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@TheUnderdog
Privatized cops have financial motive to engineer events in the prison that justify extended sentences.
I'm not saying all do it but I recommend a watch of Orange is the New Black to grasp how corrupt the culture amongst cops is in privatized prisons.
If then, those cops themselves were only hired and fired as per the will of the corporation, it's viable that snitches end up framed for things if they dare to oust the corporation and its cops.
This shit really happened and happens in nations with private cops.
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@fauxlaw
I think Dusty was being sarcastic.
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@fauxlaw
No shit Sherlock, anyone 'can' it doesn't mean they will, because they can 'try' and 'fail' even though they 'can' try and succeed.
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@MarkWebberFan
As I understand it, political correctness only happens in the U.S. and Europe. I think if it does seep into the third world, it would remain localized for sons of rich generals and kings. In my opinion, it is an overblown issue. I don't pay much attention to it, since it only accounts for meager fraction of the world's literature.
Oh dear, another conservative-politics lie.
Try to say things against the norms in your nation of Indonesia, then you will see what brutal PC culture is. The only difference is that what's non-PC is Indonesia may actually be the good stuff to say more often than in the 'western world'.
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@coal
Theme Song: Layto - Houndin
Closest Fictional Character: Lelouch vi Brittania
Exaggerated Overview:
The father figure who will never give you his full approval nor his full rejection, the big brother you respect, fear and feel comforted by... Playing hard to get is an artform Coal has spent his entire life mastering and that life has been an adventurous one indeed, though the details of it of course must remain a mystery so that he maintains the air of mystery which is the magic about him. When Coal walks in a room it doesn't just turn some heads, it sends fucking ripple waves.
He is the man's man, the badass that has the charisma to get away with his brash acts and snappy remarks. When others try to lash out at him, it doesn't matter, they are a fly to swat if they get too annoying and it isn't him who will be doing the swatting. He debates and out of nowhere loyal voters show up, he enters a thread and out of nowhere everyone gravitates around him and agrees with him. If Coal says you aint shit, all respect for you is gone, if Coal says you're interesting, you have a chance as long as you stay in his good graces.
He has learned not to flex too much as well as how to go about angling his interactions such that those that annoy him naturally are eroded away and disappear rather than keeping the beef going on for a long time. If you go head to head with him, you need to understand you are at the very least 1v3, he will make sure of that. It isn't simply sociopathic manipulation he carries out, that wouldn't get him the loyalty he has from others. He cultivates deep long-standing friendships with deep respect towards him because he knows how and when to drop a compliment and make it seem meaningful, he knows how to make you feel cared for but don't mistake the situation as one of equals, you are his underling, his student, his apprentice and he is your leader, forget that and the friendship will disappear unless you prove useful to him.
Strengths:
- Extreme capability at manipulation, formidable in all situations where public opinion is the primary factor in who wins the conflict.
- Alpha in the true sense of the term, he knows how to carry himself at all times such that he excudes authority and charisma all at once. It even can overpower that of other alpha males/females, he has a way of making others feel pathetic and inferior the more annoying and overconfident he perceives them to be in the situation (although, he more often opts out of interacting at all if that is the case).
- Very perceptive judge of both people and even debate opinions and how they will be perceived by the audience (which he predicts and angles his arguments to suit the voters). Everything is planned and observed by him, there is never a moment he isn't clued up on the situation and if such a scenario occurs, he bluffs very efficiently until he's got a grasp.
- While he is very strong willed and manipulative, he knows when to lay down his sword for a greater good. This is one of the most alluring things about him that keeps him popular in all circles he enters, it doesn't matter what scenario turns up or even if it's head-to-head beef someone has with him, he knows exactly how to make it so the other comes crawling asking for his approval or alternatively knows how to make it so everyone else thinks the other was the less moral and less wise one, which is all that's required for him to stay powerful and needed.
Weaknesses:
- Like many narcissistic types, he is masking a fragile ego. I am not sure the weakness is the ego itself, since he masks it and has it under control but if it comes to him feeling superior to you or him having a reasonable interaction if you also are a very confident, up-front personality, he will opt for the former more often than not and it is one of the limitations he has to his manipulation schemes, the 'real him' comes out to play when faced with other egomaniac types and it doesn't even feel good for him to release.
- While he's learned the art of dropping topics and dismissing people to avoid hostile interactions continuing too long, this doesn't mean he's solved the core anger issues that are linked to the ego-weakness. He is very intolerant of what he deems as either stupid or threatening to his ego (or both). This anger is another weakness to both his manipulation and his general ability to enjoy using at the very least this website, leading him to not cope too well in an environment like this where there's many debaters who are at least 65% egotistical and think they're "always right" to a degree. He copes much better off-site and in private by making his interactions 1-on-1 such that he interacts with people who can't and/or aren't angering him (unless someone else presses the issue and forces him out into the open where he will happily flex his social pull).
- If the situation doesn't give any superficial gain or gratification to him (especially if it doesn't in any way soothe his ego) he finds it hard to enjoy, which is a shame as this leads to many situations where his deeply perceptive mind isn't put to sufficient use and 'wasted talent' probably has happened more than the rest of us know whether in his contributions to threads or debates. He tends to only want to contribute if he calculates it will end up with people admiring and supporting what he posts (or alternatively, if it gets information or a friendship he finds useful and/or entertaining).
- He has mastered the art of self-deprecation (on the outside) a little too well that it probably has affected him. It's highly probable that Coal at some very significant point (or multiple points leading to one real defining moment) came to conclude his egotistical drive was interfering with his actual end result both socially and even in terms of how easily he can go about communities (since he had a lot more beef) so he trained himself to reign it in hardcore. This has led to him constantly second-guessing himself and fighting against it but the core drive being egotistical hasn't changed (and actually I am someone who doesn't think egotistical people can change the way they mentally are, I would know as I am one).
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@zedvictor4
Among animals that can't survive without it, yes.
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domestic*
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It's okay to feed pets meat as a vegan, however eagles are not demostic creatures.
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If your best friend is rich, would you steal from him/her/them to give to an enemy in financial need?
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@Kamikaze
Official rules of DART
- Argue
- Don't worry
- Be happy
- Lose the argument
- Fuck off
- Come back
- Rule 1
The King of Kongduct
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@fauxlaw
Do, or do not, there is no try.
That's actually a terrible quote of Yoda's. One of the least inspiring Star Wars quotes.
In fact Yoda contradicts that quote entirely with the following:
The greatest teacher, failure is.
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@Theweakeredge
Exaggerated Overview:
Furious when provoked, a justice seeker of one of the purest forms, full of troubles in the eyes of those that prefer the status quo, Theweakeredge is a user that never negotiates, never smiles without significant cause and most certainly is NEVER EVER ANGRY, unless you're an intellectually dishonest scumbag, then he may just grab that shield and defend against your words with SUPERIOR MORALITY AND LOGIC.
A pariah to some (especially those who are Right Wing) and an entertaining and respected rival to others, Theweakeredge doesn't have any active member who is truly neutral with him. When he enters a thread, casts a vote or has a 1v1 debate, he is making a statement, defending the weak and is a hero taking down the worst villains this website has to offer. What, is that a little biased? What, do you think you have the right to stand in his way? Then you're a CORRUPT TYRANT and he will take you down.
Strengths:
- Ferocious endurance, this guy is virtually impossible to get the last word against or make concede anything in any way. He will remain resolute to all foes in almost any arena until the opponent either gives up or the conversation reaches a toxic ending where both are better off leaving.
- Doesn't cower to peer pressure. Extremely dedicated to social justice in all respects, Weakeredge is nobody's puppet to control.
- Entertaining style of both writing and formatting said writing. There's never content from the guy that doesn't make you feel the burning passion and zeal that drive him.
- Strong at debating itself, he can hold his own especially if it's a topic he strongly cares about and has researched in-depth.
Weaknesses:
- Victim of his own biases, extremely polarising even on matters where it's not clear why he feels so strong. He often can make enemies even with those on the same overall side as him on topics of they aren't as polarised as him on the matter.
