Free Republic Nostalgia Thread in the 90s

[ashredux]

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Who did battle with Jim Robinson and all the Freepers during the Clinton years?

Those were the early days.....

ash still lives.....

[SeattleVet]

1. I had thought about doing that...

but I decided that I really didn't want to lower myself to have a battle of wits with unarmed people.

[ashredux]

2. It was fun for some time.....

It was my first online adventure

[Throckmorton]

3. I was a foot solider in the battle of portipotty

I think I was awarded the medal of the toilet brush, with a Lysol cluster.

[ashredux]

4. Don Morgan...are you out there?

[Vogon_Glory]

5. I remember the seventies as a time of gas rationing, malaise, and stagflation

What sort of idiots would want those bad old days back again?



Oh, the Radical Right.

[ashredux]

6. LOL....I miss typed...it was the 90s!

[Vogon_Glory]

11. Well, in that case: Never Mind

[totodeinhere]

7. Is that site still around? I remember a few years ago it was pretty common to see "freepers"

getting regularly bashed at DU. But this is the first time I have heard about that site in a long time.

[madinmaryland]

8. I thought the hamster died and they closed shop.

[kskiska]

9. It's a very small group of Kool-Aid drinkers who try to top each other

making snarky remarks and reinforcing each others' prejudices while following marching orders from their leaders. It's funny when a new story comes out and they're not sure what their reaction should be. Once it's established, they all fall into line and parrot the party line.

[ashredux]

10. Pretty close to accurate...I was banned more time than I can count

Opposition was not allowed

[PCIntern]

12. You didn't join the

dollar a day club??? Shame on you.

[murielm99]

13. There was a poster here who was a freeper.

He became a moderator or whatever we called them back then. At that point he admitted to being a freeper. I can't remember his screen name. Does anyone else remember him?

I was fairly new here at the time. I do remember thinking that a lot of his posts did not reflect the spirit of this place.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. You may be thinking about Seventhson.

He unveiled himself on election night 2004. Never a moderator though.

There was someone else who pretended to be two people, and they both served as mods before getting caught. I don't think they were freepers though, but not sure.

[murielm99]

15. Yes, it was Seventhson.

The other guy was Indytony on some other site, and he was outed here. He had me fooled.

I think I have that right.

[Cal Carpenter]

16. Mineral Man was a freeper too

[Hekate]

18. Liked to argue with them, iirc, but finally realized what passed for their minds could not change...

...and found a home here.

[NickB79]

19. Excuse me?

There's a poster here named MineralMan who's still very active and is not a Freeper as far as I can tell. Different person?

[Downtown Hound]

17. I had OperationMindCrime figured out years before he outed himself

Everyone, when someone is constantly "playing devil's advocate" you might want to start questioning their motivations.