Was Just Over At Free Republic...

[mindwalker_i]

I was trying to see what their responses were to the speech, but I had a little trouble. It took two tries to get just the main page, and four before I could even get one article to come up. The poor, old, bogged down server was just having a really hard time, probably about to catch that Commodore 64 on fire, not to mention the 1541 disk drive.

When I finally did get it to load, there was this impassioned plea:

"Hey! FReepers!
Help Fill The Tank!
How About It? Huh?
It Ain't Askin' Too Much
Ya Know.... "

Along with a pathetic little gas gauge with the needle a hair's breath from empty, and it got me thinking. Why don't we all go over there and donate $0.02? With 50 of us, that could be a dollar! with 100 of us, that could be, uh, two dollars!

What's Superman without Lex Luther?
What's rich without poor?
What Sheldon without Leslie (maybe that's backwards, I'm not sure...)
What's Jeff Gannon without... nevermind.

[EFerrari]

1. All the school children in America should send them a penny to buy a spell check function.

:)

[Kalyke]

13. I wouldn't wish that!

The children of America sent FDR pennies to set aside the wonderful Smoky Mountains National Park, which is still thriving today.

I'd rather FreepU dies.

[bushisanidiot]

2. Nobody goes over there anymore

they're trolling over here and arm chair warrioring anti-government/pro gold sites on the internetz

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

3. Ewwwww. Not even .000002 cents!

[safeinOhio]

11. and tell em you don't have a credit card and

the check is in the mail.

:toast:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

4. might be fun. Don't they lose money if donations are tiny? Fees

fees to the processor?

[RichGirl]

5. I'd be willing to use a 42 cent stamp to mail them 2 cents...

...but no way would I give the credit card information.

[2Design]

6. we don't care - don't bring that shit back here

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. You go ahead.

[Synnical]

8. Yeah, the site is dying

My experience was the same as yours.

Good riddance.

[mindwalker_i]

12. I think it's really a matter of how exclusive they've become

Based on what I've heard from other people here, they have a very narrow ideology and any deviance results in someone being kicked out. It's a useful lesson for any political party that enforcing rigid conformity leads to death. It seems like that's starting to kill the teabaggers.

[stevedeshazer]

9. Yeah, the hamster died again.

The connection has timed out

The server at www.freerepublic.com is taking too long to respond.

[mindwalker_i]

14. Time for that hamster to pull itself up by the bootstraps

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[bluestate10]

10. I will send the FR a leaflet of my toilet paper.

I will stamp a picture of Cheater on it and denominate it at $10.

[Shagbark Hickory]

15. Actually, we should all do exactly that! And here's why...

Assuming they are taking credit cards, they are likely paying a fee per transaction in addition to a percentage of the sale. The fee is probably 10-30 cents.
So if we donate 2 cents, they will lose 8-38 cents per donation.

[mindwalker_i]

17. It would almost be like sending them IOUs

[bluerum]

16. Why? Why do people voluntarily subject thier sensibilities to chaotic nonsense?

[jwirr]

18. And if we slow down donations enough he will go broke before we

stop. Good idea but I am not going to that site.