What's the Matter, Bunky?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

PREACH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND YA DON'T STOP
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[President Television]

Buy the ticket, take the fucking ride! Eat the hell out of that cheeseburger!
Thanks.

[Doktor Howl]

You don't look so hot.

So, what's wrong, man?

You're looking a bit pale and worn. A little tired and dragged out. "Fagged out" for our friends in the  inbred no-chin commonwealths.

Now, I know we can't be up all the time, but you're just plodding along, and have for some time now. Where's your pep? Where's your vim and vigor?

Here I've been hopping up and down making an idiot out of myself, which I don't mind at all, because it usually gets you going. But lately, you just seem so, I don't know, maybe depressed?

What is it, all the fighting and stuff? I know. That's a drag.

But look, it happens sometimes, and now it's over. So what do you say we YANK your fucking HOG TIED THUMBS out of your ASSES and DRAG you down the street NAKED. Huh? How about we SET FUCKING FIRE TO YOUR HAIR? Would You WAKE UP then?

Where's your DISCORDIAN RETARD RAGE? Jesus (not you, get back to work), you're like those monkeys in the neutron bomb experiments. Dosed with a fatal blast of neutrons that they COULDN'T DETECT and they just turned off and waited to DIE.  Or maybe that guy that got shot on 4th last week.  One measley hole in the head, and he fucking just FELL DOWN.

WAKE UP. KICK ME. SCREAM. KILL ME.  TEACH ME WHAT LOVE IS, ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN, WHERE THE MUTANTS BUSK AND OTHERWISE RATIONAL ADULTS DRINK THE BLOOD OF THE UR-MOTHER!

UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!  AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!

Or Kill Me.

More of this.  Today.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

You don't look so hot.

So, what's wrong, man?

You're looking a bit pale and worn. A little tired and dragged out. "Fagged out" for our friends in the  inbred no-chin commonwealths.

Now, I know we can't be up all the time, but you're just plodding along, and have for some time now. Where's your pep? Where's your vim and vigor?

Here I've been hopping up and down making an idiot out of myself, which I don't mind at all, because it usually gets you going. But lately, you just seem so, I don't know, maybe depressed?

What is it, all the fighting and stuff? I know. That's a drag.

But look, it happens sometimes, and now it's over. So what do you say we YANK your fucking HOG TIED THUMBS out of your ASSES and DRAG you down the street NAKED. Huh? How about we SET FUCKING FIRE TO YOUR HAIR? Would You WAKE UP then?

Where's your DISCORDIAN RETARD RAGE? Jesus (not you, get back to work), you're like those monkeys in the neutron bomb experiments. Dosed with a fatal blast of neutrons that they COULDN'T DETECT and they just turned off and waited to DIE.  Or maybe that guy that got shot on 4th last week.  One measley hole in the head, and he fucking just FELL DOWN.

WAKE UP. KICK ME. SCREAM. KILL ME.  TEACH ME WHAT LOVE IS, ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN, WHERE THE MUTANTS BUSK AND OTHERWISE RATIONAL ADULTS DRINK THE BLOOD OF THE UR-MOTHER!

UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!  AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!

Or Kill Me.

More of this.  Today.

GOOD.

[P3nT4gR4m]

If you want a better world, BE A BETTER PERSON.  Not everyone gets to be Ghandi or MLK to a nation, BUT EVERYONE GETS TO BE ONE TO THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM, IF THEY CAN JUST BRING THEMSELVES TO DO IT.

And that's all there really is to it.  That's the point of all my ranting and hate-shitting and stomping around.  It isn't to raise an insurrection and get everyone killed or detained, it's to REMIND PEOPLE TO BE THE BEST HUMAN THEY POSSIBLY CAN and thus LEAD BY EXAMPLE.

Or Kill Me.

THIS! Motherfucking THIS!

This is the reason I have't had much to say lately and I only just figured it out. I'm too busy having fun, doing what I'm doing, trying to get better at it. Trying to help and inspire other people to get better at it. Showing them how to have the kind of fun that I'm really fucking good at having.

