I don't understand why DUers go to Free Republic

[undeterred]

or why people quote them here.

You know what you're going to find ahead of time: asinine, angry, senseless remarks.

Why bother with them?

[Bluebear]

1. "We are screwn!"

Talk about finding comic relief!

[undeterred]

8. That one was pretty funny!

Especially because you know it wasn't intended to be. :hi:

[Human Torch]

Yep...as someone who posts F.R. content on DU, I often do it for comic relief.

I tend to not shield myself from things that I might disagree with or find offensive. Knowledge really IS power, and there is value in knowing how those folks think. For everyone else, it's why God made "Hide Thread" and "Ignore User."

:patriot:

[BattyDem]

20. That one's already a classic! It's the new, "morans"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[undeterred]

32. Its Freeper Shaekespearean!

[rzemanfl]

2. I don't understand why married men go to prostitutes either. Go

figure...

[Annces]

3. The better you know the enemy

the easier you can plan to overtake them.

[InternalDialogue]

4. It's like eating the vomit-flavored Harry Potter jellybean.

You know what it's going to be like, but you just want to see... OH GOD, it's just as bad as I expected!!! :puke:

[Lex]

5. It's for the comedy.

I'm series!111!

[BurtWorm]

6. It's the smell of napalm in the morning.

Don't you get it?

:patriot:

[donco6]

7. Why do kids play in mud puddles . . .

. . . why can't people turn away from train wrecks

why are horror movies so popular?

It's all in the mystery of life.

[mntleo2]

9. Yeah ,Why Wade In Crap when ...

....you can sit in a rose garden? I always wondered that too.

Cat In Seattle

[razors edge]

17. To get fertilizer for the roses?

[SoCalDem]

10. I love the pictures they post

Lots of them are 'connected' and get pictures that AP doesn't. they post the most IDIOTIC pictures and then swoon over them.

I snag them for OUR enjoyment over here :)

[Bluebear]

16. And all the crying eagle on black velvet pics.

With "These color's don't run" slogans.

[LeftCoast]

11. At the moment, it's the best place to get a cheap glass of Schadenfreude

:D

[chat_noir]

12. today it paid off to see them turn on Rove

[skids]

13. Morbid curiosity. n/t

[Chipper Chat]

14. Well, you see, it's this way:

I've always been a wee bit afraid to enter sex chatrooms. So I log on to FreeRepublic to satisfy my carnal voyeuristic instincts.

[Hulsey13]

15. Because...

Because sometimes preaching to the choir is less effective than open and passionate debate. And every now and then, believe it or not, there is a post on FR worth reading and discussing.

That said, I have read through the Free Republic site, and much of it smacks me as inane and idiotic. There are voices of reason there, but they are drowned out by the chorus of "Dems want to end this nation, only Jesus can save us, homosexual agenda, blah blah blah."

And hey, if Anne Frank could still believe in the goodness of mankind, who are we to charge that not a single Freeper has something to say worth hearing?

(Wow. I SO want extra karma points for posting this. I almost convinced myself I was sincere. Almost. No. Wait. I mean it. I think.)

[Initech]

18. It's a case of "know your enemy"

[Tempest]

24. And also for the comic value

Those are the two reasons I go there occasionally.

[Gato Moteado]

19. it's like driving through an online trailer park

sometimes i guess people just want to observe whitetrash in their natural environment.

[lapfog_1]

21. endless source of comedy material

but alas, I don't go there but I admire those of us that spelunk in that sewer to find occasional gems.

They are so screwn.

[datadiva]

22. Because its fun!

Where else can you find such comic relief? Also, in order to defeat an enemy you must first know him. Which is pretty easy in this instance. Really, I'm serise!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

23. I make fun of the willfully ignorant

So sometimes their quotes are funny to me.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. For posts like this.....

Sweet Jesus, I LOATHE these folks!! I hate them with a passion hell couldn't describe!! SOB'S and F--KERS!! Are we ready to FIGHT??!! LISTEN UP!! ARE WE READY TO GIVE THE F--KING RATS A FIGHT? VA state folk this is your wakeup call, DON'T LET KAINE WIN.... HELL, I HOPE THIS HAS LIT A FIRE UNDER OUR party ARSES!! I'm so angry I'm spiting nails! The freakin RATS have fired the first shot, it's time to defend ourselves....FTS!!!!! I for ONE will NOT bend over!!

Hitlery is guilty as CHIT and the bit** SLIPPED away quite nicely!!

ENUFF!!

40 posted on 10/19/2005 12:24:23 PM PDT by RoseofTexas

And this wasn't from last night!

:rofl:

[Gato Moteado]

28. he says he for one won't bend over.....

what a joke. he bends over for bushco daily.

now you see why these people have earned the name "human garbage"

[baby_mouse]

26. I don't understand it either

It's certainly not as if Free Republic is at all representative of most of the right. Freepers are all complete whack jobs.

[Puglover]

27. I always feel like

I need a shower after going there. (Which isn't often.)

Plus....jesus...it looks like a 2nd grader designed the website.

[unpossibles]

29. it's funny AND informative!

not only are they series morans, but it's even funnier when they accuse lefties and/or Muslims/Mexicans/Gays of the very traits they have (such as destroying America, etc.). Actually, it would be funnier if perhaps it didn't bother me so much, but you know what I mean.

I also think it's good to know what their arguments are, if for no other reason that it's easier to shoot holes in their "logic" if you're expecting it.

I seldom go there myself - there's not much need to see 800 copies of "HITLERY SUKCS!", but sometimes do when something big happens or when someone points out a particularly funny post.

[trekbiker]

30. purely for recreational purposes... FR is good for a laugh once in awhile

[twilight_sailing]

31. Conversely,

I don't know why people complain about those who do.

[Catherine Vincent]

34. LOL!

[Vogon_Glory]

33. Why? Because Schadenfreude Is Part of Being Human

Why are some DUers going over to visit DU to read the wails of lamentation and listen to the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments? Because we have bullied and afflicted by Freepers for over a decade, and because indulging in some Schadenfreude is part of human nature. Indulging in Schadenfreude may not be the highest part of human nature but, oh Boy, is it fun right now!

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:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

[AndreaCG]

35. I just went there for the hell of it

It was pretty boring, and definitely not as user friendly as this place or Table Talk.

[Mr_Spock]

36. I wonder that as well

Perhaps it's because I am incapable of clicking or otherwise ever viewing their site..

I do open the threads out of morbid curiosity though :D