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Radish posted:"Fake news" is just the new "liberal media" catchphrase for news that conflicts with the false reality in their head so it's not really new. They aren't actually creative enough to think up a new idea so they just jumped on the fake news stories and repeat it because it has a dual effect of enforcing their media bubbles and also delegitimizing complaints of click baitey garbage which helps lowers the bar for journalism across the board. "Fake news" had a real meaning for about 5 seconds. It meant news stories that were entirely made up (from start to finish) in order to fit an existing kneejerk narrative (usually right wing.) For example, a Macedonian fake news writer might note that American conservatives hate Muslims, refugees, and people on food stamps. So they would make up a story about a Muslim refugee buying luxurious and "foreign" foods with food stamps. Maybe a headline like "Islamist 'refugee' uses food stamps to gorge himself on AN ENTIRE ROAST GOAT while hungry AMERICAN children look on. You won't believe what OBAMA said to him!" And none of this ever happened at all, but is presented as truth.
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BarbarianElephant posted:"Fake news" had a real meaning for about 5 seconds. It meant news stories that were entirely made up (from start to finish) in order to fit an existing kneejerk narrative (usually right wing.) For example, a Macedonian fake news writer might note that American conservatives hate Muslims, refugees, and people on food stamps. So they would make up a story about a Muslim refugee buying luxurious and "foreign" foods with food stamps. Maybe a headline like "Islamist 'refugee' uses food stamps to gorge himself on AN ENTIRE ROAST GOAT while hungry AMERICAN children look on. You won't believe what OBAMA said to him!" And none of this ever happened at all, but is presented as truth. Yes which is one of the reasons they overuse it because it cheapens it. It's pretty much their standard tactic.
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From Mark Zuckerberg's 2017 plan to visit all US states hints at political ambitions posted by freeper Berlin_Freeper So yeah, Zuckerberg announced two curious things yesterday. First, he'd suddenly found religion after being a well-known atheist throughout his adult life. Second, he was going to go on a tour of the US. Mark Zuckerberg posted:My personal challenge for 2017 is to have visited and met people in every state in the US by the end of the year. I've spent significant time in many states already, so I'll need to travel to about 30 states this year to complete this challenge. Hey remember that one time when Obama flubbed a line about how many states he'd visited during the primaries? Somehow it's relevant to a completely different person! quote:To: Berlin_Freeper quote:To: Berlin_Freeper quote:To: Berlin_Freeper Meanwhile, freep both sees the future and doesn't understand the single-party primary process cuts both ways. quote:To: Timpanagos1 Well, bye quote:To: Timpanagos1 quote:To: Berlin_Freeper; ExTexasRedhead quote:To: spokeshave What the gently caress does this even mean? quote:To: Vince Ferrer Why yes, there are two different freepers that this this is relevant and/or funny quote:To: Berlin_Freeper quote:To: Berlin_Freeper quote:To: Berlin_Freeper Freep opinions: Mark Zuckerberg is ugly, therefore he is a bad person. quote:To: Berlin_Freeper
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 17:55 |
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I wonder if Freep knows that there is still going to be a Republican primary in 2020 and people may run against Trump in that primary. His chance of losing that primary is low, but it will still occur because, even when you have a sitting President, you still have a primary.
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 18:26 |
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I've seen the FAKE NEWS moniker be applied to all news that doesn't agree with the viewer, which apparently for FReep is like everything left of Breitbart? Instead of Macedonian Clickbait sites and regurgitation of Pizza Gate, it's any news with the slightest amount of spin to it. If there's anything RWM is good at, it's this sort of weird rebranding.
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 18:42 |
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robotsinmyhead posted:I've seen the FAKE NEWS moniker be applied to all news that doesn't agree with the viewer, which apparently for FReep is like everything left of Breitbart? Instead of Macedonian Clickbait sites and regurgitation of Pizza Gate, it's any news with the slightest amount of spin to it. FTFY
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 18:49 |
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quote:To: Berlin_Freeper Man achieves American dream. Freep: NERD!!!!!!!
