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Bremen posted:You could probably write a research paper on self delusion on this one post alone. I'm trying to imagine the thought process that thinks there is a drug one can take that will protect you from COVID, but for some reason our capitalist overlords don't want us to have it so we can dutifully keep showing up to work and making them money.
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pthighs posted:I'm trying to imagine the thought process that thinks there is a drug one can take that will protect you from COVID, but for some reason our capitalist overlords don't want us to have it so we can dutifully keep showing up to work and making them money. Plus, our side, the ones pimping this miracle cure, are the ones who don't take it and get sick, but the other side, those soyboy idiots, DO, and don't get sick! I don't think there are enough dimensions for the chess we got going on here.
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pthighs posted:I'm trying to imagine the thought process that thinks there is a drug one can take that will protect you from COVID, but for some reason our capitalist overlords don't want us to have it so we can dutifully keep showing up to work and making them money. Literally the plot to the first deus ex which was based on every 90s conspiracy theory and presumably most freepers believe all of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feY5KhdXsUQ
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Dec 8, 2020 20:46
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Why did HCQ stick around so long anyway? Normally with something relatively unknown being the miracle cure there's a pretty high churn on it, whether it's the superfruit of the month or whatever, and they'd be talking about how when Trump said inject bleach he was actually talking about blue light therapy and it's all about blue light now, especially in an area where the non-tinfoil advice keeps changing rapidly.
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Dec 8, 2020 20:55
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Guavanaut posted:Why did HCQ stick around so long anyway? Normally with something relatively unknown being the miracle cure there's a pretty high churn on it, whether it's the superfruit of the month or whatever, and they'd be talking about how when Trump said inject bleach he was actually talking about blue light therapy and it's all about blue light now, especially in an area where the non-tinfoil advice keeps changing rapidly.
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Dec 8, 2020 21:01
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Trump has said a ton of other poo poo too, and it's not something that Alex Jones can monetize, and given how much churn there's been in conspiracy circles over the summer-now period it's surprising that it didn't gradually get replaced by something else. Like I'm sure at one point after the 'internal disinfectant' comments it was blue light therapy, but it never stuck.
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Dec 8, 2020 21:11
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"I DISAGREE!!" is an identity to a lot of people
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Dec 8, 2020 21:24
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I wondered how Freep was dealing with the news about the new Texas lawsuit and it looks like they're mostly going "THIS IS HOW TRUMP WINS" but there do seem to be a few saying "Uh, Texas has no standing" and a lot of misunderstanding of how these kinds of cases work (SCOTUS is the original jurisdiction between state disputes, but that doesn't mean they are required to take the case, only that they are the only court that is allowed to).
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Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3913508/posts Freep mostly understands that only the injunctive relief is denied for now. quote:Posted on 12/8/2020, 4:57:32 PM by JonPreston quote:
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Guavanaut posted:Trump has said a ton of other poo poo too, and it's not something that Alex Jones can monetize, Alex Jones might not be to monetize it, but going by my woo-loving aunt, there were lots of pseudoscience 'doctors' who were willing to prescribe it, and each one was willing to announce that, in their own independent study, it totally worked. (If you dug, their 'study' would be 'I gave this to 20 people and it didn't kill them'. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Dec 8, 2020 |
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Dec 8, 2020 23:25
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Karma Comedian posted:Is there a thread for them as well? I wish there was but I don't think many people are willing to wade through that cesspool
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Alctel posted:I wish there was but I don't think many people are willing to wade through that cesspool I post some of them here occasionally Currently they're telling themselves this: quote:CHILL PEDES!! WE ARE GOOD. SCOTUS DENIED PA GOP EXPLANATION: An injunctive relief is ONLY granted if there are no other legal options available. Certification is only the beginning of the litigation process. So this decision was expected and is meaningless. Texas suit is the game changer. The Texas case is now the real case (for the past two weeks or so, the PA case has been the real case whenever they've lost a lawsuit, but no matter). Won't be long before "Biden's inauguration is the real beginning of the litigation process! We have them right where we want them!" Edit: Let's look at some more desperate coping: quote:STFU DOOMERS TX CASE WAS TAKEN. SCOTUS WILL INCLUDE PA quote:PA IS PART OF THE TX CASE SCOTUS DOESN'T NEED 1 MILLION CASES quote:if we were getting hosed it wouldn't have been 9-0 "Please don’t shoot the messenger" needs to be prefixed before any dose of reality at thedonald quote:Please don’t shoot the messenger, but the nature of the filing meant it was automatically docketed - no decision has been made on the claim yet in one way or another, and there was never a chance to ‘decline’ to put it on the docket. quote:TEXAS CASE HAS STANDING DOOMERS DOOO DOOOO