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Captain_Maclaine posted:In addition to not liking the female protagonist, I suspect there's a bit of their "China = commies! = They probably aren't fond of the songs either those assholes.
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quiggy stardust posted:I love that Freep is constantly complaining that Obama is a terrorist sympathizer and whatnot and then when the justice department announces they're seeking the death penalty for a terrorist they suddenly reverse position. You can't have it both ways, guys! Won't stop them from trying. Doublethink is a hell of a drug.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Won't stop them from trying. Doublethink is a hell of a drug. You'd almost think they have something personal against Obama 
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Jan 30, 2014 21:18
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Is someone Poop-touching? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3117501/posts
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Jan 30, 2014 21:24
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Freeper posted:China doesn’t want to finance our out-of-control borrowing anymore. Yes, they do, you loving twits. Or more precisely, they structurally have shitloads of dollars lying around and want them to make risk-free money.
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First lady says girls aren’t interested when President gets his ‘butt kicked’quote:To: Sub-Driver quote:To: BCW quote:To: Sub-Driver quote:To: Sub-Driver quote:To: Sub-Driver quote:To: Sub-Driver quote:To: Sub-Driver quote:To: Sub-Driver
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Jan 30, 2014 22:02
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quote:To: Sub-Driver Too easy.
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Jan 30, 2014 22:13
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Plinkey posted:Is someone Poop-touching? "Go goons!" - A freeper 
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Jan 30, 2014 22:19
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Plinkey posted:Is someone Poop-touching? Dude is a 1999, and there's a '98 and an '04 in there who seem like they at least understand what he's talking about. If it's poop-touching, that's some deeeeeeeeeeep cover (or possibly evidence of security holes in the 90s vintage BBS software they run the site on).
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Jan 30, 2014 22:54
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Radish posted:I thought While Foods was owned by a libertarian that was just cashing in on a market. He's batshit insane but there's still this: November 2006: The company's salary cap was raised from 14 times the average pay of a full-time worker to 19 times the average pay. This is up from the original eight-times cap that was set in the late 80’s.[50] Additionally, the company announced that CEO John Mackey will receive a salary of one dollar (started January 1, 2007), and will forgo any future stock option awards.[50] He also hates unions like a massive douche but the employees at least get healthcare.
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Jan 30, 2014 23:25
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DemeaninDemon posted:Too easy. Besides that, the first rebuttal that came to mind was that one of Palin's daughters was knocked up by her boyfriend during her teens. God, imagine the sheer vitriol that would have rolled forth if that had been one of Obama's daughters.
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So looking at exports to China, apparently the US ships a lot of soybeans, corn, and vehicles. Concerning the debt though, I think the weirdest thing is that we're buying their stuff for the money the Fed prints. So all in all, people are working for free.
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cafel posted:Besides that, the first rebuttal that came to mind was that one of Palin's daughters was knocked up by her boyfriend during her teens. God, imagine the sheer vitriol that would have rolled forth if that had been one of Obama's daughters. Oh Bristol was the first thing that popped into my mind. Followed shortly by the racism of course.
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Jan 30, 2014 23:41
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quiggy stardust posted:I love that Freep is constantly complaining that Obama is a terrorist sympathizer and whatnot and then when the justice department announces they're seeking the death penalty for a terrorist they suddenly reverse position. You can't have it both ways, guys! It was just like Rudy "we had no domestic attacks under Bush" Giuliani pre-2008 when he loved that 9/11 and 1993 WTC conspirators were tried in courts as war criminals because hur-dur American justice but then reversed a few years later when Obama wanted do the same and suddenly bringing terrorists into NYC was a security threat.
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amuayse posted:So looking at exports to China, apparently the US ships a lot of soybeans, corn, and vehicles. Concerning the debt though, I think the weirdest thing is that we're buying their stuff for the money the Fed prints. So all in all, people are working for free. No they're not, U.S. dollars have value because people buy things with them. It doesn't matter whether a particular dollar is freshly minted or pulled out of a fifty year old treasure chest. Are any freepers aware of this thread? I know that the political cartoons thread has had some brushes with cartoonists in the past.
