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What is it with endorsing violence these days? Seems like I see it every time I go on line.Glocksman wrote:God knows if I saw such an incident go down, my bad uncorrected eyesight precludes me from seeing anything that'd be useful in a court of law.
Sorry- we are dealing with pretty nasty folks and people tend to lose their tempers. We are talking about folks that picketed the funerals of soldiers and said they are roasting in hell... because the US isn't stoning the gays. They make the KKK like reasonable... okay, the are on par with the KKK.The Romulan Republic wrote:What is it with endorsing violence these days? Seems like I see it every time I go on line.Glocksman wrote:God knows if I saw such an incident go down, my bad uncorrected eyesight precludes me from seeing anything that'd be useful in a court of law.
I know, and normally I might not bother making an issue out of it, except that there's been a lot of this kind of talk these days. Though given the smilie, I suppose the above was intended as a joke, and I might have done better to ignore it.Samuel wrote:Sorry- we are dealing with pretty nasty folks and people tend to lose their tempers. We are talking about folks that picketed the funerals of soldiers and said they are roasting in hell... because the US isn't stoning the gays. They make the KKK like reasonable... okay, the are on par with the KKK.The Romulan Republic wrote:What is it with endorsing violence these days? Seems like I see it every time I go on line.Glocksman wrote:God knows if I saw such an incident go down, my bad uncorrected eyesight precludes me from seeing anything that'd be useful in a court of law.
I think a lot of people are burned out emotionally from following the election, and probably aren't able to check themselves as well as they might otherwise be able to. Throw in the scary situation with the economy on top of that, and you have a lot of jittery people who are operating with a lowered stress tolerance. For a lot of conservatives at least, anger is what comes out since their guy lost. I remember being a fairly unpleasant person for a week or two after Kerry lost in 2004, and I wasn't even worried about losing my job at all. If I were worried about my job status and I saw the country's leadership move in what I thought was the wrong direction, I'd be pretty mad too.The Romulan Republic wrote:I know, and normally I might not bother making an issue out of it, except that there's been a lot of this kind of talk these days. Though given the smilie, I suppose the above was intended as a joke, and I might have done better to ignore it.Samuel wrote:Sorry- we are dealing with pretty nasty folks and people tend to lose their tempers. We are talking about folks that picketed the funerals of soldiers and said they are roasting in hell... because the US isn't stoning the gays. They make the KKK like reasonable... okay, the are on par with the KKK.The Romulan Republic wrote:What is it with endorsing violence these days? Seems like I see it every time I go on line.
It's not so much that it's worse as it's incredibly high profile, much higher than anything else they've really done.Metatwaddle wrote:The WBC and Phelps still suck, but I don't really see how protesting Obama's grandmother's funeral is any different from any of the other funeral protests they do. How is this worse than protesting the funeral of a soldier, a gay person, or an AIDS sufferer?
It's really not, except that a lot of people see such an attack on POTUS as an attack on the country.Metatwaddle wrote:The WBC and Phelps still suck, but I don't really see how protesting Obama's grandmother's funeral is any different from any of the other funeral protests they do. How is this worse than protesting the funeral of a soldier, a gay person, or an AIDS sufferer?
