Posted on 05/22/2023 6:00:31 PM PDT by COSIllinois
Help! My mind escapes me! LOL! We have a new group forming and boy do we need rules for the yahoos!
Best rule ever. .
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I freep, therefore I am.
Re: 40 - Good start!
Some more:
- NEVER read the news story or article from the original post. But start to comment on the story anyways.
- Not only should you post a link to a video, but then castigate anyone who asks what the video is about. Tell such people to watch the video themselves and figure it out.
- Post news stories about the kookiest, whacked out sites possible such as Quantum Financial System, Med Beds, anything from Real Raw News, etc.
Whenever posting an article by Maureen Dowd, the rule is that you are supposed to post a picture of Catherine Zeta Jones.
Helen Thomas?
There’s rules? 😮
Don’t ever say that you have no plans to leave your blue state, even if you hate its politics.
See the thread by Kristinn that begins Advice for Freepers considering protesting...
Pinging all hall monitors.
First, you must be able to deliver precise intellectual kicks to the opponent’s scrotum...
Take no prisoners...
Maintain decorum by writing your response in long-hand (if you know how) before entering it onto the forum...
I think you got most of them, except THAILAND???
Thailand?
Rule No. 2
Never read the full article.
The excerpt is all that is needed to be able to speak with authority on every subject.
Some old thread about a guy (can’t remember his name), who might have been involved in the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, and was arrested in Thailand. Maybe some else will remember more details. But numerous Freepers almost simultaneously, posted “THAILAND”..... on a thread, back at the time.
That isn’t a guarantee they won’t pull your post or shut your account down awhile. If they don’t like what you post even if its true, it can go away and you get slapped down. And its arbitrary because one mods sacred cows are not the same as others.
I think too that we should reinstate Ash Alerts. You never know when you're gonna need one.
I’ve always found that posting your opinion and moving on works best.
Everyone has an opinion, not all of them reflect yours. I find no sense or value in getting into a flame war or even a back-and-forth with a total stranger on the internet. You’ll never convince the opposite party to go your way, so let them have their opinion and walk on to the next thread…
Here's an excerpt:
We had a code of conduct that served us well. Briefly, it read, “No violence, no racism, no profanity, no provocations, obey the law and treat all law enforcement officers with respect.”
We also had other rules:
No physical contact with opponents and try to stay out of arm’s length from them. No retaliations if they attack you–step back, walk away, find a cop. Only defend yourself if you are in danger. We wanted our demonstrations to stay peaceful and we remembered the old basketball rule the referee only sees the second punch thrown, not the first.
Just about all weapons of self-defense were banned in D.C., so we didn’t have to worry about people coming armed to our protests. My preference is for no open carry and discreet concealed carry if you must.
And no masks. We never hid ourselves behind a mask. The KKK and Antifa wear masks. Not conservatives–unless we were in costume mocking Hillary, Saddam or crybaby reporters for example.
The flags we allowed were the American flag, state flags, military service branch flags, the Gadsden and Culpeper flags, and flags of our allies in the war on terror (these days we would add in the non-profane Trump flags.) Our people knew better than to show up with a Confederate battle flag so we never had to tell them to leave if someone had shown up with one. We did not burn flags or damage property.
Our signs were clever, funny, pointed and quite serious, depending on the occasion. We did not use profanity (with the exception of a rare vulgarity). We policed our signs and disallowed those that were off-message or violated our rules. We were told many times we had the best protest signs in D.C.
We policed our membership. No one who was a racist, violent or encouraged violence and criminality or broke our rules was allowed in our group or at our protests. We warned hotheads to stay away from protests that were likely to be contentious just as we warned not to bring children to some of the more edgy protests.
End excerpt.
Main point is to keep control of your protests and demonstrations so as to avoid entrapment by scheming feds and to get your message out by maintaining civil conduct without getting caught up in side issues or controversies.
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