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lost to the dark side
Ditch-Runner
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I ran into a old co-worker
he must have drank 10 gallons of the koolaid
he went off telling me every one needs to get the shots and boosters to keep people like him safe and the hospitals free up for other people
and how it was Trumps fault about Jan 6th
and how our country need the people crossing the southern border to work in the jobs no one will take
a lot more along the same lines but it was piling up way too fast I just had to walk away . obvious CNN , MSNBC and liars like mad Cow have ate his brain up
no way to even talk with him it was all one way street did not care about any rebuttal I tried to tell him
sad
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One of my best friends that I have known for 45 years is and has always been a liberal.He is one of the kind of guys that if you tell him something and tell him to keep it to yourself,he will never tell a soul.If I called him in the middle of the night and said I need $10,000 in an hour,he would bring it.Its one of those one in a lifetime friends that we dont let political differences stand in the way of.
I do not mean to say we will not be pals
I'm sure we will still be friends we have know each other about 30 years and helped each other with many projects , I do not see that part changing. I was just shocked over the last few years since I had really talked with him how far off the deep end he had went, he is still a good fellow lesson learned I will not bring up politics next time I see him 😁
D-R, you are not alone. Sometimes you have to know when to hold and when to fold. You might want to read my post and others in Politics "Why is natural immunity being ignored?"
I was actually a little afraid the nurse might Red Flag me for disagreeing with her. I know of one case where gun owner lost his guns because of a out and out lie and took almost a year to get them back.-------------------Ray
My son isn't "quite" that bad, but we do have to AVOID talking about certain subjects.
I thought I taught him better than that.
He grew up to be his own man. We do not have to agree. I still love him.
My younger brother and his wife are like that times 100. That is why whenever we get together nothing political even comes close to being discussed.
I have a nephew that was smart and funny as heck until he went to college. He fell for the liberal BS and is now a card-carrying commie. You can't have a conversation with him about anything because he knows it all, and will be quick to tell you so. Such a waste.
Joe
Life is too short to associate with anyone that can't have an honest discussion about anything. I am getting to old to pussyfoot around to spare someone's delicate feelings so if at all possible I avoid most liberals. I used to like debating the issues with any and all but when their fall back option is to question my honesty and integrity for not agreeing with them, it just isn't worth it. Bob
Yepp..
When your beliefs are grounded in such dismal science and evidence, the only way to continue to hold onto them is to put yourself into an echo chamber.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
From your thread title I thought you were going to tell us you bought a Glock!
All you can do is pray they see the light
not yet thank goodness . LOL
I have a friend ,a retired highway patrolman , who over the last 15 years has drank deeply of the lefts coolaid . He was raised in a very rural conservative county on a farm . Almost identical upbringing as mine. We stay friends because I do not debate politics with him .
I have a relative that was conservative and now turned liberal @ 18 months ago. We have different believes but I still love him .
I have some buddys we just have a good time debating such things and walk away still friends and no hurt feelings
but there is always the ones who take it way to personal
my youngest sons wifes family has it share of left liberals some are very touchy about it otheres not so much
he told me last get together over Christmas with a lot of her family one of the fellows ( in laws ) said for $ 5.00 you could take a photo with him a real liberal to show your friends LOL
as for my sons wife she is a gun owning on the right side American 😁
My younger sister hugs trees and risks her life saving turtles crossing a busy highway. I don't know how she votes, and I don't really care. I will always love her.
I was watching a TV series with the ever-patient Ms. Nanuq, about some guy that goes all around the world eating the local foods. It was fun, but then I started paying attention.
This guy goes everywhere. He eats whatever they are cooking, and he spends a lot of time in each episode showing the local folks, and he always goes out of his way to make friends, especially with the kids. He's been in New Orleans, Chicago, deep south Mississippi, all over. Watching a few of these episodes I found myself kinda bristling, like "there's no way this is real, these people were paid by the camera crew to be nice". I felt kind of a visceral reaction to what I was seeing.
Then I watched some more. And the more I watched, the more I put aside my preconceived notions about how he should act toward them, and how they should act toward him. I started just watching what I was seeing. There's one thing about little kids, you CANNOT make them act different from how they feel, even in front of a camera. So I watched him making friends with all these kids, sitting around tables sharing food. And then I noticed something that sort of shocked me... the parents were just like their kids, the kids were just like their parents.
