Hey, we want to be part of the hate!
POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 02:14
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Well, it ain't never boring, and that's a fact.
-F
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And yet, boring is what the media are after, and so they were sure to find it.
I think they've found a formula of information addiction:
Get the viewer just bored enough that he's almost about to turn it off, and then dangle something interesting:
Here, we'll have a middle of matrix two pointless married couple argument that will annoy you all while we await the grand battle. You know there's a big battle, so you're gonna hang on, the question is, how much will you endure in order to get to the battle? In the theater, the answer seems to be about 45 minutes.
Then there's the almost sex. The cute neighbor next door has just moved in. If this were a porn show, our hero would be banging her on top of the washing machine with a minute, but instead, we're going to dangle her at you to make sure you keep watching. (This, btw, is why I support pornography, it frees everything else up to be not porn.)
And then there's media news. Something interesting happened today! And in just 55 minutes we'll tell you, but first, a story about a puppy with aids, and the fight that the owner had with the neighbor, who fears the dog might be gay, and now this ad break. But when we come back, the new medical shortcuts being taken that could kill you. But not until we talk about how to poof your hair - AT HOME!
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That being why I don't watch TV, and consider most of hollywoods output in the last fifteen years to be downright trash - sadly tho, even books have gone downhill as those still writing them for codgers like me have been dumbed down themselves, not to mention the need to prostrate oneself for five and more years at writers workshops which are more or less mutual suckup societies, got thrown out of the last one for starting a brawl by calling J.D. Sallinger 'crap that can be beaten by angsty teen livejournal' which it is.
Funny that, however, a friend of a friend decided NOT to go that route, wrote a work to stand on it's own merits and actually bagged enough respect to get the folks at Baen books to pick it up, after it sold out to the point where the smaller publisher initially used could not keep up.
Larry's a great guy, and the work has a definate over the top Buffy-ish flavor to it, with a side order of Tremors type camp, so it would prolly appeal to the folks here.
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/mhi-sample/
I'd highly reccommend pre-ordering from the second run however...
http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-International-Larry-Correia/dp/14
39132852/ref=ed_oe_p/189-5214509-0108863
Cause the original run are now collectors items worth about two hundred bucks and more.
http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-International-Larry-Correia/dp/07
41444569
It's good stuff, believe it.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Frem,
I'll take a look sometime, when I decide it's a better use of time then reading some of these posts.
But I just wanted to say that there was unfocused hate which could all be deposited in a single thread.
Got something to say about Jews? Muslims? Don't wait! Just bring on the hate!
This is an accountability free zone!
Don't cloak your hate in a Gaza debate!
Let me start:
I have an issue with socialists. They kill hundreds of millions of people, and quite frankly that's just not polite. I mean, if you want to go kill people, that's one thing, but everything in moderation guys. Also. Kill people in interesting ways. I mean, sure, while it may be interesting to pull a person to pieces on a rack, when you do it 30,000 times in row, it just gets boring. Also, a little word about child raising under socialism. Children need to learn that actions and consequences are connected. If you just randomly shuffle them into labor camps, they'll never learn and grow up to be healthy reasonable adults, well, okay, partly that's because they die, but you get my drift.
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Let me start:
I have an issue with socialists. They kill hundreds of millions of people, and quite frankly that's just not polite. I mean, if you want to go kill people, that's one thing, but everything in moderation guys. Also. Kill people in interesting ways. I mean, sure, while it may be interesting to pull a person to pieces on a rack, when you do it 30,000 times in row, it just gets boring. Also, a little word about child raising under socialism. Children need to learn that actions and consequences are connected. If you just randomly shuffle them into labor camps, they'll never learn and grow up to be healthy reasonable adults, well, okay, partly that's because they die, but you get my drift.
Um. WHAT is your knowledge of socialism based on?
If the free-hate-for-all thread is not the place for discussion, I apologize (I mean it!) but I'm just a little curious, as I was born in a socialist system and while it had FLAWS(OMG, flaws!) mass murder and child labour camps were notably absent.
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Erm, how do Socialists kill hundreds of millions of people? I'm fairly Socialist, but I've not even killed one person. Maybe i just need to pull the finger out and get on with the killing...
Or is it back to the "sarcasm-difficult-to-expresss-online" thing.
Picture me confused
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Quote:It always is notably absent. No one advertises mass murder and child labor camps.
