the crap you get to see when watching tv over the internet...via the accompanying 'chat' box:

[islandmkl]

almost totally participated in by freeepers, with their full intellectual abilities on display...check out this example...you can't make this shit up:

bonargees: Study after study reveals that homosexuality, whether male or female, can take anywhere from 10, 20 to 30 years off of someone's lifespan. With all the attention on smoking, which the National Cancer Institute says takes from 7 to 10 years off someone's life, why not the same human outcry on homosexuality? Here's a behavior that's killing people 2 to 3 times the rate of smoking, yet nobody seems to care. In fact, we are encouraging and affirming individuals into the "gay" lifestyle. If you truly love someone, you would steer them away from self-destructive behaviors, rather than towards them, shouldn't you? Homosexuals need our tough love, not blind love, the kind of love that is going to love them no matter what they say and do. We must extend that helping hand and say " I think your worth saving, let's work on it together."

"Study after study reveals that homosexuality, whether male or female, can take anywhere from 10, 20 to 30 years off of someone's lifespan."???...apparently such a known fact that it needs absolutely NO documentation...

i believe i know where all the missing genes have been collected....

[freshwest]

1. Do Freepers have real lives?

[patrice]

2. Sen. Kerry is right there are a LOT of people who think just saying something makes it a fact.

The more one says it and the more people who say it, the truer it becomes.

If you think I'm exaggerating, you're wrong. LOTS of People don't know what makes a fact a fact. I spent a LOT of time in Facebook threads during the last election cycle and if a comment was from the Right, it was based on the assumption above, and I NEVER saw any comment from the Right that wasn't. You could ask them politely for cite links or names of sources anything to corroborate what they were saying and they never reply. And they seem completely unaware of why that's a problem. It's frakking AMAZING!