"If you were in a room with Hitler, Mussolini, and a Liberal and had a gun with two bullets, what do you do?.......Shoot the Liberal twice. Hahaha"
I'm beginning to realize that I need to delete the Facebook friends who make stupid Republican comments or jokes, in this example. The above was a comment a Facebook friend left on the Facebook "home" feed. What makes the deleting a little more complicated is that the above Facebook friend is my nephew who lives in Texas. When I see comments like this, especially coming from a family member, I feel compelled and almost obliged to respond. I responded with: "Do you have any liberals in mind? (More than half of your family are Democrats!) Also, are you saying that Hitler and Mussolini are better than Democrats/Liberals? Come on Matt, think about what you're saying."
After my nephew and brother verbally "ganged" up on me for my comment.....you can probably figure out the ensuing comments: Liberals can't take a joke and I'm looking silly for the comment I made etc. I simply told him that I don't think it's ever funny to joke about killing....especially in light of past school killings and other public murders in our country.
I would like to go back and add the recent killing spree at Ft. Hood in Texas as another example. As tempted as I am to do that, I've decided to restrain myself and just let the discussion end. Hopefully, my points will not look as "silly" now with the recent Texas tragedy.
When are the far right Republicans going to wake up?!


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"When are the far right Republicans going to wake up?!"
Good question, but my advice is to not hold your breath while you're waiting for them to regain consciousness:)
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I’m not as troubled by whom they wanted to shoot as I am who they would have left alive.
R
PS: If any of the people on my FB mouth the slightest bit of Republican baloney, I usually delete them with the words. "I can't be your friend anymore. You're morally bankrupt."
The racist asshole I deleted for being a racist asshole actually had the temerity to message me and ask why I'm not on his friends list anymore and then ranted about how he isn't a racist, he just doesn't like black people because all of them he's ever met are lazy and criminal.
Facebook is a great reminder that fully 50% of humans are stupider than the average person.
And while I agree that it's in poor taste to advocate the killing of others even jokingly, I don't think the trait is at all related to one's political views.
I've been posting out here at OS for about a year and one of my biggest surprises in reading a lot of posts out here is how violent and hate-filled some of the comments are - typically comments aimed at conservative political figures. Historically I've associated liberals more with "peace" and "love" per se, but I've pretty much realized in the last year that often those warm fuzzy feelings are reserved only for the members of the human race that they agree with politically.
I'm as frustrated with the Limbaugh, Coulter, Cheney cabal as anyone else with a brain, but still I recognize that despite the fact that they have very different political opinions than I do, I still see them basically as human beings. And so I recoil when I see hatred hurled at them on a personal level and when I see "liberals" here on OS engaging in that I'm reminded of Ghandi's comment that "intolerance belies a lack of faith in one's cause".
Cymraeg: Thank you.
Ben Sen: I think I know what you mean.
Scanner: You can't have the good without the bad, I guess.
Dennis: Thought provoking.
John: Good point about losing every election.
Cap'n: You're wise.
The Wright Sight: Definitely a nightmare because it's no dream!
Andy: Unfortunately, he's just a kid!
Verbal Rememdy: I guess we can all be an "asshole" at one time or another. Maturity is being able to recognize it.
Fins2theleft: Great points, but I've only read a couple here on OS that came across nasty....but I wouldn't say violent.
Dustbowldiva: When is killing ever a joke?
JDSmith: You're absolutely right about family.
That is so easy to do in this media market mentality we as a nation have now. All extremes, and no humanism.