Posted on 06/30/2013 5:04:32 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum
There are many moderators, with different kinds of secret knowledge.
Anything you might say about them (including this) will be false for some of the Moderators, but true for others, which only adds to the confusion and mystery.
The Moderators infiltrate and take over cliques of all kinds, from drug warriors to libertarians to chatters, and turn them to their own ends.
And, just as a black joke, some of their secret cliques advertise themselves as Secret Cliques
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They have agents and "sleepers" planted everywhere. Many of these people have no idea who they are really reporting to.
Others are active members of the conspiracy, working their way ever deeper into the fabric of the Free Republic society.
They control the welcome threads in order to make sure that new freepers learn to enjoy strange tuneless music and weird outlandish games, and that they dress oddly.
They also try to recruit the best and the brightest newbies as agents, to insure the next generation of the Conspiracy.
They constantly feud among themselves and war with other groups and organizations. Each Moderator is constantly striving to increase its power base and undermine the competition.
Their first means of dealing with Jim Robinson is to buy him off. To any freeper as rich as a Modertor, a few million dollars are nothing. They deal with others the same way, if they must.
Next they try threats. Danger to possessions, status or loved ones has dissuaded many a would-be foe of Moderator schemes.
And, of course, murder is an ancient Moderator weapon. The Moderators have been responsible for some of the most shocking assassinations of modern times.
They also replace Freeper accounts with doubles. For many years they recruited post-alikes who would serve their ends. Now they are perfecting cloning technology that will let them replace anybody. Anyone could really be a replacement. Even your best friend.
Those who can't be dealt with any other way are discredited or driven mad. Sometimes, this is a short drive. Sometimes, the Moderator makes the drive as well.
The Moderator conspiracy is as old as the forum. Many of the most famous names of history have been Moderators, or Moderator agents. Indeed, all of Free Republic's history is nothing more than an outside view of the schemes and struggles of the Moderators.
And, of course, the Moderators are constantly rewriting forum history to serve their own goals. For instance, newbies are taught that there is no historical evidence of DITHF, and they learn nothing about the Mass Exodus or the March For Justice.
They control the sidebars, so you hear what they want you to about today's news. Any event that doesn't fit in with their program will be quickly hushed up.
In particular, they control Breaking News. They don't permit intelligent threads to survive; they encourage mind candy that will keep people from thinking. The only reason good threads are permitted to appear at all is to convince intelligent people that nobody else likes such material, and that there must be something wrong with them.
The Moderators manipulate the Republicans and control politics on an international level. Your candidate's worth is just what the Moderators want it to be.
Likewise, the entire "war on drugs" is an Moderator invention. There's no war on drugs, or any real objection to such a thing, but plentiful free energy expended on the WOD might otherwise threaten the Moderators power base, if not expended on mindless infighting.
The Moderators are doing their best to hold back the forum's expansion, for the same reason. If Freepdom was more expansive, they'd be much harder to control. [Not all the Moderators agree on this. Some of them lust after the additional subjects to oppress, and some want (literally) new worlds to conquer..
And some of them are in touch with aliens from outer space. Some of them ARE aliens. Why would "advanced beings" want to meddle with the affairs of Freepers? Good question.
Worse, some of them have actual magical powers and are in league with forces from ... elsewhere. Great huge beings that are madness to look upon, or tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners. They have pins and dolls; they know old names.
Other Moderators have embraced technology. Their files of information are much more useful when backed by the power of the computer. They are also conditioning everyone to believe that computers are so complicated and dangerous that only the Experts should play with them. Next time you get an electric bill for $666,666.66, you know who's behind it.
And some of these technophiles have gone a step farther, creating actual machine intelligences. These sentient computers are now, themselves, a force amoung the ruling Moderators. And they post just like any other Freepers.
The Moderators don't like flame wars; they are time consuming and wasteful. Flame wars only happen when two or more Moderators are very evenly matched and neither is willing to negotiate. But then they whip a few cliques into a righteous fervor and go at it.
