‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters [Jim's response at post 25]

The Federalist ^ | 05/12/2016 | Robert Tracinski

[nhwingut]

On the right, we’ve grown to pride ourselves on our greater openness to debate and ideas, on having no need to toe a Politically Correct line or crawl into a “safe space” like pampered college kids who just can’t handle hearing from anyone who disagrees with them.

For myself, I am so personally dedicated to this ideal that I even perform the great personal sacrifice of reading the comments field beneath my articles.

Yet somehow I wasn’t surprised to see Donald Trump supporters, those swaggering tough guys, turn one of their favorite Internet forums into a safe space where they no longer need to encounter criticism or opposition. Earlier today, Free Republic proprietor Jim Robinson announced that the discussion board would no longer tolerate opposition to Trump’s candidacy.

[Resettozero]

Remember, the graphic is hosted elsewhere (usually an imagehost such as IMGUR, etc.), not on the FR server, so there is no bandwidth cost to FR related to pictures and Gifs. Eventually the image host will retire it, but with the size of storage devices these days...

I apologize to you for misleading you. All along, I was being facetious, trying to get a rise, a response from the FReeper who posted the graphic; a FReeper I've not posted to in a couple of years, I think. He did respond.

Please forgive me for eliciting your most genuine response to my inane comment regarding the blaster firing away eternally and causing some damage to the machinery.

[Company Man]

Trump supports right to life with a few well known exceptions, a completely middle of the road position. He supported late term abortion SEVENTEEN FREAKING YEARS AGO

[sauropod]

Beat you by 6 months, n00b!

[xzins]

Preach it, Brother!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I mean it in the best possible way!

[higgmeister]

I don't get this guy! Trump should be an Objectivist Hero. Ayn Rand embraced the individualist that achieved for his own sake unanswerable to others.

Yet, Tracinski is bunghurt about the all in support from FR.

About

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I have been a writer, lecturer, and commentator for more than 20 years. I started out with a degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago and then worked for several years as a securities analyst for Morningstar. From 1996 to 2010, I was editor and publisher of The Intellectual Activist: An Objectivist Review, and in 2004 I started its online offshoot, TIA Daily—which has now become The Tracinski Letter.

Along the way, I have worked at the Ayn Rand Institute, been a columnist for Creators Syndicate, had op-eds published in dozens of newspapers, from the Chicago Tribune to the San Francisco Chronicle, and been featured on many radio and television shows, from Rush Limbaugh to “The O’Reilly Factor.”

More recently, I've worked as an editor at RealClearPolitics and as a Senior Writer for The Federalist.

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Objectivist my butt.

[JBW1949]

OK...

[JBW1949]

I just went and looked at the comments on this Federalist site...Who are these people going to vote for???
They sounded much like quasi DU supporters.....

[onyx]

Thank you very much, dearest Grampa Dave!
I like your categories!

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

But Not For Anybody else

[higgmeister]

Yes, they do seem to get wrapped around the axle quite a bit.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

If that does not fit Donald Trump to a fare-thee-well...

[JBW1949]

“Atlas Shrugged” is a great read...So is “Anthem”...

[867V309]

Yes, that was beyond tiresome.

Fer sure.

I must admit, though, I was amused when he asked if we'd apologize to him and his wife (!) after cruise won the nomination!
You can't make that stuff up!

[higgmeister]

Shouldn't be hard, 90% of the Class of 1998 has been zotted.

But you are still here, imagine that.

[Chode]

is that paul ryan?

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Please publish the ZOT List.

We can likely identify “Pouting, Bitter Robert.”

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Sort of proves the point of the article doesn't it?

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell

[Raycpa]

Free speech on liberal campuses?

[Albion Wilde]

Sneaky and nasty.

[Company Man]

One can always leave

It would be like leaving Drudge. Free Republic is the best news aggregator (or is that news aggrevator) for all kinds of news, especially breaking news.

[TheNext]

Jim,

Hillary Communist witch will be coming after you and others if she wins. She will drag you into her ‘fun’ camp and feed you a polonium-210 cocktail.

Communists are blood thirty murders surrounded by big fat lies.

Brave man you are Jim.