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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #135 on: September 22, 2015, 03:18:53 pm »
Should've gone under "Fascist Things Corporations Say on the Internet".
Now you are going to have to explain yourself. How do you see anything like fascism in that statement? Fascist society is a dictatorship with powerful nationalistic government. Do you equate preventing kids from committing suicide with fascism?
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #136 on: September 22, 2015, 03:22:45 pm »
Should've gone under "Fascist Things Corporations Say on the Internet".
Now you are going to have to explain yourself. How do you see anything like fascism in that statement? Fascist society is a dictatorship with powerful nationalistic government. Do you equate preventing kids from committing suicide with fascism?

Fascism's more complicated than that, but that's neither here nor there.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #137 on: September 22, 2015, 03:26:11 pm »
Should've gone under "Fascist Things Corporations Say on the Internet".
Now you are going to have to explain yourself. How do you see anything like fascism in that statement? Fascist society is a dictatorship with powerful nationalistic government. Do you equate preventing kids from committing suicide with fascism?

Fascism's more complicated than that, but that's neither here nor there.

Well yes, but if you want to make a single sentence summary of fascism that is as good as any. Most definitions I have seen are like that and then add a mention of Mussolini's regime being the real definer.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #138 on: September 22, 2015, 03:37:13 pm »
Should've gone under "Fascist Things Corporations Say on the Internet".
Now you are going to have to explain yourself. How do you see anything like fascism in that statement? Fascist society is a dictatorship with powerful nationalistic government. Do you equate preventing kids from committing suicide with fascism?

Don't put words in my mouth.

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I thought fascism was an appropriate label because fascism is the union of the powers of corporation and state.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #139 on: September 22, 2015, 03:48:30 pm »
Should've gone under "Fascist Things Corporations Say on the Internet".
Now you are going to have to explain yourself. How do you see anything like fascism in that statement? Fascist society is a dictatorship with powerful nationalistic government. Do you equate preventing kids from committing suicide with fascism?

Don't put words in my mouth.

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what is funny is that with the ruling of Citizens United in 2010, corporations very much DO have business in promoting political agendas.

I thought fascism was an appropriate label because fascism is the union of the powers of corporation and state.

Yeah, that's not actually true.  Mussolini was taken out of context.  When he said "corporate power", he was referring to the various sectors (corpi) of the Italian economy, not corporations.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #140 on: September 22, 2015, 06:16:55 pm »
So I guess Ironchew isn't aware of a lot of things.  Such as that's not actually Doritios' customer support but a known troll.

Ironbite-but then again Ironchew as the awareness of a slug so...

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #142 on: September 24, 2015, 06:02:01 am »
@ guizonde: I think I like the way you think.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #143 on: September 24, 2015, 08:10:32 am »
If they ran a few ads, I'm sure they could get by without needing to beg.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #144 on: September 24, 2015, 11:23:27 am »
I'm very thankful they don't do ads, though. And I contribute a few bucks whenever they put up a donation campaign.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #145 on: September 24, 2015, 04:31:19 pm »
Because Wikipedia isn't trying to make money and Facebook is? Because Facebook collects valuable information about you and Wikipedia doesn't? Because if people complain about Wikipedia being unreliable now imagine what they'll say if they are dependent on advertising?
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #146 on: October 02, 2015, 11:35:16 am »
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"A white man and an elderly Native man became pretty good friends, so the white guy decided to ask him: “What do you think about Indian mascots?” The Native elder responded, “Here’s what you’ve got to understand. When you look at black people, you see ghosts of all the slavery and the rapes and the hangings and the chains.

When you look at Jews, you see ghosts of all those bodies piled up in death camps. And those ghosts keep you trying to do the right thing. “But when you look at us you don’t see the ghosts of the little babies with their heads smashed in by rifle butts at the Big Hole, or the old folks dying by the side of the trail on the way to Oklahoma while their families cried and tried to make them comfortable, or the dead mothers at Wounded Knee or the little kids at Sand Creek who were shot for target practice. You don’t see any ghosts at all.

“Instead you see casinos and drunks and junk cars and shacks. “Well, we see those ghosts. And they make our hearts sad and they hurt our little children. And when we try to say something, you tell us, ‘Get over it. This is America. Look at the American dream.’ But as long as you’re calling us Redskins and doing tomahawk chops, we can’t look at the American dream, because those things remind us that we are not real human beings to you. And when people aren’t humans, you can turn them into slaves or kill six million of them or shoot them down with Hotchkiss guns and throw them into mass graves at Wounded Knee. “No, we’re not looking at the American dream. And why should we? We still haven’t woken up from the American nightmare."

No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were:
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #147 on: October 02, 2015, 11:05:06 pm »
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All these secular dictators from before the Arab Spring are the good guys to reddit now because they're not "filthy mudslimes".

Someone summed up the hypocrisy well when they pointed out that these same people decry drone strikes as evil state terrorism because of their shady legality and collateral damage then turn around and praise the most disgusting kind of mass murdering dictators like Saddam, al-Assad, Gaddafi, etc. as great men because they "kept the extremists in line."

Like it's okay to murder 500,000 of your own population and bulldoze them into mass graves, as long as it was to maintain your own power and not in the name of God. It's reddit's anti-theist movement taken to its logical extreme.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #148 on: October 03, 2015, 09:22:16 am »
@ guizonde: I think I like the way you think.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #149 on: October 03, 2015, 10:19:37 am »
It takes intelligent, professional clowns to critique terrible amateur clowns' failures.
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