Facebook is not: a confessional, a shrink's office, a diary, etc.
(The sexy-cop emoticon is not really related, btw. I just think it's cool.)
We should trade. All i get on my feed is left-wing idealist crap.
Yes, that would be a nice change of pace. Idealists are refreshing to be around. Jaded shitheads are a dime a dozen.
Get on over to my website, young'un! www.subvertfromwithinrecords.blogspot.com
Meh. I'd rather stare the ugly truth in the face than live in Wouldn't-It-Be Niceville.
All I get is a mass of Libertarian shit. I mean, I know I consider myself to be a Libertarian, but dear lord, there's a limit.
Also, a short illustration of the problem I see with most idealists:
Si vis pacem, para bellum
I'm indifferent towards my father's uber conservative wall posts because
a)it's his wall and he can post what he wants
b)he's my father and has my utmost respect and I love him very much
c)we're never going to agree 100% about politics and governance, and I'm fine with that
d) he would totally kick my ass in a debate
One of my sisters is super conservative just like him, but she's one of those angry, mean and judgmental Republicans. She's young and passionate about it right now, but I know her well enough to believe she'll relax about some of her beliefs eventually (she can be really closed minded, but with age comes wisdom. Or something). No matter what she thinks about (not) feeding poor folks and such, she's my sister and I love her very much, too.
My baby sister wants to help everyone and wants everyone to love everyone - a bleeding heart liberal in the true sense of the phrase. Our dad drives her crazy, and she's young and passionate, too, so she gets upset and tells him he's wrong, and OMG, DADDY HOW CAN YOU VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN AND SLEEP AT NIGHT. I love her and her big giant heart. Out of all my siblings, she and I are the most alike, and that's how I know she'll chill out about all that eventually and realize that none of it is worth freaking out about, and it's okay to have different opinions about government.
Anyway, I guess Facebook's just Facebook so whatever.
My family is just flat out crazy. I have most of them hidden from my news feed so I don't have to see their weirdness.
Funny the other day, well it was some weeks ago but the post was just the other day. My cousin just had the same sort of surgery as Tuff did last year on his neck. So my cousin was posting pictures of his Xrays of his neck and the metal and screws in it and for a moment when I saw it I was like "why the hell is tuffy posting that again now?" but then I realised it was my cousin.
For the record, Tuff's skeleton is much better looking than my cousins. That guys was all messed up.
Not many of my family members have Facebook. If they did, there would be no political talk.
I have no idea about my parents' political views, except that they taught me never to vote Socialist (because in Romania today's Socialists are the Communists in the 80s and just fuck no). I know they're not fond of the current president, and neither am I, even though we all voted for him eagerly in 2004. And 2009, to avoid other nutjobs.
And anyway they don't have Facebook. Whew.
It's an election year, which is lame for the internet. My family is ultra-conservative and i'm only a little bit conservative but my brother goes on these crazy rants on his wall or on someone's post and it'll be 5 paragraphs that nobody will read. I get shit all the time about liking immigrants or disliking the death penalty. Whatever. I keep politics away from facebook because it gets so out of hand.
I can handle liberals on facebook. Conservatives unfollow/friend you without a word most of the time.
I just hate Obamazombism. Or with any candidate, it's the worst.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I don't get how conservatives can compare liberals to nazis when every neonazi I've ever seen has been a white conservative redneck.
Hitler was all about big government, so...
This is why we can't have nice things.
I thought he was all about killing the Jews..
Through big government.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Liberals have to do with helping the poor and equal human rights. Something I've noticed conservatives (and nazis) aren't.
You're listening to the wrong people then.
My husband and I discussed this at length once, and he convinced me that that's a misconception of sorts. He's a calm, practical and friendly conservative (but he's fairly liberal on social issues. He thinks you can be the gay all you want, etc.).
He cited a few studies that have shown that on an individual level, people who identify themselves as "liberal" are less inclined to make personal monetary donations to charitable causes or needy individuals in their own communities than those who identify themselves as "conservative". So basically, liberals think it's the government's responsibility to be charitable on everyone's behalf whereas conservatives think it's up to each individual to be charitable if they so choose. That should not be interpreted as conservatives not believing in any social welfare programs at all, though.
