Posted on 03/21/2004 11:52:41 AM PST by Beck_isright
A few days ago, the esteeemed host and founder of this foremerly great website invited me to do the following:
"654. To: JohnGaltfla (#367)
Oh, it's much better to go out in a blaze of glory. Martyrdom, 72 virgins, plaque on the "Great Ones" wall of fame and all that rot.
jimrobfr posted on 2004-03-19 03:29:45 ET"
Obviously, he was concerned that some of his better non-bot posters had abandoned FR for greener fields where our financial and intellectual contributions would be appreciated. It was amusing to watch former FReepers belittle, banter and blast JimRob in various forms.
I was wrong.
FR has changed.
Deal with that fact boys and girls.
Many of us grew up in a more conservative era, where our nation and our freedoms were first and foremost. Now we learn that it that is not the case. Principles are for losers according to the Bots and most of the ignorant posters here on FR. To create noise and call those of us who have been loyal to the conservative cause such creative and wonderful names as "Soros lovers", "Mobyites", "communists"(now that's a good one for those of us who have been overseas staring at AK-47's), "DUers" and names which are forbidden for me to mention but ok for the Bushbots.
The noise has driven off many of the best posters from this site. Now FR has become the Fluff of the RNC, posting such creative threads as "Pray for President Bush - Day 1276", "The Economy (Freep this poll)", " FReeper After Actions", "After Action Freep A.N.S.W.E.R. AUSTIN TX 3/20/04", etc...
It sounds more to me like everyone is proud of responding but no one has the convictions excpet for what the RNC faxes them. This election should not be about "Republican" v. "Democrat" principles. Neither party has any principles. If you morons believe that, then you are bigger fools than I thought. This is about the future of America an the viability of capitalism in this nation.
Why "FReepers" can not see this and hold "their man" to the Hamiltonian principles of limited Federal government and enhancing our freedoms by reducing dependency on any government. By controlling immigration, restructuring the tax system to pre-1916 form, and by enhancing the defense of this nation by using actions instead of words when dealing with foreign powers (little things, like enforcing the acts against nations which do business with Cuba, as Bush promised in 2000). Unfortunately you mind numbed morons don't care. If you're 401K shows a fiat currency positive figure, you're all happy as a fly in a cow pasture.
Go for it.
As Senor Cartman would say:
"Screw you guys, I'm going home"
Quick answer, "It depends." Some posts express disagreement in thought-provoking terms; other posts express disagreement in emotion-provoking terms, and most posts are a mixture of the two.
FR has room to improve.
LOLOLOL!
Excellent point. Their numbers are highly over-represented on FR, as if the CP advocates were really Greenies. ;-)
I don't know how anyone can say it isn't and I would say Orin Hatch, Republican Senator from Utah, is leading the way. Check this out.
Link to Orin Hatch, the big spender thread
In-state tuition for illegals costing 90 million federal dollars. This man should be ashamed of himself.
I've seen it on both sides. The funny thing is, I've seen people who complain about it, using those very terms ("pack", "hyenas", blah blah blah) do the very same thing.
I never did get that. All the posts are available for everyone to see. If someone pings a few others to view something I've said, that's okay with me. I'm just not intimidated by it, I guess.
As for the abuse button, I don't know who's using it and I obviously have no way of knowing that - all I know is how I use it myself. I will go on record here to say that I don't believe anyone has ever been banned for anything they've ever said to me.(I certainly never asked for that.) Someone was once suspended for their treatment of me, but it was not at my request. In fact, I don't know that I've ever even hit abuse for something someone has said to me. I have used it mostly to report newbies that I strongly suspect are trolls; I have used it to report profanity, and pornographic photographs. A couple of times I have reported very cruel personal remarks that were made to others.
The idea that people (at least those I know, who are often accused of it) are willy-nilly requesting that others be banned is a myth and a figment of the imaginations of some, I think. Maybe that's going on, but I have never heard of anyone asking for such things.
I have never asked that a person be banned,publicly nor privately.OTOH, a handful of people ( fringers/LPers ) have publicly, on a recent thread,asked the Mods to ban me.What they have done in private,only they and the Mods and Jim knows.
BTW, hero...........come tell me to my face what a loser and "bot" I am. Wimp.
That has to be one of THE silliest posts EVER made to FR and I've read many.You really should at least try to refrain from assuming things and then posting those imaginings about people you obviously know nothing at all about.Elsewise,you just make a fool out of yourself. :-)
I have NEVER been in "awe" of any politician,nor " hero worshiped " one of them.Having grown up knowing many well known, prominent politicians personally,they're all just people to me.
And,dear,little children, like you, should now be in bed.;it's past your bedtime.
WOW...
If your reading this I am dead, and its YOUR fault! kidding....
Who peed in your oatmeal?
The split is new."
Problem is, many of us expect the trend to be reversed instead of accelerated with THIS President.
I'd like just ONE Freeper to explain to me why the GOP's policies of accelerating socialism and a obliterating U.S. sovereignty is acceptable?
I am stunned.
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