Brave New World
Submitted by UnBlinkingEye on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 5:27pm
In a world of political blogs, most demand conformity to the prevailing point of view of the site. To me that means being banned is the equivalent of being sent to an island, somewhere free thinking is still allowed. I've been banned from Freerepublic, DU and soon from DailyKos where Hillary is NOT under FBI investigation, Bernie is a mean old white man and you can't even say trump when you're playing cards.
Wonder what I can say there pre-banning that will plant some errant thoughts in the Hillbots?
Comments
Go with the truth.
That will get you banned henceforth and forthwith.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Accidentally replied to myself
Henceforth I'll try not to do that. Henceforth and forthwith are in the subject line.
Forth forth and hence with.
I agree that hillbots are impervious to acid, lye, truth, fact, argument, and worst of all, logic.
I knew about
the last four. Wonder what would happen to Hillary if someone accidentally threw a bucket of water on her?
Like the FBI.
In high school, my senior year we did wizard of oz.
I had been in 25+ musicals, singing groups, plays, and improv shows (we had a very active theater, band and choir wing in HS)
I decided to go for the part of the wicked witch. 248 freshmen girls, 86 sophomores, 23 juniors and 6 seniors, all girls tried out for the same part. I got the role.
I fully understand the concept of melting.
Impressive, congrats
Truly I mean that and tip my hat to you. I only feel like I'm truly breathing when I'm storytelling, onstage or protesting... and that scary few minutes while landing in a plane...however that's due to terror - well maybe it is the same after all
To you from one who has played Babe in Crimes in the Heart. My leading man was about 10 years my younger LOL... Suicidal Southern Blondie Darkly Comedic. Kinda fit so I read.
And I fucking nailed it. And one night my husband brought the kids to see the show and during my crazy monologue where I'm explaining why and how I finally snapped and gut shot my filthy rich husband... all on a pin light mind you and the most hushed part of this very dark comedy...
My daughter shouts out, "OMG, that's MOM!"
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Hahaha
That must be a wonderful memory, each performance is always unique but very rarely like that!
prog - weirdo | dog - woof
I bet you were a
great and amusing melter, pastor. Margret Hamilton was impressive melting. She was really wicked riding her bike, broom and cackling. That movie permanently terrified me of the wind. The wicked witch got her's and the monkeys were released so it all ended satisfactorily. The wind, tornado and the landscape of Kansas somehow crept into my mind and still scares me.
We took the show on the road,
And entertained old folks homes and grade schools with slightly shorter performances. In those programs, they added my middle initial to my name - RobertA. This kids and the olde thymers never knew I was a he.
lol - funny
Hillbots are beyond help. My greatest fantasy was for the south to secede. Now, it is for the few progressive states left to secede. We don't need to be contiguous. We get to cherry pick the ones we want. Then we build a wall and make Wall Street pay for it.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Secession
I would hope for Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska and Hawaii to start. Kind of like the book Ecotopia we read in college.
Frankly,
I wish Canada, feeling pity for us Minnesotans, would just annex us and create a new province.
Solves the health care issue.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
When I lived in VT, I and several pals had the same fantasy
It featured universal health care and affordable university-level education (Canadian unis had just begun recruiting in the northern tier of the US and stirred interest at college fairs).
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
That would include, alas...
...the Duchy of Jefferson. I guess every country needs some comic relief.
...and the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, for those who recall "The
Mouse That Roared."
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
There's a movement...
to do something close to that. The new country would be called Cascadia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement) http://www.cascadianow.org/
It strikes me as rather extreme and virtually impossible, but it's an interesting concept.
I guess there is probably no chance
You would take in Baja Arizona?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Henceforth and forthwith
We used to say 'Hence, thus and perforce' at an old job of mine. I've tried the truth there, doesn't seem to work, except perhaps when one wants to be banned.
Seriously people, don't get banned until AFTER the Nov election
the potential exists for a most satisfying internet experience.
I'm saving my ban for after the election.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
I've been saving it for SOMETHING
Now I know why.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I want to get banned
Over there for being an "I told you so asshole".
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
You can probably get banned for real with this:
Since I'd been around for a decade, I only got a 3 month time out...
probably saved me from getting banned, assuming that can't be done retroactively in absentia.