Posted on 07/08/2023 11:33:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
This is not DU!
Discuss the issues all you wish, BUT DO NOT MAKE IT PERSONAL!
Remember to use common courtesy when posting to FR. Leave off the insults and flames, name calling, etc.
We are conservatives. Be respectful to your debate adversary (fellow FReeper). For example, do not accuse them of being a "Putinista", "commrade", "murderer", "baby-killer", etc, just because he may have a difference of opinion whether or not the US government should be involved in a controversial foreign war where we were not attacked.
Likewise, things in the presidential primary are getting over-heated. We want to be sure we come out of this with a Republican president, house and senate. The only way we can accomplish that is to unify the Republican Party. We can't destroy our own candidates. Whoever it is will need to pull us ALL together. Keep the ultimate goal in sight - Freedom! We are not here to fight each other. We are here as allies to fight for God, family, country, and FREEDOM! As William Wallace said in Brave Heart, "Unite the clans!".
Your personal favorite may be Ron DeSantis, mine happens to be President Trump. But if DeSantis receives the nomination, I'll support him, as I hope most other FReepers will.
Incidentally, we are getting way too much profanity. This is NOT DU, this is NOT CNN - (in deep voice) this IS FR!
Finally, if someone says STOP, then STOP! If someone asks you to take them off your ping list, then take them off! If someone asks you to stop posting to them, the adult and polite thing to do is to accommodate them.
Thank you all very much, and God bless you.
Thanks, Jim. I appreciate it.
Thanks, Jim. I’ve been guilty as charged a few times. I’ll try to clean up my act.
It was an attractive feature in the beginning of Free Republic. I htink that Rush Limbaugh was a TROLL on Freerepublic and gathered some of his good ideas from things he read. It was always great to be in a FORUM where people could exchange ideas and not just shout epitaphs and dump their hate and run. Thanks Jim Robinson, YOU are an important piece in the marketplace of GOOD ideas. These days I have been reading AFTER THE THIRD REICH... and how culture can be totally crushed, loss of food supplies, no highways, no one to trust, and everyone taking for themselves anything of value. WE do NEED to stand together.
Everyone just be nice to one another. We are all different. We all have different backgrounds and viewpoints. And when things build up and you want to get something off your chest, count to 100. Walk away. Tell yourself just hold on until December for Festivus and the Airing of Grievances. Then calmly, without name calling, lay out just how wrong they are using plain logic. The rest of the year be a grownup.
Thank you!
Always remember we are on the same team.
I’m sorry this has happened. The names I’ve been called for supporting President Trump and the attacks on his supporters have been as ugly. That stated I truly hope this is all in the past now and we can agree to disagree and think for ourselves without the vitriol.
“Darn it! What did I miss?”
Try saying you’re against DeSantis or the Ukraine War and see what happens...
Amen.
Thank you!
Always remember we are on the same team.
Well maybe not so much..
But, while it’s fine to post both sides on any issue, including the Ukraine war, some of what appears on this site is obvious Russian propaganda.
Hear, hear!
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Here, here!
As it should be . . .
“ Actually, the stifling of free speech is why I don’t donate”
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Wow, I guess you’re proud of that.
Agree, we have to be better.
Thank you Jim and may God bless you too. I hope this thread accomplishes what you want for your forum. I am pretty much on the same page as you but I’m not American so I’m only an outside observer and only wish the best for the country and it’s citizens. Prayers for you in particular and everyone else here.
Thank you for the short, crisp, easy to understand dose of law and order.
Rules are rules, Jim.
I made a mistake of being abrasive but I repented and now you allow me here for which I’m grateful.
I’ve even contributed to most Freepathons since being here because I “saw the light”.
I realized how much work and effort you and the team put in to keep this going and that you do it because of Free Speech one of the most cherished and timeless aspects of the Constitution!
Everyone should be respectful in debate.
We need FR online and to thrive.
It's up to each Freeper to decide where they fall on the spectrum of insultees and wear their insult as a badge of honor or of shame.
It it walks, talks and swims like a duck, well you can figure it out.
Thanks Jim, now I feel better, but some FReepers deserve a boot in the butt from time to time, and I am not excluded from that crew.
Bono Fortuno.
Jim, thank you! At this time, my top 3 are Trump, Ron DeSantis and VR (far behind, as President Trump and Ron DeSantis is about 95%), however if the primary voters wanted Mike Pence, Nikki Haley or Chris Cristy, I’ll still support them, I want to get the USA on the right track.
We of the Undead Thread offer a hearty, “Hear, hear!” to this lively reminder.
Thanks for posting this, Jim. We’re starting to stoop to the level of the hateful intolerant leftists, and we need to stop.
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