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[Salty]

You can't buy butthurt like that. 

That last line is a fairly common viewpoint for people who breeze trough here. A few of my IRL friends has said more or less the same. Is it true do you suppose? Either way, those people are dead to me and will not be spared during the rebellion.

[Phox]

You can't buy butthurt like that. 

That last line is a fairly common viewpoint for people who breeze trough here. A few of my IRL friends has said more or less the same. Is it true do you suppose? Either way, those people are dead to me and will not be spared during the rebellion.

I have noticed it seems to be the preemptive refuge of those who are afraid of being called out on that shit.

[Cain]

I think it is pretty much the standard, go to insult for use against people who can string a sentence together on the internet.  Not a Youtube comment, but still enough to piss you off?  Must be a pseudo-intellectual!  If more than one person disagrees, it's a circle-jerk.  And so on and so forth.

[Phox]

I think it is pretty much the standard, go to insult for use against people who can string a sentence together on the internet.  Not a Youtube comment, but still enough to piss you off?  Must be a pseudo-intellectual!  If more than one person disagrees, it's a circle-jerk.  And so on and so forth.

Seems about right.

[Salty]

Not here, but Squidday lays down the FIRE. And you know what? She changed my mind. At first I disagreed, then I got to the end and was like GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY CHAIR and I threw my chair. Then I picked it up and posted this.

Squiddy sez:

How many people ITT are actually gonna vote anyway? "Oh I don't vote, my vote doesn't matter, blah blah fuck the system and the man". Whatever. Till Santorum or Romney wins, then maybe Ministry will make a good album or something. Right? I don't care where the fuck I have to vote as long as I make sure that those two RETARDED TURD FACTORIES are NOT in the white house. I'll fart the shit out of a church and flop a filthed tampon in the holy water vessel and then drop my vote for ANYONE but those anus slimers. If fucking Barney the dinosaur was running against them he'd have my vote. FUCK! I can write it in! Anyone but those jizz guzzling "religious" money grubbing, businessmen. Fuck those guys and fuck the retarded religious america that thinks these shit popsicles want anything more than to keep sucking taxes out of me and you and their sorry uneducated asses. These skid marked tattered old man panties prey on ignorance and fear. The dumber the people are, the more likely they are to ruin what tiny shred of... fuck it. I'm sure I'm just yelling at a deaf wall. If you don't want to vote, at least write in something stupid on your fucking ballot. Vote for the flying spaghetti monster even. Then vote no for all the judges terms to be renewed. If you don't want to "make it count", then MAKE IT COUNT... in a totally twisted sick badwrong way. It's what Eris would want. You wanna piss her off? Remember the last time...?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not here, but Squidday lays down the FIRE. And you know what? She changed my mind. At first I disagreed, then I got to the end and was like GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY CHAIR and I threw my chair. Then I picked it up and posted this.

Squiddy sez:

How many people ITT are actually gonna vote anyway? "Oh I don't vote, my vote doesn't matter, blah blah fuck the system and the man". Whatever. Till Santorum or Romney wins, then maybe Ministry will make a good album or something. Right? I don't care where the fuck I have to vote as long as I make sure that those two RETARDED TURD FACTORIES are NOT in the white house. I'll fart the shit out of a church and flop a filthed tampon in the holy water vessel and then drop my vote for ANYONE but those anus slimers. If fucking Barney the dinosaur was running against them he'd have my vote. FUCK! I can write it in! Anyone but those jizz guzzling "religious" money grubbing, businessmen. Fuck those guys and fuck the retarded religious america that thinks these shit popsicles want anything more than to keep sucking taxes out of me and you and their sorry uneducated asses. These skid marked tattered old man panties prey on ignorance and fear. The dumber the people are, the more likely they are to ruin what tiny shred of... fuck it. I'm sure I'm just yelling at a deaf wall. If you don't want to vote, at least write in something stupid on your fucking ballot. Vote for the flying spaghetti monster even. Then vote no for all the judges terms to be renewed. If you don't want to "make it count", then MAKE IT COUNT... in a totally twisted sick badwrong way. It's what Eris would want. You wanna piss her off? Remember the last time...?

RAH SQUID!

That said, I tell people I don't vote, but not because I don't think my vote counts. I do it because I have a right to not vote if I don't want to, and I enjoy their panties getting all bunched up as they try to explain to me that not voting is anti-democratic and shouldn't be allowed.

