Probably a combination of less-than-inspiring candidates, and the grinding hell of a declining America.
And...Here...We...Go!
I have the conch shell! You may not speak Piggy!
I don't agree. I think there will be 37 different sides and a whole lot of blood. Everybody is angry at the world and everyone feels like no one can be trusted, no one is really on "my side".
Ugly ugly ugly.
I move that these species be used to replace those idiotic viking cats and moose. And maybe even the Manatees, although they tend to be peace-keepers.
“What’s up with all the fighting? (here on FR)”
Support my candidate or yer a dirty rotten stinky pinko commie!/s
Things have always been pretty feisty here...that’s just the way it is.
But even by FR standards, I have noticed an uptick in gratuitous slamming of people for the most innocuous of statements. I’ve always skipped over the rough and tumble for the most part, but I have to say it’s starting to bother me now.
Mostly trolls...happens every time around election time. People come on here and try to sway one way or another.
Who u think you’re talking to punk?
(just kidding)
Relax. Everything will be better when everyone comes to the realization that I’m always right....
It will die down. Basically is boils down to the fact that there are so many FRiends devastated by the SP news, and they are throwing predictable fits/meltdowns and then the SP-haters are throwing fuel on the fire trolling them into fights.
I would know, I threw my tantrum yesterday. I’m feeling better today, still very disappointed/depressed, but better.
There is a reason for her decision and whatever outcome results. God only knows what that reason is, but I’m okay with that.
Oh, no. You just posted a vanity. Grrrrrrrr.
Calm down?
ROTFLMAO!
You should see the juvenile remarks and taunts and insults that now pass for "discussion" here on FR.
Large parts of the facade of the American Century are collapsing in front of people and there has been very little preparation for the transition. Reagan wasn’t a saint. Bush wasn’t a saint. Bush II wasn’t a saint. Palin isn’t a saint.
FR has a large contingent connected to the military, mention to them the need for the DoD to cut their budget by 45% just to stop the increase in debt, and they go ballistic.
FR has a large contingent connected to Law Enforcement, mention to them the need for Law Enforcement to cut their budget back to levels before 9/11 just to stop the increase in debt, and they go ballistic.
FR has a large contigent connected to government social safety net redistribution, tell them that SS, Medicare, Tricare, Medicaid, VA Benefits, etc will have to be cut back to halt a total collapse, and they get mighty upset.
The vast majority of Republican politicians in the last six decades failed the American Republic. Many on FR worked hard to get those men and women into positions of power, and to tell them that these pols have abused their powers to the point that Western Civilization will need civil unrest and a debt jubilee to reset the debts, makes those Freepers mighty upset.
And on and on.
All of these facades will crumble before the reality of the new American landscape as the pie shrinks and the survivors fight for scraps, and the election of 2012 will be a big big deal, a turning point mentioned in history books in the coming centuries.
Everyone, from FR and every other online forum, and every person on the street, will get nasty as we approach a generally recognized consensus that our collective goose is cooked and there is no escape.
It isn’t complicated. With 3 yrs of zero and his corrupt administration, and despite the 2010 elections, we feel like we’ve stood still, if not lost ground. zero is at a negative and we can’t knock him out. The right is leaderless, rudderless.
I think it is a sign of the times during a primary fight.
I belonged (past tense) to a Tea Party group here in Tiny Town that was blown to smithereens by groups of rabid supporters of various candidates. Fortunately, there is still a large TP group nearby that is a little more sane.
I love FR...wouldn’t change it for the world. I love the opinions.
I just don’t post to threads that might cause the world to fall on my head.
That being said, sometimes I don’t know that the world may fall on my head for what I consider to be an opinion. ;)
Steve Jobs was a genius, Amanda Fox is innocent, Rick Perry sucks, Mormons ain’t Christian, butter’s better than margarine, Kenny G is fabulous, you got a problem with that?