The Return of Testing Chat Thread

[RogueIce]

So a teeny little kitten has curled up next to me. Problem is, I moved because it was crawling around me in the chair. Now I'm sitting on the edge with zero back support and it's not very comfortable. On the other hand if I move I'll disturb the cute little thing. Even shifts that touch it prompt it to wake up and do a little squeak before laying back down and sleeping. So cute...

What am I to do?

[Oxymoron]

Dinner.

[The Spartan]

Swing it round by its tail.

Then it'll be awake and you can move into a more ergonomic position. Spine problems are no joke.

[RogueIce]

Dinner.

Anyway I lucked out when the kitten decided to move of its own accord. Now its lying by my feet.

[RogueIce]

So is it just me or is a good chunk of that Armstrong thread just a bunch of "America can't do a good thing ever not on my watch! "?

[Dooey Jo]

okay rpgs, i realise you will never be able to get over your puerile boob plate sexism

or game mechanics invariably framed as mass murder

but can we at least set the bar for our stories a little higher than notorious race war literature

all i'm saying is maybe we shouldn't get all our ideas from hitler

[artemas]

hitler invented the chainmail bikini?

[Sandman]

The infamous excised chapter of Mein Kampf dealing with the fantasy genre; Titten, Schwerter und Drachen.


I apologise for my atrocious internet-translated German.

[adr]

heil titler??

[Bakustra]

okay rpgs, i realise you will never be able to get over your puerile boob plate sexism

or game mechanics invariably framed as mass murder

but can we at least set the bar for our stories a little higher than notorious race war literature

all i'm saying is maybe we shouldn't get all our ideas from hitler

so what specifically prompted this

also, harvey birdman

Of course, socialists of almost every stripe are completely opposed to this kind of freedom. They may talk about removing borders but only as part of an inescapable global communist regieme (which in practice would have movement at least as restricted as a typical 20th century communist state). While capitalists are (in general) happy to allow communes and co-operatives to exist as a voluntary option for citizens in a free state, communists are desperate to use violence and murder to confiscate and destroy every alternative to state dependency.

[Aaron]

Man remember when he was just a scam artist programmer and not Miles Dyson.

[Questor]

Straha, if your still interested, the phenomenon of Teen Politics interests me too.

As one of those privileged white people who is not allowed to criticize anyone, I'm going to throw in my two cents anyway.

I think teenage Randians come from the same place that most other teenage belief systems do, the belief of teens that they have finished forming their personalities and character, and that they have now "earned" (or failed to earn in some other belief systems) their current place in society, and they must defend that place against all assaults, particularly from adults who have no way of possibly understanding what it's like to be a teenager NOW, a whole half decade or less after some of those adults left that period of their life. These young men (and almost all of them are young men) are conscious enough of their social/economic position, and they honestly do believe that THEY, rather than their parents or the people around them, have earned all the privilege they have, and that anyone who doesn't have it didn't work hard enough.

Most teenagers, at least in my experience, don't really see the details of socioeconomic status, and they see only the mean of their social groupings. This can have some interesting results when you try to measure perception, and it also creates some of the most hilarious teenage drama imaginable. The perception of what "poor" is has so much to do with context that trying to actually approach the concept of privilege may be impossible.

For example, a teen might view themselves as "poor," simply because they have less available disposable wealth than their peers, whatever their (and their parents) actual situation. This might be because they have parents who don't believe in an allowance, or because their friends have jobs, or for a myriad of reasons. For a teen that has their parents providing for all of their necessities and many/most of their luxuries, even a minimum wage job can create a perception of wealth. I remember as a teen many of my peers were more interested in what the "employee discount" was at their job than the actual rate of pay.

[Zod]

So why should the rest of the EU care at the point? Greece and her citizens made their bed with decades of bad choices, now they get to live with it.

[Questor]

So why should the rest of the EUthe internet care at the point? GreeceSDN and her citizens made their bed with decades of bad choices, now they get to live with it.

Fixed that for you.

[Flagg]

It's funny, because the second he posted in that thread I was like "Uh oh, he's gonna go after Greece now, because they aren't white enough for his tastes".

[Sandman]

The thing that strikes me as really, really horrible in all of this is that the average Greek citizen had literally nothing whatsoever to do with whatever lies were told or whatever money was mismanaged. But it's apparently the average citizen who has to suffer for it regardless. It's the father or mother who stays up at night terrified about how they're going to feed their family, or if they're going to even have a roof over their heads anymore. It's not the politicians or the wealthy who suffer under austerity measures, but instead the working class person despite the invariable fact that the upper-classes and government were responsible for its apparent 'necessity' in the first place.

And it's now the citizens whose country is being consumed by the far-right. Because many of them feel that they honestly have nowhere else to turn to.

It seems almost barbaric to me that people suddenly want to 'punish' Greece for such mismanagement when all it's really doing is causing needless suffering. And then that needless suffering causes citizens to flee to the place offering the best promises, despite those promises usually being built on lies. They'll want someone to blame, so they go to someone offering a target. They'll want assurance that life will get better, so they go to someone who speaks of 'the rights of native Greeks'. Because obviously nobody really learned anything from the Treaty of Versailles.

[RyanThunder]

People seem to have been so well programmed these days to race to the bottom. Somebody get a better deal than you? Take it away from them! No, don't you dare ask why you can't have the same thing. That's Bad!

[Flagg]

He wants them to pawn the Parthenon!

[Dooey Jo]

so what specifically prompted this

probably one world of warcraft ad too many

Man remember when he was just a scam artist programmer and not Miles Dyson.

pretty sure he remains a scam artist

[evilsoup]

[adr]

i just read through one of my aim chats from 2005 and i don't like the way i talked online then

it was just kinda silly

[Straha]

'kinda silly' 'then'

[adr]

i'm all rich and smooth now

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

probably one world of warcraft ad too many

Look buddy that ad is all about the white and the green coming together in the spirit of cooperation to get beaten up by a panda

[Count Chocula]

Goddamn Bean's an asshole. That's like arguing that I'd benefit from my donations to the Knights of Columbus because I'm Catholic, even though I'm not in KoC, but dammit that's a selfish donation. Just like taking my son to work in a soup kitchen because our parish organized it is selfish. Fuck him. Romney donated more to charity in ONE YEAR than Wong or Bean will ever earn in their lives and all the twats can do is oh-so-politely bitch about it.

Sorry bout that, TEO rant off.