You got a problem with society? Skate it off, It's YOUR fault (1099 hits)
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Submitted by iddqd (View user info) at 2006-07-12 22:45:41 EDT
So people are sick and tired of race cards, of bleeding hearts and weepy eyes. People are tired that they have to be nice to everyone, even when it seems everyone else seems to be a prick. Many of us aren't christians, why the fuck do WE have to turn the other cheek? It's not our belief. People are tired of feminism telling us that we can't insult women or call them inferior, that they are wonderful, special beings that deserve respect, even when they use this leverage to get whatever they want, whenever they want it, when they claim that only they can multitask, thereby implying that men are inferior. We are tired of being told that men can love too, that they can be house-husbands and nurturers, that goddammit, men can wear a stupid papoose-thing on their chest as well and be proud; all while cheering for whatever bloodsport is on tv and chugging beers and grunting like neanderthals, ang sighing when they don't 'get' eldritch little rules for whatever dumb game you're watching. We're tired about being told that we have to accept homosexuality, even though for the most part we already DO accept it, if even only though apathy. Yes, we have to sit though endless lectures and past-their-date parades and festivals so that we can have it forced down our throats (insert obvious joke here) that gay men and women are just like us. Yeah, no shit. We're sick and tired of governments telling us that we don't allow gay marriage, even thoguh most of us don't really give a shit. Let 'em do whatever the fuck they want. We're tired of fighting wars we don't understand, paying prices that jump everyday to increase corporate profit margins that break record after record, all the while being told that "we just can't help it, I'm afraid, it's a globalisation issue *snigger*". We're tired of the 'rich-getting-richer' bullshit that has plagued humanity from day one, but we still buy lottery tickets. Sometimes we even get tired of paragraphs and structure, yet find ourselves being grammar nazi's more often than not. Some thoughts need to be bunched up.
The point is, we're all tired of a lot of things in our society. Many of them are trivial and esoteric. Some of them are even tautologies. Everything sucks. Well, I'm here to remind you, for the few slower ones of you out there, that IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT. You are the ones that perpetuate this shit, you are the ones that allow all this to happen through your apathy. You are the ones that slink onto websites like this one and vent your rage by big-talking about rape and killing babies and har-har cancer and conspiracies and evil, evil, evil; and never doing anything about it where it matters.
Where does it matter?
Anywhere but here.
I was once a big proponent of the idea that Uber, or sites like it, could be a useful tool in developing writing skills, in becoming a sort of 'artists commune' (yet not quite as gay). I likened it to the possibilty of Woolf's 'Bloomsbury Circle'.
It is not, nor ever will be.
However, it could be something else. It could be the place, or one of them that begins the trend, that germinates the seeds of thought that might one day break us out of this apathy. The internet, at least at this point in time, will never really change anything that matters. The singe biggest effect I think it's had is in giving us a new verb: "Google". The internet will not have a direct effect. I think it will, however, have an indirect effect. In creating the anonymous soapbox from which we can spew out the thoughts that occurs to us every single day but we never say, in dread fear of breaking those silent, adamant bonds of social intercourse and expectation. The trite, pedestrian 'shock-value' boring shit we post here could be a start. A start of people NOT turning the other cheek, of saying what they mean, when they mean it. There is nothign really offensive posted here. There may be gross things posted here, but none of them are offensive. It is impossible for them to be offensive because sites like this are the socially-accepted, designated areas for us to say and show these horrible things. It is not offensive because the internet is not society. What is truly offensive is not playing the game by its rules, out ther ein the real world. By not listening and adhering to Political Correctness, to what our goverments and what minority groups tell us. WE control what happens in society because we ARE society. When you break a rule in society, it is offensive. When enough people break the rule, the broken rule becomes the rule.
There are no rules, only trends. There are trends because of acceptance. There is acceptance, usually, sadly, because of apathy. Apathy is a hard thing to kill.
Especially when there's the internet.
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-07-13 17:34:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
fuck you, don't you know this is a serious writers' forum????
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-07-13 14:22:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"When you break a rule in society, it is offensive. When enough people break the rule, the broken rule becomes the rule."
Well put. I liked this post.
Submitted by sexualchocolate1984 (user info) at 2006-07-13 10:15:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I didn't fully understand it but I liked it.
System of a Down once said - "WAR! Fuck the sytem. WAR! Fuck the sytem fuck the sytem!"
Submitted by Bushy (user info) at 2006-07-13 07:23:24 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:08:08 (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:06:02 (#)
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For example: You can make rape jokes all day long on Ubersite, and it's no big deal. But what happens if you crack a rape joke to your work buddies and the angry cunt in HR just happens to overhear? If you're lucky, you get canned, and if you're unlucky, you get named as a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Or, you can do an Ubersite post titled "I fucking hate niggers" and talk about how you think they should all die, and all you'll get is a bunch of -2's (and probably some +2's as well). But if you decide to spray paint your opinions on the side of the local AME church, and someone happens to see you do it, you're going to jail for a hate crime.
The point is, it's easier to get away with political incorectness on the Internet because the anonymity eliminates most if not all real consequences.
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I was on another forum, and posted some trolling nonsense online there. A man took offense, and kept harrassing me about it, sending me messages and emails threatening my life. I posted "this guy is a stalker :)" and he nearly went insane.
