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the dissident frogman | Sat, August 15, 2009 | Permalink | 2761 hits

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The short version, when it comes to my comments policy, goes down to a line taken from the (mediocre) second opus of the Matrix:

"I built this place. Down here, I make the rules."

Let's elaborate a bit:

  1. Try to stay on topic. If you have a beef against the cow-fart(1) induced climate change and this post is about monkey spanking(2), then it's not the place to draw your sword(3).
    I have nothing against a freewheeling conversation, but if it's off-topic AND stupid or offensive, then it will have a badly limited lifespan.
  2. Consider the two following statements…
    • I'm totally open-minded when it comes to rational ideas.
    • It is quite obvious that Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, Islamism, Nationalism, Racism, Collectivism(4) and Multiculturalism (non-exhaustive list) exist in complete contradiction with Reason.
    … And guess the total amount of tolerance you can expect from me if you indulge in any of these.
  3. If you shall persist in these ways nevertheless, understand that I'm not spending countless hours of work on this site to "reach out", "debate" with you, "understand" your "root causes" or "learn" about your religion. Unlike race, ideology is something we choose, and for which we must bear all responsibilities. I loathe your sick mindset and what you defend and promote. I've heard all your pitiful excuses for your despicable totalitarian psyche and your compulsion to coerce or enslave your fellow men and women in the name of some "greater good".
    So understand that this is not a public forum: it is my outpost in the culture war you wage against me, my kin, my rights and my freedom — thus, you will only be tolerated here, and only if I decide so. I call the shots and I owe you nothing. As a matter of fact, I don't like having you around, so the only argument you're truly entitled to hear from me would come, if you insist, amplified through the barrel of my Sig-Sauer high powered rifle(5) — because when it comes to intolerant scumbags, I'm an intolerant bastard.
    So keep your distances, and nobody gets hurt.
  4. I also have a very limited patience for social-democrats of all race and creed, center-of-center jellyfish and buttermonkey(6) hybrids, Blame-America-First (and always) Libertarians (usually of the Rothbardian school), Hollywood idiots & Festival-de-Cannes cretins and those Parisians who fancy themselves as an elite when they are nothing but the developed world's rednecks(7). However, I tend to ignore them, so they may consider themselves lucky if they manage to draw some sarcasm in colorful language from me.
  5. Yeah, and don't get me started on journalists and the Wonderful World of Mainstream Media...
  6. American and British soldiers (including the Commonwealth) stand on a special pedestal in my personal pantheon. Disrespect them here, and you'll quickly wish you'd rather stand naked in Mecca during Hajj, wearing only a sign that reads "Muhammad was a pedophile".
  7. I may moderate, remove or edit anything and give neither excuses nor explanations. It has nothing to do with "censorship": I am not a State, you are not a coerced citizen of said State and so you are always free to express yourself on your own facility and by your own means. Commenting is not a right, it is a privilege I grant or take away, according to my right as the owner of this place.
  8. My site is not awfully biased: it's shamelessly opinioned. If you're on my side, you get my vote and are free to rant 'n' roll. If not, live with it or go rot in the gutter.
  9. Oh and, if you're a vegan, be advised that I hunt, kill, cook(8) and eat all sorts of animals, and thoroughly enjoy the whole lot of it. Have fun with your carrots, Doc.
  1. Ha ha. Beef. Cow. Geddit?
  2. It's been known to happen.
  3. Neither is the guestbook by the way.
  4. That includes of course all its variations: Socialism, National-Socialist, Communism, Fascism, etc.
  5. With a loud 'Bang'
  6. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
  7. Tell me London, New-York, Sydney or Tokyo, but Paris is a dump.
  8. Frequently in some sort of wine sauce or with loads of tears-pulling spices. Grapes and pepper count as veggie stuff right?

AVERTISSEMENT : selon mon expérience, ce qui suit ne s'applique pas à 99% de mes lecteurs. Malheureusement, l'expérience prouve aussi qu'il faut que cela soit écrit pour le pourcentage restant.

La version courte, concernant ma politique pour les commentaires, se résume à une ligne tirée du second (médiocre) volet de Matrix:

"J'ai construit cet endroit. Ici, je fais les lois."

