Posted on 05/12/2016 12:03:49 PM PDT by 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.
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I am so glad to see ETL go. That mental midget loved to spam every thread with endless links and articles that hardly ever followed the thread topic.
Nope. Thought so but it’s obviously a different name.
One is still here; one isn’t.
Crap. That sucks. He's someone I always loved to read, even when we didn't agree.
He can always return upon repentance.
His obsession with Trump-hatred has been quite pathological, and he simply couldn't stop himself from running around with the "Trump is a charlatan" bullcrap, as well as grossly distorting Trump's policy positions a la Ted Cruz (a.k.a. "lyin'").
When it gets to the point that someone's irrational hatred for Trump totally overwhelms their reasoning, and they can't even carry on an honest debate, instead sturating everything with blatant propaganda, that's just pushing things too far.
I expect we'll see nbf again, if he wants to come back, but, despite his erudition and eloquence, he is a major and incorrigible TDS™ sufferer. He called me an "ignoble coward" a few weeks ago, and language like that is over the line, I don't care where you're from.
I hope he repents, ultimately.
Vote Trump
Yikes! I left Alas Babylon! off of my post. Sorry mate.
None of that is what I was referring to, as should be plainly obvious. Don’t insult me, or the other person you insulted.
He’s still here along with IowaDavid. ETL had some good stuff; though I definitely disagreed about TC.
Last posts April. Unless they are on restricted posting.
I lived in Monterey for a year while I attended DLI for Rissian language training.
I absolutely loved it there. Though it was a little expensive to live.
That was a long time ago. As of now, after what he did with Neil Bush and working with the GOPe to stop Trump instead of work with him against the GOPe, I am not sure I trust him to be a vehicle to turn over the tables of the money changers, as you put it. He might be one of them.
Hmmm, that’s a pretty big mistake.
I’m sure you’ll be zotted soon for that! ;)
Rissian should be Russian.
Why does spellcheck change my correct words into something totally different, while not ever correcting my spelling mistakes? Grrrrr!
Trump certainly can't match Cruz's constitutional chops, and Ted hasn't near the Don's people skills. If you could synthesize the pair, you'd basically have Reagan II. The people spoke and Trump prevailed. I imagine he'll have a better chance with a celebrity-tinged populism than Cruz would with a bookish discourse on principles of the Scottish Enlightenment. That's just a situational fact in a world with about 7,000 cable channels.
I'm anticipating there will be an endless fountain of yuks should President Trump occur, as libtard heads figuratively explode across the globe in collective conniption fits. I certainly wouldn't mind a few literals sprinkled in...
along with others, I was confused by the name. nathanfedford was zotted, not nathanbedford.
I don’t recall ever actually seeing nathanfedford post anything.
cool! I need to mark that.
it is nice, but you have to be careful on pages with a lot comments (like 2000+). Because of the way the script executes, it puts a fair bit of load on FR’s servers. I’ve successfully run it on some pretty massive threads, but I try to avoid that because it is pretty hard on Jim’s hardware.
I think we’ve established that the 90% claim was “Hillaryesque”
Some people are not "NeverTrump", but they basically try to see how close they can get.
Like constantly harping that Donald Trump is a charlatan, which I believe is effectively rebutted by any objective review of the historical facts of his life, in addition to what he's had to withstand in the way of character assassination this entire cycle.
In addition to that, many Cruz supporters mimic "Lyin'" Ted Cruz himself in distorting Trump's policy positions.
It takes a lot of energy to have to repeatedly point out the use of such propaganda technique on the part of the Trump-haters.
For instance, Ted Cruz was running around saying how Trump wants to "extend 0bamacare", which is totally false; and then suddenly Trump's being accused of "wanting a federal minimum wage increase" even though that's not what he said.
At some point, when you systematically "oversimplify" someone's positions or statements, to the point where it becomes a blatant misrepresentation, it becomes what's known as a lie.
Vote Trump!
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