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01 Oct 2013, 10:19 pm

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what is going on in the heads of the TP? how could they have such hatred for the rest of us? how could they possibly think we'd all believe their lies?


I find your lack of empathy disturbing.


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01 Oct 2013, 10:21 pm

Dox47 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what is going on in the heads of the TP? how could they have such hatred for the rest of us? how could they possibly think we'd all believe their lies?


I find your lack of empathy disturbing.


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01 Oct 2013, 10:21 pm

Dox47 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what is going on in the heads of the TP? how could they have such hatred for the rest of us? how could they possibly think we'd all believe their lies?


I find your lack of empathy disturbing.

how can I reasonably be expected to have empathy for those who have absolutely no empathy for me and the others who until now could not afford American health care?



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01 Oct 2013, 11:50 pm

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how can I reasonably be expected to have empathy for those who have absolutely no empathy for me and the others who until now could not afford American health care?


If you had empathy for them, you'd understand that you're grossly distorting their position and motivations. How is your judgment of them any more valid than their judgment of you? Do you possess some special quality that they do not? Are you that much better than them?


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01 Oct 2013, 11:52 pm

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Talking to yourself, again?

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Funny you should say that, as my statement to Blabby applies just as much to you, and if I didn't know for a fact that AuntBlabby existed, I'd suspect some sock puppetry was going on from the way you two finish each other's sentences. On everything. Ever.


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01 Oct 2013, 11:52 pm

Dox47 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
how can I reasonably be expected to have empathy for those who have absolutely no empathy for me and the others who until now could not afford American health care?


If you had empathy for them, you'd understand that you're grossly distorting their position and motivations. How is your judgment of them any more valid than their judgment of you? Do you possess some special quality that they do not? Are you that much better than them?

:huh: I KNOW when they oppose obamacare that they are opposed to me having affordable health care! you are just toying with my mind now, you correctly deduce that I am not as intelligent as you so now you are playing with my head. that is bad karma. if I hear one more person trot out that HSA red herring I will SCREAM! :x



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01 Oct 2013, 11:53 pm

Dox47 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
how can I reasonably be expected to have empathy for those who have absolutely no empathy for me and the others who until now could not afford American health care?


If you had empathy for them, you'd understand that you're grossly distorting their position and motivations. How is your judgment of them any more valid than their judgment of you? Do you possess some special quality that they do not? Are you that much better than them?


The Tea Party is a lot of things but empathetic is not one of them. Furthermore I doubt average Tea Partiers are aware of the TP's actual motivations, as is the case with most astroturf movements. They should just call themselves Kochwhores and be done with it


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01 Oct 2013, 11:54 pm

I am expected to have empathy for my muggers. :roll: I should just roll over and die to make the tea party types happy. :roll: their ilk consider me and mine to be "useless eaters." :x



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01 Oct 2013, 11:55 pm

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I am expected to have empathy for my muggers. :roll: I should just roll over and die to make the tea party types happy. :roll: their ilk consider me and mine to be "useless eaters." :x


The last thing on your "list of s**t to give a f**k about" should be making tea party types happy mon ami


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01 Oct 2013, 11:58 pm

Dox47 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Talking to yourself, again?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Funny you should say that, as my statement to Blabby applies just as much to you, and if I didn't know for a fact that AuntBlabby existed, I'd suspect some sock puppetry was going on from the way you two finish each other's sentences. On everything. Ever.


Well, as for Blabby and I practically finishing each other sentences - - great minds think alike.
As for lack of empathy on my and Blabby's part, I'll simply state that millions of people who didn't have a chance to have health insurance now will. I can only ascribe a lack of empathy from those critics of Obamacare toward the people who will be helped by it. I haven't heard anything seriously constructive coming from them to help the uninsured - other than to callously suggest the needy pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

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01 Oct 2013, 11:58 pm

I may be a "useless eater" but at least I am not a cancer on the body politic in the manner of the TP. I never shut down any government and caused hardship for millions out of sheer spite.



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02 Oct 2013, 12:00 am

the people opposed to universal health care for all citizens seem to be lacking common decency. for that many people [in the TP] to actually WANT to inflict hardship on their fellow citizens is beyond me. 8O



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02 Oct 2013, 12:04 am

auntblabby wrote:
the people opposed to universal health care for all citizens seem to be lacking common decency. for that many people [in the TP] to actually WANT to inflict hardship on their fellow citizens is beyond me. 8O


Funny that you should use the initials TP, as tea party and toilet paper are pretty much interchangeable. Both collect s**t. :twisted:

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02 Oct 2013, 12:09 am

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auntblabby wrote:
the people opposed to universal health care for all citizens seem to be lacking common decency. for that many people [in the TP] to actually WANT to inflict hardship on their fellow citizens is beyond me. 8O


Funny that you should use the initials TP, as tea party and toilet paper are pretty much interchangeable. Both collect sh**. :twisted:

too bad it doesn't also stand for Toilet Plunger as in unclogging the congressional blockage. for an organization which "collects s**t" they sure dole out a lot of it in return. in the words of the late George Carlin, "they must be made of the stuff."



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02 Oct 2013, 1:37 am

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The Tea Party is a lot of things but empathetic is not one of them. Furthermore I doubt average Tea Partiers are aware of the TP's actual motivations, as is the case with most astroturf movements. They should just call themselves Kochwhores and be done with it


You've spoken to a plurality of members and can state that lack of empathy categorically? Given your out of the US location, have you spoken to any Tea Party members? Not that I was talking about the empathy of the Tea Party, I was talking about the lack of empathy being demonstrated by Bill and Blabby, people who regularly claim the moral highground over other people, who are currently engaged in some rather worrisome dehumanizing of people they disagree with, likening them to human waste and such. Not a good historical precedent for that behavior, the kind of thing usually associated with hate groups and all.

And really, the Kochs again? With that clever joke, too. I'll remind you, these are the same guys who've spent decades and millions of dollars on such horrific causes as trying to legalize marijuana and fighting the PATRIOT act, so real monsters those two.


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02 Oct 2013, 1:39 am

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Well, as for Blabby and I practically finishing each other sentences - - great minds think alike.
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More like you bought your opinions at the same store. And like I've pointed out, you and Blabbs here have, on this page alone, equated millions of people with cancer and human waste, the exact thing you both like to accuse your enemies of doing. Is it different when you do it?


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