NOTICE: Please knock-off the abusive posts, name-calling, taunting, trolling, stalking, flame-baiting, insults, religious insults, flames, threats, ill-wishes, harassing & annoying posts, unwanted posts & FReepmail, etc, etc, etc

Jim Robinson

[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.

[Sequoyah101]

needed to be said

Thank you.

See what happens.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

Thank you
#MAGA

[clintonh8r]

AMEN!!

[DollyCali]

♥️💕😊💕♥️Love ya Nan!

[rlmorel]

I have been wondering about this as well.

There are times when I have engaged in discourse with someone who is so weirdly irrational and off-topic that I wonder if they are drunk, on drugs, or having a breakdown.

That there is an element of suspicion of each of those things in a number of posts we see is undeniable, but I have been seeing more of it lately, and that makes me wonder if it is coordinated posting by humans or AI Bots, and lately, I have been wondering even more about that.

I was on a thread the other day where the discourse became so weirdly disjointed and irrational that I thought it was either fully intentional psy-ops by entities from outside of FR or the result of malicious AI.

The Trump/DeSantis or Russia/Ukraine threads reek of this.

I often avoid going into them and posting in them now due to the "you're a Putinsta" if you think we shouldn't be there and you're a globohomo supporter" if you think we should, and in the threads about the Presidential raceas where it assumes the forms of "you think Trump is God" if you like him and you "you support the Deep State" if you support Desantis.

I dislike that I have to self-censor by going into them, and that is one thing. There are lots of things to talk about.

But the problem is, every thread, no matter how seemingly distant from the subjects of Trump/DeSantis or Russia/Ukraine, is intentionally turned into one, often by many of the same people.

And that is what makes me suspicious of malicious intent from extra-FR sources.

If that sounds like a conspiracy theory, we should keep in mind that many, if not most of our "conspiracy theories" attributed to us on "the Right" have turned out to be true.

All this said, I struggle to remain civil, and try to improve and not repeat it when I find I deviate from that path. So I promise to keep trying to improve and stay on the path of civility.

[Reily]

Well said!

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Thank you. Your words are much appreciated.

[freeandfreezing]

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

Would it be fair to add to your list the insults that get hurled at those of us who, regardless of our feelings about US involvement and funding, are opposed to the war against Ukraine?

The examples below are typical of how Freepers who are opposed to Ukraine refer to people who support Ukraine's right to defend itself:

"The problem for you globofascists is I that own weapons and know how to use them."

"neoclown", "dumb***", "Neocon", "reptilian", "globohomo", "Fake Jew", "Youkazoids", "fr gay marxists"

"He deserves no more sympathy than a dead Wagner PMC member does." Referring to a former US Marine who volunteered as a paramedic and was killed in a restaurant many miles from the front lines.

Thanks for your efforts to focus the discussion on Free Republic on the issues.

[Grampa Dave]

Jim thank you!

[Tench_Coxe]

Amen!

[dljordan]

Hear, hear.

[4integrity]

Thank you, Jim! It’s troubling when we’re fighting ‘each other’ vs those who are working to divide us and, imho, take down our great Country.

Hope you are doing well.

[rxh4n1]

Thank you. I’ve been insulted and personally attacked by both sides in the Ukraine threads. It gets nasty sometimes. Maybe a few strategic bans of leftist trolls, propagandists, and foreigners would cool things down.

[jjotto]

Proof is in action, not in words.

[Vaduz]

Check

[Enterprise]

Be civil ya varmits!

[null and void]

Almost?

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[Thunder90]

Can do, will do.

[null and void]

It’s short for Democratic Underground, one of the most vile websites on the planet. The leftists on that site are nothing but bullies and degenerates.

The nice ones are...

[windsorknot]

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.

Amen.