Oh look, it’s another million-word liberal magazine article about snowbilly grifter Sarah Palin! Did you read it? We scanned it, as a service to busy Wonkette people who simply can’t afford to give up an hour of porn or solitaire or whatever, and the only interesting part we discovered was that the Tea Party Teabaggers also believe Facebook is a secret liberal plot to take away their freedom fries.
You’ve heard of the Tea Party Nation business, the one that fleeced the dumb teabaggers at that for-profit entertainment extravaganza held somewhere … Nashville? Well, Sarah Palin got her usual HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to read her 2008 nomination speech off her hand again, but the real revelation is that Tea Party Nation’s founders started the whole thing as a libtard-free social networking website:
Landing Palin was the work of Judson Phillips, a smooth-talking Nashville defense lawyer who was active in the tea-party movement and wanted to make a business out of it. While many tea-party groups, such as Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, operated as traditional activist organizations, Phillips’s effort was entrepreneurial: He had launched the Tea Party Nation network as a conservative social-media website that would also put on for-profit conferences. Phillips told me he saw a business opportunity to create a right-wing version of Facebook, which he believes is a liberal front that could be used to silence conservatives. “I knew people on Facebook who had their accounts disabled for no reason,” Phillips told me. “My fear is that we’d be 72 hours out from Tax Day tea parties and Facebook would wipe us out.”
Ha ha, what? It’s a great idea, of course. [New York Magazine]
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All cool, smart, fun people are left-leaning. And apparently a lot of tools who like MafiaWars & Farmville are too.
“My fear is that we’d be 72 hours out from Tax Day tea parties and Facebook would wipe us out.”
Then I’d have use up my prepaid call phone minutes calling the other three guys that wanted to meet for the Tax Day tea parties.
OT: Gyno-hating neckbeard Ross Douhat is on NPR right now talking about children’s show South Park! Call the show!!! MAKE DOUHAT CRY!!!!
Damn it, they are on to us! Everyone, get off the internet! They know we are here!
“I knew people on Facebook who had their accounts disabled for no reason other than the death threats they contained” /fixed
Mr. Philips, excessive uses of the N-word and threats to kill the President are not “no reason”.
Uhhhmmmmmm…I’m having a radically different Facebook experience than these folks. If I had a nickel for every time I was called a socialist and, yes, communist…
Like Conservapedia, Patriotbook will totally change the discourse.
“My fear is that we’d be 72 hours out from Tax Day tea parties and Facebook would wipe us out.”
Aren’t the teabaggers ALWAYS 72 hours from their next protest? It seems like they have 3 or 4 a week.
Makes sense to me. (Looks down, pauses) Dundit to you?
Wow, libtards are POWERFUL! They control Hollywood, the media and teh Facebook. The USA must be some sort socialist paradise?
Ah, a conservative FB, to join the likes of such greats as Conservapedia and Pop Modal (a conservative youtube). Maybe it will be called My Red FaceSpace.
Do it. Collect all the right-wingers into one place, and make it gloriously right-wingy. In fact, let’s give you a TLD suffix: .fail
“My fear is that we’d be 72 hours out from Tax Day tea parties and Facebook would wipe us out.”
Or birds would’ve eaten the password you spelled out in breadcrumbs.
Jud’s just pissed because Andrew Sullivan didn’t respond to his Friends Request.
Has he ever been on the Facebook? Cuz you can’t be on the Facebook 10 minutes without someone sending you some honk if you lurve Jesus post.
[re=564367]bored with gravity[/re]: Yeah. Get a job, hippies!
[re=564368]germansteel[/re]: lolololololol.
Silly Contards, the intertubes is for the libtarded!
If you’re going to subdivide the intertubes as “Contarded” and Libtarded then you might as well invent your own.
Almost everything done on a computer is libtarded except that 1/3 of the transistor is racist (Shockley.) The physics a computer works on (solid state physics) has its origins in the Big Bang, not the 7 Days of “dog.” All of the SW used to run it is based on the theories of Alan Turing, a H.O.M.O.Sechssual.
So good luck trying to develop your own Jeebusy/Contarded acceptable theories of physics, engineering, transistors, SW and intertubes, but I don’t think you can hook up tin cans with string to an ethernet connection.
You know who else was a smooth-talking Nashville lawyer? Andrew Jackson. Bring back Trail of Tears. Both the actual Trail and the Nordic black metal band of the same name.
Ah yes, the libtard leaning socialism spreading Facebook that has allowed well over a million people to join a group implicitly praying for the death of the president…
[re=564370]TexasSecessionist[/re]: Oh yeah, I forgot how wikipedia and youtube were liberal. The teabag crowd basically demands an overt conservative bias, and equates neutrality or openness with liberal bias.
I’m actually annoyed that the Internet is suddenly getting flooded with conservatards who couldn’t set up a computer on their own and probably got their liberal brother-in-law to do it for them. Now they think they’re all tech-savvy early adopters. Like when Redstate was bemoaning the fact that they couldn’t find anyone who had both the skills and inclination to help them keep their servers running for more than five minutes at a time.