DOOM!!! One of their faves of course quote:“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” - Thomas Jefferson The REAL case is still pending quote:Reddit is out in full force today. Texas v. PA far more important than Kelly v. PA. Doomers get hosed This pessimism will not be tolerated quote:MAGA1775 -1 points 1 hour ago +8 / -9 Crossing the Rubicon is a favorite of theirs now. They had a thread a few weeks back where they were all fantasizing about Trump as Caesar, and how democracy is kinda lame anyway we need an empire, gently caress yeah quote:President Trump. quote:IF YOU DONT SMELL GUNPOWDER BURNING OR HEAR GUNFIRE FALL SILENT THEN WE HAVENT LOST ANYTHING "This seems bad please tell me it's not" quote:Somebody give me some good spin on this plz "Tossing the result of one state would be too political, unlike tossing the results of four states" quote:It's probably ok because Supreme Court can't risk make a political decision. I'm hoping they take the Texas case instead. It's fine. Don't ask me why or how quote:A lot of stupid people in this thread. quote:WHAT SUPREME COURT IS THIS? Noted legal genius Alan Dershowitz told me this case was solid!! quote:This one shocks me honestly. This is the one that even Dershowitz said was solid. But hey, they are going to look at the now multi-state case initiated by TX HappyHippo fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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HappyHippo posted:The Texas case is now the real case (for the past two weeks or so, the PA case has been the real case whenever they've lost a lawsuit, but no matter). Someone made this joke in the polliwonks thread (The first one) and I wanna repeat it now. We are in for four years of mirror universe #resistance twitter  Every day freep is going to repeat that This THIS scandal will be the one that sees Biden impeached and in jail forever, saving America from
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Biden will probably not lose a couple of electoral votes the way Trump did, either, so technically he will have a higher score than Donald despite a similar state-by-state total. I assume the Texas case is a giant fart entitled Ken Paxton's Audition For Trump's Fry Boy (Mar-a-Lago Edition)
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Dec 9, 2020 00:45
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Yeah there's no way Dem voters are gonna vote for someone other than Biden, the weirdness around Biden becoming president resides entirely among the far right. The republican party as a whole wasn't totally happy with Trump winning at the time. Cruz said to vote your conscience, remember.
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Dec 9, 2020 01:30
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I built a basic web scraper to build a timeseries of freep's donation scoreboard. Today I noticed that donations reported flatlined. Knowing that their target is now $88,000 a quarter I thought surely my lovely code was broken! Nope, turns out that they've hit their target. freepathon: $89,267 donation scoreboard: $81,277.50 Admittedly I don't have data back that far so I'm not sure if this is normal, but it's definitely raising my eyebrows. Maybe they didn't update their excel sheet yet? I have a NUC I never turn off so I'll just leave it running and we'll see!
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Does the scoreboard include recurring donations? When things start to plateau jimrob adds them to the freepathon in order to get it over the line.
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Guavanaut posted:Why did HCQ stick around so long anyway? Normally with something relatively unknown being the miracle cure there's a pretty high churn on it, whether it's the superfruit of the month or whatever, and they'd be talking about how when Trump said inject bleach he was actually talking about blue light therapy and it's all about blue light now, especially in an area where the non-tinfoil advice keeps changing rapidly. No, he was literally looking at this poster before he said that poo poo: 
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Yeah but the 'Trump is actually a very smart medical genius and wouldn't suggest the world's dumbest poo poo' take on it was that he was talking about UV therapy, it just got quickly forgotten and went back to HCQ = magic.
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The obvious guess is that he or a connection had money in a company involved with HCQ. Seems like a grift that got way too public and they kinda just leaned into it. Then the normalisation phenomenon happened and no one cares that the president of the US just made up poo poo about a drug, and got even more people killed.
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Here's a lighthearted story posted to freep: Son Invents App To Stop Father With PTSD From Having Night Terrors. Now, It's Available To All Veterans and of course someone took it in a racist direction. quote:To: Eddie01 YouTube bans videos claiming 2020 presidential election fraud quote:To: Anti-Bubba182 quote:To: Anti-Bubba182 quote:
Freep's collective underwear are in a bunch because Ilhan Omar selling vulgar T-shirts that say 'F*** around and find out' quote:To: SJackson quote:To: SJackson quote:To: SJackson And of course a bunch of comments about her being married to her brother or female-circumcised Finally, Freep proves the adage that even a stopped clock is right twice a day Here's a list of crimes on LA's new DA's do-not-prosecute list quote:As of Tuesday, many misdemeanor cases will be declined or dismissed prior to arraignment unless "factors for considerations" exist. The list of offenses includes trespassing, disturbing the peace, a minor in possession of alcohol, driving without a license, driving with a suspended license, making criminal threats, drug and paraphernalia possession, being under the influence of a controlled substance, public intoxication, loitering to commit prostitution and resisting arrest. quote:To: SJackson Of course, Freep goes back to being Freep quote:
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quote:I want the USA back (I fear my government much much more than a virus from china.) Who wrote this song and what was the album called?
