Posted on 11/07/2010 12:53:52 PM PST by HorowitzianConservative
You’re all bloggers, you know. If you’re on Facebook, you have an opportunity to express your opinion with an audience of FB friends. More of us should be taking advantage of this opportunity.
Because unless you zealously guard the ideological purity of your Facebook friendlist, limiting it only to other people who also only limit to conservatives, you are bound to log on one day and find some spectacularly annoying and/or downright asinine comment posted to which you must respond. And I mean you MUST respond. (See #10, below.)
Now this can be bruising, because text-based arguments get nastier a whole lot quicker, in my experience, than face-to-face interactions. Most people are a whole lot more polite in person than when protected by the relative anonymity of their computer screen, and this goes double for Leftists. What’s more, it is often the friends of your friends to whom you will find yourself responding, and they may well be people you don’t know and will never meet, which can shove the nasty meter into overdrive. But armed with these tips, you can have a rewarding exchange, pound Leftism, and maintain your dignity:
10. Let no Leftist idiocy go unchallenged.
This is the basic rule.
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I can’t even do it anymore... was causing me health problems. Lefties are real haters.
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I don’t start a lot of arguments there but I do link FR in my profile....that way I might lead someone out of their liberal bubble.
I'm an Air Force brat and we moved around a lot, so we aren't particularly close to our relatives. However, when I got on FB a year ago, they all friended me. A lot of them don't mention politics, but I do....gently and without insults, unlike the 3 above.
Mrs. Prince of Space
My presence on Facebook has provided elightenment to many of my friends and caused others to refrain from posting nonsense.
My high school friends were very tight back in the day and I’m pleased that we still are today despite the 20+ years we didn’t communicate regularly.
Ping for later reading
I got into a huge flame war with a lefty acquaintance regarding global warming. I kept posting facts and he kept getting more pissed off. He became unhinged after that saying that my sources were blogs and so therefore were not credible. He also stated, basically, that he had done so much research that he was smarter than everyone else on the subject. I turned him off after that.
FB post - pearls before swine, or converting the apathetic? :D
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