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roamer65

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31. Their ideology applies to everyone else's kids, but not their own.

Reply to Calculating (Reply #30)

Sat Jul 8, 2017, 01:15 PM

Jul 2017

With this addendum...one then has their warped mindset nailed down.

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It's their economic anxiety talking dalton99a Jul 2017 #1

It's quite true. Friends have told me for a very long time I'm too hopeful, that there are RKP5637 Jul 2017 #2

Don't mix up the baskets oberliner Jul 2017 #4

I don't think there was any mixing up happening, there. kcr Jul 2017 #25

Yeah, there is NO way you can confuse someone with economic anxiety with someone Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #26

Point taken oberliner Jul 2017 #27

Just most of them . . . hatrack Jul 2017 #28

And I don't think that was meant as a dig at Trump voters, but the people who defend them n/t kcr Jul 2017 #29

I agree! They will never change. brutus smith Jul 2017 #6

And these same people will say "Abortion is bad, it kills babies!!!" NutmegYankee Jul 2017 #3

Internet trolls are internet trolls oberliner Jul 2017 #5

I doubt they would all be pretending though IronLionZion Jul 2017 #10

I have to agree with you Plucketeer Jul 2017 #21

+ A zillion the scary empowerment of women lunasun Jul 2017 #17

aren't we a kind and empathetic nation? spanone Jul 2017 #7

No matter how kind you are IronLionZion Jul 2017 #20

Nice pun! NT StatGirl Jul 2017 #34

hahahaaa spanone Jul 2017 #40

These people are no better than Daesh ck4829 Jul 2017 #8

I don't know how to teach people to care about other people IronLionZion Jul 2017 #9

it's always been bigtree Jul 2017 #11

May each and every one of these trolls die a slow and painful death of natural causes. roamer65 Jul 2017 #12

+1 dalton99a Jul 2017 #13

My advice: Stop posting personal stuff on the Internet. WinkyDink Jul 2017 #14

Then the terrorists win IronLionZion Jul 2017 #18

People who have benefited from Medicaid and/or ObamaCare have been sharing their testimonies deurbano Jul 2017 #23

Fair enough. Then I'll amend my comment: Don't REPLY on the Internet to critics. WinkyDink Jul 2017 #24

See my post below. (Replying wasn't very effective.) deurbano Jul 2017 #33

If there's such a thing as karma, and I go back and forth on this... Va Lefty Jul 2017 #15

The internet opened up a whole new world for people to display their stupid. lpbk2713 Jul 2017 #16

"Conservatives Without a Conscience" pangaia Jul 2017 #19

For sure! Plucketeer Jul 2017 #22

I'll explain their reasoning bluntly as I can Calculating Jul 2017 #30

Their ideology applies to everyone else's kids, but not their own. roamer65 Jul 2017 #31

This is the problem with that line of reasoning jmowreader Jul 2017 #35

No, they cheer on "saving" Terry Schiavo. And fetuses. They just hate anything they are brainwashed deurbano Jul 2017 #37

They are so effed up that Terry Schiavo and that poor brain dead baby in the UK can be used... Hekate Jul 2017 #41

My daughter was at the San Francisco "die-in" where the impatient Road Rage Warrior plowed into the deurbano Jul 2017 #32

And they say we're the violent lunatics. WTF! Initech Jul 2017 #36

The flip side of Calvanism is if someone else gets something, you get less. McCamy Taylor Jul 2017 #38

this is the "pro-life" crowd Skittles Jul 2017 #39