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When Facebook Reveals that Your High School Friends Have Lost their Minds
Facebook is mostly a way for me to stay in touch with people with whom I wouldn’t make the effort, otherwise. I don’t filter by political or social criteria. (How would I sort my high school friends?) So I just see whatever they’re eager to show everyone. Today, I saw a post that revealed the twisted inner workings of the progressive mind–and it sure put this high school acquaintance in a new mental category:
It’s just amazing to mention Fox News and the Koch Brothers in this context. I won’t respond unless I can think of a really witty way to do so. But I had to tell people about it, and so I share it with you.
This is someone in his fifties. God help us all.
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I adhere to a strict no-politics-on-Facebook rule. No good can, or ever has, come of it. Reading through other people’s political FB comments makes me queasy whether they are coming from the right or from the left.
I go on Facebook for the specific purpose of commenting on progressive posts from my friends, and more and more frequently now, sponsored posts. I don’t know if it’s worth my time or not. I’m not trying to persuade any hard progressives, I’m just trying to provide some resistance to the easy, simple, false facts the left circulates.
When I was young, I was a Democrat when most of my friends and family were Republican. When I became a conservative, I didn’t feel much need to be outspoken about it. I thought most regular people already understood what it took me years to figure out. The 2012 election changed that.
I have progressive friends from grad school who are still progressive now. They are in social science fields dominated by leftism, so no surprises there. Most of my other friends and family are conservative, although the ones that are not are pretty vocal about it.
Yeah, I know that experience. It’s like a game, really. “Let’s see how long it is before I’m called a racist, a denier, or a homophobe.”
I’m not on Facebook, but I’ve found an effective tactic for arguing with them in general is to pretend you’re from Mars and don’t understand the words they are using. Make them explain what they really believe in.
As other comments have noted, frequently they don’t know the meaning of the words they are using. But it’s even more fun when they do. Ask a liberal some time to explain to you what an abortion is. Ask the difference between a fetus and a baby (“So it’s OK to kill babies?”), why it isn’t a human life (“So a DNA test before birth would show it’s what… a frog?”), why it’s not a life until it’s born (“So before that it’s dead?”), assume that it can’t possibly survive until it’s born (“So if it’s born early they always die?”) and so on. I’ve had people become literally incoherent and unable to speak with this game.
No reason this can’t work on other subjects just as well.
Facebook is mostly a way for
me to stay in touch with people with whom I wouldn’t make the effort, otherwiseMark Zuckerberg and friends to make a lot of money selling the details of your personal life to anyone willing to pay.(Fix it for you).
As a buddy of mine says about FB – those people are in my past for a reason.