Why is it every freaking freeper bases everything happening on what family or friends do?

[mrcheerful]

Freeper "the current economic crisis is mainly because of people like 2 members of my Family, they had good jobs, took out a mortgage and bought booze instead of paying the mortgage bill so they foreclosed on their house". "It's people like that we now have to bail out banks". WTF?

They know 2 people that done this so the whole bailout mess is because of drunks or just their drunk family members,all 2 of them? Their logic leaves me with a lot of WTF moments during the course of the day. Or I have a friend that took out a mortgage to buy a $500,000 house and he could only afford a $100,000 house. Excuse me but how is that the friends fault? I mean what about the bank that gave out the loan? Why would the friend get a loan if he didn't show proof that he could handle it?

I don't think the freeper mind can grasp much outside of what Fox and Rush Limpballs tells them. Have these assholes ever taken out a loan in their lives? Hell, the first thing asked is how much income do you have, then show your other bills time, then if you can afford food after putting everything together, your turned down 9 times out of 10 because with the loan and your bills your unable to buy food. To hear freepers talk, all one has to do is take their welfare checks down to the bank and they can buy a $500,000 house.

I know step away from the PC, shut it off and take a nap until nov.4th then get up and vote.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. you're actually onto something

Liberals seem to be a lot better at understanding broad trends in society. Conservatives like to explain everything in terms of personal strengths and weaknesses. To a conservative, poverty is *always* the result of an individual's bad decisions and never a symptom of a malfunctioning society.

This is why they have a hard time distinguishing between evidence and anecdotes.

[get the red out]

2. Their controllers tell them to think this way

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox Noise; if they say this economic crisis is because people decided to take out bad loans individually, and institutions were forced by evil Democrats to give them bad loans, then that is how it is and they will view everything through that narrow little peep hole. They will not think for themselves, they are robots.

[jdadd]

6. Ding Ding Ding Ding.....We have a winner folks...

The Evil "strawman" strikes again....

[juno jones]

3. It begins at the beginning

When they are taught that jesus's parables are literally true and not metaphoric as they were so obviously meant to be.

[unpossibles]

4. of course

I personally think most of their anecdotes are made up. Like one guy who told me (I'm obviously paraphrasing) that the reason he's a racist is because some black kids were mean to his daughter once, and therefore the black kids were racist first, so it's acceptable.

In other words, it's a more convoluted way of saying "some people say..." or "I have this friend that has a problem..." etc. Any more, it's hard to not assume they are just always full of crap, especially the ones going on about Ayers or Wright or terrorists or other crap with little basis in reality: if they cannot distinguish what's going on there, they probably are either misinterpreting or making things up.

[radhika]

7. Yep - the urban legend intro

Always start with a statement of proximity to make it more plausible. My hairdresser's son, my neighbor's grand nephew. Dissing one's own family adds an extra touch of veracity.

[pitohui]

5. think about it...if you were a freeper and hung out w. freepers everyone you knew would be an idiot

therefore based on their experiences they have to assume that the overwhelming majority of folks are idiots who would rather pick up a booze bottle than improve the society around them

i don't know the answer to this problem -- stupid people will hang w. other stupid people and it will reinforce their assumption that everyone (except a tiny "elite" minority too "snotty" to hang out with them) is just as evil and stupid as they and their friends are

if everyone you knew, even your own kin, was a drunk trying to steal from one's job or the gov't, you'd have a dark opinion of human nature too

sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy i guess

sure they have taken out loans, and they were probably lying and finagling on the paperwork just like the family members they point to -- they think it's normal, they think EVERYONE is just like them, in their experience the good and decent person is the oddball and most people are evil dogs who would do nothing but lick their own balls if they didn't have the fear of hell put in them by a preacher