Freerepublic is really going downhill (Alexa)

[barbaraann]

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=medium&compare_sites=&url=freerepublic.com#top

Tsk. Tsk. I guess there's actually a limit to how many times you can blame Bill Clinton's penis for all of the evil things that the Republicans do!

[AndyP]

1. whoops

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[Cleita]

2. I was googling feminist sites yesterday, when I ran across one

for the Aryan Female. Well it's a disgusting site with ties to the Aryan Nation, the KKK and Storm Watch, but also mentioned was the Free Republic so I don't think even mainstream conservatives bother with it anymore, just the white supremist crazies.

[rhino47]

3. You left out the best part.We get to do a review on freeperville .

Oh the fun I could have with that .

[barbaraann]

4. And you can do a review of DU, too!

:-)

[Fovea]

5. looks worse when you compare it with this...

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=democraticunderground.com

[MAlibdem]

8. du is growing, fr is shrinking

Hmmmm, you think the freepers are sad that Fr and France have the same abbreviation?

[9215]

56. Oh man! The Emerging Democratic majority is rockin'!

[smirkymonkey]

6. I didn't think that was possible...

poor bastards, their whole, hateful little worlds are crumbling before them and there is nothing they can do! BWAHAHAWHAHAHAHA...:evilgrin:

[9215]

55. Guess it was a false bottom, hee, hee.

:bounce:

[gristy]

7. They still have more traffic than DU, but if the trend continues,

we'll pass them before the end of the year.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=medium&url=freerepublic.com#top

[gulliver]

13. Great to see people getting tired of them.

Is there an intellectual conservative site or just the one lowbrow one?

[barbaraann]

21. Lowbrow.

Also hateful.

[Columbia]

48. Indeed

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379&h=216&r=6m&u=democraticunderground.com/&u=freerepublic.com

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[AZCat]

14. What exactly is 'iniquity'?

Seeing your post reminded me- I've been meaning to look up the latter half of this idiom. Here for illumination (thanks to www.websters.com):

iniquity (-nkw-t)
n. pl. iniquities

1. Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness.
2. A grossly immoral act; a sin.
<snip>

Ok, but here it gets interesting...

<snip>
1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
<snip>

Food for thought...

[amber dog democrat]

25. Then why are you here?

Seems like you'd be allot more comfortable avoiding the dens of hatred and iniquity. I don't think media endorsement is much of a recomendation.
I have been there and did not find it very interesting.

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[wuushew]

11. I hope you found your time here educational

I'm sure a cyber plot is already picked out in the DU graveyard.

[bobbyboucher]

12. When are you going back to k-dragville?

We "hate" over here? That's a good one. No, that's a HOWLER!

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[DrWeird]

17. Wow, those are some big words.

Admit it, you used the spell checker, didn't you?

Btw, there's no space in hyphenated words.

[drdigi420]

54. damn i wish they didnt delete those messages

i understand banning obvious disruptors, but man, it sure is frustrating reading all the clever DU remarks but not being able to see what they are remarking about

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[Fight_n_back]

29. A thoughtful rebuttal to your well thought out post

Anti Christian....This is quite a charge and, if it is as prevalent as you say, an example could easily be cited. There are members of all faiths here as well as members of no faith. We deal with American politics, however, and there is a long TRADITION of seperation of Church and State. Whether someone is a Christian or Zoroastrian should have no impact on the value of their ideas to anyone that is a citizen of the nation conceived by non Christians like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. But then you knew that because you studt religeon and politics so much.

Anti-Tradition...The Democratic Party is the oldest political pary in the world..WE ARE THE TRADITION. Neo Conservatives are the anti traditionalists since they seek to abolish American traditions like Social Security, gun control, limits on corporate crime and fair election of Presidents.

Anti-Conservative...No shit, Sherlock.

"A liberals demented view of the world..." Define "Liberal" and then attempt to explain why you think it dangerous to be one.

Historically conservatives have always been on the wrong side of the issues.

SLAVERY Liberal position? Abolition (very anti traditionalist)
Conservative position? Status Quo (owning humans)

WOMAN'S SUFFERAGE Liberal position? Allow women to vote
Conservative position? Missionary (okay, a little joke) Conservative position was the Status quo.

SOCIAL SECURITY Liberal Position? People should be able to eat
Conservative Position? People should be able to eat dog food.


So go back to your Laffer Curve loving, Anti Rational thought, Freedom hating, Gay bashing, Confederate flag waving NASCAR rally and try not to shoot yourself when your drunk.

P.S. See how I used that Zoroaster reference? Ya See, St Augustine was a Zoroastrian before he was a Christian and brought most of the philosophy with him when he was rewriting Christianity. This guy would get that reference since he is so into Christianity that he has probably studied as much history as he can on the subject. So it was a real zinger to someone as informed as he is.

[wuushew]

30. Your effort is wasted on the dead

[barbaraann]

31. He'll still be lurking, I think.

It's just too fascinating and informative. :-)

[Fight_n_back]

42. It was more for me anyway

never underestimate the narcissism of YANG

[barbaraann]

32. Great post.

Especially "conservatives have often been on the wrong side of the issues." That's a good one to remember.

[knight_of_the_star]

36. Truly impressive rebuttal good sir!

I'm sure he will be needing a dictionary to sort out many of those big words you put in there like "conservative" and "so"

[knight_of_the_star]

35. Those are mighty big words there!

We're not but 'umble pirates lad.

