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The Sin of Onan posted:So how does Freep feel about real false flag plots? Carried out by right-wingers? Clearly, a double false flag. How insidious
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The Sin of Onan posted:So how does Freep feel about real false flag plots? Carried out by right-wingers?
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The Sin of Onan posted:So how does Freep feel about real false flag plots? Carried out by right-wingers? Actually nepotism is cool and good: check quote:Or course it’s nepotism. I practice the same with my adult children in my business. I know and trust each of my child’s skills and knowledge in the field they are knowledgeable in. I value their judgement because they were raised with the values my wife and I conveyed to them. quote:From the country that inflicted the most unimaginable atrocities the world had ever seen. Rocks meet glass house. quote:Don’t the Deutsche have more important things to concern themselves with... like hoards of rabid muslim animals raping their children? quote:It’s about time for the Germans to be reminded that they are a conquered people who were *allowed* to continue to exist only because it amused us at that time to do so.
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As a German I just really want to tell those assholes to go gently caress themselves. At least we own up to the poo poo we did and didn't elect a populist demagogue in tyool 2016. Also i feel like taking in those refugees was the good thing to do and really, the only choice if you don't want to be a Christian in name only to use one of their expressions. Also the false flag thing happened a couple weeks ago, it's not a new thing.
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May 11, 2017 12:54
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People have no right to criticize others' decisions if their own country has ever done anything bad. This is why it is good that freepers live in the United States of America, which has Never Done A Bad Thing.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:No thread about it yet, but a search for Germany turned up this gem: German foreign minister refers to 'nepotism' regarding Ivanka Trump's role "I hired my kids to important positions because they'll do whatever I tell them!" I would bet anything I own that that guy's employees hate(d) his loving guts.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:Or course it’s nepotism. I practice the same with my adult children in my business. I know and trust each of my child’s skills and knowledge in the field they are knowledgeable in. I value their judgement because they were raised with the values my wife and I conveyed to them. Because we all know the only time nepotism is practiced is when your family members are well skilled in the position you give them. Meanwhile in America Trump has handed positions out to family, friends, and whoever sucks the hardest on his schlong and currently has one of the worst, if not the worst administrations in US history. But yes, do go on about how great this is in 385th dimensional chess land SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 19:42 on May 11, 2017 |
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May 11, 2017 19:39
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Here's a thread about a Joel Osteen rally: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3552479/posts?q=1&;page=1 I was shocked to find all the posters making GBS threads on Osteen and prosperity gospel. I figured at least half of them would totally be into that. But then again, freepers do not seem to be the wealthy type of GOPer.
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May 14, 2017 09:22
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I think it's cause they're all scrooges and would rather keep their money to themselves unless they see some gain for themselves. Not that I'd advocate giving this hack money, but at least they're consistent.
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May 14, 2017 10:27
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If Freepers give charity It's just to keep their website running.
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May 14, 2017 10:53
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:People have no right to criticize others' decisions if their own country has ever done anything bad. This is why it is good that freepers live in the United States of America, which has Never Done A Bad Thing. Most freepers are into the Manifest Destiny of the USA, even if they won't admit it.
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Freepers feel old fashioned. You don't understand my new meme based racism, dad
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May 14, 2017 11:46
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You'd think Freepers would be fine with the "If someone is poor it's because they don't believe in Jesus hard enough" part of prosperity gospel, but remember some of them are poor, and the reason they think they're poor is because of the government. And even the people they don't like who are poor, they believe are usually poor because they're lazy.
