Free Republic Resolution for a Happy New Year
Use the Grey rocking on FR.
The grey rock method: a tactic to deal with conflict and abuse, manipulative behavior to support invasion of Ukraine and stand against Freedom for Ukraine.
The idea is abusive people, especially those with NPD, enjoy getting reactions from their victims.
THEREFORE, by Grey rocking just skimming over their “foolishness” of their comments refuses to reward their behavior!
Emotional abuse from these individuals include a range of tactics to either deliberately harm or exploit a person to benefit themselves.
NOTE: some examples used on thread:
• intentionally humiliating a person
• calling them names
• deliberately attempting to make a person feel worthless or unsafe [I know where you live]
• attempting to control the opinion or POV of another Freeper
Practical application for the Gray Rock method on Free Republic: we all can recognize the insulting, name-calling Freepers using “Garbage truck behavior.”
“The Law of the Garbage Truck Poem”
by Restless Warrior:
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.
We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.
Don’t take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.
Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,
so … Love the people who treat you right.
Pray for the ones who don’t
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
Have a garbage-free day!
– Restless Warrior-
“Don’t take it personally.”
I don’t. Some of the people doing these things are actual Russians and it’s their job. You can test them by asking them to say something nice about America.
Keep in mind this is Free Republic. That shouldn’t be a big challenge around here.
But for some it is.
Granted, a few genuinely hate America and that makes you wonder why they’re here.
And then there’s those that always vomit on America, they hate our allies, and they always speak of Russia and Putin in the most glowing terms. If you watch Russian media you’ll see these people parrot Russian talking points just hours after you hear them on Russian media.
After some time of seeing this pattern over and over it’s clear this is no coincidence.
And, of course, they’ll be along shortly to call me delusional, insane, disturbed, paranoid or some other extremely popular Russian form of insult.
They can’t help it. It’s their job.