Posted on 11/05/2020 9:56:44 PM PST by PROCON
I'm one of JimRob's admin mods on his Free Republic on Facebook (Free Republic Official) facebook page. We're 14,000 strong and growing everyday!
Tuesday, election day, most of the threads posted there dealt with the election results and the obvious voter fraud that was happening in the blue states, just like those threads posted here on the FR motherboard.
Well, yesterday and today, FB has cracked down on us, (and other conservative FB forums), even further and isn't allowing any members to openly post their threads without FR moderator approval.
It puts an extra burden on the mods here because none of us are here 24/7 and this is a high-volume forum, members usually post throughout the day and night.
It's just more Hi-Tech censorship bullsheesh that we conservatives have to put up with.
When FR would crash a lot we’d go to the old Yahoo bulletin board. Yahoo basically archived their system. So the ‘backup’ site was set up on FR.
See my last paragraph:
The US, pre-civil war, differed from today, in that opposing mindsets occupied geographical locations more well defined than now.
North versus South.
(It wasn’t nearly this organized to begin with, new states and territories, were internally divided and uncertain which side to take, and after Virginia seceeded from the Union, joining the confederacy, a block of northern sympathisers in NW Virginia turned around and seceeded from Virginia, forming West Virginia and siding with the north.)
Further, the primary condition leading to open conflict was Abraham Lincoln’s federal government, in command of the US army, opposed secession, while the confederacy established a new government, with power to raise an army, first thing.
You had coherence and organization in two opposing sides, at the geographic, governmental, and military levels.
That is not the case now.
The political maps today seem mostly organized into... cities, versus all else. Perhaps less so in heavily blue regimes, but generally, urban versus rural.
Here is the lay of the land as of 2016:
It was well known before the civil war that the south had little industrial capability, no cannon factories, and no navy to speak of.
Today, the major differences in the ability to project force seem to be that cities have internal lines of communication, while rural areas lines of communication are interrupted by cities.
One side has seeming larger access to the coastal areas, implying better global lines of communication and supply, but with the US being the world’s breadbasket, this is not a universal advantage.
Rural areas have ALL the food, a lot of the manufacturing, and complete control over the distribution of electrical power, and all land line based electronic communications.
Militarily, outside of implied advantages already mentioned, rural areas have physical possession of all the nukes, but not necessarily the command and cobtrol to employ them, and manpower, while numerically about equal, is generally much tougher and hardier invrural areas than in urban areas.
Politically, blue probably gets along better with the rest of the world, while traditionaly, the militsry and law enforcement lean red.
Generalizations... all the above, subject to rational local argument, the deeper you look.
Critical addition: One side holds the servers, the other holds the transmission lines. This most likely will proceed WITHOUT the internet, unless you have satellite, and even then, major US sections are at risk.
I see there is a FR on MeWe as well, so maybe Facebook can stuff their censorship.
It’s a commie-pinko-bedwetter site, anyway.
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I had five FB posts covering the goings on with questionable ballots & ballot counting in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of it represented details that were not facts that could be discovered. FB flagged them, saying in the notification to me that the information is “questionable”, according to their “fact checkers” and therefor could be inciting false conspiracy theories about the election process.
They said their “fact checking” was being done by the folks at “USA Today”. So I guess if “USA Today” did not cover a story then it must bot be true, according to FB.
“I need to get a HAM license, while we still can :/”
I had guests over recently who asked about my Ham radio antennas, they said they almost went for their licenses a while back but said “why with the internet”. The light bulb went on when I asked them what happens when the internet goes down.
I heard and don’t know if correct, if you make a fb post public rather than just to friends, it is harder for them to ban or shadow ban. Not sure if that’s true or not.
Ok, what other social platforms is everyone on?
I am on MeWe, Parler, USALife, and maybe something else. These sites are fairly useless so far. Just 3 or 4 others I know from FB.
I know we don’t want to reveal our identities here but we have to regroup elsewhere.
Suggestions on how to do this en masse?
Wow. Just another example of how SM is squashing voices.
You mean about the govt (FCC) tracking you down?
Not sure about that one.. but there are THOUSANDS of people they would have to track down..
[I’m scratching my head here and wondering: Why does FR even have a Facebook page?]
No friends with reloaders?
"The light bulb went on when I asked them what happens when the internet goes down."
If a viable social media outlet is desired by conservative folks who don't appreciate being censored, then a mass migration to another social media website needs to be done.
that is no longer an issue, with phones, computers and tracking.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Solzhenitsyn
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