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Zwabu posted:Here's a thread about a Joel Osteen rally: Freep are pre-millennial calvinists at heart. The idea that you can buy salvation or change your fate is completely antithetical to them, because they're the only safe ones in the rapture and everyone whose going to be saved is predestined to do so. Osteen's type of prosperity gospel is basically just old-school Catholic indulgences with a new coat of paint. Megachurches are all about the idea that we should try to save everyone (because that's a much broader pool to skim money off of!), and that's just not something freep-types do, since you'll end up in heaven if you're supposed to be there according to their theology, and having money or not won't pay a role in that, ergo you can support FYGM economic policies guilt-free if they benefit you or argue for fair share if you have no money. Saving people is irrelevant because the good go to heaven, and that's all that matters. The real irony is that the Christian Right in this country went from Post-Millennial to Pre over the course of the 20th century. They used to be all about trying to save everyone in the 1800s and really up to about Nixon, because the rapture could only come when the world had been made sufficiently good (i.e. after the perfect millennium we all go to heaven). Shifting to becoming Pre-Millennial means that it literally doesn't matter what happens, because the rapture will just occur at some point, and all the good believers go to heaven while the non-believers go through the tribulation-type events that lead to them discover faith the hard way on a hellish earth or never convert and go to hell outright. You can pretty much trace the point where American Christians and the Christian Right start to disengage from the world and create their bubble of only caring for their own to this theological shift. It also coincides nicely with when we started doing the religion of fear/get out of hell free type pitches for new believers, as the point was no longer to do good things and make the world better in hopes of a reward, it was to get raptured before the tribulation so that you weren't one of "those people" being tormented by Satan/the antichrist. In short, there really are 2 Christian Rights at the moment. The one with actual power is the Freeps of the world who don't give a poo poo if it all burns down since they're part of the elect. That's why they never say no to tax cuts or anything that objectively hurts the world for the sake of helping them, because their effect on the world doesn't matter as part of the elect and means they have nothing to lose and everything to gain because they'll get saved from anything truly bad happening. Then there's the Osteen crowd that gives motivating speeches and gets invited to prayer brunches but ultimately don't have any power, because it turns out that writing checks creates rich pastors and lazy activists who aren't going to bother fighting for their stuff the way Freepers who literally believe they have nothing to lose and everything to gain will. It's not actually that far removed from the same type of sentiment that you see from religious terrorists--world is impure so bad things don't matter because I'm safe and nothing can truly hurt me because I go to the good place. It's that bizarre mixture of personal belief in religious dogma creating a lens of nihlism and apathy towards the state of the world that makes them who they are. TL;DR: Freep theology says that being rich doesn't inherently mean you're in the elect, nor are you obligated to help the poor because you can't change their eternal fate. Covenant theology only applies in the sense that the true believers get to leave before bad things happen, and any benefits along the way are incidental, albeit totally allowable to fight for. TheGreyGhost fucked around with this message at 16:54 on May 16, 2017 |
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That makes me wonder about non-Christians on Freep. Any frothing Netanyahuites, for example?
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May 16, 2017 17:32
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There's a few non-Christians on Freep I'm sure, but they probably keep quiet about it for the most part. I know there's been mention of at least a couple of Jewish members. I'd even be willing to bet there's a few atheist members. Freep generally only cares that you're praising whoever their current savior is (Trump at the moment) and hate liberals enough, so an atheist Trump supporter would fit in pretty well. If a member fit those requirements but also did things like constantly talk about how God isn't real or whatever, they'd definitely get the zot, but so long as they don't mention it at all or only casually mention it they'd be safe I'd imagine.
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Twelve by Pies posted:There's a few non-Christians on Freep I'm sure, but they probably keep quiet about it for the most part. I know there's been mention of at least a couple of Jewish members. I'd even be willing to bet there's a few atheist members. Freep generally only cares that you're praising whoever their current savior is (Trump at the moment) and hate liberals enough, so an atheist Trump supporter would fit in pretty well. If a member fit those requirements but also did things like constantly talk about how God isn't real or whatever, they'd definitely get the zot, but so long as they don't mention it at all or only casually mention it they'd be safe I'd imagine. There were still a few mormons during the 2012 cycle, but I don't know if they survived long enough for Jimrob to stop banning Romney supporters and suddenly remember he'd always backed Romney (and started banning Romney detractors).
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JimRob has defected and tens of Freepers are debating reestablishing contact with their kids so they can get a ride to the Race Wars that are probably going on.
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hardstyle posted:Went to go mine for their reaction to Yeah, sounds pretty hosed up, hope all those $$$$ went towards backups and redundac...hahahahah. Jim Robinson posted:Sorry, folks. One of our servers crashed hard. John got it physically rebooted, but it's not working correctly. He may need to drive up to San Jose to fix. If so, we may be down all day. Jim Robinson posted:Update: Heard from John a little while ago. Not good. Was not able to get the hard drive going, so he decided to bring it home and after he gets some sleep, he'll try to replace it and recover the data. Looks liker we're going to be down tomorrow, too. Sorry. Prayers that he gets it all going again tomorrow. It seems they've mostly taken to facebook and except for all the memes and poo poo it's more tame than FR's forums, mostly because facebook is a clusterfuck and I guess it's different when your name and picture is attached to things. https://www.facebook.com/groups/26012226159/
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Who had the 5000:1 bet with satan that (maybe) Freep goes down for good in the same week as the Trump admin?
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Plinkey posted:Who had the 5000:1 bet with satan that (maybe) Freep goes down for good in the same week as the Trump admin?  Hail Satan!
