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Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

WampaLord posted:

Did you miss the "do the right thing once in power" part? I think that would imply I'm not lusting for some nebulous "elite" to rule us.

And yes, marketing can't be escaped, it is a loving fact of life now. LOOK AROUND YOU.

So marketing is literally indestructible. My god.

Okay, you don't know what "elite" means. Here's a hint- putting power in the hands of a small group of people who will make the right decisions- that group of people is called an "elite".

The Kingfish posted:

It's the theory of how our political system, a republic, is supposed to work.

And seriously lol that you don't understand how all marketing and advertising is dishonest. It explains a lot.

No, that's not how most theories of democracy work, but it is nice to see you reveal that you're a conservative.

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WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Brainiac Five posted:

Okay, you don't know what "elite" means. Here's a hint- putting power in the hands of a small group of people who will make the right decisions- that group of people is called an "elite".

So you want to abandon the concept of representative democracy? We should let literally anyone make laws?

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
berniefan five

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

WampaLord posted:

So you want to abandon the concept of representative democracy? We should let literally anyone make laws?

Well, WampaLord, you oligarchic semen stain, most theories of representative democracy do not suggest electing a heavenly superperson who will behave morally, but on the people exerting power to push their representatives to act in accordance with their will beyond merely voting. That you are unable to grasp this concept is very telling.

Rodatose posted:

berniefan five

Don't you have a museum to burn down somewhere, Rodatose?

Call Me Charlie
Dec 3, 2005

by Smythe
177 new posts, something really interesting must have happened...

rudatron posted:

Why are you guys still arguing with b5? Do you think you're going to achieve anything?

Look at his behavior, as an outsider. Is anything he's done the actions of a man with integrity? Look at how quickly he dismissed anything that actually threatens him. What hope do you have, of holding him to account, when he doesn't do that for himself?

There's nothing you can say or do, that can compel him to act with dignity.

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Call Me Charlie posted:

177 new posts, something really interesting must have happened...

So when you say you're anti-immigrant, do you support ICE, or do you prefer a sort of "compassionate deportation"?

White Rock
Jul 14, 2007
Creativity flows in the bored and the angry!

Brainiac Five posted:

So when you say you're anti-immigrant, do you support ICE, or do you prefer a sort of "compassionate deportation"?

Absolutely no one has said that, so you must be extremely stupid or angry to have interpreted posts to read this.

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

White Rock posted:

Absolutely no one has said that, so you must be extremely stupid or angry to have interpreted posts to read this.

He has said it in a post which I linked, and I am curious as to how far morality restrains his evil desires.

White Rock
Jul 14, 2007
Creativity flows in the bored and the angry!

Brainiac Five posted:

He has said it in a post which I linked, and I am curious as to how far morality restrains his evil desires.

Nobody has said that. If you want to lie repeatedly C-SPAM is over there.

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
looks like someone's got a case of the "bernie sadnerds".

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

White Rock posted:

Nobody has said that. If you want to lie repeatedly C-SPAM is over there.

:wrong:

Call Me Charlie posted:

You've been reading (and making fun of) my posts for two years now and you still haven't put together the puzzle pieces to realize that I'm a union bred Democrat that heavily anti-free trade/immigration?

Granted, you're just masturbating now, but I hope some lurker appreciates my willingness to strive against this boulder and shove it to the top of this hill.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

*gets shoved into a cattle car with the other gays, and the abortionists, unmarried mothers, Muslims, dopers, pacifists, immigrants, pornographers, evolutionists, climate scientists, and every black person who looked sideways at a cop*
"Well well well, when the suburban Republicans hear of this, they'll rethink whether their tax cut was really worth it. Aaaaaaany minute now....."

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
other people help me workshop a good username that will be forced on brainiac five

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

VitalSigns posted:

*gets shoved into a cattle car with the other gays, and the abortionists, unmarried mothers, Muslims, dopers, pacifists, immigrants, pornographers, evolutionists, climate scientists, and every black person who looked sideways at a cop*
"Well well well, when the suburban Republicans hear of this, they'll rethink whether their tax cut was worth it. Aaaaaaany minute now....."

I mean, y'all Bernies call gay liberation identity politics and pal around with open transphobes, so I can expect to be exterminated by you guys too. So this delightfully tasteful post kind of falls flat.

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Rodatose posted:

other people help me workshop a good username that will be forced on brainiac five

So did you decide the level of physical damage that working as a trucker would inflict on your body was expiation of your guilt for being born relatively well-off, or were you not thinking that far ahead?

White Rock
Jul 14, 2007
Creativity flows in the bored and the angry!

Just learning from the best.

Brainiac Five posted:

Ah, the real antiracism doesn't care about racism as a structure, it only cares about colorblind policies.


Absolutely no one has said that, so you must be extremely stupid or angry to have interpreted posts to read this.

Brainiac Five posted:

Nobody has said that. If you want to lie repeatedly C-SPAM is over there.


See, you get people's hopes up with the prospect of wealth taxation and then you scuttle back down to the self-loathing liberalism of "let's raise the minimum wage while calling John Lewis a neoliberal shillary".

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

Doc Hawkins posted:

You thought calling people "people" was the rear end in a top hat move? Where did you get this idea?

Because it's redundant. By definition, a human regardless of race is a person. If you're adding it as a qualifier, it's because you need to remind yourself that that is what other races are; people.

In Canada, we call people what they call themselves. I have never heard PoC used outside of a US context, and then only by whites, and politicians at that.
Given that I don't watch television, I'm sure other people might use it, but that has been my experience thus far since following USPOL and D&D in general.

Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jun 5, 2017

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

White Rock posted:

Just learning from the best.

So, you have no desire to do anything but cyber with other Bernie-or-busters online, but in a public enough way so as to inflict it on other people. Fricked up.

