So FR has a direct effect on the federal government there? That’s a stretch.
Not just Freerepublic.
Conservative forums all over America.
We had morons on Fox News calling for America to invade Australia to ‘save us’ because they spread the same propanda.
We had Joe Rogan just this past week spreading a lie that Australians had been banned from growing our own food...
When you are dealing with a massive propaganda machine that is spreading lies about your country across the entire world as well as in your own country, it becomes incredibly difficult to counter those lies.
Freerepublic has been used as part of that. How big a part - debatable. But as somebody who has been here nearly twenty years, this was one of the places I tried to set right, where I tried to get the truth out.
And I know just how hard that was. So for me, it’s a real illustration of the problem.