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Smirr posted:Let's go back to the Minnesota guy who executed two teens for a second (http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3147490/posts?q=1&;page=101): Not only it is horrible, but I hate this theme overall. Police and Fire response is actually super cheap. Untaxed fuel from city works, cost of tapwater and most the time some simple and cheap medical stuff. Fire trucks as heavy trucks often, gather wear and tear in just sitting still. The cost is in the readiness of law enforcement and fire rescue. While in readiness, it actually costs very little to have them do stuff around the city.
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Mercury_Storm posted:Question for people who have subjected themselves to freep for a while: I've asked myself this question too, unfortunately it would take poop touching to test. I expect various flavors of "of course its liberal because liberals are racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" or "I just know the facts and facts can't be racist, now let me tell you about urban ferals..."
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Mercury_Storm posted:Question for people who have subjected themselves to freep for a while: There have been direct quotes of freepers saying racism is good. It is kind of like the Lincoln issue, half of them will be talking about how he is republican (and good) while others will be saying he was a women hating racist (democrat) while others range about the war of northern aggression.
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Yeah. I suspect that the consensus (or as near a thing as freep will form) is that racism for the sake of racism is bad. However racism based on  and the True Nature of the urban feral is just being realistic and honest.Basically, as long as you don't say the n-word you're not racist or a bad person.
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cafel posted:'Why is urban music so full of anger and frustration and hopelessness? Oh well, gotta go support the war on drugs, slashing food stamps and a return to segregated schools.' Dont forget that Classical music isn't exactly peaceful either! There were literally riots over the use of Bassoons.
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Apr 25, 2014 05:10
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cafel posted:'Why is urban music so full of anger and frustration and hopelessness? Oh well, gotta go support the war on drugs, slashing food stamps and a return to segregated schools.' God I wish macklemore never existed.
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Apr 25, 2014 05:11
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I'm pretty sure that I've seen Freepers say that the concept of racism didn't exist until Leninism or something, and therefore racism was invented by leftists.OAquinas posted:Basically, as long as you don't say the n-word you're not racist or a bad person. Freep has a simplified understanding of racism that basically boils down to you can only be racist if you say "I hate blacks because their skin color is black." To them even if you say the n-word it's not necessarily racist, and they'll reference that Chris Rock bit to try and support it (a bit that Chris Rock has said he'll never do again because of racists using it to justify their racism). Though of course they'll steer clear of actually saying the word and delete posts that have it because despite this they're still aware they'll look bad if they say it outright. But yeah their understanding of it means that as far as they're concerned saying the things they do is just "telling it like it is" and not actually racist.
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Apr 25, 2014 05:39
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Install Windows posted:God I wish macklemore never existed.
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Jonked posted:Shut your trap, The Heist is a great album and complaining about Thrift Shop is like complaining about The Real Slim Shady or Hey Ya without listening to the rest of the album and realizing that everybody puts a catchy pop tune in their number two spot. Real Slim Shady and Hey Ya own, Macklemore is trash all around. poo poo's practically pirate rap.
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Jonked posted:Shut your trap, The Heist is a great album and complaining about Thrift Shop is like complaining about The Real Slim Shady or Hey Ya without listening to the rest of the album and realizing that everybody puts a catchy pop tune in their number two spot. Except for the fact that Hey Ya! is awesome, as is the album it comes from. 
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Augmentropy posted:Except for the fact that Hey Ya! is awesome, as is the album it comes from.
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Jonked posted:Shut your trap, The Heist is a great album and complaining about Thrift Shop is like complaining about The Real Slim Shady or Hey Ya without listening to the rest of the album and realizing that everybody puts a catchy pop tune in their number two spot. Please don't talk about rap music.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I'm pretty sure that I've seen Freepers say that the concept of racism didn't exist until Leninism or something, and therefore racism was invented by leftists. Well, they have something in common with Stormfront then: quote:"Racist" -- A Word Invented by USSR's Leon Trotsky
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Apr 25, 2014 06:21
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Jonked posted:Shut your trap, The Heist is a great album and complaining about Thrift Shop is like complaining about The Real Slim Shady or Hey Ya without listening to the rest of the album and realizing that everybody puts a catchy pop tune in their number two spot. Anyone who complained about "Hey Ya!" should lose all right to ever criticize pop music forever. It's easily one of the most perfect pop songs ever written. Install Windows posted:Real Slim Shady and Hey Ya own, Macklemore is trash all around. poo poo's practically pirate rap. If you're looking for a better group, check out Atmosphere. They're local to the Twin Cities and never quite broke nationally, but they're fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqOWO6ctsg
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I'd rather not have this turn into an Onion AVClub "Check out nerdy rap artists that me - someone who doesn't listen to rap - enjoys!" thread please.
