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It's not about reaching them. It's about ** us ** not using Hitler terminology
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2024
#121
No, it really iS NOT. Appeasing a bully or Fascists through history... Give me ONE example where that
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#161
Wow - it's as if you didn't bother reading the post you replied to
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2024
#190
Stop the attacks on me and others! We have EVERY right to express our opinions.
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#194
Do you really need that much support that you need to blame someone else too?
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2024
#197
I think Roosevelt and Churchill were probably the ones saying nasty things about fascists, not Hitler.
D23MIURG23
Feb 2024
#153
They want to kill me with their policies & women like me--take away my freedom to even travel
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#160
All of what you say is true, and I abhor and reject every aspect of their actions and goals.
bluesbassman
Feb 2024
#163
To fail to address them as they attack us in even the least derogatory way, as with a homophone term
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#167
I don't like repug, or repuke, etc. - I wouldn't mind a site banning any of them.
thesquanderer
Feb 2024
#174
You need to read my post again. I said NOTHING about hurting their feelings
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2024
#220
To me all the childish names come off as "Free Republic" and too much like the damn MAGAts
LiberalArkie
Feb 2024
#70
Treat the assholes with the utmost kindness so they won't be such assholes anymore
dalton99a
Feb 2024
#4
Can't say I disagree, I usually shake my head at grown adults using school yard insults and wanting to be taken serious.
tritsofme
Feb 2024
#5
How many MAGAts were included in your survey? How many non-evangelicals?
Hermit-The-Prog
Feb 2024
#88
While I'm tickled you are such a prolific reader of my posts, I don't really see your point.
tritsofme
Feb 2024
#182
these types of insults are like psyops. It makes the term MAGA toxic to the uninitiated.
wyldwolf
Feb 2024
#75
You know that it is emblematic. If a silly acronym is TOO MUCH for some then I don't think
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#27
Such a glorious and legendary Album....Such beauty can't exist in their universe.
cayugafalls
Feb 2024
#227
Oh, it's daily now, and they hang around forever while more deserving diaries get pushed off.
ArkansasDemocrat1
Feb 2024
#242
Actually, I find their editorial staff to be rather weak minded. If they aspire to "but her emails" MSMism...
NNadir
Feb 2024
#158
yes, yes that is perfectly okay because they are simply deplorable and are expected to do such things
orleans
Feb 2024
#201
Go back and examine the language the Nazi's used against Jews, long before the camps
Fiendish Thingy
Feb 2024
#58
Agreed! The MAGAT mindset is completely incompatible with a democratic nation
PTL_Mancuso
Feb 2024
#150
What did they refer to the Japanese as? Or the Iraqi's and Afghani's in those wars?
Fiendish Thingy
Feb 2024
#89
This is possibly one of the worst analogies I have ever seen, at best trivializing, at worst obscene. n/t.
NNadir
Feb 2024
#171
Bullshit. Julius Streicher was hung at Nuremberg for "crimes against humanity."
NNadir
Feb 2024
#179
THEY created MAGA, self-named and they are TRUMPISTS. This whole thing is ridiculous.
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#116
'MAGAT' MOCKS CHOICES THE INDIVIDUAL IN QUESTION HAS REPEATEDLY MADE!
ArkansasDemocrat1
Feb 2024
#207
Well republicans become a little sensitive about names they call themselves.
republianmushroom
Feb 2024
#95
I have no problem going back to DEPLORABLES LOL This adult wants to insult !!!!!
GuppyGal
Feb 2024
#104
Have they banned the phrase "Democrat Party" because that sure as hell is derogatory also.
Ferrets are Cool
Feb 2024
#107
Probably because they don't want to sink low to the same level of the name calling Republicans do to Democrats.
ZonkerHarris
Feb 2024
#110
That has been their policy for at least the last six months, or longer.....
DemocraticPatriot
Feb 2024
#111
I'm guessing it's Kos. He may be a Democrat working to elect Democrats, but he's not the brightest bulb on the planet.
NNadir
Feb 2024
#118
I stopped using magat when tRump used the Hitler "vermin" phraseology
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2024
#120
Not true, Bernardo. They and RW media have referred to themselves as MAGA Trumpists for years now.
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#144
I've never seen "MAGA Trumpists" on reich-wing sites. Tons of "MAGA". . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2024
#146
Even Fox has referred to them that way (MAGA Trumpists as opposed to non-Trump conservatives/R's)
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#147
Because some Dems think it's courteous to take cookies to a street fight.
NoMoreRepugs
Feb 2024
#151
These people are clear that they want to outright murder us yet some worry that calling them MAGAt is too offensive.
hadEnuf
Feb 2024
#183
Yeah, history has shown us that trying to reason with viscous brainwashed Nazis
hadEnuf
Feb 2024
#214