Posted on 09/27/2026 6:46:14 PM PDT by eastforker
50 post in 25 minutes on a sunday night. Wake up admin, there is no wonder why donations are down. We need to recruit new members to keep this site alive. Get your head out of your ass and revitalize this site, Jim Rob would expect you to do that.
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How about an AI bot to post and write all comments?
I fell in love with this site while dodging dinasaurs in the woods because folks would staye their position and then type “flame suit on”.
They didn’t whine or cry, they FOUGHT, with their intellect and experience, like Rush Limbaugh, or were just funny as heck and I would fall off my chair...when ROTHLMAO was new.
We need to fight, semi-respectfully, and best like GK Chesterton. That is the way to move us and the country forward. No backstabbing, only front stabbing with a smile, and love.
And we need articles I like....which I don’t post because I fon’t know how.
How about as many posts about HOW TO POST as we see about PLEASE DONATE.
I must do much more of both, because I LOVE the site. Thank you JimR...a little helpful prodding from above???
Thank you posters!
Yes, more “advertising” saying “Thank you posters, thank you contributers, as helpful reminders???
I need lots of reminding in my old age, as my mommy did in my previous ages!!! (As my other friends do.....DMV, Edison, Water Dept...)
I suspect younger folks are just used to the easy one-click process you find on modern social media platforms. Click the like or just reply and EASILY share a meme or image. We also don’t get breaking news articles anymore. It literally takes a death or war to have something pinned as breaking. I still come here first but have to admit that most of my news comes from either citizen free press or twitter. Not as many dedicated freepers left.
That does seem to be the direction things are going in a lot of places. But I like it the old way.
Respectfully to the admins and owners, I know you’re a private organization but can we know how the money is spent?
“Well, youngster, perhaps people have been driven away because you and your ilk have treated other users”
TRUTH. I mentioned years ago. When I suggested the Free Republic site to my son’s college friends they found little information was shared (pro or con). Mostly just rude, foolish comments!
Example:
Viking Kitty/ZoT Rebuild
1/13/2022, 7:21:32 AM by Bikkuri
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4029094/posts
Most people on Free Republic do not understand this is a Donation Only website.
"Donation Only" blocks most taxes and most civil lawsuits for copyright issues and libel.
Some instigate, some support, some are just here to create friction and fracture.
All designed to influence public opinion. I believe that, back in the 90s, Clinton turned the USG on to FreeRepublic. Remember when FReepers used to organize demonstrations in D.C.? That garnered attention. From everyone. Good and bad.
Many governments, allies and enemies, monitor this site. Some even post.
It may be time to let go of that popular phrase;
“NEWBIE”. When someone identifies another poster as ‘being a Newbie’ it is most always meant as a slur or a snarky putdown. Everyone has a Start Date. So what?
Seniority does not equal Omniscience, or a Bon Fide Know It All. There should be no Pecking Order here. We can all learn from each other. We are adults now, with our own unique life experience.
It’s not necessary, and reminds me of Junior High School students (11th Graders) outright insulting Sophomore High School students (10th Graders), who in turn, sighed and rolled their eyes at anyone who was a ‘mere’ Freshman (9th Graders) daring to show their presence at all.
“I don’t know, there are many other factors contributing to the lack of volume on this forum that have nothing to do with the poor politics from 25 years ago”
Competition from Twitter and other forums. Once they quit banning conservative posting.
The passing of an older generation, the Silent Generation cohort, like our pal William Flax and ‘Kenny Bunk’. Remarkably bright people, well informed, from a generation that read a lot.
The disappearance of print sites that once gave us fodder for discussion. The disappearance of a common American culture, thanks to the same technology that allows FR to exist.
When Limbaugh ruled the airwaves with his mix of humor and information, he was relying on material he was getting from The American Spectator, National Review (it once was good, long ago), Human Events and other print sources.
