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In reply to the discussion: It must be so tiring to be hateful [View all]CrispyQ
(40,665 posts)41. This:
I think so many of these people have sad, empty lives. It's drudgery. They get up, go work for the man and never get ahead. They may have nothing to look forward to, everyday is the same and it's boring and blah. But when you have a whole host of media sources telling you to be angry and hateful, that person actually "feels" something. An emotion, though toxic, they still feel something as opposed to blah and nothing.
They're mad cuz they played by the rules & things didn't turn out like they were told they would. So someone like Limbaugh gets on the radio & says it's the brown people's fault, the feminazi's fault, the fags fault & he uses inflammatory language to rile the hate. There was an old Star Trek episode, the original, where a hate type entity took a hold of the Enterprise, feeding & spreading hate throughout the ship's crew. Limbaugh & his ilk are that entity & the haters are being played, while the 1% loot the country.
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Exactly. And all you have to do is ask everyone else if they want that guy to get what he wants.
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2014
#7
Sad but true; hate never does anything but hurt. But we can be better than that, too!
AverageJoe90
Apr 2014
#12
and it's always so goddamn BORING: it's either "anyone of any consequence was secretly white"
MisterP
Apr 2014
#27
We killed 100s of thousands in Iraq, cost us trillions. Over nothing. That's how much we hate. -nt
pragmatic_dem
Apr 2014
#28