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Neeksy posted:Did any of them wonder why the GOP attempted to gut an independent ethics committee as their first big move out of the gate or has "drain the swamp" gone into the Conservative Memory Hole? If any of them did, they almost certainly said it was because the GOP are liberal RINOs. When Trump tweeted his disapproval of the gutting, they changed their minds on it, so this whole incident only further cements in Freepers' minds that the GOP are bad liberals and Trump is a true conservative who will keep them in line.
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 20:55 |
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From Mole Inside Reveals a Far-Left Group's Plan For January 20th posted by freeper vannrox This is a video about an article which is about an article which is about a video by trusted and reliable news source Roger Stone. the excerpt posted:It appears that there are large and massive attempts to create substantial interruptions during the January 20 inauguration of Donald Trump. The details are truly breath-taking, and include all of what we saw before, plus rocket launched drones, fires, smoke, tear gas, protesters dressed as police, etc. Freep opinions: have you tried shooting about it? quote:To: vannrox Freepers: do not talk to me about “rights” quote:To: Az Joe quote:To: silverleaf Freep opinions: I'm not racist, but quote:To: virgil I love how they can just rewrite their own history to suddenly not make the Branch Dividians a doomsday cult embroiled in a violent power struggle culminating in allegations of child rape. quote:To: Cololeo Freep opinions: the US Army attacking citizens is a perfectly fine concept quote:
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE COMMIES!? quote:To: vannrox quote:To: vannrox I will never get over their power fantasies. quote:To: vannrox Spoiler alert: when nothing described here happens, this is what they'll say quote:To: Blue Jays quote:To: vannrox Freep opinions: we'll prove that we're not a banana republic by simply locking up all the dissenters! quote:To: vannrox I will never get over their terrorist attack fantasies quote:To: vannrox I'm not sure if this post is meant to poo poo on the comparison or draw similarities. quote:To: Robert357 loving hell, freep quote:To: FlingWingFlyer OH COME ON quote:To: morphing libertarian
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 20:55 |
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I'm actually kind of impressed how smoothly Freep has transitioned from "muh freedums" to "police state NOW!" I was expecting them to at least pretend that they weren't full-bore fascists for awhile. (or at least wait until Trump took office before they start demanding internment camps.)
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 21:50 |
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Jagged Jim posted:I'm actually kind of impressed how smoothly Freep has transitioned from "muh freedums" to "police state NOW!" I was expecting them to at least pretend that they weren't full-bore fascists for awhile. (or at least wait until Trump took office before they start demanding internment camps.) They always were "police state now", but they needed the right government in place.
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 21:52 |
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McGlockenshire posted:I love how they can just rewrite their own history to suddenly not make the Branch Dividians a doomsday cult embroiled in a violent power struggle culminating in allegations of child rape. I dunno if you've paid attention to Freeps descriptions of islam, buuuuuut...
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 21:56 |
The only moral insurgency is my insurgency!
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 22:50 |
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There's something about them finally getting an authoritarian messiah that's actually best buds with a KGB agent.
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# ? Jan 4, 2017 23:08 |
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McGlockenshire posted:It appears that there are large and massive attempts to create substantial interruptions during the January 20 inauguration of Donald Trump. The details are truly breath-taking, and include all of what we saw before, plus rocket launched drones, fires, smoke, tear gas, protesters dressed as police, etc. And when none of it happens they'll claim this thing is what brought it down. I swear to god these fucks are so paranoid. You guys won, deal with it
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 00:11 |
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Basically every other post there tonight is about that awful "gently caress Trump" Chicago kidnapping/torture.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 03:59 |
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Have they gone full n-word yet?
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 04:08 |
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I find it hilarious that they deride Zuckerberg since it's entirely possible he intends to start a political career as a right-winger instead. I imagine if he does so, Freep will forget all about this little moment and praise him as the Trump Protege America needs next.
