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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:14 PM
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What's a Freeper?
I always see that word but I don't know what it means.
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:16 PM
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1. it refers to the knuckledraggers at this site:
www.freerepublic.com
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Fish Eye Donating Member (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:23 PM
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2. People who use the "free republic" forum
are known as "freepers" . It is a name that is used by the free republic people to describe themselves while at DU it is often used in a derogatory way by some (who are not quite marture)
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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:41 PM
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12. The people who use "freeper" in a derogatory way
are not mature? I don't think so. I use that word, and I consider myself mature.
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 06:10 PM
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16. NB: it says "marture", not "mature"
Edited on Sat Oct-04-03 06:12 PM by 0rganism
Go back and re-read it if you have to. There's a subtle difference, as you well know.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 05:33 AM
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21. Went way over my head
I thought it was just a typo. According to dictionary.com, the difference is that "marture" isn't a word.
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Fish Eye Donating Member (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 07:36 AM
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22. name calling is mature????
ok....

I thought little kids and big idiots resorted to name calling in order to prove their point....
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 08:28 AM
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25. WHAT IS MARTURE?
*WE* ARE NOT MARTURE? HAVE YOU EVER READ THE F***ING GARBAGE AT FREE REPUBLIC????????????????????????????
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:24 PM
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3. A freeper is someone
who hangs out at a vile disgusting website called freerepublic.com.

More generally, a freeper is anyone on the extreme right who worships Rush, watches and believes FUX news, thinks Toby Keith is a great talent, possibly has a mullet, has no fewer than 2 American flag decals and one "God Bless America" sticker on the back of his gas guzzling SUV, thinks we went to Iraq to "Kick Saddam's Ass" because he was behind 9/11, thinks Arnold did nothing wrong but Clinton deserved impeachment, actually has an irrational hatred of the Clintons, and thinks the chimp walks on water - in other words a freeper is an ignorant fool.
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:26 PM
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4. Your are forgetting their core hatreds
homophobia, immigrantphobia, socialistphobia and atheist/secular phobia.
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truthseeker1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:29 PM
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7. Don't forget pinko-commie phobia!
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:32 PM
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9. I stand corrected.
Thanks for your input.
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truthseeker1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:56 PM
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13. I can't forget the commie one
because that's what my RW brother calls me..... a "California flake" and a "pinko communist"
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 08:45 AM
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28. Don't forget womenophobia (even the women hate themselves for being women)
people-of-color-ophobia, intellectophobia.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:26 PM
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5. What a great summary LDA.
No need to go much more in depth, that is about all the depth they have.
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 05:01 AM
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20. some people use it for anyone who doesn't agree with them
just read any of the candidate threads to learn that.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 07:53 AM
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24. You forgot: A Freeper hated deficits for DECADES
Until their Masters told them to love deficits.

Now, coincidentally, they LOOOOVE deficits.

A Freeper is much closer in mentality and temprement to the people screaming at the Two-Minute Hate in "1984" or a Nazi Brownshirt.

They can be easily programmed, as the example above (and many others show).

But the Busheviks designed Goebbels v2.0 to program them that way.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 08:42 AM
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27. My husband's Freep boss recently, after denying it for years.
admitted he was Latino (he has a Spanish surname, for one).

Only he didn't say he was Latino, Hispanic, or Mexican American.

He called himself a Mexiacn. Much hilarity ensued (he is, of course, a US citizen).
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:29 PM
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6. Its awful .....
Slimy skin ....

Nails and bolts stickin through their face, and a particularly smelly odor that reeks of rotten garlic and skunk urine ....
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:29 PM
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8. Uh, you have 66 posts and you haven't figured it out? I find that just a
Edited on Sat Oct-04-03 05:33 PM by karlschneider
bit disingenuous.
Lemme search out what else you've said (I am reserving judgment for the moment)

Edit: Okay, I've read most of what you've posted, you're cool I think.
:D
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truthseeker1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 06:00 PM
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14. Hey, I just figured it out
oh, maybe 20 posts or so ago....I thought about asking but then figured, no, if I stick with it a little longer, I'll figure it out! Don't be so suspicious of us low-post people ;-)
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 06:34 PM
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18. welcome to DU truthseeker1!
It's a wonderful place!


:toast:





:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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Democat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:34 PM
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10. What do you think of Arnold, Reagan and Clinton?
Curious.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:39 PM
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11. a creature lower than snake shit
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lancemurdoch Donating Member (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 06:08 PM
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15. DU is bannable for freepers
Do a search on FreeRepublic for Democratic Underground...you will not see much...what you do see, will probably be followed by "You probably posted this without knowing it - be we are all banned from talking about DU on Free Republic". That's right, mentioning anything about DU is an offense that makes your account revokable on "Free" Republic. This is mentioned in the few threads on DU that they do have (which are few because the moderators ban mention of DU).
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 06:36 PM
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19. yep
the latest post about it is from December and it's actually an article from Neil Boortz about his bullshit on us.

occaisonally some freeper will say "look what the DU idiots are saying now" with a link, but as you said, that gets censored quite often.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 06:29 PM
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17. You Morans !!!!
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 07:42 AM
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23. Wasn't Free Republic recently declared...
... a hate group by an official in their "home town" of Fresno, California?
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 08:37 AM
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26. a freeper is an
idiot moran....
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