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Uncle Ulty posted:He was investigated, gave testimony, denied any wrongdoing, and was never charged. Therefore he was innocent. The Fort Pillow Massacre was Fake News!
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I will never get over “actually the confederacy was good but THEY don’t want you to know that the Democrats did the confederacy” poo poo. How do you not see how stupid that line is
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Jul 15, 2019 01:57
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I will never get over “actually the confederacy was good but THEY don’t want you to know that the Democrats did the confederacy” poo poo. 
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Jul 15, 2019 02:48
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I will never get over “actually the confederacy was good but THEY don’t want you to know that the Democrats did the confederacy” poo poo. Hardcore conspiracy theorists believe in multiple mutually exclusive conspiracies.
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Jul 15, 2019 03:22
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I will never get over “actually the confederacy was good but THEY don’t want you to know that the Democrats did the confederacy” poo poo. “The nazis weren’t racist and holocaust never happened and when we do it again we’ll kill all of you this time!”
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Jul 15, 2019 03:42
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Churches Promise Sanctuary From Migrant Sweeps [Los Angeles]quote:To: Olog-hai The story quotes Guillermo Torres with Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice quote:To: Olog-hai quote:To: Olog-hai
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Jul 15, 2019 07:15
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These people would proudly and knowingly crucify the risen Lord Jesus Christ himself and consider themselves true Christians the entire time.
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Jul 15, 2019 07:34
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Nothing more Christian than denying aid to the downtrodden, I guess? Is Freep actually quiet or is just the freep thread here quiet lately? I never go there (and bless you brave souls who do), but this thread has gotten really quiet lately and I'm curious.
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Jul 15, 2019 07:55
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Freep is just as busy as ever. This thread is just redundant because there's a freeper in the White House and the right has homogenized into all being the same basic type of rear end in a top hat.
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Jul 15, 2019 07:59
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its really just the same poo poo all day, linking to far right non-legit news sites then getting into a temporary hissy fit over it the trump love is wearing thin as far as i can tell, but there are still some true believers, i wish i had my desktop here and not in my storage unit so i could fire up the freep scraper again, and get some measurable numbers if the posting has actually gone down in the last ~4-6 months.
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Jul 15, 2019 08:01
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Freep isnt as fascinating as it once was. Its like a weird relic for old timers but its not attracting new blood, they all goto reddit, YouTube or 4chan. Its dying a slow death and unfortunately you can find the same sorts of posts on your racist uncle's facebook page so its like, why walk to the river when you got the well in your backyard?
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Jul 15, 2019 08:03
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The Black Woman Who Will Be The Next 007quote:To: Enlightened1 quote:To: Enlightened1 quote:To: montag813 quote:To: Enlightened1 quote:To: Enlightened1 quote:To: Enlightened1 quote:To: Enlightened1 quote:To: gaijin And my favorite: quote:To: gaijin
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Jul 15, 2019 10:27
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Georgia Peach posted:The Black Woman Who Will Be The Next 007 If I was racist this would actually be really funny.
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Jul 15, 2019 14:32
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Discord channels are the new cesspools.
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Jul 15, 2019 15:37
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The Trump love on Freep seems to be wearing thin, but in a weird way. Although there are some posters whom it is slowly dawning on that Trump has been playing them this whole time, a lot more are frustrated with him that he hasn't gone full-dictator yet. Like, that's why they elected him, so they are wondering why he's waiting so long to crush their enemies. I've seen several different Freepers call on Trump to go "full Pinochet," usually in regards to LGBT issues, which sure is troubling. But, yes, overall Freep isn't as funny as it used to be, mostly because our big dumb President makes them so happy, so they've turned back into flag-waving patriots. Freep was at its funniest when people were having meltdowns, calling for revolution, and lamenting the death of America at the idea of a black president eating mustard or daring to put his feet up on a desk. Now it's mostly just 20 posts of "Haha, YES, another #win for Trump!" on positive articles, and 40 responses of "Shut UP snowflakes, you lost!! Thank you President Trump!!!" on negative ones.
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Jul 15, 2019 17:01
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Peak freep reading for me was right after Obergfell. So many of them just gave up completely and that made me so incredibly happy.
