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Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

ratbert90 posted:

The mass majority of people are incredibly technology inept and incapable of critical thought. I think that's a failure of school systems more than the people, but it is what it is.

OK that's fair. It's also somewhat of a class thing and I try to keep that in mind when I read this stuff but it drives me nuts when there is this additional element of stubborn willful ignorance.

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FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Elephant Ambush posted:

OK that's fair. It's also somewhat of a class thing and I try to keep that in mind when I read this stuff but it drives me nuts when there is this additional element of stubborn willful ignorance.

I think it's less of a class issue and more of a schooling issue. Even middle-class schools these days focus upon rote memorization instead of critical thought. If poorer schools concentrate on critical thinking, I believe that even the lower class would have a better chance of succeeding in life.

WorldsStongestNerd
Apr 28, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Megillah Gorilla posted:

"To the delight, I imagine, of the church’s enemies."

Welp, they got me there.

Same here.

Hmm, when you rape a bunch of kids and cover it up, you tend to make some enemies. People on the lookout for your destruction. Who knew the world worked like that?

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

ratbert90 posted:

I think it's less of a class issue and more of a schooling issue. Even middle-class schools these days focus upon rote memorization instead of critical thought. If poorer schools concentrate on critical thinking, I believe that even the lower class would have a better chance of succeeding in life.

Class and education are very tightly linked.

And what happens when you focus on critical thinking in chud schools they pull them out and homeschool them or send them to private religious schools or they get on the PTA board and/or lobby state governments to allow parents to sign their kids out of anything they find objectionable.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

ratbert90 posted:

I think it's less of a class issue and more of a schooling issue. Even middle-class schools these days focus upon rote memorization instead of critical thought. If poorer schools concentrate on critical thinking, I believe that even the lower class would have a better chance of succeeding in life.

Whaddya mean these days? Was there ever a really a time that there was widespread good teaching of "critical thinking"?

You sure don't see it in today's middle age and old people, and before today's old people most people would be lucky to finish middle school let alone high school.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Elephant Ambush posted:

Class and education are very tightly linked.

And what happens when you focus on critical thinking in chud schools they pull them out and homeschool them or send them to private religious schools or they get on the PTA board and/or lobby state governments to allow parents to sign their kids out of anything they find objectionable.

They tried to get a critical thinking class going in my town, one that would teach basic logic and look at commercials and like ufo claims and stuff like that, and angry parents shut it down almost immediately.

We call these people dumb, but they can sure recognize a threat when they see one.

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

.

We call these people dumb, but they can sure recognize a threat when they see one.

When you view every single change as a threat you’re bound to be correct eventually.

Veni Vidi Ameche!
Nov 2, 2017

by Fluffdaddy

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

They tried to get a critical thinking class going in my town, one that would teach basic logic and look at commercials and like ufo claims and stuff like that, and angry parents shut it down almost immediately.

We call these people dumb, but they can sure recognize a threat when they see one.

The next step after questioning the chariots of the gods, is to question the gods.

Sarcastr0
May 29, 2013

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES ?!?!?
Whoo-hoo! Patriots win 13-3. IN YOUR FACE!!

quote:

To: Maceman
Patriots beat the Commies! An omen of what’s to come! They will show at the White House!


50 posted on 2/3/2019, 10:36:37 PM by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)

quote:

To: txrefugee
I went to the corner at halftime, got beer, and spent the rest of the evening watching my cat lick himself. It was more entertaining.
Who won?

57 posted on 2/3/2019, 10:50:23 PM by Viking2002

quote:

To: Maceman
Good game and a great season. The good guys won. Trump changed the NFL for the better.

The complainers and know-nothings on this post make the win and the season a bit more satisfying.


60 posted on 2/3/2019, 10:53:51 PM by Fairhairedboy (MAGA)

quote:

To: lightman
How many times did they cut the sound of the halftime show? Eight times? Ten times. The fans were treated to rap lyrics with obscene references. What kind of mentality subjects people with such incivility?


80 posted on 2/3/2019, 11:27:08 PM by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005
Ugggghhhh this is why I'm not a Patriots fan anymore.

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire
I mean it was Socialist Massachusetts vs Socialist California one would think it'd be a "whoever wins we lose" scenario for them.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

RagnarokAngel posted:

I mean it was Socialist Massachusetts vs Socialist California one would think it'd be a "whoever wins we lose" scenario for them.

Yeah but Tom Brady is a total chud playing for “The Patriots”

Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...
Trump likes the Pats, therefore Freep likes the Pats. Also Tom Bundy is a megachud.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

RagnarokAngel posted:

I mean it was Socialist Massachusetts vs Socialist California one would think it'd be a "whoever wins we lose" scenario for them.

Trump and Richard Spencer are both Patriots fans and Brady was photographed once with a MAGA hat in his locker behind him :barf:

Our once-in-a-generation QB had to be THIS guy. If it weren't for the fact that Brady's wife is a devout liberal, he'd cozy up to Trump a lot more. That, and the fact that no matter how big a hero you are, if you go full chud in public Massachusetts will hate you (see: Curt Schilling).