- Lack of almost any social skills at all other than initial politeness and manners when interacting, he tends to alienate many users, even users that are difficult to offend and make angry.
- Tendency to see everything as a fight to the death, he cannot simply sit back or be okay with disagreement on things. If it arises he will rip at it. Even if he makes a thread to vent, he's inclined to either argue with those giving supportive advice or ignore their posts and not reply a friendly remark back, he predominantly interacts to battle at all times.
- Extremely easy to provoke and bring the worst out in. Even if you barely directly insult him, if he sees another user as evil, that user tends to maintain the complete upper hand in terms of conduct and EQ throughout the interaction.
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Did you understand this is about raps on the topic? You are arguing a point, not discussing the raps.
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@Benjamin
^ This guy is actually an Anarchist (non denominational), not an Ancom but he spits fucking well about the problems of American Capitalism.
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Lame af Marx bars, clearly had a capitalist agenda to the entire thing.
I agree with the capitalist arguments but that's because the Socialist arguments were appeals to emotion.
There were much stronger bars and facts for Marx to bring forth
I agree with the capitalist arguments but that's because the Socialist arguments were appeals to emotion.
There were much stronger bars and facts for Marx to bring forth
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@Castin
Okay, bonobos, humans and dolphins, my question still stands and humans have more mental anticipation and memory of the sex.
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@janesix
I'm asking about the God that claims to have made man in his image.
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We, unlike most mammals, lack a penis bone and have very sensitive female genitalia, which has led to our erections and reproduction involving more pleasure and drive towards it than other species experience.
I wonder why God did this if us, the species closest to god, have the most innate urges and/or needs for foreplay, orgasms, arousal etc.
Rats and rabbits reproduce much more, as do insects, however I am speaking of lust itself (the pleasurable experience of sex). The only other species that is definitely shown to feel this same rush from sex are those of dolphins.
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Ask Stalin or China.
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@Safalcon7
am not actually saying you aren't entitled to your opinion especially as your profile states you to be a Muslim Bangladeshi, however I would like to tell you that you should perhaps research about Hamas.PLO are a puppet-organisation of Hamas now, the leaders of PLO that didn't cooperate were thrown off buildings (a tradition they have to 'make an example' on top of the other things they do) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-gaza-scene-idUSL1264188820070612WARNING an answer in the following link may have real-life violent video content, it isn't too graphic as it passes Quora's terms of use but I haven't viewed it and can't speak for how brutal it is.Hamas are a mafia, a terrorist organisation of sorts, that have used and still do use pregnant women, adolescents and all kinds of human shield or 'provoke and play the victim' tactics against Israel to frame the other for needing to fight back.It is Hamas who has blackmailed Palestine to never be able to negotiate with Israel, not the other way around.
They can't evict them, Hamas are the legal representation Palestine has (I am not joking) because they 'won' elections there to be the local council/governors (if you didn't vote for them or at least pretend to, you risked you and your entire family being brutally punished, so they've won every election since they properly enforced that).
The issue is about how to achieve piece at all at this point, Hamas have no intention of negotiating and PLO are submissive/compliant to Hamas because Hamas will kill their leaders if they aren't so both organisations that lead Palestinians refuse to negotiate with Israel. In the meantime, Israel has grown more and more conservative and hostile so it's now twoway aggression and hostility.
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@Safalcon7
Hamas is brutalising and terrifying their own people and blackmailing their people and PLO to not negotiate with Israel.
This then results in their people being victims of Israel since no negotiations of any kind can take place and Hamas continually blackmails their people to be human shields and involuntary warriors in a battle they don't want to be part of but are forced to be at gunpoint.
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@SirAnonymous
Theme Song: Grandson - Despicable (acoustic)
Closest Fictional Character: Carl Grimes
Exaggerated Overview:
Paranoid and self-doubting in many respects, SirAnonymous tries to avoid others as much as possible. Yet, he is drawn to the website for some reason, the community drives him to suddenly come out of his shell for reasons that don't make sense to any, least of all himself. His self-doubt is his predominant trait as are the periods of long absence from the website.
