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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/16/neil-young-sends-big-f-u-music-thief-donald-trump-endorsing-bernie-sanders.html

This gave me a bit of a chuckle.

So I guess the question is what we have to offer. I'm at a loss for that one.

I think there was a bit of a disconnect between the people involved.  A mistake, not a slam.

Oh no, I mean in reference to the contents of the rant itself. What are our Hershey bars?

Well, that depends on what your objectives are, doesn't it?

If you're pushing LGBT rights, then the Hershey Bar is the fact that damn near everyone has a close friend or relative that is LGBT, and we're not here to make your pastor marry them.  We just don't want people pooping on them.

If you're against the war-as-normalcy thing, then the Hersey Bar is the notion that butter is more profitable than guns.

If you're just a hardcore discordian, forget the Hershey Bar and start flushing toothbrushes down the toilets.

In short, the Hershey Bar is the notion that you're trying to help, not attack.  Anti-tumblr, so to speak.

Ah, ok. That's straightforward enough. I'd thought you were talking about some other additional benefit we'd have to offer, but this makes things considerably easier. Thanks for clearing that up.

So I guess the question is what we have to offer. I'm at a loss for that one.

I think there was a bit of a disconnect between the people involved.  A mistake, not a slam.

Oh no, I mean in reference to the contents of the rant itself. What are our Hershey bars?

So I guess the question is what we have to offer. I'm at a loss for that one.

Not to mention Wizard Joseph said he was the best and worst thing to ever happen to humanity.

But that's not enough to satisfy PDS's inner pedant.  Nothing ever is.

Hey, the bit about Weekend At Bernie's did get a sensible chuckle out of me.

So there's this game that has a fairly modest but fanatical following out in the gamerculture called Warhammer 40k. Set in the year 40,000, humanity lives in all corners of the galaxy and has a central government of sorts on the world of Holy Terra. That would be Earth after several apocalypses, failed petty interstellar empires, and colonization attempts. Then something like the year 30,000 or so a hyper-human perfect being stepped up from the population of Earth, unified the techno-barbarian tribes, re established a peace with the Martian colony, and ultimately began the impossible task of establishing a unified Galactic Empire of Humanity. He is known only as the Emperor in all established records of the setting and was both the best and worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

To make a long, epicly styled, and marvelous story short, The Emperor is betrayed by one of his clone-generals and the Empire nearly falls to the forces of Chaos. I do not mean nice, cutesy chaos either. Raw forces of sentient corruption and madness that hunger beyond the walls of spacetime. The kind that make you eat your family for kicks and burn whole worlds to test a new toy.

That's kind of a biased account. The forces of chaos are evil, but (assuming that the party line is true and the emperor is conscious and in control and that the Adeptus haven't simply been running a 10000 year long rehash of Weekend at Bernie's) the Emperor of Mankind is pretty evil to. He's so evil he makes the emperor from Star Wars look like a hippie by comparison.

Yeah, but part of the whole point of the setting is that it's a galaxy where everyone has to be evil. The closest we have to a non-evil faction are the Tau, and they're a) gonna get curbstomped any day now, and b) implied to have some 1984 shit going on themselves. In order of least to most evil, I'd say it goes something like this:

>Tau
>Eldar
>Imperium
>Necrons
>Tyranids
>Orks
>Chaos
>Dark Eldar

There may be a little quibbling around the middle, but I think that's roughly the order.

It's obviously a miracle sent by Aryan Jesus.

Aryan Jesus loves you, Cain.

It's clearly some kind of trick. Why else would he be wearing a star of David?

[THIS IS WHAT DISCORDIANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]

http://i.imgur.com/6ocuQsZ.jpg

THIS IS WHAT DISCORDIANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

This forum seems to have attracted a lot of colourful characters.

Maybe all forums do, if they last long enough.

Like this one? http://internet.gawker.com/the-greatest-internet-flame-wars-are-happening-on-clown-1709914009

I saw you post this on the Erotic Juggalo Fanfic page and knew it was just a matter of time before it'd show up here. That is some high-quality drama.

To be fair, he gets a lot of hate when the actual murderer/cannibal we had on the site gets forgotten about (probably for the best)

Well, yeah, but that guy was a narcissist. He wants attention.

"BH?"

A former poster here. I don't know the details too well, but apparently he was a necrophile and said that if his daughter ever got raped, he'd rather kill her than let her live with the repercussions. Everyone here thinks he's pretty repulsive.

Interesting...

I've been curious about whether this might be related to the increasing polarization in public discourse. It could just be nostalgia, but I don't remember people jumping straight to 'fuck you and everything you stand for' the moment one aspect of something you said didn't jive with their view ten years ago - even on the heavily moderated sites like MysticWicks. That feels like it is new.

I've also stayed the hell away from Tumblr and Reddit, though, and I understand that Tumblr/Reddit is where a lot of the more in-depth discussions take place (for better or for worse), so it could be that there's a split between the kind of people who would want to use Facebook for serious talk - now using those two sites - and the kind of people who would use Facebook for casual stuff - now using Snapchat/Instagram.

I'd be curious to know what the user numbers on all four sites actually are compared with Facebook, and whether the decline in Facebook's traffic has coincided with a rise in theirs.

Tumblr in fact invented the FUCK YOU response, long before the political tards got ahold of it.

I thought it was the political tards on Tumblr. I mean, on the Internet at large, you're permitted to be in one of two camps, politically: Tumblr or the neo-Nazis from /pol/. There is no middle ground.

Functionally, the difference between "Let's separate gender from sex" and "Let's do away with gender altogether" is nothing.

Unless you also intend to do away with the attendant behaviors, in which case you don't have any people left because all gender roles have done is take the naturally-occurring behaviors of human beings and segregated them according to sex.

As it is, the attendant behaviors are clustered together in semi-rigid groups. I would break these groups up as well, so that people could mix and match. Basically aiming for a situation where genderqueer and society-at-large become largely indistinguishable from each other.

Big talk for someone with absolutely no control over said behaviors and groups.

On an unrelated note, is it transphobic to not mention trans people at all? I ask because about a week ago, I was informed on Facebook that this was the case.

Depends on whether you're ignoring them despite their presence and relative relevance, or whether you simply have little enough exposure to them that you have no reason to mention them.

Hmm. I guess it was the former case. The context was that an image was posted (this one: https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11392916_934552266615816_812535875114742651_n.jpg?oh=5dbb30621150cfcdb6eadc85764ac167&oe=5608D8B8), and since none of the examples it used to argue its point were trans people, someone got mad. I can't imagine a drag performer(or anyone active in the LGBT community) was unaware of trans people, but at the same time the image was pretty busy as it was and it didn't come across to me as a deliberate effort at silencing anyone. The resulting rage therefore looked to me like an example of DOING IT WRONG perfectionism, but maybe I was wrong about that.