The Political Party

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By Todd Starnes A group of conservatives is launching their own social networking site after enduring what they call years of censorship and liberal bullying on Facebook. The Tea Party Community is expected to officially launch on Saturday – but the social networking site for conservatives has already drawn nearly 50,000 members. “It’s a new home for conservatives and the Tea Party movement in America,” said co-founder Ken Crow. “It’s a social community just for them.”

Crow partnered with Tim Selaty Sr. and Jr. to launch the new site last November – a “safe haven for the conservative movement where we can share ideas and thoughts and express ourselves without fear of retribution.” “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.” Crow and many other conservatives believe Facebook is intentionally targeting conservatives. “There’s absolutely no question in my mind,” he said.MORGAN Jan Morgan Harrison, another prominent Tea Party conservative, said she strongly believes there is a bias against conservatives. Harrison, who has more than 300,000 followers, said she’s been censored and sanctioned a number of times for her pro-Second Amendment postings. She’s become a vocal supporter of The Tea Party Community. “I think Facebook needs some competition,” she told Fox News. “I know that when I go there and make a post it won’t be censored. It’s not going to be deleted. It has a long way to go as far as building up followers, but it does give us an alternative.”

As many as 100 Facebook users contacted Fox News with complaints that the social networking site had either removed conservative content or blocked them for posting conservative content. Amy Jo Clark and Miriam Weaver were among those who received a threat from Facebook about the content on their conservative site, “Chicks on the Right.” “We’ve been hearing non-stop, email after email, tweet after tweet, of other folks who are facing the same issues,” Weaver told Fox News. “There’s a very active liberal trolling community whose sole purpose is to get themselves busy reporting conservative pages and trying to cause trouble.” The liberal “trolls” are taking advantage of a Facebook algorithm that focuses on pages with controversial content. Fox News published a story about the “Chicks on the Right” – and afterwards Facebook not only lifted the threat but apologized to “Chicks on the Right.”

The “Chicks” have more than 100,000 followers – and have become celebrities in the conservative movement. But smaller Facebook communities are not so lucky. “Had we not gotten exposure on Fox News, we’d be off line right now,” Clark said. “Some of the smaller sites are getting pinged and hit by these liberal trolls and there’s no one they can talk to.” Facebook did not return email messages seeking comment. The “Chicks” said they are glad to throw their support behind the alternative Facebook community.

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/conservatives-launch-facebook-alternative.html

Good luck ladies.

[Booker]

Same crap all the time.

They talk about freedom and liberty constantly yet segregate themselves, disallow dissenting opinion whenever they can.

Have you ever been to a conservative forum? They are some of the most heavily censored and moderated forums I have ever seen.

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Booker wrote:

Same crap all the time.

They talk about freedom and liberty constantly yet segregate themselves, disallow dissenting opinion whenever they can.

Have you ever been to a conservative forum? They are some of the most heavily censored and moderated forums I have ever seen.

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I never have Booker. Even when I was a republican, I never visited any site that was a GOP site. I came here. Now that I have been a liberal for going on 5 years, it's bad enough "debating" with some of the conservatives here.

[willhaven]

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Booker wrote:

Same crap all the time.

They talk about freedom and liberty constantly yet segregate themselves, disallow dissenting opinion whenever they can.

Have you ever been to a conservative forum? They are some of the most heavily censored and moderated forums I have ever seen.

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The Sean Hannity forums are brutal.

Luckily I'm subtle enough to troll all those dumb fuckin' tools without getting banned.

[RupertB]

"Dear Tea Party,

You're making this really difficult.

Sincerely,

The Onion"

[Another Brick]

site needs an appropriate name.

KKKbook?

Assbook?

[willhaven]

FatHighSchoolDropoutMoms.com?

[tape]

Like Conservepedia, when reality doesn't suit you, make up your own.

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tape wrote:
Like Conservepedia, when reality doesn't suit you, make up your own.

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GOP platform for 2016.

[tape]

Who is it that said that facts are *true*...... when confirmed only among republicans in their own alternate reality bubble?

[Hoppy Shimko]

Thanks for the heads up.I'm signing up asap !

[tape]

TGP is highly conservative (P&W discussion all the time, mostly older conservative americans, etc) and it's also the most censored music gear forum I know of by a couple orders of magnitude, out of the 6 forums I'm a member of, and two others I used to be.

[Booker]

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tape wrote:
TGP is highly conservative (P&W discussion all the time, mostly older conservative americans, etc) and it's also the most censored music gear forum I know of by a couple orders of magnitude, out of the 6 forums I'm a member of, and two others I used to be.

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But they are all for freedom, as long as your idea of freedom is the same as theirs.

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Booker wrote:

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tape wrote:
TGP is highly conservative (P&W discussion all the time, mostly older conservative americans, etc) and it's also the most censored music gear forum I know of by a couple orders of magnitude, out of the 6 forums I'm a member of, and two others I used to be.

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But they are all for freedom, as long as your idea of freedom is the same as theirs.

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Exactly.

[Just Me]

HAH!! Teabaggers are always bringing the lulz....

[Kramerguy]

What scares me is that I know plenty of people who are just that right level of political ignorance that they think the tea party is the only 3rd party out there, mostly because the tea party is the only one that ever got any MSM coverage, but also these ignorant voters are somehow convinced that the tea party represents social, economic, and judicial fairness- as if they are going to turn this country back to greatness.. completely oblivious that they are just crazy libertarians who would likely enslave them by means of indentured servitude should they ever gain power.

No amount of rational discussion seems to sink into these people.. that scares me.

[thankyou]

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Another Brick wrote:

site needs an appropriate name.

KKKbook?

Assbook?

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Hatebook

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Kramerguy wrote:
What scares me is that I know plenty of people who are just that right level of political ignorance that they think the tea party is the only 3rd party out there, mostly because the tea party is the only one that ever got any MSM coverage, but also these ignorant voters are somehow convinced that the tea party represents social, economic, and judicial fairness- as if they are going to turn this country back to greatness.. completely oblivious that they are just crazy libertarians who would likely enslave them by means of indentured servitude should they ever gain power.

No amount of rational discussion seems to sink into these people.. that scares me.

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That's what worries me.

[arcadesonfire]

A friend of mine I grew up with at Christ Lutheran School, who is now a military wife, posted these pics on facebook during the 2012 election:

I asked her what exactly this was about, and she didn't know. I told her it appeared to be about the Ohio case in which Obama's lawyers were trying to stop new legislation that cut off voting for everyone the weekend before the the big Tuesday EXCEPT for military voters. So Obama didn't oppose military voting, he just wanted for everyone else who was accustomed to voting the weekend before to be able to continue. I said that it was a vote-getting--or vote-keeping--move, but that it wouldn't restrict any new or old military rights. My friend said "Oh, OK"

A month later, she posted:

And I challenged her. I didn't start out very well... I said "you mean obesity? The surgeon general says one out of every 8 American deaths every year is linked to obesity. That's worse than the death toll from a nuclear bomb!"

And we debated a bit. My angle was "If we want to have your husband paid well for his services and have your kids' teachers paid well etc. etc. in a time of war, then shouldn't we raise taxes so that people pay for all these services?"

Her angle was "We can do it without raising taxes if we end Obama care and quit giving food stamps to the people i've seen using them to buy cigarettes and beer." She might have a good point at the end there, but in any case, after a few exchanges, she defriended me.

It was the first time (that I know of) that I've been defriended.

Was I censoring her? Will ConservoBook let people post things like "Obama opposes early military voting rights" without anyone questioning it?

[Used2BMarkoh]

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Booker wrote:

Same crap all the time.

They talk about freedom and liberty constantly yet segregate themselves, disallow dissenting opinion whenever they can.

Have you ever been to a conservative forum? They are some of the most heavily censored and moderated forums I have ever seen.

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No, come on, this isn't that difficult.  Politics must involve government in order to be politics.

So, the American Constitution has nothing to say about forming a boys club, or a Moose Lodge, or whatever.  It's only when government forces participation that it becomes a political issue.

The kind of liberty conservatives are talking about is political liberty.  Like I say, it's not really that complicated.