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Populist_Prole

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7. They are the bane of my existence

Reply to Spike89 (Original post)

Wed Aug 28, 2013, 01:23 PM

Aug 2013

What I get a sense of though is that some are so over the top loony or hateful that even the conservative senders, people I know personally, know much of it is over the top but send it just as a way of chest beating for their tribalistic-ness. One of them though, when I provided a link to Snopes that exposed the BS, his response was that snopes was "left wing".

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Email forwards and despair [View all] Spike89 Aug 2013 OP

Change Black to Women see what she thinks then. Downwinder Aug 2013 #1

I sometimes send the Snopes link not only to the one who sent it to me, No Vested Interest Aug 2013 #2

Somedays (today) it seems the tide is very high Spike89 Aug 2013 #3

WhoTF is Michael Richardson? Chan790 Aug 2013 #4

Try Michael Richards - "Kramer" on the Seinfeld show No Vested Interest Aug 2013 #5

Sorry for the mistake Spike89 Aug 2013 #6

They are the bane of my existence Populist_Prole Aug 2013 #7

Yup, I've even heard that facts are left-wing :) Spike89 Aug 2013 #8

Yep, pretty much the same people who... Wounded Bear Aug 2013 #9