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Servo300 Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:44 PM
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What exactly is a "Freeper"?
Is it someone who visits "freerepublic.com"?

Or is it a conservative in general?
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:46 PM
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1. Yes
The denizens of www.freerepublic.com call themselves "Freepers". In terms of conservatives in general, Freepers are the lowest of the low.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:46 PM
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2. I've taken to using it as a reference to conservatives in general...
though technically, I suppose, it refers to those who post on free republic.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:49 PM
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3. Specifically it is a term for those posting at freerepublic
Although it can be used to refer to anyone that exhibits behaviour similar to theirs as well.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:49 PM
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4. Conservatives in General are Misguided
Freepers are a whole different breed, the result of generations of inbreeding.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 03:07 PM
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11. Don't forget plus 20 years of Goebbels-style propaganda
designed to erase a Free Citizen, replacing them with a Gullible, Bootlicking Brownshirt.
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Hemprus Donating Member (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:50 PM
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5.  hey man
I'm an RRT from CT. I use that vent all the time. I also an RPSGT, which I found a little boring after the initial learning process. Are you an RT too?
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Servo300 Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 03:00 PM
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8. Yep, I'm an RRT also
Originally from Kansas City, currently live in San Antonio.

The Servo 300 is the vent we currently use for peds/neonatal patients, but probably we're eventually going to switch to the Servo "i" or the PB 840 with peds/neo software.

You ever post on RC_WORLD?

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Nomad559 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:55 PM
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6. A Freeper
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:58 PM
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7. Conservatives can be rational and intelligent
Freepers are right wing Bushbots who participate in extreme pro-war activism. They fiercly oppose anyone who questions Bushco Policies.

Conservatives come in many stripes. Freepers represent the bottom of the barrel in the American conservative community.

They are a bunch of pseudo-patriot, bible thumping, pro-Bush, extremely pro-war, anti-muslim, pro-zionist, anti-free thought crypto fascists who are a danger to our liberties and to our safety.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 03:00 PM
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9. I agree. Not all conservatives are freepers.
Free Republic posts what they don't stand for right on their front page. It's a long paragraph. They're against a lot of things.

Freepers are like conservatives on angel dust.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 03:08 PM
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12. I have friends and family that are 'conservative'
but none of them is anything like the knuckle draggers on FR
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 03:15 PM
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13. Conservatives VS Freepers...
Some conservatives can be fairly intelligent and rational, and very pro constitution, Clint Eastwood and John McCain come to mind, as such types. They are the type of conservative, that, while they may not like what you have to say, would defend your right to say it nonetheless.

Freepers are basically hiding behind the conservative label, but are in reality fascists, who are anti constitution, anti separation of church and state, anti any type of rights for anything but straight white males, and basically would enjoy seeing our democratic form of government turned into a theocracy. They are also split into 2 groups, which are those that have nothing and blame liberals and minorities for it, and those that have everything, and want to make damn sure they keep it that way.
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 03:03 PM
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10. From SeattleActivist
http://dug.seattleactivist.org/#f

"(free-pur) n. Republican asshole who believes that a return
to the 19th century is the only acceptable way of life.
Usually found in trailer parks, honky-tonks or hunting camps.
syn. thug, imbecile, moron, neanderthal"

--DumpGump


"You're being too tough...
on the nineteenth century. You could cover your whole
definition with "mean and dumb."

--Lydia Leftcoast
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