I quit FB about 2 weeks after joining (Reply #36)

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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:04 PM

36. I quit FB about 2 weeks after joining

The crap my RW relatives were spouting was/is disgusting. I was getting so angry at them I decided to leave rather than go off on all of them. Best decission I could have made.

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73 replies	Author	Time	Post
Just went OFF on a niece (Facebook) - GRRRR!!! [View all]	IdaBriggs	Nov 2012	OP
No answers here	JustAnotherGen	Nov 2012	#1
My FB republican relatives	PatSeg	Nov 2012	#18
The consensus is that the pic of him w/ the cell phone was photoshopped.	woodsprite	Nov 2012	#2
Yep look at the photo again.	Chunk	Nov 2012	#4
I don't see the second left hand down by his waist	SnowCritter	Nov 2012	#35
Personally I think presidents should stop the "saluting" crap altogether.	NYC Liberal	Nov 2012	#72
Even if it wasn't...	GoCubsGo	Nov 2012	#11
It's not	ThoughtCriminal	Nov 2012	#66
I get it. I've got a couple of wingnut cousins who have -- amazingly! -- begot wingnut sons!	whathehell	Nov 2012	#3
Send them the lyrics to "You've Got to Be Taught"	GoneOffShore	Nov 2012	#6
Just posted those lyrics yesterday..	txdemsftw	Nov 2012	#15
Wow. Thanks! Nt	abelenkpe	Nov 2012	#33
So she favored the guy who never even mentioned the troops in his speeches?	central scrutinizer	Nov 2012	#5
So tired of the butthurt whining	OkieGranny	Nov 2012	#7
Perhaps you two should avoid topics of politics or avoid facebooking with each other	Marrah_G	Nov 2012	#8
These people put up their own roadblocks to good family relations.	Darth_Kitten	Nov 2012	#21
I take exception to your statement about "pathetic private religious schools"	blueamy66	Nov 2012	#23
Read what I wrote again, please.....	Darth_Kitten	Nov 2012	#29
Every child who transferred from the nearby Christian school to the public elementary school where I	Dark n Stormy Knight	Nov 2012	#62
Wow.....95% of the kids that graduate from my Catholic HS go to college	blueamy66	Nov 2012	#67
Absolutely. "Christian" schools, at least here in the tri-state DE, PA, MD, are not	Dark n Stormy Knight	Nov 2012	#71
I didn't take the post that way at all.	Indpndnt	Nov 2012	#60
It sounds like your family issues have more to do with just politics	Marrah_G	Nov 2012	#25
Quality time?	Darth_Kitten	Nov 2012	#30
I think we are talking past each other	Marrah_G	Nov 2012	#53
Valid point. But somebody on the internet is WRONG!!!	IdaBriggs	Nov 2012	#54
LOl I know right?	Marrah_G	Nov 2012	#55
Just post this one for her ;)	Chunk	Nov 2012	#9
oh, god... I just had a flashback to those eight years	renate	Nov 2012	#26
Win!	lady lib	Nov 2012	#41
Needs an appropriate caption:	JohnnyRingo	Nov 2012	#45
Good one! nt	laundry_queen	Nov 2012	#56
Perfect!!	Missn-Hitch	Nov 2012	#49
Please....	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	Nov 2012	#63
there are certain double-standard games that conservatives always play...	phantom power	Nov 2012	#10
I haven't been on Facebook...	Rockyj	Nov 2012	#12
How disrespectful!"	nobodyspecial	Nov 2012	#13
I am so happy that my nieces don't post anything political. Just wanna see the kids' pics.....	blueamy66	Nov 2012	#14
Having done several VIP security details...	sarisataka	Nov 2012	#16
I share your frustration	dooner	Nov 2012	#17
they talk about respect	barbtries	Nov 2012	#19
I understand completely.	BellaKos	Nov 2012	#20
My eldest is over two years into a relationship with a fine young soldier.	HopeHoops	Nov 2012	#22
She's married to a service member, so all she is doing is borrowing someone else's glory.	Aristus	Nov 2012	#24
I'd lose my shit if my niece was a Republic.	DCKit	Nov 2012	#27
Easy to fix this	ornotna	Nov 2012	#28
You should have asked her to consider the possibility that	vlyons	Nov 2012	#31
The senior is not required to return a salute	Kaleva	Nov 2012	#32
Is he required to salute, he's not in the Military.	oldbanjo	Nov 2012	#37
Not sure. He's Commander in Chief but also a civilian	Kaleva	Nov 2012	#39
yes, as Commander in Chief	sarisataka	Nov 2012	#64
I was already at a 9.5/10 on my limit leading up to the election...	meeshrox	Nov 2012	#34
I quit FB about 2 weeks after joining	Lebam in LA	Nov 2012	#36
Me too, about 2 weeks that was enough,	oldbanjo	Nov 2012	#38
We are reaping	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Nov 2012	#40
Yep. It's a cult. nt	Chorophyll	Nov 2012	#46
Let me help. Use this pic:	JohnnyRingo	Nov 2012	#42
+1	Chorophyll	Nov 2012	#48
You go girl. Of all things to be upset about is a hand salute. Give me a break. Did she ever	southernyankeebelle	Nov 2012	#43
I told my right wing cousin	The Wizard	Nov 2012	#44
re:Just went OFF on a niece (Facebook) - GRRRR!!!	allan01	Nov 2012	#47
It was Reagan who began the practice of a president returning salutes	Kaleva	Nov 2012	#50
My Teabagger Niece Un-Friended Me Wednesday For Calling Her Out On Her Whining	JimGinPA	Nov 2012	#51
UPDATE: The facebook war continues (but my niece has dropped out for now)	IdaBriggs	Nov 2012	#52
Marines would say	sarisataka	Nov 2012	#65
That whole "Obama cell phone" thing still cracks me up....	Spitfire of ATJ	Nov 2012	#57
It's a fake. POTUS CANNOT use a cell phone.	CakeGrrl	Nov 2012	#58
She needs to think what she is posting	Corgigal	Nov 2012	#59
Marines do not salute when uncovered.	ieoeja	Nov 2012	#61
I'm wrestling with what to do with some recently discovered birth relatives	DiehardLiberal	Nov 2012	#68
Just take them off your Newsfeed. They'll still be your FB 'Friends' and they'll never know.	Indpndnt	Nov 2012	#69
Thanks - I guess I thought it was all or nothing.	DiehardLiberal	Nov 2012	#70
Is this "genius" privy to who Obama was talking to? Could be it was a very important conversation	Raine	Nov 2012	#73

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