White Rock
Jul 14, 2007
Creativity flows in the bored and the angry!

Rodatose posted:

other people help me workshop a good username that will be forced on brainiac five

Better idea, we can use the names for the bot that auto replies Brainiac with a Braniac quote. It would be 90% like the genuine article.

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
hoooooly poo poo 'level of physical damage it will inflict on your body'

"doing work that isn't a desk job will fuckin kill you dude!!!!"

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Mister Facetious posted:

In Canada, we call people what they call themselves. I have never heard PoC used outside of a US context, and then only by whites, and politicians at that.

Hmmmm

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
i touched the crystals of corruption of 'job' and now i'm a dark half-elf. read my really bad fantasy writing

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Rodatose posted:

hoooooly poo poo 'level of physical damage it will inflict on your body'

"doing work that isn't a desk job will fuckin kill you dude!!!!"

Most truckers develop serious health issues from long hours spent in a sitting position, just like most desk workers do. Anyways, screeching about how anyone who doesn't agree with you must be rich is really telling for how much you respect the idea of freedom of expression, since you obviously believe it's an inane fantasy. Or else you're flailing for a way to attack me.

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Brainiac Five posted:

Most truckers develop serious health issues from long hours spent in a sitting position

Jesus how many STD's did you give them

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

EugeneJ posted:

Jesus how many STD's did you give them

And of course Rodatose will say not a word against the guy calling someone a gay prostitute as an insult, because it doesn't compare to being mean to Bernie Sanders voters.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

You got me. I have literally never heard a person say "I'm British Isles."

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
i cast a wizard spell of protection. i know in all likelihood, the bernieorcs will gather together into their snarling packs at any moment now to tear me asunder. the least I can do is make it a fair fight.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

Rodatose posted:

i cast a wizard spell of protection. i know in all likelihood, the bernieorcs will gather together into their snarling packs at any moment now to tear me asunder. the least I can do is make it a fair fight.

I would've gone with BugBernies (bugbear)

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
The cool thing is that when you guys flock around and refuse to condemn EugeneJ and other bigoted posters, you give them a safe space for them to practice bigotry, which is fine if you only want minorities who are fine with other minorities being abused because they're hypothetically employed at a desk job or whatever. Maybe not so good if you want people with actual moral principles in your movement.

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Rodatose posted:

i cast a wizard spell of protection. i know in all likelihood, the bernieorcs will gather together into their snarling packs at any moment now to tear me asunder. the least I can do is make it a fair fight.

Hey Rodatose, is calling someone gay and a prostitute acceptable as an insult or not? I'm guessing you think it's OK judging from your smarmy little post here but I'm curious if you've got the guts to say so outright.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Brainiac Five posted:

The cool thing is that when you guys flock around and refuse to condemn EugeneJ and other bigoted posters, you give them a safe space for them to practice bigotry, which is fine if you only want minorities who are fine with other minorities being abused because they're hypothetically employed at a desk job or whatever. Maybe not so good if you want people with actual moral principles in your movement.

Do you think minorities are being shoved out of the party due to some people posting on the Something Awful forums?

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

WampaLord posted:

Do you think minorities are being shoved out of the party due to some people posting on the Something Awful forums?

So, in your mind, homophobia is only bad if it pushes people out of the Democratic Party, but is fine otherwise. Honest.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Brainiac Five posted:

So, in your mind, homophobia is only bad if it pushes people out of the Democratic Party, but is fine otherwise. Honest.

We were actually having a semi-good-faith discussion, but I'll stop now.

Yes, I actually hate gay people, you figured it out. :rolleyes:

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

WampaLord posted:

We were actually having a semi-good-faith discussion, but I'll stop now.

No, why is it only relevant if it "pushes people out of the party"? Why isn't homophobia something worth countering in and of itself?

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
i'm a gay prostitute, thank you for your concerns on behalf of my peoples. we need all the help we can get

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Mister Facetious posted:

You got me. I have literally never heard a person say "I'm British Isles."

The point was you're from a country that's 92% white, which might have something to do with why you've never heard the term.

Come to the Southern US, black people, hispanic people, etc refer to themselves as people of color all the time. :shrug:

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Brainiac Five posted:

No, why is it only relevant if it "pushes people out of the party"? Why isn't homophobia something worth countering in and of itself?

You have fun fighting the good fight against homophobia by condemning 2 or 3 people on a dying comedy forum, I'm sure that's productive.

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Rodatose posted:

i'm a gay prostitute, thank you for your concerns on behalf of my peoples. we need all the help we can get

Okay, so you're willing to excuse anything EugeneJ does so long as it attacks me in some way. Well, that certainly says quite a lot about your commitment to gay people, trans people, etc. Hell, probably any minorities, since all it takes is for one of them to insult your pwecious Bewnie Sandews and you'll forgive anything.

WampaLord posted:

You have fun fighting the good fight against homophobia by condemning 2 or 3 people on a dying comedy forum, I'm sure that's productive.

See, you think homophobia is sometimes OK to let slide, so you're willing to create safe spaces for bigotry. You may or may not hate gay people, but you'll certainly let people who do spew their hatred freely.

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
sex things should not be used as jokes. that is why it's only with the most solemn face that I tell you all braniac five was caught doing sex things with a cd-rom of civilization 2 in a broom closet when they were a teen and their posting today reflects the tragic fact that they have never been able to surmount the all-suffusing shame they felt in that moment

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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Rodatose posted:

i'm a gay prostitute, thank you for your concerns on behalf of my peoples. we need all the help we can get

I'm actually kind of insulted that B5 is claiming that anyone sucking off truckers is doing it for money

Some of us just do it for fun

:colbert:

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