Why do people post demoralizing MSM content here and then put (Barf) or (Barf Alert) after the headline - like that makes it OK?

Example of what some people post here under "Barf Alert" ^

[SamAdams76]

Some folks here on Free Republic appear to be heavily into wanting to "make us barf" for some odd reason.

This is evidenced by the multitude of articles posted here that have "BARF" or "BARF ALERT" in parentheses after the title.

Apparently the poster is still perusing mainstream media sites - mainstream media that skews heavily to the Left and has an agenda to tag all patriotic conservatives as racists and insurrectionists who should be herded onto cattle cars and hauled off to re-education camps like they did in days of Stalin and Hitler.

So typically the poster comes across a particularly obnoxious article on one of these mainstream media sites that either contains totally fake news or perhaps an attack on our values and beliefs. The poster knows full well that it will only anger and inflame the rest of us here, who mostly are doing our very best to avoid that kind of stuff. However they have decided to bring it over here and subject us to it just the same.

By putting the "Barf Alert" at the end of the subject title, they apparently wish to insulate themselves, to proclaim to us that despite the fact that the article they are posting is going to make us want to projectile hurl our breakfast into the nearest toilet, that their motives are pure and that they just want to "keep us informed" on what the other side is saying.

Well you aren't doing us any favors!

We already know that the other side hates us. We already know that mainstream media is controlled by Leftists and that they are in cahoots with the establishment elite to help rig elections, sway opinions, destroy family values, erode the middle class and drag America into a socialist hell-hole in which they (the elite) will gain additional wealth and power over the rest of us.

So whenever we drag that kind of content over here, we are only helping the other side. We are validating them (as sources of news) and helping to give them power over us. The typical replies to these sort of threads is similarly depressing and chock full of "all is lost" and "system is rigged against us and there's no hope" and "I'm stockpiling bullets and canned sardines for the civil war that is sure to come."

Instead of ignoring them and taking positive action like building out our own platforms, our own media and organizing (like the Left does), we end up gnashing our teeth at all the things the "other side" is saying and wallowing in the negativity.

Speaking for myself, I don't come to Free Republic to get bummed out or to "barf" or to wallow in "all is lost" negativity.

I cut my cable years ago (and give some of the money I'm saving on it to Free Republic each month). I removed mainstream media from my life. And I'm much better for it. I'm a more positive person. I've kept my sense of humor (bizarre as it can be), and I'm physically and emotionally very healthy because I keep all that negativity out of my life.

I guess the only redeeming thing about "Barf Alerts" here is that it helps identifies the threads that are best avoided for my overall mental health (and to keep the nutritious food I just ate inside my body).

[Wuli]

Whether I know what ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/NBC/NPR is saying is NOT, I repeat NOT, the same as not sharing it.

I keep myself informed, even what they are doing. I don’t pass on (promote) their crap.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Thanks and a nice rant. Now can you do one on people who post end times/rapture/pre/mid/post/millenialism threads?

[StAnDeliver]

There are 2 or 3 people who line up and crawl over each other like COCKaROACHES to be "First!" to post daily crAP from the same anti-Trump, anti-conservative AP bylines:

• ZEKE MILLER (AP)
• DAVID EGGERT (AP)
• KEVIN FREKING (AP)
• JERRY SCHWARTZ (AP)
• STEVE PEOPLES (AP)
• BILL BARROW (AP)
• ED WHITE (AP)
• DAVID BAUDER (AP)
• JILL COLVIN (AP)
• MEG KINNARD (AP)
• LINDSAY WHITEHURST (AP)

They think no one notices... but as a small group of room-temp IQs they are trying to bring this site to its knees by signal-boosting crAP nothingburgers to stir GOssiP and distract from the puppet-state installation.

We lost posting constraints somewhere between Obama and Trump. Powers that be don't care. Strictly a game of "I posted first" and then that person complains on the other postings of the same crAP article that they are duplicate crAP.

[StAnDeliver]

"Kaslin is guilty of this all the time. He loves posting demoralizing anti Trump sh!t."

KaslinKanIpostonemoreMSMarticle is a she, or so she says.

[StAnDeliver]

Those of you manically defending the pre-dawn MSM garbage dump on this site every morning are forgetting (of course) key elements of this problem:

• The same posters arguing in other threads of the same or similar posts that their pre-dawn MSM garbage dump was "First!", which if doesn't help you to see the problem for what it is, you are encouraged to not read the rest. Of anything.

• The posters - and we all know who they are, some of whom are anti-Trump - post and move on, post and move on, failing to engage/nuture/enlighten the thread, only interested in being the first to post.

• This same "First!" mentality has led to a HORRIBLY stagnant Breaking News sidebar, where one can peruse the last THREE "Sunday Morning Talk Show" threads AND review the REEDOM CAR CARAVAN AND RALLY!!! from 17 FREAKING DAYS AGO. Why? Because the powers that be rightfully don't want to be bothered by the stupid "conflicts" that arise from these same perpetually-posting people bitching endlessly about their garbage MSM article being removed.

• The solution is new OP Posters, who operate with the specific intent to highlight why this particular MSM article is important to constitutional conservatives, and are charged with shepharding an article by posting in the same thread. Perhaps the few MSM articles that merit posting involve an attempt to taint a Trump Narrative, perhaps it's an attempt by the MSM to establish an errant Narrative to cover up Leftard crimes; anying other than the perpetual flow of JUNK MAIL that we have RIGHT NOW.

• At a minimum -- if you post an article and do not post useful contribution to the same thread, your thread is removed in 24 hours. Period.

[Flaming Conservative]

It pays to know your enemy.

[caww]

That phrase has well lost it's meaning as an excuse.

[caww]

Speaking for myself, I don’t come to Free Republic to get bummed out or to “barf” or to wallow in “all is lost” negativity.

Agree.

[StAnDeliver]

Hey, weigh in on this thread, SeekandfindcrAParticlestopost.

If you would, please. LOL.

[SeekAndFind]

KNOW YOUR ENEMY, KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING. IGNORANCE IS *NOT* BLISS. FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED!

[StAnDeliver]

"KNOW YOUR ENEMY, KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING. IGNORANCE IS *NOT* BLISS. FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED!"

OMG you nutter LOL. Simmah down.

Maybe the Maricopa County article was worth posting. The rest are just clutter, and you know it.

[Robert357]

It is good to know your enemy and what they are thinking.