Posted on 01/12/2018 9:15:28 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
‘The power of Facebook is that millions of people start looking for others by name on Facebook, find them, connect with them’
that’s true, and to that end it is a great tool, as it does expand our everyday lives (I found out about my 50th HS reunion on FB, and am grateful for it)...but, one-sided groupthink predominates, and thus intimidates...
1. Has no idea what he's talking about.
2. Someone who lies about what he does.
Which are you?
I learned early, in the creation of “Social Pages, Networks” for Security Reasons (OPSEC), ‘STAY OFF of them”!
That’s a great idea, how can that get started? I freakin hate Fecesbook with a passion. It’s a glorified party phone line that does absolutely nothing useful but spread leftist BS with this ultra dickhead Dork F**kerberg waltzing around like he’s the King of Utopia
I have been suspended many times for at least 30 days due to my opinions. The two words that they really dump me for is Muzzie and Fag.
Your post #26 must have some secret coding. When I did a google search of various sentences in your post #26, google returned no results.
But from the succeeding post #27 I did a google search for the sentence: “I realized a couple of years ago what FB was doing and how it was luring the naive into its net”. Google found the post.
Do you have any explanations for the discrepancy?
“we just gave them a tax cut from 35% to 21% and stuck the tab to individual Americans.”
Your comment plays into the classic leftist tactic of fomenting class divisions in order to discredit the conservative agenda.
Every time conservatives take a brave step toward individual liberty and away from big government redistributive socialism - by passing tax cuts, scaling back government programs, and deregulating industry - the left attempts the same false argument: that limitations on the size and scope of government only benifit the rich at the expense of the middle class.
It is a false leftist argument and you are playing right into it.
Cutting corporate taxes rates from 35% to 21% was a huge win for conservatives. But you are right that tax burden on the middle class is way too high.
So, if you believe, as I do, that taxes on middle class did not get cut enough, then let’s work to address that problem, but please let’s not fall for the leftist lie - that cutting corporate rate cuts is somehow “sticking it to the American middle class” - let’s not repeat leftist propaganda here on FR.
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Dennis Pragers Prager University is also suing YouTube because his videos (very short animated vids showing the conservative slant on many social and economic topics and delivered by excellent sources) do not violate YouTubes banning policies (as written, porn or violence) yet many are banned for viewpoint alone.
Not just them, but people like Soros and all who feel justified in manipulating the world to mold it into what they want it to be.
Twitter banned me for a week last week because I disparaged The One B. Hussein. Didn’t use any curse words, I just wrote that Obama did nothing for 8 years but empower, defend and help spread radical Islam while kicking the legs out from the USA and it’s allies on every level. It’s the truth, radical Islam never had it so good under that guy while nothing positive happened to the USA. So they banned me. Meanwhile I see Rosie O’Donnells twitter account “F Trump” “Die Trump” oh she’s not banned, of course not.
There is no reason not to use Twitter. You dont have to fear write a tweet but its the fastest source to see what is going on in any language on the planet where there is an important event. A terror attack, a Trump tweet, an earthquake, anything. You dont need to follow or watch a feed. Just search whatever you want to know and read the info from people who are there. Its very equalizing in that way. You have the President of the United States, But you also have an Iranian teen in Teheran being attacked by armed guards. Id prefer a non censored twitter style format, non leftist organized, which is probably going to happen one day, but of all the platforms its to me the least objectionable if you USE it when you wish to, not follow a stupid feed.
Like you I use Facebook to stay in touch with family and firefighters who became friends before everyone retired and moved.
That’s it. I don’t do politics on FB and ‘unfollow’ anyone who does. Left or right. Doesn’t make a difference to me. It’s not why I’m there. If I wanted to do politics on FB I would follow/join political FB pages. I haven’t and won’t.
I don’t do FB news either and don’t understand why anyone would.
“Because a percentage of Democrats are Progressives and their lies must be countered.”
That sure seems to be the prevailing belief, but I’m not so sure.
I like the idea of not participating - I stay away from Facebook and other leftist cesspools, and “vote with my feet” by choosing not to give ratings and viewerships to offensive media venues.
I feel our attention is what they are vying for, and I love depriving them of that.
Back in the ‘80s when I was raising my kids there was a theory in child behavioral psychology called “extinction therapy”, which held that the best way for a parent to eliminate an undesirable behavior was to ignore it to death.
The idea was that a child uses misbehavior (temper tantrums, disobedience, slovenliness, association with bad types, and all kinds of disapproved of behavior) in an attempt to gain control - a type of blackmail - “if you don’t give me my way, I will [fill in the blank].
With this emotional blackmail, any attention or intervention, whether punishment, anger, rebuke, pleading, negotiating, calm reasoning, positive or negative, is like paying ransom - it makes their blackmail a success. Paying attention is like oxygen and only feeds the flame. The remedy is to deprive them of that reaction, - to pay no attention.
This is why I wish conservatives on FR would stop reposting every leftist article and discussing it ad nauseum - I know the intention is good - to do opposition research, see what the enemy is planning, trade ideas on how to rebut leftist propaganda, or to express outrage or anger, etc..
But I think in the end, all we are doing is giving them ratings, giving them a voice, allowing ourselves to be used as a tool to pass on and repeat their words.
They probably laugh and say “look how easy it is to make up some disgusting lie about Trump, or some other conservative, and put it on FB or Twitter - and if it’s outrageous enough, then Hannity, Tucker Carlson, FR, etc. will repeat whatever we say word-for-word, and talk about it for the next week!”
>>which held that the best way for a parent to eliminate an undesirable behavior was to ignore it to death.
I remember that. Screaming, ill-mannered brats running around while parents ignore it to death. If you gave the parents a look or said something, theyd say something stupid like, be thankful you dont have to deal with them all the time.
Progs dont need our attention. In fact, they want us to go away so they can create their socialist utopia. Do you really believe that they do what they do and think what they think to get our attention? Do you think they crave our approval or even our disapproval? They literally dont care what we think and when you check out, you give them what they need mostfree reign over the most powerful information tool ever invented.
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Did you learn why google.com no longer indexes FreeRepublic? Something happened - either at google or FreeRepublic - during the first week of February, 2002. Before that date, a search for "Jim Robinson site:www.freerepublic.com would return tens of thousands of hits. After that date, the same search ..."
My previous post is to show you are correct. In the past Google would immediately index all of our FR comments, so I would have seen yours in my search results. Now the index contains old comments, but apparently not the new ones. I will keep checking.
“glorified party line” —— Nailed it! post of the day!!
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