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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In the running for all-time best freep post The best posts by conservatives are the ones that can be read straight as a mockery of their idiot opinions. It's like a smaller scale version of when Trump would say things like "We should put ninjas in space to attack other countries" and his spokes people would say "Well he means that as a metaphor for a strong space defense program" and then he'd come on stage with some guy in a Party City halloween ninja outfit and say "We need to put this exact human being into space to kill the Chinese" or some poo poo.
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Sep 28, 2021 00:49
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Freep: Neigh! Snort! for Freedom!
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Sep 28, 2021 01:14
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I know you’re joking. I know it. But I still stared into space and checked my memory. Just be sure that didn’t happen. The last couple years have broken me.
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Sep 28, 2021 01:15
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Wait, which Godfrey Ho movie are we talking about again?
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Sep 28, 2021 01:29
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OwlFancier posted:Democrap was right loving there for gently caress's sake. Karma Comedian posted:That's been done and stale grampa get with the demopoops times InsertPotPun posted:that's all "hilarious" and stuff that you're making fun of his words but i notice that not a single one of you actually addresses his point: "democrat" looks like "democrap" Surrogate double check mate for owl and karma literally three posts earlier. ILL Machina fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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Sep 28, 2021 01:59
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Glory to Italia! 
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Finnankainen posted:Question: What stops your body from producing spike proteins once you get the mRNA jab? Probably my last post 2nd Amendment posted:I haven't posted for several years after my comments were unceremonially erased by moderators. I am a conservative who voted for Trump and hope to vote for Pompeo. So my pedigree is established. I'm afraid that FreeRepublic is becoming a nucleus for some very bad information about covid. I've had several uvaccinated friends die in their 40's from covid. This dangerous possible bioweapon is very dangerous. I am vaccinated and am glad I am. My 101 year old mother in law survived a bout with covid because of her vaccinations. The vaccine is a rough one. I had 2-3 days of side effects leaving some scars on my shoulder. The MRNA vaccines. The vaccine (more like a prophylactic therapeutic ) does not protect you from the disease. It only mitigates symptoms. I'm saying all this to urge conservatives that are in risk categories to get vaccinated. We have already lost at least 2 talk show hosts and Herman Cain to this insidious Wuhan flu. So go ahead and flame me and join the suffering ones from Idaho. quote:To: 2nd Amendment  quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment  quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment Uhh okay. quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: JamesP81 quote:To: Kazan quote:To: roving quote:To: WLusvardi quote:To: 2nd Amendment quote:To: 2nd Amendment
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Sep 28, 2021 03:00
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quote:To: 2nd Amendment Nothing to see here, just openly advocating for eugenics, move along. quote:The absolutely worse thing we could have done was isolate everyone. Heard immunity is a God given trait in Humans. If it were not for the heard immunity effect, flus and other airborne illnesses would have repeatedly wiped out huge populations throughout history. loving incredible.
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Sep 28, 2021 04:12
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kartikeya posted:Nothing to see here, just openly advocating for eugenics, move along. It can be interpreted as "Evolulutionary pressure by vaccines only makes the disease worse."
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Sep 28, 2021 07:03
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Everything other than dying does that though.
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Sep 28, 2021 07:38
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I considered whether or not it was an argument for the virus adapting instead, but then I remembered this is Freep and thus I'm comfortable assuming that when in doubt, it's always the more ignorant, more horrible (and probably racist) option.
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Sep 28, 2021 08:22
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I don't think a single person on Freep understands the meaning of comorbidity. I've got a neurologist buddy who was finishing his last stop towards being a big wig board certified neurologist. This last job was in Detroit, where he was part of a practice in a major hospital. Then covid hit Detroit like a hammer and he got pulled into week long shifts in the ER. He said they ran out of places to put bodies, he was signing more death certificates in a day than he sometimes would in months, and the hospital threatened their already stretched thin staff with immediate firing and legal action if they talked to the press. He said he has seen a lot of mind wrecking poo poo in his years of being a doctor. But the moment that sticks with him the worst was a guy literally choking to death from covid. He refused everything, including intubation. The dudes last words were some flavor of, "This is all bullshit. Covid ain't real. This is all bullshit. Covid and real." chanted like a mantra. I genuinely wonder how these loving idiots would respond to seeing something like not. Not watching a video, or hearing a story, but loving watching it.
