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In reply to the discussion: Top 20 signs you might be a counterproductive left wingnut [View all]G_j
(40,546 posts)370. I don't think every member of the "Reality based community"
        has quite arrived at that awareness.
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                        Top 20 signs you might be a counterproductive left wingnut [View all]
							ConservativeDemocrat
							Sep 2013
							OP
                        
        
        A phrase usually employed to justify, peddle or whitewash indefensible monstrosities.
        2ndAmForComputers
        Sep 2013
        #444
      
        
        no offense but how the flying fuck could DU possibly be any help in your endeavor?
        Warren Stupidity
        Sep 2013
        #412
      
        
        Precisely where did I say it could?  I'm quite well aware that there's little interest in...
        TreasonousBastard
        Sep 2013
        #416
      
        
        it is because we are just like the Op says, or something or lack ESP, plus we hates Obama.
        Warren Stupidity
        Sep 2013
        #489
      
        
        A little bit of smiling and dialing from a DUer living in the area would help....
        MADem
        Sep 2013
        #455
      
        
        You posted here in support of a thread dedicated to insulting the vast majority of DU'ers.
        Warren Stupidity
        Sep 2013
        #487
      
        
        This thread *describes* a relatively small handful of counterproductive wingnuts
        ConservativeDemocrat
        Sep 2013
        #593
      
        
        Eh, he did join in on a rather vicious OP by someone criticizing a group to which they do not belong
        Fumesucker
        Sep 2013
        #515
      
        
        TB, good luck on your campaign!  Please keep us posted on what happens good, bad or in between!
        Number23
        Sep 2013
        #141
      
        
        Lessee now, this afternoon I put a few hours into my day job, attended a meeting...
        TreasonousBastard
        Sep 2013
        #237
      
        
        It means that DU was no help-- nothing more, nothing less.  It does not mean...
        TreasonousBastard
        Sep 2013
        #423
      
        
        3b. Your (Sl)activism is reserved to signing online petitions and emailing Congresscritters
        NightWatcher
        Sep 2013
        #9
      
        
        You accuse Democrats of being members of the John Birch society....
        ConservativeDemocrat
        Sep 2013
        #193
      
        
        The ironic thing is that his description fits him better than any other DUer. nt
        Democracyinkind
        Sep 2013
        #28
      
        
        The whole thing... Du is the "last bastion of magical thinking, tribalism, etc etc"
        uppityperson
        Sep 2013
        #30
      
        
        They're just another Hetero White Christian American being oppressed by political correctness
        Electric Monk
        Sep 2013
        #73
      
        
        Indeed it is...absolutely no sense of historial context...only about "what's happenin' now"
        deutsey
        Sep 2013
        #173
      
        
        yes, prosense is constantly called a paid shill by a dozen or so "democrats" here on
        dionysus
        Sep 2013
        #205
      
        
        i think there's truth in some points on the list cali, but i wouldn't apply them to you.
        dionysus
        Sep 2013
        #80
      
        
        The OP will not answer the simple question asked by the poster you taunt. Incapable of doing
        Bluenorthwest
        Sep 2013
        #85
      
        
        Really? You don't see how the use of "regular Democrat" implies that those you disagree with are
        cui bono
        Sep 2013
        #445
      
        
        HAHAHA! Attacking Syria is insane. Instituting the Heritage foundations health care plan
        grahamhgreen
        Sep 2013
        #211
      
        
        I think you're trying to do something good here but excessive Anger is getting in the way.
        BlueJazz
        Sep 2013
        #35
      
        
        You're playing the lesser of two evils game. We are playing the make the lesser evil good game.  n/t
        cui bono
        Sep 2013
        #480
      
        
        You post this piece of shit OP and then have the gall to harp about Cali's negativity?
        Democracyinkind
        Sep 2013
        #344
      
        
        Just another coward without the ambition or fortitude to go take his own party back.
        Egalitarian Thug
        Sep 2013
        #61
      
        
        K & R, Aye, ConserativeDemocrat, you have struck some nerves here, what is more interesting
        Thinkingabout
        Sep 2013
        #65
      
        
        You had responded ConserativeDemocrat had 20 lies, does these describe you?
        Thinkingabout
        Sep 2013
        #121
      
        
        You are right about it being crap again if the shoe fits then you will have to wear the shoe.
        Thinkingabout
        Sep 2013
        #394
      
        
        maybe like a real professional counter spy, they might be watching you right now.
        Thinkingabout
        Sep 2013
        #571
      
        
        You mean the mutual admiration and break your arm patting yourself on the back group?
        hobbit709
        Sep 2013
        #74
      
        
        Yes you might appreciate this divisive trash aimed at splitting the party so the REpublicans will
        rhett o rick
        Sep 2013
        #285
      
        
        That doesnt make sense. The OP is trashing Dems and makes a habit of it.  Did you
        rhett o rick
        Sep 2013
        #510
      
        
        This week two Conservative Democrats voted to defund the ACA,voted like the Republicans
        Bluenorthwest
        Sep 2013
        #90
      
        
        I have to agree with you about divisiveness.  That said, we've got plenty of DUers who have
        MADem
        Sep 2013
        #463
      
        
        Dividing the Democratic Party is one way to ensure that 'conservatism' prevails.
        MADem
        Sep 2013
        #481
      
        
        You can - and, except for one, who I think recommended this for exposure...
        Cooley Hurd
        Sep 2013
        #166
      
