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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 02:42 AM
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Are Freepers totally nuts? Or simply totally stupid?
They're at it again, using out-of-context quotes by German Nazis, comparing them to "the liberals."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141684/posts
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PittPoliSci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 02:45 AM
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1. just a combo of the two.
they are really stupid.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 02:49 AM
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2. Well, I think the freepers ought to be used...
... as a source of amusement, but there's no real point in delving into the psycho-social basis for their ideas, unless one is doing clinical work in the subject of institutional insanity.

Pay them no mind. Contemporary liberals are not Nazis, however much the freepers wish them to be. Their hero, the president, is the closest thing we have in this country to a fascist at the moment.

Think about the concept of projection....
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 05:47 AM
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9. I agree, they are fun to watch self-implode
It's sort of like watching a train wreck, or more appropriately, a barrel full of monkeys. Except, not as smart.
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ngGale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 02:59 AM
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3. The right has been using liberal hate for a few years now...
it seems to be working. Just think, one day they will be running the country. Yikes!
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 03:04 AM
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4. Whay do you mean?One Day?
They have the Presidency and the Majority Party now!
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Leilani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 03:07 AM
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5. I checked Freep World earlier tonite
& they were smearing Gen Zinni as an anti-Semite.

Way over 100 posts, & boy they were mad; how dare the General say those horrible things about those great guys at the Pentagon.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 09:14 AM
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14. they were sooooo hostile
and they were talking like the Pres had so much more military knowledge than a former Marine general
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leftyandproud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 03:17 AM
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6. assholes
Edited on Tue May-25-04 03:22 AM by leftyandproud
just because they used liberal rhetoric on some issues to get elected does NOT make them liberals! The freepers are the fascists...they can kiss my @$$.
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Dead_Parrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 04:35 AM
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7. I suspect both...
...But I really wouldn't want to get close enough to psychoanalyse one. :scared:
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 04:53 AM
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8. I'm really tired of this freeper "let's make 'em Nazis" horseshit gambit.
Edited on Tue May-25-04 04:58 AM by rezmutt
The one poster over at FR who stood up against the outrageous comparison of Nazis to liberals was summarily canned for speaking the truth. His first post in the thread was:
"There's one big difference between Liberals and nazis though:
Nazis supported the systematic extermination of millions of people.
With that in mind, your comparison falls flat, and is worthless, and shameless. Enough with the nazi comparisons. Don't we hear liberals use those same rhetorical devices all too much?"
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Can't have that kind of sane thinking over there. Yeah, right, pull the plug on him, and fast, in the name of "freedom."

Freepers want to reinterpret history to suit their own insane agenda. If they can't see that the current administration is closer to National Socialism (they get so stuck on that word, "socialism," in their little black-and-white minds) than any other in our history, then they get the inept, suffocating, oppressive government that they deserve -- the problem is, we all get it, and we all suffer from it.

So, which part of our political spectrum resembles the Nazis most? Let's see -- continual warfare against a vague, undefined enemy ("the terrorists")? Pro-government propaganda spewing forth 24/7 (Faux News)? The so-called party of smaller government now BIGGER and more intrusive than ever before (Patriot Act, etc.)? The making of lists of "enemies" of the state (phony "traitors" lists, like the one that named the Berg father and possibly initiated events that got his son killed)? The spotlight put on incredible animal brutality practiced by certain echelons of our military (murder by interrogation)?

Can't the right wing see what the hell they're doing? No? Well, then, Arbeit Macht Frei, motherfuckers.
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 08:26 AM
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11. I saw that.
The guy who said this was wrong, that Nazis were exterminating millions of people, quickly was overwhelmed by the "Hitlery" people saying that Hillary wants to kill all conservatives. :crazy:
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 06:56 AM
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10. Stupidity knows no bounds with the freepers
Every time they go to the bathroom, they lose IQ points.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 08:35 AM
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12. Hillary and Nancy Pelosi would KILL ALL CONSERVATIVES if they could
Bwuhahahahahaha!!!

Wow, I never realized the right feared violence from the left so much.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 09:12 AM
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13. a little from column A
a little from Column B
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 09:25 AM
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15. They have a great imagination
How else can you explain their complete and utter devotion to such a regime? Obviously they see something we don't. Something bad, of course--nothing they've done could ever be considered good, except conversion.
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