Posted on 09/10/2005 11:46:13 AM PDT by pcottraux
Calling us Nazi's is what ticks me off the most. Don't they know that Hitler hated capitalism?
Don't they know that NAZI was a German acronym that stood for : National Socialist German Workers Party??
They have more in common with NAZIism than we ever would.
There are many young people who have joined this forum; people who know why they are here, but maybe cannot yet adequately describe in words the Conservative ideals.
Exactly. When I was in high school, I didn't care much about politics, but I knew what I believed in, I just wasn't sure what to call it. And to #35, it's difficult to think rationally when you're a DUer.
You're absolutely right.
The reason I think that they call us Nazis is because the "Nazi" is the quintessential image of a cartoonish bad guy. In other words, their view of a Nazi is someone with a scar and a uniform and a German accent, which is kind of how they envision us, since they think we're the bad guys now. Again, they don't know the real meaning of evil, and what the Nazis were REALLY about.
Did Hillary Clinton really say that? That's chilling.
I find it interesting to read and compare discussions here with what passes for a discussion at DU. I find it most telling that when facts emerge that contradict their anti-Bush take on the world the discussion is dropped. I don't know if moderators are pulling it altogether or if people just stop posting and it evaporates into cyberspace. For instance--the FEMA people who were blocking Red Cross and other relief from delivering goods to those people in the Superdome as early as Monday. When it emerged that this was a state FEMA agent acting at the behest of the governor, suddenly the disussion just went away like it had never existed. But when the media was touting it like it was federal FEMA doing the blocking the discussion was on fire.
I don't think FR is like that. I see discussions continue, such as the one about Michael Brown, regardless of what direction the events take.
Come on now...admit it.
Don't you enjoy watching them clenching their little fists in rage or delight in hearing them sobbing into their aprons?
You don't get any ya-yas from watching their adorable bargain-basement hystrionic foot-stamping?
Not even just a *little* bit?.....;)
Many others, as well as I, are relative newbies to the FR site, but what attracted us most was the quality of thought which characterize this site. If we routinely ban all dissenting opinion, then we need to form a junta to establish "approved right wing thought". I can't believe anyone wants that. After all, we can pass by the posts we find less valuable.
What establishes FR as a right-wing site, in my view, is that the left-wingers jump onto the wrong side of literally every issue, and their tunnel-visioned wrong-headedness, as well as their eagerness to throw anyone off the wagon to the wolves as long as the wolves promise not to hurt them, does a signal job of showing where each poster stands.
That's not to say that the disrupters shouldn't be taken down immediately; but we will lose quality, and thereby credibility, if we forbid any who argue the other side. Far better I think, to welcome their arguments, made with reason and logic only, since that filters out 99.93% of them, and then opening the arena floor to those who demolish their arguments.
That will keep FR as a training ground for those who are turning away from the left, but just don't have the arguments yet to refute their leftist friends. We have plenty of right-only/left-only blogs around, but only FR seems to be earning the reputation as the thinker's forum.
I sincerely hope I'm not wrong.
Nice post, but why the use of the terms "right-wing" in addition to "conservative?" In my moderately short tenure here I consider FR to be "conservative" but not necessarily "right-wing." Please explain.
Tagline...
There are people here who are right-of-center/libertarian, or not entirely conservative. I tend to think that the right is actually much more diverse than the left.
But I could be wrong.
I voted for Bush, but...
You mean like the little quotes that follow the person's screenname?
I haven't figured out how to do that yet.
With all due respect, I question this conclusion. Oh, this is not to say that no DUer ever shows up here to do what you describe. But I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of them -- with the percentage increasing as the age of the DUer goes down -- do these things:
-- 1) For the same reason we find ourselves almost involuntarily touching a sore tooth with our tongue;or,
-- 2) In the same spirit as a schoolboy, traveling in a moving bus, shouts obscenities at passerbys.
Well, I meant read MY tagline :-).
I think you can change it when you post...let me see...
Well, I meant read MY tagline, which has been:
Free Speech is a Right. Being Wrong is just...Wrong.
I think you can change it whenever you post a comment. Let me try...
I did read it. Nice tagline.
How'd you do that? I'm just dying for my own.
And now I'm back to normal.
This hurricane has brought out the loonies.
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