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

They tried to get a critical thinking class going in my town, one that would teach basic logic and look at commercials and like ufo claims and stuff like that, and angry parents shut it down almost immediately.

We call these people dumb, but they can sure recognize a threat when they see one.

Yeah, but dumb or not, recognizing threats and loving are like two of life's core instincts.

SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Feb 4, 2019

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Weren't these fucks screaming about destroying and boycotting the NFL just a short time ago?

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

quote:

Good game and a great season.

What the hell game was this guy watching? Last night's game was boring as hell, Goff is a complete fraud and even Brady had a hard time getting the offense going. The Pats season was far from great on top of that, it was so shaky that people were (foolishly) saying the Pats were done for.

Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

Twelve by Pies posted:

What the hell game was this guy watching? Last night's game was boring as hell, Goff is a complete fraud and even Brady had a hard time getting the offense going. The Pats season was far from great on top of that, it was so shaky that people were (foolishly) saying the Pats were done for.

Idiot neonazi care about literally nothing but the perception that they through one of their strongmen proxies scored some kind of 'victory,' in something, news at loving 11.

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

Twelve by Pies posted:

What the hell game was this guy watching? Last night's game was boring as hell, Goff is a complete fraud and even Brady had a hard time getting the offense going. The Pats season was far from great on top of that, it was so shaky that people were (foolishly) saying the Pats were done for.

And libs keep saying trump is done for! Its all according to plan!

Corsair Pool Boy
Dec 17, 2004
College Slice
They won lots of games, then won the championship. It was a good game if you like solid defense, a lot of the QB failings were constant pressure in the pocket, that's been the only consistent to throw Brady off his game his entire career, and the Rams were able to do it without giving up 5 yard slants every play.

tl;dr: COUNT THE RINGS CRYBABBIES

OK I have defended a FReeper, I'm gonna have to be a friggin' saint for the rest of my life, aren't I?

What's FReep's take on everyone's favorite governor, Ralph "just a little bit of shoe polish to darken my cheeks" "Coonman" Northam's brave stand for social values and racial equality way back in 1984 when (I assume) the blacks had their own water fountains and cross burning was just a normal Saturday night for vast swaths of this here great Commonwealth?

*moonwalks away*

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse
He has a D next to his name, you should know the answer to this

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire
"Liberals are the real racists" combined with the false echo chamber saying democrats are silent on it even though they have in fact been calling for his resignation.

Sarcastr0
May 29, 2013

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES ?!?!?
Yeah, Freeps' take on Northam is pretty boring.

In poking around I found some weird Freeper historical takes, though:

quote:

To: chuckee
Once upon a time, most of what is now Afghanistan was called Bactria, and it was rich, civilized, and stable. But that is because it was ruled by Greek kings, and its people were Hellenistic pagans, and later, after the conversion of Menander I, Buddhists
There could hardly be a sharper lesson of the evils of a certain religion it is probably a hate crime to name.

34 posted on 2/4/2019, 4:14:34 AM by John Locke

quote:

To: Robert DeLong
I disagree. This goes back to JFK allowing Federal workers to unionize. Up until then the bureaucracy was not totally unaccountable. Before that an incoming administration had no problem getting rid of an unelected bureaucrat.
Ever hear of the Pendleton Act of 1883? That is the law that established the permanent and unaccountable bureaucratic state and established the technocracy. (Look it up)

13 posted on 2/4/2019, 4:18:25 AM by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Freeper on Afghanistan proves his racism is strongee than his hatres for commies, since he could well say that Afthanistan nosedived thanks to the Soviet invasion (and certain freedom fighters funded by Ronnie but it’s freep so) and be less wrong.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 12 hours!
I'm a level 9 conservative, I want to go back to the spoils system

Sarcastr0
May 29, 2013

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES ?!?!?
Steve Bannon praises Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes for 'grit, determination, and fighting spirit'

quote:

To: CondoleezzaProtege
It’s easy to be AOC. She has a me-too chorus in the media, academia, and half her party. Trump had to overcome them, all the cheatercrats, and RINOs pulling in the other direction.


7 posted on 2/4/2019, 3:08:43 AM by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)

quote:

To: jmacusa
He’s hoping to get laid . Every old neocon’s secret fantasy ; Leftie baby sex


10 posted on 2/4/2019, 3:12:07 AM by LeoWindhorse

quote:

To: CitizenUSA
AOC has plenty of conservative counterparts. The difference is that they have real standards and therefore have no interest in Washington politics.
AOC is a loser who didn't have the intelligence and/or motivation to be successful in a couple of her small business ventures a few years ago. That's why she was working as a bartender at the age of 28 -- which isn't much to show for a degree in international relations from Boston U.

16 posted on 2/4/2019, 3:34:38 AM by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")

quote:

To: TADSLOS
She’s a mindless, robotic unrepentant Marxist idealogue. She is not American, and should have no place in American politics.

She is a hater and if enough people follow her and her ilk, it will lead to a hot Civil War III.


18 posted on 2/4/2019, 3:51:40 AM by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)

quote:

To: PIF
“She’s gay”

Really — she’s a lesbian?