I'm not even gonna get into a political discussion, but I wanted to point this out.
Sorry guys. I caught the Giggan Virus.
I'm as wary of Giggan's arguments as the next person, but this is a really cheap way to lose an argument. Don't drag him into it just to drag his name through the mud.
As for the personal donation thing, I feel that a lot of the conservative donation has to do with the religious ideals of giving to the poor. I have no opinion on whether that is good or bad, it's simply my thought as to why that happens.
What?
My husband and I discussed this at length once, and he convinced me that that's a misconception of sorts. He's a calm, practical and friendly conservative (but he's fairly liberal on social issues. He thinks you can be the gay all you want, etc.).
He cited a few studies that have shown that on an individual level, people who identify themselves as "liberal" are less inclined to make personal monetary donations to charitable causes or needy individuals in their own communities than those who identify themselves as "conservative". So basically, liberals think it's the government's responsibility to be charitable on everyone's behalf whereas conservatives think it's up to each individual to be charitable if they so choose. That should not be interpreted as conservatives not believing in any social welfare programs at all, though.
I'm not even gonna get into a political discussion, but I wanted to point this out.
Intristin. Like, guilt from not fulfilling a task one's self sees as a social obligation makes the individual think that the only way to fulfill said task is to force everyone to do it.
CULTure is a funny thing. In other news, the IRS just got armed up with new SWAT teams.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
He cited a few studies that have shown that on an individual level, people who identify themselves as "liberal" are less inclined to make personal monetary donations to charitable causes or needy individuals in their own communities than those who identify themselves as "conservative".
A comedic rubuke would be that liberals admit to answering honestly on surveys, whereas conservatives would admit to lying on them about what they give.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
The only thing I miss about Farcebook is watching couples fight on my lawn and I don't miss that at all.
And the pot heads yelling about how maryuwana is x.x% less harmful then big macs and soda and the o-zone layer and enhances super powers by "this much" but cigarettes get to stay legal which is a travesty!!
My husband and I discussed this at length once, and he convinced me that that's a misconception of sorts. He's a calm, practical and friendly conservative (but he's fairly liberal on social issues. He thinks you can be the gay all you want, etc.).
He cited a few studies that have shown that on an individual level, people who identify themselves as "liberal" are less inclined to make personal monetary donations to charitable causes or needy individuals in their own communities than those who identify themselves as "conservative". So basically, liberals think it's the government's responsibility to be charitable on everyone's behalf whereas conservatives think it's up to each individual to be charitable if they so choose. That should not be interpreted as conservatives not believing in any social welfare programs at all, though.
I'm not even gonna get into a political discussion, but I wanted to point this out.
Having worked for a fund raising organization that passes through designated donations for a couple of years now, I can say that it's probably true. Conservatives tend to be more religious and tithe and donate heavily to their churches and their church programs, which count as charitable contributions. While we might send the red cross %Having worked for a fund raising organization that passes through designated donations for a couple of years now, I can say that it's probably true. Conservatives tend to be more religious and tithe and donate heavily to their churches and their church programs, which count as charitable contributions.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
I will not be driven from MY own home.
You know what, I will see that lying cunt in court. I have nothing to hide, lets see what he has.
I'm not answering your emails. GET THE HINT ALREADY
I hate being the person who tries to believe theres good and light everywhere
._. Boring drama nobody wants to see on Facebook.
I'm sick of reading opinions by people my age, who go to Law School and aren't the stupidest, who support the Socialist Party. Most of whose members used to be communists during the regime.
Our president got suspended today and instead we have this psycho "liberal". In case you want to laugh, the ruling coalition in Romania is Social-Liberal. How can this even be possible? Good question.
"Ant just said I'm a whore cos I want a chinese?"
Aww young love.
There is no proper way to cope, no everlasting grace.
Just a flame on a river floating away.
Goddamn facebook.
It seems I have hurt the feelings of an old childhood friend by referring to the friend that gave me that black eye as my best friend.