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raminasi posted:Does the scoreboard include recurring donations? When things start to plateau jimrob adds them to the freepathon in order to get it over the line. Today's freepathon total is: $90,431 Dashboard's Receipts + Total Monthlies at the instant I ran the query: $96,004.20 I guess it'll get up there eventually given how early in the month it is 🤷♂️. This made me wonder when Social Security benefits go out and there is a public schedule. It looks like it is mostly dispersed on Wednesdays so I'll have to figure out what pandas wizardry will show me that pattern 😂
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kik2dagroin posted:Ah I think you're right, that seems to sorta make sense. I was only tracking the receipts: As far as I can remember they've stated their quarterly operating expenses at 90Kish without any supporting documentation.
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Zwabu posted:As far as I can remember they've stated their quarterly operating expenses at 90Kish without any supporting documentation. Perhaps Freep and SA have more in common than we'd like to admit...
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Safety Dance posted:quote: Inadvertently admitting Biden did indeed win. Love it.
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Sarcastro posted:Inadvertently admitting Biden did indeed win. Love it. Freep has been more (admittedly dejectedly) realistic about that. Some still hold out hope but they all know where things are going at some level. TD, on the other hand, such speech ist verboten.
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"Legally carrying a firearm in a Democrat controlled town and the police stop you and illegally seize your firearm? You’re resisting arrest." Really want to know this freeper's opinion on the murder of Philando Castile.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"Legally carrying a firearm in a Democrat controlled town and the police stop you and illegally seize your firearm? You’re resisting arrest." Probably along the lines of "He was a Black and he deserved it because he was Probably No Angel"
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Probably along the lines of "He was a Black and he deserved it because he was Probably No Angel" You'd be shocked. A surprising number of freepers will break ranks if someone is unlawfully imprisoned or killed vis a vis the second amendment.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"Legally carrying a firearm in a Democrat controlled town and the police stop you and illegally seize your firearm? You’re resisting arrest." If you ask most of them about any individual case they will say it was bad and wrong And 5 seconds later they will be complaining about urban ferals and commie protesters and having violent fantasies about killing libs They feel no need to reconcile anything like this
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That's because everything in that sort of worldview comes down to individual actions rather than an interplay between the individual and society. One can justify a system like the police and also decry individual cases because in those cases, it's just the individual cop causing a problem, not all cops.
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Mantis42 posted:Reagan was Trump if he was molded by 50s television rather than reality TV and tabloids. His personality didn't turn off all the squeamish suburban voters who flipped on Trump because of how rude he is. That and his administration was filled with a higher level of grifter, the guys who built the rightwing media machine, instead of suspiciously moist freaks like Rudy. Steve Bannon was the closest Trump world ever got to the Reagan calibre of talent, and they fired him. "Suspiciously moist freak" is now my new favorite term to describe Trump's stooges with. It somehow applies so well to all of them!
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Minenfeld! posted:That's because everything in that sort of worldview comes down to individual actions rather than an interplay between the individual and society. One can justify a system like the police and also decry individual cases because in those cases, it's just the individual cop causing a problem, not all cops. Exactly In fact, the cop was probably a secret liberal
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Free goes back and forth on cops, they like the riot/shoot black aspects of them but literally hate everything else about them because they interfer with our freedoms.
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RagnarokAngel posted:So what do you suggest doing about it? If you genuinely think this is an issue then I figure you must have a plan right? Gun up.
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I'm not sure that statistically that is very effective at preventing firearm homicides, alas.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm not sure that statistically that is very effective at preventing firearm homicides, alas. I'd say that I have about one chance in 1000 of stopping a mass shooter with my pistol because I'm certainly going to be caught offguard and hilariously outgunned. That having been said, one idiot with a pistol stopping a mass shooting is a jackoff fantasy for right-wing shitheads. But a group of people who all own weapons can protect a much larger gathering and intimidate the hell out of chuds. Last time Redneck Revolt showed up in full battle-rattle thedonald was reduced to pretending that it was all airsoft because the idea of armed leftists frightens them.
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Chuds go full  at the idea that people who don’t agree with might have ever touched a gun.
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These fat online larpers aren’t going to do anything. Posting is their outlet for airing grievances with other terminally online boomers who have been saying the communists are taking over the country for decades now. If the government came to take their guns they’d hand them over easily them go post about how unfair this is
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