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Wed Sep-22-10 08:15 PM
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What do you say (if anything) to a Facebook friend |
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who "likes" Glenn Beck?
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:17 PM
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1. Provide a link to Media Matters, tell your friend to try to absorb |
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the truth, though I'm sure MM would be badmouthed, too.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:18 PM
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:19 PM
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:20 PM
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4. I personally ignored my cousin, called my sister about it since she is a typical |
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so called conservative hating government that steadily bleeds off the government she lately is denouncing and has for quite some time, My sister advised me to ignore her page which I have and I haven't missed a thing...some people are just a bit mentally unfit enough where common sense no longer applies in their so called minds...
She is also an alcoholic, has been for years, been married several times, seems her newest one is a teabaggin fool which she seems to have adopted in order to get her rent paid more easily...
Sometimes you just have to ignore some of them...
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:22 PM
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providing a link to the Glenn Beck articles at Media Matters. Before you do that, though, write a sentence or two saying that you USED to like Beck, but then somebody turned you on to this interesting website (then give the Media Matters link to Glen Beck). Then say it really opened your eyes.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:43 PM
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20. That's an excellent strategy... |
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It makes the person more willing to listen to the message because you related to them first (at least from their perspective). My husband is a teacher and he does that kind of stuff with his students all time.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:22 PM
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Either they are ignored (if not belligerent) or unfriended.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:24 PM
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9. Because you can choose your friends, but not your family |
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:23 PM
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8. I just ignore the posts if its someone I have other things in common with -- otherwise, I hide them |
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:24 PM
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Which is just what I did to a former FB "friend". She also "likes" Sarah Palin and "DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN." The latter caused me to dump her completely. I have no use, whatsoever, for people like that.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:38 PM
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17. One of my co-workers shared that particular chain e-mail that she got from an acquaintance |
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Awful lot of those circulating around the web right now.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:25 PM
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11. Probably nothing...after all... |
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Edited on Wed Sep-22-10 08:25 PM by pipi_k
my own profile is probably just as shocking/offensive to some of my Conservative friends and relatives as theirs are to me.
Nobody has yet commented on my political leanings, or the fact that my religious views are "Rude" (yes, that's exactly what I entered).
People don't bother me and I don't bother them.
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Thu Sep-23-10 08:44 AM
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If they like Beck, they like Beck. Really nothing I can do. I am sure that friend will disagree with some of the things I like. If they were truly your friend, you will respect the differences in the friendship and leave it at that. Maybe the best thing would be to not talk about it and discuss the things that connected your friendship in the first place.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:26 PM
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12. I tend to ignore them. Face book is not the right medium for opening |
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a closed mind.
I think the best you can do on face book is to challenge them to a game of scrabble.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:34 PM
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"Facebook is not the right medium for opening a closed mind." ... GREAT quote..!
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Wed Sep-22-10 09:24 PM
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28. I agree. That would be what I would say to ............. |
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to the Facebook "friend". Along with providing that link.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:57 PM
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24. Even Scrabble is beyond their mental ability because they ARE teabaggers. |
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Wed Sep-22-10 09:11 PM
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27. But you can shake a mind with the right words. |
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Be gentle they are easily disturbed. Quasi for triple letter double word.
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Wed Sep-22-10 10:00 PM
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29. We should start a Scabble game using just tea bagger words and expressions. |
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Wed Sep-22-10 10:11 PM
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31. i'll play..........one word per day. |
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you play the tea bagger, I'll be the progressive. Jeez I guess somebody has to invite to be a friend on face book. Frankly I could use some liberal friends on face book. just kidding.
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Thu Sep-23-10 08:42 AM
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33. If I have to play the role of a tea bagger I insist no words can be longer than 3 letters!!! |
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And no words with more than one syllable either!
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:28 PM
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:36 PM
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Contacting lots of old friends means I've got to leave room for people having grown in all sorts of strange directions.
If I'm brought into the conversation or challenged, I'll certainly respond. But unless I want to join in on a "like", they just pass me by.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:36 PM
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16. Tell him "Oh yeah" and so does the scarecrow from the |
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Wizard of Oz" and sign off.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:42 PM
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18. I'm very politically active on facebook |
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So they get pulmulled with all my links and sources daily :-) They also get to see all the comments of my ever growing Liberal activist network friends .
I do have a couple family members who are becker palinites . They stay very quiet . when they don't I engage them in debate , that they walk away from . :shrug:
I am what I am , and that isn't going to change on facebook :think:
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:43 PM
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19. I stopped ALL communication with them. |
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There is absolutely no reason for trying to communicate with a Beckerhead. They are ignorant and stupid. And the ones on Facebook I know are also right wing Christians so it is pointless to even talk with them. They are members of a cult and their small, closed minds are impenetrable.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:45 PM
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21. I have family and friends who say the dumbest things |
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You know, things that come straight out of the ass of Newt Gingrich and sent through the air ways of Not News. It's exhausting trying to respond to everything. Fortunately, they've got redeeming value. Try to find the redeeming value in your friend and avoid confrontation if you're like me--not good at it. I suspect you're not so good at it, either.
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Wed Sep-22-10 08:48 PM
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22. If you find out what to say without ruining a long friendship |
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Wed Sep-22-10 09:07 PM
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26. tell them you heard on Glenn Beck that pretzels are the new gold |
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and that you've cornered the market on them and following Glenn's advice making a killing. Just now for a low, low introductory price you can get your friend in on this massive investment before the opportunity is gone.
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Thu Sep-23-10 08:48 AM
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35. ignore them if it's a family member, otherwise |
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Thu Sep-23-10 08:49 AM
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liked glenn beck. I replied: Oh, didn't know you were that into the crazy. Every now and then I put links on his page of beck's insane rants.
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Thu Sep-23-10 09:05 AM
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I'd like to, but I use Facebook to promote the band I play with so I tend to keep it non-political. FB helps me put butts in the seats on Friday and Saturday nights. Pack em in and get another booking, whatever or whoever it takes. ;)
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Thu Sep-23-10 09:10 AM
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38. The "Hide" feature is your friend. |
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I've had to use it several times.
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