Does propaganda posted here anger you?
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Nothing angers me anymore, I've seen it all,  herd it all, been through it all. A smile and a grain of salt , attack I left behind 1 year ago, it wastes way to much energy, that  could be used instead to heal.\n\n               I AM
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Jordan is an example of the simple minded punks that you refer to as well.  You are correct in the fact that people don't know the facts but want to sound informed.  Outrage is not informed and hatred is not truth.  This is not a true serious forum for political inquiries.  I asked the question,"who is Joseph Kony?".  No one knew and that didn't surprise me, but that smart a s s  remarks floored me as this man is the modern day Hitler in Uganda Africa.  Again, most here are not of a political mind I believe.  E-mail me if you would like to talk to some one who cares about real serious events of the day.  I don't know everything and will admit it but I love to learn.  And I think that's where most of our fellow posts here fall short, they don't realize they can learn here.  Good luck and I hope to here from you!
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Personally, I don't get pissed off with intelligent debate. \n\nWhat I get upset with is the ad hominem when discussing politics.\n\nI find more often than not that  people choose to 'shoot the messenger' rather than be angry with the message.\n\nI guess some just don't know how to be adult like when confronted with an opposing point of view.
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Nope, but I'm glad you posted it because I am interested in computer graphic/art. BTW, expressing an opinion is not necessarily "soap boxing." I believe that when you ask a question you are also soliciting an opinion/response. Not to be rude but if you ask a controversial question, you might just get an answer that you don't like. Whether or not these people that have lost loved ones in shooting sprees get reminded through the media everyday, why joke about that kind of thing and add to their pain? I'm not saying you were trying to hurt anyone, I'm sure you weren't. It's just that I don't like to think of anyone suffering because I care about people. I was trying to be nice in my response to you but you know what? I have a right to my opinion just like you do. I'm sure you're a nice guy but I have seen the blood and the pain of tragedy as a police officer and I guess really it brought back some of those horrible moments that I so desperately want to forget but can't. I guess I need to lighten up and it was a trauma based inducement of memories of all the things that I'd seen before I retired, more than your question. I read and the images came back to me which is why I reacted the way I did. It's not you, it's me and my memories. I don't drink them away like so many others and when you love people the way that I do, those memories can be very hard on a person. So, if I offended you in any way, I apologize. I just wanted you to stop and think before you posted something like that again because as you can see it does kind of trigger some strong emotions. I hope you understand, Sweetie. (I call everyone Sweetie, so I wasn't being sarcastic as you were in your response to me.) God bless.
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Yes i believe so. I have found that in posting certain controversial, debatable issues, the majority of the responses I have received have been either opinions in the form of absolute truth with no backup or 'witty' one-liners aimed at one-upping me in an attempt to make me look stupid. Pretty disappointing.
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I believe that such people just use this forum to vent their own frustrations and inadequacies.\n\nI think this forum particularly attracts people whose minds are filled with hate, and who better to take it out on than those whose minds are not.\n\nI ignore them and feel sorry for them.\n\nThere is no law against selfdemeaning, so let them get on with it.
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I wouldn't say that I HATE it, but it does make me shake my head and think "what a waste of bandwidth".\n\nI generally ignore those once I've identified that that's what they are.\n\nOf course, some are so egregious that I can't help but respond.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH LUCKY2BEALIVE.  they are hypocrites.\n\nHe's just saying this poster "ME" accused me of being a racist but he's doing the same thing.
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I love your bravery.\nWars have been started over less inflammatory comments!
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It is hardly surprising that jokes at the expense of Christians will occur when the more evangelical and fundamentalist of their kind are constantly using this site to make propaganda to argue against Darwinism and to promote uncritical belief in the Bible as being literally true, and do so, not just in the Religion and Spirituality category but in many other categories as well, such that it is hard to get away from them.\n\nUnsurprisingly, this annoys people who come here to debate ideas not get propaganda shoved down their throat. They feel harassed, and indeed, they are right. They are being harassed. Unsurprisingly, there is then a backlash,\n\nPerhaps the question could have been more precise as to which Christians were felt to be less than useful to other users of this site, and why, but the humour in the question is self-evident to all but the humourless.\n\nThis is not however preaching hate or intolerance agaunst a religious group, like the questioner recently who asked if Muslims should be killed at birth. That question was hastily removed by the Yahoo Answers team.\n\nThis is satire, sending people up not blowing people up, and it was to protect just this sort of material that Rowan Atkinson came out so strongly against the Race and Religious Hatred Bill and in favour of Artistic Freedom of Expression.