They send secret messages through the newspaper articles and over Freeper radio-- in the posts, and even buried in the replies. They have other, even stranger forms of secret communications ... all around you, all the time.
They keep everyone -- yes, everyone -- under constant surveillance. Every time you fill out another post, another reply, another profile, you're weaving another strand of the net that binds the world. Every reply gives them more of a complete picture.
They are working to make the forum rules as confusing as possible, so everything will be illegal or potentially illegal -- then they have a hold on everybody and everyone will fear their rule.
They encourage resistance to authority among newbies and political dissidents, to distract older Freepers from the real enemy within.
But when they reach a satisfactory level of control, they turn their efforts toward extinguishing independence and encouraging mindless obedience to whatever orders come from the Moderators or their servants.
They commit random atrocities -- pulling articles posted by paleos, banning libertarians, suspending Catholics, nuking Evangelicals, taking down Bushbots, poisoning food at grocery stores, murdering old blind ladies -- just to make people vaguely confused, frightened and paranoid.
They suppress ideas which might change the status quo. Grand political plans are all lying in Moderator vaults, waiting for the day when it will suit the Secret Masters to release them. What happened to those who generated these grand plans? Bought off, intimidated, or just vanished.
On the other hand, they also maintain secret laboratories where they develop new weapons and devices of all kind. Lightning comes to mind.
Their arcane investigations cause all sorts of mysteries. Ever wonder about the Loch Ness Monster? The "cattle mutilations?" DITHF?
And they require hundreds of Freeper victims every year for their experiments. Ever wonder why there are so many Banned Freeper reports, and why so few of those people are found?
They are constantly experimenting with new types of mind control. They put drugs in drinking water, flash subliminal messages on threads, and play instructions that you can't quite hear over supermarket loudspeakers. They experiment with microwaves and ultra-low-frequency devices, too. But the most nefarious of all is "Freep this Poll". Are you manipulating the polls, or are the polls being used to manipulate you? Hurry, the liberals are flooding this one!
And every thread on Free Republic is a potential path for Moderator messages, attacks or controlling rays. Did you ever stop to think just how many threads you read? And do you have any idea where they really come from?
Naturally, they discourage investigation of the strange and unusual, because it might lead to them. But they encourage people to joke about the Moderators.
They also post supermarket tabloids, just to make sure that everybody thinks "Hitler's Brain Is Alive!" and "Bigfoot Seen In Hawaii" are just jokes.
And they encourage the craziest pseudo-science "researcher" articles they can find, because this tends to discredit legitimate investigators into the unusual.
A popular belief is that the Moderators want power for its own sake. This is true of some of them. But other Moderators exist to support an ideology, to achieve a particular goal, or simply to oppose some other Moderators.
One of their chief preoccupations is job security by any means possible. Nobody who has held ultimate power for all these years is eager to let it go. Anything you can think of ... yoga, cryonics, body-exchange, magic, cloning, goat (or other) glands, transfusions, computerized personality duplication ... has been tried by the Moderators at one time or another. And some of them work.
Furthermore, powerful Moderators from past centuries lie waiting to be revived when science allows it. Mummies, pickled corpses, frozen bodies, conscious brains in jars ... you would recognize the names if we could mention them.
You're not cleared for this one.
They use propaganda as a weapon to discipline their own populations or destroy competing ones.
They have a variety of unhuman and inhuman servants. The dreaded Thread Nannies are perhaps their best-known agents. No one knows whether the TNs are androids, golems, or something even worse. Perhaps they were once human...
And they really are breeding a Master Race. The Trolls had no idea how they were being used, or why. And they'd be horrified at the Moderators' idea of perfection.
The Moderators know weird sexual techniques undreamed of in the Kama Sutra. They also know why those techniques are used.
The next time you spend too much time reading something you didn't want to or need to, and you forget it in an hour, you can be sure you've just contributed to an Moderator time-wasting experiment.
