The trick to socialized healthcare is to set it up and then immediately work to institute a culture that stigmatizes anyone who goes to the doctor as a pussy. Write them negative reports at their job, have their peers judge them for weakness, and make sure that every boss suspects that their employee is trying to sham out. That way you keep costs and waiting times down because a million people won't go in for their sniffles.

They'll get over their respiratory infection or sprained wrist by sucking it up and eating over the counter Motrin like candy or drinking a fuckload of water, building character as they go. Alternatively, people learn basic medical skills and treat themselves and their buddies with household equipment.

Literally can't go wrong.

Literally:

@VilageidiotxWell I'd prefer it be about neither. But as I said, I don't want any animosity either. Not worth it. Sorry if I upset you at all. Though I think we got as far as we really can. Because we randomally started discussing canada, and that literally started from nowhere. And we just happen to have quite different opinions, of things even non-policy related like how to properly debate. I think agreeing to disagree and ending it would be best. :P

Works for me.

I recently wrote a detailed post for another site containing lore for my fictional nation. I had poured a lot of time, energy and creativity into this. I was content at it being done and eager to release the info. All was lost when it failed a security check for some inexplicable reason.

@Tulpa Hmm...kind of don't want to touch this with a 40 foot pole. But I will interject with certain things...(God dammit, why is it already back to this topic? This is not the point of the thread. >.<)

Well, people that write books like the SCUM Manifesto. And how violently aggressive many can be, wanting to ban freedom of expression or speech, with hashtags #killallmen. And the like, yes sometimes they can go a touch to far...

The problem is, everyone already does, and there's already laws protecting this very thing. What makes someone a SJW is when you clearly don't seem to realize this. And when This is constantly being actually said by people who genuinely believe such ridiculous statements, when they also completely ignore the actual oppressive third world countries. There's far too much to explain, than I feel like doing on why that term has become such a joke.

Gamergate did not even start because of sexism, which shows how little many people actually know about it. So it's almost not worth getting into, but I'll briefly clarify. It started because of corruption in games media and they were proven quite right, by how many articles tried to spam how many carbon copy articles about 'gamers' being dead that came out during it. Shit like, Back in 2007, when GameSpot writer Jeff Gerstmann left the site over being fired over the result of pressure from a games publisher over a negative review of Kane & Lynch. It happened all the time, media in games journalism was beyond corrupt. It didn't help when people like Anita spread wildly easily proven false statements, making the games journo's also try to paint everyone who plays games, as sexist. Seeming to ignore the wide variety of people, of races, gender, age, and sexual orientation that played and enjoyed them.

Yes, trolls exist, a shitty fact of life and no one likes getting trolled, but it's the internet and at some point, you do need to grow the hell up and ignore first world problems, you can only let words offend you if you let them. I like people in general, man and women. Because I suppose to could call me an egalitarian. It's a frankly absurd statement to make. Because just because everyone loves animals, that doesn't mean you have to support the kind of lunacy people like PETA spew on a constant basis for desperate needs for attention.

You'd bet wrong, popular people that criticize and produce whole series why modern feminism has gone wrong, has and read a bunch of feminist novels. People like Sargon of Akkad on YouTube. Which is another reason, why I don't want to get in this debate when others have already done most of the work. I'd rather not get into this AGAIN.

You're on the internet...and as terrible as you think it might be, most people on here aren't trolls. And are AT LEAST socially liberal. (including myself.) If not left leaning politically. So, creativity has honestly nothing to do with it. But I do think this site has plenty of wonderful people on it. But, I just think topics like this are better left undiscussed because it frankly is already been talked about to death.

I hate it when people cry "harassment" when met with a dissenting opinion in an attempt to shut down debate and silence their critics.

Seriously, words like "harassment" and "victim" have lost so much meaning in the past few years.

I hate it when people cry "harassment" when met with a dissenting opinion in an attempt to shut down debate and silence their critics.

Seriously, words like "harassment" and "victim" have lost so much meaning in the past few years.

i feel like i am the victim of this harassment right now

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i feel like i am the victim of this harassment right now

villageplz

I can only donate to so many patreons

@Vilageidiotx I'd like to formally apologize...I didn't realize how fast it would go back to this topic. -.-

@Vilageidiotx I'd like to formally apologize...I didn't realize how fast it would go back to this topic. -.-

We can't get away from SJW's in this thread. I think a witch put a hex on or it or some shit. The internet is so angrily obsessed with those girls you'd think we're in the hate stage of some internet-wide romantic comedy. At the end, I think Gamergate and the SJW's are going to get married.

@Vilageidiotx The internet basically is a like a long comedy movie and all the people watching. I've already dealt with enough crybabies on the internet to last a lifetime. (and I'm not even talking about SJW's or anything having to do with them.)

How about we all complain about things not related to politics? :D Like here, its snowing here and yesterday it was 70 degree's, my state's weather is fucked, including everything else in this state...

Now it's your turn peoples. You can doo iit, I believe you all of you. ^3^

How about we all complain about things not related to politics? :D Like here, its snowing here and yesterday it was 70 degree's, my state's weather is fucked, including everything else in this state...

That's funny, yesterday it was snowing here and now it's like 70 degrees F. Why does weather gotta be like this

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I'm sitting here really, really, really hoping that you consider rape and death threats as harassment. If you seriously don't consider that harassment... then I think they have watchlists for people like you.

I consider mass amounts of CREDIBLE rape/death threats, coming from one source, as harassment. I do not consider single comments from several non-connected people as harassment, nor do I consider random trolls leaving comments like "zomg im gon raep ye" as credible threats.

Though if you seriously believe me to be some kind of rapist in the making, then fine, report me to the proper authorities and see what they do. Hint: They won't do jack shit.

Also, I find it quite strange that people like you harp on about the "death threats" women on the internet get, no matter how benign, yet you're very silent on men getting these same threats, credible or no.

I consider mass amounts of CREDIBLE rape/death threats, coming from one source, as harassment. I do not consider single comments from several non-connected people as harassment, nor do I consider random trolls leaving comments like "zomg im gon raep ye" as credible threats.

Can I ask what you think is "credible"? When does a threat become worth action?

also I like how you said "people like you"

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Can I ask what you think is "credible"? When does a threat become worth action?

also I like how you said "people like you"

A credible threat is one in which the one issuing the threat has apparent ability to carry out the actions detailed in their threats. If, say, the aggressor is proven to be in the same general area(state, city, etc), or perhaps has a photograph of the possible victim's house(in that case it would need to be proven that the aggressor was the one that took the photo. If they had not, and just dug it up from some image site, it's unlikely that they would actually know where the victim lives.

If local/state/federal authorities can put these factors together and determine that the aggressor has such apparent ability, then the threat(s) is credible. Random Billy Bob in Texas anonymously sending a five-word tweet to Journalist-A in Canada won't hold much water.

@Frizan

Your response is very typical. Why should I expect any different? You are manipulative, which I very much hope is because deep inside you feel wrong about this, so you are compelled to shove words into my mouth to make it look like I was saying stuff that I didn't actually say. To be frank, that is very slimy behavior.

The fuck????

I shoved no words into your mouth. Your "watchlist" comment felt like it very much implied something along the lines of lists of sexual predators or some such. Sorry if I mistook the meaning of what you said, but you don't need to respond with such vitriol.