The internet used to be a haven for the Bob the Subgenius and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Now it’s all death panels and Freedumb fries. What happened? Will somebody please tell these guys that the computer revolution was driven by a bunch of long-haired hippies? Cool it with the anti-liberal rants or Wavy Gravy will delete your Internet account!
[re=564379]ManchuCandidate[/re]: My bet it’ll be composed of a series of tubes and hundreds of e-mailing beepers.
I just had this wonderful vision where all the conservatards started their own Internet and didn’t let the rest of us join.
Social networking is about extending one’s circle of acquaintance, mostly to create opportunities for the possibility of future sexytime. Liberals by and large participate in sexytime (there are exceptions, Michael Moore, Ken Layne, Jim Newell), whereas conservatives make do with substitutes (Jeebus, Neoprene wetsuits, Dora dildoes) by and large (there are exceptions, Jessica Simpson, Billy Baldwin, Hitler). The end.
It’s amazing how whenever there is an area that the right wingers just aren’t good at – education, science, creativity (in art or Hollywood), and now technology, they immediately start whining that those areas are hotbeds of liberalism. Yeah, that’s the only reason there aren’t thousands of right-wing college professors or climate scientists or comedians, actors, artists…they are being blacklisted by the lib simps. It’s not that they just aren’t particularly smart or talented, you know!
because if there’s one website that DOESN’T give all of your republican friends a soapbox, it’s facebook
Back in the olden days, “honey pot” was used as a euphemism for outhouse toilets, and especially the sub-seat receptacle used to collect your ass offerings. (“Honey dippers” — not to be confused with “Honey Drippers” — were employed to service said receptacles.)
So yeah, I kind of agree with the Teabaggers on this one — Facebook is literally a honeypot, though not necessarily a liberal one.
Oh, if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride!
Listen Wonkette it’s not “porn or solitaire” it’s minesweeper. When you’ve dedicated as much of your life as I have looking for subtle variations of patterns as I have you will give it the respect it deserves.
[re=564397]J[/re]: Now, there have been some good conservative filmmakers; like D. W. Griffith and Leni Reifenstahl. Of course, they did make films in service of pure evil.
What tipped ’em off? Was it when they changed the ‘Like’ button to ‘Sodomize?’
The contards could take a cue from Palin and scribble their social networking messages on the palms of their hands with a Sharpie. When they gather at teaparties, they can read each others’ palms.
Or pay homage to Moses by carving stuff on stone tablets and carry the tablets with them everywhere they go.
So THAT’S why all those conservative “friends” I had impassioned FB arguments with disappeared after January 20, 2009. That must be the birthdate of the teatard intertubes, and they went there. It’s not because they were embarrassed to have been so, so wrong. About everything.
I could really use some help getting more sheep for my farm in Farmville !
Right, because Facebook isn’t funded by a hypercompetitive libertarian man-child who literally thinks he can become God, and the CIA.
[re=564429]Hemp Dogbane[/re]: Around the same time the conservatives leave facespace.com for hatespace.con there will be a tremendous surplus of sheep for which no adequate explanation will ever be found.
Seriously, everything about Facebook has always been conservative. In a creepy, vaguely threatening way, too, like you’d imagine coming from the crypto-brownshirt types that were their original market (i.e. you had to have an Ivy League e-mail address or you didn’t get into the tree house). Naturally, captialism removed that barrier but the site remains based on ruthless categorization of people’s identities, beliefs, and activities. Which is not new, admittedly, but the genius is that they get people to do it for them.
Isn’t it a red flag or a warning sign or something, when you start believing that every single institution and attribute of the broader culture in which you live is part of some enormous, evil, nefarious conspiracy thats out to get you, and you have to make up your own special “conservative” bowdlerized version of everything, so you will be safe?
The kinda cool thing is that they are creating their own little paranoid, fucktarded ghetto for themselves, where they can live their life of conservative apartheid, watching “conservative TV,” surfing the “conservative internet” for “conservative porn,” going to conservative schools and “universities,” to learn conservative “sciences” such as creationism and global-warming-denial.
Next up: Gravity, a Liberal Conspiracy?
Does it to you?
Is the conservative Youtube full of “naked guy attacked by duck with dildo” videos? ’cause that would be awesome.
[re=564371]Sussemilch[/re]:
TOTAL WIN.
Trying to be the opposite of FaceBook, the created Ass Mag.
According to Palin’s Facebook page “1,539,515 People Like This” so there are a few patriots using it. In today’s FaceFart she pimps for Tim Burns for Pennsylvania’s 12th district. He’s a ‘job-creator’ which is way better than government bureaucrats. Like ex-governors.
Anybody have Russian Tea Balls? I found them on a menu at a Russian Festival. Sounds like the perfect vending opportunity for some noise political gatherings.
[re=564395]Mr Blifil[/re]: you mean KLO really gets it on???
Eww, I just grossed myself out — second time today with her.
