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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 12, 2010 21:47:46 GMT -5
Ohhhhh. Damn. Sorry, I retract my earlier post. *hides*
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Post by Thejebusfire on Jul 12, 2010 23:21:56 GMT -5
When it comes to teapartiers, I find this to be appropriate: *Yes I'm aware this had little to do with the current conversation.*
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Post by Distind on Jul 13, 2010 9:22:07 GMT -5
Live Action Role-Playing. What you get if you cross amateur theater with Dungeons and Dragons. And add an infestation of Dramaticks. As may be clear by Fayth's second post. Or possibly just the amateur theater. I don't LARP, I have friends who do, I have been victimized by more of these stories than I care to count.
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Post by erictheblue on Jul 13, 2010 12:33:51 GMT -5
As a LARP-er, I want to state that not all LARPs are bad. I've played with 3 LARP groups (all doing White Wolf's World of Darkness) and all were enjoyable. Yes, there will occasionally be jerks, but overall the experience has been positive.
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Post by MaybeNever on Jul 13, 2010 17:30:42 GMT -5
Damn, I guess my post got eaten by the Internets. Anyway: it sounds like those specific people are pretty douchebaggy, so obviously amend my post accordingly. I should've asked before criticizing. Still, though, it doesn't sound like that's the most mature or appropriate way to handle things, though it might be funny. Just be aware you're likely as not opening yourselves up to yet more asshattery at the hands of those people.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 13, 2010 19:56:45 GMT -5
Ignoring the spelling error and the poor taste of the slavery comparison (paying taxes is hardly comparable to what the slaves went through)... are these idiots too stupid to remember that government programs, tax brackets, etc. all existed long before Obama came along? Not that I'm expecting much from a group of people who blame the current government for a deficit that was created long before they were elected in... but still.
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Post by worlder on Jul 13, 2010 20:29:30 GMT -5
Oh please Abe Lincoln's top priority was to keep the nation from splitting apart and he was willing to do whatever takes.
If freeing slaves meant he'd stay in leadership to win the war, then so be it. IIRC if that didn't work, he was willing put all blacks back into slavery to give the South an incentive to stop.
BTW Lincoln wasn't exactly to kind in his thoughts towards black people. Then again back then pretty much no one was.
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Post by katz on Jul 13, 2010 20:35:47 GMT -5
As a LARP-er, I want to state that not all LARPs are bad. I've played with 3 LARP groups (all doing White Wolf's World of Darkness) and all were enjoyable. Yes, there will occasionally be jerks, but overall the experience has been positive. As long as everyone in the group realizes you're all a bunch of semi-adults in someone's basement/backyard forest area pretending to be vampires/elves/Redwall warriors for fun, it's great. If someone takes it too seriously, it goes downhill into Dramatown from there. Yes, I was once in a Redwall LARP. In my defense, I was fourteen. Also I was an awesome scimitar-wielding jerboa, so screw y'all.
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Post by faythofdragons on Jul 13, 2010 20:46:33 GMT -5
Still, though, it doesn't sound like that's the most mature or appropriate way to handle things, though it might be funny. Just be aware you're likely as not opening yourselves up to yet more asshattery at the hands of those people. Oh I'm aware. As I said, if we're going to be demonized anyways, we might as well give them a reason to, and have a bit of fun while doing it. I'm done trying to be friendly. As a LARP-er, I want to state that not all LARPs are bad. I've played with 3 LARP groups (all doing White Wolf's World of Darkness) and all were enjoyable. Yes, there will occasionally be jerks, but overall the experience has been positive. As long as everyone in the group realizes you're all a bunch of semi-adults in someone's basement/backyard forest area pretending to be vampires/elves/Redwall warriors for fun, it's great. If someone takes it too seriously, it goes downhill into Dramatown from there. Pretty much. The distinction between fantasy and reality is dangerously shaky at that game, and it's devolved into pretty girls getting favors, and everyone else has to kiss the ass of Her Majesty, Girlfriend of the Primary GM. You know it's bad when the teenagers are more sensible than the adults.
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Post by Meshakhad on Jul 13, 2010 21:32:44 GMT -5
Oh please Abe Lincoln's top priority was to keep the nation from splitting apart and he was willing to do whatever takes. If freeing slaves meant he'd stay in leadership to win the war, then so be it. IIRC if that didn't work, he was willing put all blacks back into slavery to give the South an incentive to stop. BTW Lincoln wasn't exactly to kind in his thoughts towards black people. Then again back then pretty much no one was. I believe his plan was to send them all back to Africa. Wonder how history would have turned out if we had done so.
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Post by davedan on Jul 13, 2010 21:36:40 GMT -5
Isn't that how Liberia was founded?
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Post by Jodie on Jul 13, 2010 21:43:53 GMT -5
Has this been posted yet? Dude holding the sign is Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org. (Sorry for the huge picture.)
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Post by Haseen on Jul 14, 2010 2:22:07 GMT -5
Is anyone else reminded of the Chappelle sketch?
N-I-G G-A-R. It's the Niggar family!
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 14, 2010 2:56:36 GMT -5
The more I see these slavery comparisons, the more they piss me off. How fucking self-entitled do you have to be in order to think that paying taxes is even remotely close to the the countless horrors that were inflicted upon slaves?
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 14, 2010 4:21:08 GMT -5
It seems that 'niggar' was taped onto the sign. Wonder what it says underneath.
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