Watching some thread curating going on in real time. 😁
An observation: in the Free Republic threads, two stand out as very dissimilar from all others, and both are about the "officially" non-NATO war between two non-NATO nations.
Aside from "Comment # X Removed by Moderator," both threads seem to have partitioned their specialties to one of two general "news" sources. This one specializes on monetized YouTube video channels, and the other specializes on monetized Twitter channels. The common denominator -- money.
Both threads exhibit a similar format, beginning with one consistent "headliner" -- this being "bunny rabbit" Davydov" sitting in his "content creation" locale in Switzerland, and the other some Dutch chaps sitting in their "content creation" location in the Netherlands.
Both threads comment to themselves with tens of entries, and both call to a small -- emphasize "small" -- cadre of followers.
This is amusing because those individuals are already "aligned" through their confirmation bias to the themes, such that the daily posts and multiple comments "to self" fulfill all the above observations, and likely non hearts and minds are being swayed, in the "preying."
Both threads, directly and through their small cadres, work to enforce only two points-of-view, making the "not my war" individuals into "pro-Putin" in some way, because, like the old Arab proverb repeated by George W., 'you are either for us or against us.'
Interestingly NEITHER of these pro-Zelensky threads lobby for NATO troops to be openly involved in the land war between non-NATO nations, so their angle is all about money and materiel.
And also, at times both play the 'ridicule' game while crying foul when they are themselves ridiculed.
There is more to these two threads than meets the eye. I think an interesting study would be to list and tally the devotees to each, using prior days' threads to see the Dramatis personae assembled, rather like an end credits list for a made-for-TV movie.
I think that would be an amusing little enterprise for "over the weekend." Of course, the "curator" would appear in the "credits" as an active participant.
What do you think? Could be fun.