B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

[Multifarious]

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I actually like Obama, and I didn't vote for the guy. I disagree with him strongly on plenty of things, but the way he has handled himself is respectable in my opinion. I suppose I don't believe somebody has to be my ideal candidate for me to like them. And also, having grown up politically in the Bush years, it isn't going to take much to impress me anyway.

And no, it won't magically give them a perfectly equal shot, but it will give them the resources to make a real effort. The internet has helped a lot in evening the playing ground for people like Sanders or Paul, and their popularity on the internet does seem to show that their messages resonate if they can be heard. The media is corrupt only in the sense that they speak the duel language of money and popularity, and if you took the power of a Clinton or a Trump to dominate through their checkbooks, I think good candidates would get the ability to get their name out their on their own terms, and that from there they'd be able to make up the difference through their policies and personalities.

@Vilageidiotx

^

This I can vouch for.

[SleepingSilence]

@Vilageidiotx I mean it's not exactly a myth. Corporations elect the politicians, and they give them the subsides and etc. Taxes kill them too. It's why so many businesses go elsewhere. To just give you better information then I can provide, I'll just send you a link. XP

breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/1.. (This is quite long but it has a lot of information on what I mentioned, has several useful links.)

[SleepingSilence]

@Ace of Hearts Hi again. How are you? :P

[Vilageidiotx]

@Vilageidiotx I mean it's not exactly a myth. Corporations elect the politicians, and they give them the subsides and etc. Taxes kill them too. It's why so many businesses go elsewhere. To just give you better information then I can provide, I'll just send you a link. XP

breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/1.. (This is quite long but it has a lot of information on what I mentioned, has several useful links.)

@SleepingSilence

I ain't feeling that link, yo. When your news site's first category is called "Big government", imma assume this is some batboy level journalism. Finding some info about the people who funded and wrote this article says... yeh, you done been played, brother.

So yes, its a myth for the reasons I outlined before. If a big business got such an edge over small business because of regulation, those small businesses wouldn't be able to compete in a free market.

[SleepingSilence]

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I actually like Obama, and I didn't vote for the guy. I disagree with him strongly on plenty of things, but the way he has handled himself is respectable in my opinion. I suppose I don't believe somebody has to be my ideal candidate for me to like them. And also, having grown up politically in the Bush years, it isn't going to take much to impress me anyway.

And no, it won't magically give them a perfectly equal shot, but it will give them the resources to make a real effort. The internet has helped a lot in evening the playing ground for people like Sanders or Paul, and their popularity on the internet does seem to show that their messages resonate if they can be heard. The media is corrupt only in the sense that they speak the duel language of money and popularity, and if you took the power of a Clinton or a Trump to dominate through their checkbooks, I think good candidates would get the ability to get their name out their on their own terms, and that from there they'd be able to make up the difference through their policies and personalities.

@Vilageidiotx

I guess the only real thing I can say in defensive for Obama. (and Bush.) Is it's a lot damn harder being president than people think it is...Other than that, the whole "they are both stupid" argument is preposterous. Yeah, Bush got "C'S" Yuk yuk. At Yale, a prestigious college where you most likely would never be accepted into. I suppose a lot of reasons why people "hate" them are quite poor and invalid reasons.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148744/D..
Or things like Ted Cruz is Canadian, or Obama had Muslim parents. That kind of meaningless B.S. But, what is politics without stupidity?

I mean if you believe that, I understand why you support him. I can't really confirm or deny speculation.

[SleepingSilence]

@Vilageidiotx Don't focus on the link itself, focus on the several accurate studies inside the link. You cannot automatically assume based on their polictical affliation that you can't have accurate information. Ignoring evidence will never get political discussion anywhere. xP
defendmainstreet.com/wp-content/upload..
cei.org/blog/bureaucracy-unbound-2015-..
If the other link scares you too much. I'm willing to post others. Don't worry they don't bite. :P

[Vilageidiotx]

@Vilageidiotx Don't focus on the link itself, focus on the several accurate studies inside the link. You cannot automatically assume based on their polictical affliation that you can't have accurate information. Ignoring evidence will never get political discussion anywhere. xP

@SleepingSilence

You can though. If somebody doesn't gut that article before I come back to work, I'll do it. But I don't quite have time right now because i'm a tad busy. But yeh, I did read the article, and it's pretty bad.

[SleepingSilence]

@Vilageidiotx Mmm. I don't believe you though. *wags finger* You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. My roommate is also very closely related to a small business in the area and he always tell me in board meetings he goes to how much they get screwed over. But I has a feeling this won't get too much farther. Because I'd like to pretend I'm too busy to discuss politics because they can become quite tedious to discuss. :P

Also god dammit I didn't want these too STILL be about politics. Lol.