And it's working. And it's a feedback loop. I make them smile when they make progress. When they see the sights I have to show them and the games that we can play and their smiles make mine even bigger and the whole thing snowballs and I feel better, about myself and about my fellow beings.

And the whole - world burning - trip? That's just a distant glow. A backdrop to our fun. My rage has gone

[Left]

If you want a better world, BE A BETTER PERSON.  Not everyone gets to be Ghandi or MLK to a nation, BUT EVERYONE GETS TO BE ONE TO THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM, IF THEY CAN JUST BRING THEMSELVES TO DO IT.

And that's all there really is to it.  That's the point of all my ranting and hate-shitting and stomping around.  It isn't to raise an insurrection and get everyone killed or detained, it's to REMIND PEOPLE TO BE THE BEST HUMAN THEY POSSIBLY CAN and thus LEAD BY EXAMPLE.

Or Kill Me.

THIS! Motherfucking THIS!

This is the reason I have't had much to say lately and I only just figured it out. I'm too busy having fun, doing what I'm doing, trying to get better at it. Trying to help and inspire other people to get better at it. Showing them how to have the kind of fun that I'm really fucking good at having.

And it's working. And it's a feedback loop. I make them smile when they make progress. When they see the sights I have to show them and the games that we can play and their smiles make mine even bigger and the whole thing snowballs and I feel better, about myself and about my fellow beings.

And the whole - world burning - trip? That's just a distant glow. A backdrop to our fun. My rage has gone

Cool beans!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Check this out! A year-old thread that I never even saw!

[McGrupp]

Its trench warfare is what it is, Roger.

We're supposed to have moved past this sort of thing. Our technology has gone screaming ahead and we're all scurrying along behind, trying to apply old ways of working to new situations. We've been screaming and shouting and hooting and hollering for years, Roger. What has it gotten us?

Hours and hours and hours of enjoyment.  At least in my case.

I am here to ENJOY THE RIDE.  I am not here to SAVE THE WORLD, mostly because I CAN'T, you can't save ANYBODY except maybe yourself, and getting wrapped around the axle about the world's problems will only STEAL YOUR SLACK™.

Every time you look at the news and see some grinning bastard talk about the glories of the Free Market™ and it makes you so mad you throw shit at the TV, then makes you so depressed you sleep for the rest of the day, They have taken your Slack™.

Every time you stand there wishing you had the guts to EXPLODE IN A FURY OF RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION, but instead just fart and get on the bus to work, They have stolen your Slack™.

Stop giving them your Slack™.  You can't affect the fate of millions, but you CAN affect YOURSELF and THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, by being a walking example of the things They hate to see.  Sneer at a bigot.  Tell the office neocon to STFU for once.  Be NICE to nice people.  Don't stand by while someone gets shat on.  Learn to say "No" to people with power.  Smite assholes when they need smiting, and be as pleasant as possible to those who don't.  These are all things you can do to make the world a better place.

If you wander around moping that YOU didn't SINGLE-HANDEDLY stop The Machine™, then They have you right where they want you, so paralyzed with dispair that you can't do anything at all other than punch the clock.

If you want a better world, BE A BETTER PERSON.  Not everyone gets to be Ghandi or MLK to a nation, BUT EVERYONE GETS TO BE ONE TO THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM, IF THEY CAN JUST BRING THEMSELVES TO DO IT.

And that's all there really is to it.  That's the point of all my ranting and hate-shitting and stomping around.  It isn't to raise an insurrection and get everyone killed or detained, it's to REMIND PEOPLE TO BE THE BEST HUMAN THEY POSSIBLY CAN and thus LEAD BY EXAMPLE.

Or Kill Me.

LOVE THIS!

It's extremely easy to fall into a mindset of 'We're doomed.' and fall into apathy and despair, or worse yet become a zealot to an ideology (or simply be filled with an overwhelming urge to smash everything). Too much we've been fed the idea that being the guy standing in front of the tank or hiding under our covers in a fetal position are our only two options. There is so much more.