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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 05:56 PM
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Why are half the threads here free ads for right-wing assholes?
I thought this was Democratic Underground, not Thousands Of Posts About Fascist Pundits Underground. C'mon people, stick to using the hundred threads already in existance if you have to talk about them. I can't ignore the crap fast enough.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 05:58 PM
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1. exactly! doing the right wing's dirty work for them on DU. nt


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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:03 PM
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2. If you say something about a right winger
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 06:04 PM by OhioBlues
it picks that up. It depends on the thread. Write something about a liberal and liberal stuff shows up. Try it. You should see the stuff that shows up in the lounge...


edit spelling
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:14 PM
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3. I don't think the OP was talking about the Google ads.
I think he / she was talking about the threads.

Redstone
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:16 PM
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5. I see, now that you mention it...
Thank you Redstone!:7
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:43 PM
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9. De nada.
Redstone
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Scout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:15 PM
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4. thank you
:applause:
:toast:
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:16 PM
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6. I'm hiding over 60 threads alone concerning that RW whore troll
...no mentioning any names :)
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:25 PM
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7. That's what I mean, I have been hiding them for an hour now.
They pop up like weeds on crack. I can't seem to get rid of them fast enough.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:27 PM
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8. lol - tell me about it
I was sore for a few days after squatting to pick all the weeds from the cracks in my driveway :rofl:

It's an appropriate methaphor...
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Jigarotta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 02:00 PM
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19. me too! I've been patient with this in the past
but this is just too fricking Much.
It's such a pain in the arse hiding all those useless things.
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SlipperySlope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:48 PM
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10. Too many people define themselves by defining their opposites.
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 09:49 PM by SlipperySlope
Then they spend too much time talking about their opposites.

Doh! - I just realized this is my 1,000th post!
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Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:57 PM
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13. Lest that go unacknowledged.... CONGRATS!
On your 1000th post!

:toast:
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 01:54 PM
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15. That's an interesting point. I'll have to think about that some more.
Thanks.
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:53 PM
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11. I guess people here 'love to hate' as much as the next guy.
they're being played, but I guess they don't care.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 01:55 PM
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16. I enjoy a good hate every once in a while...
...I just don't spend all my time giving the object of it free advertising.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:55 PM
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12. I have never used the hide thread option? Don't know where it is even
Don't want to know. If GD gets too full of stuff I don't want to discuss any more I just go researching for some new or old information that may be pertinent to the days events and post that.

Give it a whirl once. It has worked pretty well for me so far. Good luck.

Don
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 01:59 PM
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17. My schedule of availability here is irratic...
...and some times I want to be here. I know, who the hell am I to tell everyone else what to do? I'm really not trying to, I'm just complaining because it seems obvious to me how ironic it is to do free work for the person you claim to hate.

Oh, and just to be an asshole (I can't help myself at times), the way to hide a thread is to click that little box with an "x" in it at the end of its title.
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tomreedtoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:15 AM
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14. Without right-wing-assholes, most people have no topics.
It's sure easy to bash an idiot like Coulter, scream about Bush's idiocies and the like. It sure beats the hard work required to overturn the right wing, like politicking, protesting, promoting candidates and going door-to-door to argue with people.

And arguing about the stupidity of these people - which pretty much everyone agrees upon - shows that the letter writer is on the side of the good guys. Which is really nice, since being on the side of the good guys is so much easier than being one of the good guys yourself.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 02:06 PM
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20. Another good point.
In defense of some of them, however, complaining is all that some can offer at this time, with their resources allocated elsewhere. I just hate having to sort through the circle jerk of it, especially when it gets as out of hand as it's been recently.
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 01:59 PM
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18. Well Poor You.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 02:06 PM
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21. Your genuine concern touches me deeply. - n/t
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 02:31 PM
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22. Only about 20 Coulter threads on the GD and GD-P front pages today
down from 35 yesterday. Improvement.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 03:08 PM
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23. Yeah, it's getting better. At least people don't seem to be adding...
...as many as they were the last couple of days.
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Jigarotta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 03:10 PM
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24. It's sad that so many here go for the pork chop thrown at them.
Ann who? the crazy eyed one? okay.

next....
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 03:13 PM
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25. Well, I guess it keeps magicians in business...
...to have so many people be so easily distracted.
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