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Dirt5o8 posted:It seems sorta a trend lately. I think they're finally starting to drop the pretense of "family friendly". I've noticed there are more than a few websites which claim to be "family friendly" that end up being wretched hives of scum and villainy, although Free Republic obviously takes the cake. Also, I'm going to wager a guess that Freepers are against any form of education that isn't Christian-based homeschooling.
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As I recall, there are a few non-theocrats left, but even they want home schooling about LIBERTY AND FREE MARKETS.
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Tias posted:As I recall, there are a few non-theocrats left, but even they want home schooling about LIBERTY AND FREE MARKETS. That reminds me, isn't Rand Paul coming out with his own brand of homeschooling curriculum?
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Apr 28, 2014 07:57
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The Rokstar posted:Like Rush jokingly said to some caller this past week, there's no way Palin will ever run for president, if only because she'd never take the pay cut.
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Apr 28, 2014 08:26
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FMguru posted:Yeah, that's the fundamental thing about Palin - she always chases the easiest dollar. She couldn't even wait until her one term as Governor of a not-particularly-important state was half over before she decided to cash in.
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Apr 28, 2014 09:56
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FMguru posted:She ran up more than $100,000 in clothes bills in two months to buy designer outfits for her family, she was so eager to grab the money instead of playing it smart and cashing much bigger checks later. If she's totally mercenary, then wasn't grabbing those clothes the smart thing to do? It's not like it affected the outcome of the election one whit, and anyway she's been cashing much bigger checks the last six years than she would have as VP.
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Apr 28, 2014 10:54
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VitalSigns posted:If she's totally mercenary, then wasn't grabbing those clothes the smart thing to do? It's not like it affected the outcome of the election one whit, and anyway she's been cashing much bigger checks the last six years than she would have as VP. Right, it's just so obvious that she sees things like that as the payoff, not power or connections. She's truly a hillbilly who avidly sliced the goose open in order to get all the golden eggs at once.
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Apr 28, 2014 14:17
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SedanChair posted:Right, it's just so obvious that she sees things like that as the payoff, not power or connections. She's truly a hillbilly who avidly sliced the goose open in order to get all the golden eggs at once. I just hope we're still hearing from her in ten years. Ninjasaurus posted:That reminds me, isn't Rand Paul coming out with his own brand of homeschooling curriculum? Ron was behind that.
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Apr 28, 2014 15:10
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One of the few topics Freep is decent on (most of the time): police brutality! Tennessee sheriff's deputy is FIRED after he was caught on camera choking an unresisting... quote:To: mad_as_he$$ quote:To: raybbr quote:To: raybbr quote:To: raybbr quote:To: raybbr quote:To: Telepathic Intruder quote:To: raybbr quote:To: raybbr; All quote:To: raybbr quote:To: raybbr quote:To: raybbr quote:To: SeeSharp quote:To: raybbr quote:To: Telepathic Intruder quote:To: raybbr quote:To: raybbr quote:To: Carpe Cerevisi quote:To: raybbr quote:To: LambSlave quote:To: raybbr quote:To: Telepathic Intruder quote:To: LambSlave
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Apr 28, 2014 16:21
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I've noticed a LOT of right wingers being down on cops lately. I think it mainly has to do with the police have started treating everyone like they used to just treat minorities.
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Apr 28, 2014 16:24
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:One of the few topics Freep is decent on (most of the time): police brutality! That's really jarring to read, after all of the other dreck I've seen FReepers spew. I was on a jury last year that included resisting arrest as one of the charges, and even the cops own testimony on what the defendant did to "resist arrest" was nothing more than "pull is arm away after it was grabbed from behind a couple times." It really felt like a means of justifying them throwing the guy to the pavement. We very easily found the guy not guilty of resisting.
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TravBot posted:That's really jarring to read, after all of the other dreck I've seen FReepers spew. I was on a jury last year that included resisting arrest as one of the charges, and even the cops own testimony on what the defendant did to "resist arrest" was nothing more than "pull is arm away after it was grabbed from behind a couple times." It really felt like a means of justifying them throwing the guy to the pavement. We very easily found the guy not guilty of resisting. One thing that can be hard to remember is that (at least for me) when going to freep for quotes you only grab the worst. In pretty much every thread there are some decent posts/posters. Not as many as there used to be, but they are still there. I go through a lot of threads and posts to grab the ones I do. Also, pretty much no one is all terrible. Even dalereed likes hotrods. That and police brutality and one other topic I can't remember at the moment are two they are consistently fairly decent on.