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Republicans posted:Have they gone full n-word yet? It almost feels like there needs to be an office pool on when that finally happens. March Madness for racists?
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 06:58 |
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They did in the previous thread.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 07:07 |
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Smeep posted:Basically every other post there tonight is about that awful "gently caress Trump" Chicago kidnapping/torture. The second post in the earliest thread on it labels it as fake news. High/low-lights from other threads: quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: rottndog quote:To: AndyJackson quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: yes, waterboarding is torture quote:To: grundle quote:To: grundle quote:Comment #35 Removed by Moderator
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 07:16 |
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As always, remember that liberals are the real racists.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 07:25 |
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From President Obama Awards Himself Distinguished Public Service Medal posted by freeper Cold War Veteran - Submarines That's a Breitbart headline. Here's what the DoD itself has to say. The medal is given out... wikipedia posted:...to a private citizen, politician, non-career Federal employee, or foreign national. It is presented for exceptionally distinguished service of significance to the Department of Defense as a whole, or a DoD Component or function, where recognition at the component level would not be sufficient for the service rendered. wikipedia posted:George W. Bush So, there are more than one hundred eighty posts in this thread. We all know how much they hate Obama, so I'm going to skip most of that. It's not as if you don't know what they're going to say. It's all of the same bullshit that we're all tired of. Most. quote:To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines quote:Comment #31 Removed by Moderator I decided to post from this thread based solely by this being at the bottom of the first page. quote:To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines 50 posts before someone reminds freep of objective reality. quote:To: lodi90 Hi WENDLE! quote:To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines Some additional facts. quote:To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines It should probably not surprise you to know that there are zero replies of substance to any of the factual posts in this thread. A later one stated "Apparently the title of this article was made up and it's what a lot of people wanted to hear." Why, I'm shocked that the person that authored this post might possibly want to believe bad things about Barack Obama. quote:To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines McGlockenshire fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Freepers are now going off on "Ash", one of the whitest names you can have. SMDH
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 12:33 |
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Oh they're so close to just outright saying "friend of the family" I can almost taste it
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Calling for the hunting and murdering of groups they don't like: not removed. Soycd probably would have gotten removed if he had said "Open season on blm, islam and niggers" instead of their codeword. As if using a different word makes the sentiment less horrible. If Freep hated political correctness as much as they say, you would think that they would have no problem saying friend of the family or any other slur.
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They have no problem with it but aren't quite so far gone and to think that we are at the point where white people can say it openly and not give up the benefit of the doubt they aren't racists (give it a year).
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McGlockenshire posted:To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines Hmm, rewind this 60 years and replace queers with blacks. This fucker's dumb as poo poo anyways, that loving signature, jesus christ quote:It should probably not surprise you to know that there are zero replies of substance to any of the factual posts in this thread. A later one stated "Apparently the title of this article was made up and it's what a lot of people wanted to hear." Why, I'm shocked that the person that authored this post might possibly want to believe bad things about Barack Obama. Why it's almost like they blindly listen to....fake news. Irony so thick it could be forged into a block of lead the size of Trump Tower Haxin Jackson posted:If Freep hated political correctness as much as they say, you would think that they would have no problem saying friend of the family or any other slur. That's because it's not PC when we do it, only when those feminist lieberal muslim loving blm ferals make us use those terms It must be difficult to be a freeper to anyone but the insane. You have to love and hate the same thing at the same time, bitch about something while being that something, and believe you're being persecuted while not only persecuting others but being in the demographic that has the absolute least chance of ever being persecuted. They're creamy white Christian fuckers that have had everything handed to them their entire lives and sacrificed nothing to give the next generation. SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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It's not really that difficult to think like a Freeper; just think that everything you do is inherently good and anything that blacks/muslims/gays/women do (even if it's the exact same thing you are doing) is the evilest evil that ever eviled. Therefore I can't be racist because racism is bad. stringeverylastniggerup
