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Users - RationalMadman, Ramshutu, SupaDudz
Debates - Firing Squad, Jury Nullification, Rap Battle
Threads - Rash's Goodbye thread, Hall of Fame Upcoming, Vending Machine
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@thett3
It would be really entertaining to just sit back and let you fuck things up enough to set everything on fire. I could put my feet up and drink a mimosa and watch Rome burn.
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@Vader
He said the same thing to me in his congratulations letter when I was first picked as recusal mod. Such a sweetie.
I didn't actually carry it out. I just made the decision. A while back they asked me to be an actual mod with mod powers but I didn't want it, so they made me a recusal mod instead. I make the call but the other two execute it.
The reason I handle any decision vs any other moderator is always that the other moderator(s) are recused from the case.
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@Vader
You have given more bans than Virt rn. How does it feel to be alpha
Lulz. Really? Seems hard to believe. I guess if bish is usually the one who carries out the bans they jointly decide on...
I can't take credit though. I just happened to be given one of the most active volcanoes to monitor. And I don't like being alpha or disciplining Wylted, it's like having to ban your favorite comedian/entertainer.
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@thett3
thett, thett. Don't worry. There will be many shitstorms on the horizon, buddy, I promise. We're all drama vampires to some degree, we'd never cut your feed entirely.
It's just that most of us can get by on a few bites, whereas you're like... one of those thousand-year-old purebloods who only wakes up twice a century and must devour whole human hearts from virgins to sustain himself.
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I'm going to translate what thett just said for everyone.
"Bitch you just made an attempt to cut the fuel lines to the drama I crave as a vampire craves sweet juicy red blood! I must cultivate an air of seriousness and sinisterness around this so it can escalate into an explosive orgasmic flamewar for me, or else how will I find the sustenance to sustain my survival?! You didn't think about me when you said that did you bitch?!!"
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Ah okay. My bad. The whole "you've obviously never worked there" thing made me think your stance was adversarial or something, I guess.
There is still the problem of this AR tunnel vision, though. Sure, a higher percentage of mass shootings are caused by AR's, but they don't even account for 5% of all gun deaths in America as a whole.
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@thett3
You'd need to ask bish and Virt. I thought he'd already cast his votes in the voting thread so there wouldn't be a problem. If he hasn't, I think it's a fair question.
It amuses me that even on a rinky dink site with a trivial election people see conspiracy theories about a sinister rinky dink deep state whose evil master plan is to stop two rinky dink votes.
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When I ban him he makes sure to punish me by supplying me with grade A entertainment. *wipes tear* And I never tell him how much I appreciate it. And he always makes sure to blame bish even though it was 100% my decision. He's so thoughtful.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Did you @ me by mistake? I don't understand the relationship between your post and my post.
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@thett3
Ah, just a few days. Three. Then he'll be back making me laugh again, that lovable monster.
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@TheRealNihilist
Nope, he'd already been served his ban notice by then. I know it's hard to tell because he was acting so zen and effervescent.
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@TheRealNihilist
Something else. Calling the mods names is not against the rules. He was banned for something he said to another member in one of the Hall of Fame threads, where we said personal attacks would be treated severely.
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Ugh, why didn't he just stick to his other reasons for the withdrawal? They were contendable. This was such a stupid thing to say. His attitude should be "I sympathize but this was necessary," not "who cares, you're people of low character anyway." Especially when those people have just done us a solid.
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@HistoryBuff
Well said.
I suspect some of this soreness may be spillover from recent events unrelated to Columbus.
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@Harikrish
ethan is his own man. It's his decision. I will not directly pressure him to return to DART.
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@Harikrish
If I say your name three times will it banish you like in Beetlejuice?
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Will someone please get this man a history book? He needs help, people. He doesn't know why the Civil War happened, he thinks it was the nation of Canada that burned down the Whitehouse in the War of 1812, and apparently it escapes his notice that the Kurds had no country or military in WWII, so this makes about as much sense as blaming Native Americans for not committing their Native American military armies to the Battle of Normandy.
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My first thought is that people who own AR-15's are likely to already own other guns, and good ones. Would they trade their AR in for a pistol and shotgun when they already have three pistols and two shotguns? It's the AR that is filling a niche in their collection.
But it's a very interesting idea. It certainly has more merit and feasibility than a direct buyback, which can never work in America like it did in Australia.
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"As somebody wrote in a very very powerful article today, they [the Kurds] didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy..." -- Trump
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
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@Greyparrot
Since the treaty does not involve America in any way I must assume the People's Republic of Greyparrot suffers from delusion and dissociative identity disorder.
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So what did he create the appendix for.
It would really put a lot of debate and puzzlement to rest.
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@crossed
How do we test my cookies being stolen. how do we prove billsand is billbatard
I stole your cookies. No test needed. Stop leaving them out like a fool for any cookie shark to abduct and murder in cold blood.
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@Greyparrot
Thank you for understanding. It's considerate of you.
I propose the People's Republic of Castin and the People's Republic of Greyparrot ratify an official treaty that our relationship be limited to pithy one-liners without any real substance or argument whatsoever.
Will you sign? Or do you need to talk it over with your people in parliament first?
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@Greyparrot
You edited your post to add that second line later, so I honestly thought you were joking and you agreed with me. I rolled with the joke.
I'm cautious about engaging you in a political conversation because you tend to just "orangemanbad" away every criticism of Trump, seemingly regardless of the content of the criticism. Just in my experience, anyway. It just makes discussion feel rather pointless.
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@Greyparrot
No, we need to wait until Turkey does us some recent big favor, first. But after that, absolutely, we commence Operation Backstab.
