beam me up scottie May 2015 #13

+1 jeff47 May 2015 #68

not sure. linuxman May 2015 #41

Gellar. Just the way she intended to. hifiguy May 2015 #70

Thank you. Thank you. JDPriestly May 2015 #7

Good rant there. n/t freshwest May 2015 #8

Thank you. It is also not "liberalism" to accept misogyny in certain other foreign cultures pnwmom May 2015 #9

Very important points. Either we believe in our own values or we don't. True Blue Door May 2015 #12

It's even more odd that our Government, which speaks for us, has so many allies whose cultures sabrina 1 May 2015 #15

Some have been speaking out for decades. pnwmom May 2015 #17

Hillary Clinton agrees with you! bettyellen May 2015 #79

Great point. romanic May 2015 #81

I don't believe in absolutes, sorry Warpy May 2015 #11

The Christians who did that were WRONG and that doesn't excuse the people who do it now. pnwmom May 2015 #14

Mostly by consent. LiberalAndProud May 2015 #16

The dissidents generally know what they're up against Warpy May 2015 #19

There is a difference between having no power to change a thing LiberalAndProud May 2015 #24

Fine, go do it in THEIR countries. Warpy May 2015 #71

They have those laws by "common consent" because challenging them True Blue Door May 2015 #23

+1 EOM Kurska May 2015 #25

The RW kooks who sponsored this, 'Art Exhibit" AgingAmerican May 2015 #27

Or maybe they just wanted to LiberalAndProud May 2015 #33

Yeah, probably. They're assholes, but they're within their rights. True Blue Door May 2015 #34

It's amazing AgingAmerican May 2015 #36

This message was self-deleted by its author True Blue Door May 2015 #37

Note the sarcasm tag AgingAmerican May 2015 #38

Ah, sorry. The syntax is very confusing. True Blue Door May 2015 #39

There is no rationalizing terrorism, especially religious terrorism AgingAmerican May 2015 #40

There's an interesting allegory about desert sand. True Blue Door May 2015 #42

My point being AgingAmerican May 2015 #66

We will. The world will be completely off of fossil fuels by mid-century. True Blue Door May 2015 #67

Except McVeigh killed people. Lots of them. geek tragedy May 2015 #48

K & R SunSeeker May 2015 #28

Very well said. sufrommich May 2015 #49

amen. PeaceNikki May 2015 #52

No one is excusing these gunmen treestar May 2015 #56

True, but fadedrose May 2015 #64

Would you be okay with the same thing "Not hurting Christians by insulting Jesus" Kurska May 2015 #65

I'm close to being an athiest fadedrose May 2015 #76

There's a massive difference between calling someone a racial slur True Blue Door May 2015 #69

where are the leftists cheering for murder? Doctor_J May 2015 #77

++ thread. There is no excuse for physical attacks on people criticizing an ideology. Yorktown May 2015 #78

thank you rollin74 May 2015 #80

Why can't I be against both again? booley May 2015 #82