Originally posted by AgentRouka:
If the free-hate-for-all thread is not the place for discussion, I apologize (I mean it!) but I'm just a little curious, as I was born in a socialist system and while it had FLAWS(OMG, flaws!) mass murder and child labour camps were notably absent.
And if this is a free-hate zone then I hate drunken people who stumble around the dance floor spilling their drinks and recklessly brandishing their cigarettes. The closest I ever came to a bar fight was when some asshole (probably a socialist) was standing around like an idiot on the dance floor, spilling his drink and bumping into me and my partner while we were trying to dance. Then he burned my dance partner with his cigarette and I got in his face and told him to get the hell out of here or I was going to ram his cigarette up his ass. He left. He left the bar! All I wanted was for him off the dance floor.
Damn socialists.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Accountability free zone, but I think you guys have the gist.
Yeah, there was some tongue in cheek there, but I was refering to socialist regimes, not parties or people. Of course, the deaths would be from National Socialists, Soviet Socialists, and Maoist Socialists, Baathist Socialists, all state-socialists.
But I just thought that I would get it started. There's an awful lot of hate going around, I thought it needed a home to stop it from infecting everything else. That way we can take all the hate more lightly ;) and it can live in its own little thunderdome. I mean, yeah, there are people on this forum who hate muslims, and people who hate jews, but the labels get thrown at people who don't, and pretty often.
Hence, a shiny new accountability free zone. You can say anything here and it won't affect your external persona. Got something to hate? I was the sacrificial lamb by starting it off, got a couple flames for it, xie xie.
It's like what I said about porn in an earlier thread. On the internet, there's an infinite variety of porn. This frees up other things to be not-porn, and so some of the most watched films online are things like Freedom to Fascism or Zeitgeist. However, on TV, where porn is banned, everything is porn, even, or should I say especially, the ads. People watch mindnumbingly stupid reality TV shows in hopes that a swimsuit might fall off. Whereas, which you have the change to click on College F^&kfest, dumb show with hotties, or intelligent show with little or no sex, you're going to opt for 1) or 3), whereas on tv, 2) would reign supreme.
Finn. I was in a bar with a date, a girl who liked to drink, so we went in, and some guy shoved his hand up her skirt. That ended in a bar fight. I lost, because the guy was about 7", but then he lost, because the bouncers came and did a number on him. I think the guy was just a democrat, not a socialist :)
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Finn. I was in a bar with a date, a girl who liked to drink, so we went in, and some guy shoved his hand up her skirt. That ended in a bar fight. I lost, because the guy was about 7", but then he lost, because the bouncers came and did a number on him. I think the guy was just a democrat, not a socialist :)
Where to begin? 7"? Really? Is that all? That doesn't seem very tall. Maybe you meant 7 feet...
And he was obviously a democrat. If he were a Republican, he'd have shoved his hand down your pants while crying about how shamed he was about it.
Oh, by the way - it wasn't me! I'm not exactly 7 feet tall, but I'm not far from it at 6'9"...
Mike
"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Fascism is running high on the board. I probably should have left earlier. I hate to leave on a sour note, but this has become a hate site.
Read through the posts and find people spouting against the racial inferiors, genetic, religious, their own special monkey people in need of extermination.
I know there are good people here, but the Israel thread has really brought it out. Check out the actual nazi forums and see how tame they are in their animosity compared to what's posted here. I was genuinely offended by the suggestion that because I don't want to see another race get exterminated that this makes pro-holocaust, esp. as the descendent of holocaust suvivors, or more to the point, non-survivors.
The feeling from the neocons on the board towards muslims is beyond racist. It's genocidal.
I was also disappointed once more, over the pile on effect. Once one person had p*ssed on the graves of my ancestors and relatives, a whole lot of other people seemed to jump on board. So I repost things by jews I know and am told that this too is "Nazi" stuff. Nevermind that jews seem genuinely concerned not for themselves, that Israel is bad PR for the jewish community, or the Iraq war is bad PR for americans, but for the actual plight of the Palestinian people and the Iraqi people.
Earlier, I got into a disagreement on the second amendment. I said it didn't support lone reaver's rights to shoot people. I later conceded the point, which makes me worried about the implications, but when one person insulted me, suddenly there was a huge pile on.
Questions? Comments?
It took you this long to figure out that many people in this forum are xenophobic and small minded?
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