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pd187 posted:I'd rather not have this turn into an Onion AVClub "Check out nerdy rap artists that me - someone who doesn't listen to rap - enjoys!" thread please. Anyways, have so JoePa oldies from a PA resident: quote:To: FlJoePa quote:To: who_would_fardels_bear Hmm, yes, well this not exactly anything new from Happy Valley residents and their chant of "We are..." Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi? quote:To: FlJoePa; Anima Mundi; ebiskit; TenthAmendmentChampion; Obadiah; Mind-numbed Robot; A.Hun; ...
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pd187 posted:I'd rather not have this turn into an Onion AVClub "Check out nerdy rap artists that me - someone who doesn't listen to rap - enjoys!" thread please. I think the only person who said they don't listen to rap is me, and I never suggested a band because I don't listen to rap. Though I did enjoy 'Hey Ya!' when it was on the radio. Skyl3lazer posted:Dont forget that Classical music isn't exactly peaceful either! There were literally riots over the use of Bassoons. Ah, the Germans  . Truly a peaceful and civilized stock, unlike those ferals listening to their Jazz and Swing music.
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if they think Katie Couric's questuons were unfair does that mean that they themselves would be baffled by "what newspapers do you read?" I mean, if you can expand it to general news sources they'd all be able to say Rush, Hannity (yes even after this current thing) Levin, Daily Mail, Breitbart, etc.
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A Freeper posted:We have just had a disastrous election, in which our turnout was successfully suppressed How so? 2 New Black Panthers at a polling station in Philly holding the door open? What?
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I was afraid they'd show up at my rural Wyoming polling station next!
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quote:Benghazi was systematically suppressed during the “debates” - with “neutral” moderators systematically taking the Democrat side Edit: i just noticed that their quarterly goal is 85 THOUSAND? It takes more than three hundred thousand dollars a year to run Freep??? Duke Igthorn fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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Duke Igthorn posted:One moderator says three words and suddenly it's a problem so big we have to abuse the word "systematically"? To most freepers, computers and servers are akin to magical artifacts, and you all know that phoenix feathers and leprechaun gold is very expensive and hard to acquire. EDIT: Freepers that do know a thing or two about running websites and the associated costs wisely shut up about it, because questioning the budget or wanting to see expense reports will result in swift zotting and public shaming for not possessing faith in the cause. Erenthal fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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Mercury_Storm posted:Well, they have something in common with Stormfront then: Ah yeah it was Trotsky, not Lenin. Whoops. Erenthal posted:EDIT: Freepers that do know a thing or two about running websites and the associated costs wisely shut up about it, because questioning the budget or wanting to see expense reports will result in swift zotting and public shaming for not possessing faith in the cause. Wasn't there a thing on the Freep Facebook when the site went down where a guy said it was really strange that it cost so much to run the server and that he could host it for much less?
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Twelve by Pies posted:Ah yeah it was Trotsky, not Lenin. Whoops. I believe so. But you must also see, according to Jimbo and the established Freep-narrative (freepative?) they can't use just any host, since they're all run by liberals and would just log the members names for the coming FEMA death squads. Freeps servers are "custom built" for security, and kept in a safe, conservative-run, location that only Jimbo and his brood can access.
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Jonked posted:You realize that complaining about authenticity makes you sound like the 35 year old guy writing for Rolling Stones, right? I'm a 33 year old guy with a subscription to Rolling Stone and I imagine their youngest staff writer is fifty.
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Georgia Peach posted:Katie "The Cutthroat" Couric Ahahahaha, Jesus loving Christ. Yes, Katie "The Cutthroat" Couric, who asks such hard-hitting questions as "What news publications do you read?" Erenthal posted:I believe so. But you must also see, according to Jimbo and the established Freep-narrative (freepative?) they can't use just any host, since they're all run by liberals and would just log the members names for the coming FEMA death squads. Freeps servers are "custom built" for security, and kept in a safe, conservative-run, location that only Jimbo and his brood can access. They also need to be replaced each fiscal year because {insert vaguely technical bullshit here}, so open your wallets and donate to the
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nucleicmaxid posted:This username/post combo is the best. Yeah, but those assholes aren't reading thus thread. Jesus.