He most likely is a pragmatist at his core who hates that he is that way (wishes he was an idealist). Life and the world have jaded him and he is rather paranoid about anyone finding out something about him to the extent that one may wonder why he participates in this website at all. The only thing he has explicitly claimed to believe in is Christianity and some resultant brand of Theological Conservatism.
He did try to start a journalistic paper of sorts regarding DART that was aimed at a satire-seeking audience, though that's stopped. This shows that he is quite the observer on the low and has a talent for writing if he'd choose to develop and reveal it more.
Strengths:
- Humble, very ready to self-depricate even, unlikely to clash heads with any user.
- Observant of others, his knowledge of other users could be very great for all we know.
- Thinks before he acts or speaks and when he attempts to produce stuff it's usually high quality if the effort's put in.
Weaknesses:
- His humility is kind of off-putting for people who enjoy confident, entertaining people. That may seem obvious but it is so severely offputting because there is an aura about him that says 'don't like me, don't even look at me, I am not someone you need to care about or take interest in' and it kind of is infectious too, it makes others feel doubtful and cautious.
- He's a quitter of many kinds, never sticks at anything for long on the website at least.
- I think he's a very sad individual, that's a weakness on its own.
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@Vader
Theme Song: WAR*HALL - Night of Your Life
Closest Fictional Character: Shanks (One Piece Captain)
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Supadudz is an extremely likeable individual and his charisma is in fact his predominant trait, little else is known about him than that he likes to make friends and have fun, especially in the form of sports and parties. He is laidback as a default but if you trigger him, espeicially by critising someone or something he holds dear, an aggressive streak comes out to play and he doesn't hold back.
A believer in freedom and holding fun as more important than tranquility and peace, his politics and general approach to debates involve his style and viewpoint being both creative but also at times weakly reasoned. He doesn't place high value on logic and 'sternness' to him, life is much more a matter of rolling with the punches than analysing and trying to avoid them. You could say that if his debating style evolves enough, he'd be a very strong offensive debater who would let your attacks hold and merely keep throwing out creative angles that are difficult to rebuke which cause his opponents to slip up unless they also are creative.
Supadudz brings energy to the website beyond just debating, his participation on-site and off-site in the gaming communities whether in mafia or fantasy football make him a pioneer socially here, where it would otherwise be largely a bunch of nerds who don't like each other much. There is an aura around Supadudz that gets people to be a little more energetic, not necessarily friendlier, when he's participating in things, he has a way of making people more engaged in whatever forum thread or activity they're participating in.
Strengths:
- Infectious energy and charisma, people want to be wherever he's at because where he's at is automatically fun.
- Optimistic even about the website, a bright light that never burns out.
- Creative, whether it's rap battles or forum mafia, he is very much a pioneer of community events and would be more so if the site had a larger and/or more sociable community.
- Proud of who he is, entertaining at times, even strictly because of that confidence.
Weaknesses:
- His pride and optimism can lead to overestimation of his own abilities at certain things and in the past has meant he got very heated up during certain conflicts. He struggles to remain calm when him or a friend he has on the site are being criticised or, in his eyes, mistreated. He fully believes he will win all circumstances he enters and that energy can become an issue depending on the scenario.
- Somewhat weak at the actual focus of this website; debating. He is not someone who likes to argue or deeply reason about things, it's both something he finds boring and even futile to embrace since he believes life is about being passionate more so than reasonable. He'd rather be passionate about a topic he's slightly wrong about than correct about a topic he doesn't give a damn about and that is both entertaining when he has the passion and an issue once he enters debating arenas.
- When things aren't how he thinks they should be, whether in a game or in the website's general atmosphere, it's deeply upsetting for him especially if someone he cares about is being victimised in his eyes. He tends to take it on himself to 'fight back' and if it were up to him, there shouldn't be rules holding back how harshly one can talk back to another user to defend their honour.
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“I am a Democrat!” she declared, dancing liquid on the stage.
