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[Loose Goose]

They obviously like the kind of democracy where they call all the shots and can arbitrarily punish dissenters with ostracism, imprisonment, expulsion and damnatio memoriae. The site serves as the ultimate proof of their political preferences.

 

[Wallace]

They obviously like the kind of democracy where they call all the shots and can arbitrarily punish dissenters with ostracism, imprisonment, expulsion and damnatio memoriae. The site serves as the ultimate proof of their political preferences.

Nothing says healthy democracy like a powerful one-party state that can suppress dissent by force.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Nothing says healthy democracy like a powerful one-part state that can suppress dissent by force.

Must you say things that cause RPG.net mods to start masturbating?

 

[NerdShamer]

Must you say things that cause RPG.net mods to start masturbating?

They'll do that every time someone signs up for that forum, or post anything that starts an argument

 

[Kongo-Müller]

They'll do that every time someone signs up for that forum, or post anything that starts an argument

The term for the latter is mass debate.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

They'll do that every time someone signs up for that forum, or post anything that starts an argument

So very rarely and non-stop?

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

The op from the thread that "Liu Kang" got banned in is hilarious, by the way:
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What happens when an rpgnetter leaves the hugbox.

Quoting my own thread because StreetBushido doubled down:


Responses are predictable:

Reminder that these posters are encouraging him to cut off a friend of many years over a hypothetical situation that he himself posed to the friend.

Thread devolves into the usual "if you have nine people sitting at a table with a nazi you have ten nazis" platitudes while BeeInABlanket hallucinates about a MAGA invasion.

 

[Flexo]

Did any of them read the crucible?

Or understand it?

 

[NerdShamer]

Thread devolves into the usual "if you have nine people sitting at a table with a nazi you have ten nazis" platitudes while BeeInABlanket hallucinates about a MAGA invasion.

Yet another indicator on what their regulars are diagnosed with, unfortunately.

Plus, it seems whatever improvement that comes by isn't good enough, going by that comment about TDS

 

[AnOminous]

Thread devolves into the usual "if you have nine people sitting at a table with a nazi you have ten nazis" platitudes while BeeInABlanket hallucinates about a MAGA invasion.

If you have ten RPGnet mods sitting at a table, you have ten pedophiles sitting at a table.

 

[Fapcop]

If you have ten RPGnet mods sitting at a table, you have ten pedophiles sitting at a table.

THEYRE CALLED NOMAP’S YOU BIGOT!

Not by choice but by circumstance.

The spirit may be willing to offend, but the body of your average RPGnet mod is fat, lazy and lack the testosterone for even a symbolic half-erection.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Did any of them read the crucible?

Or understand it?

A yes to the first, since I know some real world RPG.net sorts who have read it.
Maybe to the second since I've not seen any of their posts on here.

But by and large the average ones we get posts from probably see it as a book about the empowerment of women to fight back against the patriarchy.

 

[Wormy]

He was never accused of sexually assaulting anyone, just making inappropriate comments and referring to pornography of some sort ("Long Dong Silver"). Some of the accusations of what he said by Anita Hill didn't even sound like something a human would actually say. In any event, they were completely irrelevant to his fitness.

"...and that's when I said, hey, at least it's better than a pubic hair IN your Coke!"

 

[Flaming Insignias]

A yes to the first, since I know some real world RPG.net sorts who have read it.
Maybe to the second since I've not seen any of their posts on here.

But by and large the average ones we get posts from probably see it as a book about the empowerment of women to fight back against the patriarchy.

I think they read the book and only took the obvious "investigating commies bad" aspect of the book rather than considering applicability in other areas.

Really, we need to stop hoisting up that book written by a commie to defame McCarthy for having the gall to investigate his buddies for subversive behavior.

 

[Flexo]

I think they read the book and only took the obvious "investigating commies bad" aspect of the book rather than considering applicability in other areas.

Really, we need to stop hoisting up that book written by a commie to defame McCarthy for having the gall to investigate his buddies for subversive behavior.

Believe me, I hate commies, but it does have a valid parable.

I mean my pick for the same idea - better play - would be "A Man for All Seasons" (and it's "planted thick with laws" speech) but I know nobody on RPG.net has read or understood that one.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I think they read the book and only took the obvious "investigating commies bad" aspect of the book rather than considering applicability in other areas.

Really, we need to stop hoisting up that book written by a commie to defame McCarthy for having the gall to investigate his buddies for subversive behavior.

The book is okay, especially for the fairly youthful audience is aimed at. It's people's inability to recognise that when they go "yes but this time they really are witches!" they're idiots.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

The book is okay, especially for the fairly youthful audience is aimed at. It's people's inability to recognise that when they go "yes but this time they really are witches!" they're idiots.

I still feel that the book is a bad reference when it was written for a situation where the "witches" were very much real, by a metaphorical "witch" to defame the inquisitors trying to stand up to them.

 

[AnOminous]

Believe me, I hate commies, but it does have a valid parable.

I mean my pick for the same idea - better play - would be "A Man for All Seasons" (and it's "planted thick with laws" speech) but I know nobody on RPG.net has read or understood that one.

REEEEEEEE IT'S ABOUT FUCKING A WHITE MALE!

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I still feel that the book is a bad reference when it was written for a situation where the "witches" were very much real, by a metaphorical "witch" to defame the inquisitors trying to stand up to them.

It's a fine metaphor. The problem is people are unable to follow that thought to a place where they go "wait, it's applicable outside of this very narrow frame of reference."

It's like Pratchett's Discworld stuff. You can read the treatment of female dwarves for example as a wide range of things, saying it's clearly a metaphor for say Muslims narrows it down more than it should be.

 

[Screw Danlon]

Quoting my own thread because StreetBushido doubled down:
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Responses are predictable:
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You know, I actually agree with the first poster that wearing a shirt with Nazi paraphenalia is a pretty good sign that the person wearing it probably does have some pro-Nazi beliefs.

And if it genuinely became an issue, I’d probably just say “No shirts with logos in the class, we wear our fencing gear.”

That said, his friend is totally right that starting from the assumption that the person you’re arguing with is pro-Nazi is only going to lead to a fight. If you start from accusing a person of supporting a group so evil that many people no longer even consider them human, there’s really no debate is there?

But I love roseblack here literally accusing the friend of doing what the poster himself is doing - he was driven into a corner because his friend challenged his beliefs, he couldn’t actually rationalize them, and now is trying to undermine him as a Nazi. They feel personally attacked because they know their beliefs are irrational, so instead they’re just going to cut ties with him.

Also, the fact that the poster KNOWS the friend tried to send a second message but didn’t ask his friend to resend it is pretty clear evidence that he’s scared of losing the argument.