Posted on 06/21/2024 4:49:41 AM PDT by Libloather
Just wondering what would happen if FR ceased to exist. Talk about a lifestyle change. Inflation is roaring and taking a trip is much more costly. Groceries - fegedaboudit. Brandonomics is hitting everyone very hard. And that's even before buying that very first mandatory EV! Times are tough for everyone.
If not for Free Republic - Paid Bot Posters - Fake UMC Mom -
Maximoose -and all the rest of the fake Ukrainian Cheerleaders
would have no where else to post and get paid.
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Isn’t life grand? The world is ever changing and has been that
way since time began. Hell just look at the way this land called
North America/USA has changed since Columbus sailed in 1492.
What will the next 50+ years look like for inhabitants then?
FR has been INFILTRATRED WITH CHEAP DEMOCRAT TROLLS!!!
I’m fully prepared, and expect to one day be thrown into Biden’s gulag for the crime of writing something on FR.
On that note, I’m making another donation right now.
“ Too many freeloaders or snowflakes on here. Too many IF I hadn’t gotten a mean tweet post, I would donate. I get my widdle feelings hurt so I won’t donate. But yet they hang around and don’t leave. And keep posting. If JimRob shuts it down, will they be happy?”
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Lots of FREE RIDERS here who post INCESSANTLY but I see no visible evidence of them donating to support this wonderful forum. It will be America’s loss if it has to shut down.
btt...
I don't think the number was a fraud. But it seems this place today only has a fraction of the users that it had 20 years ago.
This place has always skewed towards Boomers (and older) with a few GenX'ers like myself. I don't think there's a whole lot of regular posters here who are under forty, if there are any at all.
And, well, the Boomers are leaving us. For every "Rest in Peace" thread there's probably a hundred old FReepers whose passings go unannounced. They simply stop posting here.
I was going to go look at the numbers only to discover that alexa.com, the great website-ranking tool is no longer active.
“Name calling is getting out of hand. Becoming impolite is now the default setting for millennials.”
This works both ways... This place was absolutely hostile and unwelcoming from the “good old boys” when I first joined here. It was extreme and irrational... And yes absolutely derogatory beyond reason. It was “We don’t want to hear from you newbie! Sit down and shut up until you have been here long enough to earn the right to even speak and have an opinion!” There was absolutely no mutual respect for new members, it was if the mutual goal was to drive them away just as soon as they got here.
And I am not a millennial, I am a boomer...
It begs the question why are we even here? Why do we even share Conservative values if we do not want to pass down the wisdom to newer generations and hand off the baton? Is it your plan that the good old boys should take it all with them when they die and to heck with the kids after we are gone? If there is to be a continuation of Constitutional Conservatism there has to be some mutual respect, understanding, and compromise or there will only be five good old boys left here.
This won’t help donations either will it?
“I’m fully prepared, and expect to one day be thrown into Biden’s gulag for the crime of writing something on FR.”
So do I, in fact right now that statement is extremely relevant in my life because they are. The problem is we are dealing with entities who have absolutely no scruples and who will not stop at coming after just you. Guilt by association is now a very real thing, they will also come after everyone around you and punish them for your actions. Our personal words and opinions are now also a liability for all our innocent loved ones, friends, other members of a forum, and even a domain as a whole.
It is no longer just about our own person... Folks are realizing this very real fact and self regulating accordingly for the protection of their innocent loved ones. They have not been afforded any other choice.
I agree too. I haven’t donated yet because I just don’t have the extra money. I would GLADLY pay to be here, but being retired with just SS every month and the ever increasing rent, utilities, and insurance payments every month, as well as what I pay for prescriptions, makes it impossible. The mind is willing, but the wallet is continually empty.
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” but being retired with just SS every month and the ever increasing rent, utilities, and insurance payments every month, as well as what I pay for prescriptions” describes me and probably a lot of people here.
Daggum it! You scared me!
“describes me and probably a lot of people here.”
Sure does... Same here. Especially health issues hitting folks hard right now.
Yes. The main thing is that the freedom to assemble is completely gone.
I’d be willing to pay a small annual membership fee.
I’d be willing to pay a small annual membership fee.
Not as good as the 50 years after WW II
I see no visible evidence of them donating
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That does not mean that they do not.
NO.
Almost 26 years, and still getting over the hills and valleys. It ain't broke; so don't try to fix it. Still the best, most easy to use format of all.
Fact...
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