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Apr 28, 2014 16:43
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SedanChair posted:Right, it's just so obvious that she sees things like that as the payoff, not power or connections. She's truly a hillbilly who avidly sliced the goose open in order to get all the golden eggs at once. Are you sure about that? Perhaps she's actually play the longest con, one so far beyond your comprehension she only looks like an idiot hillbilly. I mean, surely she can't be the only politician that doesn't have dozens of Dr. Doom-esqu schemes for more and more power.
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If I remember right the first time I started hearing Freep complaining about police brutality a few years back after a couple comparatively high-profile cases where the police raided the wrong home and shot an innocent man's dogs. Whoever that was who'd said if they were forced to have a conversation with Freepers they'd talk about dogs had the right idea. We just need some left-wing pooches to slowly swing them away from their current shittiness.
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ArchRanger posted:If I remember right the first time I started hearing Freep complaining about police brutality a few years back after a couple comparatively high-profile cases where the police raided the wrong home and shot an innocent man's dogs. I don't know that even that would work. They have said unkind things about Bo, after all.
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Apr 28, 2014 17:04
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Elephant Ambush posted:Whoah, an un-self-censored swear word! They must be incredibly pissed. The "i" is an exclamation point, so it's still not a swear.
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Who What Now posted:Are you sure about that? Perhaps she's actually play the longest con, one so far beyond your comprehension she only looks like an idiot hillbilly. I mean, surely she can't be the only politician that doesn't have dozens of Dr. Doom-esqu schemes for more and more power. Are you following me around or something? I don't mean to lead you on 
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Who What Now posted:Are you sure about that? Perhaps she's actually play the longest con, one so far beyond your comprehension she only looks like an idiot hillbilly. I mean, surely she can't be the only politician that doesn't have dozens of Dr. Doom-esqu schemes for more and more power. It was what she'd been preparing for all her life, but even she could not believe the incredible chance that had just fallen into her lap. To suddenly advance her quiet scheme to discredit the Republican Party from within from a backwoods state to a nationwide platform. To help push the first black candidate over the threshold and into the Presidency! Contemporaries would revile her. History would despise her. Was she really prepared to face that? The previous 8 years of nationalism, war, and oligarchy flashed through her head. Suppressing a shudder of revulsion, she squared her shoulders and lifted her gaze, as if staring through the walls of her office. "Governor Palin," repeated the voice on the telephone, "Will you accept Senator McCain's offer to be his Vice-Presidential nominee?" Her lips trembled, but her voice held firm, "You betcha!" she replied confidently "Oh I'd be honored ya know."
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FMguru posted:Yeah, that's the fundamental thing about Palin - she always chases the easiest dollar. She couldn't even wait until her one term as Governor of a not-particularly-important state was half over before she decided to cash in. She ran up more than $100,000 in clothes bills in two months to buy designer outfits for her family, she was so eager to grab the money instead of playing it smart and cashing much bigger checks later. She has no patience and no follow-through (how many colleges did she flunk out of before getting her degree?) - her current low-effort gig as gadfly, paid speaker, and reality show oddity suits her just fine. No way is she going to spend four months going from pancake breakfast to veterans day parade to county fair in Iowa, or sit down and learn all the different countries in the world, or how the federal reserve works, or anything like that. I don't think you're giving her enough credit. She's probably well aware of that fact that she probably couldn't sustain a campaign for any real office, let alone do well in that office, for very long. She risks scandal destroying her before she can settle into a groove while running or working in office. If she does manage to settle down, she risks being overthrown by someone more redneck than she is. That's a hell of a lot of effort for less reward than she's getting right now. I mean I don't think she's a mastermind or anything, and I agree with you that she does seem to take the easiest route whenever she can, but I do think she's figured out her niche.
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SedanChair posted:Are you following me around or something? I don't mean to lead you on There's, like, half a dozen super-active threads in the Disco. We're probably gonna run into each other from time to time, so don't flatter yourself. Also, is Palin being a Time Lord really up for debate anymore? Pfft, whatever, sheep.
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Who What Now posted:There's, like, half a dozen super-active threads in the Disco. We're probably gonna run into each other from time to time, so don't flatter yourself. How about we keep the Freep thread for Freep and not try to merge it with USPol then. Anyway, Palin is a fascinating character because she seems to be the first completely ungrammatical national candidate. Even Louie Gohmert speaks in complete sentences most of the time.
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SedanChair posted:How about we keep the Freep thread for Freep and not try to merge it with USPol then. I think ReindeerF said it best back around 2010, in a discussion about the then-current crop of upjumped idiots getting media time due to the midterms: ReindeerF posted:Angle, Palin and Hayworth are just plain old angry white people with a penchant for yelling about it who have, by the grace of our current political climate, slipped the surly bonds of the local Wal Mart and touched the face of national politics.
