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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:42 PM
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Poll question: Why is everything a Freeper says a lie?
It's true. If a Freeper* says he just took a huge dump, you better go check the toilet before he flushes. If he says the sky is blue, it must be nighttime.

But WHY? Why is it that they lie about literally everything?




* For those new at this, a Freeper is anybody who is a member of Free Republic, but, by extension, any right-wingnut. Examples would be Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, and Rush Limbaugh.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:43 PM
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1. they probably say the same thing about us
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:45 PM
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3. They do.
But of course, they are lying.
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Bethany Rockafella Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:45 PM
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2. I'm sorry but I'm not checking any freeper's toilet.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:49 PM
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5. I hear they never clean them.
Of course the light has been burned out in there for years, anyway.
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Finder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:48 PM
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4. In many cases they don't know they are promoting lies...
although some are very well aware. If you look at what they consider documentation it becomes obvious. Newsmax, WorldnetDaily, Faux, CNS, Human events, etc...

Since they rarely peruse any other sources, the memes rarely get challenged.
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:49 PM
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6. spite
because they want to believe they are "Speshuuuullllll". Which they are, in a short-bus kinda way.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 08:31 AM
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26. Exactly. They want to believe they are some sort of nobility
Due to birth on American soil.

The rest of the world is inferior, and should recognize it, like medieval peasants did.
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smokey nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:49 PM
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7. Because they don't use their brains, they use their guts............
It FEELS true to them, therefore it is. Any contradictory information is merely the product of the librul media.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:53 PM
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8. ben that was an easy one, all of the above. The reason, thats what repukes
do, lie.
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:53 PM
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9. Reality has a well-known liberal bias n/t
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:56 PM
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10. I heard that statement somewhere recently.
Who is it attributed to?
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 07:00 AM
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23. Stephen Colbert
:hi:
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 01:43 PM
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11. They are robotic zealots, and they lie every minute of every day...
For example, regarding Iraq, they feel compelled to say that things are going great over there, but the mainstream news just doesn't report it.

Or, take global warming -- **all** citizens of Earth ignore the compiled scientific data at their own peril, yet the right-wing talking point on this is to dismiss it as scare-mongering.
What do they possibly perceive as a negative that will come by their trying to consider the environment?

They somehow think it's "tough" to be a heartless right-winger ("no more government handouts"), since self-righteously "face facts," and have few doubts.

Also, it's possible that most freepers go through their day **never** listening to an opposing viewpoint. They listen to Rush and Hannity during the commute, watch Fox News in the evenings, and read right-wing blogs in between. They are not getting any exposure to different ideas.




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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:24 PM
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12. Even robots can sense errors, though. nt
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MamaBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:30 PM
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13. Because life is a zero sum game to them
They are psychologically and sociologically bipolar, so every social encounter is a win/lose situation to them, and they JUST GOTTA WIN.

If you accept their BS (or pretend you do), it's a win. They got one over on you. Then they float off happy in the gotcha moment. Ha! Fooled that DUmmy.

Crazy freakin' bastards. The religious ones are the worst. They think they're putting one over on old Satan.

Sad. Pathetic. And a waste of protoplasm.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:31 PM
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14. Other: They actually believe this stuff. n/t
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:32 PM
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15. Other:
Politics is now a religion for them. The truth does not matter in the least, as with religion. They just believe what they're told to believe, as with religion. They are discouraged from thinking for themselves, as with religion. Religion is dangerous, as with religion.
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:32 PM
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16. Their morals are blacker than a
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 03:33 PM by deaniac21
whore's shitcutter.

*sorry, I've been watching too much Deadwood...*
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 04:17 PM
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17. Whores...
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 04:41 PM by benburch
...are generally cleaner "there" than most people.
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 04:40 PM
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18. Not in Deadwood.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 04:41 PM
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19. Remind me to stay upwind of there. nt
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 08:29 AM
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25. Deadwood is an HBO series about the gold rush town of
Deadwood (where Wild Bill Hickock was shot). You'd have to see an episode to understand....
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 04:43 PM
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20. Because every republican has sheep-like behavior?
Which is why every time you get in an argument with one of them, and start crying foul, the rest of the GOP sheeple in the room will start acting like sheep, spouting talking points they heard five minutes ago on AM hate radio and / or Fox "News" as if it's fact?
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 04:46 PM
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21. Other: It Is False Perception. Not Because Of Stupidity, But Because Of
their brain's inability to accept alternatives.

For example, ever open your cabinet looking for the salt shaker, but your brain keeps telling you it isn't there? You keep looking over and over and swear to god it isn't there though you knew it should be, and find yourself cursing where in the hell is it? You know you are looking at every single spot in the cabinet, but it just simply isn't there? And then someone walks right up and says "hey, it's right here!" and it was?

Your brain simply refused to perceive the reality that it was right there. It instead perceived its own reality that it wasn't, and your eyes followed suit.

Same thing with freepers. They generally aren't lying, they are simply perceiving things in error because their brains refuse to let them seek an alternate explanation.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 08:36 AM
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27. They can only perceive in black and white
If you aren't for the war, you support the terrorists. Only two choices in their minds.

They refuse to allow the waters to be muddied with anything else.

That lets them feel "right" all the time. I think they cannot stand not being "right" and cannot deal with ambiguity, so they shut out anything that will upset their certainty.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 04:52 PM
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22. There's nothing on the truth side of the truth/lie continuum
That would justify their hate, greed and envy. So they're left with only lies.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 07:20 AM
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24. Because they are just like that, yeah, they are.
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:09 AM
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28. Because everything they say is a parroted line from *, Fox, Hannity, etc.
Which, by default, is a lie
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