Posted on 01/21/2024 11:07:44 AM PST by 4Runner
I grew up in a leftist community.
My high school and college were filled with leftists.
I didn’t agree with them on anything.
You learn how to cope.
Those of us who grew up with that kind of adversity got tough and skilled at defending our views as needed.
One powerful technique is humor.
True leftists cannot laugh at themselves and have no sense of humor.
Their brains explode when you laugh at them with clever and original humor.
I also learned to do my homework before making a point.
I would not just say “X is true”. I would be able to prove it—often with sources they liked and approved. That is very powerful when you can do that.
Be a happy and skillful warrior.
You need to ignore them. Grow a thicker skin. It’s not you, it’s them. It happens to me also. I just don’t respond.
Find a neighbor who believes as you, pay attention to them, grow a network of people you can trust. When the SHTF you’ll be prepared as will your friends. Your kids will come around .
They come and go and always have. There are more of them now.
Time for an old-fashioned ZOT party perhaps
Thank you for the Ben Franklin reminder. I pray daily for my son.
They start an argument hoping the other person will respond, and then they taunt back, often using a closing statement asserting some kind of weakness or fault in the OP. This is intended to get that person to emotionally respond again.
After several rounds of this clogging up a thread, other readers will drop out because the thread is hard to read with true content buried in the back-and-forth attacks.
Don't fall for it. Just let it go. If they persist, report abuse and move on.
-PJ
“But no longer. Some of the liberals have been sleepers and awaken on cue.”
Amazing the number of usernames with early sign-up dates that I’ve never heard of. This has been going on for years but I’ve never seen anything like the Ukraine threads though. It’s like they do shifts.
But freedom is a conditional.
When you base your society on “freedom”, you enable communist revolution and perversion.
Freedom from isn’t enough. Freedom demands an answer to “freedom to do what?”
FR has changed in the last 54 years. It’s become very negative...especially to Republican Congress folks. Now they sure aren’t perfect...but the better course is to attack a Dem.
Good thoughts above with scripture. See my tagline.
https://www.gotquestions.org/strong-delusion.html
“They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12)
Epoch Times is a Falun Gong operation, so it is intensely anti-Red Chinese government.
Given their history this is entirely understandable. But by their nature they have a deep vested interest in a foreign conflict and anything related to it. They are NOT narrowly US-centric.
As a semi-sort-of Christian religion, which they take seriously (its one of those Asian syncretic things), its solidly in the camp of traditional morality.
It is not a US-centric isolationist outfit. It is however conservative. It may not be your particular flavor of conservative, but perhaps you have defined “conservative” too narrowly.
You have a very good point. In the range of conservative voices, there can be disagreement. But not over fundamental principles.
May I remind, however, that one of the goals of the Left is to demoralize. Please do not allow them to demoralize any longer.
Best wishes.
There’s also vaxxtards and blue boot lickers too.
Lesson 1.
Don’t feed the Trolls.
You know the Trolls from their programmed responses. Cut-n-Paste site to site.
Best is to simply not engage them. Don’t reply to their rediculous posts.
Also, some RINO Freepers get their holier-than-thou spirit on defending Florida Man or Nimarata. Just drop it already. You played, and lost.
We MAGAs got pilloried with “Will you support the Republican Nominee?”. Shoe, meet other foot.
Will y’all finally get on the Trump Train and help defeat The Left? Or ya gonna now become Thune-icans and push for the “unique moment in time” crapola?
54 years?
Funny, you don’t *look* like the class of 1970...
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me;
“And why do certain folks HAVE to get on & comment on things they don’t like?”
Because they have an agenda. They are trying to sow doubt, influence us, and destroy the.MAGA movement.
I’m convinced the best thing is to keep a list of repeat offenders and just ignore them. Do not engage. The most you should do is say “troll” so as to alert other FReepers to who you suspect to be a troll.
Don’t worry about calling someone a troll who is not one - if they are not trolls let them prove it by giving a reasonable response. The real trolls never respond with reason - they just dodge, change the subject, or go in circles.
Some are better at trolling than others, so you can think you are in a reasonable conversation for a few exchanges… but trust your instincts.. once a troll has has wasted your time, write down the screen name so you know to ignore them in the future.
They all say things like “I voted for Trump twice but the last straw was when he said [————-]”. That is classic troll BS.
“Am I the only one who is sick and tired of having comments I make on a thread on FR trashed and bashed by left wingers masquerading as FReepers?”
I find the FR folks are pretty quick to id a leftist troll and confront them with facts. The open air content lets us hear from the deranged left so we can show how weak their arguments are. Hopefully with an appreciable amount of sarcasm and ridicule.
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