Political speculation on FIREFLY
POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Thursday, April 7, 2005 23:51
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I’ve always thought of the Alliance as being something like the Soviet Union, and the crew of the Firefly being something like Georgian Gypsies. I know that there’s supposed to be a Reconstruction Era theme to it, but I just like to modernize my view of it.
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PurpleBelly wrote:
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something, something... set the hook, let the big fish run until it tires itself out, and then don't even bother reeling it in, just drag it along after the boat and let the dockhands haul its carcass up onto the pier.
Then, have your picture taken alongside it, grinning madly from ear to ear, with a big stogie in yer mouth!
Hey, 'Belly! How they hangin'?
You know if there's one thing I love better than one group of propaganda-hoodwinked 'believers' taking potshots at the other group of propaganda-ecstatic 'individualists', its watching them sneer, "My Dad is bigger than your Dad!", "My Dad could beat the crap out of your Dad!" at each other.
I predict someone will shortly storm off in a huff...
Apolitically,
zoid
P.S.
Really is good hearing from you again, friend. I thought we'd lost you to the NOB forever.
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Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
Does anyone even remember who Osama Bin Laden is, and yet he supposedly is why all this started?
He's been neutered! He has no power! He's liveing in a cave somewhere! And he's not a martyr! What more could you ask for?
I want him captured or dead, like the President promised.
For the history buffs.
Read some of the platforms of the southern states for the 1860 election. A major plank in most is the continuation of Slavery. Yes the Civil War was about States Rights, but Slavery was a States Rights issue.
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Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
Does anyone even remember who Osama Bin Laden is, and yet he supposedly is why all this started?
He's been neutered! He has no power! He's liveing in a cave somewhere! And he's not a martyr! What more could you ask for?
How about Justice.
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Originally posted by Veteran:
I want him captured or dead.
Would be nice, but then he'd be a martyr!....But it would still be nice!!
-Ratboy
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Originally posted by GreenFaerie:
How about Justice.
WagWag
I'm not saying I don,t want him caught! I'm saying that as a threat he's been neutralized!!...And stop wagging at me!
-Ratboy
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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
We also contribute disproportionally comedians, actors, scientists,
. . . usually to the USA. And don't forget hockey players. (OK, this year, you can forget hockey players (praise Bob))
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Quote:Hei, z. I still come here, like Donald Lydecker at an AA meeting. Rarely see a chink in the closed minds to give my brand of enlightenment any purchase, that's all.
Originally posted by zoid:
Really is good hearing from you again, friend. I thought we'd lost you to the NOB forever.
Not at the Universal site that much, there are just folks over there boosting my credit - I think they like the fact that it's completely useless to anyone outside the US and Canada; I claim to be back on topic
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I think I'm going to be ill. Is it only in the UK that we now know that the Iraq war had nothing to do with terrorism (there were NO links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, there were NO weapons of mass destruction blah, blah blah!)? If it was about stopping a government that enjoys opressing people's rights and torturing little girls, why haven't we invaded Saudi Arabia (to name but one other sovreign state that's down right mean)?
Let's face it, as stated already above, the Iraq war, like all others, was about economies and money . . .
Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
armed.
*sings* I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?
Dear Holy Christ I loved that. I would have chimed in and said something at least 50% less articulately, but luckily you got there first. I think most people from the UK share that view, probably because our media, though faulted is a lot more honest than America's.
Did you notice, that the fact that Robert Mugabe, Leader of Zimbabwe who not only persecutes his own people, but the white people living in his country was re-elected, and though it was clearly fraudulant, all anyone did was say: the election was fraudulent. Robert Mugabe has also banned our media from entering, yet this is just accepted? Well I'm sure there's nothing to hide, maybe he's just a very camera shy man..
I think the answer is among us, and it's black and sticky, and worth a few bob.
Like Michael Moore (he is a little crazy, but generally accurate) said, how can you ever justify invading a country and killing many of it's inhabitants to "liberate" them, when they haven't even asked for help. (Well that's the gist of what he said, I'm not quoting exactly.)
On the issue of terrorism, as we can see it's everywhere. Evil is everywhere. Many many people in the middle-east hate the West. So I guess we'll just invade them, because then they'll be humming our National Anthems patriotically non-stop. I'm sure they're heads will be filled so much with joy by it, they'll completely forget the notion of terrorism at all! Lame sarcasm aside, I don't understand how the actions of both us, and the U.S could ever be justified. Does anyone even remember who Osama Bin Laden is, and yet he supposedly is why all this started?
I also wonder how anyone could see Farenheit 9/11 and still vote Republican. Whether or not the Iraq War is an issue, having someone like that as a leader even if they are improving the economy or healthcare, seems ludicrous to me.
P1nkispunk, I think I love you!
You are, of course, right in every respect – lets have a little mutual appreciation!
I danced a little jig this morning when I heard it looks like identity cards are off the agenda but am seriously scared about the erosion of the rule of law in the UK!
We’re all over electoral fraud in Zimbabwe (I particularly liked that Mugabe gets to chose 30 MPs himself!) but what about when a judge in our own country and the electoral commission complain of serious electoral fraud issues and the government CHOOSES not to worry about it?? I’m scared!
Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
armed.
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In a (for him) long-winded post, PurpleBelly wrote:
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Hei, z. I still come here, like Donald Lydecker at an AA meeting. Rarely see a chink in the closed minds to give my brand of enlightenment any purchase, that's all.
Not at the Universal site that much, there are just folks over there boosting my credit - I think they like the fact that it's completely useless to anyone outside the US and Canada; I claim to be back on topic
Okay, I googled 'Donald Lydecker' and only got "Dark Angel" references. Since I've only seen 3 episodes of that show from S1, I'm afraid your reference sailed a little high for my short arms and white man's vertical leaping ability (approximately 7 inches, or at least, that's what I tell the ladies). I know you won't explain it for me, because that would be outside your particular metier, your code; so I guess enlightenment will elude my grasp, yet again.
I rarely escape the GenDis board here at FFFn, since I like long posts (well-fleshed out ideas, arguments and evidence) and non-political topics (which belong on the RealWorldDis board, hello). But every so often I go to the NOB because someone has linked to it, and then stick around to see if people are talking about anything of substance. That's when I see your name listed on the top five for points, which phenomenon you've explained. Raises two questions: "What are the points good for anyway?" (Fully paid trip for two to the California premiere?) and "Why do they feel the need to entice people to participate on the board in such a fashion?" (Doesn't anybody understand what this community is all about?).
I know I'm violating your 'no-scroll' rule, so I'll close with a question, quickly: Do you mind if I use you as an example of what 'trolling' should be? These adolescent wannabes keep getting it wrong. I've got to preside over the Inquisition of yet another one (on 'ask ndugu') this morning. You know, find out which unclean spirit possesses him, get a complete confession (the Iron Maiden is my favorite implement for this task, especially "Run To The Hills" and "The Mob Rules") and then purge his body of sin by applying pitch and torch.
So, I want to use you as an example of the mature and appropriate use of reaction-provoking speech. Sort of, "Not all trolls are bad, and in fact they can break us out of our ideological ruts", and then point out that a triple digit IQ is required, and only those with pairs of X and Y chromosomes need apply. (NB: If they've got a set of three, they should just go hang out in the prison shower until the urge to write stuff on the Internet passes. Say, 'hi' to Bubba for us.)
Way too long I know, but I trust you'll forgive me. You know me: I'm just so obvious...
Genuinely,
-zed
P.S.
In lieu of timely permission to invoke your name and style in that thread, I gonna use you anyway, 'coz, what're friends for if not using each other?
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