Élaborons un brin :

  1. Il existe une subtile différence entre "être familier" et "traiter familièrement". Cela signifie que les culs-sales qui s'imaginent débarquer ici et me tutoyer comme si nous avions gardé les piquets de grève ensemble verront leur contribution à la conversation éradiquée sans autre forme de procès. Quelle que soit la pertinence de ladite contribution. Même si vous n'êtes Vraiment Pas Content® avec ce que j'écris, cela ne vous dispense pas de surveiller vos manières : tant que je n'ai pas été présenté à votre chère Maman, nous nous vouvoierons. Vu ?
  2. Évitez le hors-sujet. Si vous avez une rancune à l'égard de l'impact des pets de vache sur le changement climatique et que cet article traite de la fessée de macaque(1), alors ce n'est pas l'endroit d'où lancer votre croisade (2).
    Je n'ai rien contre une conversation à bâtons rompus, mais si c'est hors-sujet ET stupide ou insultant, ça aura une durée de vie salement limitée.
  3. Considérez les deux affirmations suivantes...
    • J'ai une ouverture d'esprit totale en ce qui concerne toutes idées rationnelles.
    • Il est évident qu' Anti-américanisme, anti-Sémitisme, Islamisme, Nationalisme, Racisme, Collectivisme(3) et Multiculturalisme (liste non-exhaustive) existent en complète contradiction avec la Raison.
    ... Et tâchez de devinez la dose totale de tolérance que vous pouvez attendre de moi si vous cédez à l'une de ces sirènes.
  4. Si vous deviez cependant persister dans ces voies, comprenez que je ne dépense pas un nombre incalculable d'heures de travail sur ce site pour vous "tendre la main", "débattre" avec vous, "comprendre" vos "causes profondes" ou "apprendre à connaitre" votre religion. Contrairement à la race, l'idéologie est le résultat de nos choix, et nous devons en supporter l'entière responsabilité. J'abhorre votre mentalité tarée, et ce que vous défendez et promouvez. J'ai entendu toutes vos pitoyables excuses pour votre détestable psyché de totalitaire et votre compulsion à forcer et réduire vos semblables en esclavage au nom d'un quelconque "intérêt général".
    Comprenez donc que ceci n'est pas un forum publique : c'est mon avant-poste dans la guerre culturelle que vous lancez contre moi, mes semblables, mes droits et ma liberté — vous ne serez que toléré ici, et seulement si je le décide. Je tire les ficelles, et ne vous doit rien. En fait je n'aime pas vous voir dans le coin, et en conséquence les seuls arguments de ma part auxquels vous puissiez réellement prétendre, si vous insistez, se transmettent par le canon de ma carabine de fort calibre Sig-Sauer(4) — Parce dès qu'ils s'agit d'ordures intolérantes, je suis un salaud d'intolérant.
    Alors gardez vos distances, et personne ne sera blessé.
  5. J'ai aussi un patience très limitée pour les sociaux-démocrates de toute confession et couleur, les centristes-du-centre fruits de l'union d'une méduse et d'un cul de singe, les Libertarés de l'École Rothbard conditionnés au "C'est la faute à l'Amérique, toujours et partout", Les Idiots d'Hollywood et les Crétins-de-Cannes, de même que ces parisiens qui se prennent pour une élite alors qu'ils ne sont que les bouseux du monde développé (5). J'ai cependant tendance à les ignorer, et ils peuvent donc s'estimer chanceux s'ils arrivent à me soutirer ne serait-ce qu'un sarcasme en langage fleuri.
  6. Ouais, et ne me lancez pas sur les journalistes et le Monde Merveilleux des Medias...
  7. Les soldats Américains et Britanniques (parmi lesquels j'inclue le Commonwealth) prennent place sur un piédestal particulier dans mon panthéon personnel. Manquez leur de respect ici, et vous souhaiterez rapidement vous trouver plutôt à la Mecque en période Hajj, tout nu avec seulement une pancarte autour du coup sur laquelle on puisse lire "Mahomet était un pédophile".
  8. Je peux modérer, supprimer ou éditer quoi que ce soit, sans fournir d'excuses ni d'explications. Cela n'a rien à voir avec de la “censure”, pour une raison très simple : je ne suis pas un État, vous n'êtes pas un citoyen opprimé dudit État et demeurez donc libre de vous exprimer sur votre propre support et par vos propres moyens. Commenter n'est pas un droit, c'est un privilège que j'accorde ou refuse selon mon droit de propriétaire des lieux.
  9. Mon site n'est pas affreusement partial, il est impudemment orienté. Si vous êtes de mon côté, vous avez mon aval et êtes libre de disserter à l'envi. Sinon, faites avec ou allez crever dans le caniveau.
  10. Oh, et si vous êtes végétarien, sachez que je chasse, tue, cuisine(6) et bouffe toutes sortes d'animaux, et que j'apprécie le tout sans aucune retenue. Soyez heureux avec vos carottes Docteur.
  1. C'est déjà arrivé.
  2. C'est aussi valable pour le Livre d'Or.
  3. Ce qui inclue aussi ses variantes : Socialisme, National-Socialisme, Communisme, Fascisme, etc.
  4. Avec un gros 'Bang'
  5. Londres, New-York, Sydney ou Tokyo, d'accord. Mais Paris, c'est un bled de cul-terreux.
  6. Généralement avec une sauce au vin, ou alors des poignées d'épices à t'arracher la tripaille. Le raisin et les piments, ça compte comme trucs de végétarien, non ?