He threatened to call his lawyers and arrest me, and get the FBI involved...I couldn't be sure if he was just trolling himself, but I apologized and took down the comment. I don't need that kind of shit.
Uber really is unique...
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internet anonymity is bogus. given enough effort and time, and a person with l33t h4xxoR skillz, you can be tracked down.
needless to say, most intarweb forums are so pathetically tiny and filled with juveniles and peadophiles, that noone really gives a shit enough to find you.
PC is bogus too, but we all know that.
Submitted by ICO (user info) at 2006-07-13 04:48:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hahaha, once every few months I come on here, and your post have always been good, as far as I can remember.
Oh, and 'harhar intercourse'
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-07-13 04:34:48 EDT (#)
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I think society is ace. Everything rocks.
Submitted by Snare (user info) at 2006-07-13 04:29:14 EDT (#)
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Freedom of speech and no-one saying "Just watch what you say"
Kick ass point!
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2006-07-13 03:30:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'd have read this if I could read.
Oh wait, I can. Oh well. Have a +2 and a pat on the back. Good job!
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2006-07-13 00:34:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
A translation in political correctness. "I'm sorry, but this wasn't as good as it could have been"
means "I'm sorry, but this sucked." "I'm sorry, but this sucked" means "I'm sorry I wasted my time." "I'm sorry I wasted my time" means "-2die.", so I'm sorry, but this wasn't as good as it could have been
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-07-13 00:09:47 EDT (#)
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your country is a horrible place to live.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:56:42 EDT (#)
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I had a homeless black woman yell at me today because I didn't hear her say hello (the prelude to begging for spare change) and did not respond.
I went into a business to buy something and she stood in the doorway telling me that I was 'nothing' because I had 'no color in me at all.'
Of course, black people can't be racist.
Instead of saying, "No color? Look at the hair, bitch," I just said, "I'm here to spend cash on something I don't really need, but I'm gonna buy it anyway."
She looked pissed, and then the owner of the store told her to fuck off.
Us white boys gotta stick together.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:16:27 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:08:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:06:02 (#)
Ranking: 0
For example: You can make rape jokes all day long on Ubersite, and it's no big deal. But what happens if you crack a rape joke to your work buddies and the angry cunt in HR just happens to overhear? If you're lucky, you get canned, and if you're unlucky, you get named as a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Or, you can do an Ubersite post titled "I fucking hate niggers" and talk about how you think they should all die, and all you'll get is a bunch of -2's (and probably some +2's as well). But if you decide to spray paint your opinions on the side of the local AME church, and someone happens to see you do it, you're going to jail for a hate crime.
The point is, it's easier to get away with political incorectness on the Internet because the anonymity eliminates most if not all real consequences.
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I was on another forum, and posted some trolling nonsense online there. A man took offense, and kept harrassing me about it, sending me messages and emails threatening my life. I posted "this guy is a stalker :)" and he nearly went insane.
He threatened to call his lawyers and arrest me, and get the FBI involved...I couldn't be sure if he was just trolling himself, but I apologized and took down the comment. I don't need that kind of shit.
Uber really is unique...
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:06:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
For example: You can make rape jokes all day long on Ubersite, and it's no big deal. But what happens if you crack a rape joke to your work buddies and the angry cunt in HR just happens to overhear? If you're lucky, you get canned, and if you're unlucky, you get named as a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Or, you can do an Ubersite post titled "I fucking hate niggers" and talk about how you think they should all die, and all you'll get is a bunch of -2's (and probably some +2's as well). But if you decide to spray paint your opinions on the side of the local AME church, and someone happens to see you do it, you're going to jail for a hate crime.
The point is, it's easier to get away with political incorectness on the Internet because the anonymity eliminates most if not all real consequences.
Submitted by Dexter-Brown (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:03:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
oh shit, back button debacle. Here have the plus two back!
Submitted by Dexter-Brown (user info) at 2006-07-12 23:02:29 EDT (#)
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Licker of all ass
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:59:05 EDT (#)
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who polices political correctness?
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:57:49 EDT (#)
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The difference is that you're a lot less likely to get arrested, sued, or fired for saying something politically incorrect on an anonymous internet forum than you are in real life. At least in the US.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:56:31 EDT (#)
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Who cares about apathy?
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:56:17 EDT (#)
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Just couldn't get interested in this.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:55:53 EDT (#)
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actually axolotl, i read your last post, and my criticism is that you didnt say enough about it. your problem is justified. the race card IS bullshit. Its all bullshit, but it still gets acepted.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:53:52 EDT (#)
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im not talking about this site per se, but rather the infulence of the internet upon social trends. the shit that gets around on the net is pretty nasty, and seems to be more and more common. how long until it spews out onto the street? people seem to have very little time for political correctness on the internet, and everyone i know personally also hates it. in fact, it seems everyone hates it yet we still adhere to it? how much longer can it last for, when the signs on the net at least are clear that noone wants it...
Submitted by Dexter-Brown (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:52:49 EDT (#)
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bravo!
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:52:19 EDT (#)
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You probably wouldn't like my last post...
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:51:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
the important thing is that you've managed to locate your shift key
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-07-12 22:50:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
You embody an interesting combination of bilious cynicism and pie-eyed idealism.