The state of discourse on Free Republic

[LukeL]

In the past couple of years I have noticed there is a complete lake of regard for other posters on this site. Not only that but swearing seems to be tolerated. In the past day I have been called gay, a lair, that I am talking out of my *** and I am full of ****. Do we even have to go into the fighting on any thread about Ukraine or Russia. Even hard facts from multiple sources no longer seem to matter. Instead it is whoever can come up with the snarkiest reply.

[Lazamataz]

He and I don’t get along.

[kiryandil]

I’ve always been a fan of The zeugma. :)

[kiryandil]

as well as many of the major news sources are now behind a paywall.

archive.ph or archive.vn

Those turds allow it lest they become TOTALLY irrelevant.

[kiryandil]

I forbid you to stop posting.   

[kiryandil]

I can do better than that.

Her freeper number is 47130.

VERY low number, BTW.

[kiryandil]

brutal.

Kudos to you.

[kiryandil]

A+bert never really annoyed me, and had more class.

[kiryandil]

You're talking all wrong about my FR pal MayflowerMadam. It's the wrong tone.

You know, I like you, and you're on my anti-former-president-of-Ukraine team - but you both have colonial America chops.

She's swell. Let it go.

[kiryandil]

I chain-gunned him more than a few times, if I recall correctly.  

[Tired of Taxes]

"I’ve been here since 1998 and I’ve never once pushed the abuse button."

Sometimes, you should hit the abuse button for the good of the forum.

Since I joined 22 years ago, several times, I have hit the abuse button to ask the Moderator to delete my own posts - for example, if I mistakenly shared information that was inaccurate.

Only a few times, I reported posts by other people. Why? Because they were really bad. For example, one was a photo depicting an underage girl in lingerie. The Admin Mod deleted it immediately.

I don't remember ever reporting a post directed at me personally. I want to see those posts. But, a few times, someone's reply to my post was deleted before I could see it.

[Tired of Taxes]

"When bogus stories, misleading headlines, and just bad facts get promulgated and repeated, we're just setting ourselves up to look like morons if/when we repeat this stuff to outsiders. So it is in our interest to police ourselves. That means checking the claims we are making, verifying articles or claims that look suspicious, and not using wild hyperbole that amounts to just...lying."

Excellent post.

[rodguy911]

With so much at stake in our nation those of us who do the research and than post it here are plagued with spelling or other unimportant stuff. The “gotcha” crowd is alive and well her for sure. Don’t ever make a mistake you will never hear the end of it.
When key issues are unearthed little is said any more.

[Chickensoup]

So you saw him sit and the program begin?

[MayflowerMadam]

Thanks for that. I thought it was 2000, although I had lurked for years prior.

If I had been posting on my PC instead of my phone I would’ve checked my date, but I didn’t want to close the Comments page, find the date, and start Comments again.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Her freeper number is 47130.”

I didn’t know we have numbers! Where is that info?

[MayflowerMadam]

:-)

[Timber Rattler]

Most Zeepers are likely paid propagandists or foreigners trying to influence American public opinion.

So says the poster living in Russia... Seems that all of you appearing on this thread and engaging in your usual ad hominum attacks just made the OP's point.

Well done!

Now, let's try a little experiment...GO!

[Lazamataz]

I still try to write good articles.

[Lazamataz]

You could post about puppies and some jerk will start a fight and never give up.

WHY THE HELL ARE YOU POSTING ABOUT PUPPIES? This look like CanineRepublic to you???!?

[Lazamataz]

The only threads I have really seen any are on the Ukraine vs Russia threads. Being of Southern Polish descent I want them both to lose. But especially want Russia to lose.

All the Ukraine/Russian threads are completely devoid of any value to the forum. I would not shed a tear if they were banned.

I agree, I want to see them BOTH lose. BADLY.