Posting in politics because this is pretty much the only scenario under which this happens.

I just posted a derogatory comment on the wall of one of my facebook friends who posted this photo

From this forum: http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/forums/posts.aspx?postID=33353&postRepeater1-p=1&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#33388&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20120818-facebook-social-mentallyreadforumtopic

And remarked "lol, the OP can't even spell "martial."

This is not the first time i've done this. I have a lot of conservative friends, none of whom are anywhere near as well-informed as some of the libertarians/conservatives i tangle with on here. These expressions of opinion get under my nerves and i lash out, revealing my opinion on matters.

Has anyone else been pushed too far by their friends' facebook posts and be forced to intervene before the stupid became overwhelming? (People of all political persuasions encouraged to post, i just want to know if this happens to others).

sometimes one or two of my 'friends' will post something that causes a big fuss. Usually it's just the usual controversial stuff. I remember one person writing a status that insulted cops. Then there was this giant argument, one half slamming the police, and the other justifying the police officer's actions, and supporting police in general.

Obviously police are not "dumb bastards who don't have anything better to do than make our lives miserable." They are there to keep the order. It would be a lot worse without them.
But basically, the argument was the smart and responsible people vs the ignorant idiots. I contributed once, but I stopped once I realized that it was going nowhere and was a waste of energy.

Outright lash out? No.

Though I have had to correct people politely on using summaries of abstracts of articles as if they were fact. As there was a case where somebody posted a huffington post artcile that actually suggest the opposite of what a post was.

Then there was another guy who posted something REALLY conservative also over the line which was silly but I didn't say anything.


The worst though was somebody who posted a picture that compaired the number of deaths caused by the police, vs the number of deaths by terrorists. Which is just about the most retarded comparison i've ever seen... and if on the base of it you can't figure out why that's a stupid comparisson i just have no faith

Can you explain that picture? I don't get it.

Yes, through the whole Kony fiasco, but generally not in political discussions. Most of my friends seem to agree with me there (or at least, the vocal ones do).

Not sure how much of this you don't know, but it was a famous saying of the late Charlton Heston, when he was NRA president, that "you can pry it from my cold dead hands," regarding his guns. An arrogant statement, and one that i would consider especially dangerous, since it implies the revolt of gun-owners (borderline terroristic) so we have this statement from the forum of a gun sales website (e.g. the kind of place that profits from the spreading of such paranoia), and this bold proclamation of gun-love is the kind of thing that really bugs me (this cultural worship of guns being part of the problem with American culture), so i spoke out

I rarely do, just because i know it won't change any minds and will just make my friends/acquaintances mad at me, but sometimes you just have to intervene.

Another example was this meme that was floating around that had a sticky note on a gas pump (when gas was hovering around $3.85 for a while) that said "in January 2009, gas averaged 1.76 a gallon. How's that hope and change working out for you?" Which is such bullshit flying in the face of economics that i had to attack it.

That's only the case if you take what he said HUGELY out of context... considering the phrase was the last setence of an entire speech about how gun owners need to register to vote to defeat Al Gore and his anti-gun control policies.

Taking it as meaning he meant as a borderline terroristic comment is only the case if you haven't looked up the context or if your a literallist, and think that when someone says when hell freezes over, they actually mean they want you to go find hell, and freeze it over somehow.

Presumibly with some sort of mint breathmints, or a cold beer or soda.

I mean, the speech actually somewhat predicts how the statement would be predicted as such.

 "For the next six months, Al Gore is going to smear you as the enemy. He will slander you as gun-toting, knuckle-dragging, bloodthirsty maniacs who stand in the way of a safer America. Will you remain silent? I will not remain silent. If we are going to stop this, then it is vital to every law-abiding gun owner in American to register to vote and show up at the polls on election day."

I do occasionally, I have one friend who wants (well wanted now) anarchism. I've had the argument a few times, it mostly ends up me and my other capitalist friend vs him. He argues the lack of opportunities in the job market and the high levels of commercialism in society today. Although he got his A level results yesterday and admitted he only believed in anarchism because he never thought he'd get into university :P

I don't use Facebook, but I always see my coworkers glued to it. Their pages are filled to the brim with that kind of shit, and they regularly "quit" Facebook several times week because of it. What little I've seen agitates me to no end because it's usually just people echoing some shit they heard somewhere or posting some dreadfully unfunny attempt at a meme. Bumper sticker politics at its worst. So I'm guessing this is pretty common, and it's a pretty good reason for me to continue not using Facebook.

Well. I thought that was a good picture. I might just post it on my Facebook. No liberal is going to steal my constitutional rights. Might as well not be an American if you don't want people to have guns because not wanting to allow people to have guns is unconstitutional.

I live in the American south, so I get a lot of religious stuff, and a lot of copy/paste conservative political propaganda. I also get some liberal propaganda.

Now, I despise politicians in general, and more specifically, the way they lie and twist facts and figures. I absolutely hate propaganda. It's bloody insulting. As such, I find most political activists to be zombies who have signed over their brains along with their political allegiance.

I've torn apart a few of the more blatant falsehoods people have posted, like the "Obama's spending inferno" thing from weeks ago, or when a friend linked an article that "proved" global warming is a liberal conspiracy. I didn't lash out, even though I wanted to, but rather pointed out the very obvious flaws in each, such as how the latter was mainly ad homiem attacks on a few environmental scientists.

The religious stuff I usually ignore, or if it gets bad, I block the user's feed.

I also got really, really sick of seeing the barrage of Chik-Fil-A support pictures.

I did make a general post earlier this year about how "it much be a campaign year, judging from all the political crap cluttering up my facebook page" that calmed things down for a little while. A very small while.