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Mineaiki posted:I don't think you're giving her enough credit. She's probably well aware of that fact that she probably couldn't sustain a campaign for any real office, let alone do well in that office, for very long. She risks scandal destroying her before she can settle into a groove while running or working in office. If she does manage to settle down, she risks being overthrown by someone more redneck than she is. That's a hell of a lot of effort for less reward than she's getting right now. I believe the words you are looking for are "low cunning".
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Wizard of Smart posted:The "i" is an exclamation point, so it's still not a swear. You missed the one I was talking about. Probably because I didn't quote it. quote:To: SeekAndFind
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As ‘Punishment,’ Los Angeles Clippers Bigot Donald Sterling Could Make $1 Billion Donald Sterling did nothing wrong and is in fact the real victim here. quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: MeganC
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Lots of casual sexism from "liberals" itt
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Finnankainen posted:As ‘Punishment,’ Los Angeles Clippers Bigot Donald Sterling Could Make $1 Billion No wonder the political right thinks there's an infinite supply of oil; no matter how far they dig, they never hit bottom.
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Sir Tonk posted:Ron was behind that. http://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/ 
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threefive posted:Lots of casual sexism from "liberals" itt What are you referring to? I haven't been paying to much attention but thus far I've only seen people saying that she's stupid, that she has a short attention span, or that she has her career figured out. All of which are arguable and not at all related to her sex.
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United Church of Christ sues over NC ban on same-sex marriage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3149601/posts EqualityNC article on the same event: http://equalitync.org/latest/news/nc_clergy_bring_legal_challenge_to_amendment_one/ This one should yield some gems. quote:To: GIdget2004 ...isn't that part of the point? quote:To: GIdget2004 Surprisingly not the first response! quote:To: GIdget2004 quote:To: cripplecreek Other than the part where NC said they wouldn't recognize it, no matter who performed the marriage or where. Technicalities  quote:To: GIdget2004 Somebody go get the government, I don't like a thing 
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I think there was a GBS thread on it last year. Great stuff and such an obvious attempt at grifting a bunch of morons.
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quote:Find me a religion - other than some fringe, wacko "Church of Bob" type-thing - that defines marriage as anything BUT being between one man and one woman, and I'll listen. quote:The UCC's 5,154 congregations claim 998,906 members, primarily in the United States.[3] e: quote:The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three churches. As of 2012, it had 3,950,924 baptized members. quote:The Episcopal Church (TEC) is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is divided into nine provinces and has dioceses in the U.S., Taiwan, Micronesia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe and the Navajoland Area Mission.[2][3][4] The Episcopal Church describes itself as being "Protestant, yet Catholic".[5] In 2010, it had 2,125,012 baptized members, of which 1,951,907 were in the U.S., making it the nation's 14th largest denomination. "fringe" Stultus Maximus fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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I looked at their "find a congregation" tool on their website and probably had a hundred hits in NC alone, not counting all the bordering states. 
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Exclusive: Putin Halts All Talks With White Housequote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum
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quote:To: Nachum Jesus Christ. I have no idea why this one really jumped out at me, what with all the usual homophobic bigotry they display, but this one did. Goddamn they really are just letting their seething hatred out on display in all it's glory now.
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Freepers: Vlad, Vlad, he's our man, if he can't do it, FUBO They're actively cheering on the efforts of an authoritarian nutjob to stymie diplomatic efforts because they don't like the President. It's gotta be a sickness.
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How dare the government suggest that kids have healthier eating habits? Tyranny! How dare the government suggest that kids take an STD vaccine? Tyranny! How dare the government not forbid same sex relations when they have higher STD rates? Tyranny! Who What Now posted:Jesus Christ. I have no idea why this one really jumped out at me, what with all the usual homophobic bigotry they display, but this one did. Goddamn they really are just letting their seething hatred out on display in all it's glory now. MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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Apr 28, 2014 20:52
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Alter Ego posted:They're actively cheering on the efforts of an authoritarian nutjob to stymie diplomatic efforts because they don't like the President. It's gotta be a sickness. More than that, they're cheering the idea of said authoritarian nutjob invading America and calling themselves patriotic for it.
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Obama takes diplomatic actions against Russia: What a sissy, not going to war Putin takes diplomatic actions against the US: What a real man 
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Na they're just calling on Putin to do what they're too scared to: get rid of all the dirty liberals. Pretty funny really.
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