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Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

utofukoku posted:

I don't have any incentive to be nice to anyone, I'm permabanned.

Please seek counseling ChairMaster. Your university has counseling! :(

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Maneck
Sep 11, 2011

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Hey man. We're all kind of damaged here and you seem to be looking for some community to connect with so why not just try to tone the hostility down to like 40% and hang out?

He's permabanned :shrug:

Not even for the fake suicide attempt to win an internet argument (that another poster deserved to die). For the crap he pulled before that.

It's good he is not dead. Now it's time for him to go away.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret

utofukoku posted:

Well unfortunately I'm still alive so you people can stop pretending to give a poo poo about me (e/n post for anyone curious about what happened). Normally I wouldn't bother posting to let anyone know but I actually feel pretty bad for Lightning Knight (and nobody else). I assume this account is going to be permabanned just like my last one and any future ones I make, but I'm not going to do the avshalom thing and pay $10 a day to post in perpetuity. I'm at least glad I could help to get you people to see what a disgusting selfish peice of poo poo pt6a has always been. I hope someone else can bother to call him (and others) out on it in the future since none of you will likely hear from me again.

Glad you are alive, sincerely.

Postess with the Mostest
Apr 4, 2007

Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

utofukoku posted:

I don't have any incentive to be nice to anyone

You could try and see if things go differently, maybe the mods would give you one last chance if you seemed to be genuinely willing to try a different approach to posting?

And I didn't say nice, just not openly hostile directly at the other people you'd like to connect with, the thread still allows hostility at conservatives, gun owners, ipa drinkers, bears, non racialized people, americans and all sorts of other demographics. Normally I'd say that you should sign off politics for a while but it seems being part of an elite shitposting gang would ground you and your opinions aren't far off most peoples here if you could just temper those flare ups.

Maneck
Sep 11, 2011
In actual Canadian political news: a House of Commons committee is studying whether to cut down the 100+ year old tree on the east side of the Parliament buildings. Their most recent scheduled meeting was to discuss the issue, but it was cancelled due to lack of quorum.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/century-old-elm-on-parliament-hill-still-in-limbo

We're left waiting with baited breath to hear the trees fate, and also whether the House of Commons buys the same kind of wood splitter that the BC legislature bought for some reason.

utofukoku
Feb 13, 2019

by FactsAreUseless

Postess with the Mostest posted:

You could try and see if things go differently, maybe the mods would give you one last chance if you seemed to be genuinely willing to try a different approach to posting?

I sincerely doubt that. Not only did the D&D mods want me gone for ages before they got around to justifying a permaban, but they also probably don't want to send the message "all you have to do to get unpermabanned is try to kill yourself".

Math You
Oct 27, 2010

So put your faith
in more than steel
Don't loving try to convince CM to post here. Guy needs to unfucking plug from the internet in a big way.
We're all glad you aren't dead dude! Hope you agree with us on that item sometime soon.

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011
Glad you ain't dead CM sincerely. Do consider whether SA is good for your mental health in general

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

utofukoku posted:

Well unfortunately I'm still alive so you people can stop pretending to give a poo poo about me

I’m genuinely glad to hear it. It feels weird to care about someone I’ve never met, but it happened anyway.

Postess with the Mostest
Apr 4, 2007

Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

utofukoku posted:

I sincerely doubt that. Not only did the D&D mods want me gone for ages before they got around to justifying a permaban, but they also probably don't want to send the message "all you have to do to get unpermabanned is try to kill yourself".

Maybe they'd let you probate yourself to our much better sister thread for a while until everything is smoother? I get why the reaction is to tell you to unplug from politics or the internet for a while but your note really made me wish that we or someone had given you better guidance on how to form these connections that we all seem to enjoy.

utofukoku
Feb 13, 2019

by FactsAreUseless

A Typical Goon posted:

Glad you ain't dead CM sincerely. Do consider whether SA is good for your mental health in general

All this time and people still can't accept that I have reasons to hate myself and my life that have nothing to do with politics or shithead conservatives on the internet.

utofukoku fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Mar 22, 2019

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret

utofukoku posted:

All this time and people still can't accept that I have reasons to hate myself that have nothing to do with politics or shithead conservatives on the internet.

I think the point is it doesn't help.

Postess with the Mostest
Apr 4, 2007

Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

utofukoku posted:

All this time and people still can't accept that I have reasons to hate myself and my life that have nothing to do with politics or shithead conservatives on the internet.

