I’ve only been here as a member a couple years but was lurking for a long time before registering. What drew me to Free Republic was the amazing research that was being done here. If it’s a bum theory it will get blasted here, which means that if it’s an unconventional theory it will either survive the scrutiny and be reinforced, or else it will be shown wrong. That’s an invaluable tool, because if I come up with a stupid idea I can be shown the evidence that refutes it and then I don’t waste my time chasing dead ends.
That’s why I don’t mind engaging with people who disagree with me, unless they go limp on me and resort to ad hominems or keep making the same already-disproven points over and over again. Steel sharpens steel and I look forward to finding somebody made of steel, as long as it’s true and not just a bunch of BS.
The discrepancies in the claims about Breitbart’s heart problem the last year need to be explained. I can understand the family and friends for the past year wanting to keep the public from knowing about a heart problem, but I can’t understand his father-in-law not knowing, or his father-in-law still trying to keep it a secret after Breitbart is already dead. And it makes no sense for the coroner’s office to say Breitbart hadn’t seen a doctor in over a year if he had been hospitalized for 2 weeks with a heart attack within the last year.
If something doesn’t make sense to me I ask others to see if there’s something I’m missing. That seems like a reasonable response to discrepancies.
FR has always been the place where we probe and question. This is not a gathering place for sheeple. News is torn to pieces daily and refuted. It's what FR does. Questing for truth is never wrong.