Bet she doesn't forward any more emails to me, LOL.
I was going to say that I bet it takes a "reply all" to get through to her, and one of your family members did that already.
I don't mind someone having a different opinion, but if I could keep my opinion to myself for 8 years, I think they owe me the same respect
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Exactly. Except that I hate all politicians, and only my husband and I know how I vote, so none of my friends or family
know what "side" I'm on politically. People generally guess, but they aren't necessarily correct. So I hated the nasty scathing emails that my liberal friends sent during those 8 years, and I don't like being on the receiving end of the "those people said they'd leave the country for 8 years and they didn't so I'm getting them back by sending this" emails either. I don't want it AT ALL. Which is what I've told everyone.
I've actually had to block the email address of stepdad's wife, after 3 "warnings" after several emails to her begging her to stop. And I still got a forward from my stepdad the other day...sure he took out the unknown email addresses, and the only ones in the CC line were what seemed to be family, but it was still rude and unseemly, and I'm still wondering if I should ask about his mental health b/c the kind and gentle man that my mom married (she died, he's remarried to someone else) wouldn't have said what the email said...
I try to tell people if the emails are wrong.
I have had friends reply to me (like others have mentioned) that Snopes is part of a big ole leftist conspiracy and their owners are liberals and biased, etc. I think that response was to the one that went round about Obama and The National Day of Prayer.
Fine. Believe it. Whatever.
Of course all you need to do is google/news about it, and you can see actual news articles. Things showing that he didn't cancel it, that it was held the following year, etc etc etc... I know, wild and crazy! You don't have to just trust snopes, you can do your own nosing around. Amazing!
I HATE it when people do that. It's bad enough getting the first stupid email - but it's even worse when a bunch of total strangers send their outraged responses about how untrue it is. I already figured that out on my own thank you. Just more spam.
One time this guy sent a scathing attack letter in rebuttal to one of those emails. It read like it was addressed to me personally. I did tear him a new one telling him to never send attack letters to me again. I think I scared him as I was very explicit about the implications of his threats. But I only sent my reply to him not the other 100 people on the list.
Delete is your friend. The people that want to believe are going to anyway.
Now see, the person at fault there was the friend that CC'd everyone. The guy that replied was probably at the end of his rope, NOT believing in deleting when misinformation is being spread, and had just had enough. And he likely decided to reply all b/c his previous reply-to-senders weren't working to make it all stop.
I personally like receiving someone else's truth-telling reply all, because it shows that there are others out there not just accepting every email forward that comes along.
Sometimes I get ones that are true. Like some email about soda bottle bombs, or something like that? It was a "be careful!" email. Well thanks, that was nice. It was a year ago, but thanks. A little late, but thanks. Coulda looked at the DATES on the email you're forwarding, but I appreciate the thought...