Writing is a skill that makes you focus your thought. It should train you to think more clearly, to develop your “argument”. Today’s Rush wannabee’s come from a post-literate environment where babbling and confirmation bias rules the day. And we are all dumber for it. Including here.
“I suspect younger folks are just used to the easy one-click process you find on modern social media platforms. Click the like or just reply and EASILY share a meme or image.”
And while the tech here is dated, that same thread format makes it possible to follow a discussion and find it again later.
Good luck trying that on Twitter, where its algorithm is deciding what it thinks you should see. And posters you follow disappear from your timeline for no discernable reason, only to reappear several months later.
Tippy Walker was one of the girls and I thought she was wonderful in the movie and surprised that her career didn't take off. I don't remember the exact reason I was checking out the movie at that particular time but she posted an epic story about how the deified, married at the time, 30 years older, Oscar wining director George Roy Hill had an affair with her on the set. He got away with it in Sixties. He would have been me too-ed today
A person on this site archived it. If you've never read it take a look at an IMDB gem.
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/tippy-walker-george-roy-hill.17451/
I don’t disagree with that at all. I’m just saying that the format is where we’re losing our younger crowd. FaceBook has notifications if you have someone comment on your post.
HEAR! HEAR!
FR used to be so lively, we’d post things here, and Rush (and others) would “link” to it from whatever their platform was.
That was never objected to, either, because it fed into the life of the way things used to be pretty thoroughly discussed around here. If the objective is to have REAL discussion, then it makes sense not to fragment the discussion by pointing it outward to other forums, but to point it here where it’s happening.
And that used to be very much the case.
I thought your post was accurate. The other forums have some good features, and a younger crowd in particular might miss them more than I do.
But as clunky as FR is at least it doesn’t have an algorithm injecting itself in the background, and that’s a rarity anymore.
Including neoconservatives?
Sure. Import the Causal faction into the heart of your hoped-for Solution.
We are where we are in large part because, after a substantial swathe of humanity swore off being Soviets — pretty much because somebody finally had the stones to ASK them to — neoconservatives saw their sacred temple of power and their office of expertise in sudden jeopardy and beat double time convincing the universe that nobody who’d ever been a Soviet could ever NOT be a Soviet, and they racked up subscriber after subscriber on the point that taking their view meant the gravy train would keep rolling.
The extent of the predicament that has got us into ranges far more widely than that, extending all the way to Somali Learing Centers in the Twin Cities, but that’s the nub of its genesis.
Save for the skullduggery of damnable NeoCons, we could’ve by 2000 or so had relations with the fledgling Russian Federation entirely normalized diplomatically, economically — Hell, we could’ve even had them join NATO in transforming that moribund volume of stanky air into a northern-hemispheric architecture for keeping China and Iran tamped down as well as dissuading would-be pop-offs in various other quarters across the globe. There’d be no war in Eastern Europe (and no commensurate arms sales, either) at this present hour owing in part to who’s in NATO and who’s not, because just about the entire northern hemisphere of this planet would be.
The most monumental sociopolitical transformation in the world — an entire, huge nation scrapping the doomed-to-fail notions of Marx, and neoconservatives made sure we didn’t capitalize productively so they wouldn’t become outmoded, so their warbucks corporate cronies wouldn’t feel too much of a pinch in the demise of the long-reviled, but stupendously profitable Cold War.
If there were ANY geopolitical route to staving off an eventual nuclear Armageddon, THAT would’ve been it, and rather than welcome and embrace that glaring opportunity, it was shot three times in the back of the head and declared a “suicide” by NeoCons.
The lot of them, from Clintoon right on across to the Republican side of the aisle, can kiss my fine, white ass.
You know you should ping the person you are talking about.
Thank you. I have no association with the board owners. My only interest is in keeping us going.
I described how I donate and Chris chose to put that post on a link on the homepage. Hopefully it helps others who have been frustrated by credit cards, paypal, zelle, etc.
I have questions about the accounting, and I have been critical. I still have a monthly donation being mailed to Fresno.
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