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One thing I've noticed is that the self defense plea has become as much of a joke as the insanity plea was in the 90's. The culture is rapidly changing in a way that I didn't think would ever happen. ...I think what's most frighting about all of this is that this man tortured and murdered two teenagers in the same way and with the same enjoyment as a psychopath would, but he seems to have thought it was legal because he committed this horrific crime in his own home.
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cafel posted:Ah, the Germans  What do we have to do with that? Stravinsky was Russian/French/American and the riot was in Paris.
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ikanreed posted:Yeah, but those assholes aren't reading thus thread. Jesus. There actually is a Freep thread about us, but posting excerpts from either thread in the other is a bannable/zottable offense on each site. For obvious reasons.
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So I see creepers and stormfront era bring up this criticism a lot and I don't quite understand it, maybe this thread can shed some light. Basically they talk about 'Frankfurt school' and 'critical theory' indoctrination. This criticism has been levied at me and others and I don't quite follow what the actual problem is. Firstly I don't subscribe to the Frankfurt school of thought (as I understand it), yet I am told I do. Secondly, what specifically is the issue with critical theory and in what sense of the term are they using it? Thanks.
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Ocrassus posted:So I see creepers and stormfront era bring up this criticism a lot and I don't quite understand it, maybe this thread can shed some light. For both, it's just another way to say "you are a stinkin' commie!"
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Ocrassus posted:So I see creepers and stormfront era bring up this criticism a lot and I don't quite understand it, maybe this thread can shed some light. Well, I wouldn't think too much of it, since they themselves don't understand it. They only use the terms since they are parroting what they've been told by Beck or Hannity or whatever other right-wing guru that happens to be in vougue this week. See for instance "Alinskyism", that popped up like a bad rash a while back. Almost none of them have any deeper understanding of what it is even supposed to mean, but they know it means "bad", since that's what they've been told.
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Erenthal posted:Well, I wouldn't think too much of it, since they themselves don't understand it. They only use the terms since they are parroting what they've been told by Beck or Hannity or whatever other right-wing guru that happens to be in vougue this week. It all boils down to "liberal = bad, conservative = good" being extrapolated into a logic system where good and conservative are always synonymous, and the same with bad and liberal. That's why violence is a liberal tactic, despite their constant call for war and support of the execution of teenagers. They know it's "bad." This means any term that they can associate with being liberal can be used as an insult, because all it means to them is "bad." And similarly, any crazy right-wing person who does something they don't agree with (or don't publicly admit to agreeing with) is a liberal plant, even if that person does something that they constantly talk about doing themselves.
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Ghetto Prince posted:One thing I've noticed is that the self defense plea has become as much of a joke as the insanity plea was in the 90's. The culture is rapidly changing in a way that I didn't think would ever happen. Difference being that people actually do get away by pleading self defense, while odds are that you'll end with a needle in your arm even if you were chasing butterflies in court. e: VitalSigns posted:There actually is a Freep thread about us, but posting excerpts from either thread in the other is a bannable/zottable offense on each site. For obvious reasons. MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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VitalSigns posted:There actually is a Freep thread about us, but posting excerpts from either thread in the other is a bannable/zottable offense on each site. For obvious reasons. Is this actually true?
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DoctorWhat posted:Is this actually true? Evilweasel held a FReep infiltration contest about five years back that they got wind of, but I haven't seen any indication that they're aware of us since.
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MeLKoR posted:What? DoctorWhat posted:Is this actually true? No I was just yankin' your chain, sorry  Zeroisanumber posted:Evilweasel held a FReep infiltration contest about five years back that they got wind of, but I haven't seen any indication that they're aware of us since. But I would love to read this if it's still knocking around the archives somewhere!
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Ocrassus posted:So I see creepers and stormfront era bring up this criticism a lot and I don't quite understand it, maybe this thread can shed some light. Seriously, the terms as used by right wingers are cloaked in conspiracy theories and only tangentially connected to reality. The Fabian Society, for example, had its moment in the spotlight after Beck or some such declared it to be the center of an Illuminati web to infiltrate our society and convert us to godless communism last year. All those people who were worried about fluoride being a Communist plot in the 50s? They didn't go away just because the Soviet Union collapsed, they're still on the look out for the terrible NWO plot. It's just that now they have their own cable channel from 8pm to 4am.
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DoctorWhat posted:Is this actually true? Shh! The spacetime continuum can't be disturbed! Biden doesn't mess around like Gore did with that...
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