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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#99026: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:09:08 PM

[up] Hey at least my generation never had "The Shiek" god those Victorians were repressed.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#99027: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:10:27 PM

?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#99028: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:13:12 PM

[up][up] Fifty Shades of Gray is basically if The Sheik was white.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#99029: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:14:20 PM

[up][up][up][up]

Noticing that, I've started writing a story where the main character is a government agent/militarized police officer living in a mostly just society, and the villains are revolutionaries (albeit astroturfed into existence by Dirty Communists).

edited 19th Aug '15 3:14:39 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#99030: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:14:57 PM

[up][up][up][up] The Sheik was a book about a European woman abducted by a strapping Arab man who abused her and made her part of his harem. With the recent revelations about Bagdadi this has become horrifying in hindsight. Cracked also did an article about the mountains of literary porn Victorians consumed. Any way we are getting off topic. The long and short is my generation is composed of idiots, but so was everyone before it, and everyone that will come after it.

edited 19th Aug '15 3:15:20 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Keybreak (Long Runner)
#99031: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:15:06 PM

A lot of young adult novels include some corrupt ruling force and the kids banding together to take it down.

Who doesn't like the thought of that? Besides the ruling force.

But the U.S. has been a constitutional democratic republic for centuries and I don't think that's going to change too soon...so the main way to influence the country is to just focus all your attention on somebody and hope that they'll fix everything.

Between anarchy and dictatorship...what could be better than imperfect democracy? ;p

You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#99032: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:15:50 PM

IF you add the Trump, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz vote you get 50%.

So right now is more likely than not that the Republican Party will go full retarded.

edited 19th Aug '15 3:16:49 PM by BAFFU

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#99033: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:16:42 PM

my generation is composed of idiots

Please read this.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#99034: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:33:36 PM

[up] Interesting read, but to put it bluntly I never felt I fit in with my generation, I'm not very good at social media and all millennia's are supposed to be social media obsessed. Still I will list some of our more positive qualities, namely that we,at least in the US and Europe,are probably the most tolerant generation in human history. Also about the article, it is reminding me why I took so long to switch to being an Independent, and why I will probably never identify as a Democrat. God the left can be so stupid.

Edit: Like literally this article nearly perfectly explains why I took so long to step outside the "right wing bubble."

edited 19th Aug '15 3:38:15 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#99035: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:41:44 PM

You are still a small child. Every single day I think about politics or philosophy or really any subject worth studying I realize how much I don't know.

edited 19th Aug '15 3:42:27 PM by Achaemenid

Schild und Schwert der Partei
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#99036: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:44:20 PM

The more you think you know, the less you actually know. The more you actually know, the more you realize how little you know.

That is a famous (paraphrased) quote. Do not remember from whom.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#99037: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:45:16 PM

[up] [up]True, sorry for being such an obnoxious idiot sometimes.

Edit: I suppose that's the problem with some people, they are very smart, and yet refuse to learn anything new, or allow anything in to challenge their preconceived notions. I suppose that's something us youngens have on some of our elders. By and large we are willing to admit we don't know everything, and that we can be wrong.

edited 19th Aug '15 3:48:12 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#99038: Aug 19th 2015 at 3:46:52 PM

If you get to be really enlightened like me, then you realize you know so much that you actually know nothing, so you just go back to trying to sneak in a nap at work and yearning to return home so you can watch more pornography.

I am the best worst example. Don't actually do that.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#99039: Aug 19th 2015 at 4:20:35 PM

[up]There's so much to learn even just in porn. Just yesterday I learned there's live action My Little Pony parody porn. Blew my fucking mind.

edited 19th Aug '15 4:22:51 PM by nightwyrm_zero

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#99042: Aug 19th 2015 at 4:28:28 PM

[up][up]On a less schadenfreude note, I feel really sorry for his wife and kids....

edited 19th Aug '15 4:28:35 PM by nightwyrm_zero

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#99043: Aug 19th 2015 at 4:29:01 PM

Depressing but unsurprising.

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#99044: Aug 19th 2015 at 4:34:37 PM

Oddly one of the less despicable things I have heard of him doing. Seriously how can any parent let someone, even one of their own children, get away with hurting another one of their children. I don't care how fundy you are, something inside of you has to say that's fucked up. Normally I'm all for tolerance for conservatives, and against Liberal fear mongering against some of them. But in this case I say arrest both Joshie and Ma and Pa Dugger for child abuse and throw the book at them, and if the book doesn't hit them than write a new one and throw it.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#99045: Aug 19th 2015 at 5:03:33 PM

Josh was one of the children, i thought? He's just grown-up now.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#99046: Aug 19th 2015 at 5:04:51 PM

[up] He is, but he molested several of his sisters and other people who attended some religious camp with the Duggers.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#99047: Aug 19th 2015 at 5:04:51 PM

Double post my bad

edited 19th Aug '15 5:05:25 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Gabrael from My musings Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
#99048: Aug 19th 2015 at 5:06:28 PM

I have no pity for his wife. Ms. Duggar is a hateful, homophobic she beast.

They messed those children up bad.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#99049: Aug 19th 2015 at 5:09:49 PM

[up] I believe we were talking about Josh's wife, unless she is that too. But yeah I don't disagree with you about the Matriarch of that sick family.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#99050: Aug 19th 2015 at 5:17:51 PM

Lest we slip into our enemies' rhetorical traps, it is enough to say that she is hateful and homophobic. The "she beast" thing is gratuitous.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

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