I seriously don't have enough friends for the ones I do have to be offended and hurt by me saying things like that. And I have no damn clue how to make her not hurt while being honest at the same time.
Someone tell me how to deal with an emotional woman please.
ha.
Always say "one of my best friends".
Yeah I never understood the jealous best friend thing.
It seems I have hurt the feelings of an old childhood friend by referring to the friend that gave me that black eye as my best friend.
I seriously don't have enough friends for the ones I do have to be offended and hurt by me saying things like that. And I have no damn clue how to make her not hurt while being honest at the same time.
Ugh.. Don't feel guilty, just let her get over it.
I've known her since we were seven, and we were inseparable until about the age of thirteen, and went through a hell of a lot together due to the stupidity of the adults, our teen years we went separate ways- first because I made friends with another girl and found a group and she was doing the jealous thing, I could either be friends with her or friends with everyone else and seeing as (one of) the main reasons I never had a lot of friends as a kid was because of that same behavior I went a head and stayed friends with the new girl (and we became very close for all of our teen years, but then I sort of slept with her brother when I was nineteen...) but during that time the other friend (the jealous one) made a whole group of friends and would pretend that she barely knew me like I embarrassed her whenever they were around. I mean, she had the whole hippy flower child thing going on and I was all in black and boots with a kid on my hip and apparently that was all really important and looked bad on her image or something so she had to pretend she didn't know me much. It was hurtful.
But then in our late teens we got close again, when that stuff stopped mattering to her as much, and she wanted me to move to mexico with her but couldn't understand why "laying on the beach all day and partying all night" wouldn't do the trick to convince me- all I kept arguing back was exactly when she thought I was going to have time to support my kids in between the laying around and the partying. I've always sort of regretted not going though. But we lost contact for several years when she left and then I found and old email address and contacted her and she was on the east coast and I talked her into moving back out here, but she chose to go back to our crappy home town instead of up here. Then after another couple years she got all pissy with me once for not stopping to see her when I was on my way back from a trip to california, wouldn't take the fact that I had been on the road for over five hundred miles and just wanted to get home and not stop for several hours to hang out when i was so close as an acceptable reason to not go see her and she just refused to take my calls after that. After six months of trying to get a hold of her I finally got the hint. And it all hurt really bad, I was going through a terrible time and had lost several supposed friends for other reasons, plus people were dying, I was pretty much completely alone, and then she just abandoned me with no explanation. Then a couple years ago she contacts me again, after she had a baby, and we start to talk again, she seems calmed down and more reasonable now that she has a child, but now she is all hurt because I referred to someone else as my best friend on facebook, I guess I also didn't comment on her pictures like she asked me too, I just remembered I was supposed to do that just now.
and... that is the summary of most of the not so nice parts of my oldest friendship. Not that anyone wanted to know. But writing that out sort of helped a bit.
How petty! Judging from your last post, it doesn't sound like she deserves the title of best friend, Amber.
Friendships aren't really supposed to be so difficult, Amber. It sounds like it's her problem and not yours. What an incredibly insecure person.
I concur with the two posts above me. Amber, she is the one with the problem. She's not your husband.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
I know.
She is just someone I know and will always know, and always love, she will come in and out of my life forever like a family member that isn't too closely related but close enough to wave in and out of ones life. The things we expierenced and went through as kids together means we need to know each other, for the sake of keeping roots and staying sane about those roots.
I sent her a message saying I wanted to see her on wednesday, when I head south, for a couple hours. I actually do want to see her, but I am beyond the drama and I appreciate the kind words reminding me to act like a grownup and insist she does too.
He cited a few studies that have shown that on an individual level, people who identify themselves as "liberal" are less inclined to make personal monetary donations to charitable causes or needy individuals in their own communities than those who identify themselves as "conservative".
A comedic rubuke would be that liberals admit to answering honestly on surveys, whereas conservatives would admit to lying on them about what they give.
Exactly. Conservatives are much better liars.
