I hereby apologize globally for any stupid past posts that may have raised yours!

I have to watch my sodium and take blood pressure pills! You are lucky!

I already have two stents and take daily statins, etc. My 115/75 is the only thing that saved me from disappearing 15 years ago.

but I was too lazy to look up the correct spelling. At my age nearing 79, hate has long disappeared from my brain. I just appreciate there are so many good and cheerful people I run into, such as yourself. Life is too short to waste on hate.

....and start an argument. Whether they are trolls or just plain assholes who want to start a fight, I just laugh and ignore them and feel sorry for them because they clearly have way too much time on their hands and have some serious issues and anger and I guess that is how they get off.

But I agree with you - for the most part we are among friends here.

there are also many DU Regulars who post replies that are intended to spike blood pressure



I RESPONDED !!!!!! OH WELL, serves me right for getting mad.

hold it against them in another.

Now, you might ask yourself, does that "better" mean Guill will refrain from posting provocatively, or.

will he do it even more?

What subjects are those folks talking about that pisses you off?

They are good for nothing except getting us riled up into posting stuff we regret later

I think it's our dear leader Putin, working his magic, to confuse us all.

However I remember the old saying that honey attracts more flies than vinegar. Also I understand that everyone has different personal politics and is as human as I am in that we all have bad days. I feel that being a liberal means being willing to do long hard looks in the proverbial mirror. It also means putting yourself in someone else's shoes and looking at the world through their eyes.

The hardest thing to do is loving your enemy though. How do you love a group that defends Nazi's who run over protestors or who throw kids in cages. Perhaps you can do enough mental gymnastics to understand that they have been severly brainwashed and that there but the grace of god go I (under certain circumstances we could have been similarly brainwashed). These people haven't exercised the part of their souls capable of empathy that the feeling is all but foreign to them. What can good people do to help them? Can they be helped? How do we as a people live with these people and their similarly brainwashed children in society in the long run? I don't really have a good answer to these questions. I hope that the human race can figure this out.

offenders. I don't use it much, but my BP went down a few points after I started using it.

much more pleasant because of it.

I know there are people who say they don't have anyone on ignore -- I tried that, didn't work for me. Some people are just too . . . well, too something, for me to keep reading their shit.

year or so. I never felt the need to before then. I truly believe the poison of incivility that spews from the White House on a daily basis has infected all areas of American society--even DU. That saddens me to no end.

you give. I thought some people were getting waaaaay over the top with the stuff they were saying and the way they said it, and I gave them the cold shoulder because of it.

since about then and I didn't have anybody on Ignore until the Snowden incident. One poster in particular made me want to smash my computer every time I read his/her posts and after avoiding all said posts for awhile I finally remembered Ignore. Since then the list has lengthened a bit, but still limited to people who make every subject under the sun about there pet ideology.

Sunny Beaches!

attention to who it is, unless they are stalking me (it happens). I don't take things personally, I only care about ideas.

my knowledge, even pretended to know it all, so, nope! It ain't you, my friend.

It's me.

I'd tell you how beautiful you are but I don't want to be accused of TM.

That is even more annoying to me. (not you)

that constantly stir the shit. Eventually, it catches up to them though...it may take years though.

"the way I read a typed message isn't necessarily the way it was meant".

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There are DUers I disagree with regularly.
But they never resort to personal attacks.
And next week I want to rec their thread and once in a blue moon they rec mine.

Right now I can’t listen to trump news. I’m physically ill. But I can glean plenty here on DU.

But best of all it’s the friends you make. Someone sends you DU mail once and you realize this whole new level of comraderie.

When I do feel bad vibes, I do check profiles. I find them most interesting.

Also, I concur, ignore really works wonders.