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In reply to the discussion: I've been having a lengthy argument on facebook with a former neighbor [View all]RKP5637
(67,104 posts)31. There was a time in life when I thought people in many ways were pretty much the
same, at least in the US, if one could bridge the gap, find common ground and all of that.
I've come to learn there are just hopeless cases. It's just too damn frustrating, and generally the ones with the lame brain walk off into the sunset feeling unchanged, good about their lameness (not knowing how DUH they are), and the rest of us walk off frustrated.
So, more and more, I just say fuck it, life is just too short.
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I've been having a lengthy argument on facebook with a former neighbor [View all]
coeur_de_lion
Feb 2013
OP
Why do you stress yourself out with people like this. You can't reason with stupid.
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#7
Keep her around and keep inviting her over for coffee/tea while having political discussions.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#9
Really? The neighbor sounds two steps from irrational. Having a person like that over
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#10
Yeah but unfriending could lead to all types of awkwardness when you see the person again.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#12
I look at it like this: I talked/felt like that in the Bush administration years
Hekate
Feb 2013
#16
Orwellian, the new handi-dandy all-purpose intellectual buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz word. nt
patrice
Feb 2013
#30
There was a time in life when I thought people in many ways were pretty much the
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#31