Panama Papers

[viper37]

Wow. How did you come to game with people like that? That is waaaay outside what is expected in a tabletop session.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The early 80s was culturally and societally far more removed from the present than we remember.

Sometimes, I like to think things have really changed.  That most gamers are mature individuals.  Then I read Bioware's forum asking for nude paid for DLCs, starting threads about the fact there are girls playing Mass Effect and all sort of sillyness like that.

[Valmy]

Wow. How did you come to game with people like that? That is waaaay outside what is expected in a tabletop session.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The early 80s was culturally and societally far more removed from the present than we remember.

Sometimes, I like to think things have really changed.  That most gamers are mature individuals.  Then I read Bioware's forum asking for nude paid for DLCs, starting threads about the fact there are girls playing Mass Effect and all sort of sillyness like that.

I think most normal people left Bioware's forums long ago. You will never find a greater hive of scum and villainy. Or not and most gamers are total scum. I mean some of the most prominent streamers and youtubers of Bioware games are women, you would have to live under a rock on Mars to not know they have a very passionate and vocal female fanbase so color me skeptical this is not a troll.

[Siege]

My definition of centre right includes basing your attitudes on fact and logic, not emotion. An emotional article from some feminist about facing "rampant mysogyny" and "death threats and rape threats" in a roleplaying Call of Cthulhu community sounds incredible at best and fabricated at worst (and likely to be the latter if the Rolling Stone "rape scandal" and gamergate taught us anything) so sharing that on Facebook with an apocalyptic commentary makes you look unhinged, especially combined with your ethusiastic attitudes about Islam.

I'm disappointed in you Marti. I haven't read the original source, but you must have seen evidence that any woman who has a strong opinion on any online channel is at risk of misogyny at best, and rape and death threats at worst. It's a real, frightening and all-too-frequent occurrence. You choosing not to believing this, plus using feminist and emotional as derogatory terms, makes me sad.

Yours truly,

Emotional Feminist

I don't have anything to say really, but i like to support Marty in all his endeavors. Specially against evil feminazis.

Yours truly,

Evil emotional machist

[Valmy]

Machist? Hey I learned a new word today.

[Norgy]

Dude, he travels in time and space, let's not annoy him.

[viper37]

it's not going to matter one bit. the rich will still be able to what they do and the small fry will still be forced to turn over far too much of their earnings to incompetent states.

If you go after the rich they can just leave.

they are far more mobile than us, true.  That is why there is a certain need for an occidental cooperation in this matter.  British, American and Europeans would need to get rid of the special status of some of their territories, or at least agree to waive banking secret for a restricted group of countries upon demand.

Rich people are not going to massively move to Russia because it's a free country.  Heck, if Trumps wants to live there and play bridge with Depardieux every saturday night, by all means, let them do it.  The rich can freely move betwen US, Canada, Europe, but I don't see them renouncing the relative comfort, freedom and security that cities like Toronto, New York, Paris or London have to offer.  Moving from Paris to Bruxelles, no problem.  Moving from New York to London, ok.  Moving from LA to Ryad?  Not a chance.

As much as these people like to travel the world, they need to be close to their businesses and/or interest centers.  Only occidental countries can offer them that.

[Iormlund]

That's both unfair and a not very subtle dig.
Not reporting assets is, by Norwegian tax law, illegal. And none of the assets DNB handled were ever reported. Ever.
But feel free to gloat. Your profession is what helps these people. So while you may rant and rave about inequality in other matters, you're actually part of the very problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2VxpTMAbas

[celedhring]

Machist? Hey I learned a new word today.

His Sephardi roots are showing there.

[Martinus]

I find myself agreeing with Siegy a lot lately. 

[celedhring]

I find myself agreeing with Siegy a lot lately. 

Should tell you something, surely. 

[Razgovory]

Looks like even your other friends agree with me. 

I was your facebook friend, once.

[LaCroix]

blog defines terrorist as

an act committed "in whole or in part for a political, religious or ideological purpose, objective or cause" and with the intention of intimidating the public "...with regard to its security, including its economic security, or compelling a person, a government or a domestic or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act."

disagree re: terrorist gamers. most gamers aren't doing it with the intent to cause fear, etc. the rape was rape, not an attempt to prevent women from playing by employing extreme methods. "if it bleeds, it breeds" was a dumb joke at someone's expense.

as well, what public is intimidated? her examples are single, isolated instances of aggression toward a single person. might as well say conservative areas are/were terrorists toward gays. agree with marti that while the things that happened to the author were horrible, this isn't terrorism. it hurts her cause to even call it terrorism; she should know better that people will disregard her point because of her extreme language

[Martinus]

blog defines terrorist as

an act committed "in whole or in part for a political, religious or ideological purpose, objective or cause" and with the intention of intimidating the public "...with regard to its security, including its economic security, or compelling a person, a government or a domestic or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act."

disagree re: terrorist gamers. most gamers aren't doing it with the intent to cause fear, etc. the rape was rape, not an attempt to prevent women from playing by employing extreme methods. "if it bleeds, it breeds" was a dumb joke at someone's expense.

as well, what public is intimidated? her examples are single, isolated instances of aggression toward a single person. might as well say conservative areas are/were terrorists toward gays. agree with marti that while the things that happened to the author were horrible, this isn't terrorism. it hurts her cause to even call it terrorism; she should know better that people will disregard her point because of her extreme language

Yeah, I have been thinking a bit about the article and why I find it so objectionable and I think my biggest problem is that it throws around so many different things but treats them the same to support a thesis. It uses examples of things like online death threats, sexual assault, distasteful jokes and people just being stupid but harmless and paints them all with the same broad brush which it calls "white male terrorism". It muddles the waters and makes it impossible to challenge the points in the article (because if you just say the whole thing seems to be incoherent, emotional and blown out of proportion, you get dubbed a mysogyne who doesn't think rape or death threats are important) - now I have taken a liberty of viewing that person's blog and she seems overall quite disturbed (which, again, doesn't make her account of her personal experiences a lie - but should require the reader to be at least a bit skeptical about at least details if not the whole gist of it) - I just thought that Languish posters are supposed to be more intellectually rigorous than that.

[Martinus]

Looks like even your other friends agree with me. 

I was your facebook friend, once.

Like I need you to do the same stuff with my old Facebook posts as you do with my old Languish posts.

[Martinus]

So this happened:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/04/04/rapper-azealia-banks-calls-sarah-palin-gang-raped-black-men/