Why totalitarian regimes do not get the Onion

Started by Martinus, September 30, 2012, 03:23:36 AM

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Martinus


The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Josquius

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I expected this to be an article analysing how this happened and going over similar cases
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Viking

Quote from: Tyr on September 30, 2012, 04:01:22 AM
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I expected this to be an article analysing how this happened and going over similar cases

Me too, I was disappointed.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Tyr on September 30, 2012, 04:01:22 AM
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I expected this to be an article analysing how this happened and going over similar cases
same.  :glare:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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CountDeMoney


Eddie Teach

/em wonders where Tim, Josq and Viking have been all these years.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josquius

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Viking

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 30, 2012, 01:13:00 PM
/em wonders where Tim, Josq and Viking have been all these years.

here at languish getting doused with timmypost after timmypost where the title of the thread is the title of the article.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

garbon

Quote from: Viking on October 01, 2012, 06:20:52 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 30, 2012, 01:13:00 PM
/em wonders where Tim, Josq and Viking have been all these years.

here at languish getting doused with timmypost after timmypost where the title of the thread is the title of the article.

Okay but then you entered a Marti thread.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Viking

It wasn't a ghey/polack/lawtalker thread, so I had good reason to expect a serious post.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

PDH

Quote from: Viking on October 01, 2012, 07:51:23 AM
It wasn't a ghey/polack/lawtalker thread, so I had good reason to expect a serious post.

Wrong
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM