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Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 07:44 PM Feb 2013

Tea Party Community, Conservative Facebook Alternative, Set To Launch

Source: Huffingtonpost.com

Organizers of new social networking site The Tea Party Community have taken Facebook, eliminated the supposed liberal bullying, tossed in tens of thousands of conservatives and mixed it all together with a dash of conspiracy theory to create a new online hub, set to launch officially on Saturday.
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Crow claims that he and other conservatives have been targeted by Facebook and its liberal users simply for attempting to express their political point of view.

“Most of us are subjected to censorship on Facebook,” Crow told Fox News. “I’ve been suspended there as have many of my friends. You also absorb a lot of abuse from liberals.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/tea-party-community_n_2598171.html?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology

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Tea Party Community, Conservative Facebook Alternative, Set To Launch (Original Post) Grassy Knoll Feb 2013 OP
Guess you just type in assholes.com, right? n/t Still Sensible Feb 2013 #1
or 'thestupids' samsingh Feb 2013 #52
Out here, we call them septic tanks or cesspools. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2013 #2
Good. Let them have it. elleng Feb 2013 #3
just went to the site dlwickham Feb 2013 #4
LOL sakabatou Feb 2013 #5
There is no such thing as irony in their world. nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #31
I predict poor spelling n/t Enrique Feb 2013 #6
Enjoy your little circle-jerk-group-think forum Pubbies ... brett_jv Feb 2013 #7
"liberal bullying"? KamaAina Feb 2013 #8
Log on and learn who are the conservative extremists in your area. Kablooie Feb 2013 #9
Gooooooooooooooooooood luck with that! MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #10
Good! Let them go communicate with one another... DonViejo Feb 2013 #11
They're only comfortable in their little bubble NewJeffCT Feb 2013 #12
It's a new online hate group rightsideout Feb 2013 #13
Yep, all in on place, BigotBook.com! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #30
And another piece of the Republican Alternate Universe protrudes into the real world WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2013 #14
And facts continue to have that damn liberal bias... Moostache Feb 2013 #15
What could possibly go wrong? Who's taking one for the team and joining? nolabear Feb 2013 #16
i will if you will!! farminator3000 Feb 2013 #41
What the hell do you have to do to get suspended from Facebook? LOL proud2BlibKansan Feb 2013 #17
I have a relative and two friends that are batshit crazy Norbert Feb 2013 #29
Threaten the President's life ... Wernothelpless Feb 2013 #34
Sounds like this new page will need to be watched. proud2BlibKansan Feb 2013 #42
When Colin Powell made his most recent comments .. Wernothelpless Feb 2013 #46
They don't ban you for much LTR Feb 2013 #53
good. maybe it will keep these shitters off of facebook. frylock Feb 2013 #18
And here's what their launch will look like: kentauros Feb 2013 #19
Sounds like the "million monkeys in a room" experiment. caseymoz Feb 2013 #20
I thought they had Free Republic, what else do they want? Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Feb 2013 #21
They also have.... Grassy Knoll Feb 2013 #28
Damn Autocorrect! Should be: "Set to lunch" pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #22
facebook is going to issue a complaint ..... madrchsod Feb 2013 #23
I think Mr Zuckerman May Send a Few Lawyers Around to Explain it To Them AndyTiedye Feb 2013 #47
My FB "friends" are RW as it is - they are going nuts about TriCare raising premiums underpants Feb 2013 #24
Alternate reality bubble to keep them in la la land unchallenged nt wishlist Feb 2013 #25
DU in 2010 - a thread about Hannity's "Hannidate" underpants Feb 2013 #26
That thread is hysterical! Omg I love DU's humorists! Thanks underpants! nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #32
"Subjected to censorship" - Does that mean they can't threaten the President and call him racist Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #27
Let's all set up accounts over there and have some fun! kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #33
Article: "So far, it has drawn upward of 50,000 members." mwb970 Feb 2013 #35
half of them are liberals looking for laughs. mopinko Feb 2013 #45
They already have that ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2013 #36
Poor babies can't deal with reality or diversity. drm604 Feb 2013 #37
Message auto-removed odiumestpuritas Feb 2013 #38
Conservative Teahaddists The Wizard Feb 2013 #39
That's gonna get trolled so hard. /nt Ash_F Feb 2013 #40
OMG when you cant handle FACEBOOK... Volaris Feb 2013 #43
i know, because there are no rightwingers on facebook arely staircase Feb 2013 #50
Good. The more isolated they are, the more America rejects them. (Nt) apnu Feb 2013 #44
The Original Tea Party... GReedDiamond Feb 2013 #48
Wait until they realize we libs have already infiltrated their knock-off zbdent Feb 2013 #49
i'm totally going there to troll right now arely staircase Feb 2013 #51
"Most of us are subjected to censorship on Facebook" NYC Liberal Feb 2013 #54
Wait, Facebook isn't conservative????? bamacrat Feb 2013 #55
Didn't Zuckerburg just endorse the well-known liberal Chris Christie? DisgustipatedinCA Feb 2013 #56
A more appropriate name would be the American Taliban.com santamargarita Feb 2013 #57

