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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 05:57 PM
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How does this new Conservative Underground (CU) differ from Free Republic?
I'm seeing posts here on DU referring to "CU" and that there are folks over there trashing us. Why is this "CU" place trashing us any different from "Free Republic."

What's the big deal about that place? :shrug:
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 05:59 PM
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1. Freepers only give DU part of their attention
CU exists only because DU exists.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:05 PM
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7. You should just see how they're trashing
Edited on Tue May-04-04 06:46 PM by liberalhistorian
NightTrain and I right now; I actually held my nose and registered so I could reply to their bullshit. They are OBSESSED with DU, and it's frightening how much they know about all of us. They don't discuss any issues, it's all about trashing DUers. They're having a ball with me right now. I'd post the link, but I'm too pissed off right now.

They're calling me an unfit mother, ugly piece of trailer trash bum, castigating me for "indoctrinating" my son, mocking Dean (NightTrain) and I, etc., etc., the picture of me that's going around is just horrible; Jonnyblitz took it at the end of the march in D.C., when we were all tired and sweaty and I was just clowning around, I look HORRIBLE!
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:11 PM
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15. WHAT??? Who are these people and how would they know who you are???
This is very strange. How do they know things about DU'ers unless they were here long enough to interact with us... This is creepy to me.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:07 PM
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8. yep they are like our "fan club"
they know more about us than even we do

they trade DU stories like baseball cards

it's truly a bizarre website...
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:01 PM
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2. It's Free and Mini-Free
nt
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:02 PM
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3. Conservative Underground is DU's evil twin cousin
It's full of people who were banned from DU for being freeptards. They have a "Worst of DU" forum.

CU is better than FR because it doesn't look like something ported off a MicroVAX like FR does.

My bet is that if you were to investigate the FR and CU membership rosters, you'd find a lot of the same people.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:09 PM
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11. Are you saying that CU represents the "intelligentsia of FR?" Like
saying that "FR" has such dumbasses that the more intelligent of them had to start their own site and that evolved at "CU?"

IOW, some of the "Freeps" came to DU, got enlightened and found "CU" too retarded so they had to start their own site? :shrug:
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powergirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:26 PM
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21. So CU is like DU Bizarro World?
Edited on Tue May-04-04 06:27 PM by powergirl
You know the Superman parallel universe where everyone was evil and not nearly as good looking as the real world (which would be DU)! :crazy:
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:34 PM
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26. ROFL...definitely a "bizarro world" n/t
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powergirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:44 PM
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31. What does ROFL ... MEAN?
:puke: :argh:
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:02 PM
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4. The CU site exists entirely in reference to this one. If it is possible
to imagine something more lame than FR (and I find it difficult), this is it.

I also find the concept amusing. HELLO! YOU HAVE POTUS, SCOTUS, HOUSE AND SENATE AND ALL CORPORATE MEDIA under your control! What need do you have for an "underground", MORANS!!!!
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:03 PM
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5. For starters it isn't new.
It's been around a couple years.

CU allows liberal view points. FR dosen't. CU also allows conservative viewpoints which DU dosen't. Yeah, they spend a lot of time bashing DU, which is stupid and the sign of a shallow mind which can't think of anything intelligent to say so decides to go with "let's laugh at the silly liberals" in order to feel important. A lot of the anti-FR posts here are of the same ilk.

CU is a pretty decent site really, or was when I hung out there. Msot of the people are intelligent and at least willing to listen to your argument even if, in the end, they still don't agree with your position or your logic.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:08 PM
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9. Oh, really?
Go there right now and see how they're trashing me (I registered just to reply to their bullshit), and their threads devoted to nothing but trashing other DUers, and you'll feel differently. These people are pathetic, they obsess over us like there's nothing else in their lives. Oh, wait a minute..................
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:10 PM
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14. Did I just see a light bulb go on?
:)

I haven't been back in a long time. I've been too busy attempting to save my own side to worry about converting the wicked and saving the lost.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:21 PM
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19. they call me anti-military
I'm a GI brat and Air Force veteran who sends care packages to soldiers I don't know in Iraq every month. Those people are just f***ing stupid. Oh and to you trolls who give advice about trolling over here - don't even think we don't know who the f*** you are.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:29 PM
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22. They trash Mari333, too,
calling her a "goddamn stupid bitch" and a "whining mental patient." Never mind that she has a son in Iraq.
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JohnLocke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:32 PM
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25. Some people....
"$%#&@%$^&^%$..."
-- JohnLocke
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:44 PM
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30. Assume they are like FR Chicken Hawks who don't have a son or daughter
over there. Devoid of compassion with their fellow man, and lacking in enough intelligence or historial perspective they can't see anything other than waving a flag for those who die to preserve their puny idea of Bush Economy and PNAC objectives?

