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remember guys a single personal anecdote from a smug douchebag means anyone who has difficulty in a vaguely similar situation is suffering from a personal failing

remember guys if you don't know how to read, just lie about it over and over again

if you tried being less of an insufferable asshole in every one of your posts people probably wouldn't take as much issue with you

You know, picking random posts from this thread and reading them without context is pretty darn funny.

Losonti Tokash wrote:if you tried being less of an insufferable asshole in every one of your posts people probably wouldn't take as much issue with you

style over substance fallacy concession accepted :troll:

But no, I agree with Los. It's the same thing as the "zero to asshole in three seconds" thing of SDN. And they wonder why not everyone instantly agrees with their oh-so-wise selves about everything.

Protip: immediately calling someone a racist/warmonger/idiot/etc may not cause them to really consider your opinion with an open mind.

i get sick of people failing to actually read what i say

Questor wrote:You know, picking random posts from this thread and reading them without context is pretty darn funny.

It is. I sorted by Author and went back, fuck, Zod, Stark, and I post way too much.

That assumes their goal is to actually communicate and exchange ideas rather than smug posting in a safe place

Phantasee wrote:

Questor wrote:You know, picking random posts from this thread and reading them without context is pretty darn funny.

It is. I sorted by Author and went back, fuck, Zod, Stark, and I post way too much.

I work in an office that gives me relatively free reign to do what I like on the internet as long as my job gets done so . . . yeah.

Amusingly despite not having posted for a year on teo I'm still ranked 11th in post count.

adr wrote:i get sick of people failing to actually read what i say

no one can trust anything you actually say to be an honest statement because you are basically a professional troll

Zod wrote:

Phantasee wrote:

Questor wrote:You know, picking random posts from this thread and reading them without context is pretty darn funny.

It is. I sorted by Author and went back, fuck, Zod, Stark, and I post way too much.

I work in an office that gives me relatively free reign to do what I like on the internet as long as my job gets done so . . . yeah.

Amusingly despite not having posted for a year on teo I'm still ranked 11th in post count.

i was just looking at posts in this thread

i jsut looked at your post count

holy shit

then i looked at stark's post count

holy shit

it's not like we actually care about post-count quality here

or y'know

post count at all

Phant piqued my curiosity; I'm a little disturbed to see I'm in the top 25.

How about we bring back the random post count function. Because that makes things much better.

I agree

(I may have posted this just to see my post count)

Phantasee wrote:i don't think i really believe in democracy

but it's kinda like how i don't really believe in capitalism

they're both great tools for dealing with their respective problems

but you have to change so much to make sure they work right

which is why it's a good thing we don't live in a free market democracy

i'd be fucked

I wonder if humanity, as a whole, kind of fucked everything up when we opted to develop agriculture.

Yeah good call

Anyway nobody believe in democracy the sy America says they do

Democratic systems just inhibit static systems from developing by having it be more open

That's all

That's why efforts to close the system though corrupt media and culture war are direct attacks on the weakness of democracy which is its greatest strength

In short people who want better stronger faster governments pretty much always really want more control

Or stupid joke suggestions like LOL AT RANDOM IM SO DUMB I CNAT SEE HOW THIS SYSTEM WOULD BE TRIVISLLY CO OPTED AND SIMOLY RESULT IN LESS ACOCUNTABILITY

well we've had politicians lying to promote wars that have killed at least hundreds of thousands, who have never and will never be held accountable, it's not like politicians are really held to account anyway

outside of outright corruption which is a wider issue anyway that can affect democratic institutions,
how could it be easily co-opted? (also please remember I'm only suggesting this as a replacement for the house of lords, who can't propose laws only suggest amendments to bills)

No I'm not going to remember shit

The idea is fucking stupid and if you think it will have positive outcomes you're going to have to explain how beyond hurf durf I'm a moron

And sorry I find your 'current system bad so let's just go full retard' argument appallingly childish

Just tell me which of your idiot websites or friends suggested it so I can laugh directly into their face

I mean when you say politicians are not held to account I can't find words to express how fundamentally wrong you are

Dude, you NEVER go full retard...

There was more to that movie than just that line, goddamnit!

There was more going on in Return of the Jedi than "Its a trap!". but the internet would suggest otherwise.

Man, all this internet arguing is making me thirsty. Might as well have some of this Booty Sweat I got back in Da Nang.