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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat was the name of the conservative discussion board (often called "the site that can't be mentioned') here
during the Bush years? I've been trying to remember it for a few days. I know DUers would go peek over there and report how their members were reacting to news events. Thank you!
Bettie
(19,479 posts)That's the one I remember....didn't know we couldn't mention it.
Or are you talking about the "offshoot" where some angry DUers went?
sakabatou
(45,985 posts)I hear it STILL looks dated.
likesmountains 52
(4,270 posts)PatSeg
(52,690 posts)And didn't we call them "Freepers"?
Bettie
(19,479 posts)entertaining these days!
Or too toxic for even those with the strong stomachs to poke their head into that mess!
PatSeg
(52,690 posts)and now the Freepers are obsolete.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,537 posts)Thats the place where a lot of Bernie supporters went during 2016, but it devolved pretty quickly into a pro-Russia Blue-Anon Conspiracy Theory clearing house, and the original owners left the site to the loonies, IIRC.
PatSeg
(52,690 posts)of that group, but the only word I could remember was "pine". That was all so strange and bizarre.
kwolf68
(8,345 posts)There was also shit like Stormfront and other whack-a-doodle sludge pools of the internet.
Jacson6
(1,852 posts)likesmountains 52
(4,270 posts)sir pball
(5,311 posts)patriots.win beware if you go, for there lies pure unhinged lunacy.
lastlib
(27,859 posts)Probably not long for this world.
Coventina
(29,494 posts)Poor hamsters!
UpInArms
(54,530 posts)Jim Robinson we called him rim job
Shellback Squid
(9,959 posts)Greybnk48
(10,701 posts)I've been here since December 2004. They were still going strong over there at that time.
I used to love to see some DUer sniff out an aggressive Freeper trolling here, and get them "Tomb-stoned."
NewHendoLib
(61,737 posts)Haven't peeked at it in many years.
LR3
(156 posts)n/t
Initech
(108,137 posts)It got taken down in 2020 though.