Posted on 07/28/2002 12:03:58 PM PDT by BADJOE
Free Republic and Liberty Post.org
To all:
I would hope your appearances and posting on these pages states your desire to undo years of liberal policies in this land I hope we all dearly love. I would hope that a hundred successful LibertyPost.org and FreeRepublics would advance the cause we all hold near and dear.
From what I have read here it seems many are more interested in fighting each other than they are in advancing the cause of individual liberty and limited constitution government as envisioned by our forefathers.
If my second paragraph is the truth, shame on you.
Let us stop the petty bickering about crap that doesn't amount to a hill of blue beans and get on with the job at hand.
I concur with BadJoe. After his post, I went over there, clicked on latests posts and saw an AFer wankerama regarding his thread. Like pirhanas on a dead capybara (gotta quit watching Discovery channel). BTW, twodees, I intend to shamelessly rip off your 'wankerama' line...
I can disagree with Bushbots who spin and spin? Kewl
These FRolk wouldn't know what it means to be CONSERVATIVE if it was tattooed on their foreheads. &;-)
What I see happening all too often in whatever discussion forum is the same thing that happens on CB radios. Everybody behind a microphone (or keyboard) becomes The Great And Powerful Oz (...Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!) which is a function of people who are too impressed with their own personalities. They invest way too much energy in personality-driven, internecine political intrigue that, in relation to the big picture, is completely pointless - and in the process take their eyes off the ball. Some people are so good at this that it makes me wonder if they aren't being paid to do it. It's a puerile waste of time and energy that this country doesn't need. That statement is not meant as a "why can't we all just get along..." It's my opinion that for me as a "conservative" or more accurately, a "Constitutionalist," my job is to pass along that information that I consider useful to those that are receptive to it, and where they are receptive to it, then move along - not waste a lot of time spinning my wheels with those people who would rather engage in name calling and the usual load of personality-driven crap. I'm not accusing anybody in particular of this, I'm saying I'm too busy for it.
The time I spent over at LP reviewing the latest posts relative to FR is a classic example of what I don't have time for. Certain people over there spend their time whining about FR while casting personal aspersions against FR members instead of posting information they consider to be of use obviously have too much time on their hands. I don't have time for them or that variety of discussion.
what's an AFer? Anti-freeper. A motley crew of former FR posters who, since JimRob will not listen to their demands about how FR should be run (or, in some cases, liberal idiots who keep coming here so they can be drop-kicked out after fifteen minutes), now roam from site to site, demonstrating to no one but themselves how JimRob is getting rich off of FR donations. Basically, they're a bunch of twits with the emotional development of junior high students.
I looked at that place twice. The first time when out of curiosity when I first heard about it. The second time was to see if "they really said that" (after reading something here referencing something there that was mind-bogglingly off the wall).
Each time I felt dirty after just looking at the place. I've never seen so much hatred under one roof.
It's not just that it's "there", or even that it seems to be tolerated, but more like (or so it seems to me) it's encouraged.
I do think people should take at least one look there, just so that they can see what a "lunatics running the asylum" scenario really looks like. But then again I also think people should see the video of the chechnian terrorist ripping out the throat of the Russian soldier, because people need to see just how evil pure unmitigated evil can be.
If it's not true, I didn't know it, Joe. It appeared that you had posted that to Breaking News since that's where it showed up. I apologize for assuming the worst about your intentions.
Liberty Forum is a new one on me I honestly don't know a thing about it. I've never heard of it. Liberty Post did get a little hot for while and Neil did get it under control. There does have to be some reasonable discipline in any serious forum. Just curious Liberty Forum sounds like a former Freeper whom I won't mentions forum. Just a wild guess though. One that was around under another name or several since?
This bothers me greatly, too. The problem could be that since libertarians are not the type to go whining, "Mommy, he's bothering me," the mods' never know what these "seminar" posters are doing.
In Reply #63, your very first reply to me on this thread.
I was commenting to BADJOE about the whiney little splinter groups of malcontent libertarians that form these little wannabe forums, and you chimed in as though the RLC was the same darn thing.
If you can't keep track of your bait, you shouldn't go trolling.
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