Posted on 01/16/2011 11:49:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Hello. You don’t know me under this name. For reasons that are going to be obvious soon, I didn’t wish to send you this message with my usual Free Republic account. This message is an invitation, a welcome to a new forum called TrueBlueFreedom.com
While I love the people who make up Free Republic, I have many complaints about Jim Robinson and his cronies who run the actual website. Over and over again, whenever somebody has complained or offered suggestions, they have been told by JimRob and others to go and start their own website if they know so much. Well, I’ve decided to take them up on that offer.
I’ve started TrueBlueFreedom.com for three simple reasons, and once you’ve read those reasons, I’m sure you’ll agree that we need to make a few adjustments if we want this powerful bastion of conservatism to remain. The first reason is simple: Free Republic is too important to left in the hands of JimRob. Jim and his son John have repeated stated that if just one Freepathon goal isn’t met, that’s it - “Free Republic will be dead.” I can’t stand the idea of America without Free Republic. Imagine if we hadn’t been there when Dan Rather was passing around his forgeries, how different things would be today. Now realize that, as things are going, we won’t be around when the next Rathergate happens. We can’t allow that to happen, and since JimRob has publicly refused to deal with this issue, we have to take matters into our own hands. My solution is TrueBlueFreedom.com
The second reason is that I believe that free market capitalism has made America great, and that attempting any other system will lead us to ruin. A belief JimRob apparently doesn’t share, since he continues to refuse to place ads on Free Republic and instead depend on a PBS-esque donation system. We are not NPR, and we are not a charity – why do we raise money like one? For this reason, I’ve developed TrueBlueFreedom.com to depend on advertisements. TrueBlueFreedom.com will not depend on donations, instead, we will depend on the opportunities provided by the free market to create a self-sustaining version of Free Republic – without the constant Freepathons.
The third reason is that JimRob is, in my opinion, a petty tyrant. How many of you know somebody who was purged? How many wonder if you may be next on the list? If you’re neither of these people, consider this: Giuliani was America’s Mayor in 2008. That didn’t stop JimRob from purging all his supporters without warning. How do you know that whoever you support in the Republican primaries won’t raise JimRob’s wrath? How do you know the next purge group won’t be Mormons, Jews, Birthers, Pro-Palin, Anti-Palin, and so on? I believe that purging the non-believers and demanding total mental agreement with the “Dear Leader” is the exact opposite of conservative values, regardless of where JimRob stands on abortion and homosexuality. And for that reason, I’ve set up TrueBlueFreedom.com as a place where conservatives who follow the rules will not be banned, no matter how much I disagree with them. Regardless of your politics, religion, or favorite sport team, you will only be banned for breaking the rules. TrueBlueFreedom.com is a purge-free zone.
So, I hope you’ve read all this, and will accept my invitation. If this seems like something you can believe in, come to TrueBlueFreedom.com, sign up, and start talking. And if you like it, spread the word. Because Free Republic is too important to just let die.
I looked, too. Some old names from earlier times here.
One gave me the creeps...
At least you have room to grow!
I just had to laugh at this person - “Free Republic is too important, so, I’m starting a different website to replace Free Republic” - really? “I can’t stand the idea of America without Free Republic, so I’m going to try and replace it” - just WOW! What a dunder-head!!
bye. is this owk?
“Wankers for Rudy McRomney”..... great slogan!!
So the rudy lovers here will get angry, go over there, trash us, then come back here in a year claiming they were tricked into leaving or totally misunderstood here and weren’t banned....
“So the rudy lovers here will get angry, go over there, trash us, then come back here in a year claiming they were tricked into leaving or totally misunderstood here and weren’t banned....”
LOL! That’s true! There are some of the unbanned, so they claim, over there already. I had a few minutes to check it out today. ;o)
“aside from willie and some LP posters i know....who were or weren’t here before
its mostly.just mostly social lib folks.from here”
That is very kind of you, considering a few of their “clientele”...one in particular.
i suspect the owner will get pushed aside by antifreeping
There are some decent folks there, but I believe you are right in that the antifreeping and in-fighting will drown everything else out. That’s what has happened to many other forums, and most of them have shut down.
touche’
YITBOS
I’ve had a chance to reflect on your impolite admonishment, and have since learned that it seems to be your modus operandi to post that nasty diatribe in a private message anytime you don’t like what someone has written. First off, if you have something like that to say, put in the forum, don’t send me private notes. Aside from your demonstrable arrogance, where is it exactly, that you derive the notion that you have the right to tell people what they can or cannot post on a free-association forum, and what paradigm exactly do you supposed Free Republic operates by, wherein a comment such as mine is not appropriate?
Looking at some of your illuminating posts, I have to say, I was sure impressed. I particularly was blown away by the cerebral nature of your discussion about lady’s breast cup sizes, or your taking room in forums to posts things such as “Your point is?” or “I’m for giving California back to Mexico,” or simply “Yawn.” These posts are sarcastic, or ineffective attempts at humor, and by your own implied standard, don’t merit inclusion in the forum. Of course that brings up the delightfully rich post by you asking another Freeper “what kind of litmus test can you supply to determine my political classification?” Speaking of litmus tests, what kind of litmus test can you supply to determine which posts are ‘appropriate’ and which are not, and please be sure it’s permissive enough to include all your sarcastic comments and inane musings, but stringent enough to exclude everyone else’s, and also be sure to craft something that allows for your endless (and tiresome) admonishments to other people about their intellectual inferiority , and the uselessness of their posts, etc., but doesn’t allow for similar posts by others.
Your self-righteous admonishments are the biggest waste of space on FR. If you are incapable of skipping over comments that you don’t find interesting or worthwhile, then it’s your problem, and perhaps you have an attention deficit problem to match your obvious anger management ones. Either get a job as a moderator or keep your mouth shut – you don’t have any special privileges here and no basis on which to criticize others. If you want to be a miserable scrooge then leave the forum and take your attitude, your arrogance and your misery; you can go sit on your own sidewalk and curse at your ammunition.
How many attempts have there been to run off and create a newer more perfect Free Republic?
I've been on Free Republic since 1998, and if memory serves me right, there have been three or four now. I can't even remember their names, and can't tell you if they still even exist.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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