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Sep 28, 2021 08:31
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They would see a man choking to death on 5G morgellons the deep state doctors secretly injected into him, it would just solidify their beliefs.
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Sep 28, 2021 11:46
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Freep: She Had The Comorbidity Freep: In Perfect Health Of Course e: also my grandma survived Ravensbrück concentration camp as a kid and was lost to covid, so it's real hard to not want to punch this people sometimes. Get the 5G jab and wear a mask so we can eventually move the gently caress on. She was more of a badass than you, freedom fighter. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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Sep 28, 2021 12:52
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It's quite impressive that literally every person who's ever gotten vaccinated and then either had a reaction or coincidentally had something else bad happen that next month was the close personal friend of a FReeper. Some coincidence, that. Good thing this is the one place on the internet that we can be sure is free of STDH.txt.
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Sep 28, 2021 13:22
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ZeeToo posted:It's quite impressive that literally every person who's ever gotten vaccinated and then either had a reaction or coincidentally had something else bad happen that next month was the close personal friend of a FReeper. Some coincidence, that. I feel like I'm loving crazy listening to the Freep-approved narrative of the Death Jab. Like, if the vaccine was even a tenth as "lethal" as these fuckers claim it is, every American would know MULTIPLE people whose hearts just spontaneously exploded mysteriously a few days after getting the vaccine. It's not "yeah the side effects suck" or "oh man it's untested that's scary", it's literally "if you take the Death Jab you are going to become a walking Spike Protein biohazard and then die horribly very quickly", while something like 60% of the population has gotten it and are still fine and going to work every day, and hospitals are full with people sick for Some Mysterious Reason. Like, at least Freepers are TRYING to reconcile their rhetoric with reality by just blatantly making poo poo up to fit with whatever Tucker tells them every weeknight. The right-wing media machine hyping up the fact that the vaccinated are already dead is really doing a number on me.
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Sep 28, 2021 17:39
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I still can't help but laugh at the people who think that the vaccine is the Deep State/Illuminati's way of killing off people to lower the global population, since if they were real the vaccine would be killing off everyone who supports them and the people who oppose them are all healthy and living. It sounds like the worst plan imaginable to have the entire global population be made up of your enemies.
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Sep 28, 2021 17:55
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Twelve by Pies posted:I still can't help but laugh at the people who think that the vaccine is the Deep State/Illuminati's way of killing off people to lower the global population, since if they were real the vaccine would be killing off everyone who supports them and the people who oppose them are all healthy and living. It sounds like the worst plan imaginable to have the entire global population be made up of your enemies. I've seen people confront them with statements like this, and their rear end-pull justification is 'well, the people they want to keep around, they got FAKE vaccines that are just salt-water.'
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Sep 28, 2021 17:57
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Captain Log posted:I genuinely wonder how these loving idiots would respond to seeing something like not. Not watching a video, or hearing a story, but loving watching it. the conspiracy just got deeper. before all the experts and family were evil conspiracy people being evil, after meeting them they were simply dupes being fooled by the deeper conspiracy. you're a fool being duped, an evil rear end in a top hat in on it, or a brave freedom fighter seeking truth. those are the only options. edit: i believe one conspiracy expert changed her tune after meetings someone who received a phone call from a person on one of the planes as it was happening. the scene was a single person thinking about this person losing their loved one while a bunch of other mocked her lack of telecommunication knowledge and finally decided that someone was tricking her into thinking she was talking to her loved one. InsertPotPun fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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Sep 28, 2021 18:31
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InsertPotPun posted:there was a documentary that took 9/11 conspiracy people around to prove to them 9/11 happened. they met with experts, people who were there, and family of people who died. What was that called? Having lived my whole life with half a family of hard right people who believe anything written on a piece of paper, I find this poo poo fascinating.