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From Trump: The Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer ... posted by the Sidebar Moderator, so probably JimRob or John Robinson. It's a Trumpian tweetstorm, but we'll only care about the first here. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816977032433270784 quote:To: Sidebar Moderator This gets just under thirty replies. quote:To: Ciaphas Cain quote:To: Ciaphas Cain quote:To: Ciaphas Cain quote:To: Ciaphas Cain So let's rewind a bit, back to another reply to post 2. quote:To: Ciaphas Cain This also gets thirty replies. quote:To: rbg81 quote:To: rbg81 quote:To: rbg81 quote:To: rbg81 In case you missed it, Make America Sick Again is the thing the Democrats are pushing right now. quote:To: rbg81 I utterly despise how they misunderstand the push behind PC. quote:To: rbg81 quote:To: rbg81 Freep opinions: Trump is an rear end in a top hat because of our liberal-dominated schools quote:To: rbg81 I'm sure there's more, but freep is really, really tiring today.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:42 |
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"Kids these days not respecting their elders. Why are so many Americans disrespecting the flag? What ever happened to just sitting back and listening and deferring to others?" "WE GOTTA ACT LIKE rear end MONKEYS TO GET NOTICED. IS IT WORKING? MURICA!" I'm trying to get more active writing anything at all, hopefully of some substance, on these forums just because sometimes what's in my head isn't necessarily what I really feel, or I can't figure out the phrasing or complete my train of thought and writing it down helps to sort things out. Lots of times I realize I really don't know as much about something as I thought when I see it all on page and cancel out of the editor and go back to reading or doing research or trying to find better ways to put things into perspective. Yet these guys write down and agree with things that flagrantly disagree with concepts you would think form the very bedrock of their belief system and somehow their brains don't explode. The cognitive dissonance these people experience has to affect them in some way.
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Joshmo posted:The cognitive dissonance these people experience has to affect them in some way. It affects them so badly that it gets them to post on freep.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:49 |
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Yeah freep is one of those places online that is a negative feedback back loop which enforces low self esteem and unproductive behavior. Just like the slimy trenches of popular/infamous social interaction websites without the part that isn't an awful clique.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:01 |
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«The Romans learned that calling barbarians citizens only worked until the barbarians wanted to take over.» - a person who knows gently caress all about the Roman Empire
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:44 |
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I'm fairly certain that they ceased being barbarians after becoming citizens, as "barbarian" simply meant "person not belonging to one of the empires of the time." So they also don't know words.
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Mr.Unique-Name posted:I'm fairly certain that they ceased being barbarians after becoming citizens, as "barbarian" simply meant "person not belonging to one of the empires of the time." So they also don't know words. Romans weren't racist in a way that modern Americans would understand. They typically didn't give a poo poo about the actual color of your skin (and even had an African emperor at one point), just that you were part of the empire and preferably born under its borders. They hated white guys from Germania more than black guys from Alexandria.
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McGlockenshire posted:He’s an Andy Jackson Man. They say worse things about Trump than I do. Like, Trump is probably not going to be a genocidal monster.
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Most of the Emperors weren't even Italian, much less Roman. They actually meant all that bullshit "patriots" bitch about. If you were born in the Empire and managed to rise to the position no one gave a poo poo, what mattered was if you could deliver. This isn't to paint Rome as some liberal utopia, it's just that once the Empire was done loving with your people and you were absorbed that was it, you didn't get poo poo for being a Gaul, a Thracian or a Libyan. Giving a poo poo would be a sign of dangerous divisionism. MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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They are gonna be so pissed that Mexico isn't gonna pay for the make-work Wall now that Trump is getting congress to pay instead.
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chitoryu12 posted:Romans weren't racist in a way that modern Americans would understand. They typically didn't give a poo poo about the actual color of your skin (and even had an African emperor at one point), just that you were part of the empire and preferably born under its borders. They hated white guys from Germania more than black guys from Alexandria. Given how you can see how Americans have changed the definition of "white" almost constantly over the last couple hundred years it's not really surprising to think that racism was different back then.
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