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I'm Done With Twitter/X
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Posted on 09/03/2024 6:06:32 PM PDT by ducttape45

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To: ducttape45
FWIW, my 3 biggest online addictions are: FoxNews website, FR and BabylonBee (BB is the least time-consuming, due to small # of articles). Don't have cable TV; never will.

After those, it's youtube vids of military history espe Civil War & WWII. And wikipedia history articles.

61 posted on 09/03/2024 8:30:13 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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To: ducttape45

I knew I shouldn’t have opened...


62 posted on 09/03/2024 8:39:10 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: ducttape45

I dropped Twitter the same day they kicked Trump off. I have never looked back I dropped Instagram as a near occasion of sin. Dropped Reddit as well. Stripped my FB account down to a skeleton, no photos showing humans, rarely post.
I use FR and Telegram for news. It’s working out well.


63 posted on 09/03/2024 8:56:18 PM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of the American Republic as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: cuban leaf

Freerepublic is still the best one.

Everyone remember to donate! (On target, next week.)


64 posted on 09/03/2024 9:05:24 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: fella

Good Bye . . . and thank for all the fish.

Wait, wait, i’m just getting off the B ark.!


65 posted on 09/03/2024 9:07:50 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: OldHarbor

Elon and his band of freaks said I was promoting violence.

Two week ban for suggesting that Stephen King should go all in Buddhist monk and self immolate.


66 posted on 09/03/2024 9:11:43 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Oh Belgium. You are correct.


67 posted on 09/03/2024 9:12:37 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: fella

https://youtu.be/6UNC8ATTHq4?si=xQEkZ1o6uhGxjQ3x


68 posted on 09/03/2024 9:22:50 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: ducttape45

Amen and Amen


69 posted on 09/03/2024 9:28:48 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Jumper

What do you mean by “Obama’s FR Campaign coordinator”? Did you mean FB?

The big challenge right now is what RFK Jr described in his Tucker Carlson interview. The social media companies earn money by keeping people on the site as long as possible. To do that, they monitor what a person wants to hear and just keep feeding them more and more of the same. It really fits the Scripture about the times coming when people would gather around them those who would tell them what their itching ears want to hear.

And it works with all ideologies. We can surround ourselves only with news that we want to hear, just as leftists do. The end result is that we have literal parallel universes that rarely, if ever, intersect. When they do intersect it’s mostly people just repeating what is in their parallel universe and yelling at the others who are comfortably in their own parallel universe. There’s no body of recognized actual facts. It’s the leftists claiming one thing and conservatives claiming the opposite. Occasionally actual evidence is presented.

To break that cycle we need people who are able to withstand the depression that comes from seeing deceived people post lies, and actually present evidence that reaches into the parallel universes. FR is a great format for presenting and processing evidence. None of the social media platforms come even close to providing real opportunity for in-depth analysis.

I know there are trolls here who are being exposed to factual evidence; their purpose for being here is to try to influence the lurkers. I don’t know how many lurkers there are who frequent liberal sources and give a fair hearing to the evidence presented here. I’d like to believe that the discussions here do make it out to non-Freepers or non-conservatives, but the more we can stay strong enough and reach out to the liberal parallel universe, the better.

I also believe that we are in a critical spiritual war. Only God can save us from the lies and deceit that Satan is brainwashing (or brain-dirtying, I should say) this post-modern world with. So the top priority for all of us should be to pray and to encourage one another. The hope is that this would strengthen us to put the truth out there for those whose minds are open to hear it. But the prayer is absolutely critical because only God can open closed minds, and He can use the circumstances in a person’s life to bring people to their knees where they are better able to hear the truth.

Ultimately when it comes to sharing the truth, personal relationships are the most conducive to respectful, impactful discussions. Content shared either on social media or on FR is most powerful, IMHO, when shared with people in our sphere of influence.


70 posted on 09/03/2024 9:56:29 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: ducttape45

I can do both.


71 posted on 09/03/2024 10:04:01 PM PDT by ALASKA (There has to be a line we do not cross.)
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To: butterdezillion

Yes, facebook. They put the in a loosly designated PAO with State’s sister agency.


72 posted on 09/03/2024 10:13:24 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: 4Runner

Jesus never said “more worthy”. If you mean the parable of the prodigal son, that was not what that’s about.


73 posted on 09/03/2024 10:29:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Sometimes I will link a post on X here on FR.”

And we appreciate you for that service, MinorityRepublican!

It’s great to the “curated” contents of X without having to spend the time scanning all sorts of people.

This the beauty of the FR model we love.


74 posted on 09/04/2024 12:43:26 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA isn’t a slogan it’s a matter of Americas survival.)
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To: ducttape45

So, you are going to create a bubble world for yourself where you see/read/hear nothing inconvenient to your views.

That is how people become brainwashed.

Try moderation of some sites instead. You do not need to go daily and read every story.


75 posted on 09/04/2024 3:15:19 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: ducttape45

So you’ll just be clicking on Twitter/X and Liberty Daily from all the post here on FR?


76 posted on 09/04/2024 4:36:53 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ifinnegan

180 degrees out of phase. The support for globalist money laundering theft of American treasure in the corrupt country, Ukraine, under the control of an authoritarian dictator that cancels elections, is what is destroying FR for me.

Posts like yours often make me question if FR is for me any more after all these years.


77 posted on 09/04/2024 5:02:08 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happ)
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To: ducttape45

It’s called humor! Must be tough to be wound so tightly.


78 posted on 09/04/2024 5:04:39 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happ)
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To: roving
Dan Bongino posted a video on how it looks like FBI and Secret Service were involved in planting the bombs on January 6th. Where did I see that on X? It’s not on free Republic.

Actually, this claim was seen here:" https://www.google.com/search?gws_rd=cr&gl=us&q=FBI%20and%20Secret%20Service%20were%20involved%20in%20planting%20the%20bombs%20site:freerepublic.com

A FF extension 'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-site-we/ can help.

79 posted on 09/04/2024 5:10:33 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: ducttape45

For me, X and FB most other sites are interior for news and commentary since they usually are very limited on the length of responses, and often exclude links. Fox news included.


80 posted on 09/04/2024 5:18:09 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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