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I have decided to not only complain on the forums about it.
I will flame somebody who disagrees with me.
One person can make a difference.
People can make a difference, not kobolds.I have decided to not only complain on the forums about it.
I will flame somebody who disagrees with me.
One person can make a difference.
Shut the **** up you son of a *****. You're a ****ing pathetic excuse for a *******.
Wait...sorry, reflex. Gotta save that for the political threads. >_>
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People can make a difference, not kobolds.I have decided to not only complain on the forums about it.
I will flame somebody who disagrees with me.
One person can make a difference.
yes they can. They make a ton of differences for low level PC's who need that extra XP for easy encounters and stuff to loot and sell. My question is though, where do they find this stuff?? Dragon garage sales?
Not much you can do. There's 6 billion people on the planet and most of them are idiots, and the folks in power are better at lying and have more resources to lie with than i do. Its like playing transformice where the idiot that wants to see you all die gets to play the shaman.
Well, since you ask, I am planning a putsch on September 22nd.
Actively campaign(through 38 degrees), protest(UK uncut and anon), funding research (the equality trust) and fund efforts to provide work arounds to their power(such a 'A human right' and 'The serval project').
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Vote wisely. Listen patiently. Debate courteously. Reasearch regularly.
I prefer yelling and throwing rocks.
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People can make a difference, not kobolds.I have decided to not only complain on the forums about it.
I will flame somebody who disagrees with me.
One person can make a difference.Shut the **** up you son of a *****. You're a ****ing pathetic excuse for a *******.
Wait...sorry, reflex. Gotta save that for the political threads. >_>
Fascist commie!
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Fascist commie!People can make a difference, not kobolds.I have decided to not only complain on the forums about it.
I will flame somebody who disagrees with me.
One person can make a difference.Shut the **** up you son of a *****. You're a ****ing pathetic excuse for a *******.
Wait...sorry, reflex. Gotta save that for the political threads. >_>
Kobolds are the fasc... um.... It's the Goblins who are comm.... You know now I'm confused.
Down with Sebastian!
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Fascist commie!People can make a difference, not kobolds.I have decided to not only complain on the forums about it.
I will flame somebody who disagrees with me.
One person can make a difference.Shut the **** up you son of a *****. You're a ****ing pathetic excuse for a *******.
Wait...sorry, reflex. Gotta save that for the political threads. >_>
Kobolds are the fasc... um.... It's the Goblins who are comm.... You know now I'm confused.
Down with Sebastian!
Down with the equine plutocrat!
Personally it starts with information. By bringing the events and problems out where more people see it I hope that it inspires and intimidates others into not following in these less than wonderful activities and perhaps that the situation will be faster solved due to people wanting to protect their image.
Always remember that public image has become power -- the more you control someone's public image the more you control them.
Personally it starts with information. By bringing the events and problems out where more people see it I hope that it inspires and intimidates others into not following in these less than wonderful activities and perhaps that the situation will be faster solved due to people wanting to protect their image.
Always remember that public image has become power -- the more you control someone's public image the more you control them.
Does this actually work though? I mean its not exactly a secret that Dick Cheney's loyalties lied with Halliburton, not America. Nothing was hidden, everything was known, it just wasn't put together by most people.
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Personally it starts with information. By bringing the events and problems out where more people see it I hope that it inspires and intimidates others into not following in these less than wonderful activities and perhaps that the situation will be faster solved due to people wanting to protect their image.
Always remember that public image has become power -- the more you control someone's public image the more you control them.
Does this actually work though? I mean its not exactly a secret that Dick Cheney's loyalties lied with Halliburton, not America. Nothing was hidden, everything was known, it just wasn't put together by most people.
Yes it does work. It works by starting people thinking -- and by laying your own motives on the table.
Let me put it this way -- I don't hide: I'm open about what I'm doing, what my opinion is and where I get my facts. Yes I have an agenda -- but you'll know what it is and where I stand.
