Interesting that my first paragraph was disruptive and I don’t see it; however, I was not directly replying nor referring to you...and I wonder what the person to whom I was actually replying thinks...
As far as my “not seeing it,” unless you changed your screen name or were lurking for 4 years before your signup, you were not here in 2015, so you really should not insert into the reply I gave to someone else about something you did not experience and were not a part of.
Questions? I will tell you that:
1. A poster admitted to me that it was their goal to get threads questioning the jabs deleted by being disruptive... So yes, indeed, they were preventing information from being posted.
2. Sadly, I have seen posts that support mandates and bringing in of foreign healthcare workers. Is that disruptive? I was pretty shocked but did not even reply. Some people cannot will not consider another position.
3. I have been told I am not patriotic nor a Trump supporter because I questioned the jabs earlier this past spring. And I was not wrong since the jabs don’t work as promised...Is that disruptive to call me unpatriotic? I don’t think I should have to defend my patriotism or Trump support—people who were here when this was Cruz country know my creds—I have video of car surrounded by Antifa at a Trump rally in Chicago. But then you were not here.
Other position/side—yeah I do try to understand and often have some great conversations with reasonable people—public and private. BTW, at first, I was very excited at the prospect of a vax; get back to normal! A family member who studies clinical trial data was excited too. Tho I had heard about Schwab’s Great Reset using COVID, I did not too much credence in them. However, it is clear that there is much we don’t know about the vaccines. At best, they are more prophalaxysis (maybe) than an actual vaccine. I began looking for uncesored information because a family member was being encouraged to get the jab in D3ecember 2020 and asked me to look into it...MSM had only talking points...all the same—and any contrary information was being censored...
I now believe the virus, tho real and dangerous to some (we really have not studied long enough to know all there is to know and how/why some get a mild cold and others get deathly ill), it is now being used to gain control of the citizenry and damage our economy. The Vax is not about health~If it were, head of HSS would have not admitted that they did not even test the 15,000 Haitians let alone vax them. If the mandates were truly about about health, they would have given the Afghanis flown over here a COVID Vax in addition to the MMR and other traditional vaccines. The whole country has been seeded with the unvaxxed, yet biden shouts, “This is a pandemic of the ‘unvaccinated?’”
4. I have been told I am a conspiracy theorist and Qanon follower...because I don’t trust mandates and passports and think it is part of a plan to bring down US and other prosperous western countries like Australia...I never followed Q—way too complicated to keep up with...However over past few months, I have begun reading some of the threads because there are people posting information which is not allowed to be posted on many social media sites like Twitter. Is that trollish or disruptive to accuse me of that? I don’t think I should have to defend my posting or browsing history...
5. I have been called a moron, stupid, uneducated—even tho my positions are often supported and shared by a family member with a PhD who does data analysis for a Pharma company...Is that trollish and disruptive to be called that? I don’t think I should have to defend myself or my positions...
6. Disruption bugs me? Try going to a thread about someone dying from COVID...Yeah, disruption bugs me—try having someone you know nearly die in ICU. In ICU for 8 weeks... and then for weeks in rehab learning to swallow and walk—yet Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin were not offered. MAs not available. Yeah, that really bugs me... Person was prescribed the standard protocols...I believe prayer saved them—not the protocols. On the threads about which you speak, I have seen people who don’t support the jabs offer sincere condolences—and I have seen pro-vaxxers issue blame to those who offered up alternative therapies on FR...so yeah,
plenty of tarnished halos.
Enjoy the rest of your night.
A lot to unpack.
I was here long ago under a different name.
Long story short, my computer got a virus wiped everything out, lost tons of information and I got very discouraged.
I was working a lot even part-time gigs with private EMS companies on my days off from Detroit Fire. My kids were at the age of super needs with school events and projects.
So I got a new desk top, I was really paranoid about getting another virus so I loaded it up with safety measures.
And the biggy, I haven’t had to sign in to FreeRepublic for some time so I forgot my password……..but that didn’t matter as I wouldn’t allow cookies in my computer.
I signed up in 1998 as NRA357MAGNUM.
I decided that I wanted to change that name because the NRA disappointed me and I was losing trust in them as they seem to be working with Rinos all the time.
Next I chose Wildgame……which I kept until my computer was wiped out.
I was on the famous Al Gore conference call and asked when is the Vice President going to campaign in China……other questions too.
I stopped posting around 2004-2005 I think.
Decided to lurk as it was safer than lowering my shields so to speak.
I was here during 2015 lurking.
I saw the dispute between the Cruz people and Trump people and all that happened.
Anyway, the interesting thing, perhaps good news, I agree with much of what you’re saying.
I’ve been called plenty of names as well but I think about an old saying…..
“We always hurt the ones we love.”
Why is that? Because they are the closest to us.
Our close friends and family often feel the happiness and joy in our lives but they also get stuck with the anger and frustration.
Here over the last few years, things have been very tough for Conservatives. Trump constantly attacked, Russia probes, Ukraine Probes, Impeachments.
A Pandemic brought to us by China.
Then as if it couldn’t get any worse, the Election fraud, theft.
The latter two we’re still dealing with.
So now we are talking amongst ourselves. No one here that actually caused our troubles or pain that we can speak to, vent to, release on, just other Conservatives.
We always hurt the ones we love. Because they are the closest to us.
Thanks for the convo.
I do see your point.
I look forward to at least this whole Covid thing being behind us.
It will be one day, but when I don’t know.
Have a great day.