Are the wingnuts getting more frenzied, or is it me?

[Patiod]

I'm on a listserv for an arts group of which I was a member for many years.

After a particularly ugly 2000, I got tired of having to bat down the wingnuts, and got everyone to agree to a total moratorium on political jokes, comments, links, etc. No politics. Period.

So recently, one of the wackier former members, who sends out a lot of crap, frankly, (virus warnings, urban myths, etc.) sent out something from Al Gore, or something about "An Inconvenient Truth". Rather than ignore it like we mostly ignore everything else she sends out, the wingnuts started frothing at the mouth and "replying to all" about the "myth" of global warming, fraud, Al Gore being an "asshat", a windbag, etc. WAY over the top.

Seems to me like they're afraid of something. Or they've been beaten up so badly in the past few months that they're lashing out at the smallest thing.

Has anyone else observed an increase in wingnut frenzy levels?

[Bjornsdotter]

1. I haven't but

...any wingnuts that I know personally have stopped emailing me. I guess they didn't like my corrections to their urban legends.

Cheers

[MuseRider]

8. Nothing like making those corrections

and sending them out to everyone on their list. It sure cured my RW email woes. :)

[Bjornsdotter]

10. ...and it's so much fun!

:toast:

[Catshrink]

14. Yeah, I used to do that and send corrections to the original list

of recipients. Then my sister suppressed the list -- guess my freeper-sister didn't want the truth to get out, a true repuglican she.

[Patiod]

21. Rather than hear the truth, I get dropped

Which is good

Sadly, I get the same crap from some of my liberal friends. No, hon, swiffer isn't going to kill your precious kitties. And Mars is not on display tonight - you missed it - that was 3 years ago......

[justiceischeap]

2. Did You See Jesus Camp?

Seems the wingnuts, particularly the Xstian ones, teach their homeschooled kiddies that Global Warming is indeed a myth. Seems to be they've decided anything that is science isn't Godly.

[Bjornsdotter]

11. Watch this

...if you haven't seen "Friends of God" this will scare the crap out of you.

Cheers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aLxrmM91SkE

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. My limited experience

A hobby board I frequent has a small mafia of wingnuts. For the past few weeks they have been going nuts - a daily barrage of hate posts directed at liberals, Democrats, Muslims, Mexicans, etc. It was especially intense after the Libby conviction.

Suddenly, two days ago all of them went silent. The discussions were not going well and I think they are having trouble finding talking points that do not lead to humiliation - not that they have been able to notice that before.

I really hate debating political issues in a non-political forum. I refuse to start political threads, but I got sick of watching the Bush worshippers turn the forum into a frothing, hate-soaked, soap box every day, so I began challenging them about a year ago. Frankly, it's frustrating and time consuming, but I have received some very nice IM comments from the lurkers.

[lectrobyte]

4. Cognitive dissonance is an amazing thing to observe up close.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Conservatives and... the arts? *mind boggled*

[Phredicles]

6. Yeah, I had to leave a football board because of the Bushbots, but arts???

I thought righties lived in mortal fear of the arts - they're all sissified and stuff.

[Kurovski]

7. The Dukes of Hazzard and Mallard Fillmore.

What? That's art...

[Patiod]

16. It's a Gilbert & Sullivan group

Anglophiles and lots of folks that love the monarchy, so it's not the same as most of the other arts organizations SO & I are affiliated with....

[11 Bravo]

19. A Gilbert & Sullivan group? Send them this little ditty ...

Bush is the very model of a modern corporate criminal
An asshole from all points of view, both conscious and subliminal
The kindest word him is dope
In prison he\'ll play drop the soap
Bush is the very model of a modern corporate criminal.

[Patiod]

20. very cute

not strictly pattersong, but still cute

[Solo_in_MD]

9. the fringe from both sides is foaming at the mouth and civility is long gone

If the issues were not so important, I would considering some of it funny

[Puregonzo1188]

12. I've noticed it too, at the March on the Pentagon on Saturday

there were more prowar counter demonstaters there that day that probably all the past ones combined.

[Patiod]

17. Shouting "U.S.A!" "U.S.A!"

Very persuasive.

[rasputin1952]

13. They are all off message, they have nothing to crow about...

Tax cuts and an immensely costly war has tossed the nation into debt it never thought would see.

bush's "eternal war" scenarios.

Scandal after scandal, and investigations to boot.

These people are scared to death...All Limbaugh talks about now is how "phony" Global Warming is...day after day, it's the only message he has, and it, as usual is incorrect.

[lpbk2713]

15. It's desperation.

They get a dose of it daily from the RW radio hatemongers. The conservative movement is in its death throes thanks to their poster boy Chimpy Shit-for-Brains.

[BoneDaddy]

18. yep

the shrieking in dismay is deafening

[Kelly Rupert]

22. *More* frenzied? How can you tell?

Seriously, I'd bet on the "Beaten up so badly..." theory.