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  1. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
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Comments | Commentaires

Boy on a bike | 2 years, 5 months ago
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Australia
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In: Stranger from out there
08/15 2009
07:36 AM

“What doesn’t kill you makes you straggler”

“straggler”????

 
TooTall | 2 years, 5 months ago
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United States
In: Utah
08/15 2009
07:39 AM

Woodstck?  Woodstack?  What is that?

 
2hotel9 | 2 years, 5 months ago
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United States
In: Western Pennsylvania
08/15 2009
12:06 PM

I am a tweener, not a boomer(THANK GAWD!!!) and not an Xer. I liked music from that period, still do, I just can’t stand the majority of the lyrics, and absolutely despise the leftarded stupidity of that entie Boomer shithole generation. I’m sorry! Was that too vague and wishy washy?

 
unknown jane | 2 years, 5 months ago
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United States
08/15 2009
03:35 PM

I too am a "tweener"—being a child of some Greatest Generation parents’ old age.  My husband is the child of a fascist country and knows the true meaning of freedom (because of living family memory of not being free).

Freaking hippie boomers make me physically ill anymore (and not just from patchouli reek).  Here’s a money quote, paraentheses mine:  "40 years ago on Yasgur’s farm…we celebrated our love for one another and the world and our struggle to gain freedom (wtf mofo, you were in chains prior to this???) little knowing that our struggle would take us 40 years….but now we have Obama (without comment)...we won (oh sweet Jesus!!)...it took us 40 years…who knew that it would take so long, but we’re finally there" (uh, yeah, we have a apparatchik snitch site—I feel so freaking free!)  At this point he started quoting Rocky Mountain High and talking about some sort of self-identity workshops he had gone to—I thanked the Lord that this was an internet posting and not an actual conversation, as I might have been goaded into doing violence (like shoving his chai down his throat or something).

Of course I had to make a disparaging remark about patchouli reeking hippies, lol!

 
M*A | 2 years, 5 months ago
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08/15 2009
11:28 PM

I’m old enough to have gone…actually had a chance to and didn’t.  One of the better decisions of my life.  I can’t tell you how ashamed I am of my generation…and how I very often feel the desire to apologize to all of you who come after.  The 60’s that these people venerate…is a myth and a lie.  For all the talk of love and peace ....what I remember most is a lot of people using each other…for whatever they could.  Sex, dope, money.  The whole war protest movement….what they neglect to mention when they are waxing poetic over it…is that as soon as the draft was stopped…so did the protests.  The fact that all those innocent people they were crying over were now being slaughtered…yawn….the draft was over.

 
Deathknyte | 2 years, 5 months ago
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08/15 2009
11:36 PM

The hippie scum were no longer concerned once the draft was no longer enforced because they no longer had to fear being drafted and sent to fight or flee to Canada.

The hippies will get what they deserve after the dems force obamacare through.  They will be the first to discover that the death panels are quite real and won’t really care what you want unless you are highly ranked in the party or know someone who has major influence.