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Jul 15, 2019 17:36
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RagnarokAngel posted:Freep isnt as fascinating as it once was. Its like a weird relic for old timers but its not attracting new blood, they all goto reddit, YouTube or 4chan. Its dying a slow death and unfortunately you can find the same sorts of posts on your racist uncle's facebook page so its like, why walk to the river when you got the well in your backyard? Yeah, this. Freep's style of bigotry and hate was the barely-covert type from back in the W administration, despite how much they now claim to never have really trusted him or thought he was a real conservative. They're too old and fossilized to adapt to style of their alt-right successors, and given that they're already too cowardly to go outside and risk seeing a non-white person one can only imagine how fast they'd rascal away from actual Antifa.
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Jul 15, 2019 18:11
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Twelve by Pies posted:Also I do like the idea from that quote that England shouldn't declare slavery illegal in the colonies because...uh...the slaves would become suspicious of them and get angry, or something. Historically, if they had made slavery illegal in the 13 colonies, we would have an even muddier origin for the USA. Could you imagine if Slavery was enshrined as the sole catalyst of the revolution? I know the risk of it being banned was one of the less talked about causes, but just imagine the USA literally being primarily founded to ensure the survival of slavery.
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Jul 15, 2019 18:13
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quote:(Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !) This is astonishingly homophobic even for Freep. Just, drat.
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wilderthanmild posted:Historically, if they had made slavery illegal in the 13 colonies, we would have an even muddier origin for the USA. Could you imagine if Slavery was enshrined as the sole catalyst of the revolution? I know the risk of it being banned was one of the less talked about causes, but just imagine the USA literally being primarily founded to ensure the survival of slavery. While Parliamentary discussions concerning slavery were a thing and were paid attention to by colonials, particularly in Virginia and the Carolinas, it really isn't comparable to what came later in the nineteenth century, both as attitudes toward slavery were very different (the Necessary Evil/gradual extinction school of thought being predominant and the later perpetual/Benevolent Good ideas not really existing yet), and also as abolitionist agitation back in Britain was still very much a vocal minority (though a growing one).
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Jul 15, 2019 19:22
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Originally the Declaration of Independence had a line critical of slavery but Southerners bitched so it was taken out.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:While Parliamentary discussions concerning slavery were a thing and were paid attention to by colonials, particularly in Virginia and the Carolinas, it really isn't comparable to what came later in the nineteenth century, both as attitudes toward slavery were very different (the Necessary Evil/gradual extinction school of thought being predominant and the later perpetual/Benevolent Good ideas not really existing yet), and also as abolitionist agitation back in Britain was still very much a vocal minority (though a growing one). This came up in the milhist thread when responding to a pretty ridiculous article claiming that we'd have been better off not declaring independence. Among many dodgy claims was that slavery would have been ended earlier, citing Britain abolishing slavery across the whole empire in the 1830s. The problem is slavery was mainly abolished because it was no longer profitable enough to justify and the government simply paid off all the slaveowners to release their slaves. The development of improved cotton processing in the 1840s, on the other hand, made slavery in the United States so profitable that the Southern economy became completely dependent on the institution. The wealthy white plantation owners were so adamant about maintaining their wealth and status that they fought a war over it.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:08
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pookel posted:This is astonishingly homophobic even for Freep. Just, drat. The naked homophobia on Freep has ramped up significantly recently. It's probably due to a variety of factors, but the Drag Queen Story Hour scaremongering has switched a lot of freepers over from "grumble grumble shoved down our throats grumble" to "THEY'RE PEDOPHILES AFTER OUR KIDS, GET 'EM!" Slurs are unmoderated, and threats that "slip through" are becoming more common. Case in point! Radical Lesbian Star Rapinoe Drops F-bomb in front of Children, tweets 'Gays Better than Straight' quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: JudgemAll quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: HotKat
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Jul 15, 2019 20:50
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Weird how freepers are able to go into graphic detail about the mechanics of gay sex when it's two men yet never heard of tribbing.
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Jul 15, 2019 21:02
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:The naked homophobia on Freep has ramped up significantly recently. It's probably due to a variety of factors, but the Drag Queen Story Hour scaremongering has switched a lot of freepers over from "grumble grumble shoved down our throats grumble" to "THEY'RE PEDOPHILES AFTER OUR KIDS, GET 'EM!" Slurs are unmoderated, and threats that "slip through" are becoming more common. I love Megan's ability to piss off every old, white, straight conservative ever.
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quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal The assumption of a Freeper that he will outlive a peak-conditioned athlete in her 30s is really giving me the giggles.
