According the Dems they will be made illegal because they make fun of homosexuals.
I'll bet LGF is up.
Thanks for posting this. Fascinating graph. Bump for later.
Free Republic seems to ban quite a few of 'legitimate' conservatives for silly reasons maybe close to 30% and it only seems to be getting worse as the issues make us more ornery and divisive.
FR and other sites are really a compilation of what's in the "press" that day.....(DUH, I know)...some of that is spontaneous, but a lot is driven by PR firms pushing agenda's into the MSM. That plus the HOLIDIZATION of America - Black History Month, Martin Luther King's B'day, yadayadayada...FR (and others) pick up those stories (there are not too many FR "journalists" who write independent stories). I think people are TIRED of it all - and the same stories/issues get repeated and repeated. I'm thinking that as I read FR now about the election....knowing we have over a year to go yet, and it feels almost like we're only a few months away with all the news....too much, too early.
5 sites is by no means a baseline.
nut jobs been banned.
'Course, if someone wants to pay me to hit 'em all, I'm up to the challenge....
*crickets*
Thought so.....laundry to fold.....
Disgust with Bush.
We've been betrayed by those whom we thought were Coservatives. Plus, those who are supposed to be the good guys turn out to be corrupt, lazy do-nothing politicians and pedophiles.
Why bother?
Purge good people and this is what happens.
FreeRepublic is a shadow of its former self in terms of the variety of the topics posted and the vigor and depth of the discussions they elicit. Try to find a thread that does not revolve around Ann Coulter or Rudy Guiliani.
I've been concerned, too.
I think it's a kind of despair and demoralization after the last election and looking at HARXIST Gritch Shrillery running so forcefully . . .
And, we have no suitable standard bearer that looks like a real likely possibility. Hunter looks good but how much can he gain against Guillani.
Very troubling.
I've read 292 posts on this thread and this has been one of the better threads on FR and relatively free of insults and with lots of insightful comments.
My suggestions for improving FR are to have the moderators review each article before it is posted. There are too many insipid articles from bizarre sources and too many articles that are near duplications and too many single issue zealots who think that posting article after article will help make their point.
Today, I think I've seen 20 threads about rudy leading mccain in a poll. They were not dups but they all said the same thing.
Next, you could put a limit of say 50 posts a day for each poster, or you could limit some posters who are post too much crap. It would mean fewer and hopefully more substantial posts instead of 1 line posts like, "you are a bot"
If you only get 50 posts, you might actually want to say something meaningful. Plus, with limited posting, you might want to read more and yell less and that would be good as I find too many posters don't bother reading the article.
freerepublic has changed
its moderators have a case of bush self-flagellation disease wherein they convict border guards sworn to our defense, and free drug smugglers
denying the problem of gop dysfunction prevents it from getting better
if traffic is down, it is because freerepublic has ceased being a haven for conservative values and instead become a bush propaganda site
I think conservatism has grown a little stale. Since Reagan there's been no identifiable leader of national stature to embody conservatism. We keep looking back to Reagan, which in one sense is fine, but there's an whole new generation of voters who weren't even alive when Reagan was President, and no leader has taken his mantle (that speaks loudly about a leadership vacuum within conservatism). There is no coherent message that is central to the ideology -- everyone's off in their own corner grinding their own individual axe. And in that sense, we tend to eat our own. There are too many purists who are content to disembowel anyone who doesn't measure up to 100% of what THEY want. And the movement is sorely lacking in intellectual firepower. When the "conservative" message can be summed up in a simplistic three-word mantra (e.g., "Language, culture, borders"), there's nothing there to sink one's teeth into, no compelling vision to rally the nation to.
The current Coulter threads might belong to another website altogether. Thuggish posters spewing vile invective and even homophobic bigotry in badly written posts.
If a new visitor to FR started out by reading one of those Coulter threads, why on earth would he or she bother to come back to FR?
Honestly, a fear of very bad times ahead, with no one real leader in which to turn. For me personally, (and I assume many others) there is a very unfortunate yet palpable disappointment in this Administration. And an even greater disappointment that borders on complete hopelessness toward Congress and local government. As Dennis Prager says: "There is a Dangerous party and a Stupid Party. And I'm a member of the Stupid party."
The world is surrounding us...and slowly choking us. China is preparing for confrontation, the Russians are up to no good, Europe is disintegrating, our borders remain unprotected, South America may fall to socialist/communist control, Islam is in near-full jihad mode... and while any one of 50,000 Freepers can see what is going on, these fools and bastards in Washington are too far removed, and have no clue how to attack the problem. The others want things to get worse, and hope (and are betting) that there is some semblance of America left when they get back in POWER--which is all they are worried about.
But while the donkeys attack and undermine the elephants, the islamic flies bite at the combatants, the Russian Bear waits patiently, the Chinese Dragon grows stronger, and the vultures circle above, waiting for either Donkey or Elephant to emerge from fighting each other too weak to fight again.