I use FR as my jumping off point for the Internet, where I go to find out what is going on in the world.
I don’t watch television, haven’’t since about 1997. Don’t read papers. Don’t read rags like Time. Don’t listen to radio.
I come to FR every day, and investigate things from here. Normally, I would have worried about ideological tunnel vision, but it is pretty clear the way things are laid out, I am not missing anything.
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Me too, but I also came here for conversation. Living in Leftist land makes one hungry for sanity!
Ain’t that the truth!
None of my postings are ever going to change the world or be thought provoking. Sometimes it’s just nice to have a link to sanity besides immediate family.
Yeah. I live up here in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. Great place, but the politics suck.
Came on Free Republic around 2004 (had never done any kind of online thing like FR) and shortly after I joined, got into a discussion with kristinn. He was talking about the Walter Reed Freeps, and invited me to come down. I had no idea who he was, but...I liked the fact they were counter protesting, so I came down one Friday night and I was hooked.
Went back many times after that. What great people, I so enjoyed meeting them and getting to know them personally.