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• anonemouse commented on Random thought for the day
  "Those goddamn hippies betrayed Our Troops" (to presume and caricature) doesn't sound proto-fascist to you?...
• DeMarquis commented on Random thought for the day
  I think we can program the expert system to detect publishing fees and delete from the database. Keep criticizing- it makes ideas stronger! As for the Vietnam vets- I'm not comfortable calling such people "fascist"- I think it's a bit unfair considering that they seem otherwise able to think for themselves. In general I have a bias against stretching terms too broadly- keeping definitions somewhat precise allows useful distinctions to be made....
• anonemouse commented on Random thought for the day
  I think we can program the expert system to detect publishing fees and delete from the database. Keep criticizing- it makes ideas stronger! Bit of a baby/bathwater solution, that. I said "proto-" for a reason. My caricature statement isn't, but the map from believing it to fascism is easily drawn....
• DeMarquis commented on Random thought for the day
  I think thats painting with too broad a brush. Too many false positives using that criteria....
• CatinaDiamond commented on Random thought for the day
  And another Chinese facility burns. I apologize for driving off the weapon buffs, but hey. Ἑσπερίδας θ᾽, ᾗς μῆλα πέρην κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο χρύσεα καλὰ μέλουσι φέροντά τε δένδρεα καρπόν. Καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους, [Κλωθώ τε Λάχεσίν τε καὶ Ἄτροπον, αἵτε βροτοῖσι γεινομένοισι διδοῦσιν ἔχειν ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε,] αἵτ᾽ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε παραιβασίας ἐφέπουσιν· οὐδέ ποτε λήγουσι θεαὶ δεινοῖο χόλοιο, πρίν γ᾽ ἀπὸ τῷ δώωσι κακὴν ὄπιν, ὅς τις ἁμάρτῃ. Τίκτε δὲ καὶ Νέμεσιν, πῆμα θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι, Νὺξ ὀλοή· μετὰ τὴν δ᾽ Ἀπάτην τέκε καὶ Φιλότητα Γῆράς τ᾽ οὐλόμενον, καὶ Ἔριν τέκε καρτερόθυμον. It's not like this...