But, of course, that's the benefit of being in charge, you get to re-write history for your benefit and lie through your hind teeth to make yourself look like the hero.
Hey now, the US has gotten a lot better at interacting with the Native Americans, Mike. No need to bring that up.
It's what every government and authority ever does. Even the supposed "good guys" do it. You don't hear much about the atrocities performed by the Allies in WW2 (except Stalin, and that's because he became the enemy later), and even the atom bomb is defended in a way that a Japanese or Nazi action never would have been.
They cannot accept the possibility that they might have made a mistake or done anything bad, so they cover it up and pretend everything was nice and clean.
Once a government admits fallibility, it becomes possible to question it and argue with it. Authority can't cope with that, so they deny the possibility they might have got something wrong.
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It's what every government and authority ever does. Even the supposed "good guys" do it. You don't hear much about the atrocities performed by the Allies in WW2 (except Stalin, and that's because he became the enemy later), and even the atom bomb is defended in a way that a Japanese or Nazi action never would have been.
They cannot accept the possibility that they might have made a mistake or done anything bad, so they cover it up and pretend everything was nice and clean.
Once a government admits fallibility, it becomes possible to question it and argue with it. Authority can't cope with that, so they deny the possibility they might have got something wrong.
How war crimes relate to a forum about japanese porn games is beyond me. Also, I don't know how many forums you've been a member of, but it's a universally accepted fact that moderators are there to moderate, not to nod along to the tune of the forum turning into a shithole. It doesn't matter who it is, after scaling the ladder of warnings and extended timeouts, they get the boot, end of discussion. Even if they actually contribute to the community in a meaningful manner (whatup food).
Strange, because that's not what you said to me when we discussed it. You said you'd have been at most a 50/50 decision.
And the claim that Elf voted against it on procedure is downright laughable. You know as well as I do that she opposes my ban and always has. Not out of "procedure" but because she doesn't think I deserved to be banned, especially not for what I was eventually banned for (which is basically nothing).
Thank you sir, that's all the confirmation we needed.
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Old Quote Crap!
Originally Posted by eddyak
99% of all Terminators would destroy John Connor over any other carbon-based life form.
Originally Posted by RoadBuster
Why do you think we got all these mods? So I can sit back and do jack shit, obviously!
Originally Posted by ItsaRandomUsername
I propose more forumite-based words. Like Darpleosity (adj. a state of existence signified to calmly analyzing and making an argument/case in a way that defuses tensions and makes the participants in said argument look like twats for continuing on with antagonizing and/or being stubborn for the sake of being stubborn while also using good-natured humor to enhance said post).
Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
Having been, as I3uster put it, "other clueless dude" earlier today in precisely this fashion, I'm going to have to be in favor of necromancy. Or be a hypocrite. But as a lawyer, I prefer to get paid when I indulge in hypocrisy, thank you, so I'll stick with necromancy.
[14:06] [Cruor] petri is it possible to play Phoenix III/Steppewolf without it crashing
[14:08] [Kelnish] no
[14:08] [Kelnish] it isn't
[14:09] [Cruor] how can there be so many bugs
[14:09] [Cruor] in one mod
[14:10] [Dark_Pulse] Because quality assurance doesn't exist anymore
[14:10] [Dark_Pulse] Unless it's Quality Ass, U Rance
[14:10] [Daiki] ...
[14:10] [I3uster] oh god dp was funny
[14:10] [I3uster] apocalypse confirmed
[14:10] [Wakame] the horror
Lycodrake posting Propaganda from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure made coming to this thread worth it. I was kind of hoping there would be discussion of pink names though.