©2019 by fauxlaw
True to her nature she put the good of the many above her own:
Stripped bare, the stripper danced her liquid dance; danced on
©1986 by a strip club attendee.
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In agreement with Oromagi, I think that the US is the only nation where people can even get away with that.
If you dared to do that to the parliament houses, senate or whatever in another nation, you wouldn't see the fucking light of day, everyone in and who directly incited the insurrection could be detained and interrogated indefinitely.
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@whiteflame
In many cases I might be surprised with you, you are also free to rage at me over how wrong I am and give specifics.
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@Crocodile
If there's long day phases I'll give it a go. 13, is too big a setup for this theme by the way, there's only around 8 characters to give that won't be too minor to seem like fakeclaims.
Will the Theme split be a classic good vs evil type thing? Will there be a thirdparty?
Long means nearer to four real life days, definitely at least three.
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@Dr.Franklin
Theme Song: Disturbed - The Vengeful One
Closest Fictional Character: The Punisher (Frank Castle)
Exaggerated Overview:
He doesn't say much but the times he isn't replying 4 words or less per post to mock how pointless he thinks your thread is, he'll actually post pro-anarchy pro-right-wing ethos stuff making him an Ancap of the pure kind (as opposed to a typical Right-Wing Libertarian). He wants a world where the citizens are free to protect each other against the evil and where the worthy rise, no unfair advantage or disadvantage at all.
The problem for Dr. Franklin seems to be that he would rather physically show you his ideas or allude to them with a few words rather than discuss them in-depth. A man of few words but a lot of passionate thoughts, angry ones at that, he could be likened to the Punisher in quite a few ways including a very dark, sarcastic sense of humour.
Strengths:
- Resiliently untrollable/unshakable, it's pretty impossible to properly piss this guy off without yourself being pissed off along with him.
- Curt with responses, he doesn't waste a single second typing if he doesn't think it won't be worth it.
- Extremely independent in thought, not a sheep in the slightest. He has even displayed the capacity to have conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories which isn't a sarcastic compliment from me, it shows genuine independent thinking at play.
Weaknesses:
- Very minimalistic in around 85% of his interactions or actually more than that. You won't get anything from him if he isn't damn sure his effort will be worth the responses and attention it gets.
- In formal debating or anything close to it, he doesn't do too well. The freer the construct of debating, the more his shockingly hidden capacity for deep thought and theories emerges (but he's quick to cease any and all conversation the millisecond he detects the interaction to be fruitless).
- While he's untrollable, he's also very hard to develop any kind of positive long-term interaction with. He is on guard at all times.
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@MisterChris
Theme Song: NF - Change
Closest Fictional Character: Elijah Mikaelson (personality description has 3 tabs and requires scrolling inside the second tab).
Exaggerated Overview:
Honest, jaded, humble and driven by an urge to do good by those who've done good by him, MisterChris is a well-liked member of the community. He seemingly came out of nowhere as a chosen assistant Mod by David and has since maintained a position of putting his loyalties and do-gooder zeal above all else, never caring of his position and caring much more about the bigger picture at all times.
He enjoys debating in small bursts on topics he feels he either can properly defend Libertarianism with or some stance he feels strong enough on, it's safe to say you'll never see him enjoying or thriving in playing the Devil's Advocate. Chris is cynical about both the government and big corporations and this ethos applies also to a local level on a website like this, he doesn't tend to uphold either mainstream 'rebels' or mainstream status quo advocates, he prefers everyone to be free to be their own person and pushes outcomes that favour this in his interactions.
Strengths:
- Charming enough to get along with just about every single member.
- Knows his way about the site's social landscape as if he were an ancient among us despite being relatively new especially back when he was selected as voting moderator.
- Very strong debater at certain topics and he knows which topics those are, doesn't deny his limitations and excels within them.
- Honest. You are rarely being directly lied to by him but similar to Elijah, he at times may 'slant' a comment to have an alternate interpretation thus meaning he didn't technically lie.
Weaknesses:
- Sensitive and easy to upset, though he not only hides it well but supports the freedom of those that do that to try and do so. He takes criticism and compliments deeply, especially if there's reasoning given with them.
