I was on a Freeper Siteand they told me I wouldn't take "Guidance".

[applegrove]

What a pathetic bunch of patsies.

Who voluntarily gives up their understanding of the world and their education in order to take "guidance" from some likely paid political hack?

Are Republicans really so dumb?

They implied I was being uncooperative.

What was it about that study where the uneducated & people who didn't have enough self esteem kept pressing the torture button when the scientist doing the testing told them to?

Is this the "guidance" they are talking about?

I kept pointing out they were being infantalized. If I am a baby boomer do I have to take "guidance" when someone I don't know wants me to?

[Erika]

1. Just remember they are the pod people

and you resisted.

[Plausible]

LOL it's a cult

Wouldn't take guidance. Sounds like a cult.

[babylonsister]

2. You are too smart, write too well, and your big

words intimidate the freepers. You clearly don't belong... :evilgrin:

[complain jane]

3. I've seen them refer to their discussions w/Democrats as "educating".

Not even in a derogatory fashion; they pass crazy right-wing articles around and swap 'em to keep and use for "educating" and "teaching" those who need "teaching".

[applegrove]

4. No - I was not intimidated. I was just frightened of the language.

One of the stats they are passing around is that progressive policies result in high unemployment and they always use Germany as an example. I pointed out - because I had read in the Economist Magazine - that Germany's unemployment is due to joining the EEC and giving up and independant monetary policy. And they joined up with Eastern Germany 15 years ago and get tons of economic refugees from Soviet Block countries & the middle east. And yet - and the same time - they have boldly joined the EEC and have no policy tools (anything Greenspan would use) to speed up or slow down their economy.

I got people outright denying. One person saying "really? Are you sure this is true" and a few desperately searching for other European examples of unemployment issues (same rationale applies to them too). Would be like Alabama. When has alabama ever had a monetary policy that was centered on its needs? Never. So Alabama has been stuck in high unemployment. I'm sure in Germany it will work itself out as the economies of former Soviet block countries get out of crisis in the next 20 years. But really..
Anyway...pod people yes. I'm just frightened at how far gone they are.. so far that the true believers have no sense of the abject liars amongst them. And the true believers emit vocab like "guidance" thinking they are acting normal for an adult. And it is normal to be an adult & be 'taking guidance'. On economic issues. In the greatest democracy of the world. I don't know what is scarier. The pod people 'true believers' or the outright sociopaths who keep stirring the pot and passing on lies.


Very sad...

[Vogon_Glory]

12. When You Shoot A Shot Across THEIR Bows, Though...

When you fire a shot across the bows of a Freeperstani's bow, though, THEY call it "lecturing."

I recently took offense at a typical Hillary Clinton-bashing thread and said that their preferred political party is corrupt and that one of the highest priorities of an incoming Democratic administration ought to be prosecuting the Republican/"conservative" politicians and PAC-people for corruption. For some reason or other, the little cherub took offense; he seems to think that the Right-wing Republicans holding the country by the throat have been governing in an honest, squeaky-clean fashion.

I suppose that the little cherub still thinks that his avatars have been entirely honest and law-abiding. Nevertheless, I expect that a few of their dupes will note the cardboard wings and tarnished tin halos when things roll around.

[Montauk6]

5. I start feeling violent when I hear one of these jerks call in.

This was more often in the afterglow of the election. The pathetically patronizing call from a consoviet offering "advice" to liberals on how they can start winning elections again. What they, of course, wouldn't advise (but it would be more appropriate considering) was to make sure your most loyal contributors handled the voting machines. Nonetheless, it's still like taking financial tips from a cat burglar!

[applegrove]

6. That sounds like 'baiting' to me. Patronizing or getting you going.

[applegrove]

7. They know how you are wounded by the elections. That is why

they attack you there. They try and provoke a reaction in you so that they can then call you deranged.

Breath deep. And turn off the radio when them come on. You really can be seriously damaged if you get hit again & again in the same wound.

Better to save your strength during an election where you can use up the energy. Right now - you are powerless.

So turn off the T.V....whatever as soon as you hear a 'baiting' freeper.

[Montauk6]

9. No, I understand; I was dovetailing your point.

The "guidance" also seems like a form of baiting.

[applegrove]

14. I thought this person was serious. They scurried away into "I meant

spiritual guidance" when I pointed out he was talking about infantilization of an adult.

Yup. They have the baiters and then the naive true believers. Hard to know all the time who is who.

[noamnety]

8. about that "guidance" you wouldn't take

Was it by any chance bright red, and served over ice from a very round pitcher with a happy face on it?

[Time for change]

10. I think you've hit the nail on the head n/t

[applegrove]

15. Yup. "Guidance" means allowing yourself to be infantalized. Where

you hand over your reality to some person. In this case...a patsy.

[JohnnyBoots]

11. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.......

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. "Guidance" "Educating" Religious tracts.

The modern right wing is a cult, and nothing less.

Problem is, even if we do retake the congress and the executive, we have all these cultists entrenched in our local, state and federal gov't, in our education system, our law enforcement, intellegence, medical, financial etc.

[Vogon_Glory]

16. There May Be Hope For The Middle-Term

I'm beginning to think that while the right wingie-dingies may be well dug in for the short-term, in the middle-term they'll start losing ground.

Even here in Texas, where the Republicans have our state government by the throat, it's beginning to dawn on parents and citizens that our Republican-led state government is proving itself increasingly incompetent. This may not be enough to get statewide Republicans sacked, but it's likely to start turning up the heat under the feet of state legislators and state senators.

Elsewhere, I've noticed that control of Colorado's state house had changed from Republican to Democrat during the 2004 election. Enough people were getting fed up with Republican incompetence to fire enough Republican legislators to bring a return to sanity.

Admittedly, Colorado isn't like the states of West Dixie (Notably Oklahoma and Texas). But there's hope for the rest of the country, and for Texas to be dragged along in the wake of change from out-of-state.