So I watched closer, and began to see human beings instead of caricatures. I started to feel kinda ashamed of myself for how I'd thought about them. In the deep south he's driving down a road and hears about this local place, so he stops and it's just a house on a street. He goes in, and there are a few tables and they're all full of black folks eating and having conversation. He walks in and they give him a look, and ....... accept him. Offer him a place to sit, right between two other black folk that are having a nice BBQ meal. At the head of the table is an ancient black woman with blue hair and he introduces himself and she's just the most pleasant woman, and soon they're talking about food, and there's her husband running the BBQ, and soon everyone else at the table is talking with him and they're laughing, and of course he makes friends with a little girl sitting there. It was family style eating, so there were folding tables and platters of food you all ate from. They were SO pleased to show him their favorites, and he was having the time of his life laughing with them and eating with them.
The episode ended, and I felt the strangest feeling in my gut. It was like I was learning something completely new, and it didn't go along with what I thought was right and wrong. Somehow, somewhere, I had been lied to. I thought wrong, and that show opened my eyes and my ears, and said something deep down to my spirit. "People are all the same".
I know I'm not explaining this well at all, and I apologize. I wish I could say it better. Since then I've felt gut-shot, like I need to throw aside a whole bunch of crap that I held tight to. I've realized that many/most of the places I visit online, places on the Right where I get my news, have an agenda. So do places on the Left, and we quickly call them out for it.
What is their motive? They want revenue, meaning they want clicks, meaning they produce stories to get our blood boiling so we'll check back often, to follow stories as they evolve. And we lap up the way things are worded and twisted, and it makes us madder and madder, and dammit there is NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
Our politicians in WaDC don't care how we feel. Our being mad isn't fixing anything. Our being adamant and pissed off and right most of the time won't change how someone on the Left feels or thinks. He thinks he's just as right as we do. So we get madder and madder, we keep going back to the bait and they keep it nice and tasty, and our blood pressure stays sky high, and they rake in the click revenue.
And it's all a bunch of lies. All of it. We're told the Left is going to fill the schools with purple haired freaks that want to teach our kids to cross dress. It's horrifying. I bet you 100 to 1 odds, if you talk to anyone on the Left, they're just as horrified at the idea. We worry about Critical Race Theory and think there's no place for it in schools, let's focus on Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. So you ask your friends on the Left, and guess what? They think the EXACT SAME THING. We are all the same, people. We are human beings trying to do the right thing, trying to be honest, trying to set good examples for our kids, trying to keep the lawn mowed and the trash picked up so the neighborhood looks nice. We go to the same churches, we eat at the same restaurants, we drive the same cars, we live in the same nation. People on the Left love America and the flag just as much as we do... it's the far left fringe that doesn't, and that's a tiny fraction of the population.
We are all the same. Your neighbor is NOT your enemy. He cares as much as you do. He has fears, he worries about the future, he wants his kids to grow up strong and smart and settle down and get a good job. He might disagree with you on a few things, but he agrees with you on a thousand things.
Let's focus on the thousand things we have in common, and willingly put aside the few we disagree on. Quit going to those damnable websites that want nothing more than high blood pressure and clicks. Try this one instead:
I'm sorry, I know I haven't said this well and it's way WAY too long. But something finally broke inside me, and I'm so much happier and at peace than I have been in a long, long time. I can thank that show for opening my eyes to my brothers around me. They are NOT my "enemies".
I once knew a guy who could get the best of friends pissed off at one another. He could get a fight started and just sit back and watch, without getting soiled in the altercation.
It is this kind of person that makes up that very small group we call the far left.
Rudy! If you are still out there, I am talking about you!! 😠
I would wager most all of us have found our self out of place only to find out the bottom line were all people and just want to make it thru life as easy as possible ( I am sure exceptions like gang run areas and similar ) but just every day normal people I have met have always been just that friendly
Ok a I will be a bit wishie washie 🤨 I know think miss America pageant LOL if we set politics and religion aside which more people have been killed over those two things in history and even today than any thing else . were just a warrior species bottom line on that hopefully some day we can get past all that and use all the money and energy spent on both those things for the good in place of killing each other realistic with the politician's / government's always using race and wealth to divided every one and turn us against each other , not going to happen
One of my employees has had 3-4 covid vaccine shots and last time we talked, he was just waiting for a chance to get another 'booster'. OMG, how crazy is that?
He has several health issues(visits the VA clinic regularly) and his spouse in a health care worker so that may be a factor but still, how can you be that hyped about getting more experimental foo-juice shot into your body?
Interestingly enough, he had a much milder bout with covid at about the same time I had a brutal 3 week ordeal. Maybe his multiple vaccinations helped or maybe, like Grouch Attack(no vaccination) covid simply didn't have such a big effect. Can't be proven either way.