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Google Picture War

What does an anime/whatever character fighting Superman have to do with hammer/asdf/TomSka/throwing cheese?

Just wondering, cause... yeah

@WilsonTurner

You can ask the same thing about at least of the things in this thread.

Comedy on a Thread...

From a TV show or something?

@Blackmist16

my roommate's hamster is dead and i haven't told her yet

Eat it.

@Dinh AaronMk

The Fandom Thread (Just talk or do something?)

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Today I did God's work and did some more of the My-Era Sporum thread catalog. Re-witnessed the weirdness of the Franco-German war and wondered why I let CaptainGreene do what he did.

Boop

@Dinh AaronMk

Didn't Greene have a leader who was, like, completely absent except for a codename?

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What if the only thing I can muster up the energy to post about is an invasion of Turkey and/or Armenia, would that be an exception?

@Pepperm1nts

Surely you could send that energy to Poland just like the Gods demand?

The Topic of Homosexuality, Gender Identity, and So forth

Isn't Genetic =/= Is a choice. Compulsions are compulsions. A person might develop depression despite not being genetically disposed to do so, but that doesn't mean that they can stand up and smile it away.

As for my opinions on homosexuality, I think it works like this: Men and women are yang and yin, meant to balance each other. In a heterosexual romantic relationship, one balances the other spiritually. In a homosexual relationship, you have two yangs or two yins, which makes both people more spiritually unbalanced. Thus, homosexual romance can be considered a sort of anti-romance.

@Protagonist

Balance each other out how? Surely the possession of different genitals does not endow their relationship with mystical powers. If anything, it just endows them with biologically practical sex.

The Confederate Flag, and Charleston

"It involved secession, but that's not really what people are interested in here. I mean, it's interesting that they are flying a flag of treason, but most people are more worried about the racial connotation, and the war provides at the very least the seeds of that connotation. You can't really divorce the secession of the south from the reason they seceded. The American reason for secession wasn't inherently fucked up at its core"

In my opinion, the reason for American succession was that the colonials wanted to have their cake and eat it to; They were a protectorate that dragged their protector into a war after said protector specifically said "No" and then rebelled when their protector handed them the bill in the form of taxes.

@darkwolf687

That's... not quite how that went. Colonial friction created the incident, but European diplomacy started the war. After living through an incident in which they could not handle their own affairs despite being the frontier of the conflict at hand, they dealt with economic mismanagement in the form of taxation. It was mismanagement in the sense that the growing cities in the north were starting to suffer from the population problems that major cities at that time tended to suffer, where there was a growing number of poor people with no place to go, and the taxations that Britain induced caused damage to the delicate economic situation in these places. The Stamp act was particularly bad because it caused the local currency to collapse, whereas the imposition of a tea monopoly became more a symbolic cause than an important one. This played a part in why "Taxation without representation" became the battle-cry - It was not only for the principle of the thing, but because British officials living in Britain didn't understand what the effects of their moves were. Rather, like a debt-collector making demands over the phone, they were completely oblivious of what effect their decisions had and only saw the other side as a generic entity that owed them.

Even if we are to ignore all of this and pretend all was equal except for the oversimplified popular-history causes, it wouldn't be a proper comparison. It's callous to pretend that retaining slavery is an equal crime to not paying your taxes.

QUEST: a picture adventure

>Equip scalpel.
>Grind on box duct-taped to ceiling
>Level up your melee skills.

The Confederate Flag, and Charleston

I think that, when it comes to the US, it helps that a lot of this stuff happened fairly recently. I have a living relative who can remember sitting on the lap of her great uncle who had fought in the civil war. The Civil Rights fight happened in recent memory, and there are still scars left from that. And this all happened at a time when we were supposed to know better. In that sense, it's similar to the situation with Nazi regalia and the modern debate about fascist movements in Europe. We all got shit in our history that we have to contend with, and shit that happened in the last 150 years is still pretty fresh. Of course, we're still dealing with the leftovers of our racial history. This conversation came up again because of the recent church shooting, after all.