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RKP5637

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1. Some people just seem to play tapes out of their head. Whoever recorded them
Thu May 17, 2012, 05:06 PM
May 2012

there did a good job and disabled the erase button! I'm really beginning to think that is just how some peoples brains function. There have been some studies done on this. I can find them later if you want me to.

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Some people just seem to play tapes out of their head. Whoever recorded them RKP5637 May 2012 #1
That's what the RW media does: create generalized fear without information arcane1 May 2012 #2
Yes I think many of us experience the same thing. Even when you show proof they are wrong. southernyankeebelle May 2012 #3
I have a neighbor like that. I know they are RW religious nuts and RKP5637 May 2012 #12
LOL I been there. I make it a point to feel people out slowly which way they lean. If I see southernyankeebelle May 2012 #13
We have never talked politics before...just farming and goats. murray hill farm May 2012 #17
Ignore it Aerows May 2012 #4
I would probably respond gratuitous May 2012 #5
FDR: The only thinge we have to fear is fear itself..... Xolodno May 2012 #6
No! murray hill farm May 2012 #18
Facebook rants Jane Eyre May 2012 #7
I don't let people get away with it... orwell May 2012 #8
Excellent!!! For some of your clients it's surely a learning experience, to have RKP5637 May 2012 #21
I have a friend. If you went fishing with him or worked a project with him you would.... wandy May 2012 #9
I agree FOX is a big problem - TBF May 2012 #10
I agree, both Fox and churches can be a bad source of information with RKP5637 May 2012 #22
'"Being conservative" like it's a new rock band or something' Tsiyu May 2012 #34
If there were only a way to get them to see...... wandy May 2012 #36
When you see or read experiments on behavior jp11 May 2012 #11
Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 May 2012 #23
I see some of that as well. SmileyRose May 2012 #14
My sister bet me $1000 that he would destroy country if re-elected ErikJ May 2012 #15
What she is really saying... kentuck May 2012 #16
I like that explaination! murray hill farm May 2012 #19
"Give me an example." gulliver May 2012 #20
"They just want to dominate." Republicans, the schoolyard bullies. n/t RKP5637 May 2012 #24
Ain't that the truth. A recent conversation with my sister > > > lamp_shade May 2012 #25
Ka Blam! ProfessorGAC May 2012 #26
On the school prayer thing ask her "Who gets to write the prayer?" JoePhilly May 2012 #31
I have an uncle that does the same thing, but he throws in the Muslim-Kenyan-take away our guns ... ebayfool May 2012 #27
Well it is true. sendero May 2012 #28
I've tried to wedge into the wall of obFOXcation by honing in on the "lying" JHB May 2012 #29
I truly believe that the intense emotions of fear and rage are addictive lunatica May 2012 #30
Good analysis, lunatica...there's definitely an adrenalin Surya Gayatri May 2012 #33
Fox and the right wing have used a scatter shot approach to generating fear. JoePhilly May 2012 #32
I find most people who rant like that, get their news expressly from... Javaman May 2012 #35
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