[Triple Zero]

You can't buy butthurt like that. 

That last line is a fairly common viewpoint for people who breeze trough here. A few of my IRL friends has said more or less the same. Is it true do you suppose? Either way, those people are dead to me and will not be spared during the rebellion.

Yes it's true. But also no it's not.

OHOHOHOH QUIT THE ZEN AND TELL US MORE TRIPZIP

Uh I mean that a lot of people share that viewpoint and to them it's certainly true. To them, we're certainly like that. On the other hand, whether that viewpoint is *accurate* is another question. I'd say in general, it's not very accurate.

But the important part is, people subscribing to this inaccurate viewpoint tend to make it into a self-fulfilling prophecy not just by the Law of Fives, but also by a sort of quarter-experiment type of effect, calling it out over themselves.

When I just got to PD, it took me a while before understanding this, and understanding why I'm different because I stuck around, after all, and why it's generally better for people to piss off when they are like that. Especially if they do it within their first two posts. It's like putting down a puppy before you get all woozy feelings about it.

THANK YOU TRIP THAT WAS BORING PLEASE STICK TO THE ZEN NON SEQUITURS NEXT TIME



BUT ALSO DON'T

[Placid Dingo]

Not here, but Squidday lays down the FIRE. And you know what? She changed my mind. At first I disagreed, then I got to the end and was like GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY CHAIR and I threw my chair. Then I picked it up and posted this.

Squiddy sez:

How many people ITT are actually gonna vote anyway? "Oh I don't vote, my vote doesn't matter, blah blah fuck the system and the man". Whatever. Till Santorum or Romney wins, then maybe Ministry will make a good album or something. Right? I don't care where the fuck I have to vote as long as I make sure that those two RETARDED TURD FACTORIES are NOT in the white house. I'll fart the shit out of a church and flop a filthed tampon in the holy water vessel and then drop my vote for ANYONE but those anus slimers. If fucking Barney the dinosaur was running against them he'd have my vote. FUCK! I can write it in! Anyone but those jizz guzzling "religious" money grubbing, businessmen. Fuck those guys and fuck the retarded religious america that thinks these shit popsicles want anything more than to keep sucking taxes out of me and you and their sorry uneducated asses. These skid marked tattered old man panties prey on ignorance and fear. The dumber the people are, the more likely they are to ruin what tiny shred of... fuck it. I'm sure I'm just yelling at a deaf wall. If you don't want to vote, at least write in something stupid on your fucking ballot. Vote for the flying spaghetti monster even. Then vote no for all the judges terms to be renewed. If you don't want to "make it count", then MAKE IT COUNT... in a totally twisted sick badwrong way. It's what Eris would want. You wanna piss her off? Remember the last time...?

RAH SQUID!

That said, I tell people I don't vote, but not because I don't think my vote counts. I do it because I have a right to not vote if I don't want to, and I enjoy their panties getting all bunched up as they try to explain to me that not voting is anti-democratic and shouldn't be allowed.

Weirdly enough, Nigel, it was a post from you on how making people think they're in the minority is a tool of the power elite that best articulated my feelings on why voting is best left compulsory (in Oz).

When someone says 'I dont vote' I don't think of one vote not happening. I think of their community who feel and act the same and the pressures (or endorsement) they put on eachother to continue to do so.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not here, but Squidday lays down the FIRE. And you know what? She changed my mind. At first I disagreed, then I got to the end and was like GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY CHAIR and I threw my chair. Then I picked it up and posted this.

Squiddy sez:

How many people ITT are actually gonna vote anyway? "Oh I don't vote, my vote doesn't matter, blah blah fuck the system and the man". Whatever. Till Santorum or Romney wins, then maybe Ministry will make a good album or something. Right? I don't care where the fuck I have to vote as long as I make sure that those two RETARDED TURD FACTORIES are NOT in the white house. I'll fart the shit out of a church and flop a filthed tampon in the holy water vessel and then drop my vote for ANYONE but those anus slimers. If fucking Barney the dinosaur was running against them he'd have my vote. FUCK! I can write it in! Anyone but those jizz guzzling "religious" money grubbing, businessmen. Fuck those guys and fuck the retarded religious america that thinks these shit popsicles want anything more than to keep sucking taxes out of me and you and their sorry uneducated asses. These skid marked tattered old man panties prey on ignorance and fear. The dumber the people are, the more likely they are to ruin what tiny shred of... fuck it. I'm sure I'm just yelling at a deaf wall. If you don't want to vote, at least write in something stupid on your fucking ballot. Vote for the flying spaghetti monster even. Then vote no for all the judges terms to be renewed. If you don't want to "make it count", then MAKE IT COUNT... in a totally twisted sick badwrong way. It's what Eris would want. You wanna piss her off? Remember the last time...?

