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fishface Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:44 PM
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Gawd but it's exhausting trying to educate rwing idiots.
You'd have more luck trying to teach a rock to do chinese arithmatic.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:46 PM
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1. I have no patience for people who willingly want to be ignorant
Conservative-leaning undecideds, you may have better luck
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:47 PM
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2. Don't bother.
They're not educable, but might be trainable.

It's like mud-wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:48 PM
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3. Perhaps a smack up side the head with a 2 X 4 would help.
They do seem to resist all forms of reason.
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Indiana_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:52 PM
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4. I know it! I've been faced with this on some neutral
discussion boards. Sometimes I just want to throw in the towel and leave.
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:52 PM
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5. Never rassle with a pig.
You both get all sweaty and dirty, and the pig likes it.
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Memekiller Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:53 PM
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6. It's a cult.
You can't reason or discuss. All you can do is reach the reasonable people who allowed themselves to be badgered by them, and show you CAN fight back.
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TheRovingGourmet Donating Member (524 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:59 PM
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7. How are you framing your arguments?
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fishface Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 02:20 PM
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9. Just the facts..just the facts..
you know how much that frustrates them *giggle*
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TheRovingGourmet Donating Member (524 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 02:25 PM
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10. If you want to post some samples here and a few specifics
about the intended audience, if known, we might can help frame them to get another approach to try.
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fishface Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 02:30 PM
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11. No point.. these are hardcore republican nitwits that
would argue about the sun not being out while we all stood around and baked in it.

Perfect Bush voters..dumber than a box of rocks.
But thanks anyway.
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TheRovingGourmet Donating Member (524 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-04 10:13 AM
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14. What kind of rocks? Feldspar can be pretty darn smart. Or at
least it smarts when you get hit with a piece of it. :)
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 02:01 PM
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8. I never knew...
that such a thing was even possible. Do you get hazard duty & combat pay for that?
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FighttheFuture Donating Member (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 03:22 PM
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12. Tell them this...
Kerry Landslide, coattails across the nation, and soon your number will be up! LOL!
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Bernardo de La Paz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-04 12:06 AM
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13. Don't tell them that. Tell them stay home don't vote. Helps downticket.
Don't tell them coattails. Tell them to protest Bush by staying home and not voting. It helps the rest of the Dem ticket win.
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