You can't successfully demonize that as long as I keep putting the information out there. It makes me and my position more reasonable and human.
It's no longer "them versus us" it's "Abe has ideas, and he presents facts and listens -- I might not agree with him, but he doesn't want to kill the US and I respect him."
By forcing people to think, and talk and look we put a human face on it and bring civility back to the table. Those that refuse to sit and continue to yell start being ignored because people honestly want to improve both themselves, their position and the world.
Open communication does far more than all the rockets that the Palestinians and Israelis launch at each other -- and it solved far more problems in Iraq than more violence did.
Is it perfect? No -- but it's a damn sight better than misinformation and demonizing each other.
It also breaks down the basic ponzi scheme that holds power currently with misinformation, misdirection and purposefully cutting communication lines.
You'll note that in any form of warfare the first thing you do is blind your enemy and cut/compromise his communications.
That is exactly what continues to happen in the political, cultural, and economic wars currently being fought in the USA -- because what all those come down to is power -- by disrupting the communication of ordinary citizens and cutting us off from each other they hope to keep us clashing instead of meeting and finding our own way.
Democracy can only work with a civil society -- a civil society can only happen with communication.
Yes it does work.
Let me put it this way, can you give an example in history of this working?
It works by starting people thinking -- and by laying your own motives on the table.
People don't like to think. They HATE to think. The quickest way to get someone mad at you is to challenge their preconceptions about how the world works. You might get some people to think but they're going to be a very small minority, and because they think they're going to be a very un-unified minority. Everyone is going to have their own ideas, and it comes down to herding cats.
Let me put it this way -- I don't hide: I'm open about what I'm doing, what my opinion is and where I get my facts. Yes I have an agenda -- but you'll know what it is and where I stand.
Thats nice. Meanwhile the other side says i have no agenda but my love for america, whips people into a patriotic fervor, comes up with a flimsy excuse for invading a place and rakes in billions off of the oil contracts.
You can't successfully demonize that as long as I keep putting the information out there. It makes me and my position more reasonable and human.
Repeat a big enough lie often enough and loud enough and people will take it for the truth. even from what you said above, just play an out of context clip of you saying "i have an agenda" , put in some dun dun DUuuuuuhn music and point out your communist socialist fascist fashionist marxist arachanist leanings.
It's no longer "them versus us" it's "Abe has ideas, and he presents facts and listens -- I might not agree with him, but he doesn't want to kill the US and I respect him."
you will be labeled regardless of your actions. People don't like to think, labels are a heck of a mental shortcut.
By forcing people to think, and talk and look we put a human face on it and bring civility back to the table. Those that refuse to sit and continue to yell start being ignored because people honestly want to improve both themselves, their position and the world.
Look what the flower children of the 60s turned into.
Open communication does far more than all the rockets that the Palestinians and Israelis launch at each other -- and it solved far more problems in Iraq than more violence did.
If that were true there would be peace. The problem there is that open communication doesn't matter diddly squat against a lifetime of oppression and mutual violence. The nice things people say more than the nice things they do. The mean things people DO matter a lot more than the nice things they say.
Is it perfect? No -- but it's a damn sight better than misinformation and demonizing each other.
Its hard to grow your own halo. Its very easy to plop horns on someone else.
It also breaks down the basic ponzi scheme that holds power currently with misinformation, misdirection and purposefully cutting communication lines.
That ponzi scheme has been in place since the begginings of recorded history, and likely further. What makes you think things are going to change now?
You'll note that in any form of warfare the first thing you do is blind your enemy and cut/compromise his communications.
No, the first thing you do is demonize your opponent.
Democracy can only work with a civil society -- a civil society can only happen with communication.
communication is hard if not impossible with the vast amount of noise being generated.
I would add, to humbly be willing to change you mind at times.
I was going to say that I missed this one, but changing people's minds takes time- in all but the most destructively dire of circumstances would I say one needs to change their mind or ways quickly. Instead, I would add, be humbling willing to compromise on ideas. It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of maturity.