Although, I would have to be disinclined to even consider a healthy Socratic dialogue with an individual of such obviously simian intellect whose position rests upon nearly no evidence to support itself.

[Fovea]

39. I don't think I get your point

So we are liberals. We dislike knuckle dragging and prefer walking upright... So?

I mean, Dude! Go back to FR for a bit, and read your own side's screed.
Then come back and tell us which board wins the Ann Coulter drool-alike contest.

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[onehandle]

24. What I find funny is how easily threatened they are.

He blew his precious id over one little post.

Pussies.

[Demonaut]

19. yeah, its funny how they dont

Ive been on free republic awhile and they refer to DU all the time, and hate?? we beat up on those that take advantage of the weak, we dont take kindly to nazi's who call themselves patriots. The record shows republicans are racist, thieving hypocrites and DU does not use religion as a means to justify murder or killing. We are the ones who believe in free speech, and ALL rights.

[Rationality]

50. eh?

I don't want to start a flame war, but not all republicans are racist. Many are merely victims of their upbringing...

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[onehandle]

22. They call DUers...

DUmmies.

[Catholic Sensation]

28. how clever

[Vogon_Glory]

34. My Own Nickname For FReepers Is

My own nickname for the dear little souls who regularly post at the Free Republic web site is FReeperstani (plural: Freeperstanis). I refer to their web site as the Freeperstani caravanserai. I've occasionally taunted them by telling them to put it in their turbans and smoke it.



:evilgrin:

[Rationality]

49. FReeperstani? lol

I call them the Miserable Freeple.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

26. no one gives a crap about FR anymore, we have the action here on DU

FR was one of the first political websites to make it big. We now have their audience - they have become a self-parody, if they weren't already. Cons no longer set the agenda, we do.

[Ksec]

27. OUCH This is gonna leave a mark !

I cant imagine anything more bruising to those egos more than the fact that they are dying on the vine. It couldnt happen to a nicer ideology.

[Zero Gravitas]

33. Great

The Freeper vs. DU view changes seem to mirror the disintegration of the Bush image. More and more people are realizing that the Emperor has no clothes. Some of us knew that before he was appointed by the SCOTUS of course, but its good to see that people are finally waking up, and just in time for the election!

[Pobeka]

37. Anyone else notice alexa's axis' are really horfed?

On y axis, larger numbers are at the bottom...

[barbaraann]

38. What does horf mean?

n/t

[Pobeka]

40. Screwed up. Messed up. Broken. It's computer slang...

[barbaraann]

44. Thank you.

I didn't know that!

[Fovea]

43. horffed

N.A.W.U.
F.U.B.A.R.
S.N.A.F.U.

Not consistent with expected output.

[barbaraann]

45. Thanks to you too.

DU is very educational!

[Beaker]

47. but they're charting traffic "rankings"...

so the bigger the number, the worse you're doing- so to show traffic going "downhill", the larger numbers are at the bottom.

[johnfunk]

41. FR just got a warning letter from a Corbis lawyer re bogus Kerry/Fonda pic

Subject: Kerry/Fonda image

February 23, 2004

VIA EMAIL AND U.S. MAIL

Jim Robinson www.freerepublic.com P.O. Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794 USA

RE: www.freerepublic.com

Matter ID: 14-0486/John Kerry/Jane Fonda Image

Dear Jim Robinson:

Corbis is one of the largest digital image licensing companies in the world. All of the images in Corbis’ collection are subject to federal and international copyright protection. Indeed, all of the works found on the www.corbis.com web site bear appropriate copyright notices. Furthermore, we have a responsibility to our photographers to protect their intellectual property and pursue any possible cases of improper use.

It has recently come to Corbis’ attention that your company’s web site, www.freerepublic.com, through the web pages:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1080321/posts, http://www.berkeleydaily.org/photos/02-17-04/DoctoredKerry03%2Ejpg, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074196/posts, http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1080321/posts, , directly reproduces, adapts, displays, and distributes an unauthorized and altered version of Corbis images

#DWF15-563704 and #OF016339. This directly violates Corbis’ and the photographers’ exclusive rights to reproduce, adapt, display, distribute, and create derivative works.

Given the nature of the apparent copying and altering of this image, such infringements would be subject to statutory damages of $150,000 per infringement, in addition to costs and attorney’s fees.

Background: the altered photo was cooked up by Rick "Registered" Taylor and posted to FR -- apparently without warning it wasn't genuine. That's not parody. That's FRAUD. Will Rick get nailed by Corbis too? I'm sure they know by now that he raked it in on "Sore Loserman" merchandise, and can certainly afford to pay civil penalties.

The thread is here! Sit back and have the popcorn handy.

Oh, yes -- scroll down to the poster who tells that dumbass JimRobber not to send STUPID e-mails to Corbis' lawyer the way he did! That's just the beginning of the laffs and fun...

[barbaraann]

46. Oh, tsk tsk. Poor FR.

They may be in for a legal battle from hell.

[Rationality]

51. Freeper Kitty Vikings (nazi patrol)

Someone here posts an article complaining about FOX getting removed from their cable lineup, and all of the sudden some dimwit accusses him of being a troll. Funny stuff.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084583/posts

[wicket]

52. HAHAHAHAHAHA

nt

[Doctor_J]

53. Exactly

People are coming to the realizations that:

1. Getting a hummer in the OO isn't as bad as raping the environment, the economy, Iraq, and all of our allies, and

2. When he wasn't philandering, Big Dog was doing a pretty damn good job as Leader Of THe Free World