- Quite rigid in thinking patterns, once his mind's made up and furthermore if his loyalties are set in stone, you aren't talking him out of anything. In some ways he's not even here to debate but merely to observe others debate more so, he enjoys hearing the other side even if he's very sure of the one he's on.
- Despite being honest as a core virtue, he will slant comments, replies and interactions to avoid directly offending another member. Answering a question with either a question or a half-direct half-answer is not unheard of for him (more so the latter). He struggles with direct confrontation unless it's a core value or a situation where he feels he ought to have someone's back.
- Not so active in general, more so in bursts. When he's inactive he's almost nonexistent not just posting less and prefers to be quiet as a default state of being which can be unentertaining for people drawn to the louder debater types.
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@MarkWebberFan
Well Israel haven't been angels either, especially not in how they came to own that land in the first place.
The issue is about how to achieve piece at all at this point, Hamas have no intention of negotiating and PLO are submissive/compliant to Hamas because Hamas will kill their leaders if they aren't so both organisations that lead Palestinians refuse to negotiate with Israel. In the meantime, Israel has grown more and more conservative and hostile so it's now twoway aggression and hostility.
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@MarkWebberFan
They can't evict them, Hamas are the legal representation Palestine has (I am not joking) because they 'won' elections there to be the local council/governors (if you didn't vote for them or at least pretend to, you risked you and your entire family being brutally punished, so they've won every election since they properly enforced that).
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@Safalcon7
What, terrorism is selectively operated by some disarrayed Muslims only? Define terrorism. Explain why I shouldn't call the Israel and its military nothing but a terrorist group.
I am not actually saying you aren't entitled to your opinion especially as your profile states you to be a Muslim Bangladeshi, however I would like to tell you that you should perhaps research about Hamas.
PLO are a puppet-organisation of Hamas now, the leaders of PLO that didn't cooperate were thrown off buildings (a tradition they have to 'make an example' on top of the other things they do) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-gaza-scene-idUSL1264188820070612
WARNING an answer in the following link may have real-life violent video content, it isn't too graphic as it passes Quora's terms of use but I haven't viewed it and can't speak for how brutal it is.
Hamas are a mafia, a terrorist organisation of sorts, that have used and still do use pregnant women, adolescents and all kinds of human shield or 'provoke and play the victim' tactics against Israel to frame the other for needing to fight back.
It is Hamas who has blackmailed Palestine to never be able to negotiate with Israel, not the other way around.
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@Username
Anyone who gives you the pro-Palestine/pro-Israel narrative is missing a lot.
Especially the pro-Palestine side tends to omit how horrific Hamas are to their own people, I am sure there's biased sources on both sides.
I hope peace can eventually happen but it seems unrealistic for now.
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Was Bullish a townsided mason or a townsided jailkeeper when he died?
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@Lunatic
Of course he does, it's exactly what the difference is between a neighborizer and a mason.
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@Lunatic
A mafia-affiliated Mason is a Yakuza that doesn't die to convert.
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@whiteflame
Theme Song: Black Pumas - Colors
Closest Fictional Character: Ginrei Kuchiki
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Goody two-shoes Whiteflame is at first unbelievably good, it almost can seem fake to some, what's underneath it all? Where is the Hulk to his Bruce Banner? It isn't there, he doesn't snap, he doesn't break rules, he doesn't falter and yet he doesn't mock those that do either. He watches, waits and takes opportunities as they come, never overpressing an advantage in or outside of debates and yet being well-respected and well-renowned as a formidable opponent.
If you yell at him, he will ignore you and maybe calmly reply if he deems it appropriate but overall it's irrelevant to him what rules you break or the tone you talk, he finds it immature and entirely irrelevant to the conversation at hand. This skill is invaluable to him as a debater and he treats debating and everything in life as some fusion of science and art, where the rules and principles are to be studied and held to in a rigid manner but the rest is creativity where the highest artistic approach is most fascinating.
Strengths:
- Calm and patient to extreme degrees, one of the most patient members of the website's history.