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The Kurds made a mistake. They trusted America.
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@Pinkfreud08
Yeah I can understand that. But to me it was fiction, and all fiction is fake.
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All right so my understanding of the specifics is this, anyone pls feel free to add or correct:
- A day or two before Trump made the tweet, scientists calculated there would be a 5% to 10% chance the hurricane would hit a tiny corner of Alabama.
- But by the time Trump made his tweet, that was outdated information. It was now certain Alabama would not be hit at all. So this was a small threat to a small part of Alabama that got updated to a non-threat.
- Then Trump makes his tweet saying Alabama "will be hit much harder than expected." This was inaccurate and out of date, which is a problem.
I could understand him saying Alabama would be hit; he probably remembered it mentioned in previous reports. But for the life of me I have no idea where he got "much harder than expected" in regard to Alabama. Those were the words that caused the real panic.
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@Greyparrot
You're one of those supporters who think if he's wrong about the weather the liberals win. Aren't you. Admit it. J'accuse, Grey! J'accuse!
Those goddamn liberal hurricanes, right. Dorian came straight for us dressed like a hipster and wearing a Hillary 2016 pin. Panic. PANIC.
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Am I the only one who read the book because I just enjoyed the storytelling and characters?
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@Lunatic
Is that one of those creatures from Dark Crystal.
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@Snoopy
They politicized their work as soon as they decided to misrepresent the truth to the American public in order to appease a political power.
The public depends on them giving important and reliable weather information. That is more important than petty politics or the president's ego.
Meanwhile his supporters are acting like him being wrong about the weather would mean the liberals win. I don't even. The weather is the fucking weather.
Do you mean dramatic consequences in terms of politics, or policy?
Both.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
The one at the bottom of the website said it was expired when I tried to use it just now. I am currently on my phone, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
It's doing that for everyone and needs to be fixed. I always just use this url to the main chat. Don't know if it will work for you.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
it never was, it was about Trump as they all are.As I have said many, many times, I didn't vote for him, but I'm certainly glad Hillary didn't win.I think Republicans don't actually care about the general publicgiven such a blanket statement obviously there is no room to bother discussing anything related, closed minds are just like that.
What? I only made my "blanket statement" because you made the same blanket statement about Democrats. I was just following your lead, hombre. Why are you acting like I said that in a vacuum. I was more like, "Well I guess if we're just throwing blanket statements around then..."
But if you've changed your mind about blanket statements and would like to know my more in depth opinion, I think that some politicians in the Republican party may well care about the public, but the saner ones are not in control and won't speak up to challenge their leadership if they think the president's actions may not be good for the public/America. So they are effectively impotent.
I think their party has been taken control of by an ego-consumed child who isn't even really all that Republican, and they're just going along with it, even though they know how insane it is, because they're afraid of going against their party. With a few notable exceptions like Jeff Flake. Politicians have always been afraid of going against their party, Democrat or Republican, but I personally have never seen it have such dramatic consequences.
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@Vader
100 people, wow. That's nothing to sneeze at. But "joke's on DART"? Was that just a joke itself, or did someone on DART suggest you don't have talent?
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@Vader
Have there been many incidents where you had to step in?
Do you think we'd ever be successful in getting more DARTers interested in Discord? Is there any chance of overcoming the general apathy?
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@oromagi
Much appreciation for the appreciation, but I don't really feel right accepting it, in my case. As a recusal mod I do much less work and so imo deserve much less credit. bish and Virt are the ones who have really put in the hours here. I only handle sensitive cases. The rest of the time I get to put my feet up; bish and Virt do not.Well, I am deeply grateful for all your efforts. I'm certain it is a lot of effort for little reward but I sense that you are all motivated by more than mere recompense. You've made a safe & friendly space for me to write and research and socialize with the deeply weird, which is a tremendous boon and balm for me. Thank you for the efforts last year and I look forward to another!
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
So is this thread officially not about the hurricane fiasco anymore? Should I start a new thread if I want to talk about the Trump administration pressuring a federal science organization into misrepresenting reality so the president could save face?
the problem is, for many imo, there's isn't a better choice in 2020. IF (big if) the democrats didn't go full socialist-tard, pander ad-nauseam and actually cared about the general public rather than "special" groups they probably could have converted a bunch of voters. But that's not their game plan. It's control, control, control. None of them actually want to help the U.S. they just want to get elected.
Why'd you vote him in in the first place? If you voted for him, of course. You knew what you were getting. Were you one of those "because Hillary is the Antichrist" people?
There seems to be some irony here. I think Republicans don't actually care about the general public, and pander to a "special" group -- rich one-percenters who are all about control, control, control.
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@Vader
I think bish merely said that questions to discord mods are best addressed in a separate thread.
What are the kinds of things you've had to handle as a discord mod?
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@Ramshutu
Oh, absolutely. Yes. 100%. I, too, endorse the official company line.Bsh loves all his coworkers equally.
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@Speedrace
bish will not answer this because he's too polite to risk giving offense to Virt and Ram.Who's your favorite coworker?
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@Speedrace
In seriousness, I am a moderator who is only called in when the acting moderators must recuse themselves from a case.
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@Speedrace
That's understandable. I suppose it is a bit of a compliment to be asked. The responsibility was not something I eagerly leaped at, though.
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@Speedrace
Wow you really seem to want this.
I cannot relate to that.
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@bsh1
Fourthed.I would also like to personally thank Bsh; he is probably the most adult and mature person I have ever met on the internet. Ever.I second thatI third this. Bsh has been a great head mod and a great person to work with.
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