 
TooTall | 2 years, 5 months ago
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08/17 2009
09:34 AM

Well, truth be told, I’m like M*A in the fact that I was old enough for Woodstock but I had other obligations that prevented me from going.  I agree with his assessment of the "glorified" hippie lifestyle but he forgot to mention that all of the drugs damaged their genes and this defect was passed along to their heirs which resulted in the popular vote for Barack Obama.

 
2hotel9 | 2 years, 5 months ago
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In: Western Pennsylvania
08/17 2009
01:24 PM

TT? Were those obligations across the water, in a rather warm and green locale?

 
DaToad | 2 years, 5 months ago
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United States
In: Glendale, AZ, USA
08/17 2009
01:57 PM

I’m a Boomer and could have gone to Woodstock and, in retrospect, probably should have. I got home from my "year long, all expenses paid South East Asian vacation" on July 23, 1969. You all may not believe this, and as amazing as it may seem, I just didn’t see the flower children as my kind of crowd. If I had only realized then how that week in the mud could have changed my life. Instead, here I am at 62, part of an angry mob, living on my Cul-de-Sac of Whitedom, bitterly clinging to my guns and bible. <sarcasm/>

unknown jane said: "as I might have been goaded into doing violence"

Although I haven’t kicked any hippie ass since about 1973, I agree,jane, it’s looking mighty tempting…

 
2hotel9 | 2 years, 5 months ago
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In: Western Pennsylvania
08/17 2009
02:40 PM

I remeber the summer of ‘69, that was the summer my uncle Jerrold was moved from Bethesda to VA Gulfport, MS and we went down a couple of times a week to visit till he was released. And come to think of it, he was not too hip on the "flower child" crowd either, though he did like a nice fatty with his cold beer! And he had a tendency to stomp hippy ass, the long hair, beard and tattoos lulled them into a false sense of security, right up to the point he started smackin’em! And yes, he was a big fan of David Allan Coe and Leon Russel, and loved going to the French Quarter and partying with the brothers. A most perplexing redneck, to say the least.

 
TooTall | 2 years, 5 months ago
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In: Utah
08/17 2009
09:12 PM

2hotal9 - not exactly.  I was in college at the time of Woodstock and quit in 1970 with a lottery number of lucky 17.  As you might imagine it wasn’t long before I got my notice.

 
Bruce | 2 years, 5 months ago
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08/19 2009
02:49 PM

I could not agree more, Diss - having lived through those times as a New York City cop. I never ceased to be amused by these great unwashed claiming to be "peaceful", while at the same time rioting in the streets.

 
unknown jane | 2 years, 5 months ago
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08/20 2009
11:01 AM

That’s it right there—the stunningly self-satisfied hypocrisy and phoney righteousness.  I could add the total lack of thought  and stultifying ignorance while perceiving oneself as an intellectual due to higher "education" (read: living off Mom and Dad for as long as possible in order to stay the eternal kiddie, er student) is mighty annoying as well.

We should have declared war on them; we really should have.

 

[as an English major, and member of that most benighted of college departments—a person who believes in the inherent need for and goodness of reading books and thinking/writing about them—I find myself like the proverbial man without a country; these freaking hippies long ago destroyed my profession and are now in the process of destroying everything else…I can’t stand the frakkers (plus the drippy riff into "Rocky Mountain High" just pushed my ludicrously asinine and idiotic button; that much stupidity should be painful for anyone engaging in it).  Wanna know why Western civ is losing?  There’s yer sign!]

 
Lady Cincinnatus | 2 years, 5 months ago
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08/25 2009
08:37 AM

I missed it and grew up under the Reagan regime.  Lucky, I guess. 

 
La_Marquise | 2 years, 5 months ago
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In: Montreal, Quebec Canada
08/25 2009
09:45 PM

Anybody who is under 30 that is a conservative has no heart, anybody over 30 who isn’t one has no brain.  Churchill couldn’t be more right again. As myself a kid from the boomers I must say that the people who shares my birth year are appallingly ignorant to the world, the image they have of Amsterdam is the one from 1970, Eurabia, not a clue.

Thanks to the mother-state here in Quebec the boomer generation is now teaching to their own kids multiculticrap with the so called ethical religious courses who teaches "everyone has be tolerated even if they hate you" and they can’t be opted out as regular religious classes, it’s mandatory to learn to submit.

 

 

 
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