Posted on 12/14/2013 10:33:19 AM PST by The Bat Ladys Husband
First of all, let me say that I have been a lurker on FR since 2000. My wife (The Bat Lady) has been registered and a poster since the same time. I generally use FR as a news source and in years past as an info source for FR organized protests/demonstrations. I don’t generally comment on articles because I mostly agree and don’t need to preach to the choir. However one article fired me up and I finally register in August 2013.
That being said, I recently commented on an article regarding Steve Stockman running against John Cornyn. Knowing a lot about Texas politics I said Stockman was not a viable candidate. OMG! You would have thought I said I pissed on Reagan’s grave. I was called a troll, a Cornyn plant, a GOP-e (if my friends had heard that they would be laughing their asses off.) With all the name-calling I had to look to see if I was on FR or DU. Conservatives pride themselves on the quality of their debate versus liberal knee-jerk name-calling. I guess some here on FR can’t raise themselves above that level.
Sticks and Stones! But more disturbing to me is the rise what I like to call the FR-e. Those are the posters that think that because they have been on FR for a long time that they are some kind of royalty and that newcomer’ comments and insights have no validity if they do not parrot their particular perception. I was called a noob “prattling"
(prat·tle talk idly or childishly: to talk in a silly, idle, or childish way silly, idle, or childish talk)
Just because someone has recently discovered FR or recently joined after lurking they prattle? Oops, my bad, I guess they don’t prattle if they agree with the pompous long-term freeper. Maybe we could cut back on the fundraisers if we encouraged new members rather than drive them off or turned them off with vitriolic discourse and vicious name-calling
(vit·ri·ol·ic adjective - filled with the intention or desire to do evil.)
If you haven’t looked at the Home page (click Free republic at the top left of the browse page) I invite you to look again: Jim Robinson states: “Believing that the best defense is a strong offense, we (myself and those whom I'm trying to attract to FR) support...”
Jim is trying to attract people to FR. How does denigrating a new reader attract them to FR? Being a victim of a verbal knock-out game by a supercilious FR-e certainly does not encourage a "newbie" to participate or even hang around
(su·per·cil·i·ous adjective 1. behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.)
Certainly all long time members don’t fit this category but those who do know who you are (or maybe you don’t) and so do we.
ouch ! That’s gunna leave a mark.
Great post. I agree and have had the same experience.
You’re post 911.
Don’t count as a Johnny come lately.
lol
There’s a New Year right around the corner!
Stockman has done his work nation-wide, and will draw cash from conservatives in Blue states where there really is no chance for real men like Stockman.
Yes, Stockman is more than viable.
You are seeing the result of the GenX/Y/WhyMe/millennial and their lack of education and self discipline. They act this way at work as well and people wonder why this nation is doomed.
It truly infuriates me that people show up only during elections and then disappear, leaving all kinds of bitterness in their wake. This last presidential election took the cake!
2002 ?
Brother, please ....
You registered for a fight, not because you want to participate.
What are your credentials giving you the power to dictate to newbs? who the bloody he[[ are you? Are you the owner of FR?
Be careful of the grammar police, learn some manners and don't forget to take your meds!
Ahhh, I remember when it was nicer to each other here. But then I knew the Heart of Texas freepers and we met for several years every month. We followed the same threads and I just remember it being more polite.
Can’t say that I have thought of it that way, lately but I read this it feels different from the earlier.
:-)
Who is that dude with the bandage on top of his head?
I know exactly what he means. There’s a lot of interesting articles posted here, but much of the time it’s impossible to have a mature conversation. Most of the time, people here don’t bother to refute an idea. They simply post some snarky comment which they think makes them look clever. They do not expend the effort to show why they are right. As with many liberals, they simply trash those with whom they disagree. This hurts the site and makes the people posting this stuff look rude, lazy, and basically uninformed. This does not help the conservative cause. At times this has been so bad that I have wondered if these people aren’t liberals pretending to be conservatives and trying to make conservatives look bigoted and dumb.
“Besides, it’s not ‘pie hole’, it’s ‘muffin cavern’.”
I’d respond to that...but I’d get banned!
You remember something that never was. If anything, it used to be more rough-and-tumble than it is today.
/johnny
"Conservatives pride themselves on the quality of their debate versus liberal knee-jerk name-calling. I guess some here on FR can’t raise themselves above that level."
Yeah, I wish all these "pompous", "supercilious", "FR-e" types would cut it all the name-calling!!...
Actually you just did it. In parentheses after the Thread title.
BTW. You really married this Noob?
Yeah, I know. I'm ducking!
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