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Ah, I was wondering about that. I keep forgetting that 1 dollar in a less developed country isn't the same as 1 dollar in a 1st world one.
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:Are any freepers aware of this thread? I know that the political cartoons thread has had some brushes with cartoonists in the past. They've become aware of us every once in a while, though it has been a very long time since I've seen anything from them acknowledging us. Back in a very early incarnation of this thread I seem to recall a couple of goons had sleeper accounts on freep (TapTheForwardAssist, I think, was one of them), back before the 2008 purges began. When some of them got outed, there followed a short period where any time a freeper called too openly for ethnic cleansing the other true believers would write them off as one of us stinking commie infiltrators just trying to make True ConservativesTM look bad. Predictably enough, they also thought themselves great wits for pointing out the name of our forums was "really Something Awful!" 
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Plinkey posted:Is someone Poop-touching? I bet it's ghoulish Benghazi fetishizing that crosses our thread because of Vilerat unbeknownst to the freep poster. Edit: Didn't see the original freep poster later posted an article that had a section about him modding D&D so they definitely knew that Elim Garak fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Swan Oat posted:Death penalty sought for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev It's always confusing, that first day or so before the talking points have been issued and freepers know how they're supposed to think. The posts can seem a little random during that time.
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The only way freepers will be satisfied with Tsarnaev's trial is if they were personally called up to run over him with their rascals. Seriously though I love their moaning about how Obama is going to just pardon him because it's not going to loving happen. How crazy do you have to be to think that is a likely outcome? The dude is ultra hosed for the rest of his life, however long that may be.
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kik2dagroin posted:Seriously though I love their moaning about how Obama is going to just pardon him because it's not going to loving happen. How crazy do you have to be to think that is a likely outcome?
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Plinkey posted:Is someone Poop-touching? I don't understand a thing about that article or the thread.
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Smeep posted:I don't understand a thing about that article or the thread. Goon spaceships. Also, Benghazi.
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Smeep posted:I don't understand a thing about that article or the thread. .....It seems that some of them play video games, so when a video game article popped up they just threw in some little shout-outs for games they like, since they'd never really get another chance to talk about their hobbies on the site? I know they have a Steam group with a few people in it. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FreeRepublicGamers Oh and the group admin is a brony. Wonderful. This reminds me of the times when the freerepublic.txt twitter quotes them talking about anime, and I think once or twice it appeared somebody was defending the medium. I haven't ever seen one of those articles posted here though. I'll go search for that now. Liquid Dinosaur fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Smeep posted:I don't understand a thing about that article or the thread. Basically the space-spreadsheet simulator that is Eve saw a cataclysmic battle on monday that destroyed over $300,000 of pixel spaceships, which news feeds like to pick up on and point to. It happened to be done by the eve goons which VR was a big part of. The curious part is why a freeper would be trumpeting him if that freeper wasn't also a goon (touching the poop). The regdates make it all really weird though. The rest of the thread is "I use to play X game" with a variety of 90s-era titles mentioned.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:
Well, former freeper and old thread favorite B-chan was (is?) a VA with some anime credits to his name, along with being a fan, from what I recall. Presumably Funimation titles since he was was around the Dallas area, IIRC.
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I'm still trying to figure out the conservative brony thing. I'm gonna guess it's one of those quasi-libertarian things where the conservatism is mostly about economics and race and gender. Basically anti-equality and making sure nobody ever catches up to middle-class white men? Am I close?
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Elephant Ambush posted:I'm still trying to figure out the conservative brony thing. I'm gonna guess it's one of those quasi-libertarian things where the conservatism is mostly about economics and race and gender. Basically anti-equality and making sure nobody ever catches up to middle-class white men? Am I close? I think part of it might be just being raised by republican dads, and possibly trying to distance themselves from the gays, since bronies generally hate being thought of as 'girly'. That's my guess anyway.
