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Christ was Socialist Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:33 PM
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What is with this obsession ReThugs Have with our board?
I make my way Through freeperland, and the interface is pure shit, i can barely look at it. After all the homophobia and racism, and jingoism, i noticed they mention Du a lot and post threads form here. And then there is CU which i just heard of an hour ago. I looked at it, and quite frankly i think they have a complex, they ripped the name, and on top of that 90% of the posts are reposts from Du, and its a haven for users banned from here. Remember when it was Clinton's penis? I think these people are so inhibited that they are psychologically off. They actually post things like the left is anti Christian, and people actually take it seriously. Anyone who has ever given a damn about anyone was on the left. Bush is about as close Christlike as Gates is to the poverty line. I respect different opinions from the left, and center, but upon out of the box analysis, the right wing is just off. Fascists, greedy, racist, homophobic, fundamentalist. I mean when you think about it, you can't be fore love and liberty and be right wing, for one they would call you liberal commie traitor. Just imagine if Jesus came back tomorrow at 3pm, and spoke anywhere in America. Honestly who do you think he would resemble? a leftist, or a pro big business hateful evangelical? I'm not perfect but it seems the pharisees and Sadducees are alive among the Christians. I still can't believe how stupid one would have to be to thing of the left as anti-religious. We just have more thinkers who aren't so weak minded to need religion to depend on, for our insecurities, and whatever the faith maybe the left tends to let there actions speak and keep silent. Pious Poseurs are republicans, no if and or buts. There is a dying breed of republican like specter, and to an extent Goldwater, but they are being wiped out by the religious right and fascists and neo-cons. But what is this obsession with controlling everyones personal life, and they are the party of irony, what 40 years ago was the party of getting the government off the backs of people, has did a complete 180.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:34 PM
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1. Said it before an I'll say it again
They're obsessed with us because we're cute and unattainable.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:46 PM
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9. They find anyone who doesn't think like them a threat.
Their unable to conceptualize someone thinking different from them. The fact that we have a vibrant community of people who can discuss issues with more than an "agreed!" or "you are correct!" comment is scary to them. They've drank the kool-aid, heck, they really like the kool-aid so much, they've become addicted to it...

They've convinced themselves that only they reflect the true values of America; because they have bought all the symbols and made a lifelong investment in believing the rhetoric and propaganda of the people who serve them their kool-aid. They can't differentiate themselves from their belief system. To admit that their lifelong beliefs are a big lie....well, that's a little too much sobering reality for those who can't kick their kool-aid habit.
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:55 PM
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12. And yet we're of varied bunch of thinkers
Ironic somewhat, doncha think?
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:29 PM
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19. This board entertains a large varience in opinions.
When people get tombstoned here, it's for dumb shit they post. I know there are people who have different opinions here, but everyone can agree that Bush has got to go.. That's about the only thing everybody can agree upon. :-)
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:36 PM
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2. I hope you shower after logging off those sites...
The stench stays on for days...
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:40 PM
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3. Some days you gotta let it out. And this one is a good one.
Good rant. Hope you feel better.
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Christ was Socialist Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:53 PM
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11. I do
I've had a few beers today, the damn torture thing has been pissing me off beyond believe.
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Nlighten1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:40 PM
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4. Because we don't drink the koolaid.
We are different...beautiful...and gosh darn it...people like us...

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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:42 PM
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5. Were obsessed with Paragraphs....
Edited on Mon May-03-04 05:42 PM by trumad
;-)
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Failure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:46 PM
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8. and complete sentences...
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Nightjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:43 PM
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6. Post WW2 Germany
That's what it feels like sometimes in America.

As a kid I always wondered how almost an entire nation could follow such a madman in charge.

Bush is not Hitler, but he is corrupt and greedy to the core. But no matter what lie he is caught in, 40 percent of this country is BLINDLY devoted to him.

It is VERY scary.....
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:42 PM
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20. PRE WWII Germany, to my way of thinking. eom
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:43 PM
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7. Why were the Nazis so fascinated with the Jews?
If you find out that answer, then you've answered your own question.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:17 PM
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16. Don't forget, Christ was a Jew also.
A left leaning hippie who devoted his life to helping people. Just look at the type of people who are making all that noise about worshiping him now-a-days. There is a real disconnect there.
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Christ was Socialist Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 08:10 PM
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25. i never understood why...
all these american and european (including martin luther) anti smeites say there main problem with jews is that they reject the Lord Jesus. But J.c. WAS A JEW, it's so damn confusing, but they aren't intellectual so it's not worth debating, they are fucking dumbasses, literally
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 08:12 PM
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26. As it always has been, sadly
The Little Hippie Socialist Christ has had his name sponsoring more Right-Wing murder than anyone else.

The Nazis, it should not be forgotten, were devout Christians in the same backwards way the Freepers are. That whole bullshit about a "Nazi Religion" was only after they cemented their control.

From, 1933-1943, they mimed being Good Lutherans "God Mit Uns".

I have not forgotten Christ was a Jew. Totalitarian and Medeval Scum from the Crusaders to the Nazis and on through the latest wave of Busheviks, certainly have.
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Failure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:47 PM
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10. they hate us for our freedoms...nt
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Failure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:06 PM
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14. Oh come on...that was funny! nt
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newsguyatl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:29 PM
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18. LMAO!
haha, that actually WAS funny...

HA!!
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Failure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:52 PM
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22. Thanks...nt
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:00 PM
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13. The pod people have always obsessed about us.
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Cyrano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:20 PM
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24. Absolutely Beautiful
Don't know how many people recognize the picture as being from the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," which was a take off on the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt years. It's so pertinent to today. Millions of mindless pods are going along with the Bush/Cheney version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Sadly, what they don't realize, it's their minds that are being snatched.

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West Coast Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:07 PM
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15. What is CU?
Not that I'll visit it.
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:51 PM
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21. Conservative Underground
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:53 PM
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23. Conservative Underground, a totally lame site. Much lamer than
FR even, because it's totally in reference to this site. "FR" is at least its own, lame, thing.

I agree that it's not worth worrying about them. FR is referred to a lot more on this site than FR refers to DU, partially because we employ "freeper" as a generic shorthand for "any neanderthal right winger" much more frequently than they would say ""DUer" to refer to a liberal or Democrat.

I don't think sites like FR and CU are of much value education wise because I'm not convinced that they are very representative of an "average" spectrum of Republican voters. I view them as rather "fringy". If there were some gigantic Fox News or Limbaugh forum (is there?), that might be more valuable for gauging "average" Repub sentiment. On second thought, I still wouldn't go there much.

Occasionally I am curious about FR views about a specific subject, but spending time there is too much of a downer, just leaves you feeling depressed because of all the negative emotion. And the design is total shit, like 3 threads to a page.
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West Coast Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 08:16 PM
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27. Okay...I had to have a look. What a boring site...........
and what boring people......

Do they just sit around and complain about DUers?....I'd be bored to tears!
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:22 PM
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17. I think too many DUers
Are obsessed with FR. As soon as I see a thread titled "look what they are saying in Freeperville!" or some such shit, the thread either gets hid, or for a chronic offender, they go on ignore.

Life is too short to give a goddamn what freepers think (loose term) about ANYTHING.

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