Here's something that needs to stop at DU.

[cboy4]

People need to quit blowing off shocking threads/posts, etc. by casually associating them with trolls and freepers.

There are a lot of naive people here who think DU is a complete bastion of progressive thinking and compassion.

Ummm, no. Wrong.

There are plenty nuts here.

And all you have to do is look at the number of people who are voting that the Code Pink peace advocates should be tasered.

Think of all of the regular grave dancers.

It's not funny. It's disturbing.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. "There are plenty nuts here".

I LOVE you. :rofl:

:thumbsup:

[cboy4]

5. And to think I chose my words carefully!

;)

[EFerrari]

7. I resemble that remark!

:rofl:

[katty]

53. yeah, sometimes you feel like nut-sometimes ya don't!!

this isn't Atlantic Monthly for chrissakes!!

[BuyingThyme]

2. Trolls, freepers, but not grave dancers?

These are fine lines.

[cboy4]

8. If I had a dollar for every grave dancer, I could purchase:

[Lerkfish]

3. it is disturbing that any democrat, jokingly or not, would suggest such a thing

torture is not something to be viewed flippantly.

[Beerboy]

4. I'm gonna have to alert on this...

[cboy4]

9. And if I had a dollar for every one of your posts that

I've seen deleted, I could purchase:




Just say'n

[Beerboy]

15. The hell you say.

There are some that I wanted to check back on, but there was 0 reference. Now I know what happened.

[cboy4]

18. LOL

[IndianaJones]

6. lots of disturbing things here...quit stirring the pot. nt.

[cboy4]

10. LOL. You're my favorite disruptor

;)

[Midlodemocrat]

13. He's everybody's.

[LostinVA]

22. Damn -- all I see is "Ignore"

[IndianaJones]

23. yeah...gang up on me. typical. nt.

[cboy4]

38. All I see is ignore. nt.

[SyntaxError]

32. Why should people quit stirring the pot?

I always find pot stirring to be entertaining to watch. Isn't that whole purpose of the internet? :P

[IndianaJones]

33. its not cool. nt.

[Haole Girl]

11. May I please ask....

What is a "grave dancer"? Sorry, I am unfamiliar with the term. Really. Sorry, but it's all I can do to keep up with the "nuts" you mention!

:shrug:

[cboy4]

16. Sure. Making jokes about the death of another human

being such as Steve Irwin (Croc Hunter), Anna Nicole Smith, mountain climbers "who deserved to die because they knew the risks, fire victims who get burned up because "they should have known better to evacuate," etc.

It's the lack of what should be default human compassion and sympathy for the death of someone, no matter what the circumstances were.

[Haole Girl]

26. Thanks

Oh, I feel so stupid. Of course! Yeah, there are always plenty of those around. :-(

[Evoman]

29. Yeah, I totally did that when Pinochet died.

It felt fucking good, I tell you.

I would have pissed on him alive, if I could. I'll have to settle for shitting on his grave.

[cboy4]

35. You know I'm referring to individuals who

did nothing serious to harm other human beings.

Grave dancing for Hitler? Fine.

Grave dancing for Tammy Faye Baker ...a woman who died from cancer (a disease that affects virtually every family, including mine) and looked like this:

Despicable.

[Evoman]

42. Fair enough.

Although I had someone PM me when I said something like the above on the board, basically chastising me for my "anger". Well, it's hard not to be angry when someone is responsible for "disappearing" your friends and family.....

I agree with the grave dancing over non political, harmless people to be too much. But then, I guess I was never fleeced by Tammy Faye or given an std by Anna Nicole Smith, lol (don't flame me...I actually sort of liked both of these people).

[otherlander]

52. Aren't they refusing to tell anyone

where his grave even is, just out of fear that people will actually do that?

[Kajsa]

19. Hi KC2,

A grave dancer is someone who figuratively
" dances" on someone's grave, i.e. is lacking
compassion for their demise/death.

This is how I understand it.

