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#46
Or Kill Me / Ronald Reagan was wrong
March 04, 2020, 09:40:30 PM
Ronald Reagan was wrong.

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."

Fuck that fucker.

Guess who the government in a democracy* is?

It's the people, so let's try some word replacement.

"The people are not the solution to our problem, the people are the problem."

Doesn't that sound like a much better motto for a bunch of oligarchs who don't want the burden of caring about the plebes to undercut their profit margin?   

Fuck the oligarchs too.

How about we try some more word replacement?

Who is responsible to make sure corporations don't poison the water supply?

The people.

Who is responsible to make sure that a person is paid a fair wage for the labor they do?

The people.

Who is responsible to make sure that a work environment isn't going to maim or kill those who work in it?

The people.

Who is responsible to make sure your children aren't killed in a foreign land because a war is the best way to shore up the stock market?

The people.

Check your results.  How did you do?

This is your country, your government, your rules.

You want universal healthcare, done.

You want renewable sources of energy, done.

You want to stop the murder of brown people on the other side of the planet, done.

You want to stop the murder of brown people in our own fucking cities by the mother fucking police, done.

Be the problem oligarchs think you are.  Make the world a better place for you and everyone in it.

*If your first thought is to bring up how the United States is a republic and not a democracy please remove that pedantic stick from your ass and jab it into your eye.


#47
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories
February 25, 2020, 09:03:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 25, 2020, 01:55:00 PM
Quote from: LMNO on February 25, 2020, 01:09:23 PM
Isn't this how 12 Monkeys happened?

Nope.  Remember, that turned out to be one crazy dude.

ie. Terry Gilliam
#49
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on February 04, 2020, 01:28:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO on February 04, 2020, 01:15:28 PM
You may have forgotten that both order and disorder are illusions.
Hmm?  That was the idea I was trying to get across with my post.

...well, "labels" rather than illusions, but the idea was that both answers to my question were arguably wrong.

"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."

-Kerry Thornley
#50
RPG Ghetto / Re: Unified Vidya Games thread
January 06, 2020, 10:14:03 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 06, 2020, 12:33:15 AM
I ripped a drinking fountain off the wall with my mind and killed someone with it.

This is the only back of the box quote Control needs.
#51
Quote from: LMNO on December 10, 2019, 01:51:22 PM
What the shit?  Steele and Ivanka knew each other for years before he wrote the dossier.

Were they ever lovers?

Does President Trump now get to act out his daughter having an orgasm at one of his rallies?
#52
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories
November 26, 2019, 10:16:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 26, 2019, 06:40:33 AM

Europe dumped all their crazy people here and then "lost" the revolution and left us.  Basically, they're bad parents.

Just think of the USA as a gigantic emotionally-compromised teenager with nukes.

"No, you go on ahead.  We'll send the Aprilflower (with the thinkers) and the Juneflower (with the doers) later.  We want you there first to make sure the telephones are clean." - Europe circa 1620
#53
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 29, 2019, 07:32:07 PM
Trump is a tragic victim of reverse racism.  :lulz:

https://www.apnews.com/4175ea0e61e746cd95d7c684cd6a59f7

The classic, "I know you are but what am I," defense.
#54
Quote from: Frontside Back on July 24, 2019, 08:16:48 PM
Quote from: PopeTom on July 24, 2019, 07:59:04 PM
"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will make the world a bowling ball. " ― Archimedes
There still has to be some material limits. Remember you gotta construct the pins too to have any good time.

Jupiter has like 60+ moons.

I bet some of them would make good pins.
#55
"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will make the world a bowling ball. " ― Archimedes
#56
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 23, 2019, 08:09:47 PM
Quote from: PopeTom on July 23, 2019, 05:59:34 PM
Do we really need another holy site?

Heck I've yet to go bowling in Whittier, CA despite constantly planning to do so.
The Brunswick Shrine ain't even a bowling alley anymore. Well, not the one in Whittier, anyway. Pretty sure there are a few others in California though.

Anywhere can be a bowling alley so long as you have a bowling ball to throw at stuff.

Like Sink but for people not near any body of water.
#57
Quote from: Frontside Back on July 23, 2019, 07:54:45 PM
No. Literally, brick by brick in mail.

Like how the old London Bridge was moved to Arizona?

SOLD!
#58
Do we really need another holy site?

Heck I've yet to go bowling in Whittier, CA despite constantly planning to do so.
#60
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''The president's not trying to reach his base by denouncing anti-Semitism and asking everybody to rise above hate..."


Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President

I guess this says a lot about Donald Trump's base.