Original RI quotes only

[Simulist]

God is Love.
Love is money.
Money is war.
War is fun.
Fun is sin.
Sin is admission.
Admission to God.
God is Amerika.
About to be cleansed.
Peace kept through war
war kept through faith.
Greed is good.
God wants you to be rich.
Believe, brother, believe
Ask any questions
and you will die.

Originally posted here.

[JackRiddler]

Anyone who proposes becoming overly concerned with the "feelings" of anonymous user names in a forum as heavily trolled and gamed as RI is opening himself up to a world of hurt. I advise rather employing a set of good boundaries, them sending out the love within those.

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[psynapz]

I never get to go to Wendy's when she's here. Always sushi this, vegetables that. I make up for it all by smoking cigs and screaming.

(emphasis added for lulz)

[Allegro]

As a boy he swallowed his magic decoder ring. He did not tell anyone, preferring not to risk the inevitable opprobrium that would follow the how and why. And so it was that the daily inspection of his own feces began that led to his life saving discovery, a grand romantic episode, a deeply abiding love for Mozart and an iron clad conviction that had he never swallowed the ring, he would never have realized who was controlling him. [Refer.]

[Allegro]

I don’t believe everyone need agree on every subject, or even know enough about a certain subject to disagree knowledgeably, before they’re accorded value for their subject of interest. [Refer.]

[Allegro]

FWIW, I think if acronymns can be confused with sandwiches or 70's rock bands, they're not helping to explain anything. [Refer.]

[Perelandra]

I trust this place to give us early warning alarms for big shit to duck and cover from, to clarify the decision to zig vs. zag against fascism, to repeatedly and relentlessly disrupt intellectual laziness and information-absorbing complacency. To remind that certainty is insanity, and the strive for it wasted energy. To remind that a group need not share beliefs to share a simple and profound platform from which a million righteous paths radiate in all directions, including inwardly towards each other where the cumulative light of truth is almost blinding. Almost.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

In fact, I see groin checking as the next growth industry, a novel way to lower unemployment, as well as the benchmark for safe travel and peace of mind throughout this country. I'm for it. I'm thinking of checking my own groin right now, just to be safe.

[MacCruiskeen]

I propose "National Opt-Out with a Boner Day." It's simple really, look at some porn on your mobile device while waiting in line, get a huge boner, and have the TSA guy feel you up. I guaran-goddamn-tee a large percentage of these screeners are straight and somewhat homophobic, and would quit their jobs after two hard-ons.

[nathan28]

Never ascribe to a racist, elitist culture of amoral greed that which is much more likely the master plan of snake devils. But I'm so fucking shallow.

[82_28]

I look at this as just one more step on the long road to the desensitization of the US public to overt fascism. In fact, to me, this is probably the definitive step--if you can get Americans to line up and have themselves and their children groped in public, then the Really Bad Guys have won. Period.

--LilyPat

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[Simulist]

Sarah Palin is nothing but a tool, used by the PTB, to turn "liberals" into a bunch of frothing-at-the-mouth panicking bait-takers.

Babs has spoken, Sarah Palin will not be President of the U.S. She will be staying in Alaska.

Sarah Palin is the red-flag being waved at the bull, while behind the stadium, the bull's entire family is being turned into hamburgers.

Originally posted here.

[Allegro]

Cultural and social conditioning has made all of us afraid of confronting the limitations of our initial assumptions because that would make us look silly in the eyes of our more 'rational' brethren.

Thus the machine grinds on.

(I have had GREAT teachers that brought me to this conclusion.) [Refer.]

[MacCruiskeen]

The War On Teachers

It's becoming the spear-point for class war. Teachers are the best-organized workers, with the largest unions, well educated and generally liberal in the best sense. Also, at this point, much better paid than those in the "service sector," with resentment actively encouraged among the latter about all the supposed perks teachers undeservedly enjoy. Children are kept on a treadmill of testing and in a cage of constant surveillance and zero-tolerance discipline, conditioning them to obedience and acceptance of their lot in the new order of labor, devaluing all learning and personal development that doesn't translate directly into what the US private sector defines as economic utility. History, humanities, arts, physical disciplines might help make for autonomous, strong individuals, so these are out and early technical training is in, even if it's often low-grade and without prospects for the majority. Authoritarians of all stripes love that. And there's the business profit side of privatizing schools, selling computers instead of paying salaries, "learning software" packages, hiring consultants instead of teachers, etc. I don't think this can be underestimated. Next, it's a new field for the think tanks and foundations and punditry to produce studies and plans and make themselves important and solicit their own funding, long as they serve the desired anti-teacher, privatizing agenda. And finally, a further abandonment of the poor and middle class, helping to shrink the biggest non-war item in the public sector as a whole. It's a powerful combination of toxic interests.

[JackRiddler]

It can be argued that no society has ever been, or ever will be, able to distinguish between reality and illusion. The American breakdown is merely another act in the ongoing historical drama of collapsing empires. It is a characteristic of American exceptionalism that we view our own predicament as the fulcrum upon which the very narrative of reality pivots: our decline somehow represents a catastrophic failure of cosmic proportions, and as a result nothing will ever rise up again to match our unique greatness. But that's simply an illusion, of course. We are players in a collective choreography of evolutionary transformation. The American rictus dance is a sacred movement, a constellation of fear that mimics the progression of the stars across the sky, through a precession of emotional equinoxes. Many people are sensing a temporal resonance, but can only express it as confused and inarticulate anxiety and fear. Perhaps that is what Hedges means when he refers to "psychosis". The technologies of distraction that Americans rely on to escape the pain of their contracting hopes and dreams are not the new inventions of a newer devil: every age has its outlandish spectacles and gaudy circuses, and the Luciferic and Ahrimanic impulses with all their devilish designs have always been latent in every tool and instrument devised by man. The show must go on, it's called Maya, and the Catherine wheel upon which our lives are always turning is the very engine of creation. Sometimes it's too much to bear and kills us; other times it is an unspeakable beauty that elevates us into an ego-destroying ecstasy that retrieves us from the ongoing crucifixion that is individual suffering.