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chitoryu12 posted:This came up in the milhist thread when responding to a pretty ridiculous article claiming that we'd have been better off not declaring independence. Among many dodgy claims was that slavery would have been ended earlier, citing Britain abolishing slavery across the whole empire in the 1830s. The problem is slavery was mainly abolished because it was no longer profitable enough to justify and the government simply paid off all the slaveowners to release their slaves. The development of improved cotton processing in the 1840s, on the other hand, made slavery in the United States so profitable that the Southern economy became completely dependent on the institution. The wealthy white plantation owners were so adamant about maintaining their wealth and status that they fought a war over it. Economic arguments for slavery's eventual demise in the US ignore the social realities of how, unlike in much/most of Britain's colonies, slavery was the bedrock upon which all Southern white society was built and how Southern attitudes toward labor itself were molded around the concept that working for a living at best something distasteful that whites should only do as long as they needed to build up the money to buy enough slaves to do it for them. Similarly, such arguments ignore how the planter aristocracy were explicit anti-capitalist (despite engaging with the capitalist North) due to their pseudo-feudal worldview, and thus willing to ignore economic practicalities in service of romanticism. Similarly, British abolitionism carried with it an unspoken "or else hang as a traitor to the crown" at the end of the offers of compensated emancipation, which certainly would have driven the planter class into rebellion had they somehow still be under the Union Jack in 1830.
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Jul 15, 2019 21:28
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Also, Lesbos use dildos during sex (sodomy). Must NEED a man! Hee hee
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Ubiquitous_ posted:I love Megan's ability to piss off every old, white, straight conservative ever. Yeah, I had no idea who she even was before the World Cup and she's fast becoming one of my personal heroes for this alone.
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Jul 15, 2019 21:46
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Freep nowadays is pretty much just the most vile bigotry possible and constant slapfights over who loves Trump more, neither of which I really feel needs to shared. We All Wanted to Love the Women's Soccer Team The USWNT on the other hand is the gift that keeps on giving.  quote:To: Kaslin O... kay? quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: riverrunner quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: BobL So very not mad here! quote:To: JonPreston; All quote:To: mindburglar quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: Kaslin Reminder that liberals are the real racists quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: kearnyirish2
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Jul 16, 2019 14:20
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Is Affirmative Action really a thing? My understanding is that if a company hires a majority over a minority, they just have to be able to justify the hire, even with something as flimsy as "their experience aligned more with our goals"
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Jul 18, 2019 13:57
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omnibobb posted:Is Affirmative Action really a thing? My understanding is that if a company hires a majority over a minority, they just have to be able to justify the hire, even with something as flimsy as "their experience aligned more with our goals" no it's not a thing no company hires like that
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Jul 18, 2019 14:05
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I thought it was just a university admissions thing.
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Jul 18, 2019 14:54
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I've definitely at least heard of attempts to get it put in as internal policy for some organizations, although it's always progressive ones trying to counter unconscious bias rather than whatever conservatives think it is. Some parts of the Green Party down here in Australia (where they're actually a fairly big deal), for example, have made some attempts to enact affirmative action policies to ensure that elected members and internal positions don't just by sheer chance happen to be dominated by older straight white guys.
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omnibobb posted:Is Affirmative Action really a thing? My understanding is that if a company hires a majority over a minority, they just have to be able to justify the hire, even with something as flimsy as "their experience aligned more with our goals" Not the way they describe it. There were initially attempts at quotas for colleges and federal workers, but the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional a long time ago. Today, the intent is for general practices that avoid discrimination even when not obvious, like mandating an IQ test for a job and having a test that's biased for educated whites. Duke Power Company did that until 1971 when it was demonstrated in court that they were hiring white employees who didn't meet the requirement and their job performance was no different. But because Freep lives in a permanent distorted 1950s, they think "affirmative action" means denying perfect, angelic white folk jobs and education in favor of the ghetto hordes.
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Jul 18, 2019 15:11
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So how are the chuds reacting to Mueller literally testifying under oath that TRIMP was not exonnerated? Deep State? Fake News? La la la I can't hear you?
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Elephant Ambush posted:So how are the chuds reacting to Mueller literally testifying under oath that TRIMP was not exonnerated? Well, one of the Republican congressmen basically said "I thought innocent until proven guilty was the law, so how can he be not exonerated if you didn't charge him?" My guess is that will be the line.
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Jul 24, 2019 16:37
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I'm guessing "la la la la I can't hear you". Most Freepers are brain-broken enough to view Trump's tweets as gospel, and ignore anything in reality that would contradict them.
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Jurgan posted:Well, one of the Republican congressmen basically said "I thought innocent until proven guilty was the law, so how can he be not exonerated if you didn't charge him?" My guess is that will be the line.
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