brett_jv

(1,245 posts)
7. Enjoy your little circle-jerk-group-think forum Pubbies ...
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:04 PM
Feb 2013

It must really suck when the damn liberals and their pesky 'facts' start raining on the NRA/AEI/Faux/ALEC/FreedumbWerks Parade of Propaganda and Idiocy.

That's right, retreat back into your cozy little fantasy world ... we won't miss you.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
8. "liberal bullying"?
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:06 PM
Feb 2013

I see just as much repuke bullying on FB. Of course, since I can count my repuke FB friends on the fingers of one hand, most of them are reposted here at DU.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
11. Good! Let them go communicate with one another...
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:17 PM
Feb 2013

in their own on line cave community. Hmmm, I wonder if this poses a threat to the Freak Republic.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
12. They're only comfortable in their little bubble
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:18 PM
Feb 2013

of Fox News viewers, Rush Limbaugh listeners, NY Post and Washington Times readers. If they get challenged with things like reality and/or facts, it makes them uncomfortable.

It's why so many Republicans were surprised when Romney lost, and lost big.

rightsideout

(978 posts)
13. It's a new online hate group
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:21 PM
Feb 2013

They should call it BigotBook

At least they'll all be in one place. It will be easier for the FBI and Secret Service to gather all the evidence for hate crimes.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
14. And another piece of the Republican Alternate Universe protrudes into the real world
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:28 PM
Feb 2013

Those Reds are seriously divorced from reality. They are now estranged.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
15. And facts continue to have that damn liberal bias...
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:29 PM
Feb 2013

The kind of person who this stuff would appeal to is the exact kind of person the rest of the sane people cannot communicate with anyway...no loss here.

nolabear

(41,987 posts)
16. What could possibly go wrong? Who's taking one for the team and joining?
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:31 PM
Feb 2013

Because the Secret Service and the FBI and the CIA are going to be all the hell over that thing. It'll be like Spy vs Spy over there.

farminator3000

(2,117 posts)
41. i will if you will!!
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 10:57 AM
Feb 2013

do you think it would be 'constructive'?

or just a barrel of laughs?

and since they're getting paid to bug us, couldn't we get a little $$, instead of doing a public service for free?

i think i could...handle them.

i'm like sherlock holmes on that shit.

--->

Norbert

(6,040 posts)
29. I have a relative and two friends that are batshit crazy
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:25 PM
Feb 2013

Given the amount of garbage that gets put on my wall on a daily basis none of then have ever been suspended.

These clowns that get suspended are probably to the right of your average paranoid survivalist.

Wernothelpless

(410 posts)
34. Threaten the President's life ...
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:06 PM
Feb 2013

For example ... You would NOT believe the crap that some of the tea party members spew on that FACEBOOK page .... I've turned that page in several times and asked that it be taken down ... It's absolutely violent and toxic ...