- Highly intelligent and capable in a huge variety of topics inside and outside of the formal arena.
- Extremely analytical and perceptive, will notice strengths in his opponents' cases they often themselves didn't realise were there until he rebukes each one incredibly well.
- Despite being slow to anger and never breaking a rule himself, he doesn't hold chaotic people in a resentful manner, more of a dismissive one where he doesn't pay attention to it. He has the same approach to 'inferior' debaters.
Weaknesses:
- Kind of boring at a first and even a second glance, it takes a lot of studying the guy to realise how fascinating his intellect actually is.
- Very high-end taste in debates and everything, it is unlikely you will impress him or make him even want to debate you unless you show him something that makes him think you're even a half-worthy opponent. This even applies to forum interactions but less significantly so, it's something that can make those he deems irritating and/or unworthy as feeling he's entirely unapproachable and dislikes them (when really, it's more like he thinks nothing of them which may be better or worse depending how you look at it).
- While he himself is extremely disciplined, this converts into disproportionate lapses in taste and style with certain users even outside of debating, he is a borderline genius and tries his level best to hide how stupid and boring he finds others, which then has forced him to have a constantly bored, monotone kind of typing style to avoid making clear when he's super keen (so that he doesn't offend when he isn't). He is very observant of himself and extremely reserved until he feels he's calculated it's correct to open up.
- He is somewhat like quicksilver (liquid mercury), very easy to befriend and very easy to not care too much about you the next moment, it all comes down to the effort you put in and what he feels up to at a given time. He is as much your wise, patient teacher as he is the superior student who will whoop your ass if you truly step to him and you never know which side of him you're gonna get if you go up against him in any format.
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@Undefeatable
Theme Song: Foo Fighters - The Pretender
Closest Fictional Character: Sasuke Uchiha
Exaggerated Overview:
Undefeatable wants to destroy you in a debate. It isn't that he resents you, it's that he wants you to envy and respect him. This runs much deeper than the shallow thing it appears to be, after all there are other ways to have an ego trip than debating on DART. Undefeatable needs to know that absolutely nobody can truly defeat his capacity to reason, he will try desperately to rematch against previous victors and puts his all into learning from defeats. Undefeatable doesn't actually have delusions of self-grandeur, instead he recognises where he stands as a debater and intellectual (or at least where he thinks he stands on the only scale he thinks matters) and strategises multiple areas to improve on to move 'up the ladder' (not just in Rating, in pure skill which is his main focus and yearning to use the website).
It isn't about the glory of winning that drives him, it's about him knowing and feeling the surge or pride and joy that comes from defeating a formally terrifying opponent. He will keep trying until he feels everyone here is either his equal or inferior, a competitor in its truest form.
Strengths:
- Very hardworking, puts his all into debates no matter the circumstance.
- Highly intelligent and capable especially within certain niche topics.
- Very eager to debate, his eagerness has singlehandedly been helping the otherwise shrivelled up debate section of the site not die out for the past few months (especially earlier on in his site usage when he was more frequently debating).
- Admits defeat when he loses, doesn't try to make excuses. However... He can at times claim a win wasn't truly 'earned' even though accepting the outcome.
Weaknesses:
- He has a tendency to whine and moan after a defeat and not in a sportsmanlike manner. He will often seek to make the victor feel either like they owe him another chance to defeat them at the very least or that they didn't really 'earn' the win unless they and/or the voters can explain in-depth to him why he didn't do the right thing with the amount of sources he used etc. If he puts in a certain amount of work, he believes the result much match that and blames the system rather than himself or even simply accepting that some things in life being sometimes unfair and luck-based in part. He is here to win and makes that crystal clear to anyone he comes across.
- Forum-wise and socially, he's rather minimalistic but when he tries he really tries. He seems to think all confrontations in the website require one's 'all' in effort and urge to win, it would be safe to say he clashes heavily with users who don't believe that and is only able to truly get along with other 'tryhards' overall.