Vote wisely. Listen patiently. Debate courteously. Reasearch regularly.
I would add that we need to be in the habit of constantly educating ourselves.
I also recommend a high level of personal preparedness.
I prefer yelling and throwing rocks.
"We are going to need bigger guns!"
Vote wisely. Listen patiently. Debate courteously. Reasearch regularly.Brilliant.
I'd change "debate" to "discuss," but that's me.
To my mind, the term "debate" implies there's a correct / "right" position when compared with an incorrect / "wrong" position; "discuss" simply means different points-of-view or opinions are shared ... with the possibility communication takes place.
Regardless, you've my highest regards for this post.
-- Andy
How will that change anything?
Nothing is going to "fall apart"...their hegemony, their control, will only tighten. If you want to be happy in this world...give up. Submit, and recognize that the life of a useful slave is still a useful life.
[bubble bubble bubble]
Well, I'm not quite going to do NOTHING. Its just that I'm not going to waste my effort trying to change a system that is ancient, massive, and deeply rooted. Its like winter. I can try to heave the entire earth and tilt it so that everyone gets an equal amount of warmth, or I can cut fire wood and build an igloo to keep someone alive.
A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing.
Vote wisely. Listen patiently. Debate courteously. Reasearch regularly.
Vote democrat.
Try to figure out why anyone wouldn't vote democrat.Try to persuade people to vote democrat.
Show people why they should vote democrat.
Vote wisely. Listen patiently. Debate courteously. Reasearch regularly.Vote democrat.
Try to figure out why anyone wouldn't vote democrat.
Try to persuade people to vote democrat.
Show people why they should vote democrat.
It doesn't work. The reasons are emotional, not rational.
It's the difference between getting screwed and getting f$+&ed.
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Vote Libertarian.
Try to figure out why anyone wouldn't vote Libertarian.
Try to persuade people to vote Libertarian.
Show people why they should vote Libertarian
BTW love the meme that voting Democrat is somehow logical and perfectly rational while voting Republican is irrational and emotional. Motes, beams, and such....
On the whole union thing:
I don't have the state by state breakdowns, but while the Republican governors have been figuratively breaking heads, the Democrats have been much more quietly achieving the same ends. In Massachusetts, New Jersey, and probably a lot of other states, public-sector unions have been forced to give the same concessions that are being wrested in Wisconsin and Ohio.
I am not denying that there are subtle differences between the parties, but in the final analysis, they are both like Orson Scott Card's Hamlet Snr.: all they want to do is bugger you for eternity.
(My apologies to those who enjoy consensual buggery for my poor choice of simile.)
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Vote wisely. Listen patiently. Debate courteously. Reasearch regularly.Vote democrat.
Try to figure out why anyone wouldn't vote democrat.
Try to persuade people to vote democrat.
Show people why they should vote democrat.
Sorry, I know too many corrupt Democrats.
I vote for good people, not good parties. I have to do more research than whether or not there's a little (D) after their name, but it's worth it, every time.
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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I am ready, willing, and able to serve as a dictator. I won't even lie to you about being a benevolent dictator. Oh no. I will be petty and capricious, slaughtering hundreds of thousands to build my gold plated palace on top of the St. Louis Arch. I will go from town to town, personally insulting the residents and advising them not to reproduce lest their inbred, moron genes further degrade the human race. I will re-name the state of Pennsylvania "West Assylvania" and re-name Florida "Derp, Derp."
I will combine the months of February, March, April and May into a single huge mega-month, henceforth to be known as Ponytary.
I will lead an army of trained hillbilly monkeys, armed with moonshine and pungent body oder, on a campaign to liberate and reclaim Quebec from Canada. Then, I will make speaking French a capital offense.
The streets will run red with the blood of my enemies, the people standing near my enemies, and their pets.
Ask yourself - why am I not part of the revolution that will ultimately install Sebastian as "Supreme Dictator for Life, B%!$#es". Only when you answer that question can true change begin.