I am thankful for FR allowing the reposting of articles myself.
I have been deployed, and have lived all over the world, and been using FR since 1997. I know a few others on FR in the same boat. There are those on FR who live around he world.
There are different groups of people who cycle FR news and responses throughout a 24 hour period.
Reasonably —
- There are 24 timezones, and FR members in all of them.
- Within a single time zone, there are normally people working at least 3 shifts, and recycling news/information is the best way to inform.
- Including myself (when CONUS), I know there are those on FR who have, or do work various shifts, swing shifts, and in my case the periodic “Panama Shift”. This makes it hard to catch often pertinent articles as they cycle off a page.
- There have rained roughly over 80,000 who register and use Free Republic, and many more who periodically browse.
- Like other sites, FR cycles enough news in a 2-4 hour period, earlier articles of interest are not visible, (or not easily “tippered”) on the current page.
- FR is a relatively small group of liberty loving/America loving patriots, and it would be arrogant and myopic (no it traits of a principled conservative), for me to believe everyone, on every schedule, in all time zones, and what they are able to see, revolves around me. (The idea everyone revolves around me is a leftist mindset)
- Sometimes the same article or news, is posted almost back to back, meaning those posting were working/setting up the post at the same time as others. In other words, not really intentional. In such instances - so what. Glad there are still conservative, America loving people, who desire to shed light and truth, and to push back against a hard left machine, which seeks to annihilate God, liberty, and America.
Apologize for all the mistakes.
This was sent on the fly, from my phone, which changes entire sentences at times.
And this with auto-correct off.
Very frustrating.
Excellent reminder of just how enormous FR really is.
I make the mistake of thinking that everyone is on EST. And when I lived in Denver I operated on the assumption that people were all on Mountain Time. :)