43 posted on 2/4/2019, 7:22:19 AM by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")

quote:

To: CondoleezzaProtege
AOC is the tard from da Bronx. I’ve known many tards who had grit and determination in spades. But their brains were mush.
Btw, Condoleezza falls into a tard category as well. Those so smart they are dumb. She had to be the most stupid person God every created with her asinine world view, “the Iraqis want democracy” to just mention one. A true idiot in the Bush vein and that is truly tarded.

28 posted on 2/4/2019, 5:05:27 AM by Badboo (Why it is important)

quote:

[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Can’t believe how the media fawns all over that dumb broad. There is NO ONE on the right as dumb and flat-out ignorant as she is. In the media’s eyes it would instantly disqualify any Republican for office. Freaking hypocrites!


31 posted on 2/4/2019, 5:28:30 AM by LibWhacker

quote:

To: CondoleezzaProtege
The radical left wing BI ignore and hides this obvious PUPPET of a well organized Radical Socialist group with many Media Sympathizers .
She is dumb bartender who stole tips .
She was selected to run in a district with a low voter turn out but she was a PR nothing else .

Every day they decide what there Monkey says .
You can tell when she goes off script .

That phony lefty NYC mayor is with this group .

Bannon is a dope but we knew that. They are dangerous .

40 posted on 2/4/2019, 6:52:34 AM by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselveking/its population here and Canada)

quote:

To: CondoleezzaProtege
“One Republican representative told Politico: “I aspire to be the conservative AOC.”

A Republican is aspiring to be a brainless wonder?

I can see a clear and distinct advantage to this. Take a cow for instance, they aren’t very smart. They can be taken to the slaughter house and not have the slightest clue as to what’s next. The advantage is the cow will not have prolonged anxiety over it’s eventual fate.

Followers of AOC obviously are in the IQ range of a cow. They are just fat, dumb and happy to get free stuff that they really cannot see beyond that. The advantage is the the useful idiots will not have prolonged anxiety over their eventual fate.


59 posted on 2/4/2019, 9:31:26 AM by redfreedom (Elizabeth Warren has more Indian blood in her than journalism has truth.)

quote:

To: OKSooner
“Cause she she Che Crazy, YO’’. Word Yo! Bitch be kray fo’Che! She stone kray!


66 posted on 2/4/2019, 2:19:42 PM by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire
Old white people doing the faux ebonics always makes me cringe and laugh.

Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...
Doubly so when they use it on a Hispanic woman.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Cool that they’re continuing to radicalize themselves into spree shooter situations—“cow” being the aarp-friendly npc equivalent. Has there been a freep mass shooter? Was that guy who shot up the holocaust museum during Obama’s inauguration one? Or the guy who flew a plane into the irs?

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Or the guy who flew a plane into the irs?

Anti-Christian Communist responsible for Austin Terrorist Attack: Suicide Note Posted Online.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454242/posts

His manifesto/suicide note is posted there. 412 total comments, so there was at least something for them to argue about.

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire
Freepers only talk. Once they take action they cease becoming freepers.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

RagnarokAngel posted:

Freepers only talk. Once they take action they cease becoming freepers.

The best title this thread ever had was "The Revolution Will Be Disavowed As A False Flag Op"

hardstyle
Mar 12, 2004

"...Neither seen nor heard"


Freepers: it will lead to a hot Civil War III.

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

RagnarokAngel posted:

Freepers only talk. Once they take action they cease becoming freepers.

Yeah, they bluster a lot about being badass and ready to act, but when one of them does they all disavow knowledge of the person and start scouring the person's info in the media for the faintest thing to link them to liberals, the deep state, commies, or Soros.
Freepers are the angry racist grandpa version of someone you'd tell to poo poo or get off the pot

Giggle Goose
Oct 18, 2009

hardstyle posted:

Freepers: it will lead to a hot Civil War III.

Yeah I saw that and I was thinking poo poo I musta missed the second one.

Tony Phillips
Feb 9, 2006
Powder wasn’t quite dry so Civil War II was cancelled.

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Freep, once again so close to getting the point and then veers off. (Talking about AOC)

quote:

To: laweeks
"It’s amazing how much publicity this adolescent-minded, very dull witted jackassette is getting in the media, and even here on Free Republic."
I'm actually starting to think that's the plan. Come up with something outrageous every day to get your name and face in the news.
Repeat,
Repeat,
Repeat,
run for president as the most recognized democrat.

24 posted on 2/7/2019, 6:07:22 PM by DannyTN

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Lol at having to gender “jackass”

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless

Plinkey posted:

Freep, once again so close to getting the point and then veers off. (Talking about AOC)

Surely that strategy couldn't work. Citizens of the USA are smarter than that right? :thunk:

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Helen Highwater
Feb 19, 2014

And furthermore
Grimey Drawer

jobson groeth posted:

Surely that strategy couldn't work. Citizens of the USA are smarter than that right? :thunk:

No you see, citizens of the US are at first too smart to be taken in and then not smart enough to not fall for evil Socialist wiles, thus by a constant shifting of rhetorical focus....

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