RAH SQUID!

That said, I tell people I don't vote, but not because I don't think my vote counts. I do it because I have a right to not vote if I don't want to, and I enjoy their panties getting all bunched up as they try to explain to me that not voting is anti-democratic and shouldn't be allowed.

Weirdly enough, Nigel, it was a post from you on how making people think they're in the minority is a tool of the power elite that best articulated my feelings on why voting is best left compulsory (in Oz).

When someone says 'I dont vote' I don't think of one vote not happening. I think of their community who feel and act the same and the pressures (or endorsement) they put on eachother to continue to do so.

When 2/3 of the eligible voters don't vote because they think their vote doesn't matter, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

However, there are also other pressures that reduce voting. Voting is made very difficult or impossible for poor people and people of color. Instead of making voting compulsory, making voting day a mandatory paid holiday, making it easy to register to vote, and making polling places more accessible would do more to stimulate voter turnout than making it legally mandatory would. Making it legally mandatory would just penalize those for whom voting is already difficult.

[Cain]

My vote in my last district was worth nothing.  My Parliamentary seat has been Conservative since before World War One, and any vote for any other party was automatically a waste - he beat the nearest contender by 8 points, a not so small amount, when one considers there were five parties on the ballot.

Under a UK voting system, a party frequently gets into government despite a good 70% of the country either voting against it, or not voting for it.  No matter which party gets in, it finds its political options constrained not by popular opinion, but by inter-party factions, mass media comglomerates, bond markets, investment bankers and the ever-present influence of Beijing, Brussels, Moscow, Riyadh and, most importantly, Washington D.C.

But, you know, power to the people etc.

[Bu🤠ns]

Free Will? I didn't know he was chained up in the first place.

[NewSpag]

Not here, but Squidday lays down the FIRE. And you know what? She changed my mind. At first I disagreed, then I got to the end and was like GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY CHAIR and I threw my chair. Then I picked it up and posted this.

Squiddy sez:

How many people ITT are actually gonna vote anyway? "Oh I don't vote, my vote doesn't matter, blah blah fuck the system and the man". Whatever. Till Santorum or Romney wins, then maybe Ministry will make a good album or something. Right? I don't care where the fuck I have to vote as long as I make sure that those two RETARDED TURD FACTORIES are NOT in the white house. I'll fart the shit out of a church and flop a filthed tampon in the holy water vessel and then drop my vote for ANYONE but those anus slimers. If fucking Barney the dinosaur was running against them he'd have my vote. FUCK! I can write it in! Anyone but those jizz guzzling "religious" money grubbing, businessmen. Fuck those guys and fuck the retarded religious america that thinks these shit popsicles want anything more than to keep sucking taxes out of me and you and their sorry uneducated asses. These skid marked tattered old man panties prey on ignorance and fear. The dumber the people are, the more likely they are to ruin what tiny shred of... fuck it. I'm sure I'm just yelling at a deaf wall. If you don't want to vote, at least write in something stupid on your fucking ballot. Vote for the flying spaghetti monster even. Then vote no for all the judges terms to be renewed. If you don't want to "make it count", then MAKE IT COUNT... in a totally twisted sick badwrong way. It's what Eris would want. You wanna piss her off? Remember the last time...?

RAH SQUID!

That said, I tell people I don't vote, but not because I don't think my vote counts. I do it because I have a right to not vote if I don't want to, and I enjoy their panties getting all bunched up as they try to explain to me that not voting is anti-democratic and shouldn't be allowed.

As a newly registered voter I most definitely plan on going to my polling place and casting my ballot.  However I have a few ideas about what I'm going to do while I'm there rather than vote

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

50,000 years from now, all our clocks are gonna be messed up.

[Bu🤠ns]

I don't see a problem here. Billy clubs and riot gear have never interfered with my TV reception...

on both counts

[Placid Dingo]

On Zimmerman;

If your whole case lies in getting the jury to believe your version of events as truth... this is a bang up way to start.

Maybe the money snuck up on him while he was walking back to his truck.