        
        'They have something to lose if the Democratic Party changes back to what it was before Clinton'
        wyldwolf
        Sep 2013
        #203
      
        
        Amazing how you simply ignored the topic we started and launched into a silly tirade
        wyldwolf
        Sep 2013
        #386
      
        
        dude, the DLC no longer exists. It's your boogeyman. And you're STILL avoiding the point.
        wyldwolf
        Sep 2013
        #553
      
        
        I'm sure that everyone who rec'd this has been absolutely SHAMED by your comment.
        Number23
        Sep 2013
        #197
      
        
        Yes, well many of those folks that you don't "get" don't understand how a web site
        Number23
        Sep 2013
        #297
      
        
        Have you considered that people making such a claim might just be... well... stupid?
        Scootaloo
        Sep 2013
        #306
      
        
        Actually, I think the people that support Assad are crazy.  But that's just me.
        Number23
        Sep 2013
        #313
      
        
        You're another one. You do nothing but follow me around.  I remember your posts commenting
        Number23
        Sep 2013
        #329
      
        
        Do you think that your posts are invisible?  You are the one tossing around personal insults
        Number23
        Sep 2013
        #341
      
        
        Recommendations (not records) are public. If you're ashamed of rec'cing something, then don't rec it
        Electric Monk
        Sep 2013
        #257
      
        
        Wow, that is ridiculous!!! So must be someone who rec'd and doesn't want anyone to know?
        cui bono
        Sep 2013
        #453
      
        
        The OP obviously spent considerable energy coming up with a sure-thing flamewar OP
        Fumesucker
        Sep 2013
        #606
      
        
        One thing I have learned here over the years is not to take anything at face value
        Fumesucker
        Sep 2013
        #610
      
        
        There's an entire (protected) group that seems to be dedicated to attacking liberals
        Fumesucker
        Sep 2013
        #612
      
        
        Divisive trash aimed at splitting the party so the Republicans will have a better chance.  nm
        rhett o rick
        Sep 2013
        #281
      
        
        There's a grand total of under a hundred of them, but the same names show up over and over
        leveymg
        Sep 2013
        #183
      
        
        Problem is that when others respond, the post gets kicked keeping it at the top of GD
        leveymg
        Sep 2013
        #187
      
        
        DAMN fine post. I never knew what Third Way was until GD started spewing it at half the posters
        Number23
        Sep 2013
        #199
      
        
        Sorry that gravity has little effect in space, but in '08 DU was split between Obama and Hillary
        leveymg
        Sep 2013
        #206
      
        
        This is exactly the kind of tripe they write at "the peoples view" troll website on a regular basis
        quinnox
        Sep 2013
        #196
      
        
        lol, good idea, maybe the OP should set up a new website where they can post "attack the left rants"
        quinnox
        Sep 2013
        #204
      
        
        You do realize that even in the UK with its NHS that private insurance and physicians exist?
        Fumesucker
        Sep 2013
        #349
      
        
        Not only that, when the UK private hospitals fuck up, who cleans up the mess?
        sibelian
        Sep 2013
        #379
      
        
        Divisive trash.  At least the left wing nuts stand for Democratic principles.  You of the Third Way
        rhett o rick
        Sep 2013
        #284
      
        
        Or they just don't recognize Internet B.S. when it's right in front of them?
        Hissyspit
        Sep 2013
        #342
      
        
        Here is a small point of fact: President Obama's approval rating among Democrats is 79%, not 85%
        muriel_volestrangler
        Sep 2013
        #374
      
        
        well Mr. "ConservativeDem" let me make a wild guess that you are too young to remember America
        Douglas Carpenter
        Sep 2013
        #380
      
        
        This is one of the most idiotic things I've ever read.  BlueDogDemocrat (since I don't like
        Nanjing to Seoul
        Sep 2013
        #383
      
        
        All real Democrats turn their brains off and support everything Obama does unquestioningly!
        Dash87
        Sep 2013
        #385
      
        
        By the way, I did the math re: recs for this vs recs for the response thread
        Cooley Hurd
        Sep 2013
        #387
      
        
        Nickname: ConservativeDemocrat ...yep your nickname and the attack on the supposed left makes sense.
        L0oniX
        Sep 2013
        #406
      
        
        It's the rightoids who keep bringing it up to "show how foolish the Left is." And nobody else.
        2ndAmForComputers
        Sep 2013
        #441
      
        
        Meh! It is hard to be offended by things I do not believe are true about DU'ers
        Vinnie From Indy
        Sep 2013
        #449
      
        
        Recs for dreck like this have been steadily and unnaturally increasing since the launch of DU3.
        woo me with science
        Sep 2013
        #512
      
        
        It is a heinous insult to all of us who have struggled most of our lives to try to free our country
        Zorra
        Sep 2013
        #514
      
        
        The GOP's snarling loons are found in their right-wing, and so are the Democratic Party's.
        Marr
        Sep 2013
        #534
      
        
        Yes, it is fascinating to see people rec shit-stirring fallacy and projection
        Hissyspit
        Sep 2013
        #567
      
        
        WARNING. There is an ATA thread pushing for the banning of the 95 DUers who recced this.
        Nye Bevan
        Sep 2013
        #574
      
        
        This will prove to be the post that KILLED DemocraticUnderground.com.
        cherokeeprogressive
        Sep 2013
        #603
      
  