Quick, someone change the subject. XD

[Multifarious]

Quick, someone change the subject. XD

@SleepingSilence

I'd like to know how one acquires alternating sigs. Is it a thing you get from winning one of the contests, or am I missing something in the instruction manual?

[SleepingSilence]

@Multifarious Well I know it's not something you have to win. It's some kind of coding thing. But I can't quite help you on the specifics. Sadly. :c I will look it up though because I am curious myself. I'll get back to you, if I'm not beaten to the punch. :3

Edit: sig.grumpybumpers.com Here's a site that will do it. Just create as username/pass. And it will give you the ability to post multiple links. And as long as the preview shows them. All you do, is post that link plus. "[img]" in your "signature" and you should be able to have multiple sig's now. Welcome. xP

[Multifarious]

@Multifarious Well I know it's not something you have to win. It's some kind of coding thing. But I can't quite help you on the specifics. Sadly. :c I will look it up though because I am curious myself. I'll get back to you, if I'm not beaten to the punch. :3

Edit: sig.grumpybumpers.com Here's a site that will do it. Just create as username/pass. And it will give you the ability to post multiple links. And as long as the preview shows them. All you do, is post that link plus. ">snipped quote<" in your "signature" and you should be able to have multiple sig's now. Welcome. xP

@SleepingSilence

Wow. Well, what do you know? I'll have to try that out when I get a free moment. Thanks for the information, my friend. Given that you can see my current sig, I'm absolutely certain you have confidence that I'll put it to good use.

[SleepingSilence]

@MultifariousJust a warning its only pictures that it works for, not text. So hope that's what you were looking for. :c

[Sombrero]

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I have never before heard of sandwich sex. What site did you see me on?

@Mardox

I'd like to think that's been a prominent point in the portayal of my forum persona over on that magical beige-colored plane, but perhaps I didn't get to show that as often as I'd hoped.

[Mardox]

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I'd like to think that's been a prominent point in the portayal of my forum persona over on that magical beige-colored plane, but perhaps I didn't get to show that as often as I'd hoped.

@Sombrero

Magical beige-colored plane?

[Sombrero]

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Magical beige-colored plane?

@Mardox

The one with the Penguinite clone army, brony dragons, and wolf-gods in i-
Nevermind, I should probably stop derailing the thread when it's very possible that you were just being impersonated by Hardox and Bardox the whole time... I'm not insane, this was all an actual thing that happened on the internet.

Re-rail pls no lock:

You know what I hate? That one Animal Crossing game. Actually, I hate all of them. Especially their attempt at Mario Party.

[Mardox]

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The one with the Penguinite clone army, brony dragons, and wolf-gods in i-
Nevermind, I should probably stop derailing the thread when it's very possible that you were just being impersonated by Hardox and Bardox the whole time... I'm not insane, this was all an actual thing that happened on the internet.

Re-rail pls no lock:

You know what I hate? That one Animal Crossing game. Actually, I hate all of them. Especially their attempt at Mario Party.

@Sombrero

Oh yeah that place.... I sort of went full immersion with the character of Mardox on that site just to see what it would be like if an ancient Dark Lord was goofing off on the internet. Quite a few of them hated me.

[Shorticus]

You know what I hate? That one Animal Crossing game. Actually, I hate all of them. Especially their attempt at Mario Party.

I hate Animal Crossing

[Sombrero]

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Oh yeah that place.... I sort of went full immersion with the character of Mardox on that site just to see what it would be like if an ancient Dark Lord was goofing off on the internet. Quite a few of them hated me.

@Mardox

Quite a few of them thought you went insane, since it was so difficult to get you on the same plane of in-character that we were on at first... That feel when you try to conquer the land, but the land conquers you.

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@Shorticus

NO! I will stand my ground! I will not be oppressed by the legion of Animal Crossings! I will also never explain myself because then we can both be very irritated with each other and it will be something worth bitching about!

[Mardox]

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Quite a few of them thought you went insane, since it was so difficult to get you on the same plane of in-character that we were on at first... That feel when you try to conquer the land, but the land conquers you.

@Sombrero

Yeah, like I said: full immersion. If I had shown myself to not believe I was what I claimed to be then the experiment would have been ruined.

[Ebonsquire]

Going to college soon, so my qualm is pretty relevant.

Fucking safe spaces. Fuck anyone who conceived and put the idea in motion.