- Since everything is about winning for him, a major issue he has is sometimes to sit back and observe the debate from a neutral stance. Rather than neutralise points and agree with the opponent in part, he will often force everything to be entirely right or wrong, which enables more cunning opponents to trip him up at times, especially if pushing too far in the other direction takes away from the debate's resolution.
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@Sum1hugme
Theme Song: The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Closest Fictional Character: Minerva McGonagall
Exaggerated Overview:
Sum1hugme probably will bear hug you back if he's in a bad mood but generally is a gentle giant of sorts. It's unclear what brings him to the site other than a passion to discuss certain topics and then discuss nothing at all about others, though what those topics have in common isn't clear.
Mysterious in core beliefs or even core style of debate, Sum1hugme is recognised by his openness to engage on the formal 1v1 arena surprisingly more than his otherwise background, laidback demeanour would have you believe. There perhaps is a quiet bloodlust in there but he remains respectful throughout all encounters, disciplined and resolute no matter what the opponents bring to the table in behaviour or style.
Strengths:
- Humble and willing to learn from defeats.
- Resourceful within the debates and topics he's willing to engage in, difficlt to counter in any specific way.
- Makes very few enemies at all despite being open to confrontation if it comes his way.
- Extremely disciplined, never a bad word to or about anyone.
Weaknesses:
- Lacks a general presence of a strong kind on the site, despite being a non-noob and actively debating now and again, many don't know exactly who he is or what he's about here.
- His sternness can come across as a bit boring.
- Tends to stick to the 'big picture' on any debated topic which can turn away people interested in debating the details and intricacies.
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@Sum1hugme
Am I allowed to know your gender, otherwise I may pick a character that offends.
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@Theweakeredge
- Is an action good because god commands it, or is does god command it because it's good
Neither... ?
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I will start with myself.
Theme Song: P Money - Shook
Closest Fictional Character: Jaime Lannister
Exaggerated Overview:
A complex combination of ruthlessness and sentimentality, RM is known for his willingness to take almost anyone on and doesn't necessarily care too much about what people think of him despite being cocky.
Politically and religiously, RM represents a 'mystical' stance that incorporates pragmatism mixed with mercy and care in a strange concoction that he sees as morally justifable ruthlessness. This also sums up how he approaches debating in the formal arena. RM is less concerned with having the last word in conversation and more concerned with seeming witty enough or arguing well enough before letting things be.
Some find him intelligent, others find him cringey, no one truly knows what to make of him. He may have a soft core beneath a harsh exterior or may have a harder core beneath said softness.
Strengths:
- Extremely energetic and passionate
- Witty and cunning, unpredictable as an opponent
- Somewhat charismatic and quick to welcome newer members (even if it is done in a harsh way)
- Courageous, while some of his fights are easy he is also one of the only experienced members to not flinch too much from the opportunity to challenge a fellow 'Titan' of the site.
Weaknesses:
- Fragile Ego, even though he masks it at times he is sensitive to insults to his ability or self-worth, this can lead him to overreact
- Impulsivity is his fuel, when it goes well it goes brilliant but this also means that if he lacks the 'fire' to debate in the middle of a debate he finds it extremely difficult to keep it going. He debates as a passionate spar, not simply for the win at least not all the time.
- Chaotic nature puts people who prefer structure and monotony at extreme odds with him. There is probably not a single member that enjoys conformity and structure that is allied with RM.
- Bluntness, which he would call honesty, can cause significant abrasion with members and even be interpreted as direct insult at times. He works hard to avoid this but he isn't one to pussyfoot and never will be, at least not by nature.
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@ILikePie5
Whiteflame said he had two hands in his image 💀, but... Therefore, scum is MisterChris for having two hands. Lunatic had two arms, Supadudz didn't specify.
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a literal google search on the books would have gave away the theme. We picked it up in like 3 mins of searching
You knew what the theme was, you're scum and can interpolate other information vs the searches to asertain what isn't vs is a viable theme.
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@Lunatic
Ability of the Town is why they lasted that long, not balance. You had a planted clear mason on the scum team that the Town would confirm as Town unless they voted that person before the converted.
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@Lunatic
Someone recruited to scum multiple nights before they died...
Flips Town.
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