[re=564407]Extemporanus[/re]: And 95% of people will be too scared to repost this as their status.
[re=564379]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Bizarro Al Gore has a Fu-Manchu and a Thai ladyboy grafted onto his dong. Strangely enough, in Bizarro World, he chose the same running mate. It is theorized that Joe Lieberman exists on both planes at the same time, and is the axis around which our two existences revolve. Bizarro Al/Lieberman 2012 will be the greatest trans-dimensional political movement in the historyz of the worldz, when the wires of this world and the series of tubes odf the other connect. REVOLOOSHIN!
[re=564439]Prommie[/re]: Add to that that we liberals achieved this social, political, technological, and scientific domination while at the same time being weak-kneed surrender monkey fags and it really gets strange.
Next Week: Breitbart puts the Socialism in Social Networking.
Meanwhile, a photo of a poodle wearing a tinfoil hat is publish blocked by the librul book of Face.
Eat bags of dicks, teabaggers. Also.
[re=564361]JMP[/re]: Damn libruls, fanning the flames again.
Baggers can go ahead and have their dipship pity-party Failbook. Enjoy. It raises one question, though–if a bagger “leader” does something without issuing a press release about it, did that thing even happen?
Porn is solitaire.
I always assumed that NAMBLA was the Conservative Facebook.
Tell this to my family who keeps liking groups such as “Put God back into public school!”. Because nothing brings the Supreme Court to its knees in fear like a Facebook group.
[re=564386]comicbookguy[/re]: RNC website demonstrates your point: http://tinyurl.com/y9jq6ba
and http://tinyurl.com/ylhjd8p etc etc.
[re=564473]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: Kinda how he US became the predominant world military and economic superpower, invented every technology you can name, and went to the motherfucking moon, while we suffered from a string of liberal democratic presidents, trade was strangled by tarrifs and barriers, the majority of workers were members of evil and corrupt commie unions, we were saddled with FDA and SEC and the Fed and all sorts of other intrusive government regulations, and we had a top marginal income tax rate of 90%.
Imagine how much better we would have done if only we had deregulated, privatized, and cut taxes back in the 30s. Imagine where we’d be now, huh?
[re=564439]Prommie[/re]:
Isn’t it a red flag or a warning sign or something, when you start believing that every single institution and attribute of the broader culture in which you live is part of some enormous, evil, nefarious conspiracy thats out to get you, and you have to make up your own special “conservative” bowdlerized version of everything, so you will be safe?
I think there’s a classification in the DSM for that.
What did they expect? Al Gore invented the internet.
You probably do have a larger-than-average percentage of left-leaning people on Facebook, since the site skews towards people in their teens and twenties. But it’s hilarious that these teabaggers interpret more liberal users as “liberal bias.”
Facebook brass are most definitely conservative in outlook. This Guardian article from 2008 delves into the neocon/faux-libertarian connections of Facebook executives: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
And Fox News clearly has favored status as an advertiser. I recall back in 2007, on the day of the Virginia Tech massacre, Facebook started inserting advertising into folks’ news feeds urging them to check out Fox News’s website for the latest updates on the shooting. And then you have the incident where they muzzled the Glenn Beck poodle… shameful!
Just tell them that if they rip out their pace makers/heart monitors then Obama cannot track down their guns and take them away.
These are no doubt the same people who think Arianna Huffington personally deletes their freedums of speach from Huffington Post.
It’s my impression that there’s a slightly higher percentage of righties on FB. But I’ve noticed the level of politcal debate is like this:
Cons: – Outrageous rumor sent via viral e-mails -
Lib: Refutes claim with well-referenced facts
Cons: Accuses Lib of hating America, God, and Cons
Lib: expresses love of all 3
Cons: – vicious attack on the Lib alleging person acts that used to only be depicted in German XXXX films
Facebook bans the Cons for bad behavior
Cons complains that FB is Lib and is stiffling cons speech
[re=564386]comicbookguy[/re]: Too true.
Your comment also made me think of another aspect of the whole “SEC managers spend all day at the office downloading pr0n while the financial system burns” deal. I’m a sysadmin, and I know that it’s really easy to find such people with system tools and/or stop them from doing it … if management is clued-in to the point of providing the tools and setting and enforcing policy.
But now I’m thinking that maybe the folks with the technical savvy got ideologically purged by the SEC’s equivalent of Monica Goodling, also, too.
[re=564545]betterDeadThanRed[/re]: I think there’s a classification in the DSM for that.
There is, seriously! Paranoid Personality Disorder
The only secret plot that FB is running is to sell all of your posts to the highest ad dollar. Wait, that’s not a secret plot, that’s a business plan.
“Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, operated as traditional activist organizations, Phillips’s effort was entrepreneurial”
Because God knows Dick Armey had no financial interest whatsoever in getting a bunch of unemployed mouth-breathers to protest taxes on wealthy people like Dick Armey.
…mind you, it’s heartening to know that traditional activism now encompasses all sorts of astroturfing shit to get the morans moving. Sweet!
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