And, the word HYPOCRACY...doesn't even enter their vocabulary...disgusting :puke:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:04 PM
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6. No big deal. Just more proof they can't comprehend calendars.
Did you know that Clinton was president in 1991 and ordered the killings at Ruby Ridge?

Did you know that Clinton was the head of the CIA while running drugs out of Mena in the 80s for Ollie North and his covert activities?

Did you know that Clinton called for a 4 year investigation into Koresh in 1989 and it was Clinton's ATF that took him down?
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:09 PM
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10. ROFLMAO!
And these are the people who are obsessed over my "lack of parenting skills!"
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:14 PM
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17. I don't understand...how would some conservative website know anything
about you, including whether you are a great parent or lacking...How can they know this stuff...:shrug: How do they get the info?
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:32 PM
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24. They spend their pathetic lives
reading all the threads over here, then going there, posting the threads, and trashing and mocking them. All the threads I've posted about my son and what he's been dealing with at school because he's speaking out against Shrub, every single other thread about everyone else, they KNOW about it.

They KNOW almost everything about everyone here, it's almost frightening if it weren't so fucking pathetic.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:37 PM
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27. Well, that's sick. and says they don't know what to do with their free
time. To spend one's life doing a vendetta against folks on a "website" on the internet...is so bizarre it doesn't compute in my brain.

Must mean these folks are very "isolated from the outside world" and have no connection to reality. It's really too low for words.
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meow mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:09 PM
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12. CU is just a few people obsessed with DU, its pathetic..
Edited on Tue May-04-04 06:11 PM by meow mix
about 10 of them actually post.
and only thier complaints about DU - nothing else.
(except love for chimpy*)
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makhno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:09 PM
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13. Same retarded ideology
Only better presented.
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West Coast Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:13 PM
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16. I only just heard about it yesterday........
so I checked it out, and the front page was almost entirely devoted to DU threads, DU posters and other DU topics. The site was really slow, so I only had a look at a couple of threads...but I would think these CUers would be bored to tears. What a boring and sad form of entertainment.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:19 PM
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18. My God! Sounds like DU has inspired "Gang Wars!" You all are saying
that CU has some banned "Freeper/Trolls" who have created a website to attack DU and I know that the "far Left" of DU has a website for those who were banned for being "disrupters" for ...well whatever, so now we have Two Websites going with folks who were former DU'ers???

What does this mean? I only ask as a political observer. It means something...but what??
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:22 PM
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20. it means
there are a lot of sad and pathetic people out there
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:40 PM
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28. for "disclosure purposes" I do belong to a "break off" far left website
that has indulged in some trashing of DU'ers here. I just didn't get why some "Free Repug" website would have a spin off against DU.

However, is it a difference when "Left Websites" trash "some" DU'ers compared to "Freep" folks doing it?

If it was me, I'd rather have my "OWN" trashing me than the Bush Retards doing it...Just MHOP...:shrug:
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:45 PM
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32. LOL!
Hey, Skittles, maybe you should go over there and KICK SOME PATHETIC ASS!!!
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Christ was Socialist Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:42 PM
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29. which one is th far left?
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:31 PM
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23. They're a funny group people.
I think my favorite quote went something like, "those DUHmmies are a bunch of antisemitic commie sandniggerlovers."

They're really quite desperate. Since they're to chickenshit to argue over here, and since they can't actual argue since the facts are against them, all they can do is lie and make bad jokes about photographs.

I think one said we were celebrating Hitler's birthday on 4/20. How pathetic is that?
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John_H Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:47 PM
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33. CUers have lost one more tooth, on average, than Freepers
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:47 PM
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34. Locking
No conservative underground threads.
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