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Sep 28, 2021 18:34
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Captain Log posted:What was that called? Having lived my whole life with half a family of hard right people who believe anything written on a piece of paper, I find this poo poo fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WirEgSaCzeQ
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Sep 28, 2021 18:36
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Twelve by Pies posted:I still can't help but laugh at the people who think that the vaccine is the Deep State/Illuminati's way of killing off people to lower the global population, since if they were real the vaccine would be killing off everyone who supports them and the people who oppose them are all healthy and living. It sounds like the worst plan imaginable to have the entire global population be made up of your enemies. It's not really an expectation formed by rational analysis, it's more that they want the vaccine to kill everyone, because they fantasize about something coming along to kill all the people they disagree with and vindicate their belief that they're inherently superior to their cultural enemies. And on some level they feel that believing it and acting like it's true will make it true. They will never reason their way through this because the entire antivax grift is appealing to their misanthropy and their vanity. Liberals are all stupid and you're smart, liberals are all getting this thing so it's a liberal versus conservative thing now, and it will kill them through their own folly, and you'll get to watch and gloat at how much smarter you are than all the liberal sheep. That's it. It's also why they get so angry when their kids get vaccinated: this thing was supposed to kill all the libs! Now I have to root for your death too, you ruined it! Also why they will never change their minds until reality smacks them upside the head and they end up in the ICU struggling to breathe through cottage cheese lungs, and sometimes not even then. They're too full of themselves to ever admit they were wrong.
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Sep 29, 2021 15:18
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quote:The absolutely worse thing we could have done was isolate everyone. Heard immunity is a God given trait in Humans. If it were not for the heard immunity effect, flus and other airborne illnesses would have repeatedly wiped out huge populations throughout history. I’ve never seen on brain so smooth it was concave before today
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Sep 29, 2021 15:31
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Remember that time Hashem wiped out two continents with disease? Me neither, that didn't happen, why would he even do that?
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Sep 29, 2021 15:35
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The point about conspiracy thinking is that it isn't rational, so the fact that it doesn't make rational sense is entirely irrelevant, people who believe in that stuff have a strong emotional feeling about the world and are looking for, or outright fabricating, words and thoughts and ideas that when they run them through their head, it makes them feel better and reinforces their instinctive emotional beliefs. I find it helpful to look at it sort of like a compulsive behaviour, actually almost how I would think about stimming, it's something you do because on a really basic level your brain knows it makes you feel better, you do it almost unconsciously, and you get good at doing it and sometimes can't stop doing it because it brings a sense of normality and order to your life. It's really not a matter of explaining to people why what they think is wrong, because whether it is wrong doesn't matter, even if god himself came and parted the clouds and told them it was wrong it wouldn't change a thing, they need it to be right, and they need to keep making up more poo poo, the process of thinking about it and talking about it is integral to them being themselves. I don't know if it's easy to understand if you don't have compulsive behaviours but essentially the key thing to think about is that just because it might look, from a distance, like rational inquiry, and just because it might co-opt the language of rational inquiry, does not at all mean that what they are doing is the same thing. It is a completely different process that is dressed up in the language of rationality because they know that language is respected. Same reason they co-opt things like "liberals are the real racists" and "all lives matter" and with the antivaxx stuff the "my body my choice" line, they know these things are ideas that people respect and they try to dress their ravings up in respectable language to enhance the performative reificiation of those beliefs, which is what they do when they talk to each other. They can't escape the need for validation, so they will latch on to anything that has the air of validity to it, which is why what they say looks like it could be rational if you squint and tilt your head, but fundamentally it is not the same process, it is the searching of a desperate emotional need for things that make them feel right and correct in their instinctive beliefs about their world. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Sep 30, 2021 |
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Sep 29, 2021 16:24
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Remember my two cousins, one fifteen and one eighteen, with the unvaccinated Facebook Mommy Prayer Warrior mother who is my aunt-in-law? The youngest one, who has asthma so bad he requires breathing treatments from a respiratory therapist at home, now has covid. The older one just got done with his second heart surgery. loving Christ, this Freep stuff is a lot funnier when it isn't getting people killed.
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Sep 30, 2021 08:25
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I know what you mean. One of my coworkers told me he's gonna be in a wedding soon but he's nervous because he 'doesn't talk politics' with the groom as he's apparently very right wing and my coworker is on the left. They're friends, have been for years, but don't talk politics because they know they'll disagree with one another. My coworker is near 50, overweight and diabetic but vaccinated. Even so, I had to straight up tell him 'Those politics of his might kill you' and that's kind of where we're at these days.
