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‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters [Jim's response at post 25]
The Federalist ^ | 05/12/2016 | Robert Tracinski

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Free Republic; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: miss marmelstein
I guess it’s been ixnay on the ussypay since the Taiwan mail order bride decamped but no reason to get nasty.

Classy!

Actually I just troll the theater district for whatever sluts may fall out of the alley door.

Because they're like that.

Uppity and snotty during the day, a batch of drunken hoes at night.

But you knew that.

581 posted on 05/14/2016 12:51:47 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

If you want to play whack-a-mole with me, prepare to be whacked, pigface. I don’t run and hide from trolls.


582 posted on 05/14/2016 1:05:19 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: miss marmelstein

I’m sure you have had ample decades to develop whacking skills.


583 posted on 05/14/2016 1:08:30 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Albion Wilde

Thank you!
That one won’t be missed.


584 posted on 05/14/2016 1:16:19 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE)
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To: zeestephen; Syncro; Albion Wilde
To: Syncro

Thanks for the link.

Now, you and Albion Wilde can click back through the last 16 years - one page at a time - and check if fundraisers in previous presidential election years finished up in two weeks, as I claimed.

558 posted on 05/14/2016 2:01:47 AM PDT by zeestephen










NOT during Romney's run in 2012! Those FReepathon's went on for OVER a month! MAYBE 6 weeks or longer.

585 posted on 05/14/2016 1:29:20 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE)
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To: onyx

Thanks onyx.

Concern Trolls are a pain.

Their job is to distract from the issues.


586 posted on 05/14/2016 2:22:58 PM PDT by Syncro (Benghazi-LIES/Coverup Treason ARREST the traitors! Hillary-Obama-Rice-Holder-Learner-Lynch et al)
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To: zeestephen; Syncro
Now, you and Albion Wilde can click back through the last 16 years - one page at a time - and check if fundraisers in previous presidential election years finished up in two weeks, as I claimed.

Why would I do that? I don't have OCD. You are the one apparently desperately concerned with being right about it; so like I said, do it yourself.

Better yet, since you're not happy with the speed of the freepathon, just make a donation and ping your friends to make a donation, and then you will have done something constructive about your concern.

587 posted on 05/14/2016 2:48:48 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Albion Wilde; zeestephen; Syncro
"Better yet, since you're not happy with the speed of the freepathon, just make a donation and ping your friends to make a donation, and then you will have done something constructive about your concern."

What concerns me is that you are missing the point.

His concern is obviously not to address the problem, but to have you reach a level of concern for the problem that surpasses his own concern.

Until you have dutifully concerned yourself in this manner, it will be a cause of great concern for us all.

Well, maybe not all, but a lot.

OK. Maybe not a lot, but at least a concerned few.

(I'm not one of them. I'm just concerned that you fully understand.)

OK - so maybe nobody.

588 posted on 05/14/2016 3:36:31 PM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: shibumi
Oh you philosophers are a strange lot.

YOUR concern concerns me, concernably.

Apparently we are dealing with an attention whore who needs validation. Good point

I'm going to eat some troll house cookies.


They are glutton free

589 posted on 05/14/2016 4:50:21 PM PDT by Syncro (Benghazi-LIES/Coverup Treason ARREST the traitors! Hillary-Obama-Rice-Holder-Learner-Lynch et al)
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To: Syncro
What good is a snack without a song?
590 posted on 05/14/2016 5:12:35 PM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: Night Hides Not

I have been here since January 1998. I discovered FR the day the Lewinsky scandal broke on Drudge. I found FR because I was researching details on how Bill Clinton declared a huge part of Utah a “national monument,” whatever the hell that means.

FR inspired me to get involved in politics as a conservative activist. That is how I got to know the GOPe on the inside. That is why I have supported Trump for months. Thank you, Jim Robinson, for making this possible.


591 posted on 05/15/2016 2:49:58 AM PDT by Ziva (http://Zionists4Trump.com shows how good Trump will be for America and Israel!)
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To: miss marmelstein

I feel like Rhett Butler these days.


592 posted on 05/15/2016 5:17:38 AM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: Resettozero

I am a ‘98 guy.

I haven’t been zotted. Yet.


593 posted on 05/15/2016 5:25:33 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who dies)
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To: Night Hides Not

——90% of the Class of 1998 has been zotted——

I would argue they just got bored with the claptrap now present and just quit coming. I see many of the old folks, male and female, pop up once and a while. I’ve checked on others and they still have active accounts but their last posts are spotty.

For many, those with rational minds, the forum is just not worth the effort.


594 posted on 05/15/2016 5:33:02 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Kommodor; Celerity
Aliens already tried nuclear disarmament in 1987 in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. The problem, as we saw, occurs when a mad scientist uses the destruction of the nukes as a vehicle to create a nuclear-powered super-villain who then proceeds to wreak havoc on the Statue of Liberty, Great Wall of China and other key landmarks.


595 posted on 05/15/2016 5:35:15 AM PDT by JediJones (Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.)
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To: JediJones
We did find out recently that the Aliens would need massive amounts of Coke to get Hillary to "open up"
596 posted on 05/15/2016 11:52:17 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: bert
For many, those with rational minds, the forum is just not worth the effort.

Yet here we are, you and I.
597 posted on 05/15/2016 1:17:29 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: exit82

...and me too.


598 posted on 05/15/2016 3:42:29 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: EarlyBird

What does it mean to be “zotted”?


599 posted on 05/23/2016 8:39:42 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

I believe it means having your posting privileges revoked on this site.

I guess you lose your ability to log in and all that goes with that.

Of course, you can still lurk.

You been around as long as me. Is that your understanding also?


600 posted on 05/23/2016 9:05:22 PM PDT by EarlyBird (This space for rent)
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