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I think it's stupid. I also hate that if you tick someone off with an answer they don't like, they can report you for no reason at all. This forum should be FUN, and some people ruin it for others.\nI think if someone is offended by a question or answer, he should just AVOID it!!
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Yes, several people have asked questions to get public opinion.\nYes, sometimes there is some form of retaliation against various opinions.  Usually, however, it is the exact same thing I do.  I ask a question to get an idea of what people think and then, if I really don't like someone's answer, I chew them out for being an idiot.\n\nI would imagine that would be the extent of most "retaliation."\n\nIn a few cases, there are federal agents posing as children or dealers trying to get information on criminals to arrest.  That, however, is more than just "retaliation for voicing" opinions, but collecting evidence of crime.\n\nIn some rare cases, since I've noticed that (supposedly) Tom Cruise was on this site, that there may likewise be people in positions of power that might be tempermental and abuse their positions of power vindictively against people whose answers or questions they didn't like.  Conspiracy?  No.  Childish behavior?  Anyone for a cigar with the intern?  Let's not be naive.  It can happen.\n\nGetting a real feel for real public opions here?\nIt's not a great site for that.  I've seen survey sites that have this down to an art.  Sure, someone might try to be a cheapskate and avoid paying a survey company their fees, but if you look at how many sarcastic and joke responses I've seen here, I'd have to say that this isn't the most reliable site for honest opinions.  That makes being vindictive all the more childish and any potential conspiracy so much more of a waste of time.\n\nMy guess would be, if you have a real plan for acts of terrorism and are sharing it online, you will upset someone and that someone will report you and that reporting will result in some action from the government.  Someone that's just angry though... Hell, we have LOTS of those.\n\nI notice that most questions here appear to be to and from Americans.  I've seen a few questions about India and a few other countries, but mostly the USA.\n\nCertain cites censored themselves in China.  Could Y!A be one of those blocked sites?  Are we providing the world with "too much information" here?  THAT I think could be a very plausible "conspiracy."
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Someone was asking about White supremicists and I replied "enough already about the White Supremacy" and got a violation.\nIt's Q&A so much for your opinion, apparently it was because i didnt answer the question. Who cares, it was my opinion. And halft the answers to questions on here dodge the question itself..\nIt's Bullshit sometimes
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There are a couple of news articles if you search around a bit. Looks like lame vandalism to me.\n\nAnd talking about lame... how could anyone post something about Chick Publications. It is hate filled organization bent on coercion at all costs.
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Absolutely. I don't know if I'm just prematurely cranky, a born curmudgeon, or just value being able to read a post without resorting to crypanalysis, but I can't stand the little murders committed on our language ten-thousand times a day on Yahoo Answers.\n\nThis so called SMS language may have a place in the lives of people sending text messages to one another over cellular phones, but anyone with a full QWERTY keyboard in front of them should use it.\n\nI don't mind the obvious typo or the posts made by clearly dyslexic people, but the indecipherable gibberish posted by most of the users on these forums is shameful.\n\nI'm assuming that most of these offenders are still in school. I have been given the excuse that their young minds are so hungry for information that they simply don't have the time to use complete words, proper grammar, or bother to check their spelling as they type.\n\nI cry foul! There is no excuse. The only way for an interaction between two humans to remain successful is if clear communication exists between the parties involved. When people don't understand each other, they start to throw punches and eventually the guns come out.\n\nThat may be an exteme example, but Yahoo Answers is nothing, if not a microcosm of a society which values the free exchange of information. \n\nIf we don't understand each other there will be flames, sarcasm, and eventually, a break down of the system.\n\nThis would hardly be the first time that poor communication doomed an otherwise good idea to an early grave.\n\nWhat I'm saying, kids, is that you should learn to use the language. It's the most important tool you have and it deserves more respect than it is shown around here.\n\nADDED DETAILS: Response to Petra:\n\nLack of an education is no excuse. Everyone in this country is entitled to a free ride through school until twelfth grade. Even the worst school system in the most depressed region of the poorest state will teach a person how to form a sentence and put forward their ideas. It's not the lack of education that is the problem. It's the lack of initiative on the recipients of said education.
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Gotta be honest, Bob, but the way your anger shows up in your posting kind of lends credibility in you being reported for abuse.\n\nHey, we've all gotten a retaliatory abuse report on us from someone that doesn't like what we personally have to say. How we handle it from there is the difference.
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hey you are using my motto....'they can't handle the truth' ! man, you're my kind of woman. i've only been on this site a day but i keep reading posts from others saying what you are...it seems to me ppl that report for no reason other than they disagree prove one thing... that they have no argument and are wrong.