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Sep 30, 2021 09:27
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OwlFancier posted:The point about conspiracy thinking is that it isn't rational, so the fact that it doesn't make rational sense is entirely irrelevant, people who believe in that stuff have a strong emotional feeling about the world and are looking for, or outright fabricating, words and thoughts and ideas that when they run them through their head, it makes them feel better and reinforces their instinctive emotional beliefs. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" 
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Sep 30, 2021 09:36
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Captain Log posted:Remember my two cousins, one fifteen and one eighteen, with the unvaccinated Facebook Mommy Prayer Warrior mother who is my aunt-in-law? I don't mean this as a diss, but this FREEP stuff is always people getting killed, it's brown people, poor people, etc.. There's a part of me that is glad that people are having their families torn apart over Covid and vax and stuff. Those people were already garbage human beings, but nothing ever made them put it on the line and show it, and people were able to pretend like oh it's just political beliefs, and we don't have to talk about it, and uncle Ray just says racist stuff at thanksgiving. Nope, Uncle Ray is adamantly willing for you to die in the service of his golden God-Emperor, he's willing to expose your kids to Covid via his kids, he's willing to threaten violence at a school board meeting over a mask mandate.
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Sep 30, 2021 20:38
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OwlFancier posted:The point about conspiracy thinking is that it isn't rational, so the fact that it doesn't make rational sense is entirely irrelevant, people who believe in that stuff have a strong emotional feeling about the world and are looking for, or outright fabricating, words and thoughts and ideas that when they run them through their head, it makes them feel better and reinforces their instinctive emotional beliefs. Excellent post. This should be in the OP even though nobody reads OPs.
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Oct 1, 2021 01:28
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OwlFancier posted:stuff about conspiratorial thinking and stimming etc Posting as a mental health professional who has worked with people with consistent delusional beliefs and compulsive behaviors, I endorse this message.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:Posting as a mental health professional who has worked with people with consistent delusional beliefs and compulsive behaviors, I endorse this message. What is your success rate in helping people like this, or best techniques used? We always talk about how getting through to people with Freep level magical thinking would amount to some sort of cult deprogramming at this point.
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Oct 1, 2021 13:45
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Mercury_Storm posted:What is your success rate in helping people like this, or best techniques used? We always talk about how getting through to people with Freep level magical thinking would amount to some sort of cult deprogramming at this point. My folks were typically in secured (locked) residential treatment facilities so it was a bit different than folks labelled as "functional" like a lot of Freepers. We didn't really do deprogramming or directly challenging people's delusions. What generally worked best was establishing years of trust and rapport and engaging in regular light reality-testing. Once folks feel loved, supported, and safe, there's an opportunity to break out of these patterns. Success rate getting someone from "everyone is trying to kill me" to "person with general anxiety" was like ~70% Unfortunately, these Freepers seem to have driven family members away and are probably not receiving regular mental health support. 🥲
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Oct 1, 2021 20:14
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Neito posted:It's like a smaller scale version of when Trump would say things like "We should put ninjas in space to attack other countries" and his spokes people would say "Well he means that as a metaphor for a strong space defense program" and then he'd come on stage with some guy in a Party City halloween ninja outfit and say "We need to put this exact human being into space to kill the Chinese" or some poo poo. Elephant Ambush posted:Wait, which Godfrey Ho movie are we talking about again? Metal Gear 2
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Oct 2, 2021 02:07
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You know the world is getting dumb when the thing you make up to mock Trump is a Hideo Kojima plot.
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Oct 2, 2021 02:28
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Minnesota middle school will eliminate 'F's to combat 'systemic racism' [Racists at this middle school are dumbing down the academic standards for black students]OP posted:The system, announced during the 2021-22 school year, does not include 0-49.9 percentiles for students quote:To: grundle  quote:To: grundle They might even start posting on freerepublic.com  quote:To: grundle  quote:To: grundle quote:To: grundle quote:To: grundle quote:To: grundle quote:To: Mr. K
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Oct 2, 2021 03:12
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The idea that a middle schooler should be blamed and graded for being tardy to class is amazing to me. I got a ton of detentions and principle's meetings for being tardy in middle school. Because my mother dropped me off late and picked me up on her own whims halfway through the day. I was 13. I did not have the ability to organize my own transportation to or from school, and the bus didn't come to my neighbourhood. It did not help my education to be constantly punished, and my attendance didn't improve until some of my friends got old enough to drive.
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pseudanonymous posted:I don't mean this as a diss, but this FREEP stuff is always people getting killed, it's brown people, poor people, etc.. There's a big part of me that is clad that nobody can pretend the mask has not fallen off anymore. Sucks that it took a plague to get there, but the denial is the strongest with family and friends.
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