All that nonsense about conservatives being more generous comes from religious affiliation. I know that technically, tithing is a form of charity, but, c'mon... It's not the same. The conservatives I know are all about hating the gheys, and the mex-e-cans, and getting O-bummer out of office. Their political views are literally fashioned by their prejudices.
Get on over to my website, young'un! www.subvertfromwithinrecords.blogspot.com
The presentation of your assertions comes across as somewhat ridiculous and emotionally charged, and that makes it difficult for me to take you seriously. Are you even willing to consider any sort of intellectual conversation on the matter of political association and charitable giving? Seems like you're content to disregard the EXTENSIVE research that goes into these things because, yeah, it's all about the tithing of course. Much of the statistical research has been based on several years worth of reported Form 990 filings with the IRS, and considering you can itemize more than whatever monetary donation you might be giving to a religious institution...then, yeah. A basic google search will show lots and lots of other factors that have gone into these kinds of social studies. We're not simply talking about Gallop pollsters calling you in the middle of dinnertime, here.
Look, you're free to be just shill as some of the individuals on the other side of your own argument, but don't quote me and intentionally warp the intent of my posts.
I stumbled into some drama. Not completely directly, but somewhat.
Last week, that guy I was seeing told me he wanted to not fool around anymore and focus on himself or some bs story people come up with when they can't tell you the truth. I'm sure all of you have either been that person, or been on the receiving end at least. So anyway, I said it was fine because I wasn't trying to get serious this quick anyway and I watch him walk over to another female I knew he'd been talking to and kinda whisper something while holding her head. I just figured he was gonna be exclusive with her, but not open about it because she just broke up with his best friend. Ahhhhh, lovely, right?
So of course someone ended up telling the best friend and last night he posted something:
Fuck you L and fuck you A have fun — with L and A. (he tagged them)
I was online when he posted it and had talked to him a few times and I assumed he knew something was kinda going on between myself and A. So I sent him a message asking if he was okay.
I didn't log back on until today, but his reply was "Fuck you."
Ok?
And he has since last night proceeded to shit-talk the two of them.
16 hours ago
Can't wait for A to drop you on your ass L
15 hours ago
My ex girlfriend is such a huge whore that she will fuck one of my best friends
8 hours ago
I hope A and L are happy. Because that shit is not going to last. Her jealousy issues and his fucking everything that walks is just not going to work.
I'm staying out of that shit from now on...
P.S. - I can't say as I haven't wanted to do this a few times, but I can't stoop to that point. I just vague-book. Haha
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
Looks like you dodged a bullet.
I think so. Sometimes you meet people for other reasons. In this case, his friends (not the above mentioned, of course).
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
Yeesh.
Hi, Chenoa. WE missed you.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Hey! I miss you guys too. This keeping busy thing is great though for keeping my mind on only the important things rather than the depressing stuffs.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
Apparently they do this thing now called pregnancy photos. You basically pay someone to take high quality pictures of you (pregnant woman) and your husband doing things like kissing under rainbows and holding each other underwater ALL WHILE PREGNANT! 
Some of the pics look ok, but I think the concept is really stupid. Worst of all, it's my own brother and his wife doing this.
I have nothing against them, but I really don't need to see my sister in law's pregnant belly every time I boot up Facebook.
I'm seriously beginning to doubt my sisters sanity because of facebook.
She does not have a fb and is adamantly against having one, but some of her friends do, and of course that means I have to be friends with them on there, and I have decided there is something seriously mentally wrong with some of these people. And she hangs out with them!!!!!!
The guy who was selling chips (se previous pages in this thread) has changed his profile picture to a picture of a 9mm with a couple of clips next to it (normally he rotates zoolander type photos of himself in cocked ball caps[He is White!]) and his status update just now was:
"Maybe feeling frisky tonight..."
UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
James went and commented : "wink wink, how you doin big guy?"
No response.
hahah
This is why we can't have nice things.
edit- nevermind, can't tell those things about her.
Tell your sister to get her own FB and leave you out of it.
(The sexy-cop emoticon is not really related, btw. I just think it's cool.)
We should trade. All i get on my feed is left-wing idealist crap.