> I assume he got sick of the abuse. <
You might be right. Too often if you go against what’s popular at the moment here on FR, you’re not just wrong. You’re denounced as an idiot, a troll, etc.
That’s actually a Saul Alinsky tactic.
I’ve forgotten the name he used here, but
until about a year and a half ago, there used to be this Freeper from Australia, who’s hobby obsession was the lives of glamourous, long dead female stars of Hollywoods golden era. His online name began with an ‘O’.
His post would be either a study of those women and their careers, or local news about political activism now happening in Australia. He would often have posters leave little digs and insults in the Keywords: Go Away! Learn to Post! Who Cares?? Creepy!!. I thought he was an interesting fellow who was brave enough to literally get involved in defending his side of the political argument. I tend to play it more safely. Maybe he quit or is on hiatus.
That's true, but gasdr wasn't just "going against what's popular at the moment."
He was a full-blown COVID vaccine shill who may have been violating his own profession's code of ethics if he really was a medical doctor.
This disagreement wasn’t about whether it’s a faux pas to wear white after Labor Day. It was about whether or not ppl trusted the govt enough to inject an unauthorized experimental vaccine into our bodies after only 9 months of testing vs the usual 9 yrs, especially when BigPharma & the CDC had no liability for the shot. To vilify freepers, who were exercising their right to informed consent & were vaccine hesitant as a result, did nothing to assuage our fears & was just plain wrong.
You might be right. Too often if you go against what’s popular at the moment here on FR, you’re not just wrong. You’re denounced as an idiot, a troll, etc.
That’s actually a Saul Alinsky tactic.
The alinsky tactic is used to shut down opposition who are right. They cant stand opposition. What happens on fr though is pointing out when someone is wrong like gasdoc was- that isnt alinsky tactic. There is a difference. Yeah he got abuse, however, he gave it too, and insisted on keeping with the “safe and effective” lie. People pointing that out shoukdnt be aligned with alinsky types because alinsky types shut down the truth, fr shuts doen the lies.
Agreed.
And based on their posts, a good number of posters could care less about gas_dr.
And don’t even have the courtesy to ping him, which can be taken by some as a sign of cowardice.
It has worsened.
Also...
Where’s Red Badger? He hasn’t been seen since early January.
“The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.” — Ronald Reagan
You got that right! Post words to the effect that neither the blood of American Servicemen/women nor American tax payer’s dollars should be used in Ukraine and Zeepers will be on you like ugly on an ape. Calling you their family names. Putin Puffer is among the nicer ones.