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Free Republic: glass ant farm for zealots
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| IVOR TOSSELL
Posted on 03/08/2007 11:40:55 PM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: Caipirabob
Don't go and get too excited n00b. We haven't exactly given you keys to the executive washroom yet.:)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
Free Republic kickin ass ping!
To: conservative in nyc
I'm a "denizen!" Who knew? :-)
Mark
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posted on
03/09/2007 2:43:22 AM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: conservative in nyc
>>"..It's a hateful place that, if the world was working as it should, would be relegated to the Internet's endless fringes, where conspiracy theorists and pyramid-power believers roam the wasteland."
Hey...my mother comes here every day
To: conservative in nyc
Wow! If `ol Ivor Tossell has gotten his panties in a knot over FR's "hatred" filled postings, it's a good thing that he didn't got to DU or HufPo: Those sites would give him "the vapors!"
Mark
105
posted on
03/09/2007 2:47:36 AM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: conservative in nyc
...is this really how we FReepers want to be perceived ...?I don't personally give a noodle how we're percieved by our opponents. It's not like they're going to start agreeing with us, or liking us, or even treating us fairly in their media outlets if we try to be nice to them.
See tagline.
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posted on
03/09/2007 2:49:16 AM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(Fornicate with those illegitimate rectums! May the Deity Condemn them to Hades! Manure!)
To: conservative in nyc
I'm only suggesting that we all think a little bit more before we hit post. Think about what? Please be specific.
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posted on
03/09/2007 2:52:00 AM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(Fornicate with those illegitimate rectums! May the Deity Condemn them to Hades! Manure!)
To: Luis Gonzalez
You owe me a new keyboard! (Rule #1: swallow before scrolling down)
108
posted on
03/09/2007 2:55:40 AM PST
by
ZChief
To: Oztrich Boy
"is this really how we FReepers want to be perceived ..."
Given the approximate 90,000 daily members and/or lurkers to FR and figure an average of 100 posts per subject article, it represents a mere approximate 1/90th of 1 percent. How one can draw conclusions from this sample needs to be a M.I.T. math graduate, not an English major.
109
posted on
03/09/2007 3:02:02 AM PST
by
moonman
To: Luis Gonzalez
"So it is that, day in and day out, Freepers attempt to outdo each other in posting the most pungent, juvenile reactions to stories." Neener neener.
110
posted on
03/09/2007 3:02:54 AM PST
by
SIDENET
(Now selling carbon offsets. Get some today!)
To: conservative in nyc
"...we need to remember that anything we post anywhere on the Internet can be read by anyone anywhere in the world..." Hey Osama, your days are numbered.....
111
posted on
03/09/2007 3:05:45 AM PST
by
Trteamer
( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
To: conservative in nyc
The bad guys, according to site founder Jim Robinson, are practitioners of "liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism," and "wacko environmentalism."It's hard to care about the opinion of someone who seems a little miffed that we call fascists, anarchists, totalitarians, and governments that enforce atheism "bad guys." If he's more offended by us than by those four, especially, well.... what's there to be said?
To: conservative in nyc
Compared to the Huffington Post, this place is a paragon of good manners.
113
posted on
03/09/2007 3:14:37 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(KNOWLEDGE FOREVER GOVERNS IGNORANCE)
To: conservative in nyc; Jim Robinson
"
But if Free Republic has a virtue, it's that, unlike other pressure groups, it's transparent: You can see the cogs turning, the anger mounting, the members joining the half-baked me-too condemnations that will surface on tomorrow's news agenda. It's like a glass ant farm for zealots. It's a little stomach-turning, but man, they're diligent little things. It's hard not to stare sometimes."
LMAO! Like a trainwreck - it's hard not to look...might not like the outcome - but it's reality....;-)
Jim - didya see this?!?
114
posted on
03/09/2007 3:17:23 AM PST
by
azhenfud
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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posted on
03/09/2007 3:28:14 AM PST
by
tiredoflaundry
(The greatest danger to our troops is the Congress of the United States.)
To: conservative in nyc
Only 73?
Must have been a slow day.
116
posted on
03/09/2007 3:28:21 AM PST
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: conservative in nyc
"Sometimes, we need to remember that anything we post anywhere on the Internet can be read by anyone anywhere in the world - even those in the MSM who want to tarnish this website's name."
I didn't know they could read. LOL. Amen.
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posted on
03/09/2007 3:33:09 AM PST
by
gakrak
("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
To: conservative in nyc
It's a hateful place that, if the world was working as it should, would be relegated to the Internet's endless fringes...
But the liberal anti-American web sites arent hateful? Why is it that only conservatives are deemed hateful?
But what's interesting about Free Republic is that, despite having attracted a crowd of the most paranoid, xenophobic and reactionary characters...
This isnt hateful?
118
posted on
03/09/2007 3:34:43 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: conservative in nyc
Hey, Ivor, you wanna to see hate? Try the Demoncrat Underground, or the Huffington-Puffington Post, or the Daily Kook.
119
posted on
03/09/2007 3:49:50 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
To: conservative in nyc
It's like a glass ant farm for zealots. Hey Ivor. Why don't you come up with an ORIGINAL metaphor? I've been talking about analyzing the Left via my DUmmie ANT FARM for years.
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posted on
03/09/2007 3:54:07 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
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