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freshwest
(53,661 posts)Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Just a thought.
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)I found it for free at gregpalast.com.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)so i went out and found my own link- and posted it for others to use to bypass FB altogether. someone else found/posted it at pretty much the same time.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)meant it, as in, I had just found out myself. Sorry.
BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)my first reply ('thanks for the link') was kinda snarky.
one thing that really bugs me is how pervasive facebook has become...you can't even leave comments on a lot of news websites unless you have a facebook account. I gave up on facebook when i was forced into their "timeline" type of facebook page- I really dislike that format.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)I am disabled, and it allows me to keep up with friends and neighbors, and my community in whatever ways the people are using it. I get a feel for what's really on peoples minds and their politics, and it has been eye-opening, to say the least. I used it forcefully, early on, in a very public and heated debate with a tea party-er who was just as virulently adamant (and obtuse) in his ridiculous defense of his positions as was I in being a white male pro-Obama in my replies. I shot down, very publicly, the entire R party, each of their candidates, told him just how I saw the race going down, and bet him that we would hold the Senate, bet him that Mourcok beating Lugar (the day after, I might add) would be what helps us keep the Senate. I can't possibly recount just that one person, but I can tell you it has been going on since last fall. I predicted each and every thing that was gonna happen. I only just "unfriended" him, permanently, after I was sufficiently done with his stupidity. I wanted to first have that open, very public debate, for any who cared to "watch it while eating their popcorn" to see. I know, I could tell when a couple of people told me so. I can say that I was pretty much *spot-on* on the vast majority of it. I had facts. He had hate. And I exposed it. Did I lose a few? Yep. So what. I now know who they are. Sorry so long, just wanted to share why I still have FB. (With timeline. Timeline isn't as bad as it seems, but it has a ways to go).