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Mustached Demon posted:
The thing that amazes me the most about this, is that it seems like freep was running on a single server, with only one hard drive in a dusty server farm in San Jose because they wanted to rent/own their own server space and maintain it themselves, even with raid they would have been back up by now and I can't even imagine what 'one' of their servers going down means. Was it the only one? All that for 140k a year? e: wait it's like 100K a quarter isnt it? Plinkey fucked around with this message at 06:23 on May 17, 2017 |
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May 17, 2017 06:20
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Plinkey posted:The thing that amazes me the most about this, is that it seems like freep was running on a single server, with only one hard drive in a dusty server farm in San Jose because they wanted to rent/own their own server space and maintain it themselves, even with raid they would have been back up by now and I can't even imagine what 'one' of their servers going down means. Was it the only one? Were Jim and this John guy just taking like 300k of that 400k in salary?
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wilderthanmild posted:Were Jim and this John guy just taking like 300k of that 400k in salary? Yeah pretty much. It's funneling my paycheck into Jim's bank account via spite.
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wilderthanmild posted:Were Jim and this John guy just taking like 300k of that 400k in salary? Nah, man, that's server upkeep fees. e: Also yes, John is his son.
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Sorry for the double post but this is classic. "Freep: The names are new...It bothers me that I may be nice to someone that hates me" Plinkey fucked around with this message at 06:44 on May 17, 2017 |
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May 17, 2017 06:42
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Freep is and remains the greatest scam.
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Fathis Munk posted:Freep is and remains the greatest scam. Now's the time to strike and build a new one in a weekend.
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Plinkey posted:Sorry for the double post but this is classic. What a shock, a conservative who relies on visual cues to work out if they hate someone or not
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I wonder how many awkward Thanksgivings will be spawned from the outage. "Oh look, Meemaw commented on a story!"
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I wonder how many awkward Thanksgivings will be spawned from the outage. Pretty sure you're having Thanksgiving alone if you've descended into being a Freeper.
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Plinkey posted:Sorry for the double post but this is classic. A Freeper with a Wade Wilson avatar is weird. Guess they don't know Wade Wilson is an omnisexual with a fluid gender identity? Also, who else finds it funny those who are willing to talk about Freep on facebook do not have their face on their profile versus those who do have their facepic as their avatar?
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Plinkey posted:The thing that amazes me the most about this, is that it seems like freep was running on a single server, with only one hard drive in a dusty server farm in San Jose because they wanted to rent/own their own server space and maintain it themselves, even with raid they would have been back up by now and I can't even imagine what 'one' of their servers going down means. Was it the only one? The Freep-a-Thon last year raised 90k per quarter. It was about 350k for the whole year. This might be outdated, but in 2009 or so Jimrob was getting a lot of flack and posted the budget breakdown for Freep. About 90% of it went to Jimrob and his family and the other 10% still had extremely suspicious amounts for things that went to Jimrob and his family like "Travel" and "taxes." The breakdown was: JimRob - 140k for administration John - 110k for "programming" and maintenance. Ann (John's Wife and JimRob's daughter-in-law) - 25k for clerical services. Hosting Costs and Server Storage Fees - 35k "Taxes" - 25k Travel (for appearances at Tea Party and Tax Day rallies in 2009) - 14k Legal Fees - 18k Security Monitoring Software - 12k Total: 379k I think Freep was more profitable back in 2009, but Jimrob has steadfastly refused to itemize costs ever again (that I am aware of) since then and just started zotting people who ask why hosting costs so much.
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Covok posted:A Freeper with a Wade Wilson avatar is weird. Guess they don't know Wade Wilson is an omnisexual with a fluid gender identity? No right winger cares about that, or does it on purpose to try and twist the meaning. Or they just like the character and don't give a poo poo. Look at how popular Captain America is among them (I'm choosing to ignore Marvel's dumb current storyline)
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Lightning Lord posted:No right winger cares about that, or does it on purpose to try and twist the meaning. Or they just like the character and don't give a poo poo. Look at how popular Captain America is among them (I'm choosing to ignore Marvel's dumb current storyline) I think you're choosing to ignore their main reason for liking him. SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:A lot of people only know the surface level of comic book characters :nerddick: True fans know everything about a character. From their real identity to their three measurements!* *As an aside, it weird me out how often that pops up in character bios for some reason. Guess the artist needs to know it or something?
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Covok posted:I think you're choosing to ignore their main reason for liking him. No, I don't think so. Cap represents Freedom and the American Way, so he's popular among conservatives despite the fact that he's a New Deal Democrat created by a guy who had the same politics. The more savvy hardliners know that adopting a character created by two Jews, one who actually fought in WWII is a huge troll. Nobody but the absolute dorkiest cares about what's going on in a storyline that is pretty solidly hated by everyone regardless of politics.
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