Thursday, November 29, 2012

Metapost: Peak Crazy?

Never fear, I have a post coming up a bit later tonight, but a commenter brought up this interesting question:

Hoo boy. Between this, the Sandra Fluke fiasco (which is how I ended up here), and the 2012 presidential election, it's been quite a year. Do you think Freepers will be able to top themselves, Ozy?


On the one hand, it really does feel like the spiteful so-crazy-its-almost-evil crap that's happening at the moment has got to be unsustainable. On the other hand, Freepers are super good a preserving their hatred - witness their burning rage about Clinton.

Plus Freeper are always surprising me with their new ways to be crazy. And with their current nemesis leaving office naturally in four years, they can't just sit plan the bloodbath like they did in 2008.

Though they did get less crazy after Obamacare passed...

What do you guys think, can Free Republic continue to get crazier, or is their current tantrum about as high as they get, and then it's back to crazy-as-usual?

10 comments:

  1. Today's vote on recognizing Palestine hasn't concluded yet. If it fails I think Freep will settle for the remainder of the year. If it passes I think Freep will reach previously un-imagined levels of crazy.

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    1. The UN just passed Palestine's observer state bid... uber-crazy, here we come!

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  2. They are rage junkies and will need a fix no matter what.

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  3. We ain't seen nothin yet.

    The economy will improve immediately following the tax increase on the top 2%. Republicans will continue to melt down, Obamacare's benefits will kick in, and Freepers will go ballistic.

    I fully expect to hear a Freeper say they went to the doctor for free and got a prescription costing $20, and somehow this is the worst thing evar. Prescription-gate or something.

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  4. Recently, racism has decidedly ramped up on Freeper posts. At one time, Freepers boasted of the speed with which they zotted those posting racist contents. Now, they applaud their racist members.

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    1. Jim is having trouble hitting the Q4 Freepathon goal (I believe this will be the first time they've hit 2 months). That's why the racists aren't being zotted.

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    2. check em

      http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2963622/posts

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  5. I dunno...every so often, Freepers surprise me with higher and higher levels of crazy. I think the only way they can be happy is if they're angry.

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  6. Ozy, I don't know about it being unsustainable. They ain't plateauing; they're actually getting worse at a highly accelerated pace.

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    1. The SomethingAwful forums have a thread that follows freep as well, the title of the thread is "There is always more, and it is always worse."

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