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Troglyfe posted:I think part of it might be just being raised by republican dads, and possibly trying to distance themselves from the gays, since bronies generally hate being thought of as 'girly'. That's my guess anyway. I thought part of the brony thing was bucking gender roles. I'm guessing if there's compartmentalized thinking involved then they probably think it's OK for them to watch a show for little girls and wear pastel colors, but women in computer science?! No Ma'am! Or maybe it's just the weird obsessive perversion for cartoon pony rear end, I dunno.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I thought part of the brony thing was bucking gender roles. I'm guessing if there's compartmentalized thinking involved then they probably think it's OK for them to watch a show for little girls and wear pastel colors, but women in computer science?! No Ma'am! I always think of it as a cover for a personal sense of inadequate masculinity. Bronies started as a joke on 4chan, but evolved into a kind of roleplaying, where guys who felt less than absolutely manly try to prove how much they don't care about that by consuming media targeted at the logical opposite of a grown man: a little girl. However, these people aren't actually secure in their masculinity at all, its all a performance for the sake of others, so instead of actually bucking gender trends, they instead try to justify why ponies are actually ther manliest thing of all, and totally not associated with the hated gays (who are, after all, the greatest threat to orthodox masculinity in the west there is).
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Little Blackfly posted:I always think of it as a cover for a personal sense of inadequate masculinity. Bronies started as a joke on 4chan, but evolved into a kind of roleplaying, where guys who felt less than absolutely manly try to prove how much they don't care about that by consuming media targeted at the logical opposite of a grown man: a little girl. However, these people aren't actually secure in their masculinity at all, its all a performance for the sake of others, so instead of actually bucking gender trends, they instead try to justify why ponies are actually ther manliest thing of all, and totally not associated with the hated gays (who are, after all, the greatest threat to orthodox masculinity in the west there is). This is an interesting perspective on the phenomenon and thank you for posting it.  Sorry to everyone else for the brony derail. I'll shut up now.
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Little Blackfly posted:I always think of it as a cover for a personal sense of inadequate masculinity. Bronies started as a joke on 4chan, but evolved into a kind of roleplaying, where guys who felt less than absolutely manly try to prove how much they don't care about that by consuming media targeted at the logical opposite of a grown man: a little girl. However, these people aren't actually secure in their masculinity at all, its all a performance for the sake of others, so instead of actually bucking gender trends, they instead try to justify why ponies are actually ther manliest thing of all, and totally not associated with the hated gays (who are, after all, the greatest threat to orthodox masculinity in the west there is). In short: I don't care if I'm cool! ... And that's what makes me cool, right?
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Smeep posted:I don't understand a thing about that article or the thread. It's from Mail Online. To understand it requires you to suffer from a severe mental deficiency.
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ReidRansom posted:Dude is a 1999, and there's a '98 and an '04 in there who seem like they at least understand what he's talking about. If it's poop-touching, that's some deeeeeeeeeeep cover (or possibly evidence of security holes in the 90s vintage BBS software they run the site on). Far, FAR more likely is that it is one of our terrible allies. It's called the Clusterfuck Coalition for a reason. Allies know about Vilerat because he was a big deal, and can use that to  Benghazi  their way to Freep fame. Or something. Honestly surprised there's Freep posting about it.Freep Gamers Come Out To Play posted:To: Norm Lenhart Wonder if they know Arcade is gay?
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Warmachine posted:Far, FAR more likely is that it is one of our terrible allies. It's called the Clusterfuck Coalition for a reason. Allies know about Vilerat because he was a big deal, and can use that to You know...you're probably right. Gents or Fcon?
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Why Do The Uninsured Hate ObamaCare?quote:To: IBD editorial writer quote:To: IBD editorial writer quote:To: steve86 --------------------------- Lawmakers visit school where lunches were tossed for kids without funds quote:To: Wolfie quote:To: Wolfie  quote:To: Wolfie quote:To: Wolfie quote:To: roadcat quote:To: Wolfie  A Hershey bar also cost a nicklequote:To: Wolfie
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kik2dagroin posted:
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kik2dagroin posted:Lawmakers visit school where lunches were tossed for kids without funds Jesus Christ, what scum. What utter trash. I wonder if this poster has ever had to deal with going to bed hungry every night for days on end? If they've ever had to deal with not knowing when or where their next meal would come from? I'm normally able to laugh these people off, but I hope someone steals all of this guys money so they can eat and he can deal with being hungry. I'm sure he'd stand by his principals that no one should help him if he can't pay.
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