Posted on 05/17/2005 12:04:34 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I believe you. Look at all the banners they wave about contributors and high # posters, as if that makes them more relevant. They aren't about free speech, they are about agree-or-be-banned.
Modem Butterfly Donating member (1000+ posts) Wed May-18-05 12:14 PM
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3. Very well said
As far as I'm concerned, if those raising money for Andy had been honest and up front in explaining that Andy didn't actually have pancreatic cancer and that Andy was eschewing care at a local Medicare-receiving hospital with the highest success rate in the nation in order to get solely self-funded care at Johns Hopkins, this wouldn't even be an issue.
It's as though a DUer asked for donations in order to get a car to drive to work but refused to purchase a car until s/he had enough funds for a brand new Jag.
Roger that.
I agree, we should just sit back and watch the show. We don't need to make the DUers look stupid, since they do a good enough job of that themselves.
"They aren't about free speech, they are about agree-or-be-banned."
That's what happens when a group tries to "immanentize the eschaton" (create heaven on earth through human government, I think).
About Will Pitt's sleeping problem: Wasn't that just unbelievable how some of the DUmmies yesterday sniped at him, saying that he just really needs to get some sleep, his judgement is impaired, he wasn't thinking straight, etc.
In other words, they tried to paint him as out of his mind to discount what he said. I thought that was really disgusting. Nothing to see here, move along, Will's just hallucinating from sleep deprivation!
THAT'S the word! Yep, that's what I was thinking of, but denouement is all my feeble brain could come up with.
"Helping a mental patient is one thing, making them angry by diagreeing with them is even acceptable, but pretending to be one of them in order to make them do even nuttier things leaves a bad taste in my mouth."
Oh, please. You don't read much DU, do you? Nothing a "pretend" DUer could ever do could get them to be any "nuttier" than what they already are.
"Nothing a "pretend" DUer could ever do could get them to be any "nuttier" than what they already are."
Got a point there, I have to admit.
Brainfreeze--I know the feeling.
Sorry if I touched a nerve.
You don't read much DU, do you?
Actually, no I don't. 8TH ARMY blocks DU. The only exposure I get to them is through DUFU and in every DUFU thread FReepers talk about "going over there"
Do you not ever wonder who's posting what?
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8. You are entitled to your opinion but not to your own facts
Neither fly nor I created mass hysteria nor did we misrepresent anything. We set out with the facts we had to raise money for a very sick friend. And I would do it again in a heartbeat.
My offer to refund your donation stands.
This is who I am, btw:
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/mercurynews/living/744...
And this is an alternate view of what DUers accomplished during the drive to get Andy life saving surgery:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
And that is my last response to you on this matter.
B.
Well, she is obviously not turning herself in.
Somebody finally get's it!
It would actually be kind of encouraging if the nuttier comments came from "plants"... unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case. These are the people who swoon over Howard Dean, think John Kerry is a great war hero, and feel that the Democrat party is too "centrist" for thier tastes.
Any "plants" over there are probably more there for monitoring and for maybe stirring them up once in a while.
Hell, he's probably been busted all the way down to DUfus Third Class.
Too true.
Any "plants" over there are probably more there for monitoring and for maybe stirring them up once in a while.
I very much hope you are correct.
We all do...on both sides.
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