Hating yourself is obviously the main prerequisite to subscribing to this thread because why else

Tsyni
Sep 1, 2004
Lipstick Apathy

utofukoku posted:

Well unfortunately I'm still alive so you people can stop pretending to give a poo poo about me (e/n post for anyone curious about what happened). Normally I wouldn't bother posting to let anyone know but I actually feel pretty bad for Lightning Knight (and nobody else). I assume this account is going to be permabanned just like my last one and any future ones I make, but I'm not going to do the avshalom thing and pay $10 a day to post in perpetuity. I'm at least glad I could help to get you people to see what a disgusting selfish peice of poo poo pt6a has always been. I hope someone else can bother to call him (and others) out on it in the future since none of you will likely hear from me again.

I'm so loving relieved. I hope you continue to live and find some relief for your despair. Truly.

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Lightning Knight posted:

Please seek counseling ChairMaster. Your university has counseling! :(

This.

Math You
Oct 27, 2010

So put your faith
in more than steel
I take it back CM. You dropped in here to tell us all to gently caress off "one last time" yet you can't stop posting. It's pretty clear some people in this thread mean something to you <3

You shouldn't read canpol but you should pm your pals daily

utofukoku
Feb 13, 2019

by FactsAreUseless
I'm sure having someone send people PMs all the time about how much they suck and how stupid they are is exactly the posting environment the mods are looking for.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

utofukoku posted:

Well unfortunately I'm still alive so you people can stop pretending to give a poo poo about me (e/n post for anyone curious about what happened). Normally I wouldn't bother posting to let anyone know but I actually feel pretty bad for Lightning Knight (and nobody else). I assume this account is going to be permabanned just like my last one and any future ones I make, but I'm not going to do the avshalom thing and pay $10 a day to post in perpetuity. I'm at least glad I could help to get you people to see what a disgusting selfish peice of poo poo pt6a has always been. I hope someone else can bother to call him (and others) out on it in the future since none of you will likely hear from me again.

Take it easy man, look after yourself first. You know how it goes with us, we're always gonna be here, angry and Extremely Online.

Dreylad fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Mar 22, 2019

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
I am glad you're alive, CM. I hope you can get the help you need.

I am taking a break from this thread as well. I need some fresh air and this is not a good place for me right now.

Take care of yourselves.

The Butcher
Apr 20, 2005

Well, at least we tried.
Nap Ghost
I'm glad you're not dead CM.

I don't even know you and I was bummed out to think you were.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Arcsquad12 posted:

I am glad you're alive, CM. I hope you can get the help you need.

I am taking a break from this thread as well. I need some fresh air and this is not a good place for me right now.

Take care of yourselves.

Be well, I wish you all the best.

As for you, CM, I am glad to hear you are safe and alive, whatever disputes we’ve had. Please stay safe.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!
I ate a probation in the last thread so I had to wait a little, but I'm glad to hear you're still with us CM. I'd like to think I've been pretty consistent about your value to this thread and this community. Sure you turn up the volume a little higher than most people are comfortable with, but you're usually spot on with the substance.

Don't sell yourself short, you're a smart dude with a lot to offer this place.

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN
CM it's good to see that you're ok and have maintained your characteristically sunny disposition.

Vasler
Feb 17, 2004
Greetings Earthling! Do you have any Zoom Boots?
I'm glad you're okay CM. I'm not a regular poster here but I read the thread regularly.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Vasler posted:

I'm glad you're okay CM. I'm not a regular poster here but I read the thread regularly.

Same. I can't say I agree with most of your opinions but I've been checking the thread regularly for the past couple days hoping you were okay.

Stickarts
Dec 21, 2003

literally

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Hey man. We're all kind of damaged here and you seem to be looking for some community to connect with so why not just try to tone the hostility down to like 40% and hang out?

The number you would pick for this is like a CanPol political compass.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Stickarts posted:

Sad to see the old thread go. There's legit half a decade of really strong effort posts I crib from all the time in there. IDG why CanPol has this reputation for being poisonous. I don't feel like we get any more petty/spiteful than any other thread of longtime users cooped up together? In fact, I feel like there is a cadre of posters who consistently elevate the discourse in a way that other threads just don't have. Wish I had the energy and time to try to add to that more consistently.

And speaking to fiscal matters - yeah, I have personally run the gamut. Homeless for a few months, working 60 hour weeks in the trades at just above minimum wage, lived for years in poverty - and directly adjacent to the more hardcore, transgenerational, racialised poverty, and now I have joined the middle class as a teacher. Life is fundamentally different on the bottom rungs in a way you simply can't begin to understand unless you have experienced it. There is a sense of hopelessness and desperation - like you're trapped at a bottom of a well looking up at the sky - that filters through into pretty much every life decision and thought process you make.

