This Freeper Has Come Home. Twitter, Gab,goodbye.

Joan of Argghh! | 1/31/2021 | Joan Varga

[JoanVarga]

Wow, have I missed Free Republic! I've already punted Twitter... twice! Gab is shaping up, but sweet mercy! the crazies are going to tank it. I strolled over here on a whim and find myself in a comfortable space. Clear, clean, easy-going, drama-free.

Home. Sorry it took me so long to realize it.

-Joan of Argghh!

[JoanVarga]

I earned my battle scars in the early days of the year 2000. Flame wars were epic. I took some hard lumps and gave some of my own.

[SkyDancer]

Here's what's repellent to me regarding FB (I refuse to write out their name) and they're dead to me

Facebook has been accused of "enabling vicious Jewish hatred" after telling users an image depicting human remains on a shovel below the tag line "How to pick up Jewish chicks" did not breach its standards.

Just days after back flipping on its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, the social media giant is again under fire over its handling of posts reported as offensive.

In reply to complaints about the shovel image - which was widely shared, "liked" 21,000 times, and received more than 37,000 comments - Facebook said: "We reviewed the post you reported for displaying hate speech and found it doesn't violate our community standards."

Under its community standards policy, Facebook says it "removes hate speech" that attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin and religious affiliation.

"We allow humour, satire or social commentary related to these topics, and we believe that when people use their authentic identity, they are more responsible when they share this kind of commentary," the policy says.

The image was posted to a page attributed to a Queensland man late last month and shared 2280 times. It has now been removed but tens of thousands of comments, many of which are anti-Semitic, were still visible in the thread as late as Thursday.

A Facebook spokesman said the image was removed for breaching community standards and that the company was still investigating.

But 24 hours after being asked, the spokesman could still not say when the photo was taken down. Facebook could also not explain why only the photo was initially removed and not the entire thread - which is standard when a post is pulled.

This Jewish chick carries - walks with Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.

[JoanVarga]

Eh? Maybe you’re right, I am a bit jaded. There’s a lot to admire about Gab. I’m using their browser at the moment. But I no longer have the energy to wade through another platform full of some decidedly wild sh*t. I’m old, I guess. :)

[dayglored]

Welcome back to the sanity of a well-moderated forum. FR is my primary news site these days, in part because it's simple, fast, and doesn't scream at me the way the other social network sites do. I check out a few other news sites and aggregators (Register, SlashDot, Google News, etc.), but I always start here.

I have a FB account from a decade ago that I haven't touched in 5 years. No Twitter, Instagram, anything. They annoy and sicken me.

"Decidedly relaxed and frenzy-free." Exactly!

[JoanVarga]

That’s just it. I needed to kill Twitter in order to see FR again in its comfortable, well-ordered perfection.

[TalBlack]

days after back flipping on its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing....”

That pic appeared unedited on the front page of Long Island News day back when the bombing happened. People were grownups back then. It was a very poignant hard hitting shot.

[max americana]

“I first signed up August 1998.”

how come your JOIN history on FR says 2012?

[DeplorablePaul]

I came back with a new a screen name. I couldn’t remember the original.

Freepers are so suspicious.

[ifinnegan]

“how come your JOIN history on FR says 2012?”

That’s when I set up this account.

I stopped posting around 2005-6.

But I watched Obama get elected and then in 2012 I couldn’t take it anymore and signed up again before the election to try and defeat him.

[max americana]

no prob.

[rlmorel]

"...This Jewish chick carries - walks with Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson..."

As well you should, FRiend...as we all should.

One of the most powerful passages for many of us in Solzenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago" was this one:

"...How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt..."

It is why the Left, with it's ongoing and unblinking desire to disarm us all, fills us with such anger.

As for FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google, you might be interested in this short Bill Whittle video that I thought was remarkably good...so much so, that I fully expect to see this carried out by a conservative and ending up in a courtroom:

The Terms of Service

As he describes this episode on his website: A cautionary tale from The Great Enstupiding, and a potential way out of the tyrannical grip of Big Tech.

[SkyDancer]

My service weapon is an H&K VP40.

[SkyDancer]

I heard that she passed away a few years ago.

[teevolt]

I like Good Morning Brigade, European Beauty (Lots of Castle pics), and Nostalgia groups to get started.

[Larry Lucido]

[Larry Lucido]

You made me cry, you told me lies
But, I can’t stand to say goodbye
Mama, I’m coming home
I could be right, I could be wrong
It hurts so bad, it’s been so long
Mama, I’m coming home

OZZY OSBOURNE - “Mama, I’m Coming Home”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0siYUjV9UM

[SaraJohnson]

”Not on MeWe as it is owned by a Democrat, apparently.”
A Libertarian, actually.

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Same difference.