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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMultiple Freepers post sensibly (check the temperature in hell).
It occasionally happens that a thread on Free Republic includes one thoughtful and valuable comment (leading to suspicions here that its author will soon be zotted). In this instance, though, we see more than one Freeper who seems to have a few functioning neurons.
Matters begin in typical FR fashion, with a bonehead anti-government harangue in this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2893725/posts (titled "HHS Spends Taxpayer $$$ on....Slavery???" . Freeper Gabrial reports seeing a sign in Houston for an 800 number for reporting instances of slavery to the Department of Health and Human Services. Gabrial objects to this use of tax money. Apparently, Gabrial thinks that slavery ended with the Civil War and subsequent scare-mongering about it is just another librul boondoggle. So far, so normal.
Then things get weird. In the very first response, Freeper muawiyah mentions exploitation of domestic servants and concludes, "So, yes, slavery exists in modern America." Half a dozen other Freepers join in to educate Gabrial about the contemporary problem of human trafficking.
OK, some of them take the opportunity to flog one of their favorite targets, illegal immigration... but still, the whole thread is astonishingly advanced for that lot.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)"HHS Spends Taxpayer $$$ on slavery! Wait, they're SLAVEMONGERS?!!!"
I expect that kind of reading comprehension from those knuckle-draggers.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)so I am traumatized now. I think I need to lay down. Seriously though, this isn't a good sign for their side, if people start waking up they will leave the GOP in droves.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Sounds like that conversation is a bit above their compassion limits!
brewens
(13,588 posts)away. No frolicking for Rush if he's losing the Freepers on this one!
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I see from Wikipedia that there's also a Hell, Arizona and a Hell, California, but they're probably less likely to freeze over.
Bodhi BloodWave
(2,346 posts)Hell, Norway
Cue "Hell freezing over" joke here. Hell, Norway, has gained notoriety for the combination of its name and sub-arctic temperatures. The average temperature in February 2010 was a balmy 20 degrees F. Tourists have trekked to Hell in recent years, many to photograph themselves in front of one of the towns train station signs.
Hell freezes over, on average, a third of the year, running from December through March.
brewens
(13,588 posts)spell check on short posts where I'm sure I got everything right. Who knew there would be a Freeper that could spell?
I can't resist messing with them a little.
rox63
(9,464 posts)So maybe that's where the ones that corrected the original freep got their information. I have a FB friend (a formerly reasonable person who went fundie a few years ago) who attends one, and she has posted about her church's efforts to fight it.