They start chain letters. They also plant rumors that the Red Cross can buy an iron lung if you send them a million cigarette packages, and that dying children in England want ten million business cards. No one knows why they do this. Except Ted Nugent.
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You always, make me laugh! I’m sure your family is proud, having your aunt, wearin’ a suit and no shoes! Her feet are looking a bit icy, though.
Good shot! We have the same erosion, on the west coast, from San Diego to the Oregon border, and north. Amazing, how close, the supposedly rich folks, build to the ocean. Glad, you had a good vacation, Daffynition.
Stand for something!
-PJ
But there, I've said too much.
Indeed you have.
Speaking of the anchor poor Sidebar Moderator took along on his ... errh ... swimming adventure, I don't suppose I ever shared with y'all what happened to a good friend of mine.
A sailor was caught AWOL as he tried to sneak on board his ship around 0300 hours. The Chief Petty Officer noticed the sailor sneaking on board and yelled at the sailor to halt.
After dressing down the sailor about his being AWOL, the Chief Petty Officer then said "Take this broom and sweep every link on this anchor chain by morning or it's the brig for you!"
The sailor picked up the broom and started to sweep the chain. Just then, a tern landed on the broom handle.
The sailor yelled at the bird trying to scare it off, but it wouldn't leave its perch on the broom handle. The lad picked the tern off the broom handle and gave the bird a toss overboard.
The bird flew away only to return and light once again on the broom handle. The sailor went through the same routine all over again, with the same result.
He couldn't get any cleaning done because he could only sweep at the chain once or twice before the silly bird came back.
When morning came, so did the Chief Petty Officer, to check up on his wayward sailor.
"What on earth have you been doing all night? This chain is no cleaner than when you started! What have you to say for yourself, sailor?" barked the Chief.
"Honest, Chief," came the reply, "I tossed a tern all night and couldn't sweep a link!"
Now you’re talking. Thanks Nully.
You are going to fry them aren’t you?
Steam ‘em in beer.
Dang. Was the poor bs’trd- a snipe, a deck ap or an occifer?
Have you ever had HoJos Fried Clams? It’s not too difficult to whip up a bunch and those look like fresh ones. Fried clams are ambrosia.
LOL
Stop! yer breakin’ my heart!
LOL!
....every thread on Free Republic is a potential path for Moderator messages, attacks or controlling rays. Did you ever stop to think just how many threads you read? And do you have any idea where they really come from? Naturally, they discourage investigation of the strange and unusual, because it might lead to them. But they encourage people to joke about the Moderators. They also post supermarket tabloids, just to make sure that everybody thinks "Hitler's Brain Is Alive!" and "Bigfoot Seen In Hawaii" are just jokes. And they encourage the craziest pseudo-science "researcher" articles they can find, because this tends to discredit legitimate investigators into the unusual.
A popular belief is that the Moderators want power for its own sake. This is true of some of them. But other Moderators exist to support an ideology, to achieve a particular goal, or simply to oppose some other Moderators.
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You are writing about the Mods as if they were humans. They are a force far different from mere humans. Beautiful, awe-inspiring, at times frightening or comforting, mysterious, glowing with unimaginable and incomprehensible power, clothed in light—these are the Mods. People who have the good fortune to see them in real life usually fall to their knees or onto their faces, overcome and half-blinded by the magnificent power they emit.
You know not of what or of whom you speak. They are the Mods and they are above ordinary human considerations. You are not to worship them, for all worship belongs to God, but you should fear and honor them. If they turn their attention to you, be grateful for the opportunity to learn from them.
We can speak to them, but not move them with our inadequate human words. The only things that work to influence them are beer and bacon.
On your knees!
That’s a lot of chocolate! Followed by a lot of acne.
You left off the numbers. How do i know there are actually 50 items here without having to manually count the items? Numbers are very important in keeping order in the world.
Don’t let this happen again or i may have to put you in timeout.
Whatever y'all did with Doggone and Pardeck, y'all just need to undo. I could always trick them into making the last reply to undo my jinx. :-)
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