I make~75th percentile provincial wage now, and I almost feel guilty. Still haven't gotten used to the instant comfort my salary offers me, and frankly I hope I never do. All those stressors and fears and "oh I guess I'm having water and rice for supper again" nights just disappear. I don't have to make 5 dollars stretch at the grocery store. I just buy what I want, and if I am a little short at the end of the month, well I just dip into a savings account that I literally never had before.



The fact that isolation/mental health/poverty are all intimately tied up together seems blindingly self-evident to me.

Yeah, I'm Bipolar and in the past few years I've been the whole spectrum of depressed to manic. Over the course of that I've gone from periods of making around the median family income while living alone and being on social assistance. While I have money the depression isn't really an issue, there's good days and bad days but overall it's okay. When I've got no money every moment is a living hell. Being depressed and having to ask my parents for money to buy a bag of rice or whatever is probably the worst and most isolated I've ever felt in my entire life. The idea of interacting with people is dreadful in a way you can't explain without having been there.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

utofukoku posted:

Well unfortunately I'm still alive so you people can stop pretending to give a poo poo about me (e/n post for anyone curious about what happened). Normally I wouldn't bother posting to let anyone know but I actually feel pretty bad for Lightning Knight (and nobody else). I assume this account is going to be permabanned just like my last one and any future ones I make, but I'm not going to do the avshalom thing and pay $10 a day to post in perpetuity. I'm at least glad I could help to get you people to see what a disgusting selfish peice of poo poo pt6a has always been. I hope someone else can bother to call him (and others) out on it in the future since none of you will likely hear from me again.

I won't pretend anything. I don't really know you and it would be lying to say anything you do has a massive effect on my life. What I will say is that I've hanged myself and been cut down just after losing consciousness. The ensuing involuntary psych ward stay made me realize nobody was going to fix my poo poo except me. You're free to make your own choices but poo poo can be fixed if you want it, and if you're willing to work at it. If you've got the energy to make up that elaborate exit plan you've got the energy to at least make things better in your own head. There's people who can point you in the right direction but at the end of the day it's work that you do on yourself.

T8R
Aug 9, 2005
Yes, I would like some tea!
Hey CM. I'm glad you're not dead. I'm sorry if I said any mean words that may have contributed to your depression. I was severely depressed for years, a long time ago, and it has been so long I've almost forgotten what it feels like. You need serious help, your mind is trying to kill you, your thoughts are not your own. Depression is like being trapped in a cave surrounded by people outside in the sun. Nobody in the cave understands how the others outside feel, and vice versa. There is happiness in the world, but you must work to attain it. I never understood true happiness while I was depressed, and it's difficult to understand true depression now that I'm fine. If you try, and I mean really try, every day, for months, and years, you can be okay. I know you must think it sounds stupid and impossible, because I know that when you're depressed your mind will fight you every step of the way, but you can change for the better. I found a way out of the cave and never looked back.

I do like your angry posts; I may not agree with the extent of your anger at times, but I find value in what you say. The left in society needs to express more anger. Anger motivates people into words or action, and we desperately need more of both. You need to recognize the value within yourself, even from seemingly negative things. Please fix your brain, you may find yourself of great value to many people in the future; despite what you believe now. You must take care of yourself before you can care for others. Strength of will is built over time, and I've found recovering from depression has left me with an incredible will power over my thoughts and actions, and I'm able to help and care for many others around me. I'm never going to stop trying to improve myself. Maybe some day I can do great things for society itself, or maybe not, but who knows what the future holds? Traveling this path has been very rewarding for my mental health, and I wouldn't change anything. I may not be depressed anymore, but the anger I felt(and still feel) towards the state of society motivates me to this day. I hope one day you too can feel this drive.

Please stop trying to end life angry canpol goon.

*edit* You can PM me with your miserable thoughts, depression isn't contagious.

T8R fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Mar 22, 2019

NZAmoeba
Feb 14, 2005

It turns out it's MAN!
Hair Elf

Lightning Knight posted:

I am overwhelmingly glad to hear this but also gently caress you. :mad:

Yo I'd just like to say that you and the other mods busted your asses to try and help someone in dire, urgent need. I can't imagine how it felt trying to piece together enough information to be actionable, knowing the clock was ticking. You just wanted to bbe a moderator, I doubt you ever envisioned this.

Thank you.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
I hope you get help and feel better CM. You realized you didn’t want to go forward with the bag, so go forward with something else that will help you feel better.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!
Go forward with legal weed. It helps. A lot.

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
I'm glad you're not dead, ChairMaster. I hope you can find some happiness in your life. It might take rage quitting certain aspects of it, but throwing in the towel all together isn't productive.