:hi:

[Haole Girl]

27. Hey gf!

Thanks! :hi:

[madinmaryland]

12. Nice post, Hitler!

:rofl:

:hi:

[cboy4]

20. Hehehe. I thought you were Midlo when I initially

read that title.

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

24. Sometimes I come out of the Lounge and post in GD!

[LostinVA]

25. Did you pay the toll?

[madinmaryland]

34. I bypassed Delaware to get here!

[izzie]

14. For sure there are nuts every place. I would feel put out if I did

not find them on DU.

[Bitwit1234]

17. I really and truly do not believe that ANY OF US AT DU

want to see Code Pink Members tasered...they are joking probably. Lighten up people..you know in your heart of hearts they don't want that.

[cboy4]

30. "ANY OF US." Are you kidding me?

Yea, maybe *some* people are joking about the tasering of Code Pink members.

But the nuts here don't have a problem with it.

Some of these people (not necessarily nuts) are the same ones who hate Cindy Sheehan.

[IndianaJones]

31. yeah...lighten up. nt.

[Kajsa]

21. Right you are, cboy4.

There are a few trolls here, but there are
definitely more nuts.

:hi:

And, yes- it's disturbing alright.

[earth mom]

28. What the freepers are doing is not just disturbing, but absolutely disgusting.

:puke:

[Didereaux]

36. only a complete idiot believes that a large number of DUers agree with tasering Code Pink!

Hell I voted for it, simply to show the absurdity of the QUESTION!

Get a goddam sense of humor! or get a brain, most of them come fully wired with humor activated!

[IndianaJones]

37. that makes you a false voter and calls into question your integrity. nt.

[SyntaxError]

39. I say we taser him.

[IndianaJones]

40. I don't think it would affect him. nt.

[Beerboy]

46. You're the most n00b, howz'bout we taser you?

I think we all have to take one @ DU, but you have to go first!:P

[SyntaxError]

54. Should I take my shirt off first?

[cboy4]

43. When you have a lot of nuts here who truly believe

the Code Pink members should be tasered (and there are plenty), why is asking whether they should be tasered an absurd question/poll?

Do you seriously believe everyone here is an angel?

I have some ocean front property in Nebraska I'd love to sell you. I'll PM the details.

[Quantess]

47. It's not funny, though.

I crack jokes all the time. If voting yes was a joke, that's a really unfunny one, IMO.

[Basileus Basileon]

41. Why does nobody complain about the people voting to taser Fox News reporters?

Isn't that just as inappropriate?

[cboy4]

44. It's a free country, so you can be a Fox News fan if you

want.

I just wouldn't put FOX reporters in the same category (or continent for that matter) of people who devote their lives to the cause of world peace.

[Basileus Basileon]

45. So in order to dislike Fox News, you have to wish tasering on all their employees?

The only reason not to taser Code Pinkers is that they believe in peace?

Let's have some consistency here. Either it's wrong to taser people on basis of what they believe, or it isn't. You can either be offended at both the Code Pink and the Fox News would-be zappers, or you can be offended at neither.

[cboy4]

48. I'm actually opposed to tasering all people.

You're the one who insinuated that I don't have a problems with reporters being tased.

[Basileus Basileon]

49. I didn't say anything like that. I asked why nobody complains about

the people voting for Fox News reporters to be tasered. Your response was that Code Pinkers believe in peace, which doesn't really answer the question, unless you believe that all people who work for companies that don't believe in peace ought to be tasered. Since you don't, the question still stands.

Why has everyone gotten upset about people voting for Code Pinkers to be tasered, but nobody cares about the greater number of people who want to see FNC reporters tasered?

[Trillo]

50. MSM has been delivering us extreme violence as "entertainment"

for a number of years. We've been "conditioned" to think of violence and pain as "funny" or "entertaining" or "DESERVED" by the television.

Of course it's "disturbing". TV programs the brain differently than reading, read up about "mirror neurons" someday.

[JuniperLea]

51. If it's too hot, stay out of the kitchen

The Internets have always been so, from the beginning, and will continue as long as they exist.

Google "internet community psychology"... it's a mind-opener!