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Zing Zing Zingbah

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37. True, Facebook is probably the best tool
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 07:56 PM
Feb 2016

because so many people use it. I just have a hard time tolerating it. I feel things were better when I didn't get the play by play on everyone's life. It is plain weird. I found a filtering tool that I use so I can deal with it now. I find I still need it because some people I know just want to communicate with the facebook instant messages and I have few friends that set up events every so often too. I think one of the things that bothered me the most is people would post something political, but they didn't want to actually have a political discussion. I think if you didn't want to have a discussion, why the hell did you bother to post it in the first place? Yeah, they just want likes. They only want to be validated by people that think like them. They don't want to hear from anyone that thinks differently then they do. I've never been the type of person that needs that kind of thing. I have always been OK with being the lone person that thinks or feels the way I do if that's the way it has to be. I don't need to have a chorus singing my praises to know when I'm right about something. I guess it bothers me to see so many people are that insecure. I suppose I should have known that, but I just never thought about until facebook came along.

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Americans love slogans. They always have. yeoman6987 Feb 2016 #1
Dude you have to condense your thoughts... Anti-Establishment Feb 2016 #2
Trump is playing them Rebkeh Feb 2016 #7
Why, thank you. nt Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #12
Trump knows that those "who can be fooled all the time" Hortensis Feb 2016 #27
K&R! beac Feb 2016 #3
actually, unlike the other Republican candidates, ghostsinthemachine Feb 2016 #4
He has said a few things GummyBearz Feb 2016 #16
Just about any politician will be right on some issues. Even the most repugnant ones. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #18
In other words, too many people are too stupid. nt valerief Feb 2016 #5
That's the true problem. tabasco Feb 2016 #8
"Most voters don't have opinions on policies, they have feelings about issues" phantom power Feb 2016 #6
But more than half the eligible voters don't vote leftstreet Feb 2016 #14
I think you're absolutely right about the mechanism he uses. COLGATE4 Feb 2016 #9
The irony of it is that those same people..... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #23
Exactly. Hortensis Feb 2016 #28
Because he has been given hours and hours of free TV coverage, the average uninformed patricia92243 Feb 2016 #10
From my conversations - the issues are - trade policy - jobs - and fear SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #11
From a conversation with my girlfriend: Populist_Prole Feb 2016 #13
That's why politics are great The2ndWheel Feb 2016 #15
But this is an extraordinary case. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #17
Well said. k&r DesertRat Feb 2016 #19
he has also proposed massive tax cuts hfojvt Feb 2016 #20
Sure, all politicians engage in sloganing. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #22
I have not been watching much TV hfojvt Feb 2016 #29
You're seriously comparing Trump's rhetoric to Obama's? Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #30
listen to Obama's speech hfojvt Feb 2016 #31
It was remisencent of most primary speeches. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #32
I probably have not watched any TV in the last 7 months hfojvt Feb 2016 #33
Trump is a symptom, not the disease LittleBlue Feb 2016 #21
Right marions ghost Feb 2016 #25
There are over 300 million people in this country. Simple probability ... 11 Bravo Feb 2016 #24
As Much As RobinA Feb 2016 #26
Not necessarily scamming in terms of money... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #35
I don't know if anyone if discounting that reason. Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2016 #34
Love it or hate it, Facebook does serve a certain purpose. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #36
True, Facebook is probably the best tool Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2016 #37
or perhaps there are 40% of republicans who are hateful, misogynistic racists....? spanone Feb 2016 #38
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