Do stop reading this thread. This place isn't healthy. PT6A isn't the only loving horrible cretin in this thread, and no good comes from posting here. I'm a much happier person for not posting here anymore and only occasionally skimming it. In fact, I don't think I'd read canpol in almost a week when a fellow goon and IRL friend of mine mentioned over dinner tonight that the thread had been shut down for extreme shittiness considered excessive even for this terrible lot.

To the rest of you, it's nice to see that you're finally giving up the multi page derails where you essentially label as subhuman anyone who has the gall to have a career outside white collar high income STEM related fields and/or living outside of the small handful of central metropolitan areas you've decided are acceptable, and have also stopped making GBS threads on the idea that perhaps the societal costs of poverty life insecurity and income disparity among other things do play a part in the current woes of our society, including people turning inwards toward the negative aspects of human behaviour. Watching this thread time and time again act like certain members of society were just intrinsically worthless was extremely infuriating. That combined with my own life's problems led me to use this thread as an outlet for that frustration and turned me into a shitposter I just didn't want to be.

But that doesn't change that canpol is bad for the soul. Finding out that ChairMaster was still alive was the only silver lining to discovering that by 'canpol was shut down' it just meant the old thread was closed and a new one immediately opened. I was hoping for the subject of Canadian politics itself was just scrubbed from SA.

Because this forum would be better for it.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Hey CM in case you come back to read these posts, I just want to speak from the heart and not shitpost for a minute.

I'm really glad you're not dead. I know you have problems with depression and have a hard time believing other people care, but I've been worried sick the last couple of days hoping to hear something from you, here or in E/N or through one of the mods or anything. We may only know each other from this weird little CanPol community, but I always liked you and your angry posts. It was nice to see someone actually give a poo poo about the issues that are so important and that our country tends to be overwhelmingly blase about, from poverty to climate change.

I read through some of your post history to try and understand what was happening, and I'm really, really sorry to hear about the problems you've been having with mental health. I've been extremely fortunate in my life not to have major problems with mental illness (yet), though my dad has severe depression as well and I've seen him suffer with it for decades. It sounds like the worst experience in the entire world to be that depressed, to feel that worthless and hopeless. You may not believe this, but your brain is lying to you. You have worth, you have things to offer the world, and the world has things to offer you too, even if you haven't found them yet. If nothing else, we need a few more people like you who are willing to rage against the dying of the light instead of meekly go forward into armageddon.

I really sincerely hope that you get better. Your brain may be trying to kill you, but despite that you deserve happiness just as much as anyone else, and there has to be somewhere out there that you can find it. I know you've been permabanned from here, but if you ever register another account to lurk and not get banned again, feel free to PM me to talk anytime. Hell, you can send me nothing but angry rants and I'll still be happy to talk to you. I promise I won't snitch.

Your depression doesn't define who you are, and you can beat it. I believe in you.

Normy
Jul 1, 2004

Do I Krushchev?


Don't know if you'll see this but I'm glad you're alive also CM!

Rime
Nov 2, 2011

by Games Forum
I know D&D can be read without an account, not sure about E/N so I'll cross post this here.

I was exactly where you are in 2014. If you don't have the remaining headspace to handle it personally anymore, please check into ER and get ultra-help. There's solutions which aren't just death.

There's good reasons to live, and that's coming from me. :cmon:

Silver Spooner
Jun 10, 2013
I’m also more a lurker than a poster but it is good to see you’re still around CM, you fly off the handle with your post sometimes but you also break up the echo chamber doing it and that’s not a bad thing.

Maybe don’t read canpol though, there is an awful lot of despair in here and that can’t help.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

https://twitter.com/gilmcgowan/status/1108964053802586112
lollll

TrueChaos
Nov 14, 2006




Also happy to see that CM is still alive.

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Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

utofukoku posted:

Well unfortunately I'm still alive so you people can stop pretending to give a poo poo about me (e/n post for anyone curious about what happened). Normally I wouldn't bother posting to let anyone know but I actually feel pretty bad for Lightning Knight (and nobody else). I assume this account is going to be permabanned just like my last one and any future ones I make, but I'm not going to do the avshalom thing and pay $10 a day to post in perpetuity. I'm at least glad I could help to get you people to see what a disgusting selfish peice of poo poo pt6a has always been. I hope someone else can bother to call him (and others) out on it in the future since none of you will likely hear from me again.

utofukoku posted:

I'm sure having someone send people PMs all the time about how much they suck and how stupid they are is exactly the posting environment the mods are looking for.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Don't die internet poster :unsmith: Trolling PT6A is always cool and good, now go talk to people IRL.

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