Wernothelpless

(410 posts)
46. When Colin Powell made his most recent comments ..
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 12:42 PM
Feb 2013

I did not offer an opinion and politely posted the video asking their thoughts on the subject ... I was banned for the Tea Party FB page and the video deleted ...

Oh, they are most certainly being watched ...

LTR

(13,227 posts)
53. They don't ban you for much
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:48 PM
Feb 2013

Only two I can think of are a) threatening the president and b) posting pictures of tits. But complain about some teanag cretin who posts pictures of Obama eating watermelon and FB won't do a damned thing. Just more whining from the crybaby conservatives.

frylock

(34,825 posts)
18. good. maybe it will keep these shitters off of facebook.
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:34 PM
Feb 2013

tired of reading their teabagging twaddle on gawker.

caseymoz

(5,763 posts)
20. Sounds like the "million monkeys in a room" experiment.
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:38 PM
Feb 2013

A distributed "million monkeys in a room" experiment. I think we'll find conclusively that they never produce Hamlet. In fact, they'll get dumber. Their stupidity will regress to complete randomness.

Or maybe it's a trial to see how many trolls can survive without anybody to troll. At the end, there will just be one big, fat, stupid, supertroll.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
28. They also have....
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:23 PM
Feb 2013

Glenn Becks- The Blaze
Fox Nation
Breitbart.com
The Daily Caller, Etc.
All sites that have more hate than your daily allowance.

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
23. facebook is going to issue a complaint .....
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:19 PM
Feb 2013

over the tea party community for stealing the facebook
log-in page.

google also flagged the site for security issues.

looks like someone does`t understand they can`t steal stuff from facebook.

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)
27. "Subjected to censorship" - Does that mean they can't threaten the President and call him racist
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:23 PM
Feb 2013

names?

Good riddance, maybe Facebook won't suck as much with those cretins gone.

mwb970

(11,364 posts)
35. Article: "So far, it has drawn upward of 50,000 members."
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:11 PM
Feb 2013

OMG! That's almost 1/20,000 of Facebook's membership ALREADY!

drm604

(16,230 posts)
37. Poor babies can't deal with reality or diversity.
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 05:51 AM
Feb 2013

They are so far divorced from mainstream society that they think they need their own versions of mainstream non-political things like Wikipedia, and now FaceBook.

I guess next they'll have a "Tea Party Google" that only returns politically approved search results.

Hell, maybe they'll just set up alternative DNS servers and have their own internet.

Response to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
39. Conservative Teahaddists
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 09:10 AM
Feb 2013

don't realize they're the minority and weak minded at that.
They still buy the propaganda that we're a center right country and Obama used ACORN to steal the election. Their resource would be better spent on electric shock convulsive therapy. The truth gives then the vapors.

Volaris

(10,273 posts)
43. OMG when you cant handle FACEBOOK...
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 11:42 AM
Feb 2013

dear lord, they ARE some Delicate Flowers over there, aren't they lol?

Oh well, competition for Freeperville. Let them eat each other.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
49. Wait until they realize we libs have already infiltrated their knock-off
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:43 PM
Feb 2013

and are sowing the seeds of their downfall by posting idiotic RW rants and trying to pass as "conservatives" ...

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
54. "Most of us are subjected to censorship on Facebook"
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 04:48 PM
Feb 2013

They hate that their posts about murdering the president aren't allowed.

bamacrat

(3,867 posts)
55. Wait, Facebook isn't conservative?????
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 04:54 PM
Feb 2013

My Facebook is filled with people going on and on about how horrible Obama and the Federal Government are. Can't imagine the poor grammar and hate that will fly on that site.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
56. Didn't Zuckerburg just endorse the well-known liberal Chris Christie?
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 04:54 PM
